HPDBC 252. A Witness To Chinese History, The No. 1 Antiquity!
252. A Witness To Chinese History, The No. 1 Antiquity!
"A.D. 627, that is, the year when Tang Taizong Li Shimin started the rule of Zhenguan."
"There was a sheep herding uncle who accidentally discovered a huge granite stone when he was grazing sheep on Chencang Mountain."
"At that time, all the villagers gathered there, and someone poured water on one of the stone drums."
"After the soil was washed away, everyone discovered that words appeared on the boulder."
"The most important thing is that they don't know these words."
"You know, if words appear on ancient giant stones, it means that something big is about to happen.
"So the discovery of the boulder spread, and rumors spread everywhere."
"Think that this stone is bestowed by the gods."
"Many people come to offer incense and kneel down, even those who cannot write and are educated also come to worship.
"Those who are literate rubbed the words on the stone back and studied it slowly."
"In this way, the stone has been standing there for more than a hundred years."
"In 755 AD, when the Anshi Rebellion broke out, Tang Suzong Li Heng came to seek refuge near Chencang.
"At that time, he observed these ten stone drums together with all the civil and military officials."
"But because the rebels were approaching, in order to prevent the stone drum from being discovered, people buried the stone drum in the ground."
"This is also the first time it was lost in a war."
"Decades later, in AD 806.
"Ten stone drums have been found again. Han Yu, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, is very conscious of cultural relics protection."
"I wrote to the imperial court, requesting that the stone drum be moved to Chang'an City for safekeeping."
"It's a pity that the court didn't pay attention to this matter at that time."
"Han Yu was very depressed because of this matter, and he sighed alone with the rubbings from the stone drum given to him by Zhang Ji in his hand."
"For this reason, Han Yu also wrote a poem called "Stone Drum Song 12"."
"Zhang Sheng held the stone drum inscription and advised me to try to write a stone drum song. No one in Shaoling was banished to immortality, so why should the general Nai Shigu..."
"Fortunately, a few years later, a man named Zheng Yuqing saw Han Yu's memorial."
"I agree with Han Yu's idea very much, so he also wrote to the court to ask for the protection of Shigu."
"This time, the imperial court took it seriously and agreed."
"It's just that when they went to look for the ten stone drums, one of them, the original drum, was somehow lost.
"There have been many stories surrounding the lost Sakugen drum since then."
"After another few decades, in 907 A.D., the Tang Dynasty fell.
"The wheel of history is rolling towards the war-torn Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms."
"Shigu, lost in the second war."
"Until the establishment of the Northern Song Dynasty, there appeared an emperor who loved calligraphy, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen.
"This person is very good at writing Feibai style. Once when he was reading a book, he was stunned by the story of Shigu by accident."
"I ordered the prefect at that time, Sima Chi, to look for Shigu.
"Maybe everyone doesn't know Sima Chi, but everyone should be familiar with his son."
"The author who wrote Zizhi Tongjian, Sima Guang!"
"Sima Chi didn't dare to neglect after receiving the order, so he hurriedly set off to look for Shigu."
"Fortunately, the stone drum was too big, and it was difficult to remove it with the manpower at that time, so he found it quickly.
"However, he only found 9 of them as the original drums, lost them and couldn't find them."
"However, Sima Chi pretended to be smart, and made a fake original drum."
"Even true and false, these ten stone drums were all packaged and given to the emperor.
"This kind of grain is so easy to fake, the emperor can tell it at a glance.
"So Sima Chi himself was rewarded for finding the stone drum, but in the end he was almost killed because of the fraudulent cultural relics.
"In 1052 A.D., the lost original drum was finally found."
"A epigrapher, a teacher to teach."
"At first, the relationship with Shigu came from a rubbing copy of Taishi's Shigu inscriptions that he paid a lot of money for.
"But the problem is that the original stone drum has been lost for more than 200 years, and it is impossible for new rubbings to come out.
"This incident kept him awake at night."
