Iron pestle grinding needles
"As long as the kung fu is deep, the iron pestle is sharpened into a needle" Is an inspirational saying that is well known in China for all ages. Accompanied by this is a story about the great Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai: it is said that Li Bai studied in the mountains when he was a child, because he felt too hard and lonely, he ran to the mountain to play privately, and when passing through Xiang'er Mountain in Meizhou (present-day Meishan City, Sichuan Province), he saw an old woman surnamed Wu sitting by the stream at the bottom of the mountain, and was planning to grind an iron rod into an embroidery needle, So Li Bai was inspired, so he returned to the mountain to read hard, and finally achieved the world-famous "poetry immortal" reputation.
"Fang Yu Sheng"
The story itself is rather bizarre
This story first appeared in the southern Song Dynasty Zhu Mu's compilation of the geographical work "Fang Yousheng", for such a bizarre practice as grinding needles with iron pestles, as long as they are not "heartbroken people", they all know that this is just a literary fabrication. But the location of the events compiled in the book is also quite bizarre. Because Li Bai moved with his family from the age of 5 to Qinglian Township, Jiangyou, Sichuan Province, from the age of 5 with his family in Shanye City (near the city of Tokmak, east of the present-day capital of Kyrgyzstan), he did not leave until the age of 19, and went to Chengdu to seek to see Shi Suzhao of Yizhou, hoping to gain appreciation for his poetry, and then be recommended to become an official.
Li Bai's former residence
The location can't be 500 miles away
Under the traffic conditions at that time, it was understandable that the young Li Bai occasionally left Jiangyou to play nearby, but it was really unbelievable to say that he could run to Meizhou more than 500 miles away by himself, watching a scene of "iron pestle grinding needles" and then running back for another 500 miles. Perhaps it is because the temples in Meishan are relatively prosperous, and the saying of "iron pestle grinding needles" is in line with some of the spirits advocated by Buddhism, which is just the reason why It can be publicized in the name of Li Bai, so it is so blunt. In this regard, Li Bai's hometown has quite a criticism, deliberately named a small river "Grinding Needle Creek", claiming that it is the real place of the incident, and later raised funds to build a "Grinding Needle Pavilion", but it is just a competition for tourism resources.
Poetry Immortal Li Bai
The mountain reading is indeed true
The location of the event and the characters are all compiled, but one thing is true, that is, Li Bai really read hard in the Kuang Mountains, 14 kilometers northwest of Jiangyou City, and this period of hard reading is completely self-taught. Because Li Baizushang had moved to Shanye City in the Western Regions because of his sins, he secretly moved back to Jiangyou, Sichuan in 701 AD, so he could not enter the county school at all, nor could he ask famous teachers to teach, and could only study hard in the mountains, but it was also this hard reading life that made his wonderful life in the future.
Song to wine
Du Fu, a poet with the same name as Li Bai, once wrote a letter to remember Li Bai's reading career: Kuangshan Reading Office, Head White returned. Later, the Ming Dynasty poet Fang Hongjing's "Thousand And One Records" recorded: Taibai read Kuangshan and did not go down the mountain for ten years; in Xunyang prison, he read the biography of Liu Hou. In the case of The Immortals, the heart is so hard.