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When did it come out? What does it say? What is the fate of the future?
Experts revealed the "little secret" of cao yin stone stele--- and the stone stele fell to support the correctness of the existing cao xue research
In May this year, Yangzhou Launched the Great Hongqiao Repair Project. Recently, after the construction workers removed the bridge deck stone slabs and bridge body fillings, the stone walls on both sides of the bridge were exposed, the day before yesterday (June 26) morning, the reporter who was interviewing at the construction site heard that important cultural relics were found on the bridge, under the guidance of the construction personnel, the reporter boarded the bridge that had been hollowed out, and found that there were two stone stele fragments under the south railing, and the broken text on one of the stone tablets was identified. Yesterday (June 27), a reporter interviewed a number of experts and confirmed that this stone stele was inscribed by Cao Yin, but it was not the cao yin stele that Mr. Feng Qiyong was looking for in Xiaojinshan, Yangzhou in 2004. The discovery of this fast stone stele will support the correctness of the existing Cao Xue research.
A question: When did the stone stele poetry come out?
The poems on the stone tablets may have been written shortly before Cao Yin's death
Yesterday (June 27) morning, Yangzhou cultural scholar Wei Minghua rushed to the Dahong Bridge, which was under repair, as soon as possible, and saw the stone stele carved by Cao Yin. Wei Minghua told reporters that the Great Hongqiao Was originally built during the Ming Chongzhen period, initially a wooden board bridge, surrounded by red railings, named "Red Bridge". In the first year of Qianlong (1736), Huang Luang rebuilt the Banqiao into a stone arch bridge, such as rainbow lying wave, so it was called "Hongqiao". In the sixteenth year (1751), in order to welcome the Qianlong Emperor's first southern tour, Jiqing, Pufu, Gao Heng and others successively repaired the Hongqiao, and built a pavilion on the bridge, and the back pavilion collapsed. The current bridge was rebuilt in 1973. The Great Rainbow Bridge has been repaired many times so far, and it is not known when it was embedded in the bridge. It is understood that after the founding of New China, the Great Hongqiao was repaired twice. In Wei Minghua's view, it is very likely that the stone stele was inlaid during this period.
In Wei Minghua's view, Yangzhou does not produce stones, and this stone stele is most likely damaged and collected into waste stone materials for use in building bridges. The inscription on the stele is the fifty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty. In this year, Cao Yin edited his own life article and formed the "Pavilion Collection". In the summer months after the book was completed, Cao Yin died of malaria in Yangzhou. According to Wei Minghua, after he learned that the stone stele had been found, he consulted the "Collection of Pavilions" for the first time, but did not find a poem ending in "Gonghou Chen" in it. Iwei Minghua speculated that the poems of the stele should have been written after the editing of the Pavilion Collection. The word "step" should be missing, referring to a sage, but who is not yet known.
Second question: This is the Cao Yin monument that Feng Qiyong was looking for before he died?
This should be another stone stele besides the Cao Yin Monument
During the Kangxi dynasty of Cao Yin, he served as the inspector of the two Huai Salt Dynasties in Yangzhou for many years, and the Yangzhou salt merchants felt that they were sympathetic to the merchants during their lifetime, and built an ancestral hall near Xiaodongmen Street in the old city (now the middle section of Ganquan Road) to commemorate it. Unfortunately, the Cao Gong Ancestral Hall was destroyed by soldiers in the third year of Xianfeng. However, until the late 1950s, on the back wall of the chess room of the Slender West Lake Xiaojinshan Yueguan, there was also an embedded "Cao Yin Stone Statue Stele", which was carved from bluestone slabs. Above the stone stele there is a seal inscription "Cao Yin Stone Carving", like Cao Yin, wearing a bucket hat, with a thin face, silver whiskers fluttering, dressed in civilian clothes. According to legend, there are many inscriptions on the stele, most of which involve cao family affairs. According to experts, the stone carvings are old objects of Cao Gongsheng's ancestral temple. In 1962, Yangzhou made repairs to the area around Xiaojinshan, and during the maintenance process, the "Cao Yin Stone Statue Monument" disappeared. For a long time, the search for the "Cao Yin Monument" has become an unsolved mystery in the red academic circles.
In October 2004, the 4th International Red Society was held in Yangyang. Meng Yao, a literary and historical expert who was a reporter for Yangzhou Daily at the time, found clues from the cultural relics expert Cai Qi that the "Cao Yin Stone Carved Statue" may have been hidden in the wall of the Xiaojinshan Yueqi Chess Room, and told it to Feng Qiyong, a famous red science expert who came to the meeting. To this end, Meng Yao accompanied Feng Qiyong, Cai Qi and urban construction expert Zhu Maowei throughout the whole process to search for the whereabouts of the "Cao Yin Monument", but in the end the search was unsuccessful.
So, will the stone stele found on the wall on the belly of the bridge on the south side of the Great Hongqiao be the "Cao Yin Stele" that the red academic circles have been looking for? Meng Yao, a former cultural reporter of Yangzhou Daily, an expert in literature and history, believes that according to historical records, there should be stone carvings on the "Cao Yin Stele", but from the stone inscriptions found so far, there is no such feature. At the same time, Meng Yao recalled that the original craftsmen who participated in the maintenance of Xiaojinshan that Cai Qi had visited said that the Cao Yin stone carving monument had been smashed into two pieces and rebuilt into the wall, which was somewhat coincidental with the current discovery.
