Jinniu Street
The Jinniu Road ( Chinese 金牛道 , Pinyin Jinniu dào , W.-G. Chin-niu Tao - "Street of the Golden Ox") or Shiniu Street ( 石牛道 , Shiniu dào , Shih-niu Tao - "Ox Road stone" ) are alternative names for one of the old Shu streets that lead from Hanzhong over the Daba Shan Mountains . From the southwest of Mian County in Shaanxi leads over the mountain ridge Qipan Ling to Sichuan .
The route through the Chaotian Post Station and Jianmen Pass was an important ancient traffic route between Hanzhong and Ba - Shu .
According to tradition, King wanted a nutshell, Huiwen of Qin in the Warring States Period the state Shu the way over the mountains to attack, but it was too dangerous, and he resorted to a ruse. He had five stone ox made, under whose rump he secretly had gold scattered at night, so that the rumor spread that they would excrete gold. When the king of Shu found out about it, he was eager for it, and the king of Qin gave it to him as a present. The king of Shu then ordered a road to be built there for their transport. The King of Qin then conquered the state of Shu via the completed road. The name “stone ox” or “gold ox” in the name of the street comes from this.
monument
The Shu Roads -Stätte the pass gate Jianmen on Jianmen pass in Guangyuan , Sichuan , from the Warring States Period to the Qing Dynasty is since 2006 on the list of monuments of the People's Republic of China (6-181).
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The term Shiniu Street is another giving rise to another name for the Shu-street called Baoye .
See also
literature
- Cihai , Shanghai: Shanghai cishu chubanshe, 2002, ISBN 7-5326-0839-5
- Steven F. Sage: Ancient Sichuan and the Unification of China . 1992 ( online excerpt )
- Wylie, Alexander: Notes of a Journey from Ching-Too to Hankow (January 1, 1869), Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, Volume 14 ( Online )
- David Jupp: Alexander Wylie's Travels on Shu Roads in 1867, September 2012 ( Online )
- Wiens, Harold J., The shu-tao, or the road of the golden oxen. 1949 ( online )
- Feng Suiping: Further investigation of the Qing period "Map of the Shu Road to the Shaanxi border" ( Online )
Web links
- 川陕 古道 上 的 七 盘 岭 和 七 盘 岭 诗 Qipan Ridges alongside the Ancient Chuan -Shan Road ＆ Their Relevant Poetry
- 剑门蜀道 遗址 （含 明月 峡 古 栈道 遗址）