There is a huge Prime Minister's Mansion in Qiantong Ancient Town Scenic Area, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province. A four-character plaque hangs in this Prime Minister's Mansion, which has become an important landscape. But you may not know that almost no one knows the four big characters on the plaque, and even if someone can read them, they don't know their meaning. What the hell is going on here? What is the meaning of the four words on the plaque? If you want to know, let Xiaobian reveal the secret for you:
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In the southwest of Ninghai County, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, there is an ancient town with a small area called Qiantong Ancient Town. Qiantong Ancient Town covers an area of about 68 square kilometers and has a population of 26,. It is an ancient town in the south of the Yangtze River with great historical and humanistic connotations, and it is also an important cultural and tourist town in Zhejiang Province.
Qiantong ancient town has a history of thousands of years. According to legend, the Tong clan moved here and settled in the Shaoding years of the Southern Song Dynasty, which made the town form a cultural style of "small bridges and flowing water all over the house, eggs are like ancient courtyards with art and literature". Someone once described the ancient town of Qiantong aptly, saying that it is an extraordinary ink painting of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the south of the Yangtze River, with a strong color of ancient rhyme, which makes people intoxicated.
The most striking thing in Qiantong ancient town is the "Prime Minister's Mansion", a standard building in the town. According to legend, the Prime Minister's House was built in the early Qing Dynasty, and its owner was a top official of the dynasty. However, the post of Prime Minister was never set up in the end of the Qing Dynasty, so the "Prime Minister's House" was just a folk title. The Prime Minister's Mansion is a quadrangle in the Qing Dynasty, also known as "Zesiju". Although the buildings in the Mansion are exquisite, it is difficult to be called a must. However, it is worth mentioning that the carvings in the Prime Minister's House are exquisite and complicated, and they are called "everywhere, no carvings are not refined". No matter tables and chairs, doors and windows, beds, they are all covered with carved flowers, and they are known as "the first carved building in the south of the Yangtze River".
As the most distinctive building in Qiantong Ancient Town, the Prime Minister's Mansion once attracted a large number of tourists, and almost all the tourists were fascinated by these carved beams and painted buildings. But no one knows, in fact, these carved decorations in front of us were all "moved" by people. In 22, a folk collector spent a huge sum of money to buy the old house of the Prime Minister's Mansion in Songyang County, Lishui, and removed all the carved artworks in the old house and transported them to Qiantong Ancient Town, where he built the new house of the Prime Minister's Mansion and hired eight carpenters to carry out the overall installation design. It took seven months to decorate the current Prime Minister's Mansion.
In the Prime Minister's Mansion of Qiantong Town, besides the carved flowers all over the house, there is another magnificent scene worth seeing. It is a four-character plaque with traditional Chinese characters on it. If it is simplified, it will be "bright and prosperous". There are some rare words in the word "Give a blazing and prosperous", but many well-read tourists can read them accurately. Interestingly, however, when tourists are asked what these four words mean, they are basically speechless-the most answer is: Chang means good and prosperous, and nothing else is known.
At this point, Xiao Bian, driven by curiosity, consulted a lot of materials and finally found an explanation about the word "bright and prosperous" on the plaque. According to the relevant data, "Be blazing and prosperous" is a sentence in Lu Song Shu Gong. The original text is "Be blazing and prosperous, and live long and hide". The translation probably means: be blazing and prosperous, and live long and unharmed. If you explain it this way, I think everyone will feel very abstract. In this case, Xiaobian should show you the context of this sentence.
The Palace of Lu Song says: "Autumn brings taste, summer brings balance, and white horses are just upright. Sacrifice to the general, and you will be rewarded. The big house is full of dancing. Filial piety sun Youqing. You are prosperous and prosperous, and you are long-lived and hidden. To protect the East, Lubang is always there. No loss, no collapse, no shock, no Teng. Be friends for three years, such as Gangru Ling ". Some professional scholars have translated this passage, and Xiaobian will quote it for the time being.
Autumn sacrifice is named Taste, and cattle are fenced in summer. The bull is white and the calf is red, and the sacrificial wine touches the Tang Qiang. Grill the pigs and cook the broth. Fill the big room with water peas. The scale of ten thousand dances is vast, and filial piety and grandchildren always have auspicious celebrations. Let you flourish and prosper, and let you live a long life without disaster. Defending the eastern land of the dynasty, the state of Lu was really the leader of the vassal. The mountains are not damaged or collapsed, and the water is not shaken or turbulent. There are three longevity ratios, like towering peaks and hills. This passage is a poem praising Lu Xigong, the monarch of Lu State. This poem not only praises Lu Xigong's literary martial arts and great talents, but also hopes that Lu State can restore its original position as an elder.
There is no doubt that the plaque of "blazing and prosperous" is an important product of cultural accumulation, and it is also the yearning and expectation of the owner of the Prime Minister's Office for a better life. Chinese culture has a long history, but the plaques left by the ancients have puzzled modern people, which is undoubtedly a historical cultural retrogression. It is precisely because of this that we should pay more attention to the culture of Chinese studies and carry it forward purposefully to create a better cultural atmosphere for future generations.