"After many investigations, he came to Taishi's village, but it's a pity that Taishi's family died of the plague half a year ago."
"In order to prevent the spread of the plague, the government burned all Taishi's house and property."
"For Master Xiang, this can be described as a bolt from the blue."
"Teacher Xiang, who was physically and mentally exhausted, found a nearby inn to settle down with great disappointment."
"As a result, in the early morning of the next day, Master Xiang was awakened by the sound of sharpening knives from the backyard."
"It turned out that a butcher was sharpening his knife. To Master Xiang's shock, there were some familiar handwriting on the butcher's whetstone."
"The funny thing is, this is the original stone drum that he dreamed of and lost."
"But when it was found, it was beyond recognition. The upper part had been cut off by the villagers, and the middle was hollowed out for pounding rice."
"And the two broken sides on the top were used by the butcher to sharpen the knife. Most of the writing on the stone drum was worn away, and the damage was serious.
"This stone drum is the strangely shaped stone drum that the mayor just dug up!"
As Fang Yang's voice faded away.
The mayor suddenly realized from the previous investment.
Exclaimed again and again: "I just said that mine is a bit like pounding rice, so it is so!!"
Others couldn't help but look at the heavily worn stone drum.
Once such cultural relics are damaged, it will be irreversible.
There is no way to fix it.
I can only say it's a pity.
When netizens saw this stone drum, they suddenly thought of the Great Jade Sea in Dushan Mountain that Fang Yang dug last time.
【Qi】+1+1+1+1.
[I can’t stop laughing, is it possible that all the treasures of the town have to suffer? Didn’t the pickle vat last time? It was used by the Taoist temple as a pickle vat for hundreds of years, and now it’s even worse. Not only for sharpening knives but also for pounding rice. 】
——[If you don’t go through some hardships, why is it called the treasure of the town? Is it because it is big? The bronze bell just now is very big, but after listening to what Fang Yang said, I can feel the gap between the two cultural relics. difference. The bronze bell belongs to the emperor, but the stone drum has passed through the hands of many emperors. He is like an old man walking in the world, and is the witness of all dynasties. 】
[To be honest, even if these ten big stones are placed in front of me, at most I will only think that they are relatively interesting stones, and I can't see their preciousness at all. Not to mention that they will be the treasures of the town, such cultural relics are no longer measured by their own value. 】
[We Chinese people, no matter what, we must have some national sentiments. They are the historical witnesses of our country. Seeing them, I feel like I have seen the historical development of my own family for more than 2,000 years. 】
After a brief greeting.
Fang Yang began to explain again.
"Although the original drum was severely damaged, fortunately the ten brothers were finally reunited.
In 1061 AD, 25-year-old Su Shi "came to Fengxiang for the first time in politics.
"The first thing he did when he took office was to visit the stone drum in the Confucian Temple."
"The first poem he wrote in the Confucian Temple was the Stone Drum Song."
"Xin Chou was born in the twelfth month of winter. I first met Lu Sou in politics. I heard about the old stone drum and saw it now. The words are melodious and rhythmic, and the snakes go away..."
"In 1110 A.D., these ten stone drums left their hometown for the first time and were transported to Bianliang, the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.
"Everyone can imagine that in the history of China, we love calligraphy the most, and also created a font, Song Huizong Zhao Ji.
How excited he was when he saw these stone drums!"
"At that time, he loved these stone drums very much. He watched them all day and all night, and even used gold to shape a golden body for the stone drums."
"Fill the words engraved on it with gold, and the whole stone drum becomes a golden drum."
"However...his behavior of loving drums has brought a huge disaster to Shigu."
"Shortly after, the shame of Jingkang and the two Huiqin sects were captured."
"This stone drum was taken as a trophy and transported to the north by the Jin people."
"But this stone drum costs one ton each, which is really too heavy."
"And they don't understand the meaning of the stone drum at all."
"So just took a knife and dug out the gold on it."
