A replica of a Qing Dynasty dwelling on the site
A newly built folk culture village commercial street on the site of the Old Garden
Cultural relics excavated from the site of Li Chun's Former Garden
Because the Qing Dynasty produced a Hanlin bachelor, Lizhuang Village in Caozhuang Township in Shan County became famous.
The "Records of Shan County" records that this Hanlin scholar was named Li Chun, the characters were Ya, Lu Ping, Yun Cao, mei lou, birth and death time is unknown, because there is a mansion in the county seat of Shan County, and there are also historical sources calling him a Chengguan person in Shan County.
Li Chun was a scholar of the Qianlong Thirty-sixth Year Xin Dynasty, who was taught and edited by Shu Jishi of the Hanlin Academy, and wrote "Shi Yuan Collection" and "Meilou Poetry Cun", which were well-known in the township.
Li Chun was born with a straight nature, and had a gap with the current dynasty's power traitors and yan, unwilling to work with him in the same dynasty, and heard of his mother's illness, so he used the excuse to return to his hometown to his mother. Li Rei traveled south to Jianghuai Wuyue, and north to Yan Zhao Qilu, searching for ancient explorations, inscriptions and sending xing, leaving some excellent works.
Li Chun's poems are majestic, lofty and elegant, and intriguing. Xu Yancheng, the governor of Shandong Dongfang (meaning the governor of the prefecture), once commented on his poems: "The five latitudes of the heavens, the eight parties from the law, the qin qibao, can not be called precious." Zhou Ziqi, who was once the premier of the Beiyang government, especially loved Li Chun's poems, and personally proofread the "Meilou Poetry Cun" and compiled and printed them.
Li Chun was indifferent to fame and fortune, returned to his hometown in the countryside, took Tao Yuanming as his teacher, wrote "The Collection of Retreating Gardens", and wrote a plaque of "Retreating from the Garden" on the door of his home, noting the clouds " Who does not chant the Southern Leap Sentence, and the only way to interpret the printing is to see this doctor." Li Chun said to himself, showing the high bone style and purity, entering the ancestral hall of the hometown, and deeply admired.
So far, the story about Li Chun has been widely circulated in the folk of Shan County.
On his way back from Beijing, Li Chun was exhausted and hungry and thirsty, and when he rested in front of a pawnshop, he wrote a "hi" and asked his entourage to go to the pawnshop to pawn 50 taels of silver. The pawnshop owner glanced at it, heard that the asking price was 50 taels of silver, and was about to get angry, when he found that there was a line of small characters in the lower right corner of the word: Hanlin Courtyard Li Reed. The boss was stunned and said to himself: "Official, old master, is it possible!" So the probe saw Li Chun sitting precariously in the shade of the tree outside the door, and knowing that his eyes were clumsy, he immediately sealed 50 taels of silver and handed it to the person who was a character, saying: "I have been running a pawnshop for many years, and I have never seen an official and a master as a word, and he must have hidden feelings and dare not ask!" After Li Chun returned to his hometown of Li Zhuang, he immediately sent someone to redeem the word "xi". Li Chun was silent about the encounter, and the pawnshop owner followed him to reveal the chance.
There was a garden next to Li Reed's yard, and he asked someone to take off the billet and build a fence to prevent livestock from destroying exotic flowers and plants. The laborers thought that this Hanlin scholar was not familiar with agricultural affairs, so they stole and slipped, and when they saw Li Reed coming to inspect, they immediately stripped off the blank bare-chested. The leader also said to Li Chun: "As the saying goes, take off the billet and hit the wall, and see the king of Yama alive." You Hanlin don't know, this blank is dirty and tired hard work! Li Chun nodded and said, "The laborer knows himself, and I am paid, how can I cut corners, each person must take off 25 pieces per day!" The laborers whispered, "This Hanlin scholar really doesn't eat human fireworks, and 25 blanks are effortless!" In fact, Li Chun did not understand, but cherished the labor of the laborers and deliberately asked for very little.
Li Reed cherishes ink like gold, and does not easily write and send people. A large old mother in the nearby Zhuzhuang village died of illness, and the descendants wanted to erect a monument to commemorate it, so they asked Li Chun to write an inscription, but they were politely refused. The parties concerned knew that Li Chun was fond of goose meat, so they said that they had asked another high person to write for him, and only invited him to accompany the guests. On that day, a large stove was set up in the courtyard of the party, and a large goose was boiled in a large pot, and everyone accompanied Li Chun to taste tea and chat.
At noon, the goose meat was cooked, and the dispatched people pretended to be disappointed, saying that "the person who wrote the inscription put up a stinky shelf and said that he would not give face." "Everyone sighed in unison" The world is cold, people are cold, and it is not easy to do things. Li Rei heard and witnessed, felt empathy, and could not bear the temptation of hunger and deliciousness, and rose up in anger and shouted: "Invite people not allowed, let's write it ourselves!" Everyone shouted in unison: "After Grandpa Hanlin finishes writing, we will start the meal." Soon, Li Chun wrote the inscription, the goose meat was placed in front of him, the crowd took turns to toast, the whole hall complimented and applauded, and Li Chun was drunk. The next day, Li Reed suddenly woke up and immediately sent someone to ask for the ink, and his ink had been carved on the stone tablet overnight. Li Chun was ashamed of himself and stopped speaking.
Later, many calligraphy enthusiasts and collectors came one after another, and they covered the stone stele with paper and expanded ink to obtain the authentic calligraphy of Li Reed, and over time, the stone stele handwriting was smoothed out. It is reported that a few years ago, the stele still existed, and has not been found since.
Li Reed's family had several pigs, big and fat. The hired workers salivated, so they thought of a way to smear the feces on the pig's head and deliberately let Li Chun see it. When Li Chun saw this, he felt very disgusted, and ordered his subordinates: "Don't squeak, kill this pig for the laborers to eat, and let them vomit!" On that day, the laborers feasted and were smug. Li Chun asked everyone: "Finished eating pork?" The crowd replied, "I'm done eating." Li Reed asked again, "It's very fragrant!" The crowd replied, "Mouth full of oil, but fragrant!" Li Rei laughed and walked away leisurely.
Later, the self-righteous and scheming laborers learned that this Hanlin grandfather was not ignorant of the world, but pretended to be "deceived" to relieve the bitter villagers.
After Li Chun's death, the Li family plaque with his handwritten "Retreat to the Garden" is regarded as "the treasure of the town and village", which is on a par with the Zhangjia Arch and the Wang Family Flagpole, and is listed together with the three wonders of Shan County.
Nowadays, on the site of Li Chun's Former Garden, Shan County has built a folk culture village, collecting and displaying more than 10,000 excavated cultural relics and folk objects, which has become an important landscape for the construction of tourism in Shan County.
Correspondent Liu Houmin