Chapter 19 That mountain and that water

The car arrives at Muyu Town. From the perspective of tourism, we have already arrived at Shennongjia, because the tourist attractions that have been developed are all around Muyu Town.Muyu Town was called Muyuping in the early years. In Shennongjia, there are many places called Ping and Ya. Ping refers to the flat land between the mountains, and Ya refers to the narrow place between the two mountains. It is the place name of a family, like a person's name, but a symbol.However, there are also some puzzles. Landscapes are never owned by individuals, and the names of people can be determined by one father.So, I asked the tour guide, what is the name of the mountain opposite Chulin Hotel, and she said it was called Xiangshan.I asked, why is it called Xiangshan?Mountains, she said, looked like elephants.Ask the farmers at the foot of the mountain, the farmers said, this mountain is called Baimaojian.This situation made me a little confused, so I asked the tour guide again. The tour guide said that there are many mountains and rivers in Shennongjia that are not yet named. If you like them, you might as well give them some nice names.I think this is an interesting thing. I write about the landscapes of Shennongjia, and I can name them according to my own preferences. The problem is, who will recognize the names I named for the landscapes of Shennongjia?In other words, it was already famous, but I didn't know it, but I gave them new names in vain. When I came back after many years, the mountain called out another name that was unfamiliar to me.

The name of landscape is a convention, and the river in Muyuping is called Muyu River.However, some rivers do not have the same name. For example, the river flowing through Xinhua Township, the upper part is called Longkou River, then Longfan River, Majia River, and Pingshui River at the back. They all look like one river.It may be that the river is too long to be crowned by one name. For example, the Yangtze River is also called Jingjiang in the middle reaches, and the Yangtze River in the lower reaches.Thinking about it carefully, the name of the mountains and rivers is not entirely a symbol, which contains some information, or the person who chose the name tried to make it carry the corresponding information. I asked Hu Zhenlin why there are so many names for the mountains in Shennongjia?Mr. Hu Zhenlin replied that it is quite subjective for ordinary people to choose the name of the mountain. The person surnamed Hu will call his mountain Hujiashan, while the person surnamed Gu will call it Gujiashan. It just depends on who can call it loudly.

In the absence of information and without the intervention of authority, the names of landscapes often have sidelines. This is a headache for landscape writers. I used to be very impatient with the names, characters, and numbers of old literati, but they It's nothing more than a living thing, and the purpose of taking so many names, characters, and titles is to distance itself from the public.Or, are you worried about having a duplicate name?Scenery Ya in Shennongjia was previously called Badong Ya. According to research by planners, there are two Badong Ya in Shennongjia, so the Badong Ya in Yazikou was renamed Scenic Ya.The mountain has the same name. This is not news. It is said that there are three in Xisai Mountain, and there are as many as nine in Chibi. The Chibi that I went down to see include Huangzhou, Puji (now changed to Chibi City) and Wuchang Jinkou. Chibi, Chibi in Jinkou, Wuchang, I asked the local villagers, there is another name "Golden Rooster Looking at Corn", because the Chibi is like a golden rooster looking up, and there is a sandbar in the center of the river, which is shaped like corn.These red cliffs are nothing more than the ancient battlefields of the Three Kingdoms, but the battlefields in the water are really hard to say, because there are many red stones along the Yangtze River, and the place in Chongqing is simply called Hongyan.

Alas, it's no wonder that in the past, those who praised people did not change their names when they sat down and did not change their surnames when they worked. Names are an important thing.The only way is that in a mountainous area like Shennongjia, there are many names of mountains and rivers, which is a huge test for people's memory. The huge local chronicles are frightening to read. After a big circle in Shennongjia, I heard Bo Ji also only recorded a few important place names, and most of them are related to other things. Leopard Cave: A tiger has eaten people; People, that is his hometown; Pines and cypresses: the seat of the district government; Yuquan River: went down and swam; Yangri: went to the Fossil Mountain to pick up fossils; I got drunk there; Dajiuhu: If I haven’t been there, it’s a regretful memory.However, the most memorable name is Niulantou, where there is the last family.