In February of the second year of the solar calendar, Wu Zetian was lucky enough to pass by Gou Jian's house in Songshan and was promoted to the Prince Xiandian. At that time, it was after the completion of the Taoist temple rebuilt by Wu Zetian for Prince Jin. Preface to the Monument to the Prince of Sages says: "The Temple to the Four Cities is a new word after its completion" and "It was renamed Prince of Sages Temple for the purpose of rebuilding the temple", which means that Wu Zetian rebuilt the temple for the Prince of Jin and named it Prince of Sages Temple. Wu Zetian praised the beautiful scenery of Goushan and Wangzijin in the Monument to the Immortal Prince, and at the same time praised the prosperity of Wu Zhou at a great length, praising herself in the form of self-praise. It is conceivable that when Wu Zetian visited the Sage Temple, the inscription "Preface to the Monument to the Prince of Sage" was already in his mind, and the preliminary production of the monument project has been carried out in an orderly manner with the reconstruction of the Sage Temple. The inscriptions clearly record the titles of the officials who participated in publishing and engraving inscriptions, from the ambassadors who were ordered to check the inscriptions to the quarrying officials, from the officials who were ordered to write imperial books to the officials who carved imperial characters. Such a meticulous division of labor shows that Wu Zetian attaches great importance to the publication of the Monument to the Sage Prince. In Wu Zetian's mind, how could such a serious and important event be dragged behind her for a hundred years? After Tang Ming was burnt down in the first year of Long Live the gobbledygook (695), Wu Zetian immediately ordered the reconstruction. A year and a half later, the Tang Ming, 294 feet high and 300 feet wide, was completed. For Wu Zetian, who is decisive and has strict orders, it is only a trivial matter to set up a monument to the sage prince four months after she visited the sage prince temple.
If we carefully read the titles and inscriptions of the officials involved in the inscription on the left side of the stone tablet, the problem will be clear. The titles of inscription publishing officials are as follows:
The title of imperial system and the establishment of Chen dynasty were related to the well-thought-out famous minister Xue.
The quarrying officer went to talk to Lang, and arrived in Laiting County, Luozhou, and courtier Wang Yun.
Title Wang Zuo Chunfang Recorder Zhi Fengge Chen Zhong Shao Jing Shu
Cheng Yilang Xing Zuo Chunfang Recorder Feng Zhifeng Zhong Shaojing Feng Yushu.
Li, minister of Xuanyilang Zhisili Temple, wrote a letter.
Direct sales repair supervision department Han sheng an ke Yu zi
Yongchang County, Luozhou ordered Zhuluomen to carve imperial characters.
Chen Zi?
Lin Tai's regular script makes history minister happy?
The word "minister" in the above inscription is written in Wuzhou, and the whole inscription is written in the same way, which means that the inscription was carved at the same time. At the same time, the inscription is divided into four parts to explain the content and division of labor of the first publication in detail. What needs to be pointed out in particular is that the word "Chen Jian" in the inscription "The Imperial System and Chen Jian" is a supplementary explanation of the time when the monument was built on 19, that is, the monument to the sage prince. ?
Yukime inscribed the following famous minister of Damon Liang Sansi, who was the accompanying minister when Wu Zetian visited the Sage Temple. Wu Sansi, Wang Jishan, Su Weidao, Wei, Di, Lou Deye, Yang Zaisi and Ji Chuan are in turn, and each title occupies a line and is printed on the upper right side of the monument. The ninth and tenth lines are printed in the middle of the tablet. The ninth line is completely chiseled off, and the chisel marks are obvious. The name of the tenth pedestrian was chiseled off, leaving only the official title. "I checked the school and made Bei Le the guardian of Fengge. I controlled the crane to worship and ride a captain." The words "Guo", "Ren" and "Chen" in the above titles are all inscribed in Wuzhou, and the whole title has no trace of modification, which is on the same plane as the inscription of the officials on the left side of the monument, indicating that it was engraved at the same time. The titles of the eighth and tenth subordinate ministers are engraved with the titles of "Zuo He Sacrifice Minister Ji Chuan" and "You He Sacrifice Minister Ji Chuan" respectively. The "Crane Control Hall" was set up in the first month of the second year of the holy calendar, that is to say, three months before these governors went to pay their respects at the Prince's Hall with Wu Zetian (in the early Yuan Dynasty, November was the first month, December was the twelfth month, and early summer was January. The visit to the Prince's Temple was in February of the second year of the Holy Calendar, so "the first month" was two months earlier than "February". In June of the third year of the Gregorian calendar, the control of Crane Palace was changed to Chen Feng Palace. This shows that the inscription on the sage prince tablet is consistent with the historical records, which further proves that the sage prince tablet was published and set up in the second year of the holy calendar.
