The mountain is shallow, and the mountain skin is seen; Travel deep in the mountains and see the soul of the mountains. During the "May Day" period, Pang Fei, a painter from the Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, was sketching and traveling in Tianma Mountain, and accidentally found a cliff stone carving "㫰 (làng) Jiayan". After further research by Chang Yong, vice president of the Songjiang Creation Research Institute of Humanities, the source of "Jiayan" was found, and it was concluded that it should be a stone carving from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty. At a time when the Fourth National Survey of Cultural Relics is underway, this discovery is of great significance and the best tribute to International Museum Day.
In early summer, Tianma Mountain is full of green trees and hundreds of birds are singing. Entering the mountain from the east gate, walking along the mountain road to the west, you will come to the famous scenic spot of Tianma Mountain, "Drinking Horse Pond". Walking along the edge of the pond, the stone carving of "Jiayan" is hidden on the cliff wall behind the drinking horse pond. Because it is covered in moss, the stone carvings are inconspicuous and can only be recognized if they are carefully recognized.
Chang Yong conducted on-site surveys and read a large number of materials, and found that the three characters "Jiayan" were only found in Zhou Houdi's "Dry Mountain Chronicles" in the Qing Dynasty. The book quotes Lu Tingzhen's "Ganshan Magazine" in the Ming Dynasty and says that "Jiayan" is the place where Zhou Wenda, the general of silver armor, was Jiajia during the time of Song Jianyan. "In the Songjiang dialect, there is a saying that 'clothes', and ''clothes' means to dry. In ancient times, "Jia" was not only a boastful behavior of the military generals to repay the favor of the monarch and show their loyalty, but also had the meaning of putting the horse in Nanshan and returning to the field. This is very consistent with the geomorphological situation here in Tianma Mountain. Chang Yong introduced.
After further investigation of the Qing Dynasty Zhou Guobin's "Wan Zhou Zhou Family Genealogy" and other materials, Chang Yong believes that the three characters "Jiayan" are most likely engraved by Zhou Wenda in the 27th year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in 1157 when he built the pearl tower in Tianma Mountain. The lower limit of the time for the carving of the cliff stone carving should be 1643, when Lu Tingzhen wrote the "Ganshan Magazine" in the Ming Dynasty, or it may be engraved by his descendants to commemorate the achievements of the ancestors. "The discovery of the 'Jiayan' cliff carvings not only confirms the record of the "Ganshan Chronicles", but also adds a new cultural landscape to Tianma Mountain, and adds a new footnote to the construction of Songjiang's "House of Culture and Museum". Chang Yong said.
Standing in front of the horse drinking pond and looking around, there are many trees and lush vegetation, and there is no empty place to dry. Chang Yong explained that according to historical records, Tianma Mountain was originally relatively barren, and it was located at the southern peak, which should have been sunny at that time, and it was a good place to dry silver armor.
Subsequently, the reporter came to the Songjiang District Museum, which collects the wire-bound book "Ganshan Chronicles", which was compiled by Zhou Houdi in Qianlong Bingwu (1786) and the flux manuscript of Zhongfeng Temple in Tianma Mountain in 1948. According to Yang Kun, a research librarian, this volume 10 records the historic site of "Jiayan", "there is a stone in the south peak, engraved with the words 'Jiayan', which is the place where Zhou Wenda, the general of the silver armor, and there is a drinking horse pond under the Song Jianyan."
Text, pictures: Jia Li
Editor: Zhou Zhenghao