"Frosty night, Jiang Feng fishing sorrow sleep. Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, passenger ships are ringing at midnight. " Since Zhang Ji's poem a night-mooring near maple bridge came out in the Tang Dynasty, Miaoliping Pagoda, once an ordinary Buddhist temple, has become famous at home and abroad.
Zhang Ji, whose real name is Sun Yi, was a scholar in the 12th year of Tianbao (753). He wrote the poem "The Richest Man" when he passed Suzhou by boat and stayed at Qiao Feng Bridge in Suzhou for the night. The "Maple Bridge" mentioned in the poem, hundreds of meters southwest of Hanshan Temple, crosses the Fengjiang River and faces Jiangcun Bridge across the water. Now this bridge was rebuilt during Tongzhi period of Qing Dynasty, and it is a granite semi-circular single-hole arch bridge. Since the opening of the Jiangnan Canal in Sui Dynasty, the canal water from Wuxi has flowed under the Jianger Bridge and the Fenger Bridge, and then directly flowed into Hangzhou through Xumen. Qiao Feng is the only way for officials, businessmen and forest rangers to travel from south to north. In the Tang Dynasty, there were many vendors from Nagato to Qiao Feng, which was a distribution center for goods. The government has set up a standard grain hopper to check the cargo volume of merchant ships, which is called "abundant beans". The trinity of the bridge, the river and the Tielingguan enemy building on the bridge slope formed a natural fortification, which showed the Ming Dynasty's defensive power in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Qiao Feng was originally a "closed bridge", and Zhang Jishi was first called Qiao Feng. When Wang, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, lived in Wu, he carved words on the stone tablet, and his name was officially replaced.
Jiangsu Hanshan Temple Poetry Monument
Zhang Ji's poetry attracted the poetry of many scholars later. Fan Chengda, Lu You and Zhang Xiaoxiang in Song Dynasty; Gu Ying in Yuan Dynasty; Gao Qi, Shen Zhou and Tang Yin in the Ming Dynasty; In the Qing Dynasty, Zhu Yizun and Shen Deqian all had masterpieces handed down from generation to generation. In the Ming Dynasty, Tang Yin wrote "The Bell of Hanshan Temple in Gusu" for recasting a new bell: "The ancient meditation room outside Gusu City plans to cast a bronze bell to all directions; After wanting to leave the body, I knocked down the frost. " In the eighteenth year of Qing Shunzhi (166 1), the spring night was foggy and rainy. Wang Shizhen, the leader of poetry circles in the early Qing Dynasty, arrived in Qiao Feng by boat in the rain and visited Hanshan Temple at night. He lit a lamp to explore the road and slipped step by step until the gate of Hanshan Temple was closed. On a whim, he wrote a poem on the gate: "At dusk, Dong Tang was falling into the lake and it was raining in the lonely shed." Hanshan Temple, which bridge does Wu Feng remember? ""maple leaves are ringing in the water, and thousands of miles are hard to live. Ten years old testament Jiangnan dream, listening to Hanshan midnight alone. "
Why does this midnight bell attract people to make endless reverie for a long time? Huaihai, a Zen master in the Tang Dynasty, stipulated in the doctrine of Baizhang Qinggui that "when there is a temple, the bell must ring 108 at dawn. Buddhism in temples uses wood to ring the bell, and every time it rings, it eliminates a worry; There are 108 troubles in life, and you need to bump into them every time. " "Bell Ringer" recites the word cloud: "Smelling the bell, the troubles are clean, the wisdom is long, and the bodhi is increased. You can go out of hell and fire pit, and you are willing to become a Buddha and spend all beings." The midnight bell "hum … hum" is called "minutes and nights", which indicates the arrival of a new day. Midnight bell ringing began in the Tang Dynasty. Suzhou folk custom, there is a saying that listening to the bells of Hanshan Temple on New Year's Eve.
In Hanshan Temple, Zhang Ji's poem "Sleeping at night on the Maple Bridge" is the best. It was originally carved by Wang Song, but now it has disappeared. In the late Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhiming's supplementary book "Wenbei" stood in the stele gallery; The modern poem tablet was supplemented by Yu Yue, a scholar in Qing Dynasty, and the handwriting was vigorous and vigorous. In the forest of steles, there is an inscription on Yue Fei's calligraphy couplet, which reads "Three Horses Blood, Five Flags Owl Sweat", which is a vivid record of Yue Fei's strong feelings after being called away from the front line of anti-gold by twelve gold medals. In addition, there are ink stone carvings by celebrities such as Tang Yin and Kang Youwei, as well as stone carvings of the Diamond Sutra written by Song people and dozens of poems about Hanshan Temple in past dynasties.