Mr. Zhou Xinglong's "Sacred Relics of Chen Shouguo Mountain"
On the afternoon of October 26, several Nanchong painting, calligraphy, collection, literature and history enthusiasts gathered at the home of Teacher Lan Jiaxing, a researcher of the Culture of the Three Kingdoms, to taste the heavy-color Chinese painting "Sacred Relics of Chen Shouguo Mountain" proposed by Teacher Lan Jiaxing and created by Mr. Zhou Xinglong, deputy secretary general of the Nanchong Artists Association and deputy secretary general of the Calligraphy and Painting Institute of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.
The "Sacred Relics of Chen Shouguo Mountain" is square, brightly colored, about 1.7 meters high and wide, and the Wanjuan Tower, Guanyin Pavilion, Tiangang Temple, Ganlu Temple, Wenchang Palace, etc. depicted in the painting are all famous places in the ancient Nanchong Guoshan (now Xishan). It vividly shows that since the beginning of Confucianism in chen shou wanjuan lou in the Western Jin Dynasty, following the Tang and Song Dynasties and The Ming and Qing Buddhist studies, the formation of the unity of the three religions, the return of the ten thousand laws to the sect, and the Mengzi Cape of Jinquan Mountain in Guoshan has become the main activity place for Nanchong folk beliefs and folk customs display. Since then, Chen Shou has been "the ancestor of ancient literature" and the source of the folk culture in nanchong in ancient Guozhou. The Confucian Taoist culture that arose because of the sacrifice of Chen Shou as a symbol, and folk worship such as Qingguan, Zhongyi, and Filial Piety, made the Wanjuanlou Mengzi Cape Fengxi Spring "the land is extracted by the county crown" the root of folk belief in nanchong, ancient Guozhou.
The original intention of the painting was because the "Guoshan Sixian Fu" created by Teacher Lan Jiaxing won the Essay Shortlisted Award, Teacher Lan based on his own experience in studying Chen Shou over the years, plus in recent years, Nanchong has also been promoting the culture of the Three Kingdoms, in order to more intuitively show the ancient Nanchong Chen Shou Sacred Relics, in 2019 he germinated the idea of using pictures to show the monuments. In the past three years, he has sought out 5 painters, hoping that they can create a map of the sacred relics of Guoshan Mountain, but for various reasons they have not succeeded, but in July this year, Mr. Zhou Xinglong accepted his invitation and began to create "Chen Shou Guoshan Sacred Relics Map".
Mr. Zhou Xinglong's ancestral home is Chongqing, in 1965 came to Nanchong has been more than 50 years, Nanchong is his second hometown, the land of Nanchong Zhou Lao is very loving, the streets and alleys of Nanchong are more familiar with the heart, his "Nanchong Memory" series of Chinese paintings comforted the hearts of many citizens. Mr. Zhou Xinglong is familiar with most of the geographical locations in the paintings of "Chen Shouguo Mountain Sacred Relics", and he has been there many times from the 1960s to the 1970s. Half of the temples in the painting he personally walked through when he was young, plus some of the palace temple names provided by Teacher Langaching, he also went to the West Bridge with Teacher Lan several times before painting, and now many places have been rebuilt, some have completely lost sight of the original site, the two through their own memories and looking up historical materials, visited the local elderly, and finally set the location accurately. In addition to taking care of his wife for more than two months, Mr. Zhou Xinglong spent the rest of his time immersing himself in ink and color in order to complete this heavy color Chinese painting, during which he pushed away some painting orders and devoted himself to creation.
