Chen Dian's statue and his hermit stone chamber
Zhu Xi's "Records of Jinbang Mountain" stone carving
April 24 (Straits Herald reporter Cui Xiaoxu/Wen Chang Navy/Photo)
On Jinbang Mountain, the trees are lush and the birds are singing.
Under the golden list of mountains, the sound of books is bright, and the ink is fragrant.
The allusions left by many literati and heroes in the history of Xiamen are related to Jinbang Mountain, which is the cultural birthplace of Xiamen.
But how much do you know about the thousands of years of history of Jinbang Mountain? Peng 10,000, an expert in Xiamen literature and history, visited Jinbang Mountain to restore the "Golden List Story" of more than 1,000 years ago.
The foothills of Jinbang Mountain are crowded with literati and inkers from past generations
The sound of books, melodious pianos... From the bottom of Jinbang Mountain.
With a total area of nearly 5,000 square meters, Jinbang College was inaugurated last month, built by the Siming District Party Committee and the District Government, integrated with Jinbang Park, and transformed from three old buildings in the original park.
It is reported that Jinbang Academy is composed of four parts: the main body of the college, the Jinbang Academy, the Siming Memory Hall and the front square of the College, which has the three functions of Siming District New Era Civilization Practice Center, Siming District Community College Guidance Center and Siming District "Demonstration Model College". Walking into the college, a series of spaces with different functions are distributed in the college with unique names.
Jinbang Park is named after Jinbang Mountain, with beautiful natural landscapes, lush forests, many strange stones, rich cultural landscapes, rich historical and cultural heritage, and ancient monuments of The Tang, Song, Ming and Qing Dynasties. Since the Tang Dynasty, many historical celebrities, heroes, and literati have come to visit and left many historical allusions.
"Jinbang Mountain is the cultural birthplace of Xiamen, and on weekends, Xiamen people flock to this central jinbang park." Elder Peng introduced that Jinbangshan attracted Zhang Yi, Zhu Xi, Chen Xianzhang, Ding Yizhong, Liu Cunde and other celebrities to come to visit, commemorate the hanging, and write poems.
For example, the Tang Dynasty scribe Chen Dian studied and fished here, and at the foot of the Jinbang Mountain, he lived in seclusion and read the cave as a stone chamber, on which was built the "Yingxian Lou", the place where he fished was called Diaoji, and the "Jinbang Fishing Rock" was a famous scenery in Xiamen since the Qianlong Dynasty; the Song Dynasty Dali scholar Zhu Xi visited Jinbang Mountain and left a huge stone carving "Records of Jinbang Mountain", and the Song Dynasty Emperor Yuquan Ganshu gave the number "Holy Spring"; the Ming Dynasty scholar and calligrapher Chen Xianzhang inscribed "Seaside Zoulu", praising Xiamen as a civilized place; the tomb of Chen Huacheng, a famous anti-British general of the Qing Dynasty, was also located here It is a national key cultural relics protection unit.
Who wrote the cliff stone carving "Seaside Zoulu"?
Jinbang Park has four scenic spots: "Seaside Zoulu", "Stone Cluster Mist", "Cuigu Floating Fragrance" and "Ancient Road Spring Shade". Among them, "Seaside Zoulu" is the most prestigious, the main attraction is a sixteen-zhang-high boulder, standing in the sky, solemn and mighty, shaped like "Jade Wat", so it is named "Golden List Jade Wat".
Today, more than 500 years later, the four large characters of "Seaside Zoulu" have survived to this day, engraved near the stone chamber where Chen Dian lived in Jinbang Mountain.
Who wrote these four words? It was written by chen xianzhang (1427-1509, a native of Xinhui County, Guangdong Province) of the Ming Dynasty. Elder Peng said that Chen Xianzhang was good at calligraphy and painting, and he was very prestigious, and he wrote down four big characters of "Zoulu on the Seashore" to praise the civilized atmosphere of Xiamen at that time, "He once described in his poems: 'Yuan Qi stuffs heaven and earth, and ten thousand stones often flow around. Fujian and Zhejiang are now Luoyang, and wubang is also Lu Zou. This means that the society is constantly developing and progressing, and the coastal provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang already have a civilized atmosphere like Luoyang in the Central Plains, that is, their hometown of Guangdong, which also has the same cultural etiquette as Zoulu."
So why did he write "ZouLu on the Seaside"? It turned out that this was the result of his on-site investigation and influenced by Zhu Xi. Elder Peng said that when Zhu Xi (1130-1200) of the Southern Song Dynasty was the chief bookkeeper of Tong'an County, he visited Jinbang Mountain, and he was well aware of the experience and deeds of Chen Dian, the "cave master" of the Jinbang Mountain Stone Cave in the Tang Dynasty, so he revised Chen Yan's book "Book of Qizheng" into 5 volumes, and wrote a preface, and also wrote a poem "Jinbang Mountain" and "Jinbang Mountain Record", which were engraved on the huge stone of Jinbang Mountain.
