丨 Such a ferry is probably the most suitable for martial arts world丨
▲ "The Legend of Condor Heroes" Guo Xiang saw Yang Guo for the first time at this ferry, and since then he has the unsolvable complex.
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Fenglingdu
A familiar place name
In the world of martial arts, it represents a kind of image of the rivers and lakes
This image is not a reason
It stepped on the Yellow River ferry at the junction of Shaanxi, Shanxi and Henan
Therefore, it has been a fortress on the Central Plains since ancient times. Another meaning of the fortress is
parting
So, stories always like to choose to happen in such places
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2014 In 2019, the section of the Daxi High-speed Railway Taiyuan to Xi'an was successfully opened, connecting the two ancient cities to a faster route. The road from Xi'an to Taiyuan has been shortened from the original 10 hours to about 3 hours.
In the morning, I also ate two roujiamo at Huiminfang in Xi'an. At noon, I could eat a bowl of pickled noodles on the streets of Taiyuan. This incident became a reality.
▲ Go east to the ancient capital of Xi'an, cross the Qinchuan River, cross the Yellow River, and then head north along the Fen River, and finally arrive in Longcheng Taiyuan.
We only need to walk the fastest part of the road today for 2 hours and 56 minutes, but the ancients had a difficult time walking. Countless business travelers, soldiers, refugees and officials linger on the bank of the Yellow River in a corner of southwest Shanxi, looking at the Guanzhong on the other side. The small ferry that keeps traveling back and forth is carrying the important task of communicating the cultural relics of Qin and Jin provinces.
Fengling Duke, this is located at the Yellow River Ferry in Yuncheng, Shanxi. It witnessed the rise and fall of both sides of the Yellow River and left many sad stories. In Jin Yong's writings, Guo Xiang's disciple is called Fengling Master Tai. Because Fengling Ferry is the ferry that Guo Xiang never forgets to meet with Yang Guo for the first time.
Ferry that will last forever
▲ There are still boats on the Yellow River ferry, and how many stories have been turned around there.
The Yellow River comes from the sky, and after encountering the Luliang Mountains, turning to the south, separating the Qin and Jin provinces.
exit the mouth of the pot and the dragon gate. The water of the Yellow River rolling south was blocked by Mount Hua again, and finally flowed eastward towards the sea. outlined this majestic word "媞" on the map of China. And this bend where the Yellow River turns east is Fengling Ferry at the junction of Shanxi, Henan and Shaanxi provinces.
▲The Yellow River in the shape of "ji" bends here and then turns around and flows eastward. Image / Stripped from Google Earth
Many people know the name of Feng Lingdu for the first time, but through "The Legend of Condor Heroes".
" It is early spring in February, and the Fengling Ferry on the north bank of the Yellow River is turbulent... The water surface cannot be ferryed, and it cannot be driven on the ice. Many guests who want to cross the river south have blocked the Fengling Ferry and cannot set off. " Chapter 33 "Fengling Night Talk" begins with such a scene.
Although Jin Yong never set foot on Fengling Ferry before writing the book, this description is still very consistent with the real situation of the Ferry.
Due to the huge span of north and south, the Yellow River will experience ice floods around the world before and after the freezing every year. The river sealing period before the frozen river surface and the river opening period when the river surface was thawed, there were large pieces of floating ice floating and could not take a boat. The travelers looking forward to crossing the river had to wait at Fengling Ferry. Wait until the ice surface freezes, you can go directly to the other side, or wait until the ice melts, and then take a ferry to cross the river.
The author arranged for Guo Xiang and Yang Guo to meet at this largest ferry crossing on the Yellow River, and it must have a special intention.
▲ People on the river have been going through thousands of years, saving people and themselves.
Because of the delay of a wind and snow, Guo Xiang met Yang Guo before the ferry that was suspended. became the knot of 's life. After all, she did not cross the broad river of lust in her heart, and finally left Feng Ling's name to her disciples. Fenglingdu also witnessed this famous tragedy in the martial arts world.
Just like that, the thousand-year-old ferry has a deeper meaning, it saves people and itself. The three words "Fenglingdu" are stained with a hint of helplessness and sadness.
When we parted, Guo Xiang said to the god-evil hero Yang Guo: "You will come to your wife and ask someone to bring me a message to Xiangyang, so that I can be happy on your behalf." In this joy, there are so many regrets from Guo Xiang, I am afraid Mr. Jin Yong himself cannot explain clearly. Only before Fenglingdu, where we first met, the water of the Yellow River freezes and melts, and silently flows year after year.
The Yellow River is here, and it is a knot
▲ The fog is steaming above the Yellow River, and it looks like yellow sand floating in the distance, while Mount Hua on the other side of the Yellow River is looming like a mirage. Although love in the novel is fictional, in Fenglingdu's long history, there has never been a shortage of such long and lingering stories. started with the establishment of Fenglingjin in the Tang Dynasty. In more than a thousand years, I don’t know how many people crossed the Yellow River from here and went west to Chang'an .
