On many cliffs as high as 100 meters on the mountain, there are many caves hanging at half height. Locals call it "high kiln", which is a place where locals escape from war and bandits. There is a hole in the high kiln that goes straight to the ground. The hole is thick enough for one person to go up and down. In ancient times, it was an important place to station troops. Since entering the customs, we have attacked Chang 'an, and have camped here and stationed troops on standby. Before liberation, the traffic here was blocked and the mountains were dense, which was a place where bandits often haunted and hid. In order to avoid being robbed by soldiers and bandits, local villagers dug many high kilns on the cliff to hide food and property. Once the situation changes, the whole family will live in it and block the hole to avoid disaster. These high kilns are huge in engineering, complicated in design, long in holes and deep in kilns.
Because the mountain house is rich in stones, most local houses are built with stones, the roof is paved with blue tiles, the windows are set up with wooden sticks, and they are empty in summer and stuck with paper in winter. Once the stone is bonded to the local red clay, it is very strong. Therefore, many old houses with a history of more than 100 years have been preserved on the mountain, and many bamboo forests have been planted in front of the door, adding a lot of Jiangnan customs. Tourists seem to be in Shan Ye, Lingnan, which is quite different from other places in northwest China.
Mend the sky festival
The Legend of Hongqingshan National Forest Park tells the story that in ancient times, Zhu Rong and Gong Gong fought in the wild, and Gong Gong's defeat made him furious. He knocked down the mountain in Tianzhu, northwest China, and the sky fell, the land was short and the people were high, and it rained day and night. The flood on the earth is terrible and people are killed. Nu Wa Niangniang found a hole in the sky, so she picked jade at the top of Hongqing for 49 days and finally made it into a five-color stone. On the twentieth day of the first month, she mended the hole in the sky. It rained heavily for 49 days, and the day came to an abrupt end. In order to commemorate the kindness of Nu Wa Niangniang in mending the sky, later generations agreed to take this day as mending the sky festival. Every year on the 20th day of the first month, the indigenous villagers here will celebrate the day of mending the sky, and the girls will bake a cake and throw it on the roof to show the meaning of mending the sky. Unmarried women should also wear a belly embroidered with frogs to get the blessing of Nu Wa.
Empress club and Dalang club
According to legend, Nu Wa Niangniang made man from clay on July 15, which is the birthday of mankind. In order to commemorate this sacred day, people gather on this day. On this day, people make frog-shaped faces and give them to each other as a symbol of their kindness and wish each other prosperity. On this day, childless women pray for their children. On this day, both boys and girls should wear bellies embroidered with baby images and show them to each other. At night, people light bonfires and sing and dance all night. In the surrounding Woods, men and women can meet freely, fall in love, meet and get married, or have a tryst with lovers, and women seeking children can have free sexual intercourse with their favorite men. This custom is left over from matriarchal society, which reflects the change from group marriage to pairing marriage and should be an important part of local film history. This custom has a long history and has been passed down to the early days of liberation. At that time, local cadres had to send people to protect the venue. Now, the custom of playing the Lang Club has been abolished, but the Queen's Club is held as scheduled every year. Coincidentally, it is said that ancestors and brothers and sisters also got married on this day, and all kinds of coincidences can't help but make people think. No one can tell how deep this connection is.
Totem system
There is an ancient folk custom in Hongqingshan. On the wedding day, the bride must wear a belly embroidered with frogmen, thinking that only in this way can she have more children and be happy. The frogman image on the belly pocket is basically the same as the baby pattern on the pottery bowl unearthed from Jiangzhai site, which proves that this is a relic of the worship of ancient clan gods (totems). The image of frogman, that is, the earliest image of Nu Wa goddess, has become a slim young woman in later generations with the change of human aesthetic consciousness.
Historical legends
Hong Qingshan: Hong Qingshan's written history began in the Qin Dynasty, more than 2,200 years ago. The Notes on Water Classics says: "Its yin is rich in gold, its yang is rich in jade, and the first emperor was greedy for its name", "There is a cool plain in southern Shanxi". South of Hong Qing, the mountain faces the Langshui River, and the plateau is low, that is, the Bailu Plateau. "Three Ji Qin" said: "Sanjin has Bailuyuan." This is the Ba merchants in Qin and Han Dynasties, where Liu Bang was stationed.
Burning books to bury Confucianism: In the thirty-fourth year of Qin Shihuang (2 13 BC), Qi Renchun opposed the county system and demanded that "history should be taken as a mirror". Li Si, the prime minister, wrote a letter refuting it, saying that Confucian scholars were forbidden to praise history and slander state affairs with history. Qin Shihuang accepted Reese's suggestion and ordered the burning of books except Ji Qin. This is the "book burning" incident. The following year, 460 Confucian scholars and alchemists were arrested on charges of "spreading rumors", and they were all lured to a valley at the foot of Hong Qing. These two things are called "burning books to bury Confucianism".
Legend of Nu Wa in Hongqingshan National Forest Park: The oldest legend in Hongqingshan Mountain area is the legend of Nu Wa. Legend has it that at the beginning of the world, there was only one person on the earth, named Nu Wa. She has a slender figure, black eyes, a beautiful face and long black hair fluttering in the wind. At that time, the world was empty, the fields were lush, and clouds often ran to the ground. Clouds floated on the ground and rainbows became bridges. Nu Wa, naked and beautiful, sometimes swims between heaven and earth at high speed, and sometimes comes to the ground by rainbow, leading an open and leisurely life.
However, although heaven and earth are wonderful, she is the only one. She began to feel a little lonely. So, she knelt by the clear Moyu River, grabbed a handful of mud, pinched out the first villain in the river according to her own appearance, and took a breath to her mouth. Magic appeared. The little man jumped to the ground and called out to his mother while jumping. Nu Wa was so excited that she began to keep pinching the villain. Soon, there were thousands of little people cheering beside her. She felt the joy she had never felt before, and she called them people. Later, when she was tired, she stood up lazily, folded a willow from the green willow by the river and whipped it casually in the soil. A more magical miracle happened, and those splashing mud spots soon became lively little people, laughing and rushing to the land of green grass and trees.
Nu Wa thinks that children must learn to reproduce themselves, so that human beings can live endlessly on the earth and they can continue to live a happy life. So Nuwa divided the children into men and women and taught them to get married and have children. Since then, human beings have begun to reproduce themselves until today. Later, people regarded Nu Wa as the queen of Nu Wa. Nu Wa lived a free and carefree life again.
This ancient and beautiful myth is still fascinating today.