Seven Star Rock Yuping Rock Sanxian Pavilion near the former site of the "Yuan monument". Photo by reporter Li Wenhua
On the morning of July 11, when Mr. Zou, a tourist from Guangzhou, was visiting the Yuping Rock of Qixingyan, he was surprised to find that a Moya stone carving was a "Zhuangyuan Stele" handwritten by Lin Zhaotang, "Lin Zhaotang was a Guangdong Zhuangyuan in the Qing Dynasty, and his handwritten handwritten stone carvings are relatively rare in the world, and the Moya stone carvings of his handwriting are very precious."
Mr. Zou is a retired middle school history teacher who has studied the history of the Qing Dynasty, "Guangdong was known as the 'Wild Land' in ancient times, and in the more than 1,000 years from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong has produced only 9 titles, of which only three in the Qing Dynasty, Lin Zhaotang is one of them. "
On the stone wall near the former site of the Three Immortals Pavilion in The Seven Star Rock Yuping Rock, the reporter saw the stone carving of the "Zhuangyuan Monument" mentioned by Mr. Zou. This "monument" is about 80 centimeters long and about 1.2 meters wide, and has more than 300 words carved on it. According to the judgment of the falling paragraph, the poems on the Cliff Stone Carving were created by Huang Peifang, inscribed by Zhuangyuan Lin Zhaotang, and the high-ranking craftsman Liu Guangrui carved the stone.
According to historical records, Huang Peifang and Lin Zhaotang were both famous scholars in Guangdong in the late Qing Dynasty, and they both had an inseparable fate with Zhaoqing.
Huang Peifang was a native of Xiangshan (present-day Zhongshan), Guangdong, who was admitted as a deputy gongsheng in the 9th year of qing jiaqing (1804), entered the guozijian to study, served as a teacher in Zhaoqing Province, participated in the re-establishment of the "Zhaoqing Fu Zhi", and was known as "Lingnan Confucianism".
Lin Zhaotang was a native of Wuchuan, Guangdong Province, who was the first and first in the third year of Qing Daoguang (1823), and was successively awarded the title of Hanlin Academy.
In the twelfth year of Qing Daoguang (1832), Lin Zhaotang resigned and returned to his hometown, and the following year, at the invitation of Duanxi Academy (the predecessor of Zhaoqing Middle School), he taught Duanxi Academy for 15 years, training Feng Yuji and other scholars for Zhaoqing.
According to the inscription of this "Zhuangyuan Stele", in the spring of the Qing Dynasty Guangxin Ugly Year (1841), Lin Zhaotang, Huang Peifang and others traveled to the Seven Star Rock and retained the Three Immortals Pavilion at the invitation of the monks of Yuping Rock. Huang Peifang created 8 poems praising the natural scenery of the Three Immortals Pavilion and the Seven Star Rocks, written by Lin Zhaotang, and the monks of the Three Immortals Pavilion invited craftsmen to carve these 8 poems on the stone wall, which have been preserved to this day.
The reporter consulted the materials and consulted experts in Zhaoqing literature and history, and found that although Lin Zhaotang had been lecturing at Duanxi Academy for 15 years, in addition to being invited by his close friend Peng Tailai, a prominent scholar of the Qing Dynasty, to write the inscription of the archway of "The Gate of Zhenshou" for Peng Tailai's aunt (as reported by this newspaper), his calligraphy handwriting in Zhaoqing and even Guangdong was very rare.
Reporter Li Wenhua