Notes on the Tour of Historic Sites in Northern Henan Province

I have always had a good impression on several small counties in northern Henan. Looking through "A Visit to the Ancient Times by Heshuo", "Historical Records of Heshuo" and other materials, a treasure house of ancient buildings, steles and stone tablets gradually appeared in front of us. The word "Heshuo" alone gives people a noble and solemn experience and renders a different kind of ancient cultural ecology. The ancient buildings in the south are complex or simple, and the literati spirit is stronger. What is lacking is this magnificent weather.

On Qingming Day, it's a pity that Qishui didn't wear Qixian County, but slipped in from the East Gate. The rare smoke-clearing wind in Tomb-Sweeping Day blew through the towering stargazing platform, as if from the banquet in the general corner to the 237th de, whispering the sadness of "self-protection" in the Book of Songs. The dating project of Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasties also denied the traditional view that Qixian County was the ancient city of Chao Ge. However, history can also be regarded as a kind of poetics. From the palaces of Shang Dynasty to the famous cities, the story of Qi sending children walks in the sensitive area of history, which instantly polishes the transparency of everything.

As for the water in Australia, some people say that it is a broken leg river not far away, where the tibia is cut and the pulp is examined. Today, it seems that da ji is a kind of power transfer and rent-seeking to Zhou Wang. First of all, it is a kind of endowment and a kind of concession, which can only be attributed to the spiritual guidance provided by the faint starlight hanging overhead. There is a kind of black humor that at least in China, this is the earliest anatomical experiment to establish contrast. In fact, isn't modern science and technology constantly sweeping away the weak lead of starlight in the name of natural law, efficiency and function? Say that simply picking stars is not loyal to the suggestion of being picked? At the top of the Star Picking Platform stands a Star Picking Pavilion. What a wonderful name!

There are four couplets on all sides of Xinxing Pavilion, and the favorite is "I am eager to cover my disciples' eyes with my fingers and gradually want to sing Maixiuge Yong". The first part tells that Confucius traveled around the world and passed by Chao Ge. His disciples were scrambling to hide their faces because of Yin Zhou's hometown and Feng Wei's decadence. The second part tells about the hopeless remonstrance, spreading education to far away places after pretending to be crazy and selling stupidity. After Yin's death, he wrote Mai Xiuge. At present, many people accuse the former of being melodramatic, but in the era of collapse of rites and bad music, the high standards of primitive Confucianism are also maintaining a spiritual position by kidnapping morality. There is Zhongyi Square in front of Xinxing, and there is a memorial tablet inscribed by Tsung i Jao, a master of Neo-Confucianism bred by Lingnan culture. The official script is warm, refreshing, vigorous and not elegant, which is quite aesthetic in the golden mean. After the pre-Qin period, Qixian was briefly upgraded to a county other than Cao Wei and Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty-of course, this was also the aftermath of the violent political turmoil in Yecheng, and gradually became a small county with a strong life atmosphere and reasonable block layout. In short, it has returned to Maixiuge from the list of gods, except for that special mention of Maixiuge.

On one side of the observation room of stratum culture in the Star-Picking Platform is the Kirin Wall, which was originally a memorial wall for the temples of Bigan, Ji Zi and Weizi. Now, Sanren Temple has become a new temple, and the Kirin wall has not returned to its original position except for Lin's root-seeking and ancestor worship. The unicorn wall was carved in Zheng De period of Ming Dynasty, but it is different from the wide and round lines carved by most Zheng De stone in Ming Dynasty. The charm is Gu Zhuo and steep, and the Kirin Zen on the left is curled up, imitating the posture of the big Kirin in the middle; Chan, a unicorn in the lower right corner, tends to abstract his five senses into symbols, but he doesn't notice the bird in the pine forest with its head tilted downwards in the upper right corner, and its wings and tail make a symbolic cross. The whole zhaobi has some flavor of folk New Year pictures.

