Hengyang Evening News, November 29 (text/photo reporter Luo Wenpeng correspondent Wang Xi)
After half a year of construction, the high-profile repair project of Zhuhui Tower has entered the tail sweeping stage, and the main repair work of the tower has been basically completed. However, due to the loss of the original stele of "Zhuhui Pagoda" for many years, no rubbings, photos and other materials have been found so far, and the restoration of the inscription has become the last "roadblock" of the repair project.
The renovation project of Zhuhui Pagoda has entered the tail sweeping stage
Where does the inscription of "Zhuhui Pagoda" appear, and has anyone ever left the original stele? The Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports and the construction party of the Zhuhui Pagoda Repair Project specially collected relevant clues from the whole society in order to draw a satisfactory end to the Zhuhui Pagoda repair project.
"Created" by Hu Xiang everyone
It has important literary and historical value
In 1897, the thousand-year-old city of Yancheng ushered in a century-old cultural event: the completion of Zhuhui Pagoda. The "Record of Zhuhui Pagoda" describes the mood of the Hengyang people at that time: "The people of the county were happy and rushed to climb.".
The pagoda was built by the then Inspector of Anhui and Wang Chuanshan VIII donated funds from Sun Wang Zhichun, costing more than 60,000 silver; Cheng Gongxiang, who had been an envoy of the two Huai salt transports, was also enthusiastic about the public welfare undertakings in his hometown and participated in the construction of the tower as a supervisor; the land for building the tower was provided by the Chen Zongqi family, and Zhu Zongsheng, Zhou Jiyun and others donated money to maintain daily maintenance... These historical reasons are derived from the "Record of the Tower of Zhuhui".
The two sides of the ticket are hollow, and the original inscription of "Zhuhui Pagoda" is embedded
"Zhuhui Pagoda" also explains the reason and role of building the tower. The first is to "help the literary affairs, praise and issue the name of the branch", that is, similar to the Wenfeng Pagoda, built a pagoda to promote culture and education, and bless Hengyang's culture to flourish and produce more talents. Before the renovation project began, archaeologists found an inscription with the words "Wenchang Pavilion" under the tower, which can also confirm this. The second is to cultivate feng shui and create landscapes, which have the functions of feng shui towers and landscape towers, as stated in the original text: "The mountains on both sides of the strait are stretched out, there is no towering view, the county people look at the flowing springs and phase yin and yang, and the salty is the place where the Xiang river is gathered, and it is appropriate to get the tower." Correspondingly, many legends about this pagoda suppressing demons and guarding wealth have been circulated in later generations, which has draped a mysterious veil over Zhuhui Pagoda and left endless stories.
The craftsman re-painted the door
The process of building the Zhuhui Pagoda fully demonstrated the strong economic strength and cultural influence of the gentry group in Hengyang in the late Qing Dynasty. It can be seen from the powerful "creative team" inscribed in the "Zhuhui Pagoda Record" that the writers and writers are all noble, and they are the famous Huxiang people of ancient and modern times.
Wang Xianqian, who wrote for the "Record of zhuhui Pagoda", was a native of Changsha, Hunan Province, who was born in Hanlin Academy to edit the Guozi Supervision Wine Sacrifice Jiangsu Xuezheng, and was an educator, historian, scribe, exegetician, and industrialist in the late Qing Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty.
After the completion of the tower, the "Record of Zhuhui Pagoda" was carved into a stone stele with 14 pieces of bluestone yin, embedded in the two walls of the entrance door of the tower. The calligrapher inscribed on the inscription is Huang Ziyuan, a great calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, and a native of Anhua, Hunan. He was once instructed to enter the palace to write the "Shinto Tablet" for the birth mother of the Guangxu Emperor, which was highly praised, and he was immediately given the title of "Character Saint", and his reputation has been greatly enhanced ever since. His "joining" has given the "Record of Zhuhui Pagoda" a very high calligraphy artistic value.
After more than 120 years, when we look back at the glorious history of humanities, the reason why we can clearly understand the construction process, participants and social repercussions of Zhuhui Pagoda is because "Zhuhui Pagoda" has been passed down to the world. Therefore, some experts pointed out that the "Zhuhui Pagoda" has important value for the study of the history and culture of Hengyang in the late Qing Dynasty and the ancient Chinese pagoda culture.
Make a door-to-door extension
If you can't find the original stele, the extension
It will be copied as a set of words
Regrettably, the original monument to the Tower of Zhuhui was lost decades ago. After the renovation project of Zhuhui Pagoda was started, many searches were unsuccessful, and even the inscription was not found.
The "Survey and Design Plan for the Renovation Project of Zhuhui Pagoda" approved by the Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics requires: "After the content of the inscription has been verified, it will be copied and returned to its original location." ”
If you can't find the original stele, and there is no Tuoben, how to restore the inscription of "Zhuhui Pagoda"?
Inscription written by Jiang Heping in pencil (partial)
Fortunately, the main text of the Zhuhui Pagoda is included in the "Collected Poems of Wang Xianqian" and included in the "Huxiang Library" that has been handed down to this day. Before the inscription was lost, Mr. Jiang Heping, a calligraphy enthusiast in Hengyang, wrote down some of the inscriptions in pencil, which could be compared with the "Collected Poems of Wang Xianqian" and corrected errors, providing an important basis for reproducing the "Record of Zhuhui Pagoda".
Huang Ziyuan's calligraphy creation in his lifetime was quite rich, eclectic, especially the famous calligraphy, and the representative works passed down from generation to generation include the "Ninety-two Laws of Interstitial Structure", which was not only widely circulated at that time, but also had an influence to this day. In 2010, Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House published The Book of Huang Ziyuan. Later, Yiyang City organized a collection group of Huang Ziyuan's works composed of calligraphy experts and cultural experts, and collected a total of 117 calligraphy works of Huang Ziyuan in various periods and various calligraphy styles, and compiled them into "Huang Ziyuan Calligraphy Works Collection", which was divided into four parts: inkblots, inscriptions, appendices and appendices, which were published and distributed by Hunan Fine Arts Publishing House in 2017.
Zhou Chao, the person in charge of the construction site of the Zhuhui Pagoda repair project, said that under the guidance of the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports and the owner unit, the Municipal Urban Construction Investment, the modern technical means such as electronic scanning will be used to reproduce the contents of the inscription in the form of a set of characters, that is, from the calligraphy works handed down by Huang Ziyuan, find the Chinese characters of "Zhuhui Pagoda", "pick" them out one by one, and then collect them into a piece. If it is impossible to collect words into a single piece, then take other words from Huang Ziyuan's calligraphy works or "piece together" the characters on the side, and try to ensure that the copied inscriptions are "original". As for the text content, we can compare the "Collected Poems of Wang Xianqian" and the inscriptions written by Jiang Hepingmeng and strive to copy the original content word for word.
At the same time, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports and the construction party of the Zhuhui Pagoda Repair Project are also continuing to search for the original stele and extension of the "Zhuhui Pagoda", and finding them can most truly and completely retain the historical charm of the "Zhuhui Pagoda", which also means that the Zhuhui Pagoda repair project can be concluded without regrets.
Here, the Municipal Bureau of Culture, Tourism and Sports and the construction party of the Zhuhui Pagoda Renovation Project openly solicited relevant clues from the public on the original stele and Tuoben of the Zhuhui Pagoda, and welcomed the majority of calligraphy professionals to provide valuable advice (Contact: Wang Xi, 18674702514). You are welcome to forward this article widely in the hope of helping to re-engrave the "Zhuhui Pagoda".
【Source: Hengyang Full Search_-Society】
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