Which is better between the inscription on the Wild Goose Pagoda and the inscription on the Golden List:
The inscription on the Wild Goose Pagoda means the inscription in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. It was the synonym for the Jinshi in the old days.
Pinyin of the title of Yan Pagoda: yàn tǎ tí míng?
Idiom form: ABCD style idiom
Idiom structure: formal idiom
Emotional color: neutral idiom
Traditional idiom: title of Yan Xie
Idiom usage: used as predicate, attributive, object; refers to Jinshi
Title of Yan Pagoda Synonyms: New title of Yan Pagoda, title of Jinbang
Antonyms of the title of Yan Pagoda: Mingluo Sunshan
Source of the title of Yan Pagoda:
Five Dynasties·Wang Dingbao's "Tang Yan" volume Three: "After Shenlong, after passing the customs banquet, the Jinshi inscriptions were all gathered under the Ci'en Pagoda to inscribe their names."
The origin of the inscriptions in the Wild Goose Pagoda
The "Inscriptions in the Wild Goose Pagoda" began In the Tang Dynasty, it refers to cultural activities in which the number one scholar who passed the Chang'an examination gathered at the Big Wild Goose Pagoda to inscribe their names, and the martial arts examinations took their inscriptions at the Small Wild Goose Pagoda. It is a very honorable thing to inscribe a name on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda as a commemoration. Bai Juyi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem after he passed the Jinshi examination: "Under the Ci'en Pagoda, the youngest among the seventeen people is named", which became a favorite story for a while. Meng Jiao was a Jinshi at the age of forty-six, and wrote a poem: "The spring breeze is proud of the horse's hoofs, and I can see all the flowers in Chang'an in one day." This famous poem about "the spring breeze is triumphant" after being admitted to the imperial examination, has become a popular saying.
When you climb up to the Xi'an Big Wild Goose Pagoda, you can vaguely see the original inscriptions from the Song to Ming and Qing Dynasties on the stone lintel and door frame. According to statistics from the cultural relics department, in the Daci'en Temple and on the Big Wild Goose Pagoda, there are 73 steles inscribed by the provincial examination candidates of the Ming and Qing dynasties imitating the Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty, including 30 in the Ming Dynasty and 43 in the Qing Dynasty.
Historical records show that among the more than 8,000 Jinshi scholars in the Tang Dynasty, about 5,000 to 6,000 were inscribed on the Wild Goose Pagoda. Tang Dynasty inscription tablets and inscriptions can still be seen in the Song Dynasty. Due to its long history, it is now difficult to find it in the Big Wild Goose Pagoda. The Institute of Archeology of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences still has two volumes of fragmentary copies of inscriptions from Song and Tang Dynasties, with more than 30 entries and nearly 1,000 words.
The calligraphy styles include formal script, official script and running script. Among them are the inscriptions of poets Meng Jiao and Li Shangyin of the Tang Dynasty, and the inscriptions of the great calligrapher Yan Zhenqing and Zuo Shiyi Pei Xiu, which are very precious. On both sides of the Dacheng Gate and the Xianshi Gate of the Confucius Temple in Beijing, there are steles inscribed by Jinshi from the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties respectively, with a total of 198 passages, including three in the Yuan Dynasty and 77 in the Ming Dynasty. One Hundred and Eighteen Passes of the Qing Dynasty. These are the inheritance and continuation of the titles of the Chang'an Wild Goose Pagoda in the Tang Dynasty, and are also historical materials for studying our country's imperial examination system.