One of the Eight Great Heavenly Books of China, the Ming Dynasty Tuoben Discovery Record
Text: Kong Jun
Hengyang is a magical place.
A few years earlier, friends from Hengyang found Wang Fuzi manuscript, in Changsha antique circle caused a lot of shock, recently, has been cross-border vows not to get involved in antique art of myself, occasionally saw the Monument Ming Tuoben, can't help but bang, after a bargain, gladly put into the bag, excited to sleep all night. Why a black tiger is so attractive, and listen to me slowly.
First, what is the Monument
The original inscription was carved in Hunan Province, Nanyue Hengshan Mountain Ridge Peak, so it is called the Ridge Monument, the original traces disappeared for a thousand years, and was rediscovered in July 2007. According to legend, this stele is a tribute to the relics of Xia Yu, also known as the "Yu Monument", "Yu Wang Monument", and "Great Yu Meritorious Monument". Together with the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum and the YanDi Mausoleum, it is praised by the cultural relics protection community as the three treasures of the Chinese nation.
The earliest record of the Stele is found in the poems of Han Yu and Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty.
Han Shiyun:
Monument to the former god Yu of Mt. Ngai, with the character bluestone red shaped Puqi.
Tadpole fist body leaf shawl, luan fluttering phoenix Po po take the cockroach.
Things are strict and mysterious, and Daoists are occasionally seen.
I've come to consult with The Sorrel, where are the thousands of searches?
Liu Shiyun:
It is often heard that Zhu Rongfeng has a stele of Shen Yu on it.
Ancient stone lang play posture, secret text glass tiger shape.
Although neither of them has seen the actual object, there is no doubt that the Legend of the Tang Dynasty has a stele.
In the fifth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1212 AD), there was a Bashu scholar He Zhiyou Hengshan. Guided by the woodcutter, he climbed over the rocks and streams, climbed the vines and attached to the ge, and came to the main peak of the seventy-two peaks of Hengshan Mountain, Yunmi Peak, which is deeply forested. In a dangerous place, I was surprised to remove the broken branches and remnants of artemisia: in front of me was a large stone stele that was more than inches high and wide. Pulling away the thorns and peeling off the moss, an inscription of 77 characters in the yin script appears. Its font, neither oracle bone nor ancient seal, is powerful and strange, and it is the only one in the world. After careful examination, he was identified as a "Yu Stele" without doubt, and immediately copied the inscription. Subsequently, the full text of this "Yu Stele" was engraved on the rock wall at the top of The Mountain of Yuelu in Changsha. Because Hengshan Mountain is also known as Mount Ridge, "Yu Monument" was later called "Ridge Monument".
More than 300 years later, during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Yu Monument on this Yuelu Mountain was discovered by Pan Yi, who was then the Taishou of Changsha. Since then, Fang has begun to "cut the soil and expand the transmission".
In the thirteenth year of Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty (1534), Zhang Su of the Anning clan of Yunnan, who was an official in Huguang, returned to his hometown with the rubbings of the "Yu Monument" that he had already visited. At that time, Yang Zhuangyuan (the first place in the sixth year of the wuzong Zhengde temple examination) of the Sichuan Xindu clan Yang Zhuangyuan (字用修,号升庵) of the Sichuan Xindu clan Yang Zhuangyuan (wuzong Zhengde six-year temple examination) who had been charged with the "Great Ceremony" case in Yunnan province was in peace, so Zhang Su consulted Yang Zhuangyuan with a rubbing.
In the face of the rubbings of "Yu Monument", Yang Sheng'an felt deeply novel! He stared intently repeatedly, sometimes locking his brows, and between his whiskers, he released the full text of the Yu Tablet: (The interpretation has no punctuation) "Emperor Cheng's consultation, wing assisting Zuoqing." Continent and Deng, the Gate of Birds and Beasts. Participate in the torrent, and Mingfa Erxing. Long travel forgotten home, Su Yue Lu Ting. The wisdom camp is folded, and the heart is reckless. Seeking peace, Huayue Taiheng. Zong Shu Shi Qiao, Lao Yu Stretch Yu. Yu Sai faints, Nan Du Yan Heng. Clothing and food, all nations are peaceful, and the dance is eternal. ”
Later, Zhang Su and Yang Sheng'an carved the rubbings on the rock wall of the mountain behind the East Fahua Temple in Anning City. The inscription is followed by Yang Sheng'an's explanatory text and Zhang Su's account of his search for the "Yu Monument" in Changsha. Later, Yang Sheng'an left Anning and successively engraved the "Yu Tablet" and the interpretation in Dali and Yongchang. In the 28th year of the Republic of China, the Anning Literature Department, in order to prevent rock weathering and endangering the long-term preservation of the "Yu Stele", transferred the "Yu Stele" to the stone wall in the hot spring Ring Cloud Rock Cave.