The longest viewing time is the floating picture of Chen Po's Heart Sutra opposite the South Gate. It can be regarded as a Tang dynasty building that moved here in the ninth year of Kaiyuan. The tower is square, with overlapping eaves and seven floors made of bluestone. There are small niches carved on all sides of each floor, and there are Buddha statues carved inside. According to the data, there is a semicircular arch on the front of the ventricle of the tower, with an animal's head carved on the chin and a lion carved on the lintel. Unfortunately, the arch has been taken away by the cultural protection department. One Buddha and two bodhisattvas can be seen in the posterior wall of ventricle, and the Buddha steps on two lotus petals, which is very unique in a large number of lotus metaplasia images; Full figure and high bun are the characteristics of Buddha statues in Tang Dynasty. There is a peach-shaped backlight behind the Buddha, and six Buddha statues are carved in the backlight. The right wall of the ventricle is engraved with the floating diagram of Chen Po's heart meridian in the ninth year of Tang Kaiyuan, but it is a pity that it is chaotic. Chen Po, generally referring to an old woman, donated money to build a tower and kept the Heart Sutra in the heart of the tower. Of course, there is the usual utilitarian purpose of China folk sacrifice, but it cannot be interpreted as the projection of the heart shadow. The body of a believer is a container of Buddhist words. Why should it be confined to a certain religion? From exchange and separation to Xun, only yin deficiency is manifested as a container in the universal sense. In the three hexagrams, Yin moves down in turn, and the space of life is filled by the secular with the growth of age and experience. In the life world, it is more and more necessary to listen to the deeper questions of life will. Even if the haze covers the starry sky, every game choice with rules of the game shines with light from the depths of individual life.

Compared with the earless lion in thirty-six years of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, I prefer the mother and son lion standing by the gate of Sanren Temple. Vividly depicts the mode of the lioness when breastfeeding. A powerful lioness with a powerful head and neck pressed one front paw on a young lion as a caress, while the other instinctively scrambled to free its head from its arm. A slow-moving young lion was pressed under them, and the lioness seemed unable to take care of it for a while. If it weren't for the careful observation of cats and dogs breastfeeding on weekdays, it would never be this vivid work.

The whole garden is lush with trees. Last year's golden neem fruit and new green elm trees set off the warm and clear blue sky behind the white porcelain clouds. The local old people sat around and looked at Zhu Bao Tasha in the distance.

Bullshit tablet, fool? Bullshit?

Just after April Fool's Day, visiting here is really not a crossing, but a tombstone of the early Qing Dynasty recorded in history. The word "nonsense" is engraved on the tablet, and there is a horizontal line between the tablet forehead and the tablet body, and the line is engraved with "Never come again". It must be one of the strangest and most mysterious cultural relics in China.

The description in the manual should be "a monument to the bones of Tai Chi Xianweng". It is widely circulated on the Internet that this monument originally stood outside the North Circle Gate of Qixian County, and it was preserved after many twists and turns. In 1980s, it was found to have tourism value, and it was moved to the Star Picking Platform Park in the center of the county for protection. However, after consulting reliable materials, Gu Jie, a famous bibliophile and stele engraver in Shaoxing, published an eight-year edition of Records of Ancient Sites in Qixian County, saying that the monument was on the road outside Beiguan. Gu also talked about the small characters on both sides of the seven characters, such as the bone-breaking place of Tai Chi Xian Weng (the characters no longer exist), which is quite puzzling, presumably set by an old man in the late Ming Dynasty.

Look carefully, there are still many puzzles in this monument. For example, the word "Yin" is clearly engraved on the upper part of the monument, which seems to be gilding the lily and implying something. There are four big characters on the back of the inscription, that is, "kindness is the happiest", and there are a pair of couplets on each side. On the right, it says "don't live up to the three lights, don't bully ghosts and gods, don't bully the poor", and on the left, it says "someone asked me that my practice method is only between virtual spirit and nature". It is not surprising that this is a monk's idiom. The so-called "doing good" is not necessarily an ethical interpretation. Judging from the current investigation, the right side is almost unrecognizable, and the left side is completely sloppy.

