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Place names are valuable cultural resources, carrying people's nostalgic memories and nostalgia for excellent traditions. A place name is a fragment of history; a place name is a picture of style.
The "Traces of Jinshan Mountain Names" organized and compiled by the Jinshan District Planning Affairs and Geographical Names Management Center is from the perspective of place names, which tells the customs, vicissitudes and cultural accumulation contained in Jinshan mountain names. Let's follow this book on a journey through the history and culture of place names and explore the past and present lives of Jinshan's names!
Gu Tinglin House: Tinglin Town
Located in the northeast of Jinshan District, Tinglin Town is one of the 22 central towns in Shanghai's new round of urban planning.
Tinglin Ji Town was originally a small village, known as "Twelve Jiadai". The origin of the name Tinglin is twofold. One says that during the Southern Dynasty Liang Chen, the famous geographer and phonographic herditist Gu Yewang lived here in seclusion to write books, there was a pavilion and a forest next to the house, historically called "Gu Tinglin House", the place name was called "Gu Ting", "Gu Tinglin" and "Tinglin"; a branch of the Gu Feng people of Wu County in the Eastern Han Dynasty moved to Tinglin, which was the source of the Gu clan in Shanghai, and the Han Dynasty set up a township pavilion with the name of Gu Ting, that is, Gu Ting, just like Hua Ting, Gu Ting has a dense forest, so it is also called Gu Tinglin.
▲ Southern Dynasty Chen Guye King
Tinglin has a long history
Tinglin Town has a long history, it was formed 6,000 years ago, and is located in the western part of Furuoka. The Tinglin Ancient Cultural Site and the Zhaoxianbang Ancient Cultural Site have unearthed relics from the Neolithic and Shang and Zhou Dynasties, confirming that our ancestors flourished here more than 4,000 years ago. The remains excavated from the Tinglin Ancient Culture Site are mainly pottery, stone tools and jade, and there are rare cultural relics in similar sites in China, which have a certain representativeness, so they are named "Liangzhu Culture Pavilion Forest Type" by the archaeological community.
Tinglin has many victories
Tinglin Town has many attractions. According to historical records, there are reading piles, washing ponds, pine snow steles, Lengyan Pagoda, Immortal Cave, Octagonal Well, Lancui Lou, Tooth Pine, etc., known as the "Eight Views of Tinglin". The Eight Views of Tinglin are distributed around Baoyun Temple. Baoyun Temple, formerly known as Fayun Temple, was founded in the thirteenth year of Tang Dynasty (859 AD), the original site was in the northwest of Tinglin Town, flooded during the Jin Dynasty, and moved south to the residence of King GuYe. Due to the wars and vicissitudes, large-scale renovations have been carried out throughout the ages, and there were more than a thousand monks at their peak. In the eleventh year of Qing Xianfeng (1861), the Taiping Army attacked Tinglin, and Baoyun Temple was once again destroyed in the war. After the temple was burned down, it was in ruins, and only the mountain gate remained. In the early days of the founding of New China, the majestic mountain gate still hung with four large golden characters of "Ancient Temple between clouds", which was later demolished due to town construction. Baoyun Temple has endured more than a thousand years, and few relics have survived. The Lengyan Pagoda in Baoyun Temple, one of the eight scenic spots of Tinglin, commonly known as the "Flying Pagoda", is now only the middle pillar "Stone Scripture Building", stored in Tinglin Primary School; the flagpole stone is still preserved at the entrance of the mountain, there is Baoyun Bridge at the door; one of the eight scenic songxue steles, also known as the "Zi Ang Monument", was written by the great calligrapher Zhao Mengfu during the renovation of Baoyun Temple in the Yuan Dynasty, "Records of Songjiang Baoyun Temple", which was later destroyed, and the stele, cap and remnants are stored in the Jinshan Museum, and the National Library of China has a "Songjiang Baoyun Temple Record" rubbing.
There is Tinglin Lake in the north of Tinglin Town, the lake and temple are mirrored, the scenery is beautiful, and it is also the residence of King Guye, which has aroused the strong interest of many literary circles. The Northern Song Dynasty poet and calligrapher Tang Qing, Zhihuating County,appointed the famous "Ten Songs of Huating", the first of which was "Gu Tinglin"; subsequently, the thinker and literary scholar Wang Anshi, the famous poets Mei Yaochen, Liu Shu, Hu Songnian, Song Hui, Wang Siwen, Lu Hanzhi, Li Duanmin, Zhang Yuangan, etc. all had works of harmony and rhyme. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the poet Xu Shang composed "Huating Hundred Songs", the first song was also "Gu Tinglin"; the second song was "Gu Fu Junzhai", that is, the ancestral hall of Gu Yewang in Baoyun Temple; and the third song was "The Strange Traces of Dong'an", depicting the strange appearance of the Han Dynasty general Huo Guang in Gu Tinglin'an. In addition, there are many celebrities who have left poems with the theme of Tinglin Shengzhi, such as Qian Liangchen and Ge Xianzhi in the Song Dynasty, Chengting Jue in the Yuan Dynasty, Xu Jie and Wang Feng in the Ming Dynasty, Wang Tingxiang and Xiao Zhongsu in the Qing Dynasty, and Xiao Zhongsu's "You Baoyun Temple" includes the Eight Views of Tinglin.
Tinglin famous artists gathered
Tinglin Town is a place where famous artists gather. There are celebrities who temporarily live, live in seclusion and settle here because of their admiration for Tinglin, and there are also local cultural celebrities who were born in Tinglin. Such as: Gu Yong, Sun Wu of the Three Kingdoms, Chen Guyewang of the Southern Dynasty Liang, Yang Weizhen and Tao Zongyi, literary figures of the Yuan Dynasty, Gu Zhengyi, a Ming Dynasty painter who had studied painting from Dong Qichang, Zhong Tianwei, a thinker, educator and pioneer of Chinese and Western cultures in the late Qing Dynasty, Sun Xueni, one of the first special painters of the Shanghai Academy of Chinese Painting, He Yi, a children's writer, and Han Han, a famous contemporary young writer. The number of cultural celebrities who have visited Tinglin is even more numerous.
"Tinglin" is originally the name of a place, because of the appreciation of "Tinglin" rich humanistic connotations, some people will take "Tinglin" as the name, proud. Gu Zhengyi, a painter of the Ming Dynasty and a descendant of the Tinglin Gu clan, called himself "Tinglin"; Gu Yanwu, a thinker of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, admired the former sage Gu Yewang and called himself "Tinglin", known as "Mr. Tinglin", and later in his hometown of Kunshan, there were places such as "Tinglin Road" and "Tinglin Park"; Gu Weijun, a modern and modern Chinese diplomat, often used "Tinglin Gushi" in his calligraphy and painting works; the late Qing Dynasty thinker Feng Guifen wrote "Jingting" and "Lin Yi", which was because he admired "Mr. Tinglin" Gu Yanwu.
Source: Kingsoft Planning Resources
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