Another reason why I am not strange is that I came here many times when I was a child. The front door of my relative's house faces the back gable of Zhang Fang's former residence. On holidays, my cousins and I will always go to Zhangfang's former residence and Qiantang Zhizhi House for a stroll and play. At that time, I was still young Only then did I know the important value of the epitaph in Qiantang Zhizhai in the history of calligraphy in China. I think of the little goldfish in the pool of Zhang Fang's former residence, chubby, swimming around, very cute.
In a holiday, at the invitation of a friend, I came to Qiantang Zhizhai again.
Entering the gate of Qiantang Zhizhi House, green as carpet, flowers and bamboos smiling; As always, the breeze blows the willows and the green vine covers the stone wall, which is a beautiful scene of "the layman is happy and forgets his worries, and the doctor is very happy". Zhelu is in the middle of the front hall, facing the gate. When I saw Zhelu, the memory of playing here as a child came back, and the scenery and feelings were vivid. Revisiting the old place, an expectant heart suddenly calmed down at the moment. Looking up at the sky, the traces of plane flying are disappearing over the dormant room; A flock of pigeons flew by, and the whistle on their legs left many sounds of nature in the sky.
On the left-hand side of the gate, there is a pond with a group of black goldfish and a group of red goldfish, which are leisurely and carefree. In a trance, I thought these little goldfish were the ones I saw when I was a child.
We didn't go directly to the epitaph museum, but walked left along the high wall covered with ivy, walked up the stairs on the left and came to a platform, which was actually the roof of the epitaph museum. Outside the platform is the Longhai Railway, and the train whizzes past, verifying the prosperous history of this important town known as the Iron Gate in the past 100 years.
Continue to the West Garden, where there are many inscriptions copied by modern craftsmen, which are full of cultural flavor. There is a pavilion in it, written by Mr. Qi Gong, called "You You". The West Garden is quiet with pines and cypresses.
From the east gate of the West Garden, you can see the four characters "The world is for the public" inscribed by Dr. Sun Yat-sen on the wall. The momentum is extraordinary. I think people who can use Dr. Sun Yat-sen's inscription in their own gardens must have extraordinary fame and prestige in the Republic of China.
There is artificial landscaping between the West Garden and the East Garden: small bridges and flowing water, pavilions, lotus fish ponds, weeping willows in blue waves and rockeries ... Although the landscaping of Qiantangzhizhai imitates the natural landscape, its imitation is naturally higher than nature, and everything looks like nature, which has its own unique charm. I deeply realized the aesthetic taste and elegant taste of the master.
Dongyuan is the location of General Zhang Fang's mausoleum. First, you have to pass a peony garden. There are no peonies this season, only the strong branches of peonies are left. Against the backdrop of pines and cypresses, Zhang Fang's mausoleum stands quietly here. More than 50 years have passed. I wonder if General Zhang Fang can learn from it? Knowing his elegant taste in those days has made great contributions to the study of calligraphy history today.
Coming out of the East Garden, walk down the slope to General Zhang Fang's study opposite the main entrance. Looking up, I saw the word "Zhelu" striking-this was written by Mr. Kang Youwei for Mr. Zhang Fang's study. There is also a pair of couplets. The first part is: Maru wants to seal the purple spirit, but it is still related to Lingyin. The second part is: Who knows that the old general chisels the pavilion? It means: Kang Youwei compares himself to Lao Zi, compares Zhang Fang to Yin, a foreign official in Hangu Pass, and describes Zhang Fang's seclusion here as Li Guang, a general who can't fly while guarding the pavilion. It means that the great man will eventually return and be all-powerful again.
Why does Kang Youwei and Zhang Fang have such an intersection? It turned out that Kang Youwei came to Luoyang to congratulate Wu on his 50th birthday, and then he started his own trip to western Henan. At that time, Zhang Fang's father died, and he went home to observe filial piety for three years, during which he built a garden of nearly 100 acres. He built this garden not for entertainment, but to preserve his epitaph collection.
In the era of warlord melee, grave robbers dismissed this bulky cultural relic and discarded it at will; Most people don't know the words on it, but pile them on the local edge of the field and put them in front of the house as stools. After he and Zhang Taiyan discovered it, they went through all the hardships to collect these cultural relics. Finally, Zhang Fang embedded thousands of Tang epitaphs on the cave wall of 15, forming a stone museum-a cultural corridor integrating gardens and inscriptions, which naturally attracted Kang Youwei's attention. He moved in happily, had tea with Zhang Fang and talked about literary criticism. It was September of 1923, with high clouds and crisp autumn wind.
