[History of Northeast China] Qingyuan Eighteen Daoling in Liuren Poems (Qingyuan Chronicle Series XII)
Inspect the North Goguryeo Road, walk and explore the Shenyang ancient road from Fushun to Ji'an many times, in addition to turning to Xinbin and Huanren to Ji'an South Road through Nanzamu, the Qingyuan road section is extremely southbound, it will never be Goguryeo North Road, Goguryeo North Road must be the ancient road from Kaiyuan to Ji'an through the Qinghe River Valley, that is, the Qing Dynasty Kaiyuan Hailongma Road, the Ming Dynasty Kaiyuan Donglu Road, the Yuan Dynasty Jianzhou Four Stations Song Wajiang Five Stations, the Jin Dynasty Changbaishan Tribute Road, and the Liao Dynasty FuYu Khitan Road.
The Qingyuan section of the Ancient Yingzhou Dao is very difficult to walk, especially the Qing Dynasty Ningguta Liuren poetry is the most representative. Zhang Jinyan wrote in the "Ningguta Landscape Chronicle and Preface": "Woohoo! This is also the misfortune of the mountain. Yu traveled thousands of miles, from Liaoshen out of the Yingou Pass, the road through the eighteen ridges, eighteen rivers, the inquiry of the natives, can not be named. "It feels like a total of eighteen ridges have been climbed and eighteen rivers have been crossed, and the road is very difficult. In the poems of Fang Xiaobiao, another Ningguta streamer, there are successively "Eighteen Ridges" and "Four Ridges", which not only sit on the Eighteen Ridges, but also specifically point out the Four Ridges, giving people the feeling that these Eighteen Ridges are real and concrete. Fang Xiaobiao said in the preface to the poem "Eighteen Ridges": "The mountains are connected, and the days are in the deep stream and the rocks, commonly known as the eighteen ridges, but in fact, there are more than eighteen." The foothills are inserted into the great river, and there must be a shallow lazy (inlet) boundary at the junction of the two ridges, and the lazy end is muddy. The natives translate it as shrimp pond, which is tens of feet deep and several feet shallow. No one can pass by a car, but must be tied to a bridge or a cloth. This means that the so-called Liaodong waterway in the Book of Han is also muddy. The suffering of the eastbound journey is the most important. The preface to his poem "Four Ridges" also says: "Looking around at all the mountains, the four ridges are particularly steep, and they are more than ten miles apart." Deep boulders with no direction to find. There is a thin path, the layers fold up and down, and the inhuman realm. Only after eighteen ridges, and crossing the four-fold mountain, the green interpolation layer is thin..."
Eighteen Ridges in the former town of Nankou
Even so, where are these eighteen mountains in Qingyuan County? After investigation, it was learned that:
Tou Dao Ling, in the north of Sanjiazi Town;
Erdaoling, in the town of Qingyuan;
Sandaoling, in the town of Nanshan;
Sidaoling, in Tukouzi Township;
Eighteen Ridges, in the town of Nankouqian.
At the same time, there are also place names such as Erdaohe, Sandaohe, Sidaohe, and Sidao Alkali Plant, and there are indeed many such place names.
Tou daoling in the north three sub-towns
At present, the Four Daoling in Tukouzi Township should not be the Four Daoling in Fang Xiaobiao's poem, but there should be another Four Daoling. Moreover, these ridges around today's 202 National Highway, must not all be on this road, because this national highway is through the cutting of the bay straight, cutting the ridge downhill and even digging tunnels, naturally no more difficult than the ancient road. Eighteen Daoling, may not be the real point, there are still Eighteen Daoling Villages today, but there may not be Seventeen Daoling, Thirteen Daoling and so on.
Erdaoling in Qingyuan Town
Now that we have basically relied on the place names mentioned in the poem, let's look at the poem "Zhang Bo Huoluo" before the "Eighteen Ridges":
Dive into a thousand, straight down to the next car to fly.
The stream falls on the dragon pond, and the peak hangs on the bird road.
The mountains and mountains are surrounded by rain and trees.
Asphalt silkworm bush road, long song asking right and wrong.
The poem uses allusions from Li Taibai's "Shu Dao Difficulty", such as "Bird Road" and "Silkworm Bush", and then looks at the preface to his poem: "Zhang Bo, the Chinese language 'Dashan pass' also." HuoLuo, the Chinese 'ditch' also. The mountain is very high, the car will be disarmed and the rope will be put down, the horses and cattle will be unruly, and the road will be chosen to go down the mountain, but it will be re-driving. If so, it is not the case. ”
December 5, 2021 Liu Xingye