On this map, Qin Yu highlighted five places, and then placed several small red dots on one of them.
After doing all this, Qin Yu put away the map and walked out of the room.
As soon as the door opened, Meng Yao, Mo Yongxin and her brother, who were sitting on the sofa, immediately looked over.
"Let's go, we are going to several places now."
Qin Yu didn't explain too much, and Meng Yao and Mo Yongxin didn't ask. Mo Yongxing wanted to ask, but when his sister glanced at him, he drove to the underground parking garage angrily.
Qin Yu and the others got into the car, and under Qin Yu's command, the car headed towards the south of the capital.
Yongding Gate, when the car arrived near Yongding Gate, Qin Yu asked Mo Yongxing to stop the car, and then the four of them got out of the car.
"Qin Yu, why did you bring us here?" Mo Yongxing looked at the Yongding Gate in front of him and asked with some confusion.
As a native of the capital, Mo Yongxing knew the capital very well. He looked at the Yongding Gate in front of him and said, "This Yongding Gate has been rebuilt. In fact, it is no longer an ancient attraction."
Yongding Gate, as everyone who lives in the capital knows, the capital city used to be divided into two gates, the inner and outer. There were nine gates inside and seven gates outside, so it was also called the nine gates inside and seven gates outside. However, except for a few city gates, the other gates were later preserved.
The doors have all been torn down.
Yongding Gate is one of the city gates that was demolished. It was only rebuilt after 2004. However, even if it was rebuilt, the scale is incomparable with before. That is to say, tourists from other places will come here.
Look, for locals like Mo Yongxing, the Yongding Gate is no longer attractive at all.
"Did I say I would take you to see the scenic spots?" Qin Yu looked at Mo Yongxing, smiled, and moved his eyes away from Yongding Gate, landing on a stone pier not far from Yongding Gate.
"This is Yandun, we call it Yandun. It was built at the same time as Yongding Gate. It is actually just a stone pillar."
Mo Yongxing saw Qin Yu looking at Yan Dun and continued to speak, but before he finished speaking, Qin Yu had already walked away and walked under Yan Dun.
Yandun is a scene of Yongding Gate. It is a square platform with a stone pillar erected on it. The overall height is close to 20 meters. There are five layers of carved patterns around the platform, namely clouds, dragons, Bodhi beads,
Bodhi leaves and other patterns, the waist part is carved with high relief and 24 water god statues, all with bare chests and naked feet sitting on the sea water, with different shapes and lifelike shapes.
The stone pillars above the pedestal are engraved with documents written by Qianlong on the north and south sides, praising Beijing's dangerous geographical situation and the peaceful situation of the country and the people. To put it bluntly, it is an article to brag about oneself.
"Qin Yu, is there anything different about Yan Dun?" Mo Yongxin saw that Qin Yu's eyes were always on Yan Dun and couldn't help but ask.
"Have you ever heard of the Five Elements Controlling the Capital?" Qin Yu looked at Mo Yongxin and asked with a smile.
"The five elements control the capital?"
Not only Mo Yongxin shook her head, but Meng Yao on the side also shook her head. They had stayed in the capital for so many years, but they had never heard of the Five Elements Controlling the capital.
"Look at this map."
Qin Yu took out a map from his arms and opened it. Meng Yao and the other three quickly looked at the map. When they saw the map, they realized that it was a map of the capital. On the map, there were circles drawn nowhere.
place.
"Southeast, northwest, our current location is the south." Meng Yao looked at one of the red circles on the map, which was near the Yongding Gate where they were currently.
"That's right, our current location is exactly to the south of the capital. Judging from this map, this Yandun is the end point of the southern axis of the ancient capital site, and together with these four places, it forms the Five Elements Suppression."
Qin Yu pointed at the map and explained: "The Five Elements Suppression was established in the Ming Dynasty, but it was perfected during the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the Qing government entered the capital, and in order to secure the throne, it asked experts to set up the Five Elements Suppression.
This will deter the demons from causing chaos."
According to the principle of the five elements mutually reinforcing each other, the expert set up five major towns in the capital, and this Yandun was one of them.
After listening to Qin Yu's explanation, the faces of Meng Yao and the three of them showed a look of realization, but then Mo Yongxing asked: "But what does this have to do with the smog in the capital?"
"Of course it is related. You will know when the time comes."
Qin Yu gave up, then walked around the Yandun and said: "Let's go, let's go to the next place."
Next place, the Great Bell Temple!
Dazhong Temple, formerly known as Juesheng Temple, was built by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty and is located in Haidian District. When Qin Yu and four others arrived, it was already noon.
Compared with the famous ancient temples, the Dazhong Temple is not that big, and the architecture is not very distinctive. The only thing is that it is quiet. In the capital, it is already difficult to find such a quiet place.
Even at noon, there were still many tourists coming in and out of the Dazhong Temple. Qin Yu and the four of them looked at each other and walked directly to the Dazhong Temple.