It also inscribed the word "Wang" written by Zhong Shaojing in the inscription for the first time. There are two poems inscribed by Koreans in the first year (1909) on the upper left of the Yin tablet, which are superimposed on a mark, and Wu Sansi inscribed by Xue Ji is parallel to the title. Judging from the overall situation of the chisel marks, it should be the first place to engrave the king's name. The second publication in the five-week period was Wu Zetian's essay "Wandering Immortals" written by Xue.
Talking about immortals, imperial system, doctors, ministers, Xue, Jianggong, Pearl Que and Kaixian Family, all her clothes and feathers were taken from the photos. The sky fell in the morning, the purple cover floated, and Huang Tingxi turned to the float. Dealing with the universe is not far away, but writing about Peng Hu stopped Cui Wei. A thousand years old is not faithful, but a hundred million years old baby is late. When the phoenix dances, it looks at each other and turns into Yingge to lead a chorus. Gold paste is poured from a jade cup, and jade wine is also made from gold paste. Stay in the sky and have a rest. Su Zhi longed for three yuan, and his heart was filled with five colors. The nature of immortals is hard to find, and miracles are mysterious. May Dan really give you a panacea, and you will see Yulong Zhou for a long time.
In the above-mentioned published poems, the words "minister", "day", "heaven" and "saint" were written in the Wu and Zhou Dynasties, indicating that the publication was engraved in the Wu and Zhou Dynasties. The inscription "Doctor Chen and Minister Xue" in the imperial poem You Xian Pian is not listed on the left side of the monument with Xue Ji and Zhong Shaojing, but directly inscribed under the first line of Zayan You Xian Zhi. Why? Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong brothers were favored by Wu Zetian, who controlled He Fu and arranged for them to be officers. "At the beginning of Longchu (700), Crane was supervised as Tianji House, later changed to Chen Fu House, ... and the left and right cranes were regarded as Dr. Chen Feng". With the signature of "Dr. Chen Feng and Minister Xue Yao", it can be judged that the publication time of You Xian Pian has been changed for a long time. In addition, the inscriptions on the cliff in Dengfeng City, Henan Province and the poem "Walking on the Stone in Summer" are "Ding Mao, the 19th day of the Gengzi Law in the first year of the Ninth Zhou Dynasty, and Xue, the founding minister of Fenyin County, is the doctor of Zuo", which can also prove that it took a long time to change the inscription time of "You Xian Pian". Furthermore, the last sentence of "Wandering Immortals" says: "May Dan sincerely give you an elixir and see you for a long time." In May of the third year of the holy calendar (700 years), Wu Zetian spent the summer in Sanyang Palace, and took the Dan medicine refined by monk Hu Chao, saying, "If you are sick, you will forgive the world and change your heart for a long time." . "Long-term vision" comes from Chapter 59 of Laozi: "It is the way of long-term vision." That means never getting old. The conclusion of the poem "You Xian Pian" is mutually confirmed with the historical records, indicating that the writing time of the poem was at or after the change of Yuan Dynasty.
