When we describe a person who is knowledgeable, we usually think of the word "learning to be rich in five cars", but we all know that this word has the next sentence: "Shu Tong Er Unitary", which can also be used to describe people's knowledge. The allusion to "Learning rich five cars" is relatively simple and plain, and may have been heard; however, "Shu Tong Er You" is very touching, because this is the story of two old people who hid books in the mountains of Confucianism to escape Qin Shi Huang's burning of books more than 2,000 years ago.
Book burning
The story takes place in a cave in Eryou Mountain on the south bank of the Youjiang River, a tributary of the Yuanshui River. The cave is surrounded by mountains that are majestic and beautiful, and the trees are lush and very hidden. More than 2,000 years ago, Qin Shi Huang burned books and pit Confucianism, Kyoto Xianyang Confucians were tragically killed, and tens of thousands of books were burned! There was a Qin Dynasty doctoral official named Fu Sheng, who was called Fu Sheng. This man was very knowledgeable and a book lover, and there were more than 4,000 volumes in his family. Although he himself was not slaughtered like other Confucians, seeing thousands of books burned to the ground, it was as if he had lost his life.
In order to save the ancient scriptures and books he had hidden from being burned, he first laid the books in the wall, and then secretly traveled from Xianyang to Henan, after several turns, running south day and night, and then through Dongting Lake, then changed to a small boat, went up the river along the Yuanshui River, and hid these thousands of bamboo books in this ancient cave of Eryoushan Mountain, where "birds cannot fly, and beasts dare not come." The Taiping Public Opinion Chronicle of Jingzhou records that there are thousands of books in the stone caves of Xiaoyoushan Mountain, which are said to have been hidden by the Qin people."
Inside the library cave
In order to keep the book, these two old people never went out of the cave casually, and in addition to playing chess in the cave, they often practiced Dan and cultivated immortals. Even if the two were to go down the mountain, they would leave one person to keep the scriptures. The efforts of the two old men were not in vain, and in the Han Dynasty, bamboo and wood and classic books were quickly valued. The two old men took the bamboo books to the capital to ask for a meeting, and they were all moved by the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu for a while! So the collection was protected, and the contents of the book were passed down.
Fu sheng
Since then, throughout the dynasties, the government has listed the "Eryou Library Cave" as a major holy place in "Qianzhong". Successive generations of dignitaries and dignitaries, literati and inkers, all made a special trip to Eryou Mountain to visit ancient pilgrimages. On the way to Luling County, Jiangxi Province, Theorist Wang Yangming passed through Yuanling and specially went to the top of the Eryou Cave to pay homage to the two old men. During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Hengjia, the inspector of Hunan Province, went to the Eryou Library Cave Tree Monument to set up a biography at the Eryou Library Cave, and personally wrote four large characters in italics of "Ancient Library", which were engraved on the huge stele standing in front of the Eryou Library Cave.
Monument to the "Ancient Library"
Since then, there has been an endless stream of scholars, talents and tourists who visit the ancient pilgrimage to Eryou Mountain every year. They waved poem inscriptions, chanted songs, thanked the two old men, and sang the praises of "two unitary books, immeasurable merit." The Collection of Books has made great contributions to inheriting, continuing, and developing the five-thousand-year cultural history and civilization history of the Chinese nation.