Poets in the early Qing Dynasty also paid attention to the scenery of Shengjing and directed their attention to the small villages on the outskirts of the city. Shenyang poet Baizhen, who wrote "Yijingxuan Poetry and Grass", wrote a poem "White Tower Paving the Road" - —
The snow is gone and the dust is red, driving on the ancient road.
The bridge leads to two roads, and the tower stands like a tree.
The guest rests because the body is tired, and the guest stops because the abdomen is empty.
He was busy offering wine and food, and he was drunk and full and counted bronzes.
Baitapu, also known as Baitapu, is a village 20 miles south of Shenyang. In the fourth year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1406), the monk Deben supervised the construction of a white pagoda here and built it on the pagoda. A temple was built next to it, named Amitabha Temple, and the white pagoda became known as the Amitabha Temple Pagoda. The majestic seven-story pagoda is made of polished white stone. It is as crystal clear as snow and as brilliant as jade. It attracts many visitors from near and far.
Baizhen's Five Rhymes was improvised while passing by the White Pagoda. The first four sentences describe the scenery, highlighting the unique scenery of the White Pagoda after snow seen "during the ancient driving road": the bridge crosses the road smoothly, and the white pagoda stands majestic. The last four sentences describe that the poet was tired during the long journey, and even the stallion driving the horse was hungry. I couldn't run anymore (骖, pronounced as cān, it means three horses driving a cart, or horses on both sides when driving), so I stopped to eat in a small shop, "hurrying" and "drunk and full" a group of images The vivid description makes this scene that happened in a country shop four hundred years ago appear vivid and interesting.
History has turned a page, and the story of the Baitapu shop can only be relived in poems:
The Baitapu recorded in the poem is no longer In 1904, during a war fought by the Japanese and Russian invaders on Chinese soil, the White Tower was reduced to nothing by artillery fire, leaving only a broken wall and numerous bones beside the tower.
Outdoor Gate (Xiaoximen) in the early years of the Republic of China