At the end of last year, taking advantage of the good opportunity of the sunny winter, Yao Hui, Qiao Xinxian, Chen Weifang, and Suo Hongwei traveled to Zhengzhou, Xuchang, and Pingdingshan, and made a special trip to visit Zhang Liang, Bai Juyi's hometown, Ouyang Xiu Cemetery, and Sansu Tomb, and talked with these celebrities through the ages, and benefited a lot!
Jiaxian County in Pingdingshan City, as a thousand-year-old county, although it did not contribute to the Chinese nation "the same track of cars, the same book of the same text" Li Si, but has the reputation of the hometown of Zhang Liang, the first strategist of the ages, who "won the government with a hammer when he was young, dedicated his wisdom to the king of Han when he was middle-aged, and was good at himself when he became famous". Where is Zhang Liang's hometown, there is a lot of controversy in history, and the appearance of a "Zhuge Liang Worship Monument" in Zhangdian Village, Likou Town, Jiaxian County, undoubtedly proves that Zhang Liang's hometown is here. In 200 AD, Zhuge Liang was still a young man, from Shandong to Nanyang to join his family, in Yuzhou, which is adjacent to Jiaxian, he met Xu Shu (Xu Shu, the character Yuanzhi, Yuzhou people, "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in "Xu Shu walks the horse and recommends Zhuge ", after the break, "Xu Shu enters Cao Ying one by one without saying a word", it is this person who is talking about. The two met late and talked all night, and decided to go to Zhangdian Village, Likou Town, Jiaxian County, to pay homage to Zhang Liang's hometown. At that time, Zhuge Liang did not have "the three kingdoms of Gonggai, and the name became eight Chen Tu", but left the text of "Zhuge Liang Waiting for the Ancestral Monument": "Liang carries Yuanzhi, Jian'an in the spring of the sixth year, steps on Xianzong, the view of the terrain is not strict, but it is clean and beautiful, and it is a treasure land of dragons and phoenixes." Wait for it, look up to its image and not be mighty, but strategize, win a thousand miles, and become the emperor's army. Our generation sighs, respects, and serves".
Bai Juyi's hometown is located in Dongguosi Village, Chengguan Township, Xinzheng City (County), Zhengzhou City. Bai Juyi's grandfather, Bai Qi, served as the commander of Gongyi County in Zhengzhou, loved the climate of Zhengzhou Xinzheng, and moved to Dongguo House. Bai Juyi was born in Dongguo Temple and spent his childhood in Xinzheng. Bai Juyi (772-846), the word Lotte, the number of Xiangshan monks, Mr. Drunken Yin. His ancestral home is Taiyuan (now Shanxi), a native of Xiatai (now Weinan, Shaanxi), Huazhou, and he was born in Dongguosi Village, Xinzheng, Zhengzhou, Henan. A realist poet of the Tang Dynasty, he was one of the three major poets of the Tang Dynasty (Li Bai, Du Fu, and Bai Juyi). In the sixteenth year of Tang Zhenyuan (800), he was admitted to the "Book Judgment Diocesan Subject" at the same time as Yuan Zhen, and was awarded the secretary of the provincial school Shulang. He successively served as an examiner of Jinshi, a school manager of Jixian, a bachelor of Hanlin, a Sima of Jiangzhou, a history of Hangzhou Thorn, a history of Suzhou Thorn, and a servant of the Criminal Department, and died in August 846. There are 3,000 existing poems, advocating that "articles are written for the time, and songs and poems are written for things", and he is the initiator and advocate of the New Yuefu Movement. Famous masterpieces "Pipa Xing" and "Long Song". "Leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered. Wildfires burn inexhaustibly, and spring breezes blow and regenerate. ......", "A few early warblers compete for warm trees, whose new swallows peck the spring mud." The flowers gradually become charming, and the shallow grass can have no horseshoe (Qiantang Lake Spring Trip)" and other famous sentences have been passed down through the ages.
Ouyang Xiu Cemetery, in Ouyang Temple Village, Xinzheng Xindian Town. Ouyang Xiu was an outstanding writer, historian and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty, and was known as the "Four Masters of Ancient Articles" together with Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, and Su Shi, and Han Yu, Liu Zongyuan, Su Shi, Su Xun, Su Zhe, Wang Anshi, and Zeng Gong were known as the "Eight Masters of Tang and Song Dynasty Prose". Ouyang Xiu (1007-1072), the word Yongshu, the number drunkard, Han nationality, Luling (now Hunan) people, a generation of Wenzong, the leader of the ancient literature movement, Zong Xizong died in Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui) in 1072 in the private residence, at the age of 66, given the prince and the prince, Yi Wenzhong, posthumously named Yanguo Gong. After Song Shenzong Xining was buried here in the sixth year (1075), his sons and grandsons were also buried here one after another, gradually forming Ouyang Xiu's family tombs. Because the temple built in front of Ouyang Xiu cemetery is called Ouyang Temple, so the village is named after the temple. Ouyang Xiu's prose style is elegant, the expression is thoughtful, and it is clear and clear. His representative works include "The Story of the Drunkard Pavilion", "The Story of the Fengle Pavilion", "The Autumn Shengfu", "The Story of the Oil Seller", "The Preface to the Biography of the Lingguan", etc.; there are also many good sentences in the poems: "Butterfly Loves Flowers, the Courtyard is Deep and Deep", "Shengchazi Yuan Xi", "Waves and Sands, Toasting the Wine to the East Wind", "Picking Mulberries, the West Lake is Good After the Qunfang" and so on.
