Guidelines for Langya Mountain in Chuzhou, Anhui
During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Chuzhou became a battlefield between Wei and Wu. During the "Eight Kings Rebellion" in the Western Jin Dynasty, Sima Rui, the king of Langya, took refuge in Motuoling in the southwest of Chuzhou. Therefore, Langya Mountain was named. It is located at the foot of Langya Mountain in the southwest of Chuzhou City, Anhui Province, together with Beijing Taoranting, Changsha Aiwan Pavilion, and Hangzhou Lake. Xin Pavilion is also known as one of the "Four Famous Pavilions in China". It is one of the famous monuments in Anhui Province. The great essayist Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty wrote about this pavilion in his masterpiece "The Drunkard Pavilion". The Zuiweng Pavilion is small and unique, with the characteristics of Jiangnan pavilions. It is close to the steep mountain wall, with cornices sticking out in the sky. Although it has been robbed and rebuilt many times over the past hundreds of years, it has never been forgotten. After liberation, the People's Government listed Zuiweng Pavilion as a provincial key cultural relic protection unit and renovated it many times.
During the reign of Song Renshou and Qingli, the government was corrupt and the powerful were in power. Ouyang Xiu, who was an official during the imperial relocation, advocated reforming current affairs, did not avoid slander, and dared to expose the secrets of officials, thus offending the left prime minister Xia Song and others. Xia Song falsely accused him in front of the emperor. The Hui Shou listened to Greedy's words and demoted Ouyang Xiu to Chuzhou.
In the first year of Qingli (AD 1045), Ouyang Xiu came to Chuzhou and met Monk Zhixian, the abbot of Langya Temple, and soon became close friends. In order to facilitate Ouyang Xiu's play, Zhixian built a small pavilion at the foot of the mountain. Ouyang Xiu personally wrote it as a record. This is the famous "The Drunkard's Pavilion". From then on, Ouyang Xiu often went to the pavilion with his friends to have fun and drink. "The prefect came here to drink with his guests. He often got drunk after drinking a lot, and he was the oldest, so he called himself the Drunkard. Hence the name "Drunkard Pavilion". Ouyang Xiu not only I drank here and often worked here. There is a poem praising it: "It is a good time to be in charge of politics, and I always go to the pavilion for business." After the completion of Drunkard Pavilion, it attracted many tourists. He came here because of its reputation, and while watching it, he composed the music "The Drunken Old Man's Song" (one is called "Prefect Cao"), with Ouyang Xiuqin as the lyrics. Now there is a couplet in front of Feng Gong Temple: "The sound of the spring is like listening to the prefect Cao, and the sea is like the sound of the spring." "The sun has already shone on Langya Mountain" was what he was talking about. A few years later, Ouyang Xiu and Shen Zun met again. "In the middle of the night, they were drinking together." Shen Zun played "The Drunken Old Man's Song" on the zither, and "the sound of the palace was repeated." "It's like the gentle breeze, the warm sun and the sound of birds chirping, the sound of spring springs ringing in the quiet night." The sound of the piano reminded Ou Gong of the past when he had a drink in the pavilion, so he wrote a poem as a gift to the Drunkard Pavilion when it was first built. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, Zhizhou Tang Dynasty built a pavilion next to it. In the Ming Dynasty, it began to flourish. It is said that the house had "hundreds of pillars" built at that time. Unfortunately, it was destroyed many times during the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty. The garden became a piece of rubble until the seventh year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu (AD 1881), when Xue Shiyu, the governor of Quanjiao, restored it to its original appearance.
The buildings around the Pavilion are compact and unique. The pavilions are small and unique, with the characteristics of Jiangnan gardens. Although the total area is less than 1,000 square meters, there are nine different buildings and scenery: Zuiweng Pavilion, Song Songzhai, Feng Gong Temple, Ancient Plum Pavilion, Yingxiang Pavilion, The Yiyu Pavilion, Yiting Pavilion and Lanyu Terrace have different styles and are known as the "Nine Views of the Drunken Old Man". There is a spring in front of the Drunkard Old Pavilion and a stream next to it. The water is gurgling all year round and the wind is clear in the pavilion. The inscription "The Drunkard Pavilion" written by the writer and calligrapher Su Shi is called "Owen Su Zi". There is a high platform at the highest point behind the pavilion, called "Xuandi Palace". When I look around, I see green mountains in front of the pavilion. Hengye's eyes; the undulating forest waves behind the pavilion fly to his ears, as if he were in a painting.