In Meng Yao's view, whether the two are the same stele has yet to be further identified by experts. "In fact, the process of finding the Cao Yin Monument is also very important, and more Yangzhou people should know the ins and outs and pay attention to this matter." Meng Yao believes that Mr. Feng Qiyong, a well-known red scholar and historian, died at the beginning of the year, and he has been paying attention to the "Cao Yin Monument" before his death, hoping to find the monument with historical significance as soon as possible.
Zhu Shanwen, a cultural scholar in the Red Chamber of Yangzhou, told reporters that this should be two different stone tablets. Zhu Maowei, an urban construction expert, said that he had seen this stone stele, and in addition, Geng Jianting, a late well-known doctor and gold stone expert in Yangzhou, had also seen the Cao Yin stele and had printed several copies, but unfortunately they were all lost later.
Three questions: What is the word of the stone tablet seal?
The seal of Cao Yin on the stone carving should be "Li Xuan", not "Li Cao Xuan"
Zhu Shanwen has been committed to the study of red science for many years. Yesterday, Zhu Shanwen told reporters that he also learned the news that the stone tablet was found in the morning. According to Zhu Shanwen's research for many years, yangzhou has many cultural relics related to the Cao family scattered among the people. As far as some citizens say that the stone stele may be forged for posterity, Zhu Shanwen said that this stone stele cannot be forged, because the handwriting on the inscription is the same as the handwriting of Cao Yin's other works, which is difficult to forge, and the two seals also appear in some works of Cao Yin, so there is no doubt about it.
In addition, Zhu Shanwen also said that Cao Yin Lixuan, one of the seals on the stone stele found this time, most people think that there is a "grass" in the middle, which is "Licaoxuan", which is a misunderstanding, which is some misunderstanding caused by the decoration in the gold stone seal carving. According to Zhu Shanwen, his correction was also recognized by red science experts in other places.
"Cao Xueqin's friend Dun Cheng once wrote in the poem "Sending Cao Xueqin": 'Yangzhou's old dreams have long been realized', which shows the extraordinary significance of Yangzhou to Cao Xueqin." Zhu Shanwen said that the discovery of this stone stele just confirms the "old dream of Yangzhou".
Four questions: What is the content of the stone inscription?
The content on the stele is most likely related to Cao Yin's life in Yangzhou
Yesterday afternoon, Miao Huaiming, a well-known expert in red studies and professor of the College of Literature of Nanjing University, told reporters that in his opinion, the credibility of this stone stele is extremely high, this stone stele was inadvertently discovered inside the bridge, and there is no trading purpose, in addition, the above payment, seal are consistent with Cao Yin's life, but it is a pity that this is a fragment of the stele, most of which has been missing, on the current three words of "public after-dust", for the time being, too much information can be drawn, but miao Huaiming's current speculation, The content on the stele is most likely related to Cao Yin's life in Yangzhou. Miao Huaiming said that since he had just learned about the information on this stone tablet, he still needed to consult the information, hoping to get more useful information in the future.
"Nowadays, there is relatively little information about Cao Yin, and the appearance of such a stone stele will definitely be helpful for cao Yin and the study of red studies." Miao Huaiming said that in his personal opinion, since such a fragment of the stele was found, the relevant departments can completely trace it to see if other parts of the stele can be found, and if the complete stele can be found, this will greatly promote the study of Cao Xue and Red Studies to a great extent.
Li Mingxin, secretary general of the former Cao Xue Research Association, told reporters that as far as the existing content on the stone stele is concerned, it is possible to testify that there is no problem with the previous research, but what is contained in the other part of the stone stele, the academic community is still looking forward to it, and perhaps this stone stele will conflict with the existing research, which is not impossible.
Five questions: What should the stone stele do next?
The stone stele will be preserved in the Yangzhou Museum for display
The staff of the Cultural Protection Department of the Yangzhou Cultural Relics Bureau told reporters that next they will ask professionals to take the stone stele from the Great Hongqiao and send it to the Yangzhou Museum for collection and display. The reporter saw yesterday at the site of the repair of the Great Hongqiao that the main part of the bridge is stepping up construction, and the construction personnel at the scene told reporters that the construction of the site will not cause damage to the stone monument.
The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau said that the cultural relics department will invite experts to take further research on the stone stele, and in the future, it is possible to invite some red experts from all over the world to gather in Yangzhou for discussion. "The discovery of this stone stele not only enriched the culture of Yangzhou, but also confirmed the relationship between the Cao family and Yangzhou." For the red science researchers across the country, it has extraordinary significance. ”
The staff of the Cultural Relics Bureau said that the discovery of this stone stele not only enriched the culture of Yangzhou, but also confirmed the relationship between the Cao family and Yangzhou. At the same time, it has extraordinary significance for the red science experts and Cao Xue research experts across the country.
The staff told reporters that the cultural relics department will invite experts to take further research on the stone stele, and in the future, it is possible to invite domestic and foreign red science experts to gather in Yangzhou for discussion.
Attached is a picture of the repair of the Great Hongqiao Part
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