The historical mystery of Princess Anding?

Princess Anding and the Origin of Lan Yun Bay

In 638 AD, Zhenguan 1 1 year. From the change of Xuanwu Gate to the rule of Zhenguan, Li Shimin of Emperor Taizong became more mature politically and his regime became more stable. After more than ten years' efforts, the economy of the Tang Dynasty was developed, the frontier was stable and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. But behind the scene of prosperity, pride, complacency and enjoyment are often accompanied. At this time, it has been two years since his first wife, Queen Uji of Sun Chang, passed away. In order to make up for the emotional emptiness, Li Shimin asked the Ministry of Housing to select beautiful women from all over the country to fill the vacancy in the harem.

This year 1 1 month, I heard that there was a woman in the Wu family who was a hero of the Yuan Dynasty. She 14 years old, with good looks and manners, was urgently recruited into the palace and was named "charming" to serve the left and right. This is Wu Zetian in history, the only female emperor in China.

After Wu Zetian entered the palace, although the girl's heart was moved by the majesty of Emperor Taizong, she did not get the love that women expected. Instead, I witnessed the intrigue in the harem all day, and even worked as a talent for 12 years, and my status has never improved.

In 643 AD, Crown Prince Li Chenggan was deposed, Wang was demoted for crimes, and the ninth son Li Zhi was named Crown Prince. In order to cultivate Li Zhi's ability to govern the country, Emperor Taizong often accompanied Li Zhi. /kloc-Li Zhi, 0/5 years old, is gentle, but everything in her marriage and career follows the guidance of the state. However, as a hot-blooded young man, his heart is not eager to do something, especially a young man's desire for love is even stronger at this time.

One afternoon, Li Zhi was summoned by Emperor Taizong to his study as usual. At this time, it is summer. In the garden of the study, the trees are lush, insects are singing, and several sika deer are lying on the lawn chewing young grass and enjoying themselves. Next to the pond, it is covered with lotus leaves, and the water drops on the lotus leaves shine in the sun. If you were not born in the emperor's home, this scene would be so intoxicating. Suddenly, a woman whispered behind the shade, "It's your world outside. When you are ready, fly out. This is not where you stay. "

When Li Zhi was wondering who would say this outside his study, he was about to find out in the past. A charming woman dressed in purple turned and walked behind the tree, her eyes seemed to be staring at him, her face flushed. I don't know if it's because of shyness or the hot weather. The woman still has a bird in her hand, and a piece of white cloth is wrapped around the bird's leg. This bird can't move at all in her hands. Obviously, she was badly hurt. "May be the harem cat caught. Fortunately, it escaped, but this leg was injured and it could not fly for the time being. "

Before Li Zhi could speak, the woman with the injured sparrow flashed by him quickly, leaving only a faint fragrance in the air, which she had never smelled before. When Li Zhi came to his senses, he realized that the woman beside his father was Wu Cairen. I've only heard of this Wu Meiniang before, but I didn't know she was so kind. Compared with those concubines in the harem, even if they die, they will be ignored, let alone the sparrow. Li Zhi, who grew up in the imperial city, has already witnessed various conspiracies between brothers, ministers and concubines. Although he didn't attach importance to imperial power like other elder brothers, as the son of Li Shimin, he was always responsible for the land in the Tang Dynasty.

In 649 AD, Li Shimin was seriously ill. The concubines in the harem had long realized that once Li Shimin died, their fate would be greatly affected. Almost all of them were in a state of anxiety, looking for a way out for the rest of their lives. However, Wu Meiniang always thought that Li Shimin was her only man. Although his man is terminally ill, she is still willing to stay at Li Shimin's bedside and serve him.

During Li Shimin's serious illness, the burden of the country slowly fell on Li Zhi. Besides dealing with a lot of state affairs every day, he spends most of his time waiting for tea and medicine beside Li Shimin to show his filial piety. After a period of time, two young people, Li Zhi and Wu Meiniang, became talkative, and Li Zhi was gradually attracted by Wu Meiniang's talent and beauty and admired her more. Wu Meiniang, who has never been in love, has no illusions about Li Zhi's love, but silently accepts the impossibility beyond ethics.

