Panoramic view of the cultural park
As a literati, Cao Xiuxian of course wrote many poems, such as a "Miscellaneous Songs on the Way":
The ancient road is hanging on yang rain a few times, and the shawl is just cool and new.
I love to read "Autumn Sound Endowment" and hear cicadas chanting.
Reading this poem, I can feel the peace of mind of his mind. For the description of the scenery, Cao Xiuxian's poems are also similar to this tone, and the "Evening QingYi Poetry Collection" includes his "Clouds":
If it rains again, the clouds are cold and cloudy.
The wind rises far away, drifting and blowing flat forest.
Yang Wu Fei Flame, High Hidden Layer Xiao Cen.
Tao Guang looked out and did not invade the dust.
Nature has to be nurtured, bathing in the river and the sea.
At this time, it is like a mirror of water, and it is like a ghostly search.
Such poems are still flat and stable, and it is difficult to glimpse the author's mentality. The most peculiar poem written by Cao Xiuxian should belong to "Yan Pipa Xing", in which he wrote a small preface: "Yu Passed Xunyang, visited the so-called pipa pavilion, there was a pavilion, and he did not hear the sound of the pipa." Recalling Sima Bai's song, the scene at that time seemed to be in sight. Quoting its words and lengthening, the fate is called 'Yan Pipa Line'. It turned out that he had also come to Xunyang, where he immediately remembered the very famous "Pipa Line" written by Bai Juyi here.
Panorama of whitewater lake school
Cao Xiuxian began to visit ancient China in Xunyang. The locals do not know in what era to build a pipa pavilion, obviously this pavilion is to commemorate Bai Juyi wrote the "Pipa Line" here, and now Cao Standing in this pavilion can not hear the strange woman playing the pipa sound, but he feels that the scene where this woman played the pipa to Bai Juyi is in front of him, so he wrote this "Yan Pipa Line" with feeling.
However, Cao Xiuxian's method of writing this poem is too peculiar, and I quote the previous paragraph of the poem:
Xunyang Jiangtou sent guests at night, and Wu Chu opened water in the middle.
Children reported Sima Lai, whose name was Juyi and surnamed Yue Bai.
Maple leaves and flowers are autumnal, and the autumn sound is blowing.
It is always sad that the river is miserable, but it is the day of the meeting and singing.
The host dismounted the passengers on the boat, and they all had to leave the lead.
Ji de Shi Youfeng together, the Ming Dynasty tethered this riverside.
Holding up wine and drinking without orchestra, silence is away from the feast.
How many fishing lanterns scattered on the river surface, illuminating li guo and the two immortals.
Drunkenness will not be happy and miserable, and it is difficult to say that the end of the world is divided.
Xunyang made the county send a difficulty, only worried about the willow to climb and fold.
Don't be immersed in the vast river, the wind and smoke in a different place to send rafts.
The old people's hearts are clear, and each other's books are still aggressive.
The first sentence of this poem is completely copied from the first sentence of Bai Juyi's "Pipa Line", and reading it all the way down, Cao Xiuxian's "Yan Pipa Line" is the original sentence in Bai Juyi's "Pipa Line" every three sentences. Bai Juyi's "Pipa Line" is not short, with a total of more than 600 words, and Cao Xiuxian expanded this poem four times, turning it into a long poem of more than 2,000 words, which is really rare. Reading his "Yan Pipa Xing" carefully, I feel that every time he transcribes a sentence of Bai Juyi's original poem, he will explain three sentences below, and this way of composing poetry is not a major invention of Cao Xiuxian.
Whitewater Lake School
However, Cao Xiuxian's disciple Yang Fuji praised the good work of the Yan pipa line, and Yang said in the back of the poem: "Xunyang Jiangtou, the merchant woman pipa, has its own Bai Fu poem, and it has become a double extinction." Now more than that, the Master of the Mountain has been able to extend it, and the thousand autumn rhymes are enough and three. Yang believes that the pipa sound of the Xunyang River head and Bai Juyi's poems are both unique, and now with Cao Xiuxian's "Yan Pipa Line", it has become a three-legged stand.
For the history of the collection, Cao Xiuxian also contributed, he wrote a "Record of the White Stone Courtyard", I will first quote the full text of this record as follows:
This place is the Upper Courtyard of Lengya, and there is a White Stone Nunnery in the courtyard, that is, the Li Family Mountain House, which is the old place for Li Gongxuan Shangshu brothers to study. Since it is expensive, more than 9,000 volumes of his books are still hidden, and Su Wenzhonggong tasted to remember it. In the courtyard bell tower, there are Shang Shu female brother Chongde Jun painting three ink bamboo, Huang Wenjie public poetry, and now all the ruins are gone. The name of the Lengya Temple has long been abandoned, and the only survivor is the name of Shiraishi-an. Adjacent to the deer cave, the four scholars think that it is the old place for the collection of books, and the wandering sands are heeled to Yan. The remainder travels to Kuang Mountain, Zi Gai first arrives, Wulao Peak Screen is in the back, Gongting Lake is in front, the mountains and rivers are great, and the palace of the two clans is regarded, and the one Qiu and one gully are in a special situation, as vast as Aoru. It is no accident that the former sages built a house in Sisi. Confucians can neither keep it, but they can also sigh in the first district, and they can also sigh. Shi Shi Shangming, the word is cheerful, lived in the mountains for decades, revitalized its numbers, and then there was an upturn. It will repair the mountain gate, please ask yu to be called 'White Stone Temple', and Kailang Jinran will be Yu Yan, and in the first two years of the year, he will be pavilioned at the old site of the collection. Yu he wrote the four words 'Li's Mountain House', to the gentleman of the Later Dynasty to visit Lushan Mountain, tracing the wind of the former philosophers, Ludong Academy, Li's Mountain House can be compared, and then look for the mountain and water victories, not too late. Happy cheerful words, can see its big, tea drink half a day, so the book this paper is preserved, for the story of Shiraishiin. Qianlong Jidi (1759) the day after the Ascension Festival, Lu menzi Cao Xiuxian remembered.
