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In ancient times, I still believed in the theory of ghosts and gods, and as for why a brick was placed, only the person concerned should know best.

Because the position of the bricks is very high, more than ten meters, who would be idle to risk their lives to climb so high to move this brick.

There should be a certain amount of exquisiteness, and many of the practices of the ancients are beyond our understanding.

This brick is called "Dingcheng Brick", and this brick reflects the exquisite computing ability of the ancient people in our country.

Who has nothing to run so high to move a brick, because the location is high.

In order to remind people to pay attention to safety, it may also have something to do with local customs. In ancient times, I still believed in the theory of ghosts and gods.

It's to remind people to pay attention to safety, and it may have something to do with local customs.

In order to make up for the lack of construction, it is also a reminder to pay attention to safety. Take it as a warning sign.

Personally, I think this may have been built to make up for some misalignment.

Chinese culture is vast and profound, and there are many things that foreigners cannot understand. For example, the "town things" that have been circulated for thousands of years have the saying of town houses and evil spirits.

Those who have been to Jiayuguan have noticed that there is a "Dingcheng brick" on the eaves platform of the urn city in the west of Jiayuguan. That brick didn't fit in with the clean surroundings. When I meet someone with OCD like me, I really want to take it off.

However, people said that it was the old city bricks that were placed in the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, and they have been placed for more than 600 years. That is the "town thing" can't be held, Jiayuguan relies on the "Dingcheng brick" to hold the town, and if you take it, it will fall. So I heard the allusion of "Dingcheng bricks":

During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, Jiayuguan was repaired, and Jiayuguan was supervised, and a master who was good at calculation was called "Yi Kai Zhan", and the name was "Yi" and "Zhan", and it was a master who understood feng shui at a glance. It is said that the engineering materials calculated by this person can be exactly the same. He calculated that Jiayuguan needed 99,999 bricks.

The superintendent said that if it is found that there are more or less bricks used, Yi Kaizhan will be punished, and all the craftsmen involved will also be punished with three years of hard labor.

When Jiayuguan was completed, the superintendent saw an extra brick, so he put it on the eaves of the West Urn City, and used this as an excuse to punish Yi Kaizhan and the craftsmen. Why is there an extra brick? Maybe it was an extra piece, or maybe someone deliberately left a piece.

However, Yi Kaizhan bluffed Du Jian with one sentence: "This last piece is called the Dingcheng brick, take this brick away, and the city will collapse." "Will the superintendent be convinced?

Of course, the saying of "town things" town house has existed since ancient times, and people believe it now, let alone the people of the dynasty.

So, is it really useful to say that Jiayuguan "Dingcheng bricks" are it useful? I don't know. Anyway, there is still such a custom in many rural areas: after the newly built house, a brick should be placed on the roof. In some rural areas, a brick is also placed on top of the newly raised grave.

In some places, people think that the old city bricks of the Great Wall have the effect of "town house and evil spirit", and people will often steal a piece of the Great Wall brick and put it back in their yard to make "town things".

Speaking of "town things", there are many kinds of folk customs. For example, Buddhist and Taoist portraits and ritual instruments; For example, Shi Dangdang; For example, the front mirror. In fact, these customs are very widespread, and many can be found in the rural folk.

The "wall in the courtyard" and "the stone lion at the gate" that I usually don't pay much attention to are actually the customs formed by the "town things", and now many people make these for the sake of decorating and looking good, forgetting the original meaning.

Speaking of which, the more noble the person, the more he believes in these things. For example, the Cangzhou big iron lion built by Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong also has a name called "Zhenhai Roar", and you will know that it is a town thing when you hear the name. For example, there are five famous towns in the old Beijing city, and the five elements of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth correspond to the east, west, north, south, and middle.

The old Beijing city had "town things" in the Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty: Jinsi Nanmu outside Guangqu Gate (east), Juesheng Temple Bell (west), Yongding Gate Yandun (south), Summer Palace Tongniu (north), Jingshan (middle).

Because there was an extra brick when it was built at that time, the craftsman said that this brick was a brick for the city and could not be moved, in order not to cause death.

Jiayuguan is known as "the world's first Xiongguan", many friends have been there, sharp-eyed friends may find that there is a brick on the back eaves, put there alone, it seems a little abrupt.

