What are the architectural features of Drunkard Pavilion?

The Drunkard Pavilion is located near mountains and rivers, elegant and peaceful. The environment here is very beautiful with whirling ancient trees, scattered pavilions, picturesque green mountains, and clear water. The entire layout is rigorous and compact, with deep twists and turns, full of poetic and picturesque flavor.

The Drunkard Pavilion uses wooden columns and beams to form the frame of the house. The weight of the roof and eaves is transferred to the columns through the beams. This is a characteristic of traditional Chinese architecture. Only a few columns are used to support the entire building. The building creates a "slim" image.

This kind of component not only has the function of supporting the load beam, but also has the decorative function, and has good practical functions. It can also enable the pavilion to meet various functional requirements under different climate conditions. For example, ventilation makes it a good place to rest and enjoy the cool air; you can also take advantage of the scenery and sit under the pavilion to enjoy the scenery of the mountains and forests surrounding the pavilion.

The roof of Drunkard Pavilion is also very distinctive. Craftsmen in ancient my country have long learned to use roofs to achieve artistic effects. There is a sentence in "The Book of Songs" about "making temple wings", which shows that our country has long noticed the beauty of roofs that stretch like wings.

The Drunkard Pavilion uses this kind of eaves and corners that stretch like bird wings, making the entire Drunkard Pavilion feel light and ready to fly. This kind of beauty is essentially the flowing beauty of the time process, which is expressed in individual buildings, showing the artistic characteristics of lines and forming slightly warped cornices.

This kind of cornice makes the roof, which should be heavy and press downward, instead follow the twists and turns of the line, showing a light and upward movement. The generous platform makes the entire Zuiweng Pavilion reflect a kind of Clean and coordinated, comfortable and practical, with a distinct rhythm.

The Drunken Old Man stands gracefully in the forest of Langya Mountain, with gray tiles and red wooden pillars, giving it a unique charm.

Since wood is perishable, architects paint the wood with varnish and tung oil to protect the wood and increase its beauty, achieving a combination of practicality, strength and beauty. Therefore, the pillars of the Drunkard Pavilion are The bright red color is very eye-catching in the mountains and forests.

In addition, there are colorful paintings on the beams and other places of the Drunkard Pavilion. The shaded part of the wood under the Drunken Old Pavilion is in cool green color, which emphasizes the warmth of the sun and the coolness of the shadow, forming a pleasing contrast. This color creates a sense of coolness in the summer.

Later there was a statue of Ouyang Xiu in the Drunkard Pavilion, with a peaceful expression. There is a huge stone next to the pavilion, on which are engraved the three characters "Drunkard Pavilion" in round-bottomed seal script. In front of the pavilion, there is a nine-curved drinking cup, and the flowing water does not rot.

Not far from the pavilion, a spring overflows from the ground. A square pool is built with stones next to the spring. The water flows into the pool and then flows into the mountain stream. The pool is one meter square and about two feet deep. There is an inscription on the pool with the word "Rangquan" erected by Cikui, the Zhizhou King in the Qing Dynasty.

The temperature of the spring water does not change much throughout the year. The spring water is "as sweet as glutinous rice wine and as clear as glass", so it is also called "Glass Spring". To the west of the pavilion, there is the "European Plum" valued by Ou Gong. The thousand-year-old tree is more than 10 meters high, with thousands of plum blossoms blooming on the branches and red flowers falling from the tree.

When Ouyang Xiu was the governor of Chuzhou in the Song Dynasty, he built the Fengle Pavilion not far from the Zuiweng Pavilion, and wrote the "Fengle Pavilion" and other well-known masterpieces, so people say: " The mountains and rivers of Chu are brightened by Ou Gong's writings."

Feng Le Pavilion faces the mountains and valleys, leaning against the gurgling stream, with towering ancient trees and mountain flowers everywhere. The scenery is very beautiful. Regarding the construction of Fengle Pavilion, Ouyang Xiu told his friends in "Books with Han Zhongxian King":

I found a spring in the valley of Fengshan southwest of Chuzhou City. The water tastes sweet and cold, because I love the mountains. Go back and build a small pavilion beside the spring.

