"Classical Jinghe" was selected for the third series of the Provincial CPPCC "Humanistic Gansu"
Classical Jing River
Lee Se-eun
For those who know a little about Chinese literature and history, the Jing River may be a mysterious water system. It originates from Liupan Mountain, the main peak of the Longshan Mountains, which is hundreds of miles away, and gradually becomes a meteorology, reaching the confluence of Gaoling and Weihe Rivers in Shaanxi Province, stretching for nearly a thousand miles.
Kuntong Mountain should be the first gateway when Jingshui comes out of the mountain, and it is also the most famous Daoyuan Holy Land. It is no wonder that Zhao Shichun, a sage in the Ming Dynasty, once said: "Therefore, whoever speaks a noble word, Shejing cannot see his respect." "Because many gods and immortals have been born here, they may sit in silence for many years, cultivate their temperament, and have an epiphany of physics; or they may not create a family method, write books and speak, and teach disciples widely." The Jing River is a chasm between the two realms of Xianfan and Fan, and it is also a natural city pool placed at the feet of the Daoist. Regardless of the common people, even the emperor had to linger again and again before he could enter his hall.
Kuntong Mountain Zhang Forest photo
According to Zhuangzi Yun:
Guangcheng Zi lived in the stone chamber of the KunTong Mountain, and the Yellow Emperor smelled it and said, "I heard that my son reached the Zhi Dao, and I dare to ask what the Dao wants?" Guang chengzi said: "Erzhi world, clouds do not wait for clusters and rain, wood does not wait for yellow and falls, Xi is enough to speak to the Tao!" The Yellow Emperor retreated, built a special room, Xi Baimao, lived in The Middle Of March, and saw him again. ...... Guangcheng Zi suddenly said, "Zenya asked." The essence of the Tao, the contemplation of the Tao, the extreme of the Tao, the fainting silence. Ignoring the non-hearing, holding the spirit to be quiet, the form will be self-correcting. The mind will be pure, without raul form, without shaking but refining, but with eternal life. Be cautious inside and out, and know more than you lose. ......”
The Yellow Emperor asked how difficult it was, he trekked thousands of miles, first ate a closed door soup, built a room by the Jing River to introspect himself, the sparkling waves of the Jing water gave him the inspiration of wisdom, and then he could climb the mountain to ask. Guang Chengzi used the way of immortality as a metaphor for governing the country, which made the Yellow Emperor suddenly enlightened. Retreating from the Jingshui river to Weishui, and then from Weishui along the Yellow River to the Central Plains, Jingshui wrapped in the purest to purest Dao, also from Jing into Wei, and then merged with the Yellow River, spreading throughout the Central Plains, nourishing the simple hearts of the ancestors. Since then, the Tao, which represents the essence of ancient Chinese culture, has been omnipresent in the land of China, and the factor of Jingshui has multiplied many ideas of the most divine and holy. I often think of the Jing River, a witness to Chinese Taoism and a holy water for emperors and people to bathe in the Hajj. Her crystal clear water waves illuminated the superb eyes of masters such as Guang Chengzi, Chi Songzi, Rong Chenggong, Zhang Sanfeng, etc., and also reflected the faces of herdsmen such as the Yellow Emperor, the Qin Emperor, and Han Wu. She contained too many philosophical propositions in ancient China with a trickle of clear water, and also silently delivered inexhaustible nutrients to the Emperor Tianhou soil.
Queen Mother Palace Zhang Forest photo
Without the clarity of the Jing River, where can we get the glory of Yaochi and the power of the Queen Mother? The Ming Dynasty Jingzhou Judge Jin Shiyu once gave a poem: "There is a Yao pond in the Jingshui, and the palace is ethereal and the heavens are qi." In the past years, King Mu of Zhou toured the upper reaches of the Jing River and met the Queen Mother of the West at Yaochi, who chanted "Ballad of the White Clouds": "The white clouds are in the sky, and the mountains come out of themselves." The road is far away, and the mountains and rivers are between them. The general is not dead, but can still come back!" Express her longing for a reunion after another. King Mu of Zhou also sang the Yellow Bamboo Song to answer: "Return to the eastern soil and rule the summers." The average of all the people, I see you. Than three years, will return to the wild. This is another dialogue between man and God on the bank of the Jing River, but compared with the dialogue between the Yellow Emperor and Guang Chengzi, this Queen Mother's Night Feast is how romantic and full of human feelings.
