Wenzhou Network News Where is Xie Lingyun's "Spring Grass Pond"? A few days ago, Wenzhou Experimental Middle School stumbled upon the stone stele of "Rebuilding Dream Caotang" during construction. This stone stele records the history of the change of Mengcaotang, and experts from the cultural relics department will further study and identify the stone stele in the near future, providing important evidence for the cracking of the mystery of Chuncaochi.
The campus of the Municipal Experimental Middle School was renovated, and the stone stele of "Rebuilding the Dream Caotang" was found
On the afternoon of October 24, the reporter saw this stone stele at the headquarters of the Municipal Experimental Middle School. The stele is about 1.7 meters long, about 0.82 meters wide, about 12 centimeters thick, and weighs more than 400 kilograms. Above the stone stele, the six seal inscriptions of the reconstructed Dream Caotang are clearly visible.
For a long time, this stone monument has been placed in the open space next to the canteen of the West Campus of the Municipal Experimental Middle School (the former school-run factory plastic welding gun factory). In September this year, as the school was preparing to carry out construction and renovation of the precinct, the school's general affairs director noticed the written stone stele. "Our school is currently preparing to compile a school history, and after learning the news, two teachers of the school history editorial committee immediately rushed to check it out." Jin Yuejin, vice principal of the Municipal Experimental Middle School, introduced, "After the teachers of the editorial board inspected the site, they found the words Mengcaotang and other words, and quickly confirmed that this stone stele has important historical research value. ”
According to the old staff of the Municipal Experimental Middle School, as early as the 1980s, this stone stele had been placed in the open space, "At that time, some people also found the words on the stone stele, but they did not know enough about the content of the text and the historical background, and did not attract attention." "Due to its age, there are many weathered and damaged marks on the surface of the stele. There are words on both sides of the stele, one of which is clearer, and many of the handwriting can still be distinguished. After the school teacher rubbed it, he recognized more than 200 words, and the content roughly recorded the several degrees of rise and fall of the Dream Grass Hall.
More than 1500 years ago, by the spring grass pond, Xie Lingyun left a famous sentence for thousands of years
"Spring grass grows in the pond, and the willows in the garden become songbirds." This Chinese familiar verse is the origin of the name Mengcaotang.
In the third year of the Southern Dynasty Song Dynasty (422), Xie Lingyun served as the shou of Yongjia County, and during his time in Wenzhou, he wrote many poems chanting about the landscapes of Wenzhou, which achieved the reputation of the originator of Chinese landscape poetry.
Legend has it that Xie Lingyun met his brother Xie Huilian in a dream in Yongjia Xitang, and occasionally got the good sentence "Spring grass in the pond", and then there was the famous passage "Climbing the Pond upstairs". Later generations of great literary heroes Li Bai, Du Fu and others have borrowed the phrase of pond spring grass.
It has been difficult to reach a definitive conclusion on where Chuncao Pond is after thousands of years, and it is widely said that the original site is north of the former site of Shuzhi and near the present-day Donggong Temple, that is, on the campus of the Municipal Experimental Middle School. The appearance of the stone stele of "Rebuilding the Dream Caotang" provides strong evidence for further clarifying the location of the Spring Grass Pond.
In the wenzhou local chronicles of the past dynasties, the situation of the spring grass pond has been recorded many times:
For example, the Ming Dynasty's Wanli "Wenzhou Fuzhi": "Chi Shang Lou, in the north of the old county Zhifeng HuiTang, has not existed for a long time." Or the cloud in the Imagi Garrison. "Fenghui Hall is in the present-day East Gonggong.
Qing Guangxu's "Yongjia County Chronicle": "The Dream Grass Hall was ruled after the old county, that is, the West Hall of Jin, where Xie Lingyun dreamed of Huilian. During the Guangxu dynasty, Wenzhou Fu Tongzhi Guo Zhongyue said in the "Little Notes of oujiang": "Kang Le climbed the pond upstairs, dreamed of Huilian, and got the sentence 'pond raw spring grass', in the present city to guard the place ... After that, there is a land with a long square of about an acre, which is suspected to be Xie Gongchi. "The city guard camp is in the north of the tower.
Expert research: The two sides of the stone stele are inscriptions of the Ming and Qing dynasties
The stone stele of "Reconstructing the Dream Caotang" was rediscovered, which attracted widespread attention from the literary and historical circles in Wenzhou. Zheng Quan, a scholar of literature and history and director of the Wenzhou Fuxue Confucian Temple Exhibition Hall, pointed out after examination that the other side of the stone stele should be engraved with the "Rebuilding dream grass hall" written by Gao Bin of Ruianzhi County in the Ming Dynasty, "Wenzhou poet Yang Qing (1865-1935) has an article in the "Yang Qing Collection" "Dream Grass Hall Dongxuan Zhangba", which records the relevant situation of this stone stele. ”
The "Dream Grass Hall Dongxuan Zhangba" shows that during the daoguang years of the late Qing Dynasty, someone found this stone stele of Liu Qixian's "Rebuilding dream grass hall" in the ruins of the Dream Grass Hall, and Yang Qing pointed out in the record that Liu Qixian's inscription was directly engraved on the back of the stone stele of Gao Bin's "Rebuilding dream grass hall" in the Ming Dynasty.
The handwriting on the other side of the stone stele found in the Municipal Experimental Middle School is basically blurred, and the main text is difficult to read, but words such as Mengcaotang can be seen in the title. Fortunately, Ming Hongzhi's "Wenzhou FuZhi" volume 19 completely compiled Gao Bin's "Rebuilding the Dream Grass Hall". The inscription shows that the Mengcao Hall was built in the Song Dynasty and was rebuilt twice during the Ming Dynasty's Orthodox Years and the Hongzhi Years. Gao Bin also recorded the origin of the name of the Dream Grass Hall, "The past is far away, the West Hall is no longer the same, the good deeds do not forget their people (Xie Lingyun), and the thoughts are preserved, and the Dream Grass Hall is also made."
In the "Dream Grass Hall Dongxuan Zhangba", Yang Qing said: "Now the Dream Grass Hall and the Spring Grass Pond site have been cut back to the Middle School, and a monument still hides in the forest, and in the next hundred years, I don't know how to change it." "More than 100 years after Yang Qing saw the stele, this stele was fortunately rediscovered by us.
At present, the Municipal Experimental Middle School has transferred the stone stele to the main campus of the school and contacted the cultural relics department, and will further identify the stone stele in the near future.
Source: Pocket Wenzhou Client
Original title: Where is the "Spring Grass Pond" in Xie Lingyun's poem? This stone stele found on the campus of Wenzhou Experimental Middle School may be able to solve the puzzle!
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