The Kangxi Emperor's handwritten inscription of the four characters "Summer Resort" is indeed a major highlight, and the word "avoidance" written by Kangxi is written with an extra stroke on the right. It is said that Kangxi deliberately wrote more horizontally, implying that the country and mountains were more stable. Another way of saying is more acceptable to the world, when Kangxi wrote it wrong, and the courtiers present also found out, but the emperor was a golden mouth, and no one dared to put it forward for reasons of identity.
Was the avoidance of words "invented" by Kangxi?
The transformation of Chinese characters in past and present lives has undergone thousands of years of change and constantly evolved. Some people say that Kangxi wrote the "avoidance" of the summer resort wrongly. According to historical records, Kangxi was very serious and rigorous about anything, so the probability of Kangxi writing this typo was very small.
In his early years, the Kangxi Emperor was employed by the famous linguist, the poet Chen Tingjing, laid a profound foundation in sinology, Kangxi called the empress, often copied books, read diligently, wrote poetry and texts, and enjoyed it.
When Kangxi traveled to the world's scenic spots, he often liked to write in person, leaving ink marks, writing plaques for scenic spots, etc. Kangxi's inscription is not a momentary brain fever, or a whim, but has a deep foundation in sinology and calligraphy skills, which Kangxi is still very confident.
The summer resort was built by Kangxi for nearly ten years, and in 1711 AD, the summer resort was completed normally, Kangxi Long yan was very happy, personally inscribed four big characters "Summer Resort", and ordered people to make a plaque to hang on the main door, and the word "avoid" in these four words appeared more than a horizontal. If you write more than now, the teacher will definitely give a fork, but in ancient times, it was understood by writing a typo, and it was not reasonable to say it.
Because the word "avoid" and the word "avoid" and the word "more than one stroke" have existed since ancient times, and the word "avoidance" is universal, and the word "avoid" itself is a variant character, in the Northern Wei "Kou Xiao Epitaph", "avoidance" is also written as "pei", and the "Xin" on the right is also an extra horizontal.
Kangxi is not the only one in the summer resort that has a "typo". It is said that one day on the forty-second day of Kangxi, on the way to Tour Beijing in Kangxi West, he visited the Great Compassion Temple, and at this time he was in a good mood, and with a wave of it, he inscribed the three words "Huyun Temple", and the monk standing on the side praised "The water is mostly pure, wonderful." Kangxi's three-point "浄" character has thus become a stroke of God.
Therefore, the evolution of Chinese characters is the evolution of Chinese characters that people consciously and actively govern, indicating the particularity of the meaning, so the process of its evolution is an inevitable phenomenon. And Kangxi copied and studied a variety of calligraphy inscriptions and has a deep cultural foundation, and he is still very confident in calligraphy and cultural Kangxi, which must have another deep meaning.
The past and present lives of the summer resort
Chengde Mountain Resort, that is, the place we hear the most in the "Yongzheng Dynasty" TV series is the Rehe Palace, the Rehe Environment is comfortable, the scenery is beautiful, and every autumn, the Kangxi Emperor has to bring many princes to hunt here.
Rehe Mulan Paddock, is the royal hunting garden of the Qing Dynasty, bordering the grasslands of Inner Mongolia, this place Kangxi brought all the princes to hunt here every year, in order to implement the policy of "Sui Wu Sui Domain", train troops to strengthen Xinjiang, so as to achieve the purpose of deterring Mongolia and Russia, forging relations between Mongolia and various ethnic minorities, strengthening unity, and consolidating the northern border defense.
In the later years of Kangxi's life, kangxi had to take a detour from Rehe to Mulan Qiuhuo on the way to a small ravine, sometimes staying for ten days and a half months. In the thirty-first year of Kangxi (1692), when the "summer resort" had not yet been built, Kangxi was only impressed by this place.
Once, Kangxi took the princes on a tour of Saiwai and passed through Chengde. At that time, the imperial court was fighting against Kaldan, and Kangxi held a reward ceremony for the meritorious soldiers at the Longzun King Buddha Temple in Tangquan. Subsequently, Kangxi praised Tangquan again. Since then, the Kangxi Emperor has had more heart for this place.
When Kangxi personally conquered Kaldan twice and passed through Tangquan again on the way back to Beijing, it was already forty-two years since Kangxi.