Cao Xiuxian was like that
Lushan's Li's mountain house is originally a Song Dynasty book collection site, Su Dongpo once wrote a note to this mountain house, Li's mountain house has long been gone in the Cao Xiuxian period, but Cao feels that Li's mountain house has an important value in the history of book collection, although this library has become a monastery for monks, he hopes that someone can restore this site here, so that good people like me can have traces. In order to realize this wish, he inscribed the plaque of Lee's mountain house in advance, and he felt that even if he built a small pavilion, it would be better. It can be seen that Cao Xiuxian also has the concept of existential history, and this record he wrote has become a valuable historical material in the history of Qing Dynasty books.
Cao Xiuxian Ancestral Hall is located in port village of Baishui Lake Management Office, Economic Development Zone, Nanchang City, Jiangxi Province. From the center of Nanchang to the west, about thirty kilometers, to the port village, but the village has become a newly built residential building, there is no trace of the old, I think it may be difficult to find the ancestral hall I want to see. When I asked the passers-by at the edge of the village, one of them told me that the Cao ancestral hall had long since collapsed, that there were two stone lions left, that they had now been removed, and that the old site had been built as a paper mill, which was frustrating.
The bare-assed child sat on top of the pile of books
The taxi driver asked me: There are no traces here, do you want to rush to the next point of search? I think that's all there is to it. However, the moment I got on the bus, I saw two statues dressed by ancients in a courtyard across the road, and I immediately got out of the car and walked to the front of this courtyard, which turned out to be the Whitewater Lake School.
If you don't find acquaintances, the school is the most difficult place to enter, but at this time, there is no one in the mailroom, I think this is an opportunity, so I immediately ran into the campus and then went straight to the back garden. The back garden covers an area of thousands of square meters, and it is rare to have such a garden in a school, and one of the modern sculptures in the garden is a stack of five or six huge books with a statue of a child sitting on it. This bare-assed child is wearing a doctor's hat, and I think the metaphor of this statue is that books can be made. On both sides of this modern statue stands a statue of an ancient, the one on the right is Qiu Yuexiu, and the one on the left is Cao Xiuxian, who I am looking for, and this discovery can also be regarded as a surprise in frustration.
The "big hand" hangs in this pavilion
The statue is still quite proportional, Cao Xiuxian put his left hand on the back, his right hand holds a hand-rolled thing, why doesn't he take a book, I don't understand the designer's mind, the hand-scroll is a work of art played by the literati, can the students understand what he is holding? On the back of the two statues there is a stone paved path, the two sides of the road are considered to be stele corridors, and each of the three stele is used as a stone screen, on which are carved the calligraphy handwriting of Qiu Yuexiu, Cao Xiuxian and the Qianlong Emperor, with gold characters on a black background, and it seems that the handwriting is not out of shape.
The figurative presentation of the "big hand"
Why is there a statue of Cao Xiuxian in the school, and such an ancient statue is only Qiu Yuexiu and Cao, so to speak, these two statues are not randomly pulled by the villagers, it should be related to these two people. I suspect that Cao Xiuxian's ancestral hall was demolished, and perhaps this school was built on the site of the ancestral hall.
Behind the statue there is a small corridor, in the middle of the corridor is a small pavilion, the pavilion hangs a one-meter-and-a-half-long brush, the head of the brush is rushed down, there are traces of ink on it, the hanging plaque on the pavilion reads "Wen Yi Zai Dao", and there is a couplet hanging on the columns on both sides, and the content of the couplet does not talk about how this brush is. I inadvertently saw a shaped stone on the grass not far away, on which were engraved the words "big hand pen", but the money was "Qianlong Royal Pen".
Qianlong Royal Pen - "Big Stroke"
This handwriting is carved a bit out of shape, unlike the noodle characters of the Hongli calendar, if you insist that these three words of Qianlong are inscribed on Cao Xiuxian, such a speculation is too arbitrary, but suddenly it reminds me of the huge brush hanging in the small pavilion next to me, it is likely to interpret the three big characters written by Qianlong. If you think about it, this interpretation seems too specific, and it is also possible that the designer of this landscape wants to encourage the students of this school to write the article in line with these three words.