From September 12 to September 22 of the eleventh year of the Chongzhen Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty (September 12-22, 1638), Xu Xiake traveled to Qujing Cuishan (then known as Cuifeng Mountain), was blocked by rain in the mountain, and examined the Chaoyang Nunnery located on the mountainside, which is recorded in the travel record:
"Chaoyang Nunnery was founded by Master Liu Jiu'an, the inscription of the master name Ming Yuan, the Native Henan Taikang people, Wanli Gengzi had the Battle of Conquest, the military gate Chen Yongbin passed through here, touched by virtue, for the construction of this nunnery."
Cuishan Chaoyang Nunnery was founded by Master Liu Jiu'an, and the inscription in the nunnery records that Liu Jiu'an's legal name is Ming Yuan, and its inscription is called Xuan Weng Da Monk, originally from Taikang County, Henan Province, who once served as a scholar in the examination of the imperial examination, and later served as the inspector of imperial history, Jiajing Jiazi Nian, after an official business trip to Qujing Province, abandoned the official shaved his hair as a monk on Cuifeng Mountain, did not ask about the world, and devoted himself to cultivation. During the Wanli GengziNian Conquest of Bozhou Xuanwei Division, Chen Yongbin, the inspector of Yunnan, passed by here and was touched by Liu Jiu'an's conduct and behavior, and specially repaired Chaoyang Nunnery for it. After the death of Master Liu Jiu'an, Chen Yongbin ordered that Liu Jiu'an be solemnly buried on a flat slope to the left of Chaoyang Nunnery in accordance with Confucian etiquette (the tomb still exists today, as shown below).
In the seventeenth year of Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1538), he entered the Beijing Huihui Examination and achieved the third place in the third place of the Three Ranks of Jinshi, and the imperial court granted jinshi a birth, and was awarded the title of Capital Inspector, and later the official was appointed to the left deputy capital Yushi (from Erpin, equivalent to the deputy director of the State Supervision Commission), responsible for supervision, correction, and concurrently managing the trial of major cases and the evaluation of officials.
In the forty-third year of Jiajing (1564), Liu Jiu'an was ordered to inspect the affairs of the prefectures in Yunnan and came to Qujing, Yunnan, and the prefect of Qujing and other officials greeted him by the Kangqiao River outside the North City Gate. In a few days, the official business is over. Due to the many promotions of the qujing prefect during the inspection, the "Cuifeng Peak is the famous peak of Qujing, xiuba is the crown of this" not far from the west of the city, since the Tang and Song dynasties, it has been a famous scenic spot in eastern Yunnan, an ancient temple monk, and the scenery is beautiful. Liu Jiu'an decided to personally climb Mount Cuifeng to find out before leaving Qujing. Early one morning, into the mountains, the forest is densely forested, full of greenery, vines and trees hanging upside down, springs and waterfalls, large and small temples are staggered and chic, hidden in the middle, the mountains are stacked, as if mistakenly into the painting scene. Outside the Baoguo Temple, an old abbot led the monks and nuns to wait at the intersection. The old abbot stepped forward and clapped his hands together: "The prefect has informed the poor monks and others to welcome you here, and the adults have worked hard, please go to the monastery to take a nap with tea." "Liu Yushi and his entourage walked into the Baoguo Temple, and saw the ancient trees in the courtyard, the winding paths, the pines and cypresses, the fragrance of dangui, the passionflower and the camellias, and there was no cave in the sky. The old abbot offered fragrant tea and introduced to Liu Yushi the situation of the "Nine Temples and Eighteen Courtyards" in the mountains and the archway of "Trance like Nine Heavens". After a short rest, Liu Yushi accompanied the monks and nuns on a tour of Cuifeng Mountain. Along the way, Liu Yushi was in a good mood, reciting the poems that the Tang people often built: "Enter the ancient temple in the early morning, the first sun shines in the high forest, the winding paths lead to the quiet places, the zen rooms are deep in flowers and trees..." And the last few sentences of Li Bai's poem "Sleepwalking in heaven and staying away": "The same is true of the world's pleasures, and everything in ancient times flows in the east." When will you pay it back? And put the white deer between the green cliffs, you must ride to visit the famous mountain. Ann can crush the brow and bend the waist of the magnate, so that I can't be happy!"
Stayed overnight at Cuifeng Mountain Baoguo Temple.