In May 649, Li Shimin died, and Li Zhi succeeded to the throne, known as Tang Gaozong in history and Yonghui in country name. Wu Meiniang followed the example of the Tang harem and married some childless concubines in Ganye Temple in Chang 'an, but Li Zhi never gave up his feelings for him.

In 650 AD, May of the first year of Yonghui was the anniversary of Li Shimin's death. According to the usual practice, Li Zhi will lead the civil and military officials to Ganye Temple to offer incense to Li Shimin. In fact, Li Zhi can't wait long. He wanted to take this opportunity to see the situation in Wu Meiniang. During this period of separation, his feelings for Wu Meiniang became deeper and deeper.

On the same day, Li Zhi led civil and military officials into Ganye Temple. After completing the hajj ceremony, Li Zhi made an excuse to enter a wing to see Wu Meiniang, who had been arranged in advance. The two met and told each other their thoughts after leaving. Wu Meiniang, so gentle and touching, once again made Li Zhi unable to give up and made him determined to save Wu Meiniang from fire and water. After Wu Meiniang was rescued from Ganye Temple, Li Zhi had to send Wu Meiniang to Linyou Jiucheng Palace to settle down.

Jiucheng Palace, also known as Wannian Palace, was the first detached palace in the Tang Dynasty. It is located in linyou county New Town, Baoji City, Shaanxi Province. Built in the 13th year of Wendi (AD 593), it was originally named Renshou Palace, which was Wendi's departure palace. In the fifth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan reign (AD 63 1 year), it was restored and expanded and renamed as "Jiucheng Palace". "Nine Cities" means "nine floors" or "nine floors", which means tall. Tang Gaozong once renamed it "Wannian Palace", meaning "One and Long Life", and later restored its original name. There is a stone tablet in the palace, written by Wei Zhi in Tang Dynasty and Ou Yangxun. This tablet has a great influence on the history of calligraphy in China.

In 654 AD, in March of the fifth year of Yonghui, Li Zhi came to Jiucheng Palace with concubines and many ministers of civil and military affairs in the name of summer vacation. Li Zhi took Wu Zetian halfway up the mountain on the pretext of climbing the mountain, and there happened to be a pavilion where Li Zhi and Wu Zetian went to rest. Opposite is the magnificent Summer Palace, surrounded by spectacular mountains and beautiful water. Li Zhi is in full bloom and full of poetry. He called around and wrote an inscription on what he had seen, heard and deeply felt during his few days in Jiucheng Palace. This inscription was brilliant and won the appreciation of Wu Zetian, which changed Wu Zetian's previous view of Li Zhi. From then on, the two became more loving, and this article is the famous inscription of Wannian Palace. This pavilion was also changed to "Jieying Pavilion" as a witness of their eternal unity.

After Wu Zetian entered the palace, she quickly got involved in the harem dispute, and was teased and persecuted by Wang Huanghe successively. She had to fight them to protect herself. In order to get rid of the queen, when Princess Anding just gave birth to a child a month ago, Wu Zetian designed to strangle her own daughter and frame the queen. The death of Princess Anding made Li Zhi hate the queen's guts (The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty (four years)). In the first month of the first year of Linde, Jiazi changed the Hufu in the cloud into the Hufu of Khan, and the official products were the same as those in the viceroy. In February, Ding Hai granted Yin Lun Khan protection in Dadu. Wuzi, fortunately, Wannian Palace. 19 1 1 In March, a grand shooting ceremony was held. Ding Mao, the eldest daughter, pursued Princess Anding, claiming that her halogen book advocated and offered for burial, and moved from Deye Temple to Supreme Hall as a prince system. At the same time, in order to revive the imperial power, in 655 AD, Li Zhi deposed the queen king and made Wu Zetian the queen on charges of "conspiracy to poison".

In fact, Wu Zetian didn't really strangle Princess Anding at that time, but just fainted. After changing the bag, she was anonymously fostered in the maiden of Wu Zetian's personal maid Zhang, which is now Lishan Town, Lintong District, the city, where Huaqingchi is located.

After Princess Anding fostered the Zhang family, she was named Zhang Ziyun for the sake of seclusion. In order to repay Wu Zetian, the Zhang family loved her and taught her piano, chess, calligraphy and painting since childhood. Princess Anding is also very smart. At the age of five, I can recite poems, draw pictures and play famous songs, which is very impressive.

