"After the new rain of PuFan, a branch of pagoda shadow recognizes Tongzhou", which is a famous poem often quoted by Wang Weizhen to describe Tongzhou, from the "Twelve Views of Wenchang Pavilion • Ancient Pagoda Lingyun" contained in the "(Guangxu) Tongzhou Chronicle".
Author: Shu Xiaofeng
<h5>Tongzhou Tower</h5>
The full poem reads:
The clouds and water color Lu River autumn, full of locust flowers feel the old tour.
After the new rain of Pu Fan, a branch of the tower shadow recognized tongzhou.
Today, there are very few historical materials that can be found about Wang Weizhen, and although books such as "(Guangxu) Rebuilding the Chronicle of Tianjin Prefecture", "Hansongge Talking about Art Trivia" and "Qing Shilu" have introduced his life deeds, they are only a few words and very brief. By combing through the above historical materials, we only have the following general understanding of Wang Weizhen's life and deeds:
Wang Weizhen, Zi Yingchu, Xi Qing, Lianxi, Lianxi, and Dajing Yiren. A native of Tianjin. The year of Wang Weizhen's birth and death is unknown, but we only know that he lived roughly during the Daoguang to Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty. According to historical records, he was a Gongsheng in the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang (1849), a person raised in the first year of Xianfeng (1851), and the second first jinshi in the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), and served as the head of the ceremonial department in that year. In February of the first year of Tongzhi (1862), Wang Weizhen took the first class of Jingcha and worked with others to "hand over the name of the Military Aircraft Department for use in the Provincial Government". In the third year of Tongzhi (1864), Wang Weizhen was promoted to a cabinet attendant. At the latest in the fifth year of Tongzhi (1866), Wang Weizhen was appointed as the shaoqing of Taichang Temple. In December of that year, as the shaoqing of the Taichang Temple, he was ordered to "go to the Western Mountains to investigate the water source" together with The Right Attendant Kui Ling of the Li Fan Yuan, the Envoy of the Tongzheng Government, Yu Lingchen, the Shaoqing Wenshuo of the Hongxu Temple, and others. In May of the sixth year of Tongzhi (1867), Wang Weizhen was sent to Fujian as a township examination examiner in the capacity of Shaoqing of Dali Temple. At the latest in the eleventh year of Tongzhi (1872), Wang Weizhen was promoted to deputy envoy of the Department of Communications and Political Affairs. In that year, Wang Weizhen was dismissed from his post for offending Empress Dowager Cixi for offending him. According to the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty", "(In the summer and April of the eleventh year of Tongzhi), Wang Weizhen, the deputy envoy of the Department of Communications and Politics, neglected Chen Xianyi Chengzhi, and filial piety was thought out. Give strict deliberations and seek a post. ”
Wang Weizhen's poems describing Tongzhou are not only the poem "Ancient Pagoda Lingyun" that "after the new rain of Pu Fan, a branch of pagoda shadow recognizes Tongzhou", "(Guangxu) Tongzhou Chronicle" is included in Wang Weizhen's "Eight Views of Tongzhou", "Eight Views of Yixian County", and "Twelve Views of Wenchang Pavilion", a total of 28 poems, "Ancient Tower Lingyun" is only one of them. These poems seem to show a picture of the humanities and nature of Tongzhou in the second half of the 19th century, from which we can feel the beautiful scenery and cultural landscape of Tongzhou.
In addition to the poem "Ancient Tower Lingyun" that he created in the "Twelve Views of Wenchang Pavilion", in the "Eight Views of Tongzhou", there is also a song called "Ancient Tower Lingyun":
The tower of a thousand feet is majestic, and the layers of the sky stand against the wind.
The mid-air bell whispers in the clouds, and the New Year's Eve lights are red on top.
Duobao should be a true Buddha, and the title is not the same as Qu Jiang.
Lu Ting is the north of the town tower, and the five-color cage of the ancient Xiangwen is finally ancient.
He describes the fishermen on the banks of the river in early spring:
Rain and sunshine on both sides of the willows, drying net fishing boats on the side of the fishing rocks.
Drunkenly lying on the bow of the ship with a horizontal flute, the sunset is full of coats.
("Twelve Views of Wenchang Pavilion , Liu'an Fishing Boat"
Outside the city of Yixian in spring, there is also an idyllic scenery:
The tree color boundary is far away, and the spring light is scattered and clear.
There is a family in the depths, cooking smoke out of the forest.
("Eight Views of Yixian County: Smoke Trees in the Spring Suburbs")
Although Wang Weizhen was a native of Tianjin, when he was young, he entered Beijing to pass through Tongzhou, and this ancient city was "the fushu of the scenery, the hustle and bustle of Lu Yan", which left a deep impression on him. He not only left behind more than 20 poems describing the scenery of Tongzhou, but also recalled in the "Preface" of the (Guangxu) Tongzhou Chronicle what he saw and heard when he arrived in Tongzhou:
I have seen the reeds of the poles, the waves of the stream, the cooking smoke and clouds □, the estimation of the travel and the collection, its sweat and rain and the sound of thunder, the dragging fiber branch, the answer of the boat, the boat both stopping and exhaling, the wanfu Xi to remove the calf nose, the bag of rice to carry the shoulder, the bamboo palm, no less than the ant wearing the grain to find the burrow, the creep is also the genus.
In that year, Jiang Xuan's "Map of the Supervision and Transportation of the Lu River" composed at the request of Feng Yingliu depicted the scene of the Tongzhou Canal during the Qianlong period, and Lu Xixiong said in the poem "Titled Feng Xingshi in the Same Year "The Map of the Supervision and Transportation of the Lu River" that at that time, "the tower was high and the tree was high and the woods were gathered, and the middle-class official was red and red." The singing chip seems to smell the paging, and the sparkle is too faint." Wang Weizhen's description seems to let us see the prosperity of the Tongzhou Canal in Xianfeng decades later.
It was precisely because Wang Weizhen was both familiar with and full of feelings for Tongzhou that in the fifth year of Guangxu (1879), when Gao Jianxun of Tongzhou Zhizhou was revising the Tongzhou Chronicle, he was specially invited to serve as the chief editor. At this time, Wang Weizhen had already left his job to live at home, and he gladly accepted this invitation and joined "more than ten people of Lu County's literature scholars", and completed the compilation work in less than a year. Zou Commented in the "Preface" of the (Guangxu) Tongzhou Chronicle that the book was "divided into systems, orderly, moderate in detail, and known by both elegance and customs". The (Guangxu) Tongzhou Zhi is a continuation of the (Qianlong) Tongzhou Zhi, adding many important contents of the nearly one hundred years after the forty-eighth year of Qianlong (1783) and the fifth year of Guangxu (1879). Therefore, the study of the history of Tongzhou, "(Guangxu) Tongzhou Chronicle" has a high historical value.
When we recite Wang Weizhen's romantic verse "After the new rain of the unharmed Pufan, a branch of the pagoda shadow recognizes Tongzhou", we should also thank him for his contribution to compiling the "(Guangxu) Tongzhou Chronicle" and recording the history of Tongzhou for us.
Source: Beijing Evening News
EDIT: TF020
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