Even more mysterious is Beiyang's fine print. At first glance, it seems like a hermit's nonsense, but if you ponder the meaning carefully, you can still find some clues. The owners of the tomb are Mu (a native) and Yan (a Beijinger), who entered Yunmeng Mountain for monasticism in the late Ming Dynasty (there is no exact record of where the monument was erected, but it was moved under Yunmeng Mountain several times). Connecting with the background of the times at that time should be to avoid the chaos in Gyeonggi when the regime changed. If you don't believe me, the strangest thing is yet to come. "The deeds have been recorded in detail in Shen Jia (the seventeenth year of Chongzhen), and I dare not repeat them." If the epitaph written by the tomb owner is not all absurd and can be recorded in detail in Shen Jiaji, it must be in an unusual position in the power system in the next season; What's the secret of "dare not reinvent the wheel" in the inscription? Make this person's identity more unusual and confusing. "Monks don't talk about longevity, and future generations will live for about 12 years if they want to take the exam (144 years old)." Of course, it goes without saying that they will only spend the rest of their lives in the "four emptiness" of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. The problem is that if you really concentrate on practicing Buddhism and don't remember the life in the world, the rise and fall of the world has nothing to do with yourself, and you feel that you have no nostalgia. "Never come again", why insist on setting up this monument and leaving the mark of your life in the world? And how much information is revealed to future generations in the case of hidden and obvious, with and without? Is there reluctance in this? Even the unfinished works in the late Ming dynasty are entangled behind the scenes? Sun doesn't want to go to a secluded place not far away to worship the spring and give lectures.

Judging from the font of the inscription, there are both original works and official lines, and Gu Xieguang especially praised its official style. If we understand it further, we can still think that the lazy and straightforward god can still be written by one person. However, Beiyang does have traces of grinding and turning, and the most primitive handwriting can still look a little. The deeper the load, the more difficult the exploration is.

There are many stories about the epitaph written by the tomb owner, and some even say that he did not die in the tombstone of Emperor Chongzhen exiled by Jingshan Park and Shuo. But the isolated evidence is untenable, and the "textual research" with obvious subjective intention is actually a gimmick. I have seen Zhang Dai's own epitaph before, lamenting that there are so many talented people. It's really a mixture of remorse and compassion. Nowadays, the "Mu family" that rubs the "nonsense tablet" and writes its own epitaph is becoming more and more interesting and lovely. Not to mention the difficult choices made by scholars in ethical conflicts, but the fact that Henan people eventually became Zhou Lianggong or Tang Bin is a historical absurdity. In the late Ming Dynasty, when "you can't be a man without depravity", the old moral articles have long lost the power of integration and the scholars in their own world. Facing the surging folk culture, they can't return to their land because they are unwilling and separated. Suspended between the world, as the late scholar Yu Hong said, is just absurd. Denying that a foreign land is their hometown, "nonsense", is a ridiculous blow to the absurd foreign land, if they still had the reference system of their hometown in mind at that time. "Never come again", but this purple humor always comes from the mouth of "precocious baby", which sounds more like a child in anger.

Worship the spring, worship the spring

I went to worship the spring more than 0/00 kilometers away from/kloc-. A few years ago, when I learned about Mr. Sun's deeds, I even wanted to see his body. I didn't expect the scenic spot to be so dilapidated and neglected in management. During the Dragon Boat Festival holiday, Baiquan Hotel at the northern foot of Suman Mountain showed no signs of business, and the bread brought came in handy. A courtyard on the south side of Shaofuzi Temple in the west of the lake became the office of a cultural relics department. However, there are many monuments in the corridor that clearly record Sun Qifeng's incident or build Sun Qifeng's ancestral hall. Flowers in full bloom at nine o'clock decorated one side. This is probably the ancestral temple of Sun Qifeng. The desolation and decline of historical sites attracted me to savor it. Things are rotten and full of interest. When the clouds of history are about to disperse, only the lost souls can fly among the mountains and rivers of Baiquan.

