"Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" is a household name. The second half of the sentence was discovered in 1983. What do you think?

Guilin’s landscapes are unparalleled in the world

China has a vast territory and rich resources, and its natural landscapes are unique and diverse. There are Gobi deserts in the northwest, misty rain in the southeast, snow-covered scenery in the northeast, and clear water and blue skies in North China. . Among them, Guilin's landscape occupies a very important position in the colorful landscape. Guilin, Guangxi is a typical karst landform. This kind of landform is very fragile. It is a peculiar scene formed after tens of thousands of years of water dissolution. It can be called "strange mountains and beautiful waters, dangerous caves and beautiful rocks".

Friends who have been to Guilin know that Guilin’s landscape is different from other places. It is as soft and calm as a woman’s skin, but as open and inclusive as a man’s mind. The water lines the mountain, and the reflection of the mountain floats on the water. The small bamboo rafts are floating in the water. A folk song will cause the sound in the empty valley, and a few birds returning from the mountain stream will fly leisurely in the air. .

Since ancient times, many literati have been inspired by the majestic beauty of Guilin’s landscape and created many excellent literary works about Guilin. For example, "The peaks reflect the floating water, and without water there is no mountain without meditating." "The water is like a green belt, and the mountains are like jade hairpins." Among them, most of our first impressions of Guilin originated from a primary school text - "Guilin Landscape A" "World", this article vividly and meticulously describes the beauty of Guilin's water and the more "strange" and "beautiful" mountains.

The sentence "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" has been sung to everyone across the country. Careful people will find that this short The second half of the sentence is obviously incomplete. In fact, the second half of this sentence has always been a mystery, and people have made many sentences to try to complete the incomplete half of the sentence. Mystery

"Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" comes from the stone inscription. It stands on Duxiu Peak and has been standing there since the Song Dynasty. People visited it accidentally and discovered it. It was no longer lonely, and it suddenly became famous, attracting people from all over the world. So like its story, the saying "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world" has been spread all over the country.

Perhaps we have heard it. When it comes to the sentence "Yangshuo's landscape is the best in Guilin", most people assume that this is the second half of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". This sentence even appears in the recitation section of textbooks. In fact, this is a folk version, and it comes from. Wu Mai, a poet from the Qing Dynasty, later found out that it was not the original version. Although it is easy to understand, it has lost part of its beauty.

In fact, long before "Yangshuo's landscape surpassed Guilin", there was a man named Jin Wuxiang in the Qing Dynasty. The poet also wrote the second half of the sentence - "The wonderful picture of the Lijiang River in autumn". This sentence both reflects the beauty of Guilin's landscape and praises the beautiful mountains and rivers. Compared with "Yangshuo's landscape is the best in Guilin", this is a better connection. .

However, after expert research, it was still found that this was not the original second half of the sentence. So, hundreds of years later, people used their own understanding and thinking to find the source of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". Imagination interprets the second half of this imaginative sentence. Especially in the 1970s and 1980s, academic circles launched a great discussion to explore the true origin of "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world". The debate has never reached a conclusion.

Yu Bi Luo Qing Yi Can Gong

In 1983, on an inconspicuous hill in the Guilin Scenic Area, the staff were cleaning the weeds on the rock wall and suddenly found a broken rock on the top of the rock wall. Traces. The staff made a major discovery during the restoration of this ruined wall, ending the debate among scholars on this academic issue.

After they finished weeding, they felt that this piece of debris was a piece of stone. The broken wall is different from ordinary stone cracks. There are some logos or vague words engraved on it. One of the staff recognized the words "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world", and he felt that the origin of this stone. It was not easy, so they took him to the Stone Carving Research Institute.

After cleaning the stone, the researchers found that the word "Jiatai" was engraved at the bottom. "Jiatai" is the reign name of Song Ningzong. This means that this stone carving came from the Southern Song Dynasty. It was such an unexpected discovery that the century-old mystery was revealed to the world. The title of the stone carving is "Poem for the Deer Crying Banquet". This poem contains two seven-character poems. There is a saying that "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, and its jade and greenery can be seen."

The final signature was written by Wang Zhenggong of the Southern Song Dynasty.

You know, Duxiu Peak is a peak in Jingjiang Palace. This is the palace of Zhu Shouqian, a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Once upon a time, "Guilin's landscapes were the best in the world" and it only began to enter the public eye after the discovery of another Southern Song Dynasty stone carving on Duxiu Peak. At this time, no one doubted its authenticity anymore, and everyone was excited that the answer to the mystery was revealed to the public. Finally, hundreds of years later, two long-lost lines were pieced together. Although there was a long time difference, the artistic attainments of the second half of the line were no worse than those of the first half.

Wang Zhenggong's "Guilin Landscape"

When the second half of this sentence began to become familiar to people, everyone couldn't help but admire that although people have been adding to it, no sentence has ever been able to surpass it. Original level. "Yu Bi" and "Luo Qing" express the artistic conception of Guilin's landscape, and the first and second half sentences are neatly contrasted, making it catchy to read.

Wang Zhenggong successfully connected the natural beauty of Guilin’s landscape with the beauty of personal cultivation, integrating emotions into the scenery, creating a situation where people are in the scenery and are infected by the scenery, and the scenery is in turn because of the arrival of people. , so as to avoid the mutual attraction of self-admiration.

According to historical records, Wang Zhenggong, also known as Chengfu, was an official in the Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in Ningbo, Zhejiang. He entered officialdom at the age of twenty and was upright and honest throughout his life. It was precisely because he was an upright man and did not seek power or wealth that his career in officialdom was mediocre. He was not transferred to Guilin as an official until he was 68 years old, and his grade was not considered high.

Wang Zhenggong once held a "Deer Ming Banquet" for students as a government official. During the banquet, they exchanged their ambitions and thoughts with each other and discussed what they would do in the future. During the exchange, the atmosphere gradually became lively, and they began to play a game of drinking and writing poetry, as described in the "Preface to the Lanting Collection". Wang Zhenggong encouraged his students to actively and bravely start a new journey in life and to be loyal to the country. While half drunk and half awake, he wrote "Poetry to Encourage Drivers at the Deer Ming Banquet" with one stroke of his pen.

Thousands of years have passed, and Wang Zhenggong must have never imagined that his two spontaneous poems would survive to this day and are regarded as rare treasures of literature. Among them, the two sentences praising the scenery of Guilin, "Guilin's landscape is the best in the world, and the green jade and green flowers can be seen" have become wonderful quatrains describing the landscape. In fact, his original intention was not to express his admiration for Guilin's landscape, but more to wish the students a bright future.

Guilin’s beautiful landscape is because its scenery is natural rather than man-made, and because it is in motion rather than static. The same is true in life. While maintaining a pure heart, one should constantly accept new things and improve one's moral cultivation. Wang Zhenggong is using his life's experience and lessons to tell future generations how to make a living and go far in their official careers.

The soil and water support the people, and the natural environment and unique scenery of a place will nurture the local cultural characteristics and the character of the residents. The natural gift of clear water and green mountains in Guilin, as well as the traditional cultural heritage that lasts for thousands of years, have created the hardworking, intelligent and calm character of Guangxi people.

They will not consume the original vitality of the land because of the rapid development of the times, nor will they destroy their quiet and harmonious homes because of the attraction of money. "The landscape of Guilin is the best in the world, and the green jade and green grass can be seen." Just as Wang Zhenggong hoped, "Guilin's landscape" will not be contaminated by the noise of the outside world and will always be peaceful.