Wu Zetian finally decided to make his son Li Xian a prince and brought him back to Luoyang from Zhoufang, Hubei Province in March of the first year of the holy calendar. In August, Wu Chengsi, the nephew of Wu Zetian, died of despair of the prince. In September, Li was made prince. However, the contradiction between Li and Wu has not been resolved. Worried that they would fight after their death, Wu Zetian tried to ease the contradiction between the two forces by means of "swearing in court" and "marriage between Li and Wu". The phrase "Long-term dependence on Imperial Dragon Week" clearly shows Wu Zetian's mentality of looking forward to long-term rule of China and stabilizing the overall situation! In August of the first year of Dazu (70 1), 78-year-old Wu Zetian was old and sick, and entrusted her political affairs to Zhang Yizhi brothers. The prince's son Li Zhongrun and Princess Yongtai's sister and husband Wang Yanji discussed the matter privately. Zhang Yizhi told Wu Zetian, "When the Queen Mother refused to apply in September, she forced herself to commit suicide". After the eldest son and daughter were killed, Li Xian's inner pain and helplessness can be imagined. Zhang Yizhi brothers are also very upset, worried that Li Xian will be angry with himself when he ascended the throne in the future. In order to please Wu Zetian, he called Wu Zetian and sent Xue Yao to inscribe the book "Wandering Immortals" on the tablet of the sage prince.
From this analysis, it can be considered that the publication time of You Xian Pian in Yin Bei is around September of the first year of Dazu (70 1). When the inscription was first published, Wu Sansi and others carved the inscription 0.20 meters upward from the official title, together with the inscription, to the entire edge of the monument, with a faint chisel mark. We don't know whether these gouges were not polished because the inscription was published in a hurry, or for what reason the original words were gouged out. The Monument to the Sage Prince was published for the third time, with 26 lines engraved on the lower part of the monument. There is a cloud in the first five lines: "In the second year of Datang Shenlong (706), Shui August/Renyin Jin Shuo 27, Wushumu Kaifu/Yitong No.3 Division, Zuo General Wei, the Lord/Guo Feng/Publication Monument recorded." The next 2 1 line is the title of 12 "Wang". Tang Zhongzong Li Xian Shenlong was restored in the first month and the Tang Dynasty. In February, the word Wuzhou was abolished, so the word Wuzhou was no longer seen in the inscription. He ordered his younger brother, King Li Dan of Anguo, to lead a group of ministers to Goushan instead of just carving their names on the tablet. "Publishing" means publishing, editing and revising, so "publishing inscriptions and carving stones" means chiseling out the unnecessary inscriptions and carving new ones. So, what is the content of the inscription and what is its significance to Zhongzong?
As mentioned earlier, there are two obvious gouges on the monument. One is in the middle, that is, the 9th and 10 Minister inscribed by Xue Ji when it was first published. The title of the ninth place was chiseled from top to bottom, leaving a chisel mark of 1.40 meters long. The name of 10 has been chiseled off, and a line of titles has been left on it, which reads: "Check the monument to make the Fengge animal husbandry right control the crane to worship and ride", so it can be seen that he is an official of the crane control government. In the second year of victory, except Zhang Yizhi, Zhang Changzong, Ji Chuan, Tian Guidao, Li Jixiu, Xue Ji and Yuan Banqian were all imprisoned. Neither the inscription "Biography" on the tablet nor Xue Ji's name was chiseled out. In Chang 'an (70 1-704), Yuan Banqian moved to remonstrate with the doctor and held the right of worship among cranes. It's no big deal in ancient times to control the crane position by half a thousand, and it's not the choice of the court to enter Germany. Please leave it alone. Therefore, I moved to the left to the Ministry of Water Resources. "He didn't become the officer. Although Tian Guidao and Li Jiong-xiu had the experience of dismissal and demotion respectively, they were both used by Zhongzong. So, this "messenger checking the school" should be Zhang Changzong. The ninth line completely chiseled off on the right can only be Zhang Yizhi, the crane supervisor at that time. In the military coup in the first year of Shenlong, two brothers were killed as traitors. However, it is only a mountain away from the stone tablet of Prince Sage. Why haven't their poems been erased? Zhang Changzong's name was chiseled off, which should be related to one thing. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, a year after the publication of the Monument to the Sage Prince, Wu Sansi played Wu Zetian, saying that she was the queen of Prince Jin. Wu Zetian then ordered to put on feather clothes, imitate the appearance of the immortal prince Jin, ride a wooden crane, and play with Sheng in the inner hall. All the literati wrote poems to praise him. After this incident reached the palace, people who were not reasonable thought that the memorial tablet of Prince Sage was built by Wu Zetian for Zhang Changzong's generation (some people still think so now). Zhongzong was worried that the name of Zhang Changzong, whose title was in the middle of the monument, would mislead more people, so that he misinterpreted the real intention of his mother Wu Zetian to erect an immortal monument to the prince, so Li Dan, the king of fate, chiseled off the name of Zhang Changzong. The above analysis shows that Zhongzong was forced to die because his son and daughter secretly discussed two copies and did not dare to blame his mother, so they took their anger out on the two copies and chiseled their titles off the tablet.
