孟门:研究晋西历史、经济、文化的活化石

Mengmen:Living Fossils for Studying West Shanxi History,Economy and Culture

柳林县孟门古镇在远古时期曾是高原悬湖,是大禹治水的黄河第一门户,新石器时代先人就在此繁衍生息,汉唐以来是沿河两岸的政治、经济、文化的中心,设县立郡近700年,扼水旱交通之枢纽,经济发达,缫丝造纸业千年不衰,其千年古刹南山寺是永宁州八大官寺之首。由于水患反复侵蚀,河床逐年东移,曾辉煌千年的昔日古城已倾覆于滔滔黄河之中,所以孟门是研究晋西历史,乃至晋陕黄河峡谷历史、经济、文化的活化石。

Meng gate of Liulin county was the hanging lake on the plateau in ancient times,is the first portal of the Yellow River Dayu controlled flood,at the New Stone Age ancestors are inhabited and the political,economic,and cultural center along with the river since the Han and Tang dynasties.It had been set up county district for near 700 years,it was the key transportation between road and river with the prosperous economy,reeling paper had existed for thousands of years,its Millennium Nanshan Temple is one of the eight official Temple at Yongning.Due to the flooding erosion,riverbed moving eastward gradually,the glorious ancient city of a thousand years has capsized at the drop of the Yellow River.Meng gate is the historical,economic and cultural living fossil to study West Shanxi history and the Yellow River Canyon.