Many tourists can't help but wonder: "Is this brick construction waste?" Why didn't the staff remove the bricks? ”

In fact, this brick is not garbage, but a very rare treasure, it is an antique brick, 600 years ago, if anyone disposes of it as garbage, I am afraid that it will be sentenced to the crime of destroying cultural relics!

There is a magical story about this brick!

The person responsible for the construction of Jiayuguan was a ** named Li Duancheng. Jiayuguan is located in the desert area of Gansu Province, as far as the eye can see, it is full of sand, the construction conditions are very poor, and the bricks need to be transported from hundreds of miles away, which is quite difficult.

Li Duancheng did not know how many bricks were needed, and was worried that he would need to transport too many bricks and transport the surplus bricks back, so that a lot of manpower, material and financial resources would need to be wasted, and the budget for the project itself would be insufficient.

So, Li Duancheng recruited skilled craftsmen to give advice, and at this time, there was a master builder named Yi Kaizhan, and he thought of a brilliant idea. He said that a small model of Jiayuguan could be drawn first, and then the small model could be enlarged to the actual scale, and then the actual amount of bricks could be calculated according to the enlarged scale.

Li Duancheng felt that this method was very good, so he asked Yi Kaizhan to calculate the amount of bricks, requiring him to calculate accurately, if the calculation is not too much and not less, the bounty is five hundred taels; If there is one less or more in the calculation, then there will be fifty lashes.

It's a gamble. Yi Kaizhan, a daring artist, accepted this challenge, activated his brain, and spent seven days and seven nights to finally calculate the amount of bricks used in the project - 999999 blocks, which is a very auspicious number. Li Duancheng was overjoyed, so he asked people to transport bricks according to this number, two years passed quickly, and tomorrow is the day when Jiayuguan is completed, and the amount of bricks used is not much or less, it happens to be 999999 pieces.

At this time, Li Duancheng started to think crookedly, he wanted to swallow the five hundred gold alone, so he ordered someone to secretly transport a brick overnight and put it in an inconspicuous place on the back eaves.

The next day, Jiayuguan was successfully completed, at this time Li Duancheng called Yi Kaizhan over, and said to him: "Xiao Yi, this project is completed, it's time to cash in the reward, you said that the amount of bricks used is 999999, let's go to the site to see, are there any extra bricks?" ”

When the group arrived at the scene, Li Duancheng deliberately walked to the place where the bricks were placed the night before, and pretended to be surprised: "Ah! What's going on here? ”

Everyone looked down and found that there was really an extra brick, everyone looked at Yi Kaizhan together, and they all pinched a handful of sweat for him, according to the agreement, he not only did not have a penny, but also suffered a punishment of fifty whips.

I saw Yi Kaizhan's expression calm, he had already reached this level, and I saw him say loudly: "My lord doesn't know, this brick is a city protection brick, but this city is safe, if there is no brick, this pass is not guaranteed!" ”

Because some people say that once this brick is moved, the city wall of Jiayuguan will collapse, which is a Dingcheng brick, so later people did not dare to try to move this brick, for fear that the city wall would really collapse.

Because this brick carries the wisdom of the working people, and there are many fantasy legends, no one dares to move it.

Because this brick is very historically significant and its value is very high, no one dares to touch this brick so far.

Li Duancheng ordered people to transport bricks according to this amount, and finally found that there were indeed no more than one piece and no one piece and no less. But he didn't want to give Yi Kai five hundred taels, so he picked up a brick and put it on the wall of Jiayuguan, pretending to be surprised, and asked, "How can there be an extra brick." ”。

Yi Kaizhan is a smart man, seeing this situation, he replied to Li Duancheng unhurriedly, "My lord doesn't know, this is a moat brick, without it, this city wall would have collapsed." ”。And Li Duancheng didn't dare to say that he put it over there in full view, so he could only call haha.

Over time, rumors spread that this brick was a moat brick, so no one dared to move it casually, in case it really collapsed.

That brick was left to commemorate the engineer who built the design of Jiayuguan, because the planned bricks were 999,999, but an extra one was used in the construction, ** In order to affirm the designer's work, that brick was placed there.

