Yang Xiong (53 BC - 18 AD), courtesy name Ziyun, was a native of Chengdu, Shu County. During the period of Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, he served as the Huangmen Shilang, an official position in the palace that served the emperor and conveyed the emperor's orders. Yang Xiong was a young man who was attentive, erudite and talented. He "explored everything" and once "specialized in Yi" and indulged in "Lao" and "Zhuang". He was proficient in exegesis and philology, liked poetry and poetry, admired Sima Xiangru, and had Xiangru's legacy. In his early years, he wrote works such as "Anti-Li Sao", "Guang Sao", "Ode to the Capital of Shu", and "Inscriptions from the Four Corners of Chengdu City". In his middle age, he was ordered to enter the palace and wrote "Ode to Ganquan", "Ode to Hedong", "Ode to School Hunting". Works such as "Fu" and "Changyang Fu" have become his masterpieces, "pushing the great fu tradition initiated by Sima Xiangru to persuade all people to satirize one" to the extreme, and no one can continue it since then.
Yang Xiong made a very outstanding contribution to the philosophical research on exploring the true meaning of the universe and life: "First he wrote "Tai Xuan", which integrated Confucianism and Taoism." He also wrote "Legalism" which integrated the three schools of Confucianism, Taoism and Legalism. He also made his own understanding and interpretation of classic works such as "The Book of Changes" and "The Analects of Confucius". "Wen Xin Diao Long" has the parallel mention of "Yang Ma". He is the largest Ci Fu writer in the Western Han Dynasty after Sima Xiangru. Yang Xiong's Fu is that of a scholar, knowledgeable and skillful, but it feels "artificial". Yang Xiong's contribution to Ci Fu mainly lies in the fact that he expanded the subject matter and expression techniques of this court art, making it go beyond the palace, chanting objects and narratives, aiming to express emotions, and making it more prose culture.
When Yang Xiong left home for Beijing in his 40s, he once stayed in Fujian. In the ruins of ancient Zhongyang Town in Xishan, Mianyang City and Yongxing, Fucheng District, there are two ruins of the "Yangtze Cloud Reading Desk" and the "Ink Washing Pond". According to records: There are three Ziyunting Pavilions in Sichuan in history. One is the "Ziyunting Pavilion" in the former residence of Yang Xiong in Chengdu. This pavilion has long since disappeared, and there are different opinions on the ruins; the other is built in Yang Xiong's hometown in the suburbs of Pixian County. Ziyun Pavilion was moved and built next to Yangxiong's tomb during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The pavilion no longer exists, and only an earthen platform remains. What still exists today is the Ziyunting Pavilion in the Xishan Scenic Area of ??Mianyang. In this scenic spot, there are two Ziyun Pavilions, one large and one small, one new and one old. This shows that Mianyang people admire literature and art and worship their sages.
The old Ziyun Pavilion is located on the Yangziyun reading platform. The reading platform is located on the bank of the mountain at the left end of Fenghuang Mountain. It is a hard rock with a flat top. At the front of the rock there is a mosaic relief "True Image of Yangtze Cloud" and a brief biography of Yang Xiong. According to the Republic of China edition of "Mianyang County Chronicles", it was recorded that it was engraved in the Song Dynasty. There are more than 90 large mosaic relief niches on the right side of the rock, all of which are Taoist stone carvings engraved in the twelfth year of Emperor Yizong of the Tang Dynasty. Ziyun's old pavilion was built on the rock. I don't know when it was first built. "Mianyang County Chronicle" records that Ziyun Pavilion was rebuilt in the 6th year of the Republic of China (1917) and was a rectangular pavilion with a wooden structure. It was destroyed in the early days of the "Cultural Revolution". In the 1970s, the Mianyang County Urban Construction Bureau rebuilt a brick-concrete hexagonal pavilion on the original site, which still exists today.
In 1987, the Mianyang Municipal People's Government built a new Ziyunting Pavilion on the top of Fenghuang Mountain, covering an area of ??more than 10 acres, a construction area of ??more than 1,400 square meters, a height of 23 meters, three floors, and a collection building. , platform, pavilion and pavilion are integrated into one, with elegant appearance and majestic appearance. At the entrance of the courtyard of Ziyunting Scenic Area, Liu Yuxi's "Humble Room Inscription" written by Fang Binsheng, a famous calligrapher in Chengdu, is engraved here to highlight the long history and far-reaching cultural influence of Ziyunting in Western Shu. In the garden is a giant granite statue of Yang Xiong, which vividly displays the style of a generation of poets and poets in front of visitors. In the exhibition room under Ziyun Pavilion, Yang Xiong's "Tai Xuan", "Fa Yan" and other philosophical and Han fu works are displayed. Among the couplets on the pillars of Ziyunting, there is a long couplet written by Mr. Gao Xianqi and written by Mr. Bai Yunshu. It best reflects Yang Xiong’s splendor and the new look of Mianzhou. It complements the scenic spot of Ziyunting and forms another famous landmark in Western Shu. The grand scene of the scenic spot:
The eight-hundred-mile Feitian Avenue, with clouds blowing on your sleeves, singing through the Sword Gate, and green corridors connecting the new city. Looking at the majestic flag mountain, the steep drum ridge, the beautiful pagoda, the divine turtle spirit, the famous pavilion in Western Sichuan, and the new flamboyant plum blossoms, it is important to note that Minghao Liu Lang has paid deep tribute to Mr. Liu Lang early;
Two thousand years of extraordinary talent, The chest is full of the universe, the aftertaste is soaring in Fulishui, the writing desk is admiring the ancient style, thinking about Changqing's poems, Zi'an's poems, Shaoling's poems, Yongshu's history, Chinese sages, ancient poems and poems, and there are still pleasing introductions that will make the later generations more charming.