Jimu news reporter Wang Jun
Correspondent Sun Keliang
The great river flows east, and the waves hit three thousand miles. The long history has bred a deep and thick culture. When the waves of history rush to us like a gallop, the mountains are still there, and the flowing water is still there.
On January 14, Jimu News reporters walked into the Caidian District Museum located in the courtyard of the Culture and Art Center of Hanyang Avenue in Wuhan City, to explore the cultural scars of this high mountain and flowing water, and to ask about the past and present lives of this historic city.
Qing Dynasty remnants freeze history
In the museum, a remnant stele with the words "Xianzhong Period ZiZi Tomb" and other words are displayed here, and this stone stele erected in the fifteenth year of Qing Guangxu (1898), although the inscription is broken, but it "freezes" zhong zi period, one of the protagonists of the moving legend of the alpine flowing water to find Zhiyin, 2000 years ago, on the ground under his feet.
There was a musician in the Chu Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn period of Shi Zai called Yu Boya, who played the piano very well, and he skillfully integrated his feelings about nature into the sound and rhythm of the piano, but no one could understand it. One day, Bo Ya was playing mercilessly on the Yangtze River, just when the woodcutter Zhong Zi period passed by here and looked for the sound of the piano, the beautiful sound of the piano triggered the sigh in Zhong Zi period's heart: what a majestic Mount Tai, what a vast river! Yu Boya was very surprised to hear this, he did not expect that a mountain woodcutter could understand the strings in his piano. It was difficult to meet each other, and the two saw each other as they were, and they became good friends since then. One day, when Bo Ya went to visit Zi Qi's home, he was shocked to hear the news of Zi Qi's death, and when Bo Ya was heartbroken, he felt that no one in the world could understand his piano anymore, so Bo Ya angrily threw the piano and vowed never to play it again.
As a cultural relics carrier of the entire Zhiyin legend historical and cultural inheritance, the tomb of zhong zi period is located on the south phoenix mouth of Ma'anshan in Caidian Street, Caidian District. According to the old chronicles, in the Ming Dynasty, there was an ancient pavilion next to his tomb, and there was originally a bluestone tombstone with a long history in the pavilion, but now these old traces no longer exist. In 1988, the people's government of Hanyang County (now Caidian District) rebuilt the Zhiyin Pavilion, and a new monument was erected in the pavilion. In 2012, the Boyazi Memorial Garden was completed to commemorate the thousand-year-old Zhiyin Inter-Family Meeting.
As the most important cultural relic, this stele was invited into the museum, so that more people can understand that the legend of Zhiyin is not out of thin air.
The sound and sound of the piano on the porcelain bottle
As a cultural relics carrier of the historical and cultural inheritance of The Legend of Zhiyin, in fact, it is not only this stele and the tomb of Zhong Zi period, in the museum, the Jimu news reporter also saw a Ming Dynasty blue and white porcelain altar called "Visiting Friends with the Qin".
On the porcelain altar, there was such a picture: I saw an old man with a pleasant look, walking with a piano, and there was a child leading the way nearby, showing innocence and liveliness. But seeing the sky is a bright moon hanging high, the breeze is gentle, the distant mountains are dripping green, the clouds are swirling, and the willow pine trees on the side of the road sway with the wind, presenting the viewer with a peaceful picture of sharing the joy of heaven. The whole picture is exquisitely composed, with both work and writing, and is outlined, rendered and embellished at the same time, just like a beautiful Chinese ink painting.
The allusion to visiting friends with the qin comes from the legend of Boya and Zi period, and was later evolved and created to create the painting themes of xiangfang with the qin and visiting friends with the qin, which have been widely used in porcelain, lacquerware and carving since the Ming Dynasty. Monk Seven, Wen Zhengming, Huang Shen, Fu Baoshi, Zhang Daqian... Ancient and modern masters have left behind different styles of "Visiting Friends with the Piano", from which it can be seen that the flowing water of the mountains meets the deep into the world.
Numerous legends have been passed down for thousands of years
As a part of Chu culture, the legend of Zhiyin culture was recorded in the pre-Qin classics "Liezi" and "Lü's Spring and Autumn" in the Warring States Period, becoming the content of Chinese cultural yuan classics, and in the inheritance of Chinese culture, it has always enjoyed a lofty status, and in the Ming Dynasty, Feng Menglong processed it into a vernacular novel "Yu Boya Wrestling Qin Xie Zhiyin", so that the Zhiyin story is known as elegant and customary. The allusions and meanings of "mountain flowing water" and "Zhiyin" have become the most basic cultural titles of the Chinese nation, with far-reaching meanings to promote cultural identity and enhance national unity.
