The history of Gulan can be traced back to the Yin and Shang Dynasties, and the city walls that remain today are relics of the Ming Dynasty.
Although this place has a long history, it is not well-known.
The county is also small in size and there are few outsiders.
Like three drowned rats, Big Jinya, Fatty and I asked someone for directions and found a nearby guest house.
What a coincidence when we went there.
This guest house only provides hot water showers for one hour a day.
There's still half an hour left.
After casually taking a hot shower, the three of them were able to regain their health and asked the waiter at the guest house if they had anything to eat.
The waiter said they only had noodles, so we ordered several bowls of noodles and added more chili peppers, which made us sweat profusely.
When I was halfway through eating, the old man in charge of cooking noodles in the guest house cafeteria came over to talk to me and asked if we were from Beijing.
When I heard that the old man's accent didn't sound like he was from the Northwest, I casually chatted with him for a few words.
This old man's surname is Liu, his hometown is in Tong County, Beijing, and he has lived in Gulan for several decades.
Old Liu asked us how we ended up in such a mess, as if we had just fished it out of the pot.
I recounted our experiences in the Yellow River.
What exactly is there in the river?
Why is it so powerful?
I can’t tell whether it’s a fish or a turtle, or some other animal.
I’ve never heard of anything like this in the Yellow River.
Big stuff.
Thanks to the strength of this boat, if it had been a wooden boat, we would all have fallen into the water and drank soup.
Old Liu Tou said: "I have seen this before, and the boat people said it was the God of the River.
Isn't there a lot of water this year?
When the water rises, there will be more strange things in the river.
I live on the edge of the Yellow River.
For half my life, before liberation, I was less than fifteen years old, and someone had caught him alive, and I had seen this thing with my own eyes.
If you really want to see it, I will tell you a place where you can go and see it. " I thought to myself, the three of us are new here and are not familiar with the place.
We want to collect some antiques near this county, which is not easy.
This old Liu Tou has lived in Gulan for several decades.
Listening to his conversation, he knows the local situation very well.
Why not let him tell us more about the local things, such as what ancient tombs and antiques have been unearthed?
This information is very useful to us.
So he didn't let Old Liu Tou continue talking.
He said it was still early and asked Fatty to go out and buy a few bottles of wine and get some food to go with the wine.
He invited Old Liu Tou to come to our room to drink and chat and talk about the local customs.
Old Liu Tou was a heavy drinker and liked to join in the fun.
When he heard that there was a drink, he immediately became more respectful than obey.
Seeing that he had to run errands again, the fat man was extremely reluctant, but he was also hungry for wine, so he changed into a set of clean clothes and went to a small shop outside to buy two bottles of liquor and some cans.
The rain outside continued to patter, and everyone closed the door in the room, using the bed as a table, and sat together drinking.
Old Liu Tou always talked a lot.
After these two glasses of white wine, his nose turned red and he couldn't close his chatterbox.
Da Jinya asked Old Liu Tou: "Master Liu, you just said that you saw the thing we encountered in the Yellow River with your own eyes.
What kind of bastard is it?"
Old Liu Tou shook his head and said: "It's not a bastard, it's actually just a big fish.
I don't know the scientific name of this fish.
Many people in the local area have seen it and call it the Iron-headed Dragon King.
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Boat operators are all superstitious and say It is transformed by the river god and cannot be seen at ordinary times.
It only comes out when there is a flood. " The fat man said: "What you said is really mysterious.
How big is this fish?"
Old Liu Tou said: "How old are you?
Let me tell you this.
I saw it once by the river.
That year, the water came and retreated quickly.
In addition, the ancient blue river was shallow, and a half-sized iron The Head Dragon King was stranded before liberation. , many superstitious people wanted to send the Dragon King back to the river, but before they could do anything, the Iron-headed Dragon King died.
People were burning incense and praying by the river.
It was really a huge crowd, and the event was unprecedented.
I just followed and watched the excitement.
Seen.”
I asked: "Master Liu, can you tell me what this fish looks like?"
Old Liu Tou said: "This big fish has seven layers of green scales on its body.
The fish head is black and harder than an iron plate.
The fish head alone is as big as the front of a Jiefang truck."
Fatty and others were amazed that it was no different than a small whale.
How could there be such a big fish in the river?
There were so many weird things in the world.
Then he asked what happened next.
The iron-headed dragon king was buried or eaten.
Old Liu Tou said with a smile: "It's not a whale, but such a big fish is very rare.
It doesn't exist at all, and you may not see it once every few decades.
It is almost a sperm.
Those who are superstitious say it is a dragon.
The prince changed, how else could he give it such a name?
I heard that even if it is caught, it must be released.
The meat is hard and old, who dares to eat it at that time.
The Iron-headed Dragon King died on the shore.
It was a hot day, and it started to rot within a day.
The stench was so strong that you could smell it from miles away.
This situation is easy.
The people nearby were infected with the plague, but after everyone discussed it, they cut off the flesh of the fish and burned it, leaving a fish skeleton on the river bank."
When Da Jinya heard this, he sighed: "Oh, what a pity.
If the bones of this strange fish could be brought to the museum and made into specimens, many people would visit it."
Old Liu Tou said: "Isn't that right?
But no one had the courage at that time.
They were afraid that if the Dragon King punished him, another big flood would inevitably happen."
I asked: "Master Liu, you just told us that there is a place where we can see the Ironhead Kingfish.
Are you referring to this one?
Is it possible that after so many years, the bones of this fish are still preserved and left on the river bank?"
"I'm here" Old Liu Tou said: "That's right, but not on the river bank.
At that time, in order to prevent the plague, the nearby people burned the fish meat and internal organs as sacrifices to the river god, and were discussing how to deal with the fish bones.
