5. Dragon's Head Pagoda and Dragon's Head Pavilion
Xing Shaoshan
The general public in Xuancheng only knows the Dragon Head Pagoda, but does not know the Dragon Head Pavilion, and it is not known that the Dragon Head Pavilion was built 12 years before the Dragon Head Tower, and the name of the "Tower" is named after the "Pavilion". What's going on here, allow me to take it slowly.
Let's start with the Dragon's Head Tower. Longshou Pagoda, located in Aofeng Park in Xuancheng City. It was built in the Ming Longqing period (1567) and has a history of 500 to 600 years. In early 2012, the Xuancheng City Government remodeled Aofeng Park and found that the infrastructure of Longshou Pagoda was good, so it was repaired on its basis and now stands in Aofeng Park.
There are many legends about the construction of the Dragon Head Pagoda, one of which is that in the Ming Dynasty Xuancheng one-year examination, the "Yuanyuan, Tanhua, and Bangyan" Three Yuan, they were the same as the List Dengke, and there was a miracle of "Ten Miles and Three Yuan". This situation shook the government and the opposition for a while, and the emperor was afraid that Xuancheng was the land of the dragon vein, and some people would rebel in the future, so he ordered the H tower to suppress this treasure land. Second, it is also said that the prefect of Xuancheng set aside Aofeng as a garden and built a pagoda at the place of the dragon's head, so that it could reflect the "Aofeng Chibi", one of the ten scenic spots of Xuancheng, and display the charm of Xuancheng. These are just legends, no historical evidence.
As for the Longshou Pavilion, as early as the Ming Jiajing period, Jiachen (1544) Jinshi Guangdong Dongyuan people Zhu Daqi came to Xuancheng to build it when he was too punctual, which is clearly recorded in the Xuancheng County Chronicle. The location of Longshou Pavilion is within the site of the old Xuancheng Middle School (now Xuancheng No. 6 Middle School). Why did Zhu Daqi build the Longshou Pavilion here, and what was the Longshou Pavilion like at that time, Ming Mei Shoude told us in his "Record of the New Longshou Pavilion" (Xuancheng County Zhi • Yiwen Zhi): "WuwanLing has been called Shanshui County since ancient times, according to Lingyang Mountain. When the county ruled and the south five hundred steps for Confucianism, WenShen Jingting, Qunfeng Column, and Combined Shape Auxiliary. And the Wanju Zhushui, Cheng Han flowing reflection, phase and placket, in between the wind and the bell, Gai YiJiang Zuo Ao District also. This passage clearly explains the special situation of Xuancheng Landscape, the geographical features, the setting of the county administration, and the layout of the school. As the saying goes, the spirit of the landscape will inevitably give birth to the power of the dragon and the phoenix. According to legend, the southeast under xuancheng rule became a "dragon elephant". In ancient times, people believed that the dragon was a sign of honor and civilization, and it had a sudden effect on the rise of rejuvenation and cultural education. And in Xuancheng", "its sayings have been passed on for a long time, and there is no one who has achieved it." (ibid.).
Zhu Daqi attached great importance to culture and education, and after he took office, through the governance of Xuancheng, he educated the people's customs, and within a few years, Xuancheng was in harmony with the government and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. In the thirty-fourth year of Jiajing (1555), he decided to open a new school, so he "did not do it, worked with doves, dismantled the temple materials, and built a platform as a building to restore the worship of Wenchang" on the east side of the legendary Lingyang Mountain. Fifty steps from the south of the building, the revert to the site of the pavilion on it. And between the pavilions, dozens of trees were built, which were the places where all living beings lived. Zhu Gong built dozens of houses here, one after another, as a school, these houses, for students to study, read, live, for Peugeot, he built a pavilion to lead. After the pavilion was completed, "the self-taught palace looks at it, the stinging is long, the prostrate rises, the gap is in front, and its momentum is like the dragon's high head and thinking hard." The shape of these houses, headed by a pavilion, is connected like a dragon, galloping between the lofty mountains and mountains. People looked at it from a distance, and this dragon stood tall and forward. Many people watched it with admiration. Zhu Gong said: "It is the Fang Gulongye of the throne, and the fate of the 'Dragon Head Pavilion'. This is where "Dragon Shou Pavilion" comes from.
