A pair of couplets obtained by Liang Zhangju from editing Canglang Pavilion is a pair of couplets carved on the stone pillars of Canglang Pavilion in Suzhou Garden. The first couplet comes from a poem written by Ouyang Xiu, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, in Canglang Pavilion, "The breeze and bright moon are priceless, but it only costs 40,000 yuan". The second part comes from the next sentence of the poem "Egrets and Egrets are all complacent, and they are close to the water and far away from the mountains" written by Su Shunqin, founder of Canglang Pavilion and contemporary of Ouyang Xiu.
It shows that the author is very satisfied with the environment, thus giving feelings to the surrounding mountains and rivers.
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The antithetical couplets of the upper and lower parts are neat, which not only records the origin of the private garden in Su Shunqin where the Canglang Pavilion is located with a total investment of 40,000 yuan, but also highlights the beautiful scenery of "remote mountains and near water" here, which can be described as a perfect match and complement each other.
Canglang Pavilion has been destroyed and restored many times in history. This couplet was carved by Liang Zhangju, the Jiangsu envoy to rebuild Canglang Pavilion in the seventh year of Qing Daoguang. Couplets are composed of famous poems, and their style is dignified and steady, which adds a lot of luster to the famous pavilion. For 200 years, many literati have been wandering in front of the pavilion, watching the scenery and thinking about things.
More than one hundred years later, Wang Xiaju, a famous contemporary calligrapher, wrote this couplet. Calligraphy and couplets complement each other, and poetry and ink blend, expressing the beautiful feelings of a generation of calligraphers.