In early spring, Liuzhou is still cold and windy. Occasionally sunny, the sun is also shy to come out to bask in the smiley face. Driving the crane mountain under the lush greenery, the mountain head obliquely photographed, cold with a little warmth.
A wooden building is particularly warm in such an environment, which is the Driving Crane Academy, one of the earliest colleges in Guangxi.
It has seen the world and has an unusual background, which is why it has spread its reputation and fame. It has experienced twists and turns, gone through the cold window years, only the wisps of books, the continuation of the silk, the warm pulse, just like the opening of the eaves to embrace the news of spring.
The doors of the academy are open, clustered in the deep forest, full of greenery, as if there is still a lingering space for the sound of books. The warm wall panels are surrounded by kapok trees, and the height is covered, bringing a little warmth to the cold window. The dusky color, like a yellowed bookmark, is inserted alone in a small taoyuan...
Driving Crane Academy. Leaf branch school photo
The name of "Driving Crane Academy" has a lot of personality. Driving crane is the name of the mountain, and the academy is the name of the body. Not leaving a long name, driving a crane to ride the wind, is often regarded as the wind bone of the literati. Here we may wish to think of it as a "festival" for the former sages to avoid the world and seek fame!
Liu Zongyuanyun: "Driving the Crane Mountain is majestic and standing, the ancient state is in charge, there are springs under the kan, and there is a constant surplus and no flow." The original "Driving Crane Mountain" comes from Liu Zongyuan's "Liuzhou Landscape Near-rule Can Travel". The mountain was first named, but the academy was not. Liu Zongyuan had a long-term vision and made many political achievements during his tenure as the Assassin of Liuzhou. Among them, "releasing slaves", "planting willows in Liuzhou", "sinking wells to drink water", "building schools", "breaking superstitions", "integrating Confucianism", etc., laid a thick historical and cultural background for Later Liuzhou...
Fang Yi of the Ming Dynasty sighed: "The hardships of the times and the loss of shame." He and Liu Zongyuan seemed to judge the two of them. He also did not see the academy, so he only had to sigh. In the most famous "Little Taoyuan Fu" he wrote, it is full of the depth of Taoyuan, the depth of years, and the depth of emotion, and this "deep depth" makes him even more ashamed. The wind and smoke of history are stirring, and the academy "made of Maoting" naturally cannot withstand the long-term consideration of wind and rain, and it will be "rare" to him.
Who can appreciate the scenery of the first construction of driving crane college? We don't know. Even Zhao Shimiao of Liuzhou Zhizhou in the Song Dynasty had only seen the "re-repair of the academy" - 70 years later, during the period from driving crane academy to Jiatai, Zhao Shimiao wrote the "Monument to the Reconstruction of the Three Phase Pavilion", and posterity's understanding of the driving crane academy is also known from this inscription.
The background of driving crane academy is unusual, and the founder is the "Three Cheng Xiang", that is, Wu Min, Wang Anzhong and Wang Boyan of the Southern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Shaoxing, that is, in 1132 AD, this "three chengxiang" met In Liuzhou, took pleasure in reading poetry and discussing books and traveling through landscapes, and funded the construction of Xiao Taoyuan and Driving Crane Academy.
Driving Crane Academy was originally "Maoting", and after its completion, many literati came to form a small world of cultural openness. Xiao Taoyuan, Driving Crane Academy has since scorched its glory, peach and plum into a strange, fragrant book... Driving Crane Academy came from history, and now, it has come to the spring of opening...