The earliest records of bronze camel street can be found in Taiping Yulan (volume 158) and Luoyang Ji. Land Rover quoted it as saying: "There is a bronze camel street in Luoyang, and two bronze camels were cast in the Han Dynasty, facing each other at Sihui Road in Gongnan. As the saying goes,' many sages gather outside the Golden Horse Gate, and teenagers gather on the bronze camel'. "Most of the places where teenagers can gather are bustling. It can be seen that Tongtuo Street was once a bustling place. Lu Ji also recorded the size of two bronze camels in "Luoyang Ji", "The camel is nine feet high and the ridge is out of Taiwei House".
During the Cao Wei period, the main entrance of Miyagi in Luoyang City was connected to the south, leading directly to Xuanyang Gate (there are four doors in the south wall of the big city, and the third door in the east is Xuanyang Gate), so Xuanyang Gate became the main entrance of Luoyang City in Cao Wei. Liuhe Gate South Street between the two city gates has become the north-south axis of the whole capital. In Wei Mingdi, bronze camels and other wild animals were placed in Liuhe Gate South Street, so it was called Bronze Camel Street. The sixteenth volume "Valley Water" in Notes on Water Classics records the cloud of Tongtuo Street in the Northern Wei Dynasty: "Yangqu water flows in the south of the gate and branches in the south of Lunan, between Taiwei and Situ, which is called Tongtuo Street." "Luoyang Galand Ji" also records that on both sides of Tongtuo Street in front of Miyagi in the Northern Wei Dynasty, there are Youwei House, Taiwei House, Zuojiang Cao House, Jiuji House and Taishe House in the west; On the east side are Zuoweifu, Situfu, Guozixue, Zong Zheng Temple, ancestral temple and Baojun House. According to this description, "Tongtuo Street" is not only a bustling place, but also a very famous place.
However, Shui Jing Zhu and The Story of Luoyang Galand only explained the place name of "Bronze Camel Street", but did not point out whether these two bronze camels still exist.
The reason why "Bronze Camel Street" attracted the attention of later generations originated from Suo Jing, a native of the Western Jin Dynasty. In the Western Jin Dynasty, Hou Suojing of Shanhaiguan once stood in front of Miyagi and said this to these two bronze camels. "Biography of Suo Jing in the Book of Jin" records: "Jing had the foresight to know that the world would be chaotic, pointing to the bronze camel at Luoyang Palace, and sighing,' I met you in the middle ear of thorns!'" ""(see bronze camel thorn in 706) Suo Jing later defended Luoyang, the capital city, in the second year of Tai 'an (303), and died of serious injuries at the age of 65 when fighting against the rebels of Hejian king Sima Yu. I wonder if those two bronze camels standing outside the palace gate all day can see them!
Lu Ji also came to Luoyang from Emperor Wu during the reign of Taikang, and died in the second year of Taikang. Prior to this, Lu Zhishen took refuge in Sima Ying, the king of Chengdu. In the autumn of the second year of Tai 'an, Chengdu Ying led an army to attack Luoyang, with Changsha as the commander-in-chief to meet the enemy. Sima Yi beheaded sixteen people, including Jia Chong, the general of Sima Ying's army, and hung up the Bronze Camel Street. Lu Ji was executed by Sima Ying after his defeat.
From the first year of Emperor Yuan Kang of Jinhui (AD 29 1 year), the sixteen-year "Eight Kings Rebellion" started around Luoyang City. Shortly afterwards, during the Yongjia period of Emperor Huai of Jin Dynasty (307-3 13), the "Yongjia Rebellion" took place, and the center of the chaos was Luoyang City. The "Eight Kings Rebellion" in the Second Emperor Jin Huidi's reign and the "Yongjia Rebellion" in the Third Emperor Jin Huaidi's reign in the Western Jin Dynasty are the best footnotes to Suo Jing's thought of "Farewell before Farewell".
