——Interpretation of the information of the "Yongzhen Mountain and River" monument of the Three Pagodas of Dali
Yongzhen mountain and river inscription full view
I have longed for the "Yongzhen Mountain" monument for a long time.
To tell the truth, in February this year, I went to the Three Pagodas of Dali to take photos of the "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers" monument from multiple angles, just in order to enlarge on the computer and see the inscription clearly. Because the inscription is divided into four large characters of the stele "Yongzhen Mountain and River", the position is high, the text is small, and only a panoramic photo is used, and the content of the inscription cannot be interpreted at all.
With nostalgia for Mu Changzuo's ancestors, I took a segmented photo, took four paragraphs, and after returning to Kunming, I repeatedly enlarged and read it on the computer, and finally wrote down the full text of the inscription, although there were still some words that were vague and vague, but I was very relieved.
The author took a photo in front of the mountain and river monument in The town of Santayong
Rebuild the Three Pagoda Temple Yongzhen Yamakawa Chronicle
Tang Zhenguanjian built the Chongsheng Temple in the northwest corner of Dali City, the old soul of a thousand buildings, until the Ming Emperor Kaiyuan Decou, Nanzhao Dingsheng, in front of the temple added three floating maps, the middle tower is high in the clouds, the left and right two towers match each other. Forty-eight years of work is accomplished. Wei Wei was also the Grand View of Quan Dian.
In the ninth year of Emperor Mingwu's reign, on the sixth day of the first month of May, the earth was shaken, the castle was destroyed, and the three towers were cracked, and it was fortunate that it was unharmed. On June 6, the ninth year of Sejong Jiajing's reign, the county's Li Zhongxi (李中溪侍御) donated funds to supplement the pagoda, remade wooden bones, and completed it in 100 days. For another three years, the two pagodas of the decoction were heavy, and the beginning of autumn began, and the reading was completed in May. In the eleventh year of the Shenzong Wanli Calendar, the hereditary Duke Mu of Qianguo, the British descendant Sun Mu Shijie, cultivated the middle pagoda, and the four characters of the book 'Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers' showed Zhengrong. In the fifty-sixth year of the former Qing Dynasty Emperor Gaozong Qianlong, the prefect of Dali Province, Tieling Yang Changgui Gonggong Worship North Altar, see the pagoda brake erosion disk, in the past people because of the town flood, the prohibition of jiaolong means □ deep. Repairing the ruins and disasters, and taking responsibility for the guardians of the land, not only makes the victory mark permanent. Donate thousands of dollars, and be new. On the twenty-second night of the spring of the fourteenth year of the Republic of China, at the time of the ninth bell, there was a sudden and huge earthquake, and the city's mansions were completely destroyed, followed by fire, burning three hundred and two rooms along the city, eighty-two boxes of the Minlu, the golden roof of the middle pagoda fell to the ground, fortunately the tower body still existed, and the four characters of Yongzhen Shanchuan were only intact with the word "Chuan", and the rest was broken. The county man Yan Zi Zhen Sima Xizhi, donated funds alone, Qian Zhou Zi An Daoyin, with the double hook method to add the three characters of "Yongzhen Mountain" hook, another stone engraved, to restore the old view, while the three towers did not □, and at the same time built. Whoops, the catastrophe is heavy, since ming zhengde so far, counting four hundred and fourteen cold and heat, two earthquakes, and the severity of the disaster, this time far from the past, the wealth of the qi, there is no lack of Ming dynasty, □□ retro, and it is even expected that The sage Hao will cover the mountain pill first.
Sincerely, the birth of the □ will be the beginning and the end, and wait for the comers.
Before cleaning up Fan Tong Zhi Bureau Jintang County Zhi County, Yiren Li Wenqin wrote.
Yi People's National Road Yin Zhou Ren double hook.
Former Qing Tongzhi, Yiren Yan Zhengui donated money to rebuild.
The Republic of China is sixteen years old in Ding Di Xia □□ Month JiDan
Masonry Yang Liren
[Remarks: This inscription is located on the right side of the four characters of "Yongzhen Mountain and River"]
The Duke of Qianguo Ancient Hao Dynasty
(Square seal body seal) Founding Fathers
The commissioner Dali Wei Guan Cao Commanded Tongzhi Zhang Weique to supervise the construction
[Remarks: This drop is located on the left side of the four characters of "Yongzhen Mountain and River"]
The inscription on the right side of "Yongzhen Mountain"
I was really reluctant to take it out to share, I wanted to keep it as information, but I bit my teeth or took it out.
