"Ode to Tang Zhongxing" is one of Yan Zhenqing's masterpieces of calligraphy, published in the south of Qiyang City, Yongzhou, Hunan, on the side of the cliff where the Hun Creek joins the Xiang River, and there are many inscriptions left by the past, now known as the "Huanxi Stele Forest"
【Qiyang Huanxi Stele Forest】
The author of the "Ode to The Tang Dynasty" was Yuan Jie, written in August of the second year of the first century (761), when the An Shi Rebellion was nearing its end, An Lushan and Shi Siming had both died at the hands of their sons, the Tang army continued to win victories, the Tang revival was in sight, and Yuan Jie wrote this article, looking forward to a better future
Ten years later, in the sixth year of the Gregorian calendar (771), Yuan Jie asked his friend Yan Zhenqing to write a book on the cliff by the Huanxi River, when Yan Zhenqing was sixty-two years old, which was the time when the calligraphy was pure
【Ode to Datang Zhongxing】
"Ode to Tang Zhongxing" is very large, the width and height are about five meters, the single word is about twenty centimeters square, the rare large cliff inscription, and now the front is covered with glass, but up to the second floor can also see Yan Zhenqing's true deeds without barriers, but the perspective is somewhat peculiar
【Looking down at the whole picture of Datang Zhongxing Song】
【Yan Zhenqing's name】
More than three hundred years after the Zhongxing Ode was engraved in the eighth year of the Northern Song Dynasty (1075), the twenty-four-year-old Mi Fulai's Huanxi left a poem "Crossing the Huanxi", which was engraved next to the "Ode to Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty":
Hu Xian was self-conscious, and Tang Gang was not dimensional.
Poor virtue is shallow, and it is worthy of this inscription.
【Inscription left by Mi Fu】
【Location of the Mi Fu Inscription】
【Hubei Xiangyang Rice Hometown】
Nearly thirty years later, in the third year of Chongning (1104) of the Northern Song Dynasty, Huang Tingjian, who was degraded in Yizhou, Guangxi, passed through Hunan to Huanxi, and left a large inscription next to the "Ode to The Tang Dynasty", at this time Huang Tingjian was sixty years old and died in Yizhou the following year
【Huang Tingjian Inscription】
Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy has been revered by successive generations, and the Sichuan Sword Pavilion Heming Mountain, which is far away on the Jinniu Road, is also engraved with a shop of "Ode to the Tang Dynasty Zhongxing", which was engraved according to the rubbings of Huanxi during the Southern Song Dynasty, and by the Ming Dynasty, the handwriting had been blurred and deepened again. This shop zhongxing song was engraved earlier, and a lot of precious information has been preserved, such as the name of Yan Zhenqing in Huanxi Zhongxing Song has been blurred, and the Zhongxing Song of Heming Mountain is still very clear.
【Tang Zhongxing Ode of Sword Pavilion Crane Ming Mountain】
Yuan Jie, the author of the "Ode to Zhongxing of the Tang Dynasty", has long served in nearby Daozhou and likes to leave inscriptions, and there is also a shop next to the Zhongxing Song "Song Tai Ming", which is also written by Yuan Jie, which was published about the second year of the Tang Dynasty (767), earlier than the Zhongxing Song
【Yuan Jie Kun Tai Ming, the red circle is Lu Jun's travels】
【Yuan Jie Kun Tai Ming】
Next to the "Songtai Ming", there are a number of travelogues left by the Tang Dynasty, one of which was left by Lu Jun, a servant of the Hubu, in the fifth year of Kaicheng (840), and Lu Jun and the Original Wutai Foguang Temple East Hall in Shanxi still have some contact
【Lu Jun's Travels Next to Kun Taiming】
There are four Tang Dynasty inscriptions under the four rafters of the East Hall, of which there is an inscription under the four rafters in the southern seam of the southern sub-interval as "Dai Zhou Du Governor For Military Envoy and Imperial History Zhongzhong Purple Gold Fish Bag Lu", and the official surnamed Lu who did not leave his name may be Lu Jun.
Lu Jun was transferred to Dai Prefecture in the third year of Kaicheng (838), and in the fifth year of Kaicheng (840), he was already a servant of the household, so the time left by the Foguang Temple can only be the third year of Kaicheng (838) to the fifth year of Kaicheng (840), or the date of the construction of the East Hall of foguang Temple can be more accurately inferred, and we now know that the eleventh year (857) of the Great Middle School left on the scripture building is the era number of Ning Gongyu's participation in the construction of the scripture building, not the exact year of the founding of the East Hall