The main story in "The West Chamber" takes place Puji Temple , just today in Shanxi Yuncheng Yongji, not far from Fenglingdu. Zhang Sheng bid farewell to Cui Yingying Miss, went to Beijing to take the exam, and stood at the bow of Fengling Ferry, I wonder what I felt?
The Yellow River has come here, and it is no longer a rushing scene in the upper reaches, but it shows the vastness of the river.
At the beginning of "The West Chamber", the Yellow River in Zhang Sheng's eyes is like this: "Bring Qi Liang, divided Qin and Jin, and narrow Yan; snow waves smack the sky, autumn clouds roll in the sky; bamboo cables and cables float bridges, and the water is lying on the dragon."
The poet Zhao Zizhen of the Jin Dynasty also wrote in "Inscription Fengling Du": "One water divides north and south, and the Central Plains is full. Clouds and mountains connect Jin soil, smoke trees enter Qinchuan . The setting sun rises, and the sunny sand and white birds sleep. The loss is in a hurry, and the ferry is busy with the boat on the ferry." tells the throat of Fengling Duke that guards the traffic between Qin and Jin, and also depicts the scene of ferry crossing between the two sides.
▲ Villagers preparing for art performances in Fenglingdu Yangxian Village.
Expand the map and it is not difficult to find that the areas around Fenglingdu are "information" above and below the Yellow River, on both sides of the ferry, and the areas around Fenglingdu are extremely "information". If you come here, you may take a random step, and maybe you will move from the Tang Dynasty to the Song Dynasty, from Guo Xiang to Cui Yingying, from the Three Kingdoms war to the anti-Japanese war.
Every drop of Yellow River water flowing to the ferry entrance was involved in the roar of Hukou Waterfall not far upstream, and finally became quiet. After passing through the Hangu Pass that I rode a bull west, it slowly flowed to the Sanmenxia downstream. When the weather is good, standing at the former site of Fenglingdu, you can see the peaks of Mount Hua on the west bank of the river, standing upright on the 800-mile Qinchuan.
The Shaanxi side closest to Fenglingdu is the famous Tongguan . After the Eastern Han Dynasty, the road east along the Wei River was called "Tongguan Road". Zhang Yanghao The famous sentence in "Hillside Sheep" "The peaks are like gathering, the waves are like anger, and the mountains and rivers are like Tongguan Road" is also the scenery we see today in Fenglingdu.
Three-season scenery is ferrying here
▲ I love to eat mutton, so that this ferry has more cultural blending colors.
Qin and Jin locked the key, and it rose and fell several times.
Fenglingdu, which "the rooster crows and listens to the three provinces", has been ferrying for thousands of years not only travelers, but also the scenery of Qin, Jin and Henan. Not far from the ferry, is the hometown of Wu Sheng Guan Yu, Jiezhou . A rare-known Jiezhou mutton soup bun is popular here. Unlike the famous Xi'an mutton soy steamed bun, Jiezhou soy steamed buns are not cut into diced, but they are directly tore the freshly baked thousand-silk cakes and soaked them into a bowl. Although it is not as thick as the mutton steamed buns in Guanzhong, it is also very hot and fresh.
The first meeting of the two major souvenir schools in history happened at the dining table in Fenglingdu.
Another county in Yuncheng Wenxi produced in cooked cakes is also particularly famous. Jinnan People call "fried" "boiled". The flour is wrapped in brown sugar, osmanthus, and honey, and press it into a small cake with a special mold, then throw it into a frying pan and fry it thoroughly. Finally, a layer of white sesame seeds are glued on the surface to make a delicate and exquisite Wenxi boiled cake .
It is said that after the authentic Wenxi cooked cake is broken apart, thin strips can be pulled between the two cakes, making the taste sweet and soft.In Lu Xun's novel " Lonely ", this famous product in southern Shanxi is mentioned: "I carried two packs of boiled cakes produced by Wenxi to see my friends." Through the waves of Fengling Ferry, people living in Guanzhong in ancient times can also taste the taste of boiled cakes in Wenxi .
▲ The thin scones fried in the pot
As for Henan Guanyintang beef and Shanxi Pingyao beef , Shannan noodle and Guanzhong noodle , it seems that the origin of both are related to this thousand-year ferry. People with various accents boarded the ferry and spread the properties and eating habits of the three provinces.
In the long period of time, the first Shanxi man who tasted the belt noodles, the first Guanzhong man who drank Fenjiu , and the first Henan man who sold Hula soup in other provinces. I think they all appeared in the once prosperous Fenglingdu.
▲ There are almost no remains left at Fengling Ferry today. In Magou Village, Ruicheng near Fenglingdu, villagers are cooking persimmon wine overnight. Because of the weather, they stand on Phoenix Tsui, watching the setting sun in the long river, looking at Qinchuan from afar, and walking into the ancient town that is no longer prosperous, and taste the food that combines the style of the three provinces. They can't help but sigh that the years pass by like the Yellow River.
Fengling Ferry is the best place for Guo Xiang to meet Yang Guo.
text丨Su Wei
pic edit丨Whale
edit丨Yixiao
pics except for the animations, all pictures are from Visual China
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