The next day after sunrise, after breakfast, ready to go to the top of the Cuihe Temple tour, out of the temple gate, saw a few people selling walnuts in the mountains resting at the temple gate, Liu Yushi bought some at random, folded back into the box cabinet, and instructed the attendants to rest and wait at the Baoguo Temple, it is estimated that they can return in the evening, do not let the idle people enter and exit the box at will, so as not to lose things. After sunset that day, Liu Yushi returned to the box room of Baoguo Temple, and the tea room remembered the walnuts bought in the morning and planned to share them with everyone. Pulling open the cabinet to see that there were only a few walnuts left, he was busy asking what was wrong with the accompanying mane, but someone entered the box room, and the mane replied: "Lord, since you went out, no one has come to the box room." Liu Yushi was very angry, and questioned the walnut long wings in the cabinet of the beard flying, must be you stole it and did not admit it. Frightened and incoherent, she defended herself that she didn't know that the old man had put the walnuts in the cupboard. Liu Yushi raised his face and frightened her with the tone of the interrogator in the lobby: "If you don't recruit from the truth, you will have to wait for the family law." Poor weak woman, afraid of being tortured, knelt down and begged for forgiveness, and confessed in vain that she had stolen walnuts. Liu Yushi angrily rebuked: This, first lock her in the room and think about it, and then listen to the disposition. "Locked up in the compartment, the beard has been crying, thinking before and after thinking about it, thinking that carrying a thief's name is both wronged and wronged, and in the future, he will not have the face to see people, it is better to wash his innocence with death." So, he slipped out of the window and slipped under a tree behind the box, untied his belt and prepared to hang himself. After talking about this incident, Liu Yushi also regretted his arrogant attitude and wanted to comfort her, but when he found that no one was missing, he was alert that things were not good, and hurriedly ordered him to look around. Seeing that the beard was preparing to hang himself, he rushed to the tree to rescue him and persuaded him to avoid the tragedy. That night, Liu Yushi tossed and turned after going to bed, it was difficult to sleep, he thought that this girl was usually timid and afraid of things, honest, to die to prove innocence, it would never be her stealing food, so why didn't the walnuts in the cabinet fly away? At the second hour, there were rats squeaking and crunching in the compartment, Liu Yushi was irritable, got up and held a candle lamp to check, it turned out that this compartment was old, there were many mouse holes, and suddenly saw that there were many walnuts and walnut shells at the mouth of the mouse hole, so I pulled open the cabinet and looked carefully, and found that there were two mouse holes in the cabinet, and there were also a lot of walnuts scattered near the cabinet. Liu Yushi understood at this moment that he had wronged this loyal servant. Lying on the bed, Liu Yushi repeatedly pondered the incident that happened today, as a judicial official, if he did not think about it, he would kill this innocent man. After returning to Qujing Mansion, Liu Yushi had a sudden idea and played such a play: put two large peaches on the desk, and told everyone that he was going to go out to inspect, but quietly hid in the dark to peek through the gap, and the peach was stolen by the rat. Liu Jiu'an pretended not to know, and after pretending to come back a little later, he deliberately said to the door guarding the case hall: "Why did you steal the peaches?" The doorman said, "I didn't steal it." Liu Jiu'an then frightened him: "You are the only one here, not who you are, if you don't admit it, you will be tortured." The doorman was afraid of being tortured and admitted it in vain. Liu Jiu'an asked him again, "You stole the peach and lost the peach core?" Menzi had to find two other peach cores to serve as them, and said, "This is the peach core I eat." ”
Through these two events, Liu Yushi deeply tortured his soul and conscience, and felt: The world is big, the gates are layered on top of each other, and how many people have been wronged. In addition, it is associated with the Jiajing Emperor's single-minded cultivation and pursuit of immortality, and he handed over the power to Yan Song, a member of the Cabinet University, who after taking over the power alone, was tyrannical and vicious, attacked dissidents, did no evil, and those who went along with it were prosperous, and those who went against it died, and many zhongliang were framed and persecuted, and they were wronged to death. Thinking that his lifelong ambition is to be a fair and upright good imperial history, he must not be in the same stream as Yan Song, but if he wants to enforce the law impartially, he will inevitably be harmed by the Strict Party. After much deliberation, Liu Yushi planned to give up his official position and become a monk at Cuifeng Mountain.
Liu Jiu'an's decision to become a monk was naturally strongly opposed by his wife, children, relatives and friends, but he was determined to become a monk, and everyone had no choice but to follow him. Liu Yushi asked the imperial court for resignation on the grounds of illness, and after receiving the emperor's permission, he handed over his work and settled down the household chores, and then returned to Qujing to enter the Cuifeng Mountain to build a monastery for retreat until his death.
In the twenty-eighth year of the Ming Dynasty (1600), after the Yunnan Governor Chen Yongbin quelled the rebellion of Yang Yinglong, the toastmaster of Zunyi in Guizhou, when he returned to Kunming and passed through Cuifeng Mountain, he heard about this matter, moved and admired Liu Jiu'an's integrity and sentiments of seeing through the red dust and abandoning high-ranking officials and becoming monks, and renovated the temple where Liu Jiu'an lived, and named it "Chaoyang Nunnery". After Liu Jiu'an's death, Inspector Chen made a special trip to Mount Cuifeng to pay his respects, and instructed him to be buried on the flat ground on the left side of Chaoyang'an with Confucian rituals. Originally, after the death of the Buddhist monk, it should be used as a stupa to hide the relics, and Chen buried Liu Jiu'an with a guest ceremony, which has its profound meaning.
The tombstone of Liu Jiu'an is still well preserved in Qujing Cuishan, shaped like a folk tomb, carefully identified, and erected by Pu Kuan, the abbot of Chaoyang Nunnery in the Qianlong Dynasty (1778). The inscription preserved in the nunnery records liu jiu'an's events.
Liu Jiu'an, as a senior member of the imperial court and the inspector of the imperial history, parted ways and traveled all over many famous mountains and rivers, and finally chose Qujing Cuishan as his home, which shows that the reputation and influence of Qujing Cuishan in the Ming Dynasty should not be small.