Why did the "veteran of the science field" at the end of the Tang Dynasty come here to live in seclusion?
As everyone knows, Zhu Xizong Kong Si Meng, who was the master of Confucianism, edited Chen Dian's book "Book of Qizheng". Who is Chen Dian, who can make this great man commended?
Chen Dian (c. 805-877), a native of Xiamen, was a well-known scribe in the late Tang Dynasty and one of the famous names of the Chen family in the "Southern Chen and Northern Xue" who migrated to Xiamen Island during the Tang Dynasty. He was very intelligent from an early age, he could write poetry at the age of 10, and when he was 13 years old, he contracted smallpox and became a numb face.
He met with Qingyuan County Ling, who teased him with acne on his face: "Junzao is talented and should write poetry to boast of himself." He immediately replied, "Tortoiseshell should be incomparable, and the spotted rhinoceros should not be added." The sky is not right, full of faces and flowers. "Chen Dian means that the beautiful spots of turtles are not as good as my acne scars, and the beautiful spots of rhinos cannot be compared with mine, and Heaven is afraid that I am not good enough to look good, so I decorate my face with flower makeup." Elder Peng explained.
Witty and humorous, astute and energetic, Chen Di has been famous in the township ever since. But somehow, he went to the test 18 times, all of which were named Luosun Mountain.
In his later years, Chen was tired of his meritorious name, built a room on the Jinbang Mountain, lived in seclusion on the seashore, read and fished, chanted poems, and taught nearby children to read and write. He tried many times, so he called himself "Field Veteran" (Section Field Veteran). People also lamented him, and this mountain is also commonly known as "Chang Lao Mountain". "Chen's hermitage is located just below the 'Jade Wat' stone on the mountainside north of Jinbang Mountain, with the cave entrance facing north and natural rocks leaning on top of each other. In 1995, the Xiamen Municipal Government allocated funds for the renovation of the seated statue of Chen Dian and engraved the characters 'Fishing Yin' on the boulder at the mouth of the cave, which is now a municipal cultural relics protection unit. Elder Peng said.
"Nanchen" develops Xiamen's "cultural highland"
Speaking of Chen Dian, it also leads to an allusion to the ancient xiamen - the earliest development of Xiamen's "Southern Chen Bei Xue". The surname Chen is still a large surname in southern Fujian and Taiwan, and the surname Xue is also quite numerous in Xiamen. More than 1,200 years ago, during the Middle And Tang Dynasties (740-781), these two families settled in Xiamen from the Central Plains, but it is quite controversial who was the first person to enter Xiamen.
Elder Peng said that "Southern Chen" refers to Chen Yong, a jinshi of the Tang Dynasty (705), an official to the crown prince Taifu, who had four sons and a daughter. His son Chen Yi (陳夷) dreamed of hetian yihe out of ersui (this is the origin of Xiamen's original name "Jiahe"), so that in the second year of Tang Jianzhong (781), he and his son Chen Li, with a family of more than 340, moved from Zhangzhou to Jiaheyu (present-day Xiamen Island). There is Xue Ling in the northwest of the Chen family residence, and there is the residence of the prince to read Xue Ling in the north of the ling, so the folk are known as "Southern Chen Bei Xue". Chen Yize's descendant Chen Dian, who is already the tenth ancestor, left a studious fashion in Jinbang Mountain, subtly, and promoted the prosperity of Heron Island culture.
The first person to open the "Northern Xue" kaiji has different opinions. One theory is that "Northern Xue" refers to Xue Lingzhi (683-c. 756), and in the second year of Tang Shenlong (706), he was the first person in Fujian to ascend to the throne with poetry. During the reign of Tang Kaiyuan, Xue Lingzhi was promoted to zuo supplementary que and crown prince attendant, and later offended Tang Xuanzong Li Longji for writing poetry, so he resigned from illness and moved his family to live north of Hongji Mountain on Ludao Island, which was later Xue Ling. After Xue Lingzhi's death, he was buried in The Lower Zhangshe of Heshan, Ludao Island, and the tomb still exists.
Another theory is that soon, Xue Lingzhi moved back to his ancestral hometown of Changxi (i.e., Fu'an City), and Xue Ling's residence was inhabited by his descendants; the tomb of Xue Lingzhi on Ludao was only a crown tomb. Between 2004 and 2005, the tombs of Chen Yuantong and his wife were excavated in Xiamen, and new discoveries were made.
However, no matter who the ancestors of the two surnames are, the development of Xiamen by "Southern Chen and Northern Xue" is an indisputable fact. Take the poem as evidence:
The Qing Guangxu poet Wang Butou wrote in one of the "Lumen Miscellaneous Songs": Southern Chen Bei Xue Jiu circulated, And Heyu humanities were the first. Like the mountains and rivers, the bell is beautiful, and the latter will avoid the former sage.