More than 900 years ago, in Yongzhou, Hunan, a middle-aged man who had been belittled by the imperial court took the Xiangli Ancient Road to Zhaozhou (present-day Pingle, Guilin).
He did not know what fate awaited him, nor would he have imagined that in the next three years, he would form a deep friendship with everything here, and his poems left many valuable materials for this land. This official was Zou Hao, a famous advisor and scholar in the late Northern Song Dynasty.
Zou Hao (1060-1111), a native of Jinling, Changzhou (present-day Changzhou, Jiangsu), was a native of Daoxiang., a native of Daoxiang. At the age of 22, he successively served as a professor in Yingchangfu, Yangzhou, Dr. Taichang, and a professor in Xiangzhou. As a person with a straight personality and the courage to speak out, he once befriended Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Qin Guan, and Zhang Qian, and was known as the "Five Gentlemen". Emperor Zhezong of Song appreciated his talent and personally promoted him to Right Zhengyan (右正言: The official name of the Song Dynasty, a subordinate official of Zhongshu Province, as one of the advisors. )
Because of his outspokenness, Zou Hao was repeatedly suppressed by powerful ministers and demeaned Lingnan. The first time was after Shangshu opposed Emperor Zhezong's establishment of Concubine Liu, he was framed by Zhang Huan, removed from his name, and imprisoned in Xinzhou (新州, in modern Xinxing County, Guangdong).
After Emperor Huizong of Song ascended the throne, Zou Hao was recalled and once reused. For this reason, he was jealous and hated by the prime minister Cai Jing, and was persecuted by him for inclusion in the Yuanyou Party.
In the second year of Chongning (1103 AD), Zou Hao was removed from his name and took charge of Zhaozhou. (Editor: The imperial court did not pay a salary, and he was required to stay in Zhaozhou, and the household registration was to be moved to Zhaozhou, and his family could not accompany him.) )
Zou Hao calmly faced the harsh reality and walked towards a strange foreign land. At that time, Zhaozhou was desolate and was the place with the heaviest miasma in the south, and Zou Hao was afraid of this.
Zhaozhou miasma epidemic is rampant. Due to the disobedience of the water and soil, Zou Hao and the servants were infected with the epidemic, and a servant who followed the Zou family for 19 years died of ineffective treatment.
Zhao (zhou) is the most evil place in Guangxi, and the gate of Gui (Lin) is Zhaozhou, and the door is not dare to open, and if it is opened, it will be a miasma, so that the southerners are afraid of it day by day.
—— Zou Hao, "Tomb of Ming ZhangMing"
From the densely populated and rich capital of the Song Dynasty to the desolate, desolate, materially poor remote town, Zou Hao was fortunate to meet a chief official who respected him very much, Zhaozhou Taishou Wangzao.
The residence arranged for Zou Hao by Wang Zao was the house of Jinshi Wang Wenfu, originally known as "Shiqing Pavilion". Because of Zou Hao's arrival, Wang Zao personally renamed the residence "Laixian Pavilion" to express his respect for this already famous figure.
Zou Hao was also very satisfied with the residence. He wrote in the poem "Lai Xian Ge": "Even if you are a fairy to the human world, you will come here to live for many years." "There is not a single word of complaint in the whole poem, only a fervent expectation for the future.
Not only was he loved by the governor, but the local gentry were also very friendly to Zou Hao, and often received food and wine from him. Gradually, the bitterness in his heart was relieved. His time in Zhaozhou was also used as an opportunity for him to practice righteousness.
Drinking and poetry with friends, tasting tea and talking, visiting ancient times, in the three years in Guangxi, Zou Hao's life seems to be comfortable. He recorded what he saw, heard, thought and thought, and left behind more than 200 poems, which is the largest number of works left among the poets of the Northern Song Dynasty.
At that time, Zhaozhou, where the prefecture was located in Pingle, was the confluence of the three rivers of Li River, Li River and Tea River. In Zou Hao's poems, he describes the beautiful landscapes, customs and customs of Zhaozhou.
A dragon boat in Fang Village
Splitting waves fly radially want to fight first
It is necessary to know who wins later
But listen to the song and the drums
This song "Zhaozhou Racing Ferry" vividly shows the dragon boat racing scene of the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhaozhou, and to this day, more than 900 years later, the local dragon boat racing customs are still the same.
"The Red Persimmon Bird Has No Such Meaning The First Three Three and the Last Three Three" Zou Hao also recorded the long history of persimmon cultivation in Pingle with humorous and philosophical verses.
Jinxiu Shengtang Mountain, which is under the jurisdiction of Guzhao Prefecture, is a famous tea production area of the Northern Song Dynasty. In Zou Hao's poems, he records that the taste of this famous Lingnan tea is like olives, first bitter and then sweet, with a paralyzing effect, and points out the practical function of drinking tea, which varies according to the region and living habits.
Xiu Ren tea
Tastes like olives for a long time
The first bitterness will eventually be known
Not only is the heat and famine already sick
It is also appropriate to return to the Northland
At the beginning of the Northern Song Dynasty, Gongcheng County (present-day Gongcheng Yao Autonomous County, Guilin) under the jurisdiction of Zhaozhou produced a famous courtier named Zhou Wei. At the beginning of Emperor Taizong, he was the deputy envoy of the Quang Nam Prefectures, and the celebrities were famous throughout the ages. Zou Hao took the other party as a model and wrote poems to commemorate.