At this time, the anti-Wu forces headed by Wuji are secretly investigating the death of Princess Anding. And got the news that Princess Anding was not dead. So they sent a number of spies to look for clues inside and outside Chang' an city. Wu Zetian was afraid that the secret would be revealed, so she ordered the Zhang family to move to Rongxi in the southeast of Jiaxing County, which is today's Jiashan (Dayun, called Rongxi in ancient times). According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, the State of Yue was defeated by the State of Wu, and Gou Jian, the King of Yue, tried his best. Shi, a beautiful woman from the state of Yue, endured humiliation and was introduced to Fu Cha, the king of Wu. When the stone passed by, he felt that he had suddenly left his hometown, and tears spilled on Rong, and the reeds on both sides of Rong turned white instantly.

In 670 AD, Princess Anding, aged 16, was elegant. She completely inherited the beauty and wisdom of Wu Zetian, and showed her royal demeanor in her gestures. Although Zhang's family did not tell her her true identity, Zhang's family also hinted that she was different from women in ordinary families and had noble blood. Therefore, Zhang's family often prevents her from interacting with ordinary people and hides her secrets from anyone.

However, Princess Anding is not a quiet girl. She is lively, cheerful, intelligent and kind. She often plays around disguised as a man, makes many literati and helps many poor passers-by. On one occasion, she came to a club called Lu Hong near Rongxi, which is a good place for celebrities and artists nearby to get together, play the piano, drink tea and recite poems. It can be inferred from the name that the owner here must be unusual. Princess Anding is eager to meet those people (Lu Hong was founded in the Southern and Northern Dynasties (536) and was named after meeting Gu Quan in An Lan. Later, due to the war, the well dried up during the Tang Wude period, but it can be inferred from the remaining buildings that its construction scale is very grand. Although the building has been destroyed and repaired for more than 100 years due to wars and natural disasters, it is still the first choice for gathering scholars nearby. Princess Anding disguised herself as a man and hired a boatman to take a boat down Rongxi. On the boat, the blue waves rippled. At that time, it was also the Mid-Autumn Festival. Reed swaying on both sides of the river, the sky is like snow. Egrets fly by from time to time. Such beautiful scenery makes Princess Anding's heart constantly rippling, showing her girlish feelings. After several reeds, Princess Anding thought she had reached the end of Rongxi. Unexpectedly, a cliff waterfall suddenly came into view, with rugged rocks, pine trees and waterfalls pouring down. There is also a crescent lake below the waterfall. The lake is crystal clear. The lake straddles a red stone bridge. Opposite the stone bridge is a building that looks like a temple. Presumably, this is Lu Hong Hall. According to geological investigation, as far as geological structure is concerned, this place belongs to the "Xushan Uplift" zone. Volcanic earthquakes often broke out millions of years ago, and raptors and beasts came out to harm the people. Surrounded by a wilderness. The Queen Mother of Snails threw the two stones left over from mending the sky here, one turned into a cliff mountain and the other into a dirt mountain, which has ensured the local peace. Since then, it has become a hundred-mile plain with fertile soil and rich water. This is the legend of Cliff Waterfall and Xushan. After seeing off the boatman, Princess Anding couldn't wait to climb the stone bridge, which was like a rainbow running through things. Both the bridge deck and bridge opening are made of stone, and the bridge deck is extremely wide, and the railings on the left and right sides are connected with mahogany. There are three Chinese characters "An Lan Bridge" engraved on a boulder at the bridge head (An Lan Bridge, which used to be just a wooden bridge, was the only bridge connecting the outside of polder fields in nearby villages at that time. After the flood, the wooden bridge was washed away many times and rebuilt several times. As the famous family nearby moved here, they donated a huge sum of money to rebuild the bridge. The bridge was completed on the same day, just as Mu's parents' daughter-in-law gave birth to a child, so the eldest grandson was named Mulan. Because she was eager to find out in Luhong, Princess Anding couldn't help walking a few steps faster at this time, but she pretended to be full of handsome men like scholars. The two men apologized to each other. When they learned that Princess Anding was going to Hong, the handsome man introduced himself. His name is Mulansheng, and the Lu Hong was built by his grandfather. It turns out that this Mulan family used to be a big salt merchant in Yangzhou. In his early years, his family fled here because he offended a court official.