The Drunkard Pavilion is famous for Ouyang Xiu and his "Drunkard Pavilion", although it has been repeated many times over the centuries. It was affected, but never forgotten. Someone once wrote a couplet: "It has been eight hundred years since the old man passed away, but his drunken hometown is still there; six or seven miles into the mountains, there are no lonely pavilions." "After liberation, the People's Government listed Zuiweng Pavilion as a provincial key cultural relic protection unit and renovated it many times. Today, this place has been a scenic spot for thousands of years, even more spectacular and attractive.
Chuzhou City is located in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River The north bank, on the western edge of the Yangtze River Delta, is the core city of the "Nanjing Metropolitan Area" and the northern wing city of the "Wanjiang Demonstration Zone". It has been known as the "Key to Jinling and the Guarantee of Jianghuai" since ancient times. Chuzhou has a history of more than 1,500 years. Qingliu, the state was established in the Sui Dynasty and Wenchang in the Northern Song Dynasty. It has the charm of Wu, Chu and Huaiyang, and gathers the winds of Jianghuai and Lake. For thousands of years, Chuzhou has been a beautiful state in Huaizuo by the river. Since the Sui Dynasty, Chuzhou has governed today's Langya, Nanqiao, Lai'an, and other places. Quanjiao, Nanjing Pukou and other places merged with Chuxian area in 1992 to form the current Chuzhou City.
Chuzhou is the regional central city in eastern Anhui, the Jiangbei gateway to the ancient capital Nanjing, a national home appliance and equipment manufacturing base, a national dual-support model city, one of China's top ten characteristic leisure cities, a national advanced city for scientific and technological progress, and a famous historical and cultural city in Anhui Province.
Langya Mountain is the first scenic spot in eastern Anhui Province. It is a national key scenic spot, a national forest park, a national AAAA tourist area, a national key cultural relics protection unit, one of the 24 famous cultural mountains in China, and one of the 100 famous mountains in China. One of the five major scenic spots in Anhui Province. The hills, valleys, forests, springs, temples, pavilions, ancient roads and ancient passes in the scenic area are all unique in their beauty, tranquility and elegance. There are ninety-nine and eighty-one peaks, large and small, in the territory, with undulating mountains, deep valleys, gurgling streams, and dense forests. Its natural landscape, which is high enough to overlook, deep enough to be hidden, clear enough to bathe in, quiet enough to rest in, fragrant to pick up, and beautiful to sing, has gradually formed the "Eight Famous" Langya Mountains (famous mountains, famous temples, famous pavilions, Famous springs, famous articles, famous monuments, famous caves, famous forests) cultural attractions.
The scenery of Langya Mountain is elegant and beautiful, and its culture has a long history. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, countless literary giants and poets such as Li Youqing, Wei Yingwu, Ouyang Xiu, Xin Qiji, Wang Anshi, Mei Yaochen, Song Lian, Wen Zhengming, Zeng Gong, and Xue Shiyu have developed mountains and rivers, built temples and pavilions, and composed poems and chants for them. It has left a large number of outstanding cultural heritages and has six scenic spots: "famous mountains, famous temples, famous pavilions, famous springs, famous literature and famous scholars". Among them, Langya Temple built in the Tang Dynasty is a famous Buddhist temple in eastern Anhui and one of the key temples in the country. The Drunkard Pavilion built in the Song Dynasty is famous for its article "The Drunkard Pavilion" written by Ouyang Xiu, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, and is known as "the best pavilion in the world". . There is such a story about the origin of Langya Mountain.
A traveling monk came to Chuzhou and saw the picturesque scenery of Xishan Mountain, so he built a temple called "Xishan Temple" on the mountain. They also took in a little monk named Chao Ran. The little monk was weird but very ignorant. The monk taught Transcendence that he had forgotten the sutras for several months. As a result, he could only remember two of the four characters "Amitabha", and one of the characters was pronounced out of tune. It is pronounced as "Motuo". The old monk was so angry that he went down the mountain and traveled around alone. More than half a year later, the old monk heard that Chuzhou was infested with locusts. He felt worried and worried about Chaoran, so he returned to the temple. As a result, he saw that little Chaoran had grown taller and stronger! Not affected by the locust plague at all! Later I found out that Xiao Chaoran had been boiling stones and eating them. The cooked stones were as yellow as apricots, as soft as taro, and as sweet as peaches.
