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In recent years, film and television dramas such as tomb robbery have been very popular, and the web drama "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" released this year is one of them. In Gulan County, a small isolated place in Shanxi, the protagonists and the three protagonists embark on a difficult road into the tomb to find the beads of dust. The owner of this tomb is Li Chunfeng of the Tang Dynasty.
In the play, Li Chunfeng's image is a master who is quite windy and proficient in feng shui. From the fact that the protagonists have gone through layers of hardships and nine deaths to find the key clues of the cloud dust beads, we can see how dangerous this tomb is, and we can also see that the owner of the tomb is absolutely human. So, what kind of person is Li Chunfeng in history?
Smart and studious
In "Longling Labyrinth", the protagonist Hu Bayi once said that Li Chunfeng was a five-pin official. The historical Li Chunfeng was born in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the family is not a high-gate household, the only father who was an official in the dynasty was just a county official, and later resigned as a Taoist. It is such a family with no background that has produced a five-pin official. Although Wupin is not a big official, for the ordinary people with flat heads, Wupin is also very powerful.
Li Chunfeng, who was an official to Taishi Ling, was a bright and studious seedling from an early age, and he was familiar with reading various books at a young age. The Old Book of Tang records that "Chun Feng is young and handsome, Bo Shi Qun Shu, You Ming Wen, Almanac, Yin and Yang Studies".
Because his father was a Taoist monk and was still quite accomplished in the Dao, Li Chunfeng also longed for this Tao, and showed a talent higher than ordinary people on this Path. As a minor, he was able to deeply understand those obscure astronomical characters, arithmetic problems, and so on. A child his age was still literate, and he was already studying such a profound book, and it was not an exaggeration to praise him for his genius.
In order to learn more knowledge, he was not yet ten years old and rushed to Nantuo Mountain alone to seek the Tao, and this eagerness to learn was indeed very human. When he grew up, even if he became an official, he did not let go of this momentum, but instead studied more deeply, never satisfied with the knowledge he already had.
Quiet by nature
As a cultivator, Li Chunfeng has been very calm since childhood. While someone else's child was still playing and jumping up and down, he could sit quietly and read a book alone. He ignored the noise of the outside world, nor did he feel that his behavior was boring and boring, but instead sank his heart and curiously explored the mysteries recorded in the book. Maybe he was born to do that.
When he was an official in the dynasty and spent his days with those ancient books, he did not feel bored. These ancient books on astronomical calendars have always been obscure, making people dizzy and sleepy at first sight. But he always studied quietly, and he could get the essence of it.
When he was an official in the Taishi Bureau, he was also commissioned to compile historical books such as the Book of Jin. Compiling history books is not a trivial matter, and it is necessary to consult a large number of classics and organize them. If you still encounter problems such as the loss of classics or the lack of records, it is a headache. In short, this not only requires countless energy, but also requires people to sink their hearts in order to complete it well, and ordinary people can't do this job. And Li Chunfeng has done a very good job, his data collection is very comprehensive, and the collation is also in place.
Innovation
Li Chunfeng's intelligent and studious nature made him highly accomplished in astronomy, calendar, and arithmetic. When he studied the experiences and achievements left by his predecessors, on the one hand, he improved his own level, on the other hand, he integrated these knowledges, discovered the mistakes and deficiencies of his predecessors, and boldly made innovations and changes.
The Old Book of Tang has a saying that he "refuted Fu Renjun's discussion", and that "the present Lingtai Waiting Ceremony is a legacy of the Wei Dynasty, and there are many omissions in its system" and so on.
He wrote to the emperor, saying that the original "PengYin Yuan Calendar" had many errors, and put forward his own views. Not only that, but he also asked for his own orders to improve the armillary instrument. At the same time, he and his colleagues also worked together to compile the ten arithmetic sutras that have been handed down to the world, making them more popular and easier to understand, and even corrected the errors in them, which played a great role in the study and development of arithmetic in later generations.
Li Chunfeng's rigorous attitude toward study and his courage to push out the old and make new innovations are indeed admirable.
In this life, Li Chunfeng is actually very pure, that is, he is simply devoted to the study of astronomy, arithmetic, and calendar, studying the achievements of the sages in this regard, and further rising and innovating on the basis of them. From the time he read and read, to the time he died, he devoted his life to these things. It is his diligence and hard work, and it is his deep study that has led to many of his later achievements.
It is really rare for people to be so attentive, or even intoxicated by one thing. Perhaps it is precisely because all his thoughts are spent on research and study that his official position will only be five pins. And "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth" portrays him as a master who is proficient in feng shui, and there are indeed traces to follow.
Reference: Encyclopedia entry "Li Chunfeng"
TV series "Dragon Ridge Labyrinth"