Zhao Pu's initial inscription 'Lotus Village'
In the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy, Huzhou, Zhejiang, occupies half of the country. Cao Buxing, Huai Su, Zhao Mengfu, Wang Meng, Wu Changshuo, Shen Yinmo, Fei Xinmei, etc., are all Outstanding Everyone.
Zhao Mengfu, a descendant of the royal family of the Song Dynasty, was a calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty. In the history of Chinese calligraphy, he is an iconic figure who has been shining through the ages.
In the southeast of Huzhou City, there is a garden called Lotus Village, which is Zhao Mengfu's other business. Lotus flowers are abundant and extremely beautiful.
As far back as the Tang and Song dynasties, this place was called Baiping Prefecture, and the Tang Dynasty poet Bai Juyi once wrote the "Five Records of Baiping Prefecture", praising the beautiful scenery of this place. Zhao Mengfu's ancestors bought this garden and passed it on to Zhao Mengfu, where he set up another business in the garden, which was originally named Lotus Village.
Lotus Village covers an area of 112 acres, and among the many scenic gardens in Jiangnan, it can be regarded as a grand view garden.
Wu Xingfu
At the entrance to the garden, on one side, is a conspicuous large carved stone "Wu Xingfu". This is written by Zhao Mengfu when he was young, singing about the famous landscapes of his hometown Wuxing, property, and humanities, and when he was in his forties, he wrote in the book, which is a masterpiece of ancient Chinese literature and calligraphy.
Walking on the boulevard, the greenery, the morning sun, through the leaves, wantonly sprinkled in the garden.
The ancient trees in the garden are towering in the sky, standing tall and soaring into the clouds. Metasequoia, camphor, chicken claw maple, sycamore, ginkgo biloba are all over every corner of the manor, walking in it, comfortable, spontaneous.
The green and upright ancient wood sucks the aura of Jiangnan, absorbs the spirit of Jiangnan, and climbs tirelessly to a new height.
The embroidered pier-like stone, inlaid on the sidewalk, makes people feel exquisite when walking.
Everywhere you can see people singing and dancing, singing, laughing, dancing, it should be the beautiful scenery of the new life of the Lotus Garden.
Water is the soul of Jiangnan, and water is the eye of Jiangnan. Lotus Village, of course, is also indispensable to water. Looking around, the willows are leaning, the cypress trees are lush, and the boats are boating on the lake, competing for water, giving the calm lake a ripple of joy and laughter.
Although it is late autumn, the green pines are still green, quietly hidden on the lakeside, quietly watching the tourists like a tide, tourists weaving.
Rattan, one in thickness and one thickness, also thrive in the garden. They huddled together, in a myriad of threads, climbing the rocks, along the stone walls, tough upwards, upwards.
Rockeries overlap and vary. The stone side is leaning on the water, the water is leaning on the pine, and the beautiful eyebrows are stationed on it, pouring into this lake, this water.
The garden also does not forget tea, one corner of the garden, there is a place to drink tea. The gardens of Jiangnan are everywhere, and the tea in Jiangnan is also everywhere.
The green of the garden is indispensable to the embellishment of red flowers. In the garden in late autumn, golden yellow, green, pink, color is fragrant.
The Lotus Peak rockery is the treasure of the town garden of Lotus Village, and the soul of Lotus Village. Shaped like a lotus flower with buds, it is a fine product in the Taihu Lake stone. Engraved on the three seal characters of 'Lotus Peak', it was written by Zhao Mengfu himself.
After 700 years of wind and rain, it stands in the vicissitudes of the years.
The zigzag pavilions and corridors once left the figure of Zhao Mengfu and his wife, Pipe Sheng. Today's people, also with joy and respect, follow the footsteps of the ancients, shoot the railing all over, and gaze deeply.
Deep roots and leafy roots, intertwined roots, they, in the wind and rain, in the morning sun, in the sunset, accompany the master, let the painter paint immortality, let the calligrapher write legend.