The pace of time passes, and the flow of the Jing River slowly extends.
A vicious dragon flashed out of the sparkling water, and it was self-conscious, making sexual ability, and tossing the first few times of "Journey to the West" into darkness. The earliest record of its evil deeds was the "Biography of Liu Yi" by Li Chaowei of the Longxi people of the Tang Dynasty. The younger daughter of the Dongting Dragon King was far away from the second son of the Jinghe Dragon King, and due to the improper conduct of the Jinghe Dragon King, the Dragon Son was naturally even more than his father, and the poor Baling's golden branches and jade leaves were reduced to shepherds on the banks of the Jing River. "It is difficult to give up on herself because of natural beauty", she had to take a self-portrait in the water and wash her face with tears. Liu Yi, a scholar on the shore of Xiangshui, took pity on Xiang Xiang and cherished the jade, so he deduced a sad and bizarre love story from the transmission of the book. Wu Cheng'en, a literary scholar at the end of the Ming Dynasty, used a colorful giant pen that called the wind and rain and carried thunder and lightning to finally send the old dragon of Jinghe to the guillotine. Tang Taizong's slanderous minister Wei Zhengmeng received the heavenly will, and the chapter on the old dragon of jinghe who had missed the heavenly opportunity and changed the rain book privately was written in such a way that it was full of luck and happiness. I couldn't imagine that the Ultimate Dao of the Jing River had raised such a pathless "Dark Lord", and the Jing River was ashamed!
The coincidence of myth and history has made Jingshui and Dongting Lake form an opportunity that can be easily ignored. Fan Zhongyan, a famous Song dynasty general and literary scholar who built a city in the upper reaches of the Jing River to resist the Western Xia, had long been in a lonely city full of smoke, and then wandered in the newly repaired Yueyang Tower, a scenic spot in Baling, with extremely far-sighted eyes, fierce ambition, and a whimpering, and wrote down the ancient song of "the worries of the world before the world, and the joys of the world after the world". Teng Zijing, who rebuilt Si Lou, was also appointed as the prefect of Jingzhou and was sent to guard Baling County because he used the minister's money indiscriminately. The path of jingshui requires the epiphany of people with sharp hearts, or the ordinary people with single-mindedness to introspect themselves for a longer period of time. Teng Zijing violated the Tao on the shore of the Jingshui River, and after being degraded, he thought bitterly about it, and only then did he gradually realize the true meaning of the Tao, which can be described as the delay in hearing the Tao. However, it was not too late to make amends, and the days and nights on the shore of the Jingshui River were the basis of his enlightenment. It is not difficult for us to imagine that this migrant Dengsi Louye, reading the poetry of Tang Xian, chanting Fan Wenzheng's Lou Zhi, condescending to the wind, the trickle of water will make his susceptible heart tremble. Literature once again freezes Jingshui and Dongting Lake in the same picture, so that our rugged northwest landscape is also a spiritual show, and it is no wonder that people praise Kun Tong for "having the majesty of the northern country and the beauty of the southern country".
