In the "forest of steles" in the East Lake of Fengxiang County, there are four stone tablets engraved with "Mei Zhu Lan lives in the map". This painting is the masterpiece of Su Shi, a great writer in the Northern Song Dynasty. The tablet is engraved with the poems and calligraphy of ancient literati. Stone tablets are made of bluestone, each about one meter high and 0 or 3 meters wide. In the middle of each monument, there are paintings of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum, with single lines engraved on both sides and vertical inscriptions.
Su Shi's Old Plum Shoots and a poem are engraved on the tablet. The poem is "Lonely mountain is clear and interesting, and the crowd is fragrant." A gust of wind brings a burst of fragrance, and a hundred flowers are not proud to glory first, and poetry becomes a beautiful three-yang. " This poem was printed as "Shu Ge on a Mountain" and "Gan Kun Xiao Shui". The upper right of the picture is engraved with the words "stone" and "Dongpo".
Su Shi's "Chrysanthemum with Zhu Lanshi" and a poem are "Misplanted as a color, the double ninth festival candle opens as a Taoist forest. Under a fragrant east fence, the cold wind is waiting for me. " Print "Wild Temple".
Su Shi's painting "Bamboo Cuiju" and the poem "Oh, but the spirit is not abnormal, dare to fight the cold and fragrant frost garden, the leaves are not very colorful, and the leaves are also fragrant." Print "North Cliff".
There are two lines of Su Shi's "Old Plum in Full Bloom", and the right poem "Up and down Yin and Yang, the land will not abandon me." Gan Kun is really interesting. Look at the snow tip written on Danqing. "Print" Yishan Bookstore "; The poem on the lower left is "White jade breaks branches with flowers, and Poxian takes a mountain with a giant pen". It's early under the cliff in spring, and it's even weirder to look at paintings and poems. " Signed "Guyuan Seven Springs Yellow Embroidery" and printed "Brocade".
The precious value of stone tablet lies in its elegant painting style, extraordinary charm, far-reaching artistic conception and unique painting style. One of them is called Plum Plum, which is called an old stick with branches, but there are still residual branches mixed in it, which is unbeaten and atmospheric. Hanging chrysanthemums without leaning down is also the romance between bamboo and turquoise; A chrysanthemum, seemingly lonely, actually stands upright among the stones in Cynthia, smiling proudly at first frost; Although I am stubborn, I still firmly believe that spring is coming. This stop, a fall, a rise and a fall, has profound implications. There are poems in the paintings, and the poems and paintings set each other off. It is really not difficult for a great writer to write poetry.
Secondly, Su Shi's paintings are rarely handed down from generation to generation. According to China's Painting and Calligraphy (Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House1May 1990), "Su Shi, as a generation of painting wizards, has only one volume of dead wood and bamboo stone, and still lives in Japan." Therefore, as a magnificent cultural and artistic heritage left by the ancients, the stone tablet of Mei Zhu Lan Jutu, which combines poetry, calligraphy and painting, is precious.
It is true that the creation time and place of Su Shi's Mei Zhu Lan Jutu is still inconclusive. However, it can only be inferred that Mr. Wang lives in Suzhou and Huangzhou because of Wutai Poetry Case. According to historical records, in the sixth year of Jiayou (A.D. 106 1)65438+ February, when Su Shi, 26, took office in Fengxiang House, although he loved poetry and calligraphy, he did not have the name "Dongpo". Only in August (AD 1079), two years after he left Phoenix, it was difficult for Xie Biao to keep up with the new progress because of the words "although there are statutes, diligence is beneficial" and "ignorance of current affairs". Poems such as "Old people don't make trouble, or they can support the king" were arrested and imprisoned by Yushitai (the agency in charge of prosecutors in the Song Dynasty) for satirizing the new law. This is the "Wutai Poetry Case", which is known as the precedent of China's "literary inquisition" (Wutai: Five Blessingg in the Han Dynasty, that is, Yushitai, because there are thousands of crows living in the house, it is called Wutai). After Su Shi went to prison, with the help of his friends, he was given a light sentence in 108 1 year (that is, the fourth year of Yuanfeng), and was demoted to Huangzhou, where he was "cultivated" by Dongpo. Since then, Mr. Wang has created five words and eight poems in his cultivation under the name of "Dongpo Jushi", named after "Dongpo Eight Poems". Therefore, Mei Zhu Lan Jutu engraved with Dongpo seal. Of course, it can only be the works of Mr. Wang in Huangzhou and beyond. Because of the fluidity of works of art, this work was lucky enough to be moved into Fengxiang by Mr. Wang's old friends in Fengxiang or later Fengxiang people. Out of nostalgia and admiration for Mr. Wang, it was tied on it as a souvenir. Later, Yao Xi, who was in Xishu, Qing Dynasty, regained his joy, making this rare treasure handed down from generation to generation. Judging from the time of emphasizing music recorded in Fengxiang County Records, the cultural value of painting monuments is also obvious. No wonder many people spend a lot of money to collect rubbings of this monument.