Baotu Spring
Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty
There is no long water source in the world, and white jade pots gush out from the ground. The valley grows weak, and the drought does not worry about the dry East China Sea.
Clouds are wet and steaming, and waves shake Daming Lake. It's time, the spring is dusty, and the ice and snow are full of loneliness.
Zhao Mengfu (1254- 1322), a native of Huzhou (now Xing Wu, Zhejiang), was a passerby in Song Xue. After the death of the Song Dynasty, he became an official in the Yuan Dynasty, and the official was a bachelor of Hanlin. After his death, he chased Wei Guogong and entrusted Wen Min.
Baotu Spring is outside the west gate of the old city of Jinan, Shandong. When Zhao Mengfu was an official in Jinan, he often killed time here. Zhao Mengfu's poems, books, paintings and calligraphy are all excellent, and calligraphy is a cursive script of Zhuanzhi. He studied Song Gaozong in his early years, followed by Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and finally returned to Li Yong. He was a great calligrapher after the Tang Dynasty and had a great influence on that time and later generations.
Zhao Zi is famous for his completely aesthetic style. Shu Baotuquan's poem was written in December of Zhenyuan year of Zongyuan (1295), which is the autumn color of a magpie. No later than eight years of Dade (1304). That is, works between the ages of 42 and 5 1 year. The poem of Baotu Spring written by Zhao Mengfu in Yuan Dynasty is graceful and elegant, which is the characteristic of Zhao's calligraphy style and a rare Chinese character in Zhao's regular calligraphy.
In the inscription, Gong Jin is another famous person whose ancestral home is Jinan. He is Che (1232 ~ 1298), whose name is Gong Jin, Cao Chuang, etc. He was a famous writer and scholar in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty. Because their ancestors lived in qi zhou for generations, they used Qi people and Chinatown Director Mountain as nicknames. He can write poems and good words, including Zhou Pingyu's Flute and Wonderful Good Words. Among them, the famous note "History of Dong Qiye" preserved the relevant historical materials of Lu and Ji. Although Zhou Mi was born in the south, he never forgot his hometown. He said, "Let me tell you something. Although I live in Wu, I have never eaten a meal without being moved. How can my child die? " It is often signed by "Be careful about history", "Clean people" and "China doesn't pay attention to people". After he entered the Yuan Dynasty, he abandoned his official position and retired, adding to his homesickness and often expressing his sadness of parting with poems. Claiming to be "Gongjing, Zhou Mi, Shan Li" and "Zhurenshan, Huabu", the deep homesickness flowing in the blood of his ancestors has been lingering in his mind.
At present, there is a stone tablet imitating the above poem in the south corridor of Baotuquan Park. Looking up the epigraphy of Baotu Spring, we can see that there are currently 24 stone carvings in Baotu Spring Park in Ming and Qing Dynasties. The stone tablet of Baotu Spring in Zhao Mengfu shown in the above picture is not among the above 24 stone tablets in Ming and Qing Dynasties, so the stone tablet in the above picture should be newly carved after liberation. In addition, the couplets hanging in front of Baotu Spring Pool are selected from Zhao Mengfu's seven laws of chanting Baotu Spring: "Clouds can't steam, waves shake Daming Lake. This should be detached from Du Fu's famous sentence, "A misty cloud dreams the valley and regrets Yueyang City". Because Zhao Mengfu is an outstanding painter who is loved by people, people in Jinan cherish his poem. This couplet was inscribed by Ji 'nan Hui calligrapher Jin Shu.