When did people begin to inscribe their names on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda?

During the Dragon Period in Tang Zhongzong, scholar Zhang Ju visited Jeju. On a whim, he wrote his name under the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Unexpectedly, this move attracted scholars to follow suit. Especially the new Jinshi, they regard the title of Yanta as a great honor. After a banquet in Qujiang, they collectively came to the bottom of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda and recommended good calligraphers to write their names, places of origin and time on the wall in ink. If any of these people becomes famous in the future, they will change their names to calligraphy. Bai Juyi is the most famous among those who wrote inscriptions for the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. 27 years old, won the first prize in one fell swoop. Unable to restrain his joy, he wrote the poem "The youngest of seventeen people wrote an inscription for Cienta".

"New Tang Book": "Qujiang will have a title." Li Zhao's Supplement to National History: "Its agility ranks among the pagodas in Jionji, which is called the topic meeting. "What is recorded in the two ancient books is another great honor of the new scholars in the Tang Dynasty,' Yanta Title', also known as' Cien Title'.

The Big Wild Goose Pagoda, the Big Wild Goose Pagoda of Xi 'an Anji Temple, was built in the third year of Tang Yonghui (AD 652) to preserve the Buddhist scriptures that Xuanzang brought back from India.

After Qujiang banquet, the new Jinshi flocked to Jean Temple and gathered in the inscription room. They first wrote their names and places of origin on a square piece of paper, and recommended excellent calligraphers to write a composition to record the event. Then they gave it to a full-time stonemason and carved it on the Shi Zhuan of the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. Bai Juyi entered the exam at the age of 27, the youngest among 17 people who took the exam at the same time. He wrote proudly.

Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties inherited the inscription system of the Tang Dynasty scholars, and the inscription will be held in Imperial Academy, the highest institution in Kyoto. On the stone tablet prepared by the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court, the name, ranking and native place of the new Jinshi are engraved.

Today, the Jigong Temple in Xi 'an and the Confucius Temple in Beijing still retain well-preserved stone tablets engraved with the titles of new bachelors in previous dynasties, and these ancient elites are therefore famous and passed down to future generations. (Lu Maoqing)