The author of the book "Three-foot Sword in Ten Thousand Miles of Wind and Cloud, Half a Bed of Flowers and Grasses in a Garden" is Zuo Zhongyi.
Source: In the Meipi Academy, there is a large circular porcelain painting on the east wall facing the reading hall, with a couplet on both sides: "Thousands of miles of wind and clouds, a three-foot sword, a garden of flowers and grass, and half a bed of books."
"Thousands of miles of wind and clouds, a three-foot sword, a garden of flowers and grass and half a bed of books" is a couplet, which means that martial arts can command the wind and clouds, and the sword can be used in all directions; literature can make flowers and birds happy, and people are addicted to books.
The Mingjiao Paradise in Meipi Village is a blue brick and gray tile-style folk house at the west end of the village. There is a high wall in front of the door. There is a well after entering the yard. The house is divided into east and west parts. The east end is It is a living room with two rooms, and the west room is the reading hall and kitchen.
On the east wall facing the reading hall, there is a large round porcelain painting, with a couplet on both sides: "Thousands of miles of wind and clouds, a three-foot sword, a garden of flowers and grass, and half a bed of books." In February 1930, Mao Zedong led the Red Army After the Fourth Army came down from Jinggang Mountain, they lived in this academy for four months. He loved this couplet very much. After liberation, he rewrote it and hung it in his residence in Zhongnanhai for a long time.
Meipi Academy - Meipi is an ancient village in Qingyuan District, Ji'an, Jiangxi, with about 2,000 households. It was built in the early Southern Song Dynasty and has a history of 870 years. Each building is made of blue-gray bricks. The wooden houses, ancestral halls, ancient academies, shops, etc. make people feel that it is still lying quietly in the history of a hundred years ago. The layout of the ancient village is well-proportioned, with lanes in the shape of eight trigrams and blue pebbles paving the way.
There are 28 ponds scattered in the village, symbolizing the twenty-eight constellations in the sky. The village is covered with green camphors, among which the two-in-one Camphor camphora Lianli, the Hunchback camphor camphor with old dry branches, and the Wolong camphor camphor revived from the ground are the most famous.
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The story of a garden of flowers and grass, half a bed of books, and a three-foot sword that is thousands of miles away
Old man Wei Xianxie often tells this beautiful story to the younger generations: Mao Zedong When he was living in Meipei, he often read books in his old residence "Famous Teaching Paradise" after meetings or office breaks. In the academy, he talked about everything with his grandfather Mr. Wei Xunyuan. Sometimes he talked freely about current affairs and state affairs, sometimes he talked about the past and the present, and exchanged knowledge. ,Exchange ideas. In particular, I discussed the couplet on the wall.
Speaking of the origin of this couplet, Mr. Wei Xunyuan has a very insightful introduction: Zuo Guangdou, a famous Donglin Party member in the late Ming Dynasty, was known as "Zhongyi" in the world. Zuo Zhongyi once wrote a couplet of his own " "Feng Yun San Chi Sword, Flowers and Birds a Bed of Books" hangs in his study "Yi Zhi Zhai". The martial arts commanded the wind and clouds, wielding the sword in all directions; the literary arts were filled with flowers and birds, and he was addicted to books. This sincerity is a true portrayal of loyalty and perseverance.
The ancestors of Pitou Village made a brilliant re-creation of Zuo Zhongyi’s original couplet, which serves as a model for future generations. It really has profound meaning! "Thousands of miles of wind and clouds are facing a garden of flowers and grass." - This is true to the life ideal of scholars for thousands of years, "If you are poor, you can be good at yourself, and if you are talented, you can help the world." , cultivate the mind.
"A three-foot sword is pointed at half a bed of books." - This coincides with the principle of one civil and one military, the way of civil and military, and the principle of relaxation.