□ Yang Xinyuan
"Look up at the blue sky, overlooking the green waterfront. There is no end to the view, and the allegory is self-explanatory. This is a good sentence that was improvised in the spring of the ninth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353 AD), when The Book Saint Wang Xizhi and Xie An, Xie Wan, Sun Qi, Xu Fengzhi and forty-two other celebrities were practicing on the banks of Lanting Creek and performing a play of bending the flow of water.
It was the third day of the third lunar month, the weather was clear, the wind was gentle, and the celebrities sat on both sides of the meandering stream, and the feathers filled with wine by the scribes poured down the stream, and if they stopped in front of anyone, they would have to chant poems, and if they could not recite, they would be fined three cups of wine. As a result, 37 masterpieces were compiled by Wang Xizhi as "Lanting Collection".
The crowd also pushed Wang Xizhi to write a preface to record this collection. Therefore, Wang Xizhi took the wine to write the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Sequence" with the characters Ji Zhu and the brilliant literary style. Of course, the greater achievement of the Lanting Collection is its calligraphy art, which is ethereal and light throughout, with unique ingenuity, and is recognized as a calligraphy treasure by the world. Since that spring more than 1,600 years ago, Shaoxing Lanting has become a world-famous calligraphy shrine with "jingyou, elegant things, exquisite literature and exquisite calligraphy".
One
I remember that in the spring of the previous year, the miscellaneous peanut trees and warblers and grasses grew, and friends invited each other to visit the Orchid Pavilion and gladly went together.
Out of Shaoxing City to the southwest, but more than twenty minutes away, you came to Lanting.
Walking into the gate of Lanting Pavilion, I only saw the lush forests and bamboo cultivation on both sides of the road, and the shade covered the sun, and I felt comfortable. The Book of Yue Zhi records that "the sentence is planted in Lanzhu Tian. "I think that at the beginning, orchids were planted here, and they must be fragrant and refreshing." I know that over the past 1,600 years, the address of Lanting has changed several times, and the current Lanting is the twenty-seventh year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1548 AD), presided over by The Sheshou Shen Qi, who moved here from the Tianzhang Temple, the site of Song Lanting. During this period, it was destroyed several times, and in the twelfth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1673 AD), the prefect Xu Hongxun once again presided over the reconstruction of the Orchid Pavilion.
At present, Lanting has attractions such as Echi Monument Pavilion, Lanting Monument Pavilion, Qushui FlowIng Pavilion, Liuqin Pavilion, Royal Monument Pavilion, Wang Right Army Ancestral Hall, Lanting Ancient Road, Lanting Calligraphy Museum and so on.
The spring sun shines on the lush forests and bamboo trees of Lanting, sprinkling dappled shadows on the road. Lush greenery and winding paths. "Between the pitches, the breeze is gentle, the fragrance of the nameless, the four mountains are hurricane." The accompanying person told me that there are many scenic spots and monuments in Lanting, but the most famous is the Three Monument Pavilion plus one ancestral hall, that is, the Goose Pond Monument Pavilion, the Lanting Monument Pavilion, the Royal Monument Pavilion and the Wang Right Army Ancestral Hall.
During the conversation, we had come to the Echi Monument Pavilion. This is a special triangular stele pavilion, the stele inside the pavilion was built during the Qing Tongzhi period, with more than one person tall and nearly one meter wide. According to legend, The Book Saint Wang Xi loves geese, and also raises geese and book geese. The word "goose pond" on the stele is the handwriting of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's father and son, the word "goose" is vigorous and powerful, and the word "pond" is clear and upright. I seemed to see Wang Xizhi, who had just finished writing a "goose" character and was about to write the word "pool", when he suddenly heard the sound of "holy will arriving", so he put down his pen to greet the will. At this time, Wang Xianzhi, the son who was watching his father write on the side, took advantage of his father's departure and added the word "pool" with a pen. This supplement makes up a good story for eternity. Therefore, the Goose Pond Monument is also called the "Father and Son Monument" by posterity.