After reading the inscription, I instantly felt that there was an indescribable big, relaxed and magical whole body. It's like doing something you've been longing for. Nearly 700 words of inscriptions contain eight major events and seven celebrities.
Eight great events – in historical order:
During the Zhenguan period (627-649) of the Tang Dynasty, the chongsheng temple was first built.
In the year of the Tang Dynasty (713), three pagodas were built in front of the Chongsheng Temple.
In the ninth year of Zhengde of the Ming Dynasty (1514), the Dali earthquake broke and the three pagodas were shattered.
In the ninth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1530), The dali master Li Yuanyang (No. 1 Zhongxi) donated funds to repair the Middle Pagoda.
In the twelfth year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1533), Li Yuanyang donated funds to repair the left and right pagodas.
In March of the eleventh year of the Ming Dynasty (1583), Mu Changzuo, the Duke of Qianguo, repaired the middle pagoda and inscribed "Yongzhen Mountain".
In the fifty-sixth year of the Qianlong Dynasty (1791), Yang Changgui, the prefect of Dali, donated funds to rebuild the three pagodas.
On February 22, the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925), the Dali earthquake caused the roof of the Pagoda to fall and was damaged, and the first three characters of "Yongzhen Mountain" were damaged. Yan Zizhen, a gentleman of Dali Xizhou, donated funds for restoration, asked Zhou Zi'an to use the double hook method to imitate Mu Changzuo's "Yongzhen Mountain" to outline the big characters according to the fragments, and asked the stonemasons to re-engrave it, connect the intact "Chuan" character, and place it in the middle tower.
Statue of Yan Zizhen in the Yan family compound
The seven celebrities in historical order are:
Ming Dynasty Li Yuanyang. Ming Dynasty Mu Changzuo. Ming Dynasty Zhang Weibai. Qing Dynasty Yang Changgui. Yan Zizhen of the Republic of China. Zhou Zi'an of the Republic of China. Republic of China Li Wenqin.
Li Yuanyang (1497-1580), zirenfu, zhongxi. Bai. Dali of the Ming Dynasty, famous literary scholar, theorist, Jiajing five years (1526) jinshi. Because he was demoted by the "Great Ceremony Discussion" incident, Jiajing abandoned his official post and returned to his hometown after eighteen years (1539) and lived in seclusion in Dali for more than 40 years.
Mu Changzuo (1555-1624), whose ancestral home was Dingyuan, Haozhou, was a grandson of Mu Ying. He inherited the title of Duke of Mu Dynasty. He served as the commander-in-chief of Yunnan and held the post of General Of the Southern Army.
In the eleventh year of the Wanli Calendar (1583), Yue Feng, a traitor from Longchuan and a merchant from Jiangxi, stole the authority of the Longchuan Xuanfu Division, rebelled and defected to the Burmese Xuanwei Division, leading troops to invade the Territory of Tusi near the Burmese Xuanwei Division, and attacking Yongchang, Tengyue, Dali and other places. Mu Changzuo served as the commander-in-chief of Yunnan, and the general Jia Hang Zhengnan sat in Dali, and cooperated with the generals sent by the imperial court, such as Deng Zilong and Liu Ling, to lead the troops to quell the rebellion. At the invitation of dali officials and people, Mu Changzuo illuminated the inscription on the wall at this time. The yongzhen mountains and rivers reflect Mu Changzuo's ambition to stabilize Yunnan, and also respond to the concerns of Dali officials and people about "zhenshui".
Zhang Weizhuo was a contemporary of Mu Changzuo, who was then the commander of the Yunnan capital, Dali Wei, who commanded Tongzhi (deputy commander of Dali Wei), who was in charge of fishing, and after Mu Changzuo inscribed "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers", he supervised the construction, selected blue and white marble inscriptions, and placed them inlaid in the middle tower.
Yang Changgui, year of birth and death unknown, served as the prefect of Dali Province in the fifty-sixth year of qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1791), and later as an envoy to Yunnan.
Yan Zizhen (1870-1941), a native of Dali in the late Qing Dynasty, was a wealthy Bai merchant of the Republic of China, the founder of the "Yongchangxiang" business of the Xizhou Merchant Gang, and the owner of the Xizhou Yan family compound. In February of the fourteenth year of the Republic of China (1925), Yan Zizhen funded and asked Zhou Zi'an, a compatriot of the Qing Dynasty who had served as Daoyin, to re-copy the three characters of "Yongzhen Mountain", asked the stonemason to engrave it, merge the intact "Chuan" character, and synthesize "Zhongzhen Mountain". What tourists see today is the four golden characters of "Yongzhen Mountains and Rivers" that Yan Zizhen rebuilt.
Dali Xizhou Yan family compound gate