In the ninth year of Tang Yizong's Xiantong, in 868 AD, there was a Silla (today's Korean): Choi Ji-won, who crossed the sea with a merchant ship into the Tang Dynasty and studied in Chang'an, when he was 12 years old. At the age of 18, Cui Jiyuan was admitted to the Tang Bingong Jinshi and entered the Tang Dynasty. He wrote a large number of official documents, and his own "Yellow Nest Book" was recited all over the world. In 884, he left Yang and returned to China, and after returning to China, he actively spread Han culture. He is the first scholar and poet in Korean history to leave a personal collection of essays, and has always been respected by Korean academics as the founding father of Korean literature, and has the reputation of "Confucianism in Dongguo" and "Ancestor of Dongguo Literature". He is known as the "Confucius of Korea".
Photographed in Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province in July 2017.
Choi is the originator of Korean Chinese literature. He lived on the land of China for 16 years, studying and embracing Chinese literature. After Cui Zhiyuan returned to China, he brought advanced Tang culture into Silla and accepted it for them, so that he set off a climax of learning from Tang, even to the point where he was not a student of study or a student of Tang, and could hardly ascend to the official field.
Choi was the first writer in the history of Korean literature to write a large number of works in Chinese, with a variety of styles, rich themes, and profound content, and none of his previous writers could match him. Therefore, some people said: "Cui Zhiyuan Lone cloud has a groundbreaking feat." Gu Oriental scholars are all Yi Zong. ”
In 881, Cui Zhiyuan served as an official in Lishui (present-day Lishui District, Nanjing) and Huainan, and for about 8 years, he participated in the crusade against Huangchao. Today, in Yangzhou, in honor of this friendly emissary from Silla, there is a special Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall.
The Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall is located in the Tangcheng Ruins Museum. Yangzhou Tangcheng Ruins Scenic Area is located in the national Shugang Scenic Area, the former site of the Sui Dynasty Emperor's Palace.
The museum has beautiful scenery, elegant and chic, famous wood and flowers, competing for fangs and flowers, green lotus bamboo, peach red willow green, rockery pond, stone bridge and flowing water. Appreciate historical sites, precious relics, enjoy the music of the Tang Dynasty, pleasant to the ear, feel the style of ancient culture, pleasing to the eye, and never forget.
The Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall is located in the eastern precinct of the Tangcheng Ruins Museum. I can only see the green grass in the museum, surrounded by green trees by the pond, a quiet and beautiful garden-style scenery. There is a Sino-Korean Friendship Forest built here, which contains trees planted by important Korean figures.
Cui Zhiyuan Monument Pavilion, the front of the stele is engraved with "Mr. Cui Zhiyuan Monument", and the inscription inscribed on the back is the life of Mr. Cui Zhiyuan and the deeds of Yangzhou, introducing Cui Zhiyuan's coming to the Tang Dynasty to study, entering the army, becoming an official, and later returning to Silla.
Walk along the stone path path, passing the China-Korea Friendship Forest, the Sino-Korean Friendship Monument, and the Cui Zhiyuan Monument Pavilion along the way, and come to a Tang Dynasty-style building, which is the Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall. In recent years, the number of Korean tourists who come to the memorial every year has shown an increasing trend, which not only has business guests, but also more tourist groups, it can be said that the Choi Ji-won Memorial Hall has become a must-visit attraction for Korean tourists to Yangzhou.
The Cui Zhiyuan Memorial Hall is the first foreign celebrity memorial hall approved by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the first floor of the memorial hall has a white jade statue of Cui Zhiyuan and a Yangzhou lacquerware mural reflecting Cui Zhiyuan's life, and the second floor is an exhibition exhibition of "Memories Spanning a Thousand Years - Cui Zhiyuan and Yangzhou".
Cui Zhiyuan continued to create literature throughout his life, and once compiled his masterpieces into the 20 volumes of the Guiyuan Pen Cultivation Collection. Because of his high achievements in literature, Choi Ji-won was praised by later generations in Korea and Korea, and after his death, he was posthumously honored as the Marquis of Wenchang, and was enshrined in the temple court of the Ancestors, and was honored as the "Master of the Hundred Ages".
Datang was the most powerful country in the world at that time. The territory is vast, materially rich, culturally developed, open and inclusive, and encompasses all kinds of rivers. In the first year of Zhenguan, Datang has opened the imperial examination to foreign students, and foreign students can also take the meritorious name, Dengke and the first. Cui Zhiyuan was able to achieve his brilliant literary achievements in his life because of the Tang Dynasty's conquest of the sea, and at the same time brought advanced Tang culture to the backward Silla Dynasty at that time. Nowadays, Koreans keep preemptively betting on Chinese culture, and I want to say it out loud here: "The founding ancestor of Korean literature is from China!" Author's Bio: A leaf of cold residue. 2016 Today's Headlines Annual Travel Headline Number.