Leaving marks in engraving is not a habit unique to Chinese, it is found all over the world. Stone carving cultures dating back thousands of years have now been found all over the world. For example, China has Yinshan petroglyphs, Spain has Altamira murals, Africa has petroglyphs, India also has petroglyphs and so on.
The original depictions of the ancients were not just to record this visit, but mostly to record the acts of life and sacrifice.
Later, people began to have writing. So the ancients began to write,
Ancient literati tourism, attaching importance to the interaction between man and nature, hopes to add brilliance to the landscape and live with heaven and earth through the "culture" of poetry, literature, words, nomination calligraphy and other "cultures" created by themselves in the process of tourism. In the view of Chinese, if you do not leave some slush and mud claws in your life, you will rot with the grass and trees, and this kind of "leaving a name" idea has been ancient.
Therefore, when the ancients traveled, they paid special attention to leaving a little trace in the scenic spots, hoping to compete with the ruthless time through the golden stone text.
The ancient Chinese were originally carved on stones with gold stones, which were mostly seen in official acts.
For example, qin shi huang Taishan feng zen, there is a famous Taishan stone carving in the world.
Many of the zen inscriptions in later generations have also been recorded in stone carvings. And almost all of China's famous mountains have more or less left official stone carving records. Or performance, or sacrifice, or blessing and so on.
For cultural people, it is more about writing poetry.
Before the Tang Dynasty, there were relatively few cultural people, and the government also prohibited the movement of civilians, so there were not many opportunities to travel freely. People are also not used to inscriptions on the outside.
By the time of the Tang Dynasty, due to the development of culture, poetry had risen. In addition, the government at that time was relatively loose in management, and began to have a military examination. This makes it possible for cultural people to travel. As a result, the ranger behavior during the Tang Dynasty was very active. For example, the great poets Li Bai and Du Fu, who we all know, have the experience of rangers, they travel, write poems, and often write poems to the attractions they have visited. Of course, the poems written by the great writers are naturally also sought after by posterity.
At that time, people were more accustomed to writing poems on the walls. Not only is the inscription on the wall, what wall dares to write, pavilion wall, floor wall, temple wall, temple wall, stagecoach wall, stone wall, in short, can write dare to write, the hotel also specially prepared clean walls for inscription.
What are the benefits of the wall?
The ancients had no microblogs, no publishing houses, no networks, and the way poetry was disseminated was very primitive, and the walls provided such a carrier. Hotel inn, scenic spots are a place with a large flow of people, and good poetry can be quickly spread out.
In addition, the ancients also liked to interact. And commenting on attention now is one thing. Often one person writes one poem, another also writes a poem, and then performs pk, or directly follows one song. Wait a minute.
All in all, the ancient inscription wall is not completely deliberate, when the poetry is flourishing, it no longer considers a lot, but only expresses the happiness in the chest.
Among them, the more famous stories of inscriptions happened to the great poet Li Bai.
At that time, the Yellow Crane Tower, first came a Cui Hao, this brother is not a top poet to say, but that day I don't know how to suddenly burst of inspiration, leaving a glorious masterpiece on the wall of the Yellow Crane Tower.
The people of the past have gone by the Yellow Crane, and the Yellow Crane Tower is empty here.
The yellow crane is gone, and the white clouds are long in the air.
Harukawa calendar Hanyang tree, yerba buena parrot island.
Where is Nippori Pass? The Smoke Wave River is sad.
Later, Li Bai passed by here, but also wanted to express his mood, who knew that when he looked at other people's inscription poems, he was stunned by this poem, hesitated for half a day before leaving a sentence "There is a scene in front of him, Cui Hao's inscription poem is on the top", and then threw the pen away and went away in shame.
After that, Li Bai recalled this matter several times and always felt dissatisfied, but he wrote a lot of similar poems, and finally felt a little bit worse than Cui Hao, and finally became a regret in the history of poetry.
The poetry immortal Li Bai has been ancient. Hundreds of years later, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, social control began to be relaxed again, so literati and inkers began to travel everywhere to leave words.
The tomb of Li Bai in Nanjing is very lively, and it turns out that people who come to hang like to leave some of their own poems on the tombstone. However, there are very few good ones left. Later, Mei Zhizhuo wrote "Title Li Bai Tomb"
A pile of soil by the quarry river,
Li Bai's name is ancient.
A poem comes and goes,
Lu Ban got a big axe in front of the door.
It's a joke to describe people playing tricks in front of Li Bai.
Different from the Tang and Song dynasties, the inscriptions of people during the Tang and Song dynasties were all cultured, and they often wrote poems and songs. In the Ming Dynasty, there were more literate people, but fewer people with cultural level. At this time, when people go to travel again, they can't write well. Even more, there are many people, after arriving at a scenic spot, write "so-and-so to visit here" is hasty.
It has to fight with the current uncivilized phenomenon.
It is well documented that the source of "visiting here" is "Journey to the West".
At that time, Sun Wukong and Rulai Buddha made a bet to fly out of rulai Buddha's palm.
Later, Sun Wukong kept flying, and finally saw five red pillars that reached the sky. Sun Wukong felt that it was the end of the sky. He feared that if he went any further, the sky would collapse. At the same time, he also felt that he had flown far enough, and he must have gotten rid of Rulai's palm. So he was ready to go back and find Rulai.
But he was worried about the account, so he decided to leave some marks on the pillar, so he climbed to the middle pillar,
On the top of it were written eight big words: Qi Tian Dasheng came here for a visit;
Also spilled urine around the corner.
Then he flew back to the Buddha and said that he had reached the end of the heavens.
As a result, we all know that Sun Wukong flew to the barricade that Rulai Buddha had illusioned with his fingers. Because his strength was too poor, Sun Wukong was then crushed under the Five Elements Mountain by the Buddha.
Wu Cheng'en can write this way, most likely because the society at that time has begun to have this way of writing.
Then again, in today's society, we already have a better platform to leave words. In fact, there is no need to write these things on the monuments.
Unfortunately, after so many years, it has reached modern society. The phenomenon of "visiting here" graffiti has been more common in contemporary society, not only in China, but also at the foot of the Statue of Liberty in the United States, in St. Paul's Cathedral in London, and on the walls of Egyptian temples.
Even on the small trees on campus, there are depictions of "XX, XX to visit here", usually the names of a boy and a girl, which is very obvious.
This kind of graffiti not only destroys the image of the scenic spot, affects the beauty of the scenic spot, but also causes harm to trees and buildings, but also lowers the image and quality of the Chinese people, and there are hundreds of harms and no benefits.
The essence of "visiting here" is a bad habit that must be resolutely resisted and prohibited.
If there is really material, there are also message books at various attractions now, which can be written on it.
In addition, now that social technology is so developed, it is better to take a photo with the attractions, send a microblog, and then make a beautiful poem than to carve a visit here!