The Longshou Pagoda was not built until the Ming Dynasty (1567), a full 12 years later than the Longshou Pavilion, but its naming continued to use the meaning of the Dragon Shou Pavilion "Dragon's High Spirit and Thoughts", so that people believed that it was possible to extend the teachings of the teachers and make the Xuancheng literary style rise. In the fifty-first year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1712), Tong Fuwei, the prefect of Ningguo, built a south building in the northeast of the pagoda, echoing the xie yan north building, and inscribed poems as a college for the literati to sing and reconcile. He took Luo Rufang's "Zhixue Academy" as his sect, planted trees in it, made it a green school, renamed the "Zhixue Academy" to "Zhengxue Academy", continued to extend the teacher's teaching, spread, developed, and carried forward the Xuancheng culture, at that time there was no road here, it was connected in pieces, and later people established the Ningguofu Middle School here. Therefore, the history of Xuancheng Middle School, people only look for the Ningguofu Middle School, in fact, should also be pushed forward, pushed to Jiajing thirty-four years (1555) longshou pavilion, and later Xuancheng Middle School's school song "Fenfei Qu" contains this meaning, so it is said that the history of Xuancheng Middle School, from then on, has a history of five or six hundred years, because in this land Xuancheng people have been running schools, cultivating talents, and never interrupted. At that time, Zhu Gong named the pavilion "Reverted to the Lofty Site" "Longshou Pavilion", and his intentions were good, he hoped to cultivate more outstanding talents for the country, and later the people of Xuancheng did not live up to Zhu Gong's hopes. At that time, Zhu Gong based on the fact that the dragon was a divine creature, and it could change into continuous heavy rain and moisten the four directions. The dragon changes the rain, the moistens the Shang Zhou, the summoning of the gong changes the rain, the dragon is the flag, and the dragon can signal the change of the warrior elephant. Zhu Gong himself said: "If you do not give a famous pavilion alone, you will make it known to be near and far away, and the second and third sons of Er know it, and still be xunzhi, in the hope that there will be a sign, and it will not fail to live up to the name of Stings?" He hoped that "people with lofty ideals would carry forward their aspirations under the name of this pavilion and help each other from top to bottom to become beautiful." Ming Jiajing Jinshi Mei Shoude also felt that "only the public name pavilion teaches Yu Yan, and the soldier uses the name of the pavilion and the ambition is broad", and only then can he "record his affairs". Moreover, Longshou Pagoda, Longshou Pavilion, Lingyang Mountain, and County Capital Zhi are on a central axis from south to north, which is a bit like the Qianmen, Tiananmen, and Di'anmen in Beijing, all of which are the land of dragon veins.
Later, as a Confucian school headed by the "Dragon Shou Pavilion", it attracted many readers after its completion. The text"When the scholars came, the spectators were happy and stunned", indicating that at that time, people with lofty ideals flocked to the world and flocked to them; "So the people who felt the virtue of the public were not forgotten", "In the midst of rejoicing, they were eager to advance, and they reached the learning of use in the bright body, then the talents became the people who used them in the world", which proved that a large number of talents were cultivated for the country, and the literature and ink were fragrant. According to relevant historical records: after the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the Xuancheng Meishen Zhu clan was full of talents. Xuancheng Jiake flourished, and in the fifth year of the Wanli Calendar (1577), Shen Maoxue, a native of Xuancheng County, the capital of the Southern Zhi dynasty, achieved the title, and Shen Shoumin was also famous in the world. Due to the large number of scholars, the Xuancheng School was formed, and the discussion of poetry was based on "learning", and the study and poetry were one. Tracing back to the source, it is said that the site of Xuancheng Middle School should be "Longshou Pavilion" at the earliest. When revolutionary martyrs Yun Daiying and Xiao Chunu were working here, they once wrote the "Fenfei Qu" school song for the school, and the lyrics of the "Fengfei Qu" were: "The future is long, the hairy feathers need to be abundant, once the struggle to fly is so heroic", it can be said that it inherits the meaning of "Dragon Shou Pavilion" and is in the same line as "High Spirits". Zhang Tingyu, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty University, had long said: "The grandeur of humanities in Shangjiang is the first Xuancheng." "Xuancheng has flourished since ancient times, and humanities have flourished, which is well-deserved.
Ah, now we think back and forth about the Longshou Pavilion and the Longshou Pagoda, I think it has a cultural tension and the charm of the landscape, which is really: "Xuancheng has been beautiful since ancient times, and the peaks are like a quiet sentence." Confucianism Chongxing School was built, and Han Mo was perfumed with incense. Longshou Pavilion is pregnant, and the traces of the front of Lingyang Mountain are left. He thought hard and forged ahead, and the culture and education of Zexiang counted the winds and currents. ”