The article said that he discovered a spring. The spring water was clear and the Fengshan Mountain where it was located was also very beautiful, so he built a small pavilion next to the spring and named the spring "Fengle Spring". Named "Fengle Pavilion". "Fengle Pavilion" means "good things every year" and "fun with the people".

Moreover, Ouyang Xiu also wrote the companion chapter of "The Drunkard Pavilion", "The Story of Fengle Pavilion", and also recorded the grand occasion of enjoying himself with the people in the poem "Spring Tour in Fengle Pavilion" .

The poem reads:

The sun is setting over the mangroves and green mountains, and the grass in the long suburbs is endlessly green.

Visitors don’t know that spring will grow old,

they step on fallen flowers in front of the pavilion.

Fengle Pavilion has a mountain gate in front of the pavilion, a hall behind the pavilion, Jiuxian Temple, Baofeng Hall, etc., surrounded by walls. Fengle Pavilion contains the stone tablet of "Fengle Pavilion" written by Su Dongpo and the stone statue of "Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva" painted by Wu Daozi. In Baofeng Hall, there is the tablet of "Poems of Twelve Scenes of Chuzhou" written by Yin Mengbi, the judge of Chuzhou in the Ming Dynasty. These are all It is a treasure of ancient Chinese culture and art.

The beauty of the mountains is reflected in the literature, and the mountains are conveyed by the literature. Since Ouyang Xiu wrote "The Drunkard Pavilion" and "The Fengle Pavilion", Langya Mountain, where the Drunkard Pavilion is located, has become increasingly famous, with literati, poets, Dignitaries and dignitaries came one after another to visit the ancient sites and write poems and carve stones.

Dr. Shen Zun, a doctor from Taichang in the Northern Song Dynasty, also came to Drunkard Pavilion because of its fame. While watching, he composed the music "Drunkard Old Man's Song", with Ouyang Xiuqin as the lyrics.

A few years later, Ouyang Xiu and Shen Zun met again. Shen Zun played "The Drunkard's Song" on the piano. The sound of the piano reminded Ou Gong of the past when he drank in the pavilion. The poem "Gift to Shen Zun" is a gift.

When the Zuiweng Pavilion was first built, there was only one pavilion. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tang Su, the magistrate of the state, built the Tongzui Pavilion next to it. Erxian Hall was also built during this period.

To the north of Zuiweng Pavilion, there are three tile-roofed houses built on the mountain, hidden among the green trees, solemn and elegant. This is the "Erxian Hall", first built in 1095, which commemorates It was built by two Song Dynasty governors, Ouyang Xiu and Wang Yucheng.

There is a couplet in front of the Erxian Hall:

Living in Huainan during the festival and caring about the people

The original hall of Liu Fangjiang’s Biao Jishi article has been destroyed, but the remaining Erxian The church was later rebuilt. There are two couplets in the hall, one is:

It is not a pleasure to be banished to Huanggang to burn incense and sit silently in the Book of Changes

It is not a sole pleasure to be banished to Pi Fengshan in Chushang to drink wine and write essays. :

Wake up with less desire and less tiredness

After being drunk, your heart will be relaxed and your dreams will be clear

These two couplets express people’s feelings towards the two prefects. Their indignation at being demoted to Chuzhou for caring about state affairs also expressed their admiration for the two prefects' spirit of educating people through poetry and culture and enjoying the happiness of the people.

Ouyang Xiu was a famous writer, historian and politician in the Northern Song Dynasty. He was born into a poor family, had an alert nature, and studied diligently. In terms of literature, Ouyang Xiu took Han Yu as his sect, fought hard to eliminate the extravagant style of literature in the late Tang and Five Dynasties, and supported a large number of elites such as Wang Anshi and Su Shi.

In addition, six of the famous "Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties" in the history of Chinese literature were included in the Northern Song Dynasty, and except for Ouyang Xiu himself, the other five all came from the Ou family. Ouyang Xiu not only made extraordinary achievements, but also was a person His noble character has always been admirable.

The so-called two wise men are Ouyang Xiu and Wang Yucheng. Ouyang Xiu needs nothing to say, but Wang Yucheng, a writer in the early Song Dynasty, was outspoken and outspoken throughout his life. Chuzhou once belonged to the Huainan Kingdom in history. Both Ou and Wang once served as prefects in Chuzhou, hence this famous sentence.