Waterfalls and An Lan Bridge

After Princess Anding exchanged pleasantries with Mulan, Mulan became very close to her. Princess Anding snickered in her heart, but Mulan didn't find out that she was a daughter, so she was very fond of this childlike heart. It turns out that Mu Lansheng is not only well-off but also knowledgeable. Mulansheng's father wanted Mulansheng to inherit the family business, but Mulansheng had no interest in doing business, but he was extremely clever and never forgets anything since he was a child. He knows the four books and five classics, poems and songs by heart, and he knows a lot of medical skills. Although he is not yet 20 years old, he has received a good education and is very famous.

Mulan introduced Princess Anding to Lu Hong and introduced them to various activities held in Lu Hong. In addition to piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, they often study tea ceremony, flower path and fragrant path, and associate tea ceremony, calligraphy path, flower path, fragrant path and piano path with Jin Mu's five elements of fire, water and soil. Everyone's life cycle is covered by these five paths. After listening to Mulan's endless story, Princess Anding even admired his profound knowledge.

Lu Hong

As soon as they hit it off, they often meet here to play the piano and write poems. However, within a few days, Princess Anding had fallen in love with Mulan, and she secretly made a lifelong promise.

In 67 1 year, the south of the Yangtze River was flooded with cholera (67 1 year was the second year of Emperor Gaozong Xianheng), and Mu Lansheng set up a free volunteer light in Luhong to save the nearby people and treat diseases with his own medical skills. I don't know, because this cholera is very serious, not only did I fail to treat these people successfully, but I was infected with cholera myself and couldn't afford to get sick.

Princess Anding should have helped the people with Mulan, but was stopped by the Zhang family. Later, I found that Mulan was also seriously ill, and it was very serious. Regardless of her family's obstruction, she resolutely went to Lu Hong to look for Mulansheng, even to see him for the last time. Seeing that it could not be stopped, the Zhang family had to tell her the secret that had been concealed for 17 years. Princess Anding didn't give up looking for Mulan after learning her life story. She knows that if she can't be with Mulan in this life, even being a princess is meaningless.

She escaped from the house and so did her family. When she came to Lu Hong, Mulan was dying, and he seemed to have his last breath, just waiting to see Princess Anding for the last time.

Sad, Princess Anding came to Mulan's bed. She kept calling Mulan's name. Mulan used up her last strength and opened her eyes slightly. He looked at the girl in front of him and smiled and said, "I knew you were a daughter, but I didn't want to ruin the beauty between us." I've always wanted to find a suitable opportunity to tell you, but I didn't expect this to happen today. Now, I only hope that you can find someone who loves you and be happy all your life. "

"No, you must get better ... get better. You won't let me go, will you? " Princess Anding was sobbing at this time.

"Ziyun, since we met in Hongqiao, I feel that knowing you is my greatest luck in this life, but it is also my greatest misfortune that I can't accompany you now."

Princess Anding could no longer control her emotions and ran out of Lu Hong. By a dry well, she thought of all possible ways to save Mulan. Princess Anding grew up in Huaqing Pool and knew that hot spring water could cure diseases. With great kindness, she prayed day and night by the dry spring: "Well, can you pour some hot spring water to help me cure the diseases of Master Mu and the villagers?" - "。 This day coincides with the arrival of Guanyin Bodhisattva to enlighten the world and promote Buddhism. At the same time, a famous monk was selected to go to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures and become bodhi. When he saw the following sufferings in Rongxi, Huiji County, he came to an abrupt end. It turns out that the plague is prevalent in this area, and Princess Anding with the blood of the son of heaven is crying and praying for Mulan and the people. Bodhisattva was moved by the kindness of Princess Anding. As soon as she thought of kindness, she took Yang Liuzhi out of the clean bottle and sprinkled a few drops of nectar in the dry well. In the evening, thunder and lightning, a clear spring gushed out from the dry well. Spring is warm and steaming, and there is a lotus floating on it (according to historical records, in the second year of Xianheng in the Tang Dynasty, an earthquake occurred in Huiji, with the sound of thunder and white or yellow hair). The scientific explanation is that new hot springs have been formed due to geothermal changes caused by earthquake activities. The next day Princess Anding was very strange, but when she explored the spring water, it seemed to be exactly the same as the spring water in Huaqing Pool where she was a child. It turned out that Master Guanyin arranged for the Dragon King of the East China Sea to lead the spring water of Huaqing Pool thousands of miles away to this dry well. In addition, the water quality of this spring is even better than that of Huaqing Pool.