The Dazhong Temple is not big. After a while, Qin Yu and the others visited the Dazhong Temple. But in the end, Qin Yu stopped in front of the bell in the Dazhong Temple for a moment. What?
He didn't say anything and just continued to rush to the next place.
The third place is the East Embankment of Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace and the Seventeen-Arch Bridge
There is a bronze bull on Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace. The older generation of Beijing people all know the legend about the bronze bull.
According to legend, this bronze bull was cast by Emperor Qianlong. When Emperor Qianlong cast the bronze bull, he specially wrote the "Golden Bull Inscription" on the back of the bronze bull, which read, "Gold writes the sacred bull, and it is used to guard the distance..."
This bronze bull has been baptized by wind and frost, and the golden paint on the surface has almost peeled off. In particular, there is a bright scar on its back, which is a testimony of the burns and looting by the Eight-Power Allied Forces when they entered Beijing.
It is said that when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered the city, a group of soldiers heard that there was a golden bull in the Summer Palace, so they came straight to the river. When these soldiers held up torches to illuminate the bronze bull at night, they saw a golden light.
All these soldiers were excited.
It would be a big mistake to move such a big golden bull. At that moment, these soldiers tried their best to move the golden bull, but no matter how they moved it, they couldn't move it. The last soldier got angry and chopped it with a knife.
Toward this golden bull.
As a result, the soldiers were stunned when the sword was struck. A cut was made on the back of the golden bull, revealing the copper texture inside.
Knowing that the golden bull was a bronze bull, these soldiers were all dumbfounded and furious. Some of them wanted to burn the golden bull with fire. But just when they were about to light the fire, a strong wind suddenly blew up in Kunming Lake.
Waves of water were rolled up in the air, and the water waves directly swallowed up these soldiers.
When the water waves disappeared, there was no soldier on the shore, and there was no sign of the golden bull. It was not until the Eight-Nation Allied Forces retreated that people fished the golden bull from the bottom of Kunming Lake.
Therefore, to the people of the old capital, this golden bull is a sacred beast. According to legend, it is used to suppress water monsters in the capital. With this golden bull around, no water monster dares to cause trouble in the capital.
"Qin Yu, you don't really believe the legend of this golden bull, do you? This is just a bronze bull." Mo Yongxing touched the head of the bronze bull and said to Qin Yu.
"I don't believe in the legend of Taurus, but I know the role of Taurus."
Qin Yu smiled. In Feng Shui, it is very common for cows to be used to suppress floods. The most famous one is Dayu's flood control. At the beginning, Dayu ordered people to build a copper bull and throw it into the river to prevent water monsters from causing trouble.
In addition to Dayu, it was Dujiangyan, and the stone oxen excavated in Chengdu had the same meaning.
"Okay, let's go to another place."
On Tongniu's side, Qin Yu didn't waste much time and continued driving to the next place.
Guangqumen Shenmu Factory!
However, when Qin Yu and the other four arrived near Guangqumen, there was no Shenmu factory anywhere. It had long been replaced by tall buildings. However, not far from Guangqumen, there was a wood furniture market.
"Qin Yu, the golden nanmu from Shenmu Factory has long since disappeared. I have never seen it before in my life."
While in the car, Qin Yu told Meng Yao and the others that the place they were going to this time was the Shenmu Factory outside Guangqumen, where the legendary golden nanmu was located.
The sacred tree originated during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. According to legend, when Zhu Di built the palace, a chieftain presented a tree. This tree was more than six feet long and lay horizontally on the ground. The riders could not see each other through the tree.
It was impossible to transport such a large piece of wood to the capital with the manpower at that time, so this wood was called a sacred tree.
During the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong personally wrote a book and established a monument for this tree. Unfortunately, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the sacred tree disappeared. Therefore, we do not know what the sacred tree is like.
There was no sacred tree, but Qin Yu was not in a hurry. After walking around Guangqumen, he rushed to the next place again, which was the last destination.
Jingshan!
Originally named Meishan, it was the place where Chongzhen, the last emperor of the late Ming Dynasty, hanged himself.
However, for Qin Yu, he knew very well that this history was false. Chongzhen did not hang himself in Meishan, but entered the Chengxian Sect with 400 Taoist soldiers. The so-called suicide in Meishan was nothing more than
This is a theory that deceives people.
"Qin Yu, you just took us everywhere today without saying anything. Anyway, I won't leave anymore. I can't walk anymore."
When he arrived at Jingshan, Mo Yongxing complained, and Guang started driving that day. Considering the traffic in the capital, he was able to cover these five places in one day because he ran a lot of red lights.
, otherwise, I might not be able to finish running until dark.
"Don't worry, you don't need to leave now, we are here." Qin Yu replied with a smile.
PS: It was not easy to write this chapter. Jiu Deng almost memorized the map of the entire capital! (To be continued)