Travels of the Eight Immortals(3)
Text: Zhou Zheng
Xiandu Xianyuan
As I pondered, I flipped through the eight immortals to cross the heaven and earth calendar, and had already crossed the stone arch of the "Yunwai Xiandu" handwritten by the great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty.
In front of you is the picturesque Xianyuan Building. Xianyuan Building is a two-story double-eaves wooden structure, eight large red pillars, a pair of large bluestone lions majestically guard the big red gate, here is the "mountain gate" that enters the eight immortals sea view area.
The entire Xianyuan Building is colorfully painted, all of which are traditional three primary colors, red, yellow and green. These colors made me involuntarily associated with the Taoist doctrine of life. The Taoist theory of life is one life two, two births three. Then all the color derivations are derived from these three colors, and there are seven colors of red orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. From this, you can realize the philosophy of life, only when you understand the essence of the three primary colors, you can make waves in life, and only then can you have all kinds of colors.
I think that the Taoist theory of life is the essence of the eight immortals, right? If it were not for the Ming Emperor Li Shimin, the contemporary red scholar Feng Zhenyong and the contemporary great scholar Ouyang Zhongshi all left their own ink treasures on it to express their understanding of heaven and earth and nature. That sense of natural transgression.
Li Haifeng, the general manager of the Eight Immortals Seaview Area, warmly received us, and when he heard that I was going to interview eight immortals, he insisted on giving me a tour guide according to the arrangement.
I politely declined, because I had a habit of not listening to other people's introductions wherever I went, which bound my thoughts. I followed my own train of thought without restraint, to find my own feelings, to understand myself, and then to go back and read the relevant materials and listen to their explanations.
So, I was separated from them, mixed with tourists, walking directionlessly.
Looking up at the word Xianyuan, I thought why did Li Shimin leave such two words here? Probably when he was fighting against Goryeo in Penglai, because according to history, Li Shimin did have soldiers in Penglaitun, and now there are still many legends about Li Shimin in Penglai, and the names of places and villages related to him are still left in Penglai. This is reasonable, because Penglai is Guden Prefecture and is the ancient military port.
Maybe Li Shimin is probably like me, xinma swimming in the sea, looking for the legendary Sea Three Immortals Mountain, looking for the traces of the Eight Immortals here, encountering a mirage, just this reef under his feet The local people also call it the Eight Immortals Reef and the Immortal Ferry, and he suddenly realized that this is the place where the immortals gather, and this is the source of the immortals. So, he wrote down the word Xianyuan with a wave of his hand.
According to legend, at that time, Li Shimin also wrote a poem specifically for Xianyuan, which was once engraved on this reef, and the ebb and flow of thousands of years has been nowhere to be found.
This is enough to show that Penglai is the source of China's oriental immortal culture, and when you come here, you have come to the hometown of the immortals. Otherwise, the great scholar Ouyang Zhongshi stayed in the Xianyuan Building, "Discerning the nature of the clear heart and purifying, the heavenly enlightenment will be cool." ”
Xianyuan and Mi Fu's Xiandu were opposite, and naturally remembered the connotation of the four words "To become immortal" left by Huang Tingjian in the Stone Monument Fang.
It is really to see the mountains and rivers, the benevolent see the benevolent, and the wise see the wise.
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