According to legend, there was a cinnabar well in front of Baishouyan in ancient times, and the well water was sweet and cool. There are often a pair of chubby children who are changed by the first black essence in the Millennium. Father Liao and his family who live here often drink this well water. Liao 150 began to die, and hundreds of people in his family lived for a long time.
Later, a corrupt official heard about it and tried to live forever. I often eat this well water, and I ordered people to dig out the "live Polygonum multiflorum" to cook it. Only to die! The cinnabar essence also dried up and disappeared. Later generations are lamenting that such a longevity prescription is no longer needed. Therefore, someone once made a couplet in front of Guanyin Temple in the rock:
Once upon a time, I couldn't find the clear water and sand!
There is no fairy in Shouyan, and today I am in the green hills and trees. I am late!
In the second year of Song Shaoding (A.D. 1229), Wei Shi, then the magistrate of Yongning County, felt this and wrote this big birthday word on the day of celebrating his birthday, and invited hundreds of long-lived old people in the county to write a small birthday word. He personally arranged it, wrote it with the strokes of the big birthday characters over the years, and then hired famous craftsmen to carve it on the stone wall in the rock, which became today's "hundred-year map." The Hundred Days Map is175cm high and148cm wide. The strokes of the whole font are very compact and vigorous. It is regular script, but it is different from regular script. But more solemn, simple and mellow. Its hook is like a dew front, and its tip is like a peach. It is neither regular script nor official script, but it looks like regular script, official script and cursive script. However, flawless, flawless, impeccable!
The characters 100 in "Hundred Years Old Picture" have their own merits, different fonts and no similarities. Among them are Kai, Li, Zhuan, Xing, Cao and Oracle Bone Inscriptions. All-encompassing, the source of style also shows the little beast next to it. Among them, the dynasties were Shang and Han. According to geographical points (called country names in ancient times), there are Qili, Yan Shu, Xixia Shu Tai, etc. As far as fonts are concerned, there are easy to pass,, and Shu. As far as calligraphers are concerned, there are Cheng Miao, Huai Su, Yu (Shinan), Cai (Xiang), Xiao Wang (Dedication) and Wang Xizhi's "Changing Goose Classic" style and so on. There are also words such as tadpole, star, fire, tree, dragon, phoenix and treasure. There are corals, ivory, rhinoceros horn, pearls, bear's paw, jade laurel and so on in the "cornucopia" with peach-shaped tips, which are vivid and dazzling.
In the Hundred Years Map, we can also see the profoundness of China culture, which is the absorption and compatibility of minority culture, foreign culture and religious culture. The "Jade Emperor Astronomy" and "Seal of God" in the picture are quite legendary. Baoyi in Yaochi, Buddhist Books in Li Si and Brahma Books in the West all have a strong Buddhist flavor. Shu Tai in Xixia embodies the blending of Han culture and minority culture, while Zhang Fei Fu, Biography of Ji Huang, Letter of Huang Qingjun, Li Xuan and Died in Jun Yu show the charm of Taoism. In the cornucopia, corals, pearls and ivory can also vaguely see the historical track of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. In the inscription of Hundred Days Map, some unknown ancient calligraphers such as Xu Baigong, Pope Xu, Zheng Shangshu, Gao Jiaxian, Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Hua Kui can all be called famous calligraphers. Unfortunately, the vast sea of books is hard to find. Especially the ancient female calligraphers in China, except for a few names in Hundred Days Map, are rarely seen at home and abroad.
Excerpted from the Hometown of Longevity Lijiang Publishing House
Baishoutu
Author: Liang Xicheng
The greatest pursuit of life is "longevity and happiness". The world is big, and there is no wonder. However, it is rare to occupy this "long life". However, Yongfu people have taken away this "blessing" and "longevity". "Fu" is a calligraphy stone carving on the top of Fengshan in the county, and "Shou" is a century-old picture famous at home and abroad.