At this time, a foreign province came This man is a businessman, and he is also a very superstitious person.
He spent some money to build a fish bone temple in Longling, not far from us
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Da Jinya asked: "There was a fish bone temple on the ground in Tianjin.
Is it using fish bones as beams and fish heads as doors to worship the river god?"
Old Liu Tou said: "There is one in Tianjin, but I have never heard of it.
But it is indeed similar to what you said.
The businessman from other provinces claimed that he often went to sea and crossed rivers, so he often took boats, so he spent money to repair such a fish bone.
Temple.
This temple is not big, it doesn’t even have a courtyard.
It is no different from the ordinary Dragon King Temple.
The fish bones are used as the frame of the house, and the skull of the big fish is the temple door.
It is just a sacred room.
When it was first built, some people went to the Fish Bone Temple to offer incense and make wishes when they were sick or there was a drought.
It was so evil that it never worked. , If you go to the Fish Bone Temple to ask for rain, it’s better not to ask for it.
The more you ask for rain, the more drought you will get, so it didn’t take long for the businessman who funded the temple’s construction to stop showing up again.”
I asked: "The Fish Bone Temple is still there now" Old Liu Tou nodded and said: "Yes, but it has been abandoned for a long time.
The clay statue of the Dragon King collapsed within two years.
Some people say that the businessman who paid for the temple was dishonest, or that he had done something that lacked great virtue.
The Dragon King is unwilling to accept his incense.
In addition, the Fish Bone Temple is built in the valley of Longling Mountain, and the road is difficult. , no one went to the Fish Bone Temple anymore, and many people even forgot about it.
During the Cultural Revolution, even the Red Guards didn’t even think of destroying the Fish Bone Temple.
In fact, even if they did, they did. , there is nothing to smash.
But the layout and fish bones of this temple are still there, you can go and take a look.”
The fat man laughed and scolded: "What the hell is there to see?
The three of us almost became fish food today, so it’s okay not to see it."
Da Jinya had other plans.
He discussed it with me and decided to rest tomorrow and the day after tomorrow.
He would go to Longling to see the fish bone temple.
Maybe such a big fish bone could be sold for money, at least to The Natural History Museum reimbursed our travel expenses.
We encouraged Old Liu to drink again and asked him if any antique tombs had been unearthed nearby.
Old Liu Tou was so drunk that his eyes were blurred and his tongue was a bit big when he spoke.
However, when he spoke the truth after drinking, he actually revealed some local secrets.
Gu Lan was washed out of several ancient tombs by water some time ago.
They were all from the Song Dynasty, but they were not tombs of nobles.
Apart from a few rotten bones, there were only some broken bottles and jars.
The most valuable thing unearthed here is that there was a year of drought, and this section of the Yellow River was almost bottoming out.
During the dredging, three large iron monkeys were dug out of the mud, each weighing hundreds of kilograms.
After removing the rust, I found that the carved patterns on the iron monkeys were graceful and smooth, and the outside was all gold-plated.
It seems that no research has been done to find out what these iron monkeys are used for.
Some people say that it was used to suppress demons in the Tang Dynasty, while others say it was used to offer sacrifices to the river.
It is not known whether it was taken to a museum or melted in a large-scale steel smelting operation.
The most evil thing is that before the three iron monkeys were discovered in the mud, many people dreamed of three old men with white beards and cried and begged to let them go.
This matter became more and more mysterious as it spread, and many people said that these three old men were the Iron Monkey Spirits in the river.
During the Spring Festival of that year, there were monkeys in the family, so they all wore red trousers and red belts for fear of being retaliated by the three iron monkey spirits.
In the end, nothing major happened in the area.
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Of course, there were a few people who memorized Chinese characters and were unlucky.
Yes, but that’s all what they asked for.
There are many strange things in the Yellow River.
We have all heard of these things.
The Yellow River Iron Ox displayed in the Hedong Museum was used to stabilize the river.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there was also a legend that a one-eyed stone man was fished out of the Yellow River.
At that time, there was a peasant uprising.
There was a nursery rhyme about the one-eyed stone man that provoked rebellion in the Yellow River.
That incident is just a legend and not credible, but it can still bear witness to the ancient mystery of the Yellow River.
There are so many secrets covered in the slimy river mud.
However, we were not interested in things like iron monkeys, iron oxen, and stone figures, so we kept asking where there were ancient tombs and ruins nearby, and who had antiques in their hands that they wanted to sell.
Old Liu Tou thought for a while and said, it turns out that you are just selling antiques.
If you had come here a few years ago, you would have made a lot of gains.
Now you have almost been collected, not only by private antique dealers, but also by the government.
We collect more than ten times a year.
No matter how much stuff we have, we can’t hold it together.
In the past few years, tomb robberies have occurred one after another near Gulan, and many locals have participated.
When the wind blows in autumn, you can see that the ground is full of robbery holes, and it is easy to fall into them if you are not careful about walking.
The ancient tombs outside the city Where the tombs are concentrated, they are almost dug into a sieve.
Old Liu Tou said, let's talk in a hurry, and I suddenly remembered that I heard someone say, let me just say it, and you can listen to it.
I once heard a local old man say that there is an ancient tomb from the Tang Dynasty in Longling.
It is said to be very large.
Many tomb robbers have tried to find it in the past two years, but no one has been able to find it.
The mountains in Longling are too It's secret, and the ancient tomb is hidden so deep that it's hard to say whether it exists or not.
After all, this kind of thing was passed down by word of mouth many years ago, so it may not be true.
There are many legends about this kind of ancient tombs in our local area, and they are almost based on one person's opinion and are not fixed.
Some people say that Longling is a large tomb from the Tang Dynasty, while others say it is from other dynasties.
Anyway, they are all legends, no one has ever seen them
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