I. Ancient sites
The ruins of the ancient city-Zhongsanzhou
Gucheng Village in Zhuanbu Township is located in the middle reaches of Lijiang River, surrounded by water on three sides, such as a peninsula, which is called Zhongzhouzhou. The mountains in the north of the village are green, and there are dozens of acres of egret ponds on the water. Once extinct egrets return to their old places, or hover among mountains and rivers, or gather in the bushes. In the 1950s, Bailutang once set a record for the high yield of freshwater fish culture, which attracted many lovers to fish. There is another Jiazhou in front of the village-Yuanbaozhou. The trees are green, the grass is lush, and the flowers are dotted with various colors. The birds and flowers in the forest are picturesque.
In the fourth year after the Western Han Dynasty (BC 184), the King of Changsha was appointed as Hou, and Hou City was built in Zhongzhou. Now there are three sections of the back city wall, which are horizontally arranged from east to west. The intermittent length is about 250m, the height is 3-4m, and the thickness is 14- 18m. Liling County was established in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, and the county seat was built about 20 meters south of the former site of Zhongzhou Houcheng. The south wall of the city wall is arc-shaped, about1500m long; The east and west walls are each about 250 meters long; Beiyuan is straight, about 600 meters long. The north-south central axis of the county is about 300 meters long. There are some walls made of yellow mud in the back city and county town, with distinct layers, and the rammed nest is 4~6 cm deep. Both inside and outside the ruins of the ancient city, muddy granular pottery pieces were found, which had obvious characteristics of pottery in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
About 2~3 kilometers southwest of the ancient county ruins, there are now contiguous villages such as Nanzhushan, Wangping and Tanghe in Xinyang Township, and there are ruins of pottery kilns in the Eastern Han Dynasty: a piece of pottery with a thickness of about 0.6~ 1.2 meters was found on the hillside 0.5 kilometers away from backwater, with a kiln chamber wall. There are more than 0/0 kinds of pottery pieces/kloc-,including pots, basins, pots, bowls, altars and cans. Clear patterns, such as small squares, linen patterns, concave chords and horizontal herringbone patterns. Pottery has a high temperature, mostly gray pottery with sand and tough texture. Some ceramics are coated with yellow glaze. It shows that there was a considerable scale of pottery production in Liling during the Eastern Han Dynasty.
1989, the site of Liling ancient city in Zhongsanzhou was listed as a municipal cultural relics protection unit.
The Origin of Liling Porcelain Industry —— Weishan Ancient Cave
Dongbao Weishan, surrounded by mountains, stretches for dozens of miles, with clear springs and beautiful scenery, and is called "Ancient Cave Heaven" locally. The so-called "blessed land" is a fairyland selected by Taoism. "Cave Heaven" refers to a "cave" where mountains are combined and restrained, and yin and yang are used together. It can reach the sky directly and is the residence of the immortals. Ordinary people and Taoist priests can practice here and become immortals. This is a Taoist saying, and you can't believe it, but these places are really magical, quiet, beautiful mountains and waters, and have their own unique charm, and they are becoming more and more natural tourist attractions.
Compared with the ten caves, the Map of Heaven written by the Taoist priest Sima Chengzhen in the Tang Dynasty lists 36 caves of Taoism in China. Among the 72 blessed lands, there are 6 caves in Hunan, 12 blessed lands. The thirteenth hole in Weishan, Liling: Yes, it is a paradise. According to legend, it is a fairy flower with Fu.
In Tang Dynasty, Dayuan Zen Master built a temple in Weishan, and Yi Jian in Song Dianyuan wrote an inscription: Xiao Wei Mountain Temple.
In the seventh year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1729), Liao Zhongwei, who moved to Liling from Xingning, Guangdong Province, discovered porcelain clay in Weishan and its vicinity, that is, borrowed clay from Wisdom Mountain, the abbot of Xiao Wei Mountain Temple, and invited more than 20 technicians from his hometown to recruit workers, teach skills, set up a porcelain factory and produce underglaze blue and white porcelain. Later, it gradually expanded to Stanley Ridge, Laoya Mountain, Wang Xian, Dalin, Qijiaao, Wushiyao and other places. At the time of prosperity, there were more than 100 porcelain factories in Weishan, which became the production and operation center of Liling porcelain industry, an emerging industrial base that benefited Weishan and its surrounding areas, and a new "cave dwelling" to promote Liling's economic and social progress. It was once known as "Little Nanjing". Liao Zhongwei and others built a temple for Amin Fan Jinde behind Xiao Weishan Temple. Gong Fan's birthday is on the 16th day of the fifth lunar month every year. The temple gate was wide open, and factory owners, technicians and apprentices came to pay homage. Usually, when factories open kilns, they have to offer sacrifices.