As early as 2006, Wuhan began to declare the "Legend of boyazi Period" as a national "intangible cultural heritage", but it failed several times. The reason for this is that the "Legend of the Boyazi Period" is a folk tale and does not have a complete chain of evidence for this legend. The previous declaration of "The Legend of Boyazi Period" was only the lone evidence of "Yu Boya Wrestling Xie Zhiyin" in the Ming Dynasty writer Feng Menglong's "Cautionary Tales". Although it is detailed that the location of the story is at the "Hanyang River Mouth", the judges believe that the "Hanyang River Mouth" may have been a fictional place place installed by the author of the novel.
In 2013, Wang Yuan, a graduate student of folk literature at China Normal University, was doing a postgraduate thesis on "Research on the Legend Circle of the Boyazi Period", when he found the Ming Dynasty storyteller's book , "Noble and Lowly Friendship". This book not only predates the "Cautionary Tales" 14 years earlier, but the key point is that the book also details the story and location of the Boyazi period, namely "Hanyang", "Ma'anshan", "Jixian Village" and other place names, and more convincingly, many of the place names in the book still exist today. Therefore, the orphan certificate originally declared became a complete chain of evidence, which eventually helped the "Legend of the Boyazi Period" to be selected into the fourth batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection list. The legend of The Millennium Zhiyin is the cultural root of Caidian, and under the theme of the new era of rural revitalization, Zhiyin culture broadcasts all over the world and becomes a source of harmony and happiness.
This is where people excel
Warring States thin grid bronze sword
Gold bracelets from the Tang Dynasty
Strolling through the museum is like walking into a long corridor of history. Shangfeng bronze fangyi (file picture), Warring States thin grid bronze sword, Tang Dynasty gold bracelet, Kang Youwei's authentic works... People can't help but sigh that Caidian, which has a thick and intimate culture, is indeed a place of outstanding people.
As a district-level museum, although not every cultural relic is a unique treasure, it is a witness to the vicissitudes of the vicissitudes of the Chu culture in the great southwest of Wuhan in the long history, the most shocking of which is the "Shangfeng bronze square".
Shang Dynasty bronze phoenix pattern square
Unearthed in 1966 in Zhulinzui, Yong'an Street, Caidian, the "ShangFeng Pattern Bronze Fangwei", with a majestic shape and a huge shape; a collection of reliefs and line carvings; excellent casting technology; exquisite ornamentation is flying, which is a masterpiece of bronze ware in the late Shang Dynasty. According to Deng Cao, the curator of the museum, bronze poppy, especially cubes, has a short popular time and a very rare number, which has been well preserved for more than 4,000 years and is very rare. At present, the Bronze Fangmu of Shangfeng pattern is collected in the Wuhan Museum, which is the treasure of the museum.
Here, the reporter also saw the Warring States Thin Grid Bronze Sword of the same era as the Yue Wang Gou Jian Sword, this bronze sword unearthed in Xiongjialing, Caidian Street, 44.1 cm long, 4.7 cm wide, weighing 445g, although not as exquisite as the Yue Wang Gou Jian sword, but also its own characteristics, for the study of the evolution of contemporaneous sword casting technology is a good evidence.
The most popular collection is a pair of gold bracelets from the middle of the Tang Dynasty, which, although more than a thousand years have passed, are still shining today. It was slightly wider than the current bracelet, with grooves, and the gold thread at the end of the bracelet was extremely beautifully wound. "Judging from the cultural relics unearthed at that time, the tomb owner was only an ordinary woman, which reflected from one side that the country was strong and the people were rich in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. The excavation of this pair of gold bracelets also filled the gap in the museum's gold artifacts. Deng Cao, director of the Caidian District Museum, explained.
Kang Youwei's couplet
In addition, here is a couplet of Kang Youwei's handwritten letters: "The wind blows and the wind turns high and the waves float in the sky", the ink color is thick and light, and the writing is vivid, conveying the spiritual meaning of Chinese culture.
A song "Alpine Flowing Water" interprets a long-lasting story of "Zhiyin" and gradually extends to Zhiyin culture. It not only has a profound impact on caidian, but also stepped out of Jingchu and become a bridge for domestic and international cultural exchanges.
The exquisite artifacts and the legendary stories behind them are fascinating. Come to Caidian, you must not miss this museum, stroll through the museum, wander in the long river of history, and feel the beauty of Zhiyin culture.