The Wanhuan Building reflected on the right side of the picture shows Chen Shou's holy relics in Nanchong Guoshan. Chen Shou undertook the court training, shouldered the hopes of his father's generation, and when he entered the Taixue Zhou Gate as a teenager, he only knew people and had great ambitions. In 254 AD, at the age of 22, he was appointed as the chief bookkeeper of the Wei general Jiang Wei, who collected documents and handled daily affairs; in 257 AD, he was the secretary of Dongguan Pavilion at the age of 257; in 258, at the age of 26, Chen Shou was promoted to the post of Shanqi (Riding Du Wei) and Huangmen Shilang (散馬常侍), serving as a scholar. Enter the rules and regulations for negligence, prepare the emperor's advisers, and go out on horseback to scatter. Scattered riding or also known as riding capital lieutenant is the title of official, riding capital lieutenant is a military rank, and the Yellow Gate Attendant conveys the emperor's edict). Chen Shou's young men entered the army as a general Jiang Wei's staff moved to scatter horses, and the Yellow Gate Waiter Was a good opportunity for Ke Yixue's father to humiliate and show his skills, but he was frustrated by the treachery and evil, and Chen Shou took the ancient heroes of Guoshan as a sustenance, and encouraged himself not to fall into Qingyun's ambitions.
At that time, Guoshan was surrounded by the West River, the scenery was beautiful, the feng shui was excellent, across the West River and the lake pastoral, the village was scattered with cooking smoke, the Jialing River meandered in the mountains, you can overlook the AnHan City (now Qingquanba Wulidian, eight miles away from Guoshan) and the Zhou Zhou Observatory, in order to remember the teacher's teaching of self-improvement, the picturesque rivers and mountains make people magnificent and fierce; Chen Shou was disillusioned by the ideal of military strategy and meritorious service due to the demise of the Shu Han Dynasty, and his thoughts changed to the world with culture and bo to benefit the people, and Da Ze was able to help the world and hide himself; Guoshan was close to his home. There are towering pine roses, strange rock springs, mountain peaks and greenery, beasts of prey, insects and snakes pan road, so Chen Shou is in the remote area of Guoshan Mountain, high cliffs on the building to guard the tomb to do filial piety, and study the writings (rich in books, mountain people woodcutters in the past called ten thousand scrolls).
Chen Shou was in the secluded area of Guoshan Cliff Rock, pillowing vegetables and eating, while reading and reasoning, while sorting out the collected history books, geographical records, archives, celebrity articles and other materials, divided into categories, with writings as entertainment, very famous in his hometown, leaving many relics in the mountains and rivers around Guoshan. His reading and visiting were rushing around, especially because the Shu Han did not ignore the historical officials, chen Shou needed to pay a hundred times his efforts to collect and sort it out, during which he wrote the biographies of The Marquis of An Han," the "Biography of Zhang Ling", and the "Biography of Huang Quan" of Hongya Zhi, laying a solid foundation for him to write the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" in the future.
Chen Shou lived in seclusion in Guoshan for ten years (259 to 268 AD), from a lieutenant with a heart to make meritorious achievements, to a hermit who "distinguished between literary qualities", and then to "love and narrative history" to achieve historical talent and move to shuanggu".
Regarding the history of the Wanjuan Building, Teacher Lang jiaxing introduced: "The Wanjuan Building is built on the rock, which is a three-story building with a three-story wooden and stone structure with flying eaves and arches, golden splendor, and a magnificent temple. The first floor is a place for tourists to rest, and the walls are full of inscriptions by tourists; the second floor is where the books are collected; and the third floor is the place where the statue of Chen Shou is enshrined. ”
Since then, the Guoshan Wanjuan Building has become a spiritual dojo dedicated to Chen Shou and remembered by the people. As a result, it became a scenic spot in Nanchong, and the Ganlu Temple was built at the Jinquan Mountain under the Guoshan Chen Shou Ancestral Hall and the Wanhuan Building. Lead the spring water of the Ten Thousand Scrolls Building into the Ganlu Temple, out of the Dragon's Mouth Spit Spring, "Ganhuan Crown in the Whole Territory" means that the humanistic spirit of the Ten Thousand Scrolls Building is as inspirational as the Clear Spring of Ganlu, the mountain is not in the high youxian is named, and the place of attraction in Nanchong is also. Because the "Ten Thousand Scrolls Building, Chen Shou Ancestral Hall, Ganlu Temple" takes the sacrifice of Chen Shou as the main body, has a rich collection of books, and is a famous Place of Confucianism, it is very attractive to the world's eager scholars, who rush to this sacrifice to pray for blessings, gather here to study and cultivate, so with the Ten Thousand Scrolls Building as the symbol, along the banks of the Mengzi Cape Creek, and the Erlang Temple Headland Mountains are in a U-shaped spring stream, all over the Rui Palace Zhenyu.