"Then the ten stone drums were returned to Yanjing."
"In 1234 A.D., the coalition forces of the Southern Song Dynasty and Mongolia broke through Yanjing.
"In the army, there is a man named Wang Shu, who is a native of Chencang."
"He must have heard the stories and legends about the stone drum, so he kept his eyes open."
"Among the ruins, Wang Shu found the ten stone drums that were riddled with holes.
"Later, he put these stone drums in the Imperial College."
"So during the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, all ten stone drums lived safely in the Guozijian.
"But in modern times, it's not safe anymore."
"After the fall of the three eastern provinces, these stone drums were also moved along with the cultural relics of the Forbidden City."
"Traveling most of China, and they are also the heaviest cultural relics during the relocation."
"But unfortunately, they were accidentally messed up again."
"Until today, it was dug out by us by chance."
Fang Yang looked at the stone drum on the ground and couldn't help but sighed: "This is a stone drum that was born in the pre-Qin period after experiencing many vicissitudes.
"It was discovered during the reign of Zhenguan, and it has gone through Zhou, Qin, Han, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties."
"Witnessed a series of major events in the history of China."
"I have also intersected with many historical celebrities in Chinese history."
"So, the history of these ten stone drums is the history of China!"
"It can be said that in a real sense, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is the most important weapon of the country."
Immediately afterwards, Fang Yang walked to another stone drum: "It's like the stone drum in front of me. It's called the Qianmian drum.
"The words preserved on it are relatively complete."
"The picture it depicts is that against the backdrop of willows, the water of the Sihe River is clear and transparent, Qin Jun is fishing on the bank, and various fish are playing in the water, some are grabbing aquatic plants, and some are swimming slowly. moving, their shadows reflected on the stones in the water.
"Everyone must close their eyes, you can imagine."
"What was the picture like more than 2,000 years ago."
So far, Fang Yang has stopped talking.
Everyone closed their eyes to feel the scene Fang Yang said.
If it is modern, there is nothing wrong with writing such a picture.
But what you need to know is that they seem to have traveled to more than 2,000 years ago.
I saw Qin Jun fishing in the Qian River and all the scenes at that time.
That feeling is indescribable.
【Qi】+1+1+1+1....
[Holy shit, it turned out that there were grass carp more than 2,000 years ago. I don’t know if that is the grass carp in the Huhe River. It is said that people in the past were immature in fishing skills and did not like to eat fish very much. There are everywhere in the water. It's fish. If this time travels back, won’t it explode every day?”
[your mind back
I am convinced too! You are obviously talking about a very remarkable cultural relic, and you can think of fishing on it. Sure enough, fishermen are addicted, buddy, you are not addicted!]
[Close your eyes and imagine that scene, I suddenly have a feeling of dreaming back to the millennium. Sometimes I really want to travel back to the past and see what the mountains and rivers were like back then.
——
What kind, is it full of wild land and weeds, is it full of birds and flowers? 】
[These ten stone drums originally belonged to the Palace Museum, but if they were dug up all at once today, it is estimated that Director He of the Palace Museum would have to come over in person. There are not many such precious babies in the whole country. 】
With the story of Shigu finished.
Everyone seems to have experienced the experience of a stone drum from ancient times.
It was indeed as Fang Yang said.
It has witnessed the history of China.
It itself is a Chinese history book.
So the value of its existence far exceeds that of the previous Jingyun bronze bell.
It's not that big can be regarded as the treasure of a town.
Rather, it has a unique historical significance.
Compared with the previous Du Shan Da Yu Hai.
It is not an exaggeration to say that these ten stone drums are the number one ancient relic in China.
Even if Chuan Guo Yuxi is compared with him, each has its own merits.
It can't be said that it completely surpasses him.
Because its existence is older than Chuanguo Yuxi, and it is a symbol of China's historical civilization.
Perhaps only Jiuding, which is older than him and has a stronger symbolic meaning, can completely overwhelm its limelight. .