Ancient Jinniu Dam: "Toponymic Culture and Chengdu's Urban Literary Inheritance"

 with respect toThe Significance of the Opening of the Ancient Shu Jinniu Road

 The opening of the Ancient Shu Jinniu Road promoted economic exchanges between Ancient Shu and the Central Plains and strengthened the political ties between Ancient Shu and the neighboring regions. It was able to better manage and rule the neighboring areas and maintain the political status of the ancient Shu State.

 Because of the great significance of the ancient Shu Jinniu Road opened there are serious cognitive problems, leading to the opening of the ancient Shu Road for thousands of years on the original intention and merits and demerits of the praise and criticism, in which King Huiwen of Qin set up a golden calf scheme, to the King of Shu to gift the golden calf and the annexation of the State of Shu, the shame of the "five oxen die Shu" widely spread, seriously affecting the excavation of the history and culture of the golden calf, and will be Focus on the Qin Huiwen Wang is how treacherous and insidious, Shu open king is how greedy for money and sex, five Ding Kai Shan is how tragic and tragic folklore and myths are widely circulated. Professor Qi Hehui, a famous modern scholar of Ba Shu, believes that the rulers and ministers of Shu, who thought they could govern the rich and powerful, would not believe in the lie that there was a stone bull that could defecate gold. It is believed that the lie was fabricated to justify the annexation of Shu by Qin, and that it was a stigmatization of the loser by the victor of the invasion. The opening of the ancient Shu Road was a social advancement and an enlightened act of the ancient state of Shu, not a motive of greed for money.

    On the Golden Calf Road and the Golden Calf Dam's name: Mr. Qi believes that it is because the ancients in the mountains and mountains in the Shu Road, supply of non-human power, can only rely on the drought-resistant and endurance of the Golden Calf of the reason. The second is rich in iron ore resources in Sichuan, is the earliest development and use of iron metal tools, excavation of the ancient Shu Road hard rock, so the name of the Golden Cow Road. Regarding the origin of the name of Jinniu Dam, it is believed that Chengdu Jinniu Dam was the starting point of the ancient Shu Jinniu Road, and was the base camp and post station for the construction of the Jinniu Road for the protection of material supplies, hence the name Jinniu Dam. Mr. Tan Jiho, a famous Ba Shu cultural scientist, believes that the ancient Jinniu Dam on No. 8 Jinquan Road in Chengdu is an indispensable and irreplaceable historical and cultural heritage of the ancient Shu Jinniu Road, which is the "Ancestral Memory, Cultural Landmark" of the ancient Shu Jinniu Road. And for this reasonAuthor ofJinniu Literary Lineage FulfillmentThe

About the exact location of Jinniu Dam

According to the Sichuan Provincial Government Museum of literature and history librarian, Bashu literature and history expert Zhang Xingyu drawing of the "ancient Shu prehistoric Qiang Road and pre-Qin ancient Shu Jinniu Road schematic diagram" can be derived, Jinniu Dam is located in the western suburbs of Chengdu, ancient Shu prehistoric Qiang Road and the pre-Qin ancient Shu Jinniu Road intersection, that is, now Jinniu District, Jinquan Road, No. 8 of the Jinniu Dam, with Tan Jihua and Qihua's expression of consistency.  

Tan Jiho and Qi Hehui's site visit to Ancient Jinniu Dam

Yi Wenqing, Curator of Sichuan Yi Yuan Museum, Literature and History Center of Sichuan Provincial People's Government         

December 2024