Princess Anding was very happy. She quickly found a wooden ladle and filled it with spring water, and ran to Lu Hong where Mulan was born. Sure enough, after being washed by Mulan, his mind began to wake up. So Princess Anding would go to the well to fetch spring water for Mulan to bathe every day. This lasted for seven days, and Mulan finally recovered. Later, they told the people nearby about the well, and the sick people gradually recovered after using the spring water here.

After Mulan got well, after several days' examination, she finally found the root of cholera, which turned out to be caused by people drinking unclean water in the river. However, if you go to a nearby well to get water, it will be very inconvenient, so the people are still used to eating water from the river. So Mu Lansheng and Princess Anding discussed whether they could dig another well next to that warm well for the people to drink.

The two men rushed to work day and night. Master Guanyin knew about their well-digging. Master Guanyin was moved by their kindness and asked the Dragon King of the East China Sea to go to the secluded well of Jingdezhen Temple in Wutang nearby to get spring water. Master Guanyin was afraid that cholera would regenerate here in the future, so he ordered the Dragon King of the East China Sea to choose two spring-protecting spirits from the aquarium to come here and incarnate as two water monsters to guard the two springs. The two have been digging deep at the wellhead, and finally there is a clear spring, a lotus flower, the spring water is cool and sweet, and the water is abundant. The two men called the people nearby here to get water to drink. And part of the well water was introduced into rongxi, and immediately the water quality of rongxi was clear and transparent, and people could drink it directly.

So there are hot and cold springs and two wells. Later, the villagers in Baili remembered these two, so the well that turned these two wells into hot springs was called Ziyun Spring, and the newly dug one was also called Anlan Spring. This is the origin of cold and hot springs in Lan Yun Bay. Because there are often lotus flowers in these two springs, people can often find two glowing lotus flowers blooming in these two wells at night, which is amazing. Later, it was called "hot and cold spring, adding flowers to the well", which means that Master Guanyin blessed here. With the passage of history, although the two wells have dried up, people can still see beautifully carved lotus patterns on the wells.

Lan Yun is cold and hot.

After this incident, in order to repay Princess Anding, the Mu family extended five rooms for Princess Anding by the hot and cold spring, and prepared to entrust a matchmaker to the Zhang family to act as matchmaker for the two.

Wudaoyuan

The Zhang family naturally knew that the matter was important and could not make decisions without authorization, but they hit it off again when they saw that Princess Anding had reached marriageable age. So I decided to tell Wu Zetian about it.

Wu Zetian was furious when the Zhang family told her about Princess Anding and Mulan. Although her daughter lives in the folk, she is also descended from the royal family. Mulan's family is just a salt merchant, how can they be worthy of Princess Anding? Now that Princess Anding knows her life story, Wu Zetian decided to recruit Princess Anding into the palace in the name of hiring a maid, to be a maid by her side first, and then choose a reliable butler for her over time, which not only kept the mystery of Princess Anding's life story, but also made up for her guilt for many years.

Wu Zetian is an extremely clever person. She knew that if Princess Anding and Mulan were separated by force, things would be big, the case of Princess Anding's death would be turned over, and her reputation and status would be lost.

So, she thought of a plan and told Princess Anding that in order to test Mulan's sincerity to her and limit Mulan's life to one year, she had to go to Xiyunshan in the snowy area alone to find a flower that would never die. This kind of flower is called blue lotus. Only by finding this flower can she prove that Mulan really loves her and promise their marriage.

In order to be with her lover, Mulan said goodbye to Princess Anding and her family and went to Xiyunshan in the starry night. Xiyunshan is a long way and the road is extremely dangerous. He almost died on the road several times, but with his own perseverance, he firmly believed that he would find the so-called blue lotus.

After 300 days of wading through mountains and rivers, he finally came to the foot of Xiyun Mountain, where the mountain is steep and there is no top in sight. And the whole mountain is covered with snow and ice, and there is only an extremely steep path leading to the top.

