Sister Hong was a little surprised: "Oh, very few outsiders know about Jiang Xinjing. You guys are really awesome. But looking at you like this, you look like you are engaged in culture. It is not surprising to know that."
Bai Yi secretly said in his heart, yes, he specializes in the study of the dead and the culture of ancient tombs. He said: "With a mirror, why do you build a tower for worship with great fanfare? Your place is really strange."
"It has to be more than just an ordinary mirror to do this." Sister Hong said, "It's not like you, an outsider, are asking this. Relatives from outside the town also found it strange before, but Jiang Xinjing is a magical mirror. Back then,
To ensure peace for us, our ancestors built a pagoda to worship it."
Sister Hong is also a cheerful person. She said that the locals all know this period of history. Even children aged five or six know what the tower is used for. It happened that Qixie came back after chasing the hill, and the group sat down
At the stall selling soy milk next to the stall, each person had a glass of soy milk and listened to Sister Hong talk about what happened in the past.
It turns out that this place has some history in ancient times. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, the hometown of the Yangzhou Prefect was located here. One year, it was time to pay tribute again, and this task was burdened one after another. When he arrived at the Yangzhou Prefect, he was worried.
, summoned his men to discuss, and decided to offer a mirror to Tang Xuanzong as a tribute. The mirror didn't sound very expensive. Hearing this, Bai Yi felt a little bit.
I was confused, but I was relieved immediately. The tributes paid by local governments every year are for the royal family. Not only are they expensive, they are not ordinary. The review of tributes is also very strict. If there are the same ones, they will definitely not pass. Every time
When it comes time to pay tribute, various places will rack their brains to try their best to win the favor of the emperor, which is even more troublesome than the concubines in the harem.
The Yangzhou prefect finally decided to use a mirror to pay tribute because the mirror he wanted to build would have a dragon shape on it. The emperor was the true form of a dragon. What could be happier than seeing oneself being compared to a dragon? Just this mirror
It was definitely not an ordinary cast mirror. The Yangzhou prefect finally decided to make a "mirror of hundreds of refinements".
Bai Yi also handled one or two mirrors from the Tang Dynasty, with bronze as the main material. In the Tang Dynasty, porcelain had replaced copper, and bronze ware declined. Bronze technology was concentrated on bronze mirrors. Bronze mirrors were the most common daily necessities.
It is not an easy task to turn an ordinary daily necessities into a tribute that can be favored by the emperor.
The Yangzhou prefect had only one request: to make the dragon statue on the mirror look real. He invited many skilled craftsmen, but he could never meet this request. It is not easy to sublimate an ordinary bronze mirror.
matter.
But if the story only ends here, there won’t be anything about the sacrificial tower at the end. It seems that Sister Hong has told this story to her children many times, and now she is very proficient in telling it. Everyone is fascinated by it, and the plot has ups and downs.
, Sister Hong’s soft words made everyone very involved.
The turning point of the matter occurred when an old man and a child came to the town suddenly. The old man had a white beard and a kind face. The child was only ten years old, but he was extremely shrewd. These two people came to the town.
When they arrived at the small town, the people in the town paid no attention to the two outsiders. The craftsmen in the town were worrying about the casting of bronze mirrors. Unexpectedly, the old and the young took the initiative to send them
It was said that they were the only ones in the world who could create a peerless copper realm. The Yangzhou prefect was half-convinced, but his subordinates refused to give it a try. The old and the young had come from a strange place, but their style was not small, and they wanted to have a separate house.
During this period, no one was allowed to disturb him. It was very mysterious. Although the Yangzhou prefect was aware of his doubts, the time for paying tribute was coming soon, so he had no choice but to agree.
The old man and the young man stayed in the yard for seven days without even taking a step out of the door. Food was only delivered through a small hole. No one knew what was going on inside. Finally, seven days passed, but the door remained the same.
Without opening it, the Yangzhou prefect finally couldn't help but broke in.
I went there, only to find that the old man and the young man were no longer in the courtyard, leaving only a letter and the bronze mirror being cast in the fire. The mirror had not yet been formed. The letter stated that the mirror must be moved to the middle of the Yangtze River until July
In the future, the mirror will be pushed down the Yangtze River and it will be naturally refined.
These words sounded a little pretentious. Looking at the half-finished mirror in the fire, the Yangzhou prefect was helpless. He could only put the casting furnace on the boat according to the words of the old man and the young one, and parked the boat at the center of the Yangtze River.
The location, the fire is also strange
Strangely, there was no need to add more firewood, and it burned vigorously. After burning for seven days, the fire suddenly went out on its own. The prefect gave an order, and the bronze mirror was pushed into the Yangtze River. A servant on one side said anxiously, "This mirror"
If you push it into the river, what will you do if it sinks?
Unexpectedly, when the mirror entered the river, white mist immediately rose. When the fog dissipated, a bronze mirror floated on the water. Someone went down and picked it up. On the back of the bronze mirror was a dragon, leaping out of the bronze mirror.
On the face, it was about to soar into the sky. When everyone saw this dragon, they were all frightened.
The Yangzhou prefect was even more surprised. If this precious mirror was presented to the emperor, it would definitely win the emperor's favor. However, he also wondered who the old man and the young man were who could have such ability, because the mirror was cast in the center of the river.
It was completed, so it was named Jiangxinjing and immediately presented to the court.
As for the origins of the old man and the young child, the Yangzhou prefect was naturally unwilling to let it go. He sent people out to investigate, but there was no reply at all. After a long time, the prefect had already received the tribute anyway, so he naturally did not pursue it.
The identity of the old man and the young child has become a mystery, but the fate of Jiang Xinjing has been ups and downs.
The Jiangxin mirror looked like a real dragon in the mirror, and it won the favor of the emperor. The prefect received numerous rewards, and the mission of the prefect was completed. But then there was a severe drought, and the Jiangxin mirror helped a lot. There was a severe drought in the world, and the rain could not be obtained.
The monk responsible for calling rain told Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty that in order to call rain, he needed something with the spirit of a true dragon.
In the west, the emperor allowed him to search for treasures in the national treasury. He fell in love with the Jiangxin Mirror. As expected, he offered sacrifices to the mirror and summoned rain. The emperor fell in love with the Jiangxin Mirror more and more, and especially built it in this small town.
This tall tower is called the Mirror Tower, but after the Anshi Rebellion, the mirror mysteriously disappeared and disappeared.
"I know the name of the rain-calling monk." Bai Yi said: "This man was a very famous astronomer in the Tang Dynasty. He not only had extensive knowledge in Esoteric Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tiantai Buddhism or Taoism. In fact, he was originally
He is a Tiantai scholar who later entered Tantric Buddhism, and he is a very remarkable person."
"Ask the Dragon King to call for rain?" Lei Zi chuckled: "Just listen to this kind of thing."
"This little brother, it was originally a story passed down from our ancestors. Just listen to it. If you didn't listen, Jiang Xingjing disappeared in the end, which means that there is no such thing." Sister Hong said with a smile: "
We just tell our children as stories and pass them on from generation to generation, but..."
Sister Hong looked at the Mirror Sacrifice Tower not far away: "This tower can always explain something. Such a tall tower does not match our place at all."