A brick on the wall of Jiayuguan, but no one dares to move, because the legend says that as long as someone moves this brick, then the city tower will collapse immediately, on the other hand, it is afraid of being punished by the imperial court, and over time everyone gave it a name'Dingcheng bricks.

It is said that this brick is the Dingcheng brick of Jiayuguan, and if the entire city tower is removed, it will collapse, so no one dares to move it for thousands of years.

According to legend, it was Li Duancheng, the person in charge of the construction of the city wall, who found a person named Yi Kaizhan who counted the number of bricks. Yi Kaizhan said: "If you have an extra piece after construction, don't pay a penny.

After the city wall was built, Li Duancheng deliberately put an extra brick on the city wall in order not to pay the salary, and it was easy to open and occupy it, and Yi Kaizhan said; "This is a fixed wall brick, and if it is moved, the wall will collapse. Li Duancheng definitely didn't dare to try, so he could only pay. And now, it is even more unlikely that anyone would dare to climb the artifact to get a brick.

More than 500 years have passed, and the reason why this brick is still in place is because the eaves behind the city gate tower are more than ten meters high from the ground, and this is just an ordinary brick, and no one is willing to risk their lives to move it; Second, due to the special origin of this brick, the ancients who were deeply influenced by feudal superstition would not allow people to touch it; The third is that "Dingcheng Brick" has now become a characteristic attraction of Jiayuguan, and no one will touch it.

Because this brick was defined as a Dingcheng brick by the architects at that time, it also has the symbolic meaning of Guotai and Min'an, which has been passed down from generation to generation, and is a good meaning, so no one dares to move it after thousands of years.

This brick is a moat brick, with this brick the whole country can be peaceful and peaceful, is a symbol of auspiciousness.

There is a brick on the city wall of Jiayuguan, no one dares to move it for thousands of years because the architect said that this brick is a moat brick, with this brick, the whole country will be peaceful and peaceful, and the people around see that there is such an auspicious existence, so they are very happy, and it has not been demolished.

Because this brick is the legendary "moat brick", if someone takes this brick, Jiayuguan will be easily lost, so everyone has not dared to touch this brick for thousands of years.

This brick is a Dingcheng brick, placed on the back eaves platform of the Wengcheng attic, which is not desirable and is used as a memorial to the craftsmen who have worked hard. And no one is bored to take that position.

This is an extra brick when Jiayuguan was built, on the one hand, it was afraid of being punished by the imperial court, and on the other hand, it was afraid that he would be stoned to death after the collapse of the city tower, and over time no one moved.

Because people respect the hard work of working people and have the blessing of legendary stories, no one moves.

At that time, the architect took over the project, in order to achieve the number of bricks and tiles of 99,999, which means a good thing, and will not be blamed by the superiors. Let's just say that putting a brick in this way represents good luck.

Because he was given the legend of God, he represented the heavens, so no one dared to move, and the people at that time were very feudal, and they did not dare to offend the heavens, so no one dared to move.

OneBecause this one is based on a story that has been handed down at the time. It is believed that this brick is the Dingcheng brick at that time, which can keep people in the future life everything can be smooth, the country and the familyIn order not to destroy this prophecy, no one dared to touch this brick for so many years.

IIThis brick is a brick. It is said that there is a person who is good at construction, and a formula can only count 9999 bricks (what is this formula, it is impossible to test), less than one, more than one。Place a bet with the person in charge of construction, lose the cards, and win 500.

This gambling can, and the result is this number. The person in charge brought a brick. The architect said that the brick was a fixed brick.

With it, the weather can calm down. Guo'an Jiahe, everyone was very happy, and they gave the architect a silver coin.

IIIThis was a superstitious person at the time. I think that's important. Therefore, no matter who gets it, Jiayuguan will not move this brick.

It may really feel like it's a good symbol, because it exists, so the country is peaceful, the people live in peace, and of course, this thing is who we thought at the time, there is no scientific basis, and everyone should not believe in these things. After all, we don't know these things, we just listen. Although I don't think it's useful!

FourthIt is precisely because of this that this ** is not good at demolition, so he can only give this money to this person. This is because the brick can be passed down on the wall again and again. It has become a very old antique, so it will not be cleaned on this wall for a long time.

Brick by brick has its magic.

Many of us will travel here now, and we will see this brick, and many people will also take commemorative memories there.