One-day tour guide to Ewangcheng and how to play in Ewangcheng Ecological Cultural Park

Ewangcheng Ecological Cultural Park is located in Daye City, Huangshi City. It is a unique cultural tourism city full of historical vicissitudes. Here you can feel the great cultural imprint and Chu cultural elements, which brings Visitors’ unparalleled joyful emotions.

There is a 2,700-year-old Ewang City in Dayejinniu Town, Hubei Province. It is desolate next to a small village. In fact, it is just the name of a brick wall, a large area of ??weeds, and some ruins. It has long since disappeared. The city was built more than a thousand years ago.

Don’t underestimate this place, the abbreviation of Hubei is “E”. In ancient times, this place belonged to Ezhou. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was assigned to _ Gang, and later it belonged to Daye, Shishi, _. Recently, someone invested in building an Ewangcheng Ecological Park, but it is still some distance away from the actual ruins.

I feel ashamed when I talk about Ewangcheng. Many people in Hubei only know the word "E" on their license plates, but they don't know that it is Ewangcheng, let alone the sad story of Ewangcheng in the past.

Hufan Village, Ewangcheng Site

Earlier, E and Chu were not the same thing. The ancestors of E were a tribe in the Yellow River Basin that made a living by catching crocodiles. This crocodile is an alligator that was distributed in the Yangtze River and Yangtze River basins in ancient times. More than 4,000 years ago, the E people hunted alligators in Shanxi. For unknown reasons, the king of the E tribe later voted for King Zhou of Shang and was granted the title of Marquis of E. Together with King Wen of Zhou and others, they were called the "Three Dukes" of the Shang Dynasty.

King Zhou of Shang sent people to chop up the Marquis of E because he loved to give direct advice. It was really cruel and inhumane! At the same time, King Wen of Zhou was also implicated and was imprisoned by King Zhou of Shang. Fortunately, King Wen’s servants reported to King Zhou Offer a beautiful woman to save your son from death. After King Wen of Zhou returned, he raised troops from Mengjin to defeat King Zhou of Shang and conquered the world. During the Western Zhou Dynasty, various princes fought and annexed each other. When the Jin State was strong, it annexed the E State.

In order to avoid the killings, the survivors of Hubei State wandered around, fleeing from the Central Plains to the south, mainly settling in Nanyang, Suizhou, and Daye. Historical records record that the distressed E people were divided into Western and Eastern E. In the end, only the Eastern E people in Daye escaped the war and slaughter, survived with difficulty, and still used the national name of E.

Building a new city in Ewang City

Let’s talk about the Chu State in Hubei Province. It was also a small country at that time, with an area of ??less than fifty miles and less than a thousand households. It was so poor that it could not even pay tribute to the Emperor of Zhou. Bractica. In fact, the ancestors of the Chu people are quite impressive, and they can be regarded as the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors. Their ancestor Zhuanxu Gaoyang was the grandson of the Yellow Emperor and a serious royal family.

It’s a pity that the Chu people passed on to Xiong Yi, and even the royal atmosphere was gone. He only received the title of viscount from Emperor Zhou, and it was only 50 miles away, in the remote areas of Jingshan and Danshui, that is, The upper reaches of the Han River today. So for Hubei people, there is no need to talk endlessly about the Yangtze River. In fact, what Hubei people should remember and be proud of is the mother river-the Han River!

Old City Site

Xiong Yi His descendants were very dissatisfied with the enfeoffment of Emperor Zhou, and they felt aggrieved all the time, and gradually became restless, so they opened up territories along the Han River, and when Xiong Qu was the king of Chu, they kept the good Hubei.

The country was destroyed. These E people are really vulnerable. After all, you are also a descendant of crocodile hunters, so you won't be any worse in battle.

Why were they destroyed by Jin in the north and Chu in the south? They were destined to be subjugated!

There are historical records of Chu’s destruction of E. Sima Qian said , Xiong Qu won the peace among the people in the Han River, raised troops to defeat the Yong, promoted Guangdong, and even Hubei. The Chu people occupied the E people's city and the E people's large granary. They also took a fancy to the good Feng Shui of the E people's city by Liangzi Lake, so they simply moved the capital from the mountains.

The important matter of whether the Chu people moved their capital to Ewangcheng is not recorded in Sima Qian's historical records. Sima Qian only said that the king of Chu had no rules and regulations of the Zhou Dynasty, and the world was in chaos. The emperor of Zhou was so angry that he led a coalition of princes to attack Chu, and the two sides fought on the Han River.

The Chu people used a little trick and secretly designed a mechanism on the boat. As soon as Emperor Zhou got on the boat, he fell into the water and died. From then on, Chu people had the confidence and air of "disobeying Zhou". This old saying of "shaking a hero" is still the best mantra of Hubei people.

What is more powerful is the "blockbuster" "The King of Chuzhuang led his troops to the door of Emperor Zhou's house to "ask for the throne". Isn't this obviously a demonstration to bully the emperor? It can be seen that Chu people are good at "showing off the hero".

New E-Wang City

There are different opinions on whether E-Wang City was the capital of the Chu State, even among experts and scholars: Archaeologically speaking, judging from the 150,000-square-meter scale of the E-Wang City site and the site’s Dadongmen Judging from the lanes that can run five chariots in parallel, it is rare in the Western Zhou Dynasty. It can only be found in the capitals of big princes. Those who read history books say that after looking through the history books, the transfer of the capital of Chu to Hubei is all recorded, but there is no such thing as the transfer of the capital of Chu to Hubei. Royal City. History is always confusing! But it is a fact that everyone recognizes that Ewangcheng was the fiefdom of Chu King Xiong Hong.

Ewangcheng Dadongmen Site

Judging from the 800-year historical development of Chu State, Hubei people have always believed that the abbreviation of Hubei today should be Chu instead of E. This seems to be the reason, but history is not based on people's subjective wishes. , regardless of whether Hubei was brought by the Hubei people from Shanxi or Chu took over Hubei from the local Yue people, the existence of Hubei City cannot be circumvented.

The most important thing is that after Qin Shihuang unified China, he acted like a ghost. Not forgetting the country of E, E County was established in the southeast of Hubei. From then on, the word "E" entered the administrative divisions of various dynasties in Hubei.

It was the Tang Dynasty that first called Hubei a province. The name "Eyue Observation History" is equivalent to Hubei Province.

Later, the Yuan Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty established the Huguang Province and changed the name of Hubei to Chu. Most people called it Chu Province. In the Qing Dynasty, a Huguang Chief Envoy Department was established. Hubei and Hunan both belonged to the Huguang Chief Envoy Department, and the two provinces were abbreviated with the word Chu, which caused a lot of trouble in writing;

In the end, Emperor Xianfeng was the general Hubei was written into the imperial edict to refer to Hubei, and it was "finally determined" that Hubei was shortened to Hubei. In fact, the word choice is not very important. What is important is how much "disobedience to Zhou" spirit is still in the Chu people now? Just imagine: If Xiongqu could not destroy the country of E back then, would Hubei still be the world of Chu? If Chuzhuang If the king really moved the tripod of Emperor Zhou back then, would the word Chu unify China?

No matter who once owned the city of King E, its demise eventually led to the glory of the Chu state. We should not forget it. it.