After the demise of the Western Jin Dynasty, there are different opinions about whether the two bronze camels in the street still exist. However, the name "Bronze Camel Street" has survived. As mentioned in Notes on Water Classics and Luoyang Galand. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were Tongtuofang and Tongtuomo to the east of Luoyang. During the Tang and Song Dynasties, peaches and plums were widely planted on bronze camels, and there were many uneven halls. Every spring, peach blossoms are in full bloom, plum blossoms are fragrant, willows curl, butterflies fly, birds sing, willows curl, swallows cut blue waves, and tourists are in pairs and bustling. Sima Guang, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said: "The bronze camel is devoted to peach blossoms, and Luoyang is full of spring breeze. However, there is no mention of the two bronze camels that Suo Jing and the people of the Western Jin Dynasty bowed their heads and looked up.
The word "bronze camel thorn" originated from Suo Jing has evolved into a synonym for the rise and fall iteration. In the process of changing dynasties, people and politics, in just a few decades, these two bronze camels have become unknown historical witnesses, but their whereabouts, like most history, are often lost. Who cares about these two bronze camels in your crusade?
The two bronze camels on the bronze camel street used to stand in front of the Luhe River in Miyagi, Luoyang, south to the big city Xuanyangmen, south along the bronze camel street, and five miles south of Xuanyangmen in Luoyang City is Luoshui. There is a pontoon bridge on Luoshui. After crossing the pontoon bridge, continue to the south and face the "Daguguan". After this, it's the south. During the Yongjia Rebellion in the Jin Dynasty, aristocratic families and ordinary people inside and outside Luoyang embarked on this important passage from Luoyang in the south under the gaze of a pair of bronze camels. "Russia capsized, and Zhongzhou women avoided the river and left chaos." The Book of Jin says: "Since Yongjia lost harmony, the people went into exile, the Central Plains was depressed, thousands of miles away were smokeless, and the gullies followed."
About 200 years after Suo Jing, Yang Xuanzhi revisited Luoyang because of his trip, only to see Luoyang "battlements collapsed, palaces were overturned, temples were dilapidated, temple towers were covered with mugwort and alleys were covered with thorns", and even the bells were rarely heard. Looking back, it is inevitable that there will be sadness in Mai Xiu, so write it out and pass it on to future generations. As can be seen from Galand in Luoyang, the rise and fall of Luoyang City happened more than once. In the later account of Luoyang City, two bronze camels were never mentioned again, but the bronze camel street became the source of memory.
It was not until the Tang and Song Dynasties that Luoyang City regained its breath.
From the association of bronze camel to the name of bronze camel street, the rise and fall are condensed into allusions. The palaces in the city change owners in the blink of an eye, and stones are perishable, not to mention people. What we can roughly guess is that the ultimate fate of these two bronze camels may return to the furnace, turn into copper water, and then smelt into weapons. This is probably the most likely place for these two bronze camels to appear in the era when the soldiers and fronts are intertwined.
In Lu Ji's eyes, bronze camel is a symbol of wealth, but in the eyes of mutinous soldiers, it is the capital of attack and cutting. There are precedents for stories like bronze camels. For example, it is mentioned in Historical Records of Qin Shihuang that in the twenty-sixth year of Qin Shihuang (22 1 BC), he "gathered all the soldiers in the world, gathered in Xianyang, sold them as twelve Jin people, and placed them in the palace." But we only see these twelve bronze men in the article, and there is no reasonable explanation for where they finally went. However, according to the historical trend, it is not impossible for these twelve bronze men to be cast into weapons for war again.
It was not his initiative that the first emperor accepted the soldiers from all over the world. According to legend, in the early years of Xia Dynasty, Wang Dayu of Xia Dynasty divided the world into Kyushu, which made the state herdsmen of Kyushu contribute to bronze casting Jiuding, and engraved the famous mountains and rivers of Kyushu and rare animals on Jiuding, symbolizing three Ding in one state. "Historical Records" records: "Yu received the gold of nine shepherds and cast Jiuding." What we know now is that this Jiuding is also missing in history.
No matter Jiuding, Tongren and Tongcamel, although they are all behemoths, each one has a shorter life span than the other. Although tempered by the fire of a skilled craftsman, I can't avoid my own fate in the end. In addition to leaving some written records, these stones came from the earth and will still return to the earth.
Think twice about Suo Jing's words "bronze camels and thorns". I'm afraid it's not his foresight, but the historical lesson that Suo Jing saw from history-those seemingly immortal man-made things will eventually rot in people's hands.
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