Ding Bingliangzhu dug jade whistle

Ding Yunchuan

Ding Bing (1832-1899), a native of Hangzhou in the Qing Dynasty, was the protector of Wenlan Ge's Siku Quanshu. Recently, when I read Ding Bing's "Wulin Palm Ancestral Cong Compilation - Three Ponds Fishing Singing", my eyes suddenly lit up, and I suddenly found that Ding Bing had also gone to Liangzhu to dig jade.

Ding Bing wrote in the "Three Ponds Fishing Song And Self-Introduction" that in 1866-1886, he assisted in the opening of Linping Lake and the reconstruction of the Haichang Gate dam; the construction of the ninety-mile-long embankment and bridge from Beiguan to Marijuana, the reconstruction (repair) of the Gongchen Bridge; the dredging of the cangxi sand and the replenishment of the pond. In order to do these things, he worked tirelessly, successively summoned workers and led the army, and the flat boat traveled for twenty years.

Ding Bing's good friend Zhong Xuerui, a famous doctor in Hangcheng, introduced in the preface to "Three Ponds Fishing Song", and Ding Bing often invited him to accompany him when doing these things. The two men carried wine utensils, bought a boat, went out of Yuhangmen, and traveled all over the ship; the peaks sent green, the cold water was green; the smoke and clouds were ethereal, and the forest trees were high. To the east is Linping, and to the west is Liangzhu. In Xiujun Cangxi, he saw Ding Bing living in the construction site, reading poems, compiling anecdotes, recording palms, and providing references. Whether it is historical miscellaneous sayings, mountain classics and geographical records, Hongru testaments, and ancient temples and barren tombs, they must be carefully examined and examined to remove the false and the true.

Ding Bing was a famous bibliophile in Hangzhou in the late Qing Dynasty, and there is a copy of the "Miscellaneous Records of Zhiyutang" in the collection of the "Eight Thousand Volumes Building", which was written by Zheng Yu, and the "Record" mentions that there was an excavation of ancient jade in Liangzhu Anxi. In that year, when Ding Bing dredged Liangzhu's Amaranth Creek, he had the opportunity to visit Anxi. I saw that there were antique dealers selling Han jade, there were square jade, there were round jade bi, some could be used as hair rings, and some could be used as nasal plugs. Most of these jades are yellow, and some of them look like red stained with blood. Ding Bing saw that this scene was basically similar to that depicted in the "Record". So I asked what the jade was called. Antiques said that because they could not call the names of these jades, they were collectively called "Nantu". It is also said that most of these Yu'an Creek excavations have been made. Ding Bing asked again, who can tell whether it is true or false? He also said that you made it yourself at the Jade Bureau (Jade Workshop). The native (villagers) said where it was, it was dug out of the ground, and they didn't believe that they would dig it up at night to show you. In the evening, the villagers took an iron hoe and called Ding Bing to go with them. Walking to the dark place at the head of the village, it didn't take long for a jade whistle to be excavated from the ground. Therefore, Ding Bing believed it, and recorded this matter, and also wrote a poem "Zhen Bi Gong exaggerates the carving talent, otherwise the treasure will come out of the fountain platform." In vain, the bone Dong hu nan tu, stealing the crow to dig up jade" poem. Because of this poem, there is also the story of Ding Bingliangzhu digging up yuxiao.

Ding Bing not only pays close attention to the history and culture of Hangzhou, but also is a leading philanthropist and industrialist in Hangzhou. Since he visited Liangzhu, it is likely that he has formed a certain relationship with Liangzhu's jade. The year after the compilation of "Three Ponds Fishing Song" (1899), Ding Bing died and was buried in Yuhang Xianlin Jinzhu Mountain. In 1966, when the "four olds were broken", the tomb of Ding Bing was excavated. On August 18, 2015, I heard Zhou Shangfa, the gravedigger at the time and the old village chief of Lianrong Village, recall that the coffin was full of jade pieces, and there were three baskets full of them, and one basket needed two people to carry. The village chief said that at first he didn't know the price of chai and rice, and he piled the jade pieces in the brigade, but then he didn't know where to go, and now it's a pity to think about it!

The words of the village chief are really thought-provoking. I wondered if ding bing had bought these jade tablets from Liangzhu?