A couplet at The Yuelu Academy in Changsha is famous for its "Only Chu is Talented, Yu Si is Sheng", and netizens in Xiang'e and Hubei provinces even debated where "Chu" really meant. Hubei claimed that during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Wuchang Gongyuan had a plaque of "Only Chu has talent", yuelu Academy borrowed it, and Hunan advocated that the two sentences were from the "Zuo Zhuan" and "Analects" respectively, which had nothing to do with the Wuchang Gongyuan.
However, Yuelu Mountain, which has a deep historical and cultural accumulation, has a precious cultural relic from the hands of Hubei people, which is the Lushan Temple stele on the south side of today's Yuelu Academy. This stele was written by the famous calligrapher Li Yong in the eighteenth year of the new century (730) and wrote a book, Jiangxia Huangxian Crane Le Stone, because of the beauty of the text, book, carving process, so it is called "three absolute monuments".
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The inscription is a book of letters, which describes the history of Lushan Temple and the situation of missionary work throughout the ages from the time of the jin dynasty to the Tang dynasty. The words and sentences are gorgeous, the font is beautiful, the pen is strong, the carving art is exquisite, and the long inscription of the Han and Wei dynasties is a representative work of Li Yong. On the back of the stele there are also inscriptions of famous Song and Yuan masters such as Mi Fu, which have been regarded as treasures by scholars of all generations.
Li Yong (678-747), also spelled Taihe, was born in Shuxiang Mendi, and his father Li Shan once annotated Xiao Tong's Selected Writings of Zhaoming. Li Yong is from the Li Clan Jiang Xia Fang in Zhao County. At that time, everyone called and called themselves "Jiangxia Li Yong". In 698, at the age of twenty, Li Yong went to Chang'an to meet Li Zhao, a special jin (official name) of the Li clan in Zhao County, and said that he had "not yet read some books, and hoped to read the palace collections." Li Zheng said, "There are ten thousand books in the Secret Cabinet, how can you read them in a short time?" Li Yong repeatedly requested, and Li Yu arranged for Li Yong to be temporarily secretary. Soon, Li Yong resigned and left. Li Zheng was surprised and tried to ask him about the secret book and the unpublished article, and Li Yong answered clearly and quickly. Li Zheng couldn't help but sigh greatly. Later, when Li Zheng was serving as an internal historian, he recommended Li Yong, and the official FengZuo was left behind and entered the career.
In the sixth year of the New Century (718), Li Yong was transferred from Sima Wai of Kuzhou (Lishui, Zhejiang) to the post of Governor of Yuzhou (Chongqing). In 720, the young Li Bai traveled to Chengdu and then to Yuzhou, where he met Li Yong. At that time, Li Yong was already extremely discredited, and he probably did not put the twenty-year-old Li Bai in his eyes, plus Li Bai was informal, talked loudly, and was arrogant, and in the eyes of Song Jing, the prime minister at that time, Li Yong was also "sexually heretical", and the two heretics met together, and finally the words did not agree, and they were not happy. Li Yong's attitude also made Li Bai quite dissatisfied, so he had this poem "Shang Li Yong":
Dapeng rose with the same wind one day and soared up to ninety thousand miles.
If the wind stops and comes down, it will still be able to bump but be in the water.
When the world saw me, they sneered at me.
The father can still fear the future, and the husband can not be young.
—— Li Bai, "Shang Li Yong"
However, Li Yong's attitude toward the poet Saint Du Fu can be described as very different, and Du Fu wrote in his "Twenty-two Rhymes to Wei Zuo Chengzhang" that he had learned from his life:
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On the day of the youth, it was early to watch the state guests.
Reading a book breaks through ten thousand volumes, and the next pen is like a god.
Endowed with the material to promote the enemy, the poem looks at the son to build a relative.
Li Yong asked for a face, and Wang Han wished to be a neighbor.
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It can be seen that Li Yong smelled the talent of the young Du Fu and took the initiative to find out, it can not be said that he did not love talent, in fact, Li Yong was known as "able to raise a scholar", when people were willing to pay a lot of money to Li Yong to ask for words and ask for literature, Li Yong used this money to make friends with famous people.
However, Li Bai was far more than the only one who touched the nail here in Li Yong, and Cui Hao, who later became famous in the poetry world of "Yellow Crane Tower", liked to gamble and drink since he was a child. Several times he chose a beautiful woman to marry and abandon her. When Li Yong heard about his reputation and vacated his residence to invite him, Cui came to the back to offer a poem, and the first opening poem was "Fifteen Married Wang Chang", Li Yong scolded him and said: "The boy is rude", and left angrily without talking to him.
Here Cui Hao compares himself to a woman, expressing his willingness to follow Li Yong with "marrying Wang Chang (a beautiful man in Luoyang during the Wei and Jin Dynasties)", although there is discomfort, it should not be so extreme, Li Yong's "thorn head" can also be seen here, and Cui Hao has a long-term hatred for Li Yong.
From the 29th year of the new century (741) to the sixth year of Tianbao (747), Li Yong successively served as the Assassin of Hua Prefecture (Huaxian County, Henan), the Taishou of Ji County (Weihui, Henan), and the Taishou of Beihai (Qingzhou, Shandong), so it was also known as "Li Beihai".
In the spring of the fourth year of Tianbao (745), Du Fu went to Linyi (present-day Linyi County, Dezhou) to visit Du Ying, who was serving as the master bookkeeper there, and first went to Yanzhou to visit Li Bai shortly after his farewell. Passing through Qi Prefecture (present-day Jinan) in the summer, when the new pavilion built by Sima Li Zhifang of Qi Prefecture was completed, he learned that Du Fu was in Qi Prefecture, so he invited Du Fu to come and see it. Li Zhifang is the grandson of Li Yong, and Li Yong is a young poet who came from the Beihai Wind and Dust Servant at the age of 68 to Jinan to meet him.