Zhou Yushi Temple (Excerpt)
Advice straight to the heavens
The name is in Shengping Beidou
Yin De Jiu IKEA has a back
The light and spirit are now infinite with the country
In 1034, when the Northern Song Dynasty Qing official Mei Zhi served as the assassin of Zhaozhou, he wrote the famous anti-corruption article "Miasma Theory" and denounced the shortcomings of the times. Zou Hao carefully read the article left by Mei Zhi and felt the same way. He wrote "Reading long tu mei gong miasma said", "More Qifang Gong did not say, Shangyi Medical Guo Xu Xinchuan" believes that sweeping away the "five miasmas" is the best policy for governing the country, and at the same time shows his attitude of not willing to join the same stream and not bow to the powerful.
Reading Long Tu Mei Gong Miasma (Excerpt)
Straight whiskers are skeletonized with everyone
Shu makes the disease of the body can be cured
There is more Odd Fang Gong did not say
The medical doctor of the country Xu Xinchuan
Zhaozhou has produced plums since ancient times, and when the plum trees bloom, they bloom like snow. Mei's high cleanliness and elegance have won the admiration of the literati and inkers of the past generations. In Zou Hao's pen, he also recorded the interesting things about appreciating plums in Zhaozhou many times.
Zheng Zhaohui, a professor at the College of Literature of Guangxi University: He wrote a very interesting article "Plum Garden". It is said that there are many plum blossoms in this place in Guangxi, but people here in Guangxi do not know how to appreciate plum blossoms, and they use plum trees as firewood. He saw it and felt pity.
It just so happened that Zou Hao's landlord had a plum tree. As soon as it was time to blossom, he wandered under the overgrown plum trees.
Since then, this plum garden of the landlord's family has become Zou Hao's main pastime, and he even built a gongmei pavilion to facilitate plum viewing. Although he had no real power during the period of organization and management, Zou Hao still did some practical things to benefit the people.
Jin Jinhua, chairman of the Guangxi Pingle County Federation of Social Sciences: When Zou Hao came to Pingle, he lived nearby and saw that ordinary people went to the river to fetch water. As soon as the water in the river became big in the spring, it was very turbid, so Zou Hao led the digging of a well here, and he named it Induction Spring. Later, when he was in the Republic of China, an old gentleman named Liu Yannian carved this monument to commemorate this matter.
From the poems left by Zou Hao, posterity felt the poet's eyes in the eyes of the foreign country of Zhaozhou, how to go from strange to familiar warm feelings, beautiful scenery, history and culture, and even read Zou Hao's gradual love for Zhaozhou. "There is no good situation on the side of Mo Daoling, I am in Luoyang City this spring" In the poem "To Peony", he compares Zhaozhou to Luoyang City, which shows that he accepts and falls in love with this place from the bottom of his heart.
In 1105, Zou Hao left by boat and moved to live with the Hanyang army. On the occasion of parting, he wrote a poem "Bei Zhaozhou" with deep affection.
Beizhao State
Jiangshan ben is ruthless Don't go or say anything
It has always been refreshing to eat in March
Come not what I ask for, go to what I do not do
Looking back at Xie Jiangshan, I would like to take it lightly
Stepping on the Xiangli Ancient Road again, he took a nap at the Lingchuan Talc Spring and felt the feeling of composing the poem "Talc Spring".
Talc Springs
The horse's head was strictly closed today
Nineteen years ago, it was restored
Only the sound of the flowing spring is as old as ever
Listen to the babbling by the bar
Zou Hao only lived in Zhaozhou for three years, so why does his poem write "nineteen years"? Experts speculate that this may be an allusion to Su Wu's shepherding. Because Su Wu went to beihai for nineteen years. It is also possible to quote the artistic conception of "Zhuangzi Health Lord" (庖丁廨牛). The knife of Cu Ding has not been bad for nineteen years, which is also the meaning of the Tao. Perhaps It was Zou Hao who felt that he had been reduced to a barbaric place, but he had kept the Tao in his heart, and then now he was back in the Central Plains, passing through this place, of course, with mixed feelings.
Zou Hao has a profound influence on the local area. There are historical records that during his time in Pingle, he once held a private school to give lectures, probably in the Southern Song Dynasty, and his descendants built the Daoxiang Academy for this purpose. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Daoxiang Academy has been rebuilt four times, and the teaching activities have continued until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the abolition of the imperial examination, which has cultivated a large number of talents for Zhaozhou.
During the Southern Song Dynasty (1175-1178 AD), zhang Yuzhi (張栻知静江府) (present-day Guilin, Guangxi) and the general pacification of Guangnan West Road. At his initiative, Zhaozhou built a Zou Gong Ancestral Hall to commemorate Zou Hao.
When Fang Qi was young, Taoism practiced righteousness. It has been called in the world, and the benefits of later life are respected by China and foreign countries.
——Zhang Yu, "Monument to the Ancestral Hall of Zou Gong, a Servant of the New Official's Department in Zhaozhou"
500 years after Zou Hao's death, during the Ming Dynasty (1612 AD), his compatriot Jiang Yikui of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province, went to Lingchuan to serve as Zhi County. He renamed the "Talc Spring" that Zou Hao once inscribed three poems to "Daoxiang Spring" and engraved the "Daoxiang Spring Stele".
For more than 900 years, Zou Hao's talent and personality charm have been passed down for a long time in the eight gui he has sung. In his writing, the small city of Guibei that makes him deeply missed, is dyed red by the persimmon forest like a sea in the early winter every year. This small city thriving on water has long been chopping waves in the tide of the new era.
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Editor| Luo Zecong
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