When you go out for a stroll, you may feel a little funny when you see a small restaurant or clothing store with only three or five storefronts, and the door is crowned with "so-and-so food city" and "so-and-so clothing city". However, if you have the opportunity to go to Xinye County, Henan Province, which borders Xiangyang City, Hubei Province, you may know that you are a little ignorant. In this small county, there is such a city, only two or three storefronts in size. The wall made of blue bricks is 6.59 meters long from north to south, 4.49 meters wide from east to west and only 2.88 meters high. Although the city is small, it has all kinds of walls, gates and battlements. It looks simple and solemn, compact and three-dimensional.
Because this city is really small, it has also been selected into the Guinness Book of Records and is known as "the smallest city in the world". However, you should not underestimate this "smallest city", which has a history of 1800 years.
The "aborigines" of this small town are a vibrant Millennium Shawn Ku. Because of this, the name is "Hanson City".
Hansangcheng park gate
According to historical records, from 20 1 year to 206 (Jian' an 6- 13 year), Liu Bei, Guan Yu and Zhang Fei became sworn friends in Taoyuan, occupied Xinye, built a city to train soldiers, and invited Zhuge Liang to take Wollongong as his military adviser, determined to pacify the world and make great achievements. Since Zhuge Liang became a military adviser, he has taken two very important measures: one is to be lenient and kind to the people, and the other is to be strict in military discipline and win the hearts of the people. General Guan Yu was living in Zhang Laohan's home in the west of Mushu North Street in Xinye County.
One day last summer, Guan Yu returned from training, so he tied his hobby of riding a red hare to a small mulberry tree in Zhang Laohan's house and went back to his home to study Sun Tzu's art of war. Red hare may be hungry and thirsty, or idle and bored, so it has an appetite for the lush little mulberry trees. When it looks up and eats the mulberry leaves that can raise silkworms, it will get out of hand and simply chew up the mulberry branches and skins. Knowing that riding destroyed the landlord's mulberry tree, Guan Yu reprimanded the beast and really "let him go."
Guan Yu and Red Rabbit
However, Mr Zhuge, who soon learned about it, did not think it was trivial for Guan Yu's steeds to gnaw at the trees of ordinary people's homes, and immediately executed Guan Yunchang as a strategist. While instructing Guan Yu to apologize to Zhang Laohan's family, he was also punished to plant another mulberry tree as compensation for the landlord. It is said that Guan Yu thought that the strategist made a mountain out of a molehill and was not convinced of the punishment, but later he figured it out. He feels that if he is lenient to the people and masters the discipline of the army, he must treat officers and men equally. If he is not upright, how can he be upright? He not only bought a small mulberry tree and planted it himself, but also bought blue bricks to build a battlement-like wall for the small mulberry tree, which was properly protected. As a result, this small mulberry tree planted by Guan Gong himself thrived and grew into a big mulberry tree with a thick trunk and a canopy that covered the sky. Later generations called it "Guanju Sang".
Guanzhisang
For thousands of years, out of admiration for this wonderful legend, people have also repaired or rebuilt the vicissitudes of "Hansang City" many times. The appearance of the town also changes frequently, sometimes hexagonal, sometimes round, until the rectangle when it was rebuilt in 2007, but no matter how it changes, it is a pocket-sized blue brick ancient city. 1984, "Hansangcheng" was announced as a key cultural protection unit at the county level.
Surprisingly, during the Cultural Revolution, the "viewing mulberry" described by Hu Guojun, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty as "crumpled and mottled and weather-beaten" had withered, but by 1978, a new mulberry had grown at the root of Shawn Ku, and its branches and leaves stood vigorously against the old tree, drawing a picture of dead wood for a long time in the lonely "Hansang City". Today, this new mulberry tree is nearly 40 years old. It has flourished in spring, summer and autumn, and looks like a giant potted plant. When winter comes, the leafy new mulberry and the withered and immortal old mulberry set each other off. Looking from a distance, withered mulberries are like black dragons, and newborn mulberries are like chicks. Young and old live alone, fighting with snow and dancing while flying, which has become a grand sight of Xinye ancient city.
Hanson today
A "smallest city in the world", having said so much, still wants to say a few more words. Think about the fact that during the Three Kingdoms period, Shu Han, who was not strong, was able to occupy a seat among the three pillars, which should be closely related to the idea of "being close to the people and strictly observing military discipline" conveyed in the story of Hansangcheng!
At this time, I suddenly thought of the "compensation for damages" discipline of the revolutionary army led by our party; I think that during the liberation war, after the PLA invaded Shanghai, they slept in the street and didn't disturb the residents. Some people lament that "the national army will be defeated." I thought of Marshal Chen Yi's famous saying, "The victory of Huaihai Campaign was pushed out by the people with unicycle". I also thought of Mao Zedong's rhetoric: "The army and the people unite as one person, and see who can be the enemy in the world!"
I thought everyone was equal before the law and discipline; I thought of "don't do small things with kindness"; That no unit or individual should harm the interests of others; When you think of something, you can't measure its value by the size of your body. ...
Reconstruction of Hansang City
I think, if readers can arouse some such thoughts and associations after seeing Hanson City, I'm glad you came. As for the shape of "Hansang City", whether the mulberry trees in the city are old mulberry trees or new mulberry trees, and even whether the origin of this "Hansang City" is composed of descendants, there is really no need to study it carefully. Nevertheless, for the reason of this "smallest city in the world", a famous reporter is right: "It is not the material truth, but at least the truth of spirit and belief." In my opinion, only this one has the value of existence.
/kloc-read more in October, 2065438+2008, 165438+2008. In order to further show the profound historical and cultural heritage of Xinye, a thousand-year-old city, and build a "new field with vigor, pastoral and happiness", the local government moved out Hansangcheng Primary School, which is in the same courtyard as Hansangcheng, and began to build Hansangcheng Park. Its overall architectural style is imitation of Han architecture, Han que and happiness. Today, Hansangcheng Park has been built and opened for free.