Mentioning 1894 (the twentieth year of Guangxu), people familiar with modern history know that in this year, a major event that changed the fate of the Chinese occurred - the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War.
In this year, a small thing occurred, which is not worth mentioning at all compared with the Sino-Japanese War, but it cannot be ignored in the cultural sense, and it can even be said that this is a fortunate thing for the Chinese nation.
What's the matter? It's really not big to say, it is a person who is visiting an antique shop and finds a black stone.
Please note that this person's name is Wu Lu, who was just in high school 4 years ago and was the last in the history of Fujian Province.
At that time, when Wu Lu first saw this "stone", he didn't pay much attention, out of the habit of the literati, he found that there were some small characters on the stone, so he wiped it with his clothes.
This wipe didn't matter, Wu Lu knelt on the ground on the spot!
So, what exactly is this "stone"? How could you make a leader fall to his knees?
This stone is actually a brick platform, and its name is "Zhengyi Yan". When you hear this name, people familiar with history may think of a person - Wen Tianxiang, the top national hero in the history of the Chinese nation, and the most famous poem is "Song of Righteous Qi". Yes, this piece of "Righteous Qi" was exactly the treasure that Wen Tianxiang had used.
Do you think that's the whole answer? No, before Wen Tianxiang, there was another national hero who was more famous than him, that is, Yue Fei.
Yue Fei was the first owner of this "Righteous Qi Yan", and he also engraved eight big characters on the back ——"
Perseverance, whiteness, no phosphorus, no tyranny
", is both a yantai and a motto.
(Pictured: "Zhengqi Yan" rubbing)
Later, Yue Fei was killed in the Fengbo Pavilion, and this piece of yantai was lost to the people, and it was not until the end of the Southern Song Dynasty that it was obtained by another national hero, Xie Fang.
This Xie Fangde, although not very famous in history, but also a famous loyalist of the Southern Song Dynasty, after the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, he returned to the hidden mountain forest, Yuan Shizu personally went to invite him out of the mountain, he refused to meet, and finally faced the south, hunger strike and died.
Xie Fangde and Wen Tianxiang were close friends, and Wen Tianxiang wanted to borrow this brick platform several times to use it, but Xie Fang was reluctant to do so. But later, when Wen Tianxiang raised an army against the Yuan, Xie Fang had to give him this brick platform, hoping that he would inherit Yue Fei's legacy and repay the country with his own example.
Wen Tianxiang carved three more sentences on the back of the Yantai——"
Although the stone is not iron, it is difficult to wear, and although the heart is not as strong as the stone, it is self-sufficient to keep the Buddha.
He also gave it a name, "Zhengyi Yan" (正氣砚).
This is the origin of "Zhengyi Yan", although it is not the best in terms of material, but it condenses the painstaking efforts of three top national heroes, and the cultural significance is absolutely explosive!
In the face of such a treasure, not only Wu Lu, but every one of us who has a bloody Chinese will unconsciously stand in awe, and it is not embarrassing to kneel down to it.
Wu Lu spent a lot of money to buy it back and offer it in his study, and changed the name of the study to "Zhengqi Yanzhai".
Having obtained such a treasure, Wu Lu naturally cherished it very much and would not easily show it to anyone. Once, his senior disciple Xu Shiying went to visit him, this Xu Shiying was not an ordinary person, and later served as the prime minister of the Republic of China, this time he came to visit his master, accompanied by two Japanese friends.
Wu Lu had always been very important to this high disciple, so he invited him to enjoy the "Righteous Qi Yan" together. But what I didn't expect was that after a few days, this piece of "righteous qi" was actually missing!
Wu Lu wanted to come and go, and it was expected that the two Japanese brought by Xu Shiying had stolen it, so he quickly asked his son to go to Tokyo, Japan to find Xu Shiying. Through Xu Shiying's efforts, this piece of "righteous qi" was finally returned to its original owner.
Before dying, Wu Lu told his son Wu Zhongshan not to let any outsider see this "righteous qi stone" again, even if you sacrifice, you must also save it!
Remembering his father's teachings, Wu Zhongshan changed the name of his study to "Shou Yan An" and called himself "Shou Yan An Lord", and even his son could not enter it. It was not until his death that Wu Zhongshan gave this task to his son Wu Xulin, who guarded the "Righteous Qi Yan" for generations.
However, it is a pity that later in that "special period", the Wu family was raided, and this "righteous qi stone" has never been known.
Until 2007, Mr. Wu Zidong, a descendant of the Wu family and a famous calligrapher in Hong Kong, returned to his hometown, sent the rubbings left by his ancestors to the newspaper, and asked the newspaper to help find the "Zhengqi Yan", but until today there is still no news, and no one knows whether this "Zhengqi Yan" is still in the world.