In this year, the Kangxi Emperor came to the soup spring to sit in the soup, felt comfortable, so he personally gave the soup spring an experiment on pH, Kangxi was very satisfied with the soup spring, and when he had lunch, he also gave the fish to the ministers, and said that "this name is cong fish only in the ShaHe River."
Since then, the Kangxi Emperor has been out of control, not only remembering it in his heart, but also using actions to achieve it. In the forty-fifth year of Kangxi, Kangxi built a palace, and after that, from Kangxi fifty-one to sixty years, Kangxi would come to the Tangquan Palace, staying for half a month at most times, and one or two days when he was less.
In order to ensure the continuity of the Mulan Autumn Fox and facilitate the residence of the emperor and concubines, Kangxi built more than twenty palaces in the paddock, most of which were palaces, and the scale gradually expanded, so it became one of the palaces that the emperors of the Qing Dynasty valued very much.
Since the beginning of the Qianlong period, Chengde Summer Resort not only has the ability to escape the summer, but also the second power center of the Qing Dynasty, here, also witnessed the complete decline of the Qing Dynasty, the Xianfeng Emperor came to the summer resort from the capital, left the state affairs behind, and drank and entertained with the concubines every day, until she died here, and Empress Dowager Cixi also went from here step by step to the peak.
The mystery of the "summer resort" typo
A total of seventy-two scenes appeared in the summer resort, after the Kangxi construction of the "Thirty-six Views", the inscription of this place, and made a plaque to hang in the inner door, so far this plaque has been preserved for more than three hundred years, leaving traces of history, is still a rare cultural relics.
But everyone's focus is not on the historical value of this plaque, but on the question of the value of the four words "Summer Resort". As we all know, the word "avoid" written by Kangxi is an extra horizontal, and according to the present, this is a typical typo.
It is said that when Kangxi wrote four words, some people were hindered by the emperor and did not dare to remind them, let alone correct them on the plaque. According to Kangxi's rigorous work, did not really find a typo, so what does this typo really represent?
Regarding the typo of Kangxi, there are many conjectures and assumptions, saying that Kangxi simply added a horizontal line to the right of the word avoidance in order to "avoid the secret". As we all know, in ancient texts, it is rare to see the use of so-called double quotation marks, not to mention a plaque with double quotation marks, one is not beautiful from a visual point of view; the other is that it is equivalent to "painting a snake and adding feet" from calligraphy. Therefore, Kangxi hoped to express a special meaning by writing typos, so that people's attention should be on the word "avoidance".
Avoidance is a multi-meaning word, and in a literal sense, it not only means to avoid the summer, but also to avoid and flee. When the foreigners invaded Bauhinia City, there was chaos everywhere, Cixi and Guangxu hurriedly rolled up the covers and fled, using the word escape was indeed detrimental, Cixi thought of an elegant name: "Xi Hunt".
Kangxi built a summer resort is not just a palace so simple, in addition to the summer, but also as a military fortress, the construction of Mulan paddock as a training site, training troops here, not only can quickly support the region, but also convenient for the northern tour.
Therefore, the secrecy work of the summer resort needs to be very rigorous, after all, most of the external work is done here, and it is still very necessary to avoid suspicion.
Perhaps Kangxi's original intention of building the "Summer Resort" was not only to escape the summer, but it may also have been conceived that once there was an accident in Bauhinia City, this was the most suitable place to fight back.
In Kangxi's view, although the summer resort is a good place, it cannot be indulged for a long time, and as an emperor, it should still focus on major events, and the Jiangshan Society should be the mainstay.
But Kangxi never thought that after a hundred years, there would be no time here except for Yongzheng's diligent administration. From the beginning of the defeated Qianlong, this place was regarded as a place of indulgence and pleasure, especially the Xianfeng Emperor abandoned everything and indulged in incense, so that the military fortress here completely lost its due role.
epilogue
Of course, some scholars believe that Kangxi did it intentionally, and the word "avoid" contains the meaning of fleeing, and the ancient kings were particularly taboo about the word "avoidance". "Avoid" contains multiple meanings, with Kangxi's profound cultural skills, it is believed that the word "avoidance" is particularly unlucky, and at that time, facing the invasion of Tsarist Russia, the Kangxi Emperor, as the king of a country in the Qing Dynasty, always reminded that when encountering anything, he will not face it in an evasive way. So write more and avoid this negative thought. And now this signboard has become a feature of the summer resort.
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