Another place that was chiseled off was the word "Wang" inscribed by Zhong Shaojing, and the chisel mark was 0.48 meters wide. Judging from the jagged chisel marks below, the writing of "Wang" is the same as that of "a famous minister below Liang", that is, each person occupies one line, and there are * * people in total 10. The first row, the second row, the ninth row and the tenth row are 0.88m long, the third row to the seventh row are 0.70m long, and the eighth row is 1.60m long. Who are the "names" of the top ten kings who have been chiseled off? Zhongzong was the king of Luling, and in September (698), the first year of the holy calendar in front of the Prince's Palace, he was established as the Crown Prince, and he can no longer be ranked among the "famous kings" as the "king of Luling". Wu Zetian's grandchildren were still in confinement until October of the second year of the holy calendar, so it was impossible for them to attend the "visit" at that time, and it was impossible to carve "Fang Ming" in the "king". Only wudan, who was named Prime Minister in the first month of the second year of the Holy Calendar, can be inscribed on the list of "the names of kings". The remaining nine "kings" may be the titles of Wu Zetian's nephew and grandnephew. Li died for the crown prince and Wu disgruntled, which was a blow to the kings of Wu. Wu Zetian, who was well aware of the seriousness of the consequences, personally directed the "oath" aimed at easing the contradiction with Wu Li in April of the second year of the Gregorian calendar. Just imagine, Wu Zetian, who is making a series of efforts to eliminate the contradiction between the prince's brothers and martial arts, how could she leave behind the king with the incomparable martial arts and carve her claustrophobic grandson Quan Wang on the tablet of the emperor's ascension to the immortal?
In the first month of the first year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian was forced to transfer to Zhongzong, and the descendants of Li, whose surname was changed by Wu Zetian, resumed their old surname. In May, under the system of Emperor Zhongzong, Wang Wu and others 12 of Hanoi were reduced from Wang to Gong. 1 1 month, Wu Zetian died in Shangyang Palace, and in May of the following year, she was buried with her husband Tang Gaozong in Ganling. In August, Wang Xiang set up a monument, and on the 27th of the same month, he carved a stone to commemorate it. His surname has been restored from "Wu" to "Li", so how can he keep the name "Wu Dan" on the tablet? In this way, what is chiseled out is the unspeakable bitter and humiliating history of Zhongzong and Wang Xiang brothers, and what is engraved is the prestige of the Li and Tang Dynasties, so the word "Datang" at the beginning of the inscription is particularly dazzling.
Although "the name of the Wangs" was chiseled out, the book "Zhong Shaojing, Zuo Chunfang who wrote the name of the Wangs" was completely preserved. This is by no means a temporary negligence of Zhongzong, but the result of overall consideration. Prime Minister Li Dan was engraved with the titles of 13 "Wang" including Li Dan, which was sealed by Zhongzong, but the author's title was missing. The "stay" and "lack" in this moment are mutual proofs, which just shows that Zhong Shaojing wrote Li Dan's "Inscription on the Inscription" in the second year of Shenlong. Only in this way, Li Can Dan was merciful and kept the title of "Book of Zhong Shaojing, Record of Zuo Chunfang, Name of Wang Fang" in the second year of the holy calendar. Zhong Shaojing is famous for his calligraphy. When Wu Zetian was in the Ming Dynasty, Zhong Shaojing wrote the inscription of Jiuding and the list of palaces. Lingfei Jingtie, which has spread all over the world, has a beautiful font, and later generations often learn to write small letters with this as a model. Zhong Shaojing's inscription on the tablet of Prince Sage for the second year of the Dragon is the only one left in Zhong Shaojing's calligraphy tablet, which is cherished by the world.