Sansu Tomb is located in the southeast corner of Sufen Village, Ciba Town, Ciba Town, Xiaoemei Mountain, 27 kilometers west of Jiaxian County, Pingdingshan City, Henan Province. The back of Songyang, the face of Ru water, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the scenery is pleasant. There was a provision in the Song Dynasty that the burial place of the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs was within 500 miles of Gyeonggi after his death, and after Su Shi's death, his sons Su Mai, Su Yu, and Su Guo all lived in Xuchang with Su Zhe, and an official in the Yuan Dynasty decided to merge the three Su tombs, so today's three tombs were formed. In 1956, it was a provincial key cultural relics protection unit, and in 2006, it was designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit.
The Sansu Tomb refers to the cemetery of Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Zhe. Su Xun is the father of Su Shi and Su Zhe, and Su Shi and Su Zhe are brothers. The three of them were very successful in the literary circle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and occupied three seats in the eight families of the Tang and Song dynasties. Su Xun (1009-1066) was a late bloomer, studied hard at the age of 27, and soon was admitted to the Jinshi, and was known for his longitudinal prose ("The Sayings of the Six Kingdoms"); Su Shi (1037-1101) and Su Zhe (1039-1112) were admitted to the Jinshi at the same time. Su Shi, known as Dongpo Jushi, is a well-known lyricist, poet and prose master in China, the style of words is bold and uninhibited, and there are countless masterpieces, more than 2,300 poems, more than 340 words and prose. Su Zhe is also very accomplished in literature (1189 poems), but he is even more official in the officialdom, and has become the prime minister. Zhang Pengxi of the Qing Dynasty said that "a father and son are three words, and there are four masters of eternal articles", which describes the appropriate image.
The Sansu Cemetery faces south in the north and covers an area of 14,800 square meters. The courtyard is simple and elegant, quiet and solemn. There are four ancient cypresses on both sides of the Shinto road in front of the door, which are green and upright, covering the sky and the earth, and are green and secluded. The carved pillars, stone horses, stone sheep, stone tigers, and stone people are lined up on the left and right, and the ceremonial guards are strictly orderly. Admitted to the hospital, facing a 3.25 meters high, 3.54 meters wide red stone archway, "green mountain jade" four vigorous and powerful big characters, engraved in the lintel. The inscription of Su Dongpo's poem "It is a green mountain that can be buried, and the rain on his Chinese New Year's Eve hurts the gods alone" explains one reason why Su's three graves are buried here (another reason is that this terrain is like Meishan in Sichuan, and Su Xun and Su Zhi also served as officials here). The tomb of the three Su is arranged in order from northeast to southwest: the tomb of Mr. Su Zizhan of Song Dongpo, the tomb of Mr. Su of Song Laoquan, the tomb of Mr. Su of Song Yingbinzi, there are 588 ancient cypresses in the cemetery, the cypress fragrance is fragrant, the garden is solemn, visitors enter the garden, and the feeling of admiration arises spontaneously.
Reading thousands of books, it is better to travel thousands of miles, the combination of knowledge and action, is always the best choice to enrich experience. Visit the hometown of Zhang Liang and Bai Juyi, pay homage to Ouyang Xiu's cemetery and Sansu tomb, burn incense and drink wine, think about the past, view the ancient couplet, appreciate the words, read calligraphy, enter the ancient temple, and cultivate the bamboo forest, but the wish is fulfilled! Looking back, whether it is the hometown of Zhang Liang and Bai Juyi, or Ouyang Xiu's cemetery and the tomb of Sansu, the locals have done their best to engage in cultural tourism, which is remarkable! Think about the tourism development of Yiyang in recent years, it is really a bit embarrassing, there are many people who are suitable for the situation and man-made, and there are not many people with cultural taste, not that Yiyang has no culture. There are no celebrities, but the depth of excavation is not enough, and the full comprehensive utilization needs to be improved, if so, Yiyang's tourism will definitely have a big change. See, feel and feel, that's all!
(19 January 2024)