However, on second thought, it is not easy for a small town in northern Henan, which is plagued by sandstorms, to maintain a clear lake. Entering from Donghuamen, passing through the mulberry pavilion and walking along the shore of South Lake, a local caught a big silver carp, which is a kind of fish with high water quality requirements. To the north, from the long and narrow porous bridge to the Qinghuige, the second floor and the rest building, the eaves tiles fall off and the plaques are scattered, stroking the cypress trees that have grown in the four corners of the pavilion for more than a thousand years and need several people to hug each other. It's very comfortable to look at the boundless water. The water under the scorching sun is unbearable, covered with bluish-gray banks, small bridges, pavilions and strange rocks, and the reflected light filters out a layer of brightness. Sumen Mountain in Hubei is lush, and glazed tiles of unknown buildings shine from time to time. The whole Baiquan is vast and solemn, showing the elegance of the northern gardens, like a declining aristocrat, but still extraordinary.

It is a pity that Baiquan has become a "zero spring". Just from the names of "Spray Jade Pavilion" and "Jin Yong Pavilion" in Hubei, we can imagine the magnificent scenery of Xia Shu pillow spring floating gold in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The 800-mile Taihang Mountain comes from the winding west and erupts a little underground, which is Sumen Mountain. There are many caves and springs flowing under Sumen Mountain, and many scholars and literati from the Great Plains came to Sumen Mountain to build houses. In the dim light of the four corners of Jinyong Pavilion, we found the stone tablet inscribed by Su Shi, "Sumenshan Jinyong Pavilion", written by Xu Heng, a great scholar in Yuan Dynasty. After more than an hour, I walked along the mountain road to Long Ting, halfway up the mountain, which was built for Kangxi to reduce the grain of several nearby counties. When it was rebuilt in the 1990s, only the stylobate and the great monument remained. The whole pavilion was rebuilt with wood, and a very complicated and exquisite bucket arch structure was built. The wooden faucet in the algae well is hung, but there are stone pillars on the periphery, which are embedded with the wooden pillars in the inner ring. This weird combination can be seen everywhere in the development of scenic spots, just like the South China Gate imitating Han Que facing the Nine Dragon Wall, which is very atmospheric but a bit nondescript. Suddenly there was a muffled thunder in the distance, but it was thunder for no reason. I think, if there is a sudden rainstorm, every hole in the mountain soil and stone vegetation will be found and a new hundred springs will be sprayed.

It didn't rain on the mountain, just looking back at the main hall of Weiyuan Temple at the foot of the mountain, which is really lucky. Baiquan has a rich culture since ancient times. According to records, at the end of the week, he spent the night in Baiquan at dusk and then went to Weihui Mu Ye. Historically, Bai Quan was also regarded as the source of Weihe River, bearing too many poetic memories. The main hall of Weiyuan Temple should be the largest existing building in Baiquan, with double eaves and a mountain-resting style. There is a mural of Hebo, which enters through the stone pillars engraved with long couplets. It feels that the air conditioning in midsummer is daunting and creepy. The name of the main hall is Qinghui, which is also the origin of Huixian's name. At present, Weiyuan Temple is the seat of huixian city Cultural Management Institute. It is closed to tourists like the tomb of the hungry husband, the Sanbei Pavilion and the stele gallery at the eastern foot of Sumen, where many treasures have been preserved. The cold in the main hall can only be felt when the lock of the courtyard door is removed. It is important to continue climbing the mountain.

