Changsun Wuji ranks first among the 24 heroes of Lingyange.
Changsun Wuji (594-659), a native of Luoyang, Henan Province, was born in Xianbei nationality. A politician in the early Tang Dynasty, the son of Sun Sheng, the right general of the Sui Dynasty, his mother was the daughter of Aric, Le 'an, Northern Qi Dynasty, and his mother and brother were Empress Wende.
he lost his father when he was a child and was brought up by his uncle Gao Shilian. Smart and savvy, elegant and skillful, he was a close friend of Tang Taizong, and then married. After Jinyang set out, he went to an audience and defected, followed Emperor Taizong in the four directions, became a confidant adviser, sealed the party and county officials, and participated in planning the change of Xuanwu Gate.
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The heroic map of Lingyan Pavilion was drawn in the spring of the seventeenth year of Tang Zhenguan (AD 643). Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, personally praised Changsun Wuji, Wei Zhi, Wei Chijingde and other founding fathers, and ordered Chu Suiliang to inscribe the Pavilion, which was completed by the painter Yan Liben. Therefore, it has become a masterpiece of literary talent, calligraphy and painting in the early Tang Dynasty. Praised by historians of past dynasties. At the same time, this tradition of praising and respecting virtues has been carried forward and continued to this day.
Because Lingyange was destroyed by the war, the map of the 24 Heroes is only seen in the descriptions of historians and poets, and there is no image to be examined. There are only four stone fragments carved by Shi Xiong, a poet of the Song Dynasty, which can't be identified. Although there were re-carved prints in Liu Yuan, Suzhou in the Qing Dynasty, they were far from tang style.
Mr. Lin of Cai Chang, who is good at creating paintings on cultural relics, has made full use of the resource advantages of his museum scholars. In more than two years, he has consulted a large number of historical documents and cultural relics images,
visited and inspected the related historical relics, and used the Internet to visit famous people from all over the world, textual research on historical facts, and carefully created them, making them an important achievement of Tang Wenhua research and a new highlight of Xi 'an tourism.
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