At the top right of the picture there is a hug of Park An. In the spring of the eighth year (333 AD) of the Jin Dynasty Emperor Xianhe, the famous Confucian scholar, medical scientist, and alchemist Baopuzi Gehong, who brought his apprentices to Shu to visit, listened to the woodcutters in the "Taigu Library Cave" to tell chen Shou's story of chen Shou's ten years of seclusion in Guoshan, and the pills he took were made of dragon titles (Huang Jing), and when he heard ge Hong raise his hand, he immediately visited Guoshan in Anhan County, and in the north of Jinquan Mountain, "Baopu'an", traveled to various mountains and mountains, collected medicines for several months, experienced the backup of the dragon title (Huang Jing) efficacy records, and then returned to Luofu Mountain to write it into the "Baopuzi" in The Luofu Mountain. Inside. Immortal Medicine".
In the center of the picture, the Jinquan Academy, the Wenchang Hall, and the Guanyin Pavilion are reflected. There are historical records: in the fourth year of Ming Longqing (1570 AD), "Nanchong Zheren", "Prince Taishi, official Shangshu" Chen Yiqin zhishi returned to the rear, enthusiastic about the public welfare undertakings in his hometown, in Nanchong Guoshan (recognizing the ancestors and returning to the sect, "Chen surname marked the head of all ethnic groups" "Anhan County out of the people, the big surname Chen") next to the Ganlu Temple, built the Wenchang Hall, and his wife also donated dowry money to build the Guanyin Pavilion. "The Monkey Spring is between the cliffs of Guanyin, and the ancients carved the stone as the Monkey Body Spring (the water of the Ten Thousand Scrolls of the Mountain of Fruit Mountain enters the Ganlu Temple and then comes out of the Stone Monkey Jiri); the stone carvings on the side of the cliff are like scales, and the county shou (Ming Long Qingnian) Wang Jiayou engraved the word "Mengquan". Because Guanyin Pavilion is a Buddhist temple, it fills the gap of folk beliefs that were the holy places of Confucianism before the Ming Dynasty, and further enriches the folk beliefs in Shunqing Nanchong. Chen Yiqin's son Chen Yuxian studied at Jinquan Academy since childhood, and was sent out as an official to be a scholar of the Libu Shangshu Prince Taibao Wenyuange University; and the Wanjuan Lou, Ganlu Temple, Wenchang Hall, and Guanyin Pavilion are all located on Guoshan Mountain, which is convenient for the people of Nanchong to travel to the mountains to worship, so this place has become a popular place for the people of Nanchong to believe, pray and sacrifice. The Shi people worshiped the Wanjuan Lou and sacrificed Chen Shou "the ancestor of the ancient literature, and the land is gathered by the county crown"; the people of the people have the wish of praying for blessings and asking for heirs, and compete to drink the water of the "Mengquan Spring", hoping to drink the wisdom spring water drawn from the Chen Shou Wanjuan Lou and filtered by the Guanyin Pavilion of the Wenchang Hall of the Ganlu Temple, which can open the obscurantism, become pregnant, read ten thousand volumes, and be enthroned.
