In the eyes of the Tang Dynasty poet Cen San, the Huamen Tower in Liangzhou was definitely a place where friends could meet, drink and sing poems.
At that time, although Wuwei was in the border area, its economy was prosperous, the folk customs were simple, and the scenery was beautiful, and it was deeply loved by Cen Shan. He wrote many beautiful poems here, in which the Flower Gate Tower was mentioned many times.
In March 751, Anxi Jiedu transferred Gao Xianzhi to hexi Jiedushi. Cen Shan, who served in the shogunate at the Ansei Festival, and other staff members came to Wuwei at the beginning of spring and spent nearly half a year of military life in Wuwei.
The border city is mighty, the spring light is intoxicating, and the street market is a bustling scene. After a long and arduous journey, Cen Shan sneaked around and took a small tour of Wuwei City. When he came to a small hotel in front of the Huamen Tower near the Wuwei Dayun Temple, he saw the first bloom of Yu Qian on the side of the road, and an old man who was nearly seventy years old was safely selling wine to entertain guests, which was a seductive scene that deeply attracted Cen Shan. He stopped for a moment in the small hotel, while enjoying the charming spring light, while letting the intoxicating aroma of wine dispel the fatigue of the journey, and immediately composed a poem "Asking the Flower Gate Restaurant":
"The old man is still selling wine, a thousand pots and a hundred urns of flowers at the door. Dao Ping Yu pods are like money, pick up the wine Jun ken ken? ”
In addition to appreciating the poem, it should also be noted that this poem, whether it is the title or the content, mentions the "flower gate".
The "Flower Gate" here is the "Flower Gate Tower", which refers to the pavilion of the Liangzhou Pavilion and is a landmark building in Liangzhou in the Tang Dynasty. Professor Jia Xiaojun of Hexi University believed in the article "A Brief Discussion of Guzang City in the Five Liang Capitals" that the "Huamen Tower" should be a representative liquor store in Liangzhou City, that is, a place where poets and friends meet.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, for defensive needs, a fortress was set up at Huamen Mountain, three hundred miles north of JuyanHai. During the Tianbao period, it was occupied by the Hui, and later used "Huamen" as a synonym for the Hui. But Wu Wei's "Flower Gate Tower" should have other words. The Wuwei Huamen Tower is roughly located near the Dayun Temple, and it is estimated that it is related to the "Flower Building" and "Flower Building Courtyard" in the temple at that time. In the second year of Tang Jingyun (711), the local repair of the Dayun Temple, after the completion of the repair, he carved a stone stele to record its events, that is, the "Monument of Merit and Virtue of the Ancient Temple of dayun Temple", written by Liu Xiu, a former scholar of the Wen Pavilion of TheOryi, Chao Xinglang, the main book of Liangzhou Shenniao County, and the Xiahou Zhan seal of The County. The original stele has long been annihilated, and the Ming Dynasty re-engraved and renamed the "Liangzhou Wei Dayun Temple Ancient Temple Meritorious Monument".
The inscription reads: "When the sun has a flower tower and a heavy pavilion, the courtyard has three cloisters, which are shown according to the Baolin, and the dry Yao light is straight up, and the blessed land of the people is blessed, and the good faith is converted." "The Hualou Courtyard has a seven-story wooden floating map, that is, the day Zhang Shi built the temple, which is one hundred and eighty feet high, with twenty-eight rooms around the floor, and four households and eight windows." The inscription not only describes the maintenance of the Zen Temple, pavilions, pagodas, paintings, etc., but also mentions "Chongcao Garden, Lotus Flower and Fruit, QiShu Zhengyan, Qiongtai Sen Column", etc., including "Flower Building" and "Flower Building Courtyard". After the maintenance, the Dayun Temple is majestic and magnificent, and there are garden pavilions, which naturally attract "the lovers of the City of Law, the people who come and go day and night, the luggage people, and the people who never quit", which can be said to be a tourist attraction at that time.
Perhaps the "Huamen Lou" is a building built in front of or near the "Hua Lou" and "Hua Lou Yuan" to attract tourists and literati from all over the world to enjoy the scenery and stay here, drink and recite poetry.
Cen Shan is one of them.
In the summer of 751, Cen Left Wuwei and returned to Chang'an. Three years later, in the summer and autumn of 754, Cen Shan went to the Northern Court Capital Protector and Isi Jiedu to make the Changqing shogunate and serve as the judge of jiedu. He set off from Chang'an, passed by Wuwei, where he had lived for half a year, and stayed in Wuwei for several days with strong feelings. Looking at the prosperity and bustle of Wuwei, Cen Shan couldn't help but burst out of pride, drinking bitterly with his friends in the Huamen Building of Wuwei, issuing a hearty laugh, and writing a poem "The Night Collection of Liangzhou Pavilion and Judges":
"The crooked moon hangs on the head of the city, and the moon rises from the head of the city to illuminate Liangzhou." Liangzhou seven miles 100,000 homes, Hu people half unpacked the pipa. The pipa is a song that can be broken, and the wind is long and the night is long. There are many deceased people in the Hexi curtain, and the deceased people do not come to the spring of the third and fifth. Seeing autumn grass in front of the flower gate building, how can you look at the old man poorly and lowly. You can laugh several times in your life, and you must get drunk when you meet wine. ”
The poem depicts the architectural scale of Wuwei City from many aspects, the scene of multi-ethnic common life, and the urban life of prosperous trade, shops and fine wine.
And the place that allows Cen To express his heroic feelings vividly is still the flower gate building that haunts the soul of the dream.
The Wuwei Flower Gate Tower of that year has long been lost, but the poems left by the poet have been passed down through the ages. Reading his poems is like flipping through the antique tang dynasty Wuwei history scrolls, which makes people look back on the millennium and think about it.
About author:Li Yuanhui, a native of Wuwei, Gansu, is an assistant researcher at the Liangzhou Cultural Research Institute. He has published more than 300 historical and cultural articles in newspapers and magazines such as Gansu Daily and Democratic Consultative Daily. He has published the long historical novel "Sweat and Blood BMW", the poetry collection "Poetry and Words of Tianma Hometown" (co-authored with Ximu), the Wuwei Literary History Essay "Tianma Long Song" (co-authored with Zhang Changbao), the Wuwei Intangible Cultural Heritage Monograph "Liangzhou Xianxiaozhi", "Twenty-Four Filial Pieties" (co-authored with Zhao Datai and others), the Wuliang cultural work "Saying Five Liangs" (co-authored with Xu Zhaoshou), and participated in the compilation and publication of the "Liangzhou Talks" comic strip.