The next day, the old monk said: "Transcendental, the 'Modha Sutra' you recite is the true sutra, and you have become a Buddha. From now on, we will all recite the 'Modha Sutra' ', this temple should also be called 'Motuo Temple'."
From then on, the incense of Motuo Temple became more and more prosperous day by day, and people changed the name of Xishan to "Motuo Mountain". Time flies like water, and the sun and moon fly like a shuttle. In the blink of an eye, we arrived at the end of the Western Jin Dynasty. At that time, there was a king named Langya in Shandong, named Sima Rui. He was seized of power by the Eight Kings and his life was in danger. I had no choice but to pack up and flee south. Along the way, I hid in deserted temples during the day and walked along the path at night, one foot high and one foot low. On this day, I came to live in a broken thatched shed under Motuo Mountain. Unexpectedly, due to the fatigue of running around for days, King Langya suffered from heartache in the middle of the night. The pain caused cold sweat to break out on his head and body, and his face was as yellow as paper. He rolled over and rolled in the shed until dawn. By chance, a water-carrying monk from Moduo Temple saw it and ran back to the mountain in a hurry. After a while, a bowl of fragrant tea was brought from the mountain for King Langya to drink.
After a quarter of an hour, Langya King stretched his arms and straightened his back. He felt that his heart no longer hurt, his body felt energetic, and he was no longer sick at all.
King Langya said to the monk: "Thank you, master, for saving my life. I have been suffering from heartache since I was a child. I haven't seen it for ten days and a half. I have eaten a lot of medicinal herbs, but the disease is getting worse and worse." "I wonder what kind of magic medicine the master used has such a miraculous effect?" It is cooked with stones from the mountain and various herbs. It can remove the root of any disease. ""Why, the stones from the mountain can also cure diseases?"
The monk boiled the stone of Master Moduo, the founder of the temple, to satisfy his hunger. The story was told from beginning to end, and he added: "Nowadays, although the stone cannot be boiled to satisfy hunger, it is because Master Modu poured the water for boiling the stone on the front and back of this mountain, and the mountain was covered with strange flowers and plants. So flowers, plants, roots and stones can all cure diseases.
But I don’t know how the donor’s surname and accent sounds like he’s not a local, so he’s living in the wilderness? "
King Langya didn't dare to tell the truth, so he made up a story and said: "My surname is Liu and my name is Liu Shun. Lives in Juye County, Shandong Province. Because I wanted to visit relatives and friends in Jiangnan, I ran out of money on the way, so I had to endure hunger and cold all the way. I want to find some work here, and then go to Jiangnan when I have enough money. "
The monk said to King Langya: "Don't worry, don't worry. As long as the donor spares no effort, you will not have to worry about food and clothing when you come to Chuzhou. There is a saying in this place: "To support the poor in Chuzhou, a carrying pole and two ropes are needed." You see, there are firewood, grass, and medicinal materials on Mount Motuo. Rabbits and pheasants are all over the mountain. It is a treasure mountain. ”
Sima Rui, the king of Langya, took a look at the mountain. Sure enough, there were men and women chopping wood, gouging out medicine, and beating wild jujubes. Bursts of folk songs came from the green trees. From then on, King Langya pretended to be a thug. Chai Hanzi lived in the mountains. He gathered brothers from all over the country and gathered grain and troops in the mountains. They trained day and night. Not long after, Sima Rui led his troops to conquer the Yangtze River and established the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Jianye City. Sima Rui became the third emperor. An emperor of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. One day, Emperor Sima Rui of the Eastern Jin Dynasty led all the civil and military officials from Jianye to Chuzhou to view the scenery of Moduo Temple in Xishan. Sima Rui recalled the past when he was trapped here and stationed troops to collect food, so he ordered to pass on the imperial edict. : The temple on the mountain was expanded to 100, and "Motuo Temple" was changed to "Langya Temple", and "Motuo Mountain" was changed to "Langya Mountain". He also ordered the imperial doctor to live in Langya Mountain to collect herbs in the mountain, and compiled it into "Langya Plants and Plants". 》, spread it widely throughout the world, and save the sufferings of people everywhere.