The villagers at the foot of the mountain told him that avalanches often occurred in Xiyunshan, and even birds were afraid to fly there. The so-called blue lotus is just a legend. In order to see Princess Anding as soon as possible, whether it is a legend or not, he will give it a try.

Mu Lansheng climbed up step by step, and with each step, he felt that he was one step closer to success. He climbed for ten days and nights, exhausted his physical strength, food and water, but he didn't even see the shadow of the blue lotus. Is it really just a legend? That night, he strayed into a mountain and climbed the mountain road, but he couldn't hold on any longer. He fell in the snow, and the cold moonlight shone on him, and his eyes were in a trance. When he was about to leave his beloved and leave this world in despair, a blue light flashed in front of him, and there was heavy snow all over the sky, and lotus flowers grew in the vast snow-capped mountains, glowing with blue light.

Wu Zetian knew that after Mulan had found the Blue Lotus, although his plan failed, Mulan's true feelings for Princess Anding touched her.

Princess Anding and Mulan live a quiet, stable and happy life after marriage. They often play the piano and write poems on the rocks next to two springs, listening to the trickle of the springs and touching their feelings. Princess Anding also wrote the words "Qin Quan Shuangming" on the stone. After that, it became a scenic spot praised by the world.

Qin Quan Shuangming

After Mulan married Princess Anding, she loved Princess Anding even more. After learning that Princess Anding likes to enjoy flowers, Mu Lansheng brought back all kinds of flowers and herbs from all over the country and even from foreign countries with his father's friends, and built a four-season flower sea for Princess Anding (Scenic Area 6). Flowers bloom all the year round. There are tulips, cherry blossoms in spring, lavender in summer, sunflowers and cosmos in autumn, and ... in winter, there is a white beach in the garden, where they often play and enjoy flowers. Princess Anding began to study five cultures and health preservation, and a few years later developed a "health preservation flower banquet" that has been passed down to this day.

Princess Anding knew that it was impossible for her to know her biological parents in her life, so she modeled a "shadow pavilion" on the place where Li Zhi and Wu Zetian met in the Wannian Palace near Lu Hong, and copied the inscriptions of Wenquan Ming, Jiucheng Palace Li Quanming and Wannian Palace to express her thoughts for her parents and relatives.

Jieyingge stele wall

In 675, Li Zhi was seriously ill. In the same year, Prince Li Hong died. In order to maintain political power, Wu Zetian began to be a regent. In 683, Li Zhi died. When she died, Wu Zetian didn't tell him the secret that Princess Anding was alive.

In 690 AD, after Wu Zetian ascended the throne as emperor, in an era when men were superior to women, in order to eliminate the obstacles faced by all parties, Wu Zetian found a public opinion base conducive to her accession to the throne, and she became emperor in July of that year. In June+10, 5438, Dayun Temple was ordered to be built in Beijing (Chang 'an, Luoyang) and various states to collect Dayun Sutra, and thousands of monks were sent to various places to explain Dayun Sutra. After all kinds of ups and downs in life, the death of her husband and eldest son, other children's incomprehension of themselves, and their understanding of Buddhism, Wu Zetian in her later years was even more desolate and sometimes full of regret. At this time, Wu Zetian missed Princess Anding more strongly. In order to alleviate her sin, she specially built a Dayun Temple in Xiaorongxi, where Princess Anding now lives, and the location was 3 kilometers away from Luhong. Later, because of this temple, this place was renamed Dayun.

On November 26th, the first year of Shenlong (65438+ February16,705), Wu Zetian died in Shangyang Palace at the age of 82. The imperial edict omitted the name of the emperor, and she was called "Empress Zetiansheng". In May of the second year of Shenlong (706), he was buried with Emperor Gaozong in Ganling. The night before her death, Wu Zetian summoned Li Dan and told her that Princess Anding was still alive, and asked Li Dan to swear to keep this secret and only send leaflets to men. And secretly take care of Princess Anding and her descendants.

It was not until Zheng De's reign in the Ming Dynasty (1505- 1525) that Li Dan's descendants began to settle in Jiashan, taking farming as their profession, in order to avoid the chaos of the beacon smoke and look for Princess Anding (according to Xitang li ke). This is another story.