Visually climb to the highest point of Sumen Mountain, and meet Sun Dengxiaotai, whom scholars of all ages yearn for. I have read Yuan Shikai's couplets and inscriptions written by Li Mengyang, a poet of the Ming Dynasty, praised him, imitated Chu Ci, and boarded the whistle platform, but I can overlook the whole Sumen Mountain and Lin Tao's birds singing, and I feel a little like whistling myself. Ruan Ji came to test, Sun Deng's roar can make the existence of the whole mountain god dance like orpheus in ancient Greece, but it can also fool Mr. Adult's madness. Somehow, after thirty or forty minutes, I arrived at Sanqingguan, and I actually connected this hermit who lived in a cave and ate wild fruits without asking about human fireworks with an aunt who collected three yuan tickets for sporadic tourists and lived in a temple at night.

From the small platform to the third customs clearance, I dare not take the path of miscellaneous trees and insects, and go straight west. Instead, I took the stone road that turned north and then south. It is also rugged, tired and hungry, and I even want to go back. It has to be said that the Ming Dynasty architecture with three customs clearances is the condensation of the essence of Sumen Mountain. Sanqing Temple was built in the first year of Qin Long in the Ming Dynasty, where a man with a pseudonym of Wu Qiu practiced. It is said that Wu Qiu was born to Emperor Jiajing and a concubine who was addicted to Taoism. It sounds that these solemn and dignified stone buildings have been painted with a funny color. There are Sanyuan Temple, Sanguan Temple, Zushi Temple, Sanqing Temple, Xuanwu Temple, Guan Sheng Temple, Wang Mu Temple, etc. But what is precious is that they are all made of stone and surrounded by arch coupons similar to western architecture. The caisson is surrounded by layers of bluestones, increasing gradually and decreasing gradually, as if to lead people's spirit to the three highs step by step.

Continue westward along the stone wall of the Third Customs Clearance to the site of Anlewo in Shao Yong, echoing the Shaofuzi Temple opposite Xihuamen, which is the last scenic spot. To tell the truth, I'm not very interested in the ruins of Shao Yong, where Sumen Mountain gives lectures in seclusion all the year round. Maybe it's my prejudice. I often hear jokes that someone uses his set of image number theory to estimate the age of the universe. The remaining mountain gates, porches and temple foundations in the deep forests make people feel like explorers who have discovered Mayan ruins. It is said that I like this temple very much, because in the Yuan Dynasty, it became the ancestral hall of Lu Ye Chu Cai, and he also lived in seclusion here. A stone tablet inscribed in the book records the ancestral temple of Yelugong's Happy Nest, which is very eye-catching and is Yuan to Yuan. Judging from the smooth and clear white marble tablet, it must be newly carved. Gravel is everywhere on the foundation, and there are traces of burning incense recently. The light slanted down from the leaves of every household and pointed to the afternoon.

Autumn tour in Daishan

Through the sutra depository, it is also through the eyes of each palm of the newly molded Buddha with thousands of hands and eyes. In autumn in the north, the eyes are tall and clear, and they suddenly become clear. This opening still can't fit the Tianning Temple Buddha. Xun County is the only county-level national historical and cultural city in Henan Province. In the afternoon, I went to the Ming City Wall and Yunxi Bridge in the old city. I felt that Xunxian was in this mountain and that mountain was in this giant Buddha.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Zhang Qiantang revised Xunxian Annals, which said, "Take the Buddha's words as the truth, take the cliff stone carvings as the Buddha statues, and seek the heights of the Yellow River." However, he did not specify the source of this account, so the traditional Zhao said that the evidence was insufficient, but it could not be categorically denied. Experts' arguments, especially the excavation of stone beasts in Tianning Temple in the early Northern Wei Dynasty, confirmed the record of "Tuoba Wei built a heavy pavilion", and the restoration of the giant Buddha probably began at that time. In view of the fact that the giant stone carved Buddha statues in the Sixteen Kingdoms period have not been found in China, the value of the Buddha statues in Tianning Temple is self-evident.

