Yuezhou eel well means: there is an eel well in Yingtian Temple, Yuezhou.
Origin: The Yuezhou Eel Well written by Shen Kuo in the Northern Song Dynasty, on a big rock, its height is several feet, and the well is only a few inches. It is a stone's mystery, and its depth is unknown. Tang Xuhao said: "The deep spring eel well is open." Even here, it is far away. When an eel travels, people put it in their sleeves, so it's no surprise to guess. Like an eel, it has scales, big ears and a blade mark on its tail.
Vernacular interpretation: There is an eel well in Yingtian Temple, Yuezhou, which stands on a huge rock, several feet high, and the wellhead is only a few inches wide. It is a cave, which is unknown. In the Tang Dynasty, Xu Dong's poem said: "The deep spring eel well is open." This is the eel well, which has a long history. Eels in the well sometimes swim out of the well and are picked up and put in their sleeves. Eels are not frightened. Eels in the well are similar to ordinary eels but have scales, large ears and knife marks on the tail. Extended information
Writing background:
Shen Kuo has a clear explanation in "Preface to Mengxi Bitan": After 182, the author was politically frustrated, and lived in Runzhou around 188, where he built a Mengxi Park (in the east of Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province). The author rarely went out and interacted with people in his daily life, which means "retiring in the forest."
The title of Mengxi Bitan is because the author Shen Kuo finished his work in Mengxi Park (note: at least the main part has been completed and finalized, and there is no objection to this, and there is no conflict in the examination of Mengxi Bitan Preface), so he named the garden "Mengxi".
written talk is because I usually talk with guests in the garden, so the author often records "talking with the guest speaker". Friends and friends get together and leave for a long time, and the author feels as if he is "talking with the speaker, just writing with a pen and inkstone", so he uses the name "written talk". The two are listed in series and called Mengxi Bi Tan.
Introduction to the article:
Mengxi Bi Tan, the oldest version that can be seen now is the engraving of Chen Renzi's Dongshan Academy in 135 (the ninth year of Yuan Dade) collected by the National Library of China. According to the reprint of the Southern Song Dynasty trunk road edition (see the illustration in this section), we can get a glimpse of the original appearance of the Song Dynasty edition. Its format is very large and very elaborate, while the frame is very small, and the binding is a popular butterfly costume at that time, which is unique in the Yuan Dynasty engraving.
The front of Yuan Dade's edition bears the seals of Zhu Wenfang and Wenyuan Pavilion, and there are also seals of Wang Shizhong, Pingyang Wang's Collection of Books, Chen Wen's Seal of Officials, Jia Zi Bing Yin, Han Dejun and Qian Runwen's Two Refuges with Books, etc.