Dr. Zhong Zhenzhen was born in 1950 in Nanjing. He is currently a professor at Nanjing Normal University and a doctoral supervisor. Director of the Institute of Ancient Literature Collation. He is also the guidance professor of the "Foreign Scholars Chinese Culture Research Scholarship" of the National Scholarship Council, the president of the Chinese Rhyme Literature Association, the vice president of the Global Chinese Poetry Association, the consultant of the Chinese Poetry Society, the general consultant of the "Poetry Conference" of CCTV, the consultant of the poetry platform of "Listening to the Rain in the Small Building", and the Distinguished Professor of the Wenjin Pulpit of the National Library. He has been invited to lecture at more than 30 famous overseas universities such as Yale and Stanford in the United States.
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Song Mei Yaochen's poem "Defu Prefecture Cai Junmo Secret Study Book and Tea"
Defuzhou Cai Junmo secret book and tea
[Song] Mei Yaochen
Xue Laozi left the mountain peak, and the hundred feet were upside down to insert non-human traces.
Under it, Changle was too guarded and turned into a strange divine dragon.
Xue Lao, who has the intention of he guo, is a meeting with the strange pen.
Taishou's surname was from the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his name was Qi Jin Wei Wang and Zhong.
The ruler sent me pity on the decaying man, scraping the green tea cage vine wrapped around the seal.
There is a word in the seventy in the paper, dansha iron holding hibiscus.
The light of the burrow was afraid to fly away, and the lock was heavily lacquered.
The tea opens the leaves white, and the pavilion is drunk with a sip.
Yan Sheng drank the water on the pillow, and Han Zi lived in Puyong.
Although poor and old, they are not ashamed of the past, and they are far away from the good things to relieve their feelings.
Netizens asked without a name: Please ask Mr. Zhong, how should Mei Yaochen understand the poem "Scraping Green Tea Cage Vine Entanglement" and "Dansha Iron Holding Hibiscus" in the poem "Defuzhou Cai Junmo Secret Study Book and Tea"? Who does the "Hanzi" in "Hanzi Rice" refer to? Is Xue Lao, who begins the poem "Xue Laozi Liu Shan", the second father-in-law of Ouyang Xiu, Xue Kui? Xue Kui served as the county commander of Putian County, Cai Xiang's hometown. Thank you!
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Zhong Zhenzhen answered: (3) "Dansha iron to save hibiscus" is a praise for Cai Xiang's calligraphy.
If this sentence is decomposed into each word and each word to explain, it is still more difficult to speak.
Let's start with a piece of information. Cai Xiang's Duanming Collection, vol. 28, "Records of the Qu Feast of the Qunyu Palace": "On December 27, 1977, Emperor Renzong of Song summoned his assistants and close attendants to show it in Emperor Taizong's "Collection of Amusement Arts" and The Collection of Zhenzong's Writings. And out of the woods... Dansha one, weighing twelve pounds eight two, black like iron, with a hibiscus head in between... On the eighth day of the first month of the next year, Han Lin, Shang ShuBu Langzhong, Zhi Zhi Zhen, and Quan Sansi envoy Cai Mou remembered. ”
Among them, "Dansha one, weighs twelve pounds and eight two, the color is black like iron, and there is a hibiscus head in between" Yunyun, which is very similar to mei Yaochen's poem "Dansha iron holds hibiscus" sentence. When you first read Cai Xiang's "Record", it is easy to think that this sentence of Mei Shi was born from the "Dansha" that "weighed twelve pounds and eight twos" that was treasured by the Northern Song Dynasty royal family as described in Cai Xiang's "Record".
However, this is an illusion. When Mei Yaochen composed this poem, Cai Xiang's "Record" had not yet come out.
According to Ouyang Xiu's "WenzhongJi" volume 35 "Duanmingdian Scholar Cai Cemetery Epitaph", Cai Xiang yu Renzong Zhihe "three years, with the Privy Counsellor Zhi Quanzhou, migrated to Fuzhou." Not much, re-informed Quanzhou. ...... For five years, Jiayou summoned the Hanlin Scholar and the Third Envoy of Quan." Mei Yaochen's poem, titled "Fuzhou Cai Junmu Tantric Studies", was composed when Cai Xiang learned fuzhou as a "Tantric Scholar" (Privy Counsellor) three years later (1056) and five years before Jiayou (1060). Cai Xiang's "Record" is the "next year" of the seventh year of Jiayou, that is, the eighth year of Jiayou (1063). At this time, Mei Yaochen had been dead for three years. Therefore, the "Dansha" in Mei Shi's sentence has nothing to do with the "Dansha" in Cai Xiang's "Record".
So, how to explain why Mei Yaochen's "Dansha" is highly similar to the "Dansha" in Cai Xiang's "Record"? The reason is very simple, the same is "Dansha", the appearance is always the same, but the shape is divided into sizes. Mei Yaochen's "Dansha" is an "iron stone", which will not be large, and it is still not the same as the "Dansha" in Cai Xiang's "Record" that is huge and friendless, "weighing twelve pounds and eight two".
"Dansha", or cinnabar, is the sulfide of mercury (commonly known as "mercury"),, the main mineral raw material for refining mercury. Ancient alchemists and Taoists used it as the main raw material for alchemy, believing that serving it could lead to immortality.
Song Zhang Junfang's "Seven Signatures of Yundi" Volume 69 "Jin Danbu" Seven Records Tang Chen Shaowei's "Theory of Returning To the Spirit of Sand" The first "Return to Dan Sand" said: "The Dansha is the Lord of all souls, the root of creation, the origin of the gods... Those who are subject to righteousness obey it, and those who are enlightened are true to the immortals. Those who are subject to the partial qi will also live forever. ”
It is also said: "The one who is of the bright sand of the upper grade is out of the stone of the Chenjin Mountain, above the bed of the white tooth stone." Twelve pieces are a life, the color is like an unopened red lotus, the bright sun... In the sand outside its seat, the hibiscus head is picked, and it becomes a red silk of the night, and the bright and transparent ones are also included in the top product. ”
It is also said: "Purple spirit sand is like intercourse and gui, but those who are born and those who are hit by stones, those who are shaped like hibiscus heads and bright, are also included in the top product." If the grain is divided into three or four pieces, weighing one pound, the bright one is the middle grade. ”
It is also said: "But the sand of the refinement, as the head of the hibiscus and the round light and the bright, is the superior product, and the gods serve bait." ”
Song Susong's Bencao Tujing Volume 1 "Jade Shangpin" says: "Dansha ... Nowadays, Chenzhou, Yizhou, and Jiezhou are out, and Chenzhou is the most victorious, called 'Chensha'. Born deep in the mountains and between the stone cliffs, the natives collected it, the cave is tens of feet, and the seedlings are first seen, which is a white stone ear, which is called a cinnabar bed. On the sandstone, the large ones are like chickens, the small ones are like pomegranate seeds, and they are shaped like hibiscus heads and arrows. The bed-dweller was purple and iron-colored. ”
It is also said: "The best of all sand is the light sand, followed by the block." ”
To be sure, this sentence of Mei Yaochen's poem is split into words and words, the so-called "iron stone", the literal meaning is "purple as iron" of "Dansha" and "block"; the so-called "hibiscus" of "Hibiscus", the literal meaning is "Dansha" of "like hibiscus head". For example, in terms of the whole sentence of "Dansha Iron Holding Hibiscus", it is to describe Cai Xiang's book "Seventy words in the paper", just like seventy-one iron Dansha Hibiscus heads are staggered and gathered, the words are precious, and the spirit is magical.
(To be continued)
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