As for the meaning of the monument, my personal understanding is that those who truly cherish the world and cherish the sentient beings, do enough to move the world, and then all those who appreciate and remember set up a monument for him.
This explanation is inevitably mixed with too many personal emotions, and I have always believed that a true expression of the person must maintain personal emotions, rather than follow the emotions of a certain person, an organization or even a certain state apparatus.
With his own emotions, this person may be normal, otherwise it is just a puppet or a machine. After all, even a slave and a lackey will occasionally have emotions, and puppets and machines will never have emotions.
Such a stele, which can be a huge stone stele or the reputation of the tree stele, is the same to look up to, but there are very few people who are really worthy of this kind of stele.
If you have seen too many "monuments", there is a high probability that you are living in a dream.
The reason why I sighed this passage is because of the 5 tombstones I met on the road today. I took a photo and concentrated it at the end of the article, so you can pull it down and take a look.
These 5 tombstones have become part of an ancient stone staircase.
Lying flat on the tombstones, I still use the solemn quantifier of "seat" to describe them. Truth be told, many people are inferior to a tombstone, even if their bodies stand, their souls are already on their knees. The funny thing is that the more such slaves and lackeys have a full background, the more they like things like "monuments" or "monuments of merit", and they never consider whether they are worthy of them!
Tombstones are different, even if they lie flat, they are also angular and proud.
The front of the stele was still placed on the front by the people who built the stone steps, and between the almost standardized strips of stones, seeing these tombstones, there is a very special feeling, and it is not clear.
At this moment, an ancient crossing also seems to be a long-forgotten cemetery, or the land here is a cemetery. Just these tombstones do not represent and explain them. I always felt that the opposite side of the tombstone was always a tomb, not a road, even if it was only part of the road.
I wondered, if these stone steps were all paved with tombstones of different ages but long enough, would it be suddenly filled with fear, a fear of awe!?
Most of the tombstones in these squares are incomplete, but from the clear and legible handwriting, it is still known that there are the second year of the Republic of China and the Guangxu period. In the second year of the Republic of China, it should be 1913 after the consultation, and it has been 109 years since today, more than a century. Guangxu, if you count from its first year, it has been nearly 150 years since today.
These tombstones are only one of the elements that constitute a ritual, and they are not enough to express the life of the tomb owner. Even if the text is intact, we cannot understand from a tombstone what kind of person the owner of the tomb really is.
When identifying the tombstone handwriting on the stone steps, someone passed by, talked, and realized that there was a large cemetery nearby. After I came back, I checked some information and learned that the two words "before" spoken by this passerby were roughly between today and the Han Dynasty.
It turned out that these 5 tombstones were all too young.
One of the tombstones, the owner of the tomb is called Li Yu'an (the word on the stele is "Gong" under the word "electricity", after consulting it, it is learned that it is the ancient character of "庵"), the word "Male Yi" on the left is quite puzzling, and the search has found nothing.
There is also a stele with the word "Fu", which makes people confused, and the word "Guangxu" can be recognized in the upper right corner.
I don't know what kind of stories the owners of these tombs had before they died. Just today, a stranger, by chance, walked through here and saw these tombstones on a stone staircase, as if it were also providence.
I walked back and forth on the stone steps twice in an attempt to discover more tombstones, in effect trying to discover the story of an accident. But I know that these tombstones that left the tomb have long since changed their identities. At this time, they are part of the stone steps, if the original mission was only to manifest, now, their mission is to carry.
The last thing that shows the owner of the tomb can be remembered is nothing more than a name, and this kind of bearing, on the surface, carries the footsteps of the walker, but actually carries the unknown past of the tomb owner. It's a wonderful feeling that most likely won't resonate too much, even if too many people walk or walk through this stone staircase.
Coincidentally, the day before the Qingming Festival, I met these 5 tombstones, more precisely, I was accidentally carried by these 5 tombstones, and I actually felt that this Qingming season was of great significance - this unintentional walk was regarded as the most sincere tribute to the owners of these tombs.
The tombstone is also a real link, at least a link between a long-gone time and an imagination of the here and now.
The owner of the tombstone, Izumi, knows that he will have a drink with his friends in this Qingming?
▲This is a tombstone with clear handwriting,
The monument was erected in March of the second year of the Republic of China.
▲There are two tombstones on this picture:
The name of the owner of the tomb on the right is very clear,
The word "male" in the upper left corner is not understood;
On the left is a stele,
The handwriting is not very clear anymore.
▲This is also a remnant,
The "Guangxu" era number in the upper right corner can also be recognized,
A "fu" word makes people think hard.
▲This should also be a remnant of the monument,
The handwriting "Twenty-Nine Years" in the upper right corner is clearly legible,
The other handwriting was blurry.
April 4, 2022 The day before Qingming