The original site of the ancient calendar pavilion is in the west of Jinan Wulongtan Park
They set up a feast and gathered in the pavilion under the ancient calendar surrounded by blue waves, drank and talked freely, and talked about the past and the present. The collection of celebrities and scholars naturally cannot be without poetry, so Du Fu wrote the famous "Accompanying Li Beihai to the Banquet Under the Pavilion":
The Eastern Domain is stationed in Soap Cover, and the Northern Nagisa Ling Qinghe.
Hai right this pavilion ancient, Jinan mingshi more.
Yun Shan has been revived, and Yu Pei is still a song.
Repair bamboo is not subject to heat, AC air surge waves.
What will happen to the sunset!
Noble and lowly servants, from the public difficulty to heavy.
A group of people also climbed the newly built new pavilion, and Du Fu wrote "Tong Li Taishou Dengli Li Deng Li Gao Shi has a poem "Reward Beihai Li Taishou Zhangren Summer Pingyin Pavilion", Pingyin Pavilion is in the southwest of Jinan, when the gathering of Qi Prefecture, Gao Shi is also listed. A year earlier, Li Bai, Du Fu, and Gao Shi had wandered through Liang Song (present-day Kaifeng, Shangqiu), causing people not only to ask Li Bai if he would also go to Jinan to see Li Yong again this time, which is not recorded in the poem. Or maybe Li Li still had a knot that Li Bai had seen in Yuzhou twenty-four years ago, and Li Bai was not accompanied; it is also possible that Li, Du, and Gao were all present, and Li Bai's works have been handed down to eleven-twelfths, and even if there were poems at that time, they have been lost.
Two years later, Li Yong was implicated in The Liu Ji case, and just because he had sent Liu Ji a horse, he was framed by li Linfu, a fierce and fierce traitor, and was "killed by the county staff" by his minions in Beihai, and the real reason was that Li Yong was liquidated by Li Linfu, the former left minister of Li Yong's friendship.
Du Fu was devastated by Li Yong's death, writing:
Potuo Qingzhou blood, Wu Wu Wen Yang Fistula (yì).
——" Eight Lamentations, Gifts to The Secretary of Jiang Xia Li Gongyong"
And Li Bai, who had had an encounter with Li Yong at that time, heard the news and was also indignant about Li Yong's encounter:
If you don't see Li Beihai, where is the heroism and arrogance now?
Jun did not see Pei Shangshu, the earthen tomb three feet artemisia thorn dwelling!
—— Li Bai,"Answering the King's Twelve Cold Nights alone and having a heart"
Pei Shangshu accused Zichuan of being too defensive of Pei Dunfu and was killed by Li Linfu because of his personal relationship with Li Yong. In fact, Li Bai had long since stopped taking to heart the unpleasantness of seeing Li Yong for the first time when he was young, and he had heard that there was a woman in Beihai County, and her husband had been murdered. The woman took revenge with a knife and assassinated the real murderer and was imprisoned, and the crime was capital punishment. Taishou Li Yongfen disregarded the alienated court and saved the woman, and accordingly wrote the narrative Lefu "There Are Brave Women in the East Sea":
Beihai Li Junjun, Fei Zhang played the Heavenly Garden.
Shed the customs of the police, and spread the vicissitudes.
Another poem by Li Bai can also be seen in the evaluation of Li Yong, and also provides an important basis for us to judge the outstanding case of Li Yong's life:
My home Beihai house, as the temple south of the riverside.
There are no jade trees in the empty court, and the high hall sits on a ghostly person.
The book belt leaves grass, and the qintang is dusty.
Peach and plum are planted in ordinary life, and they will not become spring.
- Li Bai, "Title Jiang Xia Xiu Jing Temple"
The poetic meaning is: Beihai Taishou Li Yong is my own family, and donated the house to the Buddhist temple in Nanjiangbin. Now the courtyard was empty, there were no tall trees, just silent monks sitting in the tall hall. In the grass, you can still see the cloth belt that once bound the books, but the hall is full of white dust. You have been promoting backwards all your life, and the peach and plum are all over the world, but they are all unknown and rarely become materials.
There is no doubt that Li Yong is from the Jiangxia Li clan, but Jiangxia is the name of the county, where is Li Yong's hometown? In addition, the New Book of Tang and the Old Book of Tang both record Li Yong as a native of Jiangdu (present-day Yangzhou), what the hell is going on?
This poem is written in the first year of the Qianyuan Dynasty (758). The original inscription was ZhuYun: "This temple is the old residence of Li Beihai". It can be seen here that is Li Yong's hometown.
Zhongtai Mountain, a hundred miles southeast of Xianning, has Peach Blossom Cave, which is where Li Yong reads. - Fang and Sheng, vol. XXVIII
Similar records are also recorded in the Song Dynasty's Taiping Huanyu Jisheng and Youdi Jisheng, and:
Zhongtai Mountain, that is, the peach blossom tip, is sixty miles southeast of the county, and there are stone chambers, stone bells, stone platforms, bells or times that sound themselves, there is a Xiujing Temple, and Li Beihai reads among them. —— Kangxi Xianning County Chronicle, vol. 5
It can be known that Xiujing Temple was located at Zhongtai Mountain in Damu Township, Xian'an District, Xianning City, and belonged to Jiangxia in the Tang Dynasty. Even if this is not the birthplace of Li Yong, it can be known that he is a Jiangxia person.
Because of this, the signature engraver of the Lushan Temple stele " Jiangxia Huangxianhe" Many people think that it is Li Yong's pseudonym, that is to say, the "three absolutes" of this stele are all from The hand of Li Yong!