Da yun temple Zhang Forest photo
The clear Jing River flows out of longshan mountain, the mountain stone forest grass filters her original dust, and her delicate and untainted texture can best nourish the poets of wisdom, so that they can see everything with their unique insight. Gule Fu's "Longtou Song Lyrics" Yun: "Longtou flowing water, chirping and whimpering." Looking at Qin Chuan in the distance, the liver and intestines were cut off. There is also Wang Anshi's poem: "Longtou flows eastward, refusing to follow Longtou." Only the moon ming west sea, accompanied by people to fight for people to worry. These poems about the waters of Longtou tell the story of the Jing River, the passage from ancient Chang'an to the northwestern territory, which is not only a Silk Road that people talk about, but also a road full of blood and tears. Taking the Jing River as a road sign, King Mu of Zhou and Qin Shi Huang descended, and the emperors of the Han and Tang Dynasties repeatedly traced the Jing River up to patrol the territory and consolidate the territory. And China's first poetry collection "Book of Poetry", also shows the strategic significance of the Jingshui Ancient Road, please see the "TangPu" written: "淠丕泾舟, 烝徒楫之; Zhou Wang Yumai, the sixth division and zhi." "The Jing River was the waterway fortress of the Zhou Dynasty's army, and the water battle of the Jing River was also written so briskly by these subtle strokes, and it was indisputable that the later generations of border-sai poets Wang Changling, Gao Shi, Cen Shan, etc. were so excited that they went to Maxi and went to the western region to make meritorious achievements, leaving behind many famous passages of song and yinjing river and even outside the Sai.
Opening many classics such as the Book of Poetry, Han Le Fu, and Quan Tang Poetry, Jinghe is like a star in these sacred halls of literature, flashing beautiful verses and reflecting detached poets. Among the many poets and poems, Li Shangyin of the late Tang Dynasty can make people's eyes shine the most. Li Shangyin was the proud protégé of the Niu Dang LingHu clan, and later became the son-in-law of Wang Maoyuan, the emissary of Li Dang's Jingyuan (present-day Jingchuan area), and Jinghe gave him a beautiful love, but also pushed him into an embarrassing situation, playing a lonely role in the cracks of one of the few friends in the history of Chinese literature. In the third year of Tang Kaicheng, Li Shangyin, who was newly married to Yan'er, failed the erudite macro lexicography examination, and lived in Jingzhou, tasting the ancient Anding City Tower in Dengjing Prefecture, and Gao Yin "Passing the tall city hundred foot building, and the green poplar branches outside Tingzhou." Jia Sheng was young and drooling, and Wang Cangchun came to travel farther. Forever remembering the rivers and lakes to return to white hair, want to return to heaven and earth into the flat boat. I don't know the taste of rotten rats, and I guess that the osprey has not stopped. "In the early years, whenever I drove through Jingchuan, I always loved to look out the window and look for Tingzhou outside the green poplar branches in the thin Jing water now, but unfortunately, in addition to this bare embankment, where is there a little bit of "Tingzhou"? Beauty Lake is the place where jinghe plays on a long journey, where there used to be a wide water surface, with dense reeds, and magical legends. The 26-year-old Li Shangyin looked at the beautiful woman Xiang and thought that "reading at night with red sleeves and incense" had ended up "Jia Sheng was young and drooling", and he couldn't help but feel nostalgic for his life and worried about state affairs. Although this poem is a word of frustration and masturbation, it can still be written with high generosity, showing the open mind of young poets. The Jing River may have destroyed a mediocre official in the decline of the late Tang Dynasty, but it created a brilliant morning star in the Chinese poetry world. What is rare and valuable is that he was able to maintain a clear heart as jingshui in the long river of filthy life, and in the love and frustration of his lifelong love, the pursuit and disillusionment of ideals, he showed the most beautiful things in a sincere heart for future generations. Jinghe gave him pain, but also gave him poetry, in Jingzhou for more than two years, he wrote "Huizhong Peony Defeated by the Rain Two Songs", "Yaochi", "Untitled Zhaoliang Chu Has Feelings" and other articles, which one does not have a heavy weight? Which one doesn't read with a tooth and cheek?
