Approaching Xu Shen Cultural Park, the first thing you see is the wide Liu Shu Shizhu Square. Six granite stone pillars, about six meters high, stand in two rows on the east and west sides of the square outside the park gate, engraved with six theories and examples such as pictograph, exegesis, Huili, audio and video, annotation and borrowing books. Before I entered the garden, I had already felt a strong cultural atmosphere of Chinese characters.
Through the gate of the park, I saw a Chinese character avenue in front of me. It goes straight to the Chinese character hall, in the form of an unfolded scroll, which is 80 meters long. It is said that this symbolizes the vicissitudes of Chinese characters for 8 thousand years. Starting from prehistoric symbols, the Chinese Character Avenue shows ten important stages of the development of Chinese characters by using stone carving and bronze carving techniques. Browsing all the way down, I got a detailed understanding of the tortuous course of the development and evolution of Chinese characters.
Walking along the Chinese Character Avenue, you will soon come to the Chinese Character Temple, the core building of the park. The word temple is magnificent, and it is a Han dynasty style building with nine openings and nine entrances. It is made of wood and stone, and the floor of the hall is paved with gold bricks. The name of this temple was inscribed by Ouyang Zhongshi, a famous calligrapher in China. The font is simple and elegant. Walking into the main hall, the first thing I saw was a tall bronze statue of Xu Shen with gold foil. He is solemn, elegant and wise, which makes people feel amiable and respectable. There is an incense burner in front of the bronze statue, and tourists burn incense to worship from time to time. Walking around the bronze statue to the north, I saw the relief glyph on the screen wall behind the bronze statue. On closer inspection, it turns out that lettering is based on 540 radicals established by Xu Shen.
Out of the hall, after a tall archway, came to the tomb protection area before the bronze statue of Xu Shen. The statue is about 3 meters high. Xu Shen, wearing a long-sleeved Hanfu and a roll of bamboo slips on his right hand, looked at the south peacefully. Unfortunately, due to long-term exposure, the bronze statue was dark black, and I took many photos in a row, and the effect was not good.
Not far behind the statue of Xu Shen is the tomb of Xu Shen, the burial place of Xu Shen. The tomb is about 5 meters high and 33 meters in circumference. The whole tomb is covered with white or yellow chrysanthemums, like a huge flower basket. There are three stone tablets in front of the tomb, and two in the east have a long history: one was set up by Wen Deyu, the magistrate of Yancheng County in the forty-sixth year of Kangxi, with seven big characters: "Tomb of Han Xiaolian and Xu Gong"; Another monument was erected by Wang Fengsen, the magistrate of Yancheng County in the second year of Guangxu, and it was engraved with the article "Xu Fuzi Worship the Confucian Temple" written by himself. Unfortunately, some handwriting has been blurred.
After that, I also visited Shuowen Pavilion, Zhongshutang, Jiuqu Bridge and Kuixing Pavilion. The whole park, whether it's an old historic site or a new landscape, is integrated into one, giving people a thick and quaint feeling, and all of them show a long history of Chinese culture. Wandering here is like being in the long history of Chinese character culture and Chinese civilization. I can't help but think of wandering in octupole for thousands of years.
After visiting Xu Shen Cultural Park, I was deeply shocked again and couldn't help falling in love with this land with a long history under my feet.