In front of the right side of the Goose Pond Monument Pavilion, there is a goose pond with clear water and several white geese playing on the water. Of course, this is no longer the goose that Wang Xizhi raised in the past, but the scene in this pond should be the same as it was more than a thousand years ago. Perhaps, where we stand now, the ancients also stood. "I stood in the same directions that the ancients must have stood, looking at the natural landscape with the same black eyes as the ancestors, and listening to the sound of wind and birds that were no different from thousands of years ago." The words of writer Yu Qiuyu suddenly came into my mind.
Two
After seeing the "Father and Son Monument", cross the stone bridge on the goose pond, walk through the bamboo shade path paved with pebbles, and face you with the Lanting Monument Pavilion. The Lanting Monument is also known as the "Monument of the Monarch".
The Lanting Stele Pavilion was built in the 34th year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1895 AD), and the word "Lanting" on the stele inside the pavilion was written by the Kangxi Imperial Book. On the surface of the stele, there are obvious cracks, the word "Lan" is missing the tail, and the word "pavilion" is missing the head. The monument, which was smashed into four pieces by rebels during the Cultural Revolution, was only repaired in 1980. After the restoration, every time tourists arrive here, they have to touch the stele, and the word "Lanting", which has been missing for a long time and lacking a head and a tail, has slowly "grown" out of the head and tail. I saw that on this stele, the word "Lan Ting" was still simple and plump. The wonderful cooperation between ancient kings and modern tourists on this stele is also a good story worth a book.
"This place seems to have traveled once, and I wanted to sit in the stream and look at it without myself; the immortal edge was difficult to predict, and asked if it would be possible to come back to the cultivation of the zen on another day." It is better to say that the Pavilion is a pavilion than a pavilion.
This cornice, antique building, the couplet of the main entrance makes people have unlimited reverie. A wooden plaque hangs on the front of the pavilion, "Liuqin Pavilion" three large characters dragon flying phoenix dance, is the Guangxu period Jiangxia Taishou Li Shutang inscription. There is a huge screen in the pavilion, and in the middle is a fan-shaped "Lanting Repair Map", which reproduces the scene of the curved water flowing in that year.
There is a couplet next to the "Xiu Yu Tu": "Yaji Hongwen has been passed down for hundreds of generations, and the rhyme of the flow is enough for thousands of years." "The finishing touches on the curved water flow. I think that for modern people who are frivolous and fast-paced, being able to chant poetry and paint in such an elegant place is also a kind of physical and mental rest and cultivation.
Three
To the left of the "Liuyan Pavilion" is a lotus pond, which is not yet summer, and there are no lotus flowers in the pool, only a pool of blue water. Walking forward, there is the most magnificent Wang Right Military Ancestral Hall in the Landscape of Lanting.
The Right Military Ancestral Hall was built in the 37th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1698 AD) and rebuilt in the 8th year of Tongzhi (1869 AD), with a total area of 756 square meters. At the upper end of the temple gate, there is a plaque of "Wang Right Army Ancestral Hall" handwritten by the late calligrapher Mr. Sha Menghai. A pair of door links with ancient handwriting was written by Mr. Yongcun, a famous calligrapher in Shaoxing: "The grand meeting does not particularly let go of the universe and forget the past and the present, and the humor and love are told about the mountains and forests", and it is still written about the elegant matter of Qu Shui Liu.
At this moment, it was already noon, and the spring sun climbed above our heads, and also illuminated the Wang Right Army Shrine with spring.
I stood at the gate and carefully examined the world-famous Wang Right Military Ancestral Hall. The first thing that catches your eye is the cornices and the ethereal and delicate Mohua Pavilion, which has a table for people to swing, and there are pens and stones on the table. The pavilion is located in a pool of ink with clear water.