The big stone Buddha is a triangle with uncoordinated proportions, which embodies the clumsy carving techniques in the early days. As a mixture of aesthetic characteristics of different times, Maitreya always faces the old course of the Yellow River, solemn images, fearless seals and solemn sea borders, and does not discuss how the darkest and most turbulent era in China history produced such kind and sacred works of art, at least giving people in distress a hope.

Yesterday, I wanted to travel to a place I had hoped for, but I was not familiar with it at all, so I always wanted to leave the table and go out for a walk. I studied the giant Buddha for a while at noon today, and then quickly walked out of the gable of Tianning Temple and climbed up the stone steps as steep as the back hill. "Magnificent and magnificent", the characters of the Great Cliff are displayed impressively on the north cliff wall of this giant Buddha building. The brushwork is strict "Magu Xiantan" and "Ode to Zhongxing", and on the right is a string of Sanskrit letters, all engraved from Yuan Dynasty to the first year. After twists and turns, I found myself standing next to the cornice of the Great Buddha Pagoda, overlooking the panoramic view of Liyang, just like I was standing under the octagonal prism pyramid roof of Taiji Palace in Lv Zu Temple an hour later. According to my feeling, I may be reaching the main peak of Dawan Mountain.

I walked counterclockwise along the mountain road for a period of time and left Tianning Temple. I can see the towering Taiji Palace on the shiping of several basketball courts. After the Kangxi Tower in Qing Dynasty, there were thousands of Taoist immortals in it, which really made people linger. But after all, I have to go back. Walking down the more tortuous and steep steps, my tired legs still kept me from looking down the hill, only paying attention to the wild chrysanthemums in the crevices under my feet. I accidentally flew over a butterfly, and my eyes looked back. I saw my way, but I was swallowed up by the white and green mountains.

Down to the mountain gate, deliberately walked past the falling Hongqiao on the goose bath, and arrived at Yangming Academy, leaving only one name. Even the pool next to the stone wall dried up. However, the cliff on the stone wall says "looking for Australia", so you can pay attention to it. This was written by Li Peiji, the governor of Henan Province, who was suspected of lying about the disaster in 1942. The brushwork is quite familiar, and officials of their generation can easily recite elegantly.

Speaking of which, how can we not mention the cliff in Wang Duo, which is a scenic spot in Longdong, between Tianning Temple and Lv Zu Temple. "Wang Duo's words are right next to on the boulevard," the conductor told me. This time, Wang Duo's eight-point book Dan, full of strength and harmony, is a Lu Tao! Komori's "Pear Flowers with Trees Falling in the Night Wind" is also worthy of respect. I remember just entering the mountain and seeing some white pigeons flying on Li's "Dayuan Mountain". I'm afraid it can only be called "pigeon foam" Ha, I unconsciously returned to Daishan Square. The first scenic spot I went to today was Taiping xingguo temple. You can know its founding age from its name.

It is said that the grass in Wang Duo is as dry as vines in Chitose Mountain, and there are many vines in Daxie Mountain. However, there should be only Cooper and Sophora japonica in Chitose Mountain. When I came out of the mountain, I met the couple cypress wrapped in red cloth. Or sparse or dense, or moist or eroded rings spread outward, getting weaker and weaker, just like the big stone buddhas repaired in the past dynasties, in Dazan Mountain and Xunxian County.

Postscript: I have a good impression on northern Henan. Northern Henan is the "Hebei" of Henan. Since ancient times, Weihui, Huaiqing and Zhangde are not only economically developed areas in Henan, but also the density of cultural relics is rare in China. As for how to explain the jagged trend of dividing this area into Henan, some people say it is to supplement the area south of the Yellow River, where floods are frequent and people's livelihood is often depressed; Some people say that it is because Miyake in northern Henan was laid by Henan soldiers in the early Ming Dynasty. In any case, it is really unique to be located on the alluvial fan formed by the rivers in the Taihang Mountains. Here, some travel notes in the course of traveling are linked by subheadings. Visits to northern Henan have been intermittent in ancient times and will definitely continue in the future.