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Chapter 186

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    Dapuhua galloped all the way to the southeast, and after walking for about two hours, he arrived at the "Li Er Temple" [Youmin Guankun Taoist Temple] in Tongzhou.

    "Li Er Temple" is not a monk temple, it was originally a river temple.  It was built on the ancient river channel by Zhang Xuan, the governor of water transport in the 22nd year of Zhiyuan [1285], and the sea god and the river god were enshrined in it.  The Heshen Temple used to be the origin of water transportation, and boatmen in the past came here to worship.  In the sixth year of Dade (1302), Zhang Xuan was accused of collecting ill-gotten wealth, and was killed together with his son Wenhu, and the Heshen Temple became deserted.

    [1] Wang Jiamo's Poem of "The Next Work of Liersi Donghuang Temple"

    The tamarind tree blooms in spring, and it shines in the middle garden kindly.

    The lake is wide and remote, and the lonely sail makes new rain.

    In the middle of the stream, you can see the ancient temple, and the trees in the pine clouds.

    The wine is rewarded with fragrance, and the village witch dances repeatedly.

    Xuexiao fern is green at the beginning, and Pingxiang fish is breastfeeding.

    But there is no need to say goodbye to being drunk, this joy is really worth taking.

    In the twenty-ninth year of Zhiyuan [1292], Guo Shoujing presided over the excavation of the Tonghui River.

    Water from Baifu Spring, Yimu Spring and other springs in Changping County was diverted to intercept the upper reaches of the Yu River, and a canal was dug along the mountain to Wengshanbo [Kunming Lake], and then led to Heyimen [Xizhimen] into the pool via the Gaoliang River [Changhe].  From the Wanning Bridge [Buliang Bridge] in the east of Jishuitan, pass outside the east wall of the imperial palace, flow through the beach, the north riverside, and the south riverside, pass the Yuhe Bridge south to the Dongshuiguan of Lizhengmen, and then turn southeast into Wenmingmen [Chongwenmen]  ], flowing eastward from outside the gate, along today's Tonghui River to Puji Gate [Yangzha Village], and then to Zhangjiawan Village to the east into Baihe River.  In this way, there are four rivers flowing in Zhangjiawan, so it is called "Sihe".

    ? At that time, Baihe River was divided into inner and outer branches from the east of Tongzhou City, and they overlapped in today's Xiji Town and Hezhan Village.  Waibai River also absorbs three rivers, Wenyu River, Jinzha River and Xiaozhong River in the east of Tongzhou City, also known as "Si River".  Both the Inner and Outer Baihe Rivers are called "Si River". In order to treat them differently, they are divided into "Inner Ersa River" and "Outer Er Si River".

    Most people call "Nei" "Li", so "Neisi River" is also called "Li Ersi".  With the prosperity of the water transport economy, more and more people live by the river.  They built a small village in the name of the river - Liersi Village

    Li Sunu, a disciple of Yuan Yan [the second daughter of Yuan Haowen], a female Taoist priest in the Yuan Dynasty, came to Dadu.

    When passing the Tonghui River, I saw the declining river temple, so I wanted to use it.  She expanded the area of ??the temple and changed it to Kun Dao Temple, called "Tianfei Temple [1]", which is also the dojo of the Holy Mother.

    Because the Taoist priest's surname is Li, people gave this Tianfei temple the same name as the village - Li Ersi.

    Why did Dapuhua come to this Kun Dao Temple?

    He is a little Taoist nun who loves Yukun Daoyuan.  Do you remember that the apricot hairpin that Dapuhua gave Wang Mian a few days ago was originally given to this little Taoist nun.

    On that day, the little Taoist nun took the apricot flower hairpin, looked at it carefully, and asked, "What do you mean?"

    Da Puhua said: "I found that you always pin your hair bun with a bamboo stick, so I want to give you a hairpin."

    "Is this a hairpin?" The little Taoist gave Da Puhua a white look, "Isn't this making Hong Xing out of the wall?"

    "No! No!" Da Puhua hurriedly explained, "This is a plum blossom hairpin, don't you love plum blossoms the most!"

    "I still don't know what apricot blossoms look like, what do plum blossoms look like?" The little Taoist nun knew that Da Puhua liked her, so she proposed to her by sending hairpins!  But Taoist priests of the "Quanzhen sect" cannot marry and start a family

    How to politely reject this young court official in front of me?  It will not hurt his self-esteem, but also allow him to understand his own mind and dispel his "bad" thoughts.

    Suddenly, she remembered a poem written by her master Taoist Yuan Yan when she rejected Zhang Pingzhang's courtship - "Filling the Ceiling".

    She returned the hairpin in her hand to Dapuhua, slightly opened her mouth, and said:

    "The method of mending the sky is temporarily stretched,

    Do not allow dust to fall into the painting hall.

    ? Send a message to the new Swallows,

    Move the nest and look for carved beams elsewhere.  "

    Of course Dapuhua understood that the little Taoist nun rejected him.  But Dapuhua was not discouraged, and thought that he bought the wrong hairpin to cause today's misunderstanding.  After returning, he spent a lot of money and asked someone to make a more exquisite plum blossom hairpin with Hetian Ziyu.

    What kind of woman is it that can make this young talented man work so hard to travel back and forth for more than three hundred miles to see her frequently?

    [2] Tang Xianzu's Poem "Climbing to the High Pavilion of Ersi Taoist Temple in Zhangwanli"

    Mi Ge gathers together, and Mo Ge Ling Huijiao.

    ?The accumulation of travel is so comfortable, and the waves are also worthwhile.

    Seeing Meng Mi, Zhen Qiu thinks about being slim again.

    What's more, this feather lives in a place full of green girls.The Tianfei Temple appeared in Beijing after the opening of the Tonghui River in the Yuan Dynasty.  The boatmen in the south of the Yangtze River came and went frequently, bringing the worship of the concubine to Yuan Dadu.  The first Tianfei in Daducheng is located in the west of "Liersi" village in Zhangjiawan Town on the bank of Tonghui River in Tongzhou. It was built in the Yanyou period of Yuan Dynasty.

    According to the records of "Old News in the Sun": "Liersi is near Zhangjiawan, and there is Youmin Temple, which built the altar of Yuhuang Pavilion and plastic river statues. In the 14th year of Jiajing, Taoist Zhou Congshan begged for the name of the temple, and gave it today.  The pavilion is named Xixi. In the tenth year of Wanli, Tang Shilong, the Marquis of Lingbi, restored it.¡± In the era when ships on the canal were frequent, this temple was an important place for people to worship Mazu, the Queen of Heaven.

    Interestingly, the concubine concubine enshrined in Youmin Temple is not the "pure" sea god concubine, but a mixture of the concubine Tianfei and the empress Jinhua, called "the concubine Jinhua Madonna".  Jinhua Empress, also known as Mrs. Jinhua, Our Lady of Jinhua, and Empress of Sending Children, is a goddess of fertility believed by the people in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hubei, Zhejiang and other places.  The concubine Jinhua Shengma can not only send children to midwifery, but also protect the safety of water transportation. There is no doubt that there are more believers.

    This change of Tianfei Empress is another proof that the Grand Canal promotes the integration of North and South cultures.  (Remember the site URL: www.hlnovel.com
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