The main building in the Lotus Village, where Zhao Mengfu studied the art of calligraphy and met his friends with literature. And there are "Song Xuezhai Anthology" passed down.
The title is Song Xue, Xu is Zhao's admiration for Qing Song, the vigor and purity of white snow, right? There was zhao song's blood flowing on his body, and Qu Yi Shiyuan, Zhao's heart, was like pine snow.
Xie Xiaosi managed the building
Sha Menghai title 'Title Mountain Building'
Zhao Mengfu's wife, Guan Sheng, is also a danqing good hand, especially good at ink bamboo, often in this building poetry and painting, so the name 'pipe building'.
The love story "My Nong Word", which is widely recited by posterity, is a joyful song that their husband and wife raise their eyebrows and accompany each other.
Xie Xiaosi inscribed '苕上辋川'
Statue of Zhao Mengfu
Zhao Mengfu greatly admired the Tang Dynasty landscape poet Wang Wei, and named it 'Yuanchuan Chuan' from Wang Wei's other business'.
Pastoral landscape is the sentiment of the literati and inkers of past generations. The scholar Zhao Mengfu also did not forget to inherit the same lineage.
Gu Tinglong inscribed
Wu Zuoren inscription
The beautiful scenery in the park is everywhere, and the inscriptions of the famous artists also add color to the garden, Zhao Puchu, Sha Menghai, Huang Miaozi, Guo Zhongxuan, Qian Zhonglian... Very delicate and just right to decorate the buildings.
The sky is high and cloudy, the autumn is gentle, and the exquisite lotus village, under the care of the blue sky and white clouds, shows the quiet beauty of autumn.
Ginkgo biloba, carrying hundreds of millions of years of thickness and vicissitudes, turns golden and ripe.
The residual lotus, standing in the late autumn sun, although there is no grand scene of 'receiving the infinite blue of the lotus leaves', but this pool of lake light is still in love with each other, and strangers are dependent on each other.
Zhao Mengfu, as a master of art in the history of Chinese painting and calligraphy, he worked on calligraphy, fine painting, especially calligraphy and painting, especially calligraphy and painting, the highest achievements, created 'Zhao body' calligraphy, together with Ouyang Qing, Yan Zhenqing, Liu Gongquan and called the four masters of Kaishu.
The 'Wuxing School' led by Zhao Mengfu had a wide influence at that time, and Huang Gongwang, Wang Meng, etc. were deeply influenced by it, and Zhao Mengfu had "Wuxing Landscape and Qingyuan Map" passed down.
Zhao Mengfu is listed as a world cultural celebrity. In the 1980s, Zhao Mengfu was one of the Chinese cultural celebrities named by the International Astronomical Organization after the crater on Mercury. His grandson, the Yuan Dynasty painter Wang Meng, is also prominently listed. In a small water town, two characters were selected, which cannot but be said to be a special honor.
People, wandering in the garden, geese, also in the water, swim freely. In the blue waves, playful chasing, swooping up and down.
The creatures of nature are at ease only in nature.
The Sacred Will Monument, the late Qing Dynasty bibliophile Lu Xinyuan donated more than 150 kinds of books to the Guozijian, which was commended by the imperial court, and Lu Xinyuan recorded the Sacred Will Inscription Monument to commemorate it.
After the Yuan Dynasty, Lotus Village was repeatedly burned by war and gradually became deserted. In the late Qing Dynasty, the bibliophile Lu Xinyuan purchased an area of lotus pond and built a diving garden.
Later, Lotus Manor merged with The Hidden Garden, covering an area of 112 acres.
Inside the Lotus Village, the white walls are double, simple and elegant, and the humanistic atmosphere is interlocked with the ancient style. Outside the garden, which is separated by a wall, there is a lot of traffic and a continuous stream.
Quiet and bustling, like two worlds.
2021.10.30In the bank of Lu Ye Yang