Su Shi is from Meishan, Sichuan. Geographically, Meishan is only 4 or 50 kilometers away from Leshan. Historically, Meishan once belonged to History (Leshan), until 1997, meishan county still belonged to Leshan, which seems to have some connections. However, Su Shi has only been to Leshan Giant Buddha once in his life, so there is not much contact. Most of the legends about Su Dongpo in Leshan were invented by later generations.
In the fourth year of Jiayou in the Northern Song Dynasty (AD 1059), Su Dongpo, who was in his twenties at that time, went to Lingyun Mountain, where Leshan Giant Buddha was located, with his father Su Xun and his younger brother Su Che, and soon went to Sichuan to take the imperial examination. Although he went back to Meishan twice because of his parents' death, there was no record of visiting Leshan Giant Buddha again.
However, Su Dongpo still remembers the scenery of Leshan. More than 30 years later, when Su Dongpo was a satrap in Hangzhou, there was a friend named Zhang who wanted to be a satrap in history. Su Dongpo wrote a song "Send Zhang Jiazhou" as a gift. The first four sentences are "I don't want to seal Wan Huhou, and I don't want to know that Jingzhou is in North Korea. I hope that as a Han Jiashou, I will travel while carrying wine. " The first two sentences seem to be poking fun at Li Bai. Because when Li Bai was young, he wrote a song "I wish I knew Han Jingzhou" to a Jingzhou official named Han. Although it seems sincere, it is actually flattering "Han Jingzhou" and expressing his willingness to be an official. Su Dongpo is even more natural and unrestrained. He doesn't even want to know about "Han Jingzhou". He just wants to be a Han Jiashou (that is, a historical satrap) so that he can often go to Lingyun Mountain for drinking and playing.
Because of this poem, later generations built a "wine-carrying pavilion" on the mountain road in the present scenic spot, and Guo, the magistrate of Jiazhou in the Ming Dynasty, even personally wrote the words "Su Dongpo travels with wine". In fact, Su Dongpo has only "a trip to Leshan", and he has never had a "time trip".
As for the Dongpo Memorial Hall in the Giant Buddha Scenic Area, it is said that Su Dongpo once studied and lived. But it used to be a shrine built by Wei Zhongxian in the Ming Dynasty. Later, Wei died, and in memory of Su Dongpo, it was changed to Dongpo Memorial Hall. Su Dongpo did not study and live here. The so-called folklore that Su Dongpo studied here and that Su Dongpo taught the three princes of the Dragon King to study here was also done by the masses.
The three words on the plaque of Dongpo Memorial Hall were collected from Huang Tingjian's handwriting. Huang Tingjian is a student of Su Shi, the leader of the "Four Bachelor of Su Men", and also a famous figure in the literary and political circles of the Northern Song Dynasty. He is also called "Su Huang" with Su Shi because of his poetic attainments, and "Su Huang Camouflage" with Mi Fei and Cai Xiang because of his calligraphy attainments. 1 100, when Huang tingjian was relegated to Rongzhou (now Yibin), he visited Leshan Giant Buddha mentioned by his teacher Su Dongpo and left a poem "Journey to Lingyun" here.
"Lingyun smile at the peach blossom, thirty years to get home.
Since then, after the spring breeze and spring rain, chaos has drifted to the end of the world with the water. "
Perhaps it was a prophecy. One year later, Su Dongpo, who had been exiled to Hainan for many years, received permission from the imperial court to return to the north and died in Changzhou, Jiangsu. Four years later, Huang Tingjian died in Yizhou, a more remote place in Guangxi.