How many literati and inkers in the past dynasties have traveled thousands of miles to Hengshan to find the "Yu Monument". During the Tianbao period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang, the poet Liu Yuxi had not yet gone, and only based on rumors, he wrote a poem "Ancient Stone Lang Jie Zi, Secret Text Dragon and Tiger Shape". In the first year of Tang Shunzong Yongzhen (805 AD), the literary master Han Yu, although he had repeatedly searched for the "Yu Monument", still could not get his wish, and finally returned with "thousands of searches and thousands of searches, and the sensen green tree ape is still sad". Later, he still wrote a seven-character poem "Mount 岣嵝" according to the legend to record this trip: "The stele of the tip of the mountain is a bluestone red shaped moqi." Tadpole fist body leaf shawl, Luo Piao phoenix dancing mosquito tadpole. The Southern Song Dynasty great Confucian Zhu Xi traveled to Hengshan and never found the "Yu Stele", so he believed that the "Yu Stele of the Peak God yu of mount Yao" in Han Yu's poem was misrepresented by the ancients. Therefore, he intermittently denied the existence of "Yu Stele" in the "Korean Kaoyi".
When the fourth-year edition of the Republic of China's "Ciyuan" commented on the article "The Monument of The Mountain", it first affirmed that "the oldest stone carving written by Xia Yu when he ruled the water, also known as the 'Yu Monument', in Yunmifeng, Hengshan County, where seventy-seven characters are written", and the next sentence is "The neighbor suspects that it is Ming YangShen forged". In his essay "Talking Outside the Door", Lu Xun confirmed that "Xia Yu's 'Monument of The Mountain' was forged by Taoist monks."
In 1958, the Changsha Documentation Agency sent a rubbing of the "Yu Stele" to the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, and consulted the paleographer Guo Moruo, whose reply was really disappointing, with only 4 words of "secret and unquestionable".
Guo Moruo studied for three years and only recognized three of the words
The stele is engraved with a peculiar ancient seal text like a tadpole.
When exactly the tadpole text came into being, the academic community has not yet formed a conclusive conclusion.
However, the earliest surviving tadpole inscription in China is said to have been left by Dayu when he ruled the water.
As a result, the inscription is known as one of the Eight Heavenly Books of China, and no one has translated it in its entirety.
2. About the Tao Ben of the Monument
In the winter of the fifteenth year of Ming Jiajing (1536), Zhang Su (Zhang Biquan) brought back the "Monument of The Mountain" to Yunnan, and then carved it on the stone wall of Fahua Temple on Luoyang Mountain in the east of Anning County, as a stone carving of Moya;
● Shaoxing, Zhejiang, stored in the Pavilion of the Yu Temple of Shaoxing, ming jiajing twenty years (1541) Shaoxing prefect Zhang Mingdao according to Yuelu Academy Tuoben imitation here, for the inscription;
Mingquan County, Sichuan (present-day Yuli Qiang Nationality Township, Beichuan County), JiulongShan Yu Temple Stele Pavilion (erected in 1561), for the inscription;
● Nanjing, Jiangsu, located on the side of Tiankai Rock in Qixia Mountain, was carved here by Yang Shiqiao, the left attendant of the mingshen sect in February of the 32nd year of the Wanli calendar (1609), which is a stone carving of Moya;
●During the Ming Dynasty, it was engraved in Ji County, Henan;
●During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, Mao hui built the Monument of King Yu in Xi'an Fuxue and the GuideFu Bureau.
At present, most of the Tuoben that has been handed down to the world is mainly based on the Republic of China, a small number of Qingtuo, the Ming Dynasty Tuoben is almost none, I saw this Tuoben, for the Hengyang official family descendants, the collector will be the entire stele Tuo every two words, sandwiched in the book, from the rubbing paper age analysis, should be the Ming Jiajing years of the expansion, the Ming Dynasty rubbings preserved so far, it is rare, it is not too much to say that the national treasure.
The following is a large picture of the rubbing, please enjoy