Kang Youwei was 66 years old at that time, but he had a quick mind. Zhang Fang is an unusual person, he thought. He took part in the Revolution of 1911 in his early years, and later served as commander-in-chief of Fu Hanjun in Qin Long. He also played an active role in defending Yuan. At this time, although he was idle at home, he did not live in seclusion, but was worried about his father. He is a reclusive general. So Kang Youwei thought a little and wrote the word "Zhelu" with a pen, which was big and powerful.
Kang Youwei stayed in Zhelu for five days. After nearly a hundred years, I can still imagine that in that sunny afternoon, two historical celebrities were splashing ink in this study. ...
Zhang Fang personally wrote "Who is not a passer-by, the flower is the master". On the lintel is the closed "room for listening to incense and reading pictures". The word "listening to incense" is wonderful!
On the left hand side of Zhelu Road is the Epitaph Museum. Above the kiln door, there are four characters inscribed by Zhang Taiyan: "Thousand Tang Zhi Zhai". On the eaves column, there is a stone carving of Hanlin Song Bolu in the late Qing Dynasty: "Yixing sends Chunjiang, ten acres of Tang Fang Hande water; Gao Huai is going to be green, and flowers and trees are embroidered with spring breeze. " Lingsi gave a good sentence to describe the scenery of Zhelu Garden. Graceful and mellow books, elegant songs, and lettering in the Zhai of the Thousand Tang Dynasties.
We went through the patio and the kiln room in turn, and saw these more than 2,000 epitaphs, which have gone through the long darkness since the Western Jin Dynasty, and are now embedded in the cave of 15 cave, three patios and the inner and outer walls and columns of a corridor. The cold and dark wall of Tang Zhishi is engraved with dense epitaphs, recording the honor and disgrace of the tomb owner's life. I imagined that they accompanied the tomb owner through thousands of years of loneliness and darkness in the cave, and somehow they came to light again, standing silently on the brick wall here for nearly a hundred years, just like a vivid life talking to heaven and earth, which was amazing. When we can't help touching these stones, our hearts will suddenly be surprised, because we have touched the deepest part of history.
In addition to epitaphs, there are many paintings and calligraphy works carved on stone tablets. Here you can find the paintings and calligraphy works of Dong Qichang, Zheng Banqiao, Mi Fei, Kang Youwei, Zhang Taiyan and others, which is a name admired by later generations. Reading these inscriptions is like talking face to face with these masters, and my pride is beyond words. Thousands of years of history, as if through the general, suddenly rushed to the front of me.
I touched the Zheng Banqiao bamboo on the stone tablet. Zheng Banqiao's life career was not smooth, the hardships of selling paintings and the indifference of the world were all integrated into Zheng Banqiao's pen, and he was helpless and persistent, which were all valuable in his spirit; This bamboo is a portrayal of the painter's own spirit, which is precisely "the feeling of strong breeze is higher ..."
Qian Tang Zhizhai also has a couplet of Zheng Banqiao's study: "Simplify the Sanqiu tree by deleting the complexity and introduce the new February flowers." Shanglian advocates expressing the richest content with the simplest pen and ink, and one point is better than many points. For example, the paintings of orchids and bamboos are easy to flow in the branches and vines, so we should simplify them and make them look like trees in Sanqiu, thin and graceful, without dense branches and leaves. The second part advocates "working hard and building our own backbone", and we can't go with the flow and follow the trend. We should find a new way, like February flowers, full of flowers and vitality, that is, to create a unique new style. ...
A hundred years of life is only a short moment in the long river of time. Regardless of the gain, loss, honor and disgrace, you were born as a human being, and no matter how prominent and humble your position was before your death, you can't sleep underground after your death. It really responded to the words written by General Zhang Fang on the lintel of the study: whoever is a passer-by is the master. These eight words are really full of philosophy and Zen, which is thought-provoking. Plants flourish and wither, and change naturally, one after another. You and I both hurried by. The general understands the true meaning of life!
On this sunny morning, we talked with Kang Youwei and communicated with Zhang Fang, who has gone through thousands of years of history. I'm so glad you came.