Slow product? Nanxi Academy, Tang Fang is still here. What did Zhu charm xi find?

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(Youxi, Nanxi Academy)

Nanxi Academy, located in the south of Youxi County, was originally built by Yi Zheng. In the fifth year of Xuanhe in the Northern Song Dynasty (1 123), Zhu Song, Zhu's father, was appointed as the county commandant of Youxi, and lived in Youxi after leaving office. In the 4th year of Jian Yan in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 130), Zhu was born here. After Zhu's death, Li Xiu, the county magistrate, donated money in the first year of Jiaxi (1237) to build the original Jianwengong Temple, Temple, Half-acre Square Pond and Zundaotang. In memory of Jia Zhu and his son. In the first year of Baodou (1253), Song Lizong awarded "Nanxi Academy".

(Statue of Zhu in front of Nanxi Academy)

After returning to Youxi from Guifeng Village, it's past noon, eating a bowl of fast food and walking to Nanxi Academy. It's still raining in Mao Mao, and the breeze is blowing on my face, only I feel less cold. Located in the south of the city, the Academy has become a scenic spot. A tall and majestic statue of Zhu stands in the center, reminding you to enter the scientific holy land of "Nishan Mountain in the middle of Fujian". Seeing the two Zhang plants planted by Zhu, behind the lush is "Nanxi Academy".

(portrait of Zhu)

Zhu lived here for seven years as a child, and then came back many times to take care of Sangyuan and support the academy, leaving many articles, poems and anecdotes.

(nanxi river Academy, Zhu personally planted "Zhang".

Inside and outside the academy, there is a landscape of "one pool and two camphor trees".

The two ancient camphor trees on the left side of the academy are said to be planted by Zhu and called "Zhang". The tree is 30 meters high and needs three or four people to hold it. For more than 800 years, it has stood tall and sheltered this sacred place of Neo-Confucianism. The trees in the rain are a little lonely, and there are few tourists, not even people who take shelter from the rain. The branches and leaves are ringing in the breeze, and there is a trace of vain hope in the whisper. I salute with the lens, look from a distance and enjoy the whole picture.

(Nanxi Academy, half acre square pond)

The "half acre square pond" opened, and a stone bridge split in two, which was poetic because of Zhu's "reading feelings". The water was sparkling by the rain, and the fish swam around in the sky, making a mess of shadows. There was a "half-acre square pond" stone tablet in the corner that was gray. At that time, there would be a cold pool under Yu Xiufeng in the south of Youxi, which is the auspicious image of holding water around the mountain. There are flowers and willows, ducks and geese swimming there. The bank of that slope should be loess and thin stones covered with fine grass, giving people a faint natural taste of country houses, unlike the cold cement square pond now. Many legends of Zhu's childhood happened here, such as "two peach blossoms in a square pond of half an acre", "sitting in sand painting" and "six-year-old children winning chess" and so on. That childhood was naturally happy.

(A pond half an acre square)

Thirty-six years later, 42-year-old Zhu Yin went south to Youxi for the funeral of his uncle Zhu Jiao and returned to Zheng's birthplace. He saw the "Recent Flowers" inscribed on the wall by his father Zhu Song. Drunk in Zheng Ting, "open the mirror, drop floc and fly flowers, willing to." Thinking about things, remembering Tang Fang's old dream in front of the museum, and writing down the well-known Random Thoughts on Reading;

As soon as the half-acre square pond is opened,

The sky is full of clouds and shadows.

Ask the canal so clearly,

Because there is inexhaustible living water for it.

Zhu borrowed the idea that the pond is clear because of the injection of living water, and compared it with the idea of innovation. He talked with the landscape and became a masterpiece. After the college entrance examination, some students took pictures by the pond, as if praying for "living water" to bring good luck.

(Zhu's story on the porcelain bottle)

Nanxi Academy has read all the spring, summer, autumn and winter. The camphor tree is covered with leaves, and the square pond is clear and bright. Students tell the present and the present in the shade of branches, and admire chants in the carved columns, which are full of gorgeous colors and literary atmosphere. I don't know what kind of immersion and enjoyment it will be.

(Interior of Nanxi Academy)

China's four major academies: Yingtian, Yuelu, Bailu and Songyang. I visited the third one, and I still have respect for these colleges. To digress, the beginning of my work coincided with the criticism of Confucianism. I entered the theory group by mistake. I have a fifth grade education in primary school. How can there be any theory? I can't even tell the difference between "Zhuzi" and "Zhuzi", and I'm joking. Later, it was pointed out that one was the general name of the pre-Qin philosophers, and the other was the honorific title of Zhu, the master of Confucianism. After graduating from college, we know more about it.

(A giant pen is like a rafter)

Visiting the Zhai Wei Temple, the Garden of Trees, Yuxiufang and Yuxiuting in the Academy, I really feel that Zhu is a master of Confucianism, a philosopher, thinker and educator. He wrote 126 books, with more than 700 volumes, and was "the first person to write in ancient and modern times". He founded 27 academies and trained 362 talents, including Prime Minister Zhen. He has profound knowledge and noble personality, and is a cultural saint who has made great contributions in the history of human thought after Confucius.

(Illustration of Zhu Zi's Family Instructions)

However, it seems that Zhu has not mentioned this matter for a long time. Confucius was still "practical", and later sages were even more silent. They can only be used as gods in their hometown, in orthodox celebrations and in the application for World Heritage. Fortunately, in the return of traditional culture, Zhu's thought of "attaching importance to agriculture, promoting literature, benefiting people, observing reason, observing courtesy, being loyal and filial, and loving relatives" was also mentioned in class; The well-known allusions of "flowing water from the source" and Zhu Jiaxun's motto of "Don't do it with the small goodness, don't do it with the small evil" all regulate family education to a greater or lesser extent and exert a subtle influence on people's hearts. From this point of view, inheritance is not a high-profile empty preaching, not a luxurious construction of the former residence, or even boasting about the lofty words of ancestors and Yaozong, but a need to look forward to inner tempering, a reverence for elegance, and a sense of belonging under calm and quiet.

Nanxi Academy, are you telling me? I seem to hear the flowing water in the square pond trickling, and the green leaves of the ancient camphor tree are also waiting.

(Zhu Birthplace Monument)

(Wengong Temple)

(Half-acre square pond monument)

(Zhu's handwriting)

(Exterior location of Nanxi Academy)

(Zhu sculpture)