The scenic spots and monuments in the picture express the historical facts of the past: before and after the spring and March, the sun was shining, the wind was pleasant, the officials and rich gentry went out of the city with their families, and joined hands with tens of thousands of well-known people to step on the green and ascend to the heights, and enjoyed with the people. Along the Qile Cape, visit the Reading Yi Cave (Feixian Cave) of Ren Han (Ming "Jiajing Eight Talents", one of the "Four Great Masters of Shu") of Qile Mountain, etc., and then walk the Huofeng Mountain, Stone Mountain, along the way people enjoy the scenery, smell the fragrance of Fangfei flowers, overlook the ancient city of Nanchong, refer to the comments that the nine palaces and eighteen temples in the ancient city building are strange and strange, funny and witty, mountain songs and answers, before and after, commonly known as walking the mountain (exorcism). People come to Jinquan Mountain, a fruit mountain next to Shizhu Mountain, to worship the mountain god Chen Shou first, and then go to the temple where they are worshipped according to their wishes. The officials of the Shi people called on their colleagues to sit on the rocks by the water's edge of Mengzi Cape Creek, called their attendants to wait, sat on the cloth dishes, floated cups to imitate "qu shui liu", wrote and rhymed with rhymes, drank and chanted poems, and drank and walked with candles in their hearts; the squires and gentlemen called on friends, sat on the new sprout lawn, swung the dam and dam feasted and drank and fought wine, and their plate cloth dishes were ordered by the elders, passed the cup and drank, guessed the fist to win, punished the wine to compete, laughed and laughed, and returned drunk; the deep boudoir was beautiful, and the women of the hut villages, after praying to the gods and making wishes, entered the temples to watch the temples and feast, and knew and made friends with Jinlan , share the bittersweet joys and sorrows of life, in order to seek mutual encouragement and mutual encouragement of the world. Since then, the convention has become the "March 3rd, play west mountain" phenological festival has flourished.
The scenic spots and monuments of the whole picture have historical facts and legends, if combined with reading the article "The Evolution of Chen Shou Activities in Ancient Nanchong" to appreciate the "Sacred Relics of Chen Shouguo Mountain", it is even more refreshing, and the historical presentation of this "First Resort of Guoguo" is very good!
The author of this article, Teacher Lan Jiaxing, took a picture at the ruins of the Wanjuan Building in Guoshan2021.10.4.
About the Author
Lang Jiaxing, pen name Blue Leech, nanchong Shunqing people. He is a director of Nanchong Cifu Society and an individual member of The Chen Shou Research Association of Sichuan Province. Grassroots scholar poet. He likes to study the classics of traditional Chinese studies, and purchases hundreds of types of classics such as "Twenty-Five Histories", "Thirteen Commentaries on the Thirteen Classics", "Zizhi Tongjian", "New Zizhi Tongjian", "Hundred Sons Complete Book", "Zhuzi Integration", "The Essentials of Mongolian Studies", "Mongolian Studies Instructions", "Wenxin Carved Dragon" and other hundreds of types of classics.
Focus on the collection and study of local folk folk barnyard literature and history, and his works "The Origin of Guocheng", "The Past and Present Life of the Three Officials Temple", "Fengya Mountain Xie Family Sister Marrying the City God", "Chen Ge Lao XiuQiao Dexian Help", "Chen Shou Soul Return to Du Wei Dam", "Shunqing Princess Love Breaks Zhu Fengshan", "Chen Shou Mo Tomb Examination" and so on are published in academic special issues of newspapers and magazines.
The long poem "Zhang Lingzan of the Ancient Heroes" and the folk song "Anti-Japanese War March March Song • Ten Cups of Tea" are permanently collected by the Nanjing Folk Anti-War Museum. Co-authored the Chinese-English-Japanese Silk Collector's Edition of Proverbs of the Three Kingdoms with experts. "Guoshan Sixian Fu" was shortlisted author of the national poetry collection activity of "Shunri Yao Tianzhang Hundred Descendants, Tang Sheng Han Yun Fu Nanchong".