In front of my eyes, Wang Xizhi, who had embodied the spirit of Purity, was writing in the Mohua Pavilion, and the pen dipped in ink seemed to have the power of a thousand jun, and crossed the paper, leaving behind the classics in the history of Chinese calligraphy. Then he squatted by the edge of the pool to wash his pen, and the ink gradually spread in the water, and the pool became black. Listening to this allusion, I thought of two idioms: perseverance, perseverance. I think that anyone in the world who wants to achieve something must be persevering and persevering. Wang Xizhi was able to become a generation of book saints, that is, he insisted on studying books in Linchi for many years, so that he blackened a pool of clear water. His diligence and studiousness are really a model for us to learn.
After walking through the Mohua Pavilion, we came to the hall of the Wang Right Military Ancestral Hall. In the hall, there is a portrait of Wang Xizhi, with a relaxed demeanor, a peaceful gaze, simple and elegant, and seems to be nodding to us. Here, there are many plaque paintings to enjoy, and the Zhongzhu Lian", "Pen and ink left behind for thousands of generations, wind and art sea to see the present dynasty", is the book of The Confucian general Zhang Aiping, which is writing out my feelings at this moment. On the walls of the corridor on both sides of the Right Military Ancestral Hall, there are also 17 inscriptions involving the Lanting Pavilion, each of which seems to tell us a distant story, which is a very precious historical relic.
Four
Of course, among the three pavilions and one ancestral hall, the most magnificent is the Imperial Monument Pavilion, and approaching it, people will be shocked by its tall and exquisite.
The imperial stele is also known as the "Ancestral Monument", because the front of the stele is the full text of Grandpa Kangxi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection" in the spring of 1693, and the back is the "Lanting Instant Poem" handwritten by his grandson Qianlong Emperor when he visited Lanting in 1751. The handwriting of the two emperors of the ancestors and grandsons is the same stele, which is rare and precious in the whole country.
We are all happy that this monument can escape the disaster of the "Cultural Revolution" and remain intact. The accompanying person told us that this cultural relic can be preserved to the present day, thanks to a group of medical workers in that year.
During the Cultural Revolution, the Lanting Scenic Area was set aside as a temporary schistosomiasis prevention and control center. In the midst of the smashing of the "four olds", these medical workers came up with a way to protect the "Royal Monument" by using lime to smooth out the "Imperial Monument", and then using red paint to write Mao Zedong's "Send the Plague God" on the front, and writing the quotation "Never forget the class struggle" on the back.
After listening to this story, I wandered in the nearly 200-square-meter Imperial Monument Pavilion, looking at the Imperial Monument that was safe and itchy, and I felt a lot.
This piece is 6 high. 86 meters, width 2. The 64-meter monument is said to weigh 18,000 kilograms. The top of the stele is a delicate and vivid relief of the cloud dragon, surrounded by auspicious clouds, double dragons soaring, the rising sun in the east, the light of the sun; the calligraphy on the stele is graceful and luxurious, elegant and ethereal, which makes people full of admiration for the cultural treasures of the Chinese nation. I think that the era of ignoring traditional culture and destroying precious cultural relics is gone. Today, the long-standing Chinese national culture will be better protected and carried forward.
Spring arrives at Lanting, and Lanting is heading for another spring.
At noon, we ate in the small restaurant in Lanting, eating fish raised in Lanting Lake, snails from Lanting Creek, and bamboo shoots just dug out of the bamboo forest.
At this moment, we sat in the log cabin, bathed in the spring sun, drank a sip of Shaoxing old wine, faced with the green water of the Qingshan Mountains, and could not help but chant happily, "Here there are lofty mountains and mountains, lush forests and bamboo, and there are clear streams and rapids, reflecting the left and right", fluttering like a feather into a fairy. (Image courtesy of CFP)
About author:Yang Xinyuan is a member of the China Writers Association and a senior reporter of Zhejiang Daily.
This article is the original work of Qianjiang Evening News, without permission, it is forbidden to reprint, copy, excerpt, rewrite and carry out network dissemination of all works of copyright use, otherwise this newspaper will follow judicial channels to pursue the legal responsibility of the infringer.