King Ren Tian
General Wang Shixiong was a high-ranking official in the history of Xuanwei, a senior official of Zheng Erpin and a military general, who once led an army out of Vietnam (Vietnam) to defeat the French invading army in the Xuanguang area by means of "burning lime in clay kilns", and later in Linhuai to protect the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi, it is said that Empress Dowager Cixi personally rewarded him with a yellow coat and a gold belt, and the legends and history books have recorded the deeds, and the prestige is eminent, and the outstanding battle achievements cannot but be awe-inspiring.
As a Xuanwei native, proud and proud of the emergence of such a celebrity in Yangchang Town, Wang Shixiong's cemetery is not far away, and I often think of going to visit him, but because of the working relationship, I rarely have time to go, until later friends called and said that they wanted to visit the tomb of General Wang Shixiong, asked me if I had time, I hurriedly and cheerfully promised them: "Good! I'm going to check it out too. "When I looked at it, I looked at it several times, and my friends from other places came several times, and each time they asked me to be a guide to take them to see." Looking at it, my feelings grew stronger and stronger, and I wanted to write an article as a memorial to commemorate this late anti-French hero.
Driving from the place of residence, through Shemile, Qingshui to the cemetery is about half an hour, first leave the Jitian Highway by the Qingshui Bridge, turn left, about 300 meters ahead, you will reach the outer wall of the Qingshui Flue-cured Tobacco Station, where you have to stop and rest, because this is the ruins of General Wang Shixiong's Archway, and the village is named Paifang Village. The outer wall of the flue-cured tobacco station is mottled, and under the wall there is a slip of stone carvings after the destruction of the archway, the statues of male lions, fierce elephants, chickens and ducks are vivid, the carving is meticulous, the artistic achievements are amazing, and people often say that this is a real cultural relic, which should be protected and respected.
It takes about ten minutes to get from the statue to the cemetery, and the car passes behind the school, passes through the crop fields, and a relatively spacious dirt road leads to the bottom of the cemetery. Before we arrived, we saw the grave pond in the distance, in the middle of the mountainside of the green mountain from the south, slightly low and concave, and the left and right mountains were clear, that is, the Dragon Mountain and the Tiger Mountain were obvious. On the left is the Green Dragon, on the right is the White Tiger, the Green Dragon Mountain is slightly taller, it is a stone mountain, and the White Tiger Mountain is a tushan mountain, slightly shorter. Later, it is a xuanwu, with undulating hills, permeable veins, pine trees growing all over the mountain, and it is said that this mountain range comes from the Yan side and passes through dozens of miles to this knot. In front of the pond is a low-lying land, which is said to have been water in ancient times, for the lake, but now it is all arid, becoming a crop field, which is used by feng shui as a reservoir.
We went up to the cemetery, saw that the terrain was relatively open, slightly sloped, there were dozens of graves, on both sides stood a stone lion, very majestic, there was a Chinese watch and a pint of lady of the commandment, engraved with many words, unfortunately eroded by the wind, some words have been unable to see clearly, in front of the tomb of Wang Shixiong in the middle of the tomb there is a large stone incense burner, which is inserted with some incense sticks, and then a little more, is the Xuanwei County People's Government erected a cultural relics protection unit plate, followed by the majestic Tomb of Wang Shixiong, the stele is inscribed with his inscription, the inscription reads "Good General Loyal Subjects." Four characters, next to a tombstone written "Yipin Rongfeng", is his mother, and the tombs of his father and grandfather are slightly to the left at the back. All the tombs are large eight-character stele, the only difference is that there are two pillars in the middle of Wang Shixiong's tomb, and the pillars have the image of the dragon, these two pillars are made up for the ethnic group, from the color and the image of the dragon is not at that time, the ethnic said that the tomb was stolen twice, and it was also destroyed.
Looking at the tombstone tomb pond, it is still in front of you that year's Jinge Iron Horse, General Wang Shixiong killed and fought, a large knife broke throughout the north and south of the great river, and the name of the governor was appointed as the general town of Taiyuan in Shanxi, and he became ill with hard work in Pu'er, returned to the west, and was buried here. When the leaves fall back to their roots, people return to their hometowns, and who can forget it!