The Jing River is translucent and clear. However, in ancient poetry, the oldest and most classic "Book of Verses" was the first to pour a basin of sewage on her. The "Poetry Classic, Gu Feng" wrote the sentence "Jing yi wei wei". The limitations of ancient geography made the ancients' understanding and judgment of Jingshui Qingqing appear to be somewhat sloppy, some wrote "Jingqing Weiqing", some wrote "Jingqing Weiqing", but the virtue of Jinghe was that she "ignored and did not listen, hugged The Spirit to be quiet", and spoiled and insulted. In the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong, when the emperor, who liked to sing the wind and make the moon and called himself the "Ten Old Man", when reading Zhu Xi's "Collected Notes" and the poems of the Song dynasty Su Rui and the Yuanren Cao Boqi, he saw that Zhu Zhu and Su Caoshi's views on Jingwei Qingxuan were exactly the opposite. As a result, this majestic emperor actually developed a strong curiosity about this Jing River, which was thousands of miles away and flowed for tens of millions of years. What exactly does the Jing River look like? The agenda of surveying the Jing River and unveiling the fog of a thousand years of writing was also placed on the desk of this emperor who was always in charge. In this way, a holy decree descended to Pingliang, and the prefect Hu Jimo was ordered to explore the source stream and present it truthfully. At this time, the Jing River still maintains its true color and reality, and the Hu Prefect explores the source and traces the flow until the source of the Jing River, where hundreds of springs gush and the blue water is yangbo, the Old Dragon Pond in the depths of Longshan Mountain. Subsequently, it went down the river until the Weihe River Plain where the Jingwei Confluence came from nature, and even if it was downstream, it was still clear and recognizable. So Hu Jimo wrote the "Record of the True Source of Jingshui", and appended the two maps of the jingshui source flow and the second map of the Jingshan Mountain that he personally drew, as well as a group of five poems of "Exploring the Source of Jing". His poem has clouds: "Countless springs fly large and small beads, and the old dragon pond reserves curling pots at the bottom." The ocean is dustless for thousands of miles, and it is not polluted until Gaoling. "The hymns of the Hu prefect always brought some exaggeration to the emperor in the deep court, but the Jing River made the courtiers' performances also plain and elegant, where is it like the administrative report of chewing wax and eating home-cooked meals and composing sentences and saying old things today? However, from the actual results of Hu Zhifu's personal experience of several months of investigation and verification, it seems that the people on the banks of the Jing River are not confident in the clarity of Jingshui! Is it really "entering the room of Zhilan and not smelling its fragrance for a long time"?
Jinghe Zhang Forest photo
I miss the classical color of the Jing River, I look forward to the clear and lovely Jing River, she is frank, quiet, pure, do not need a little ornamentation, she nurtured the people on both sides of the Jing River, but also taught the emperor who made a difference, she gave the poet the inspiration of wisdom, but also gave the historiography a realistic care. She is not a slave to her knees, and she is always a deceased person without humility. I am well aware that the impact of industrial civilization will inject strong vitality into social progress, but it will undoubtedly bring unexpected dust, "clouds do not wait for clusters and rain, wood does not wait for yellow and fall." Whenever the sewage of industry and life is discharged to the Jing River, I always think of Mr. Yu Guangzhong's poem accusing the industrial chimney: "Like a rogue to a virgin, spitting out dirty words that make your stomach full of unbearable." "When I was tired of running for life, I once imagined: In the late spring of March, about three or five confidants, imitating the legacy of the Jin people, leading the water flow in the Jing River, repairing and relaxing, and giving poetry to the clear stream, are you not happy? However, the muddy Jing River rejected me, rejected all of us, and rejected the common influence of the classical atmosphere on us. Jing River, where do you go? Did you really flow into the classics and into the history books and stop flowing?
In recent winters, in the newly planted reeds along the banks of the Jing River, people have seen geese again, egrets, and red hemp ducks, and these migratory birds in Tang and Song poems have once again settled here once a year, which is the luck of the Jing River and the luck of creation. I hope this is a paradise for birds and a paradise for people on both sides of the strait.
Source: Pingliang City Literary Association