Chapter 77 Tour to Suzhou II
If you want to say what the scenery of Suzhou is famous for, there are many waters, bridges, gardens, and scenic spots.
The Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, like the Great Wall, is listed as one of the world's four most ambitious ancient projects, and the famous Suzhou Creek, which is now the Wusong River, flows through Suzhou.
The water network in the south of the Yangtze River is all over the place, Suzhou is obviously this characteristic, there are bridges almost when you see water, small bridges, well-known and nameless bridges, giving people the feeling that the bridges are like chains, connecting the flowing rivers together one after another.
The Suzhou garden is a representative of the Jiangnan garden, and the significant difference from the northern garden lies in its delicacy and elegance. Wu Qiang visited his first garden after coming to Suzhou, the Canglang Pavilion.
Canglang Pavilion ancient wood towering to the sky, green bamboo shakes the wind, high building four looks, borrowing the scenery outside the garden, with the suburban landscape as the background, the beautiful color is far away, the natural leisure and elegant, the temperament is simple. The beauty of Canglang Pavilion lies in its elegance and refinement, and it opens up the indiscriminate gardening of Suzhou's classical gardens.
Canglang Pavilion can see the mountain when you enter the door, and this is in line with the Song people's landscape painting theory, the so-called "open door to the mountain", the ancient trees on the mountain are lush, the vines are hanging, and equipped with pavilions, the mountain is high and steep, the path twists and turns, and is extremely rich in wild interest. Canglang Pavilion reflects the elegant aesthetic taste of the literati of the Song Dynasty and the literacy of landscape poetry and landscape painting, and Canglang Pavilion can be said to be a solidified poem.
After visiting the Canglang Pavilion, the two visited some scenic spots, and Wu Qiang saw a garden in front of him, which was quite spectacular and beautiful, so he said: "That garden is very good." ”
Puguang replied, "That's the Humble Administrator's Garden. ”
"Regardless of whether he is a humble administrator's garden or a stabbing administrator's garden, let's go over and have a look." Wu Qiang's interest at the moment is strong.
Puguang hurriedly shook his head and said: "I can't go, the Humble Administrator's Garden used to be the garrison general's mansion and the military preparation road pavilion, and now it is the mansion of Wu Sangui's son-in-law Wang Yongning, more things are better than less things, don't cause this trouble." ”
Wu Qiang couldn't help but feel a sense of regret, he had seen a source of information about the Humble Administrator's Garden on the Internet before, and it was recorded in the historical books that Wang Xianchen had commissioned the painter Wen Zhengming to do the earliest design, and Wen's "Humble Administrator's Garden", "Humble Administrator's Garden" and "Humble Administrator's Garden" were handed down, which more completely outlined the appearance and style of the garden. The whole garden is full of bamboo trees, mountains and rivers, almost natural scenery, full of rich natural wilderness.
According to Wen Zhengming's description in "Wang's Humble Administrator's Garden", when the garden was first built, it was found that this land was not suitable for building quite a lot of buildings, the ground was soft, the water was pervasive, and the humidity was very heavy. Therefore, Wen Zhengming took water as the main body, supplemented by planting, designed various scenic spots according to local conditions, and put the metaphors in the poems and paintings into the visual level.
There are still many couplets and poems of Wen Zhengming in the garden, among which the "cool borrowing the breeze and borrowing the moon, moving and watching the flowing water" in the Wuzhu Secluded Pavilion can best bring out the artistic conception of this garden.
"Damn, if there is a chance in the future, Lao Tzu must go to the Humble Administrator's Garden for a spin." Wu Qiang couldn't help but spit and was ruthless, with his parkour skills, this is not a difficult task.
Puguang suddenly said: "If Wu Sangui's son or grandson of the dog thief is present, you can easily kill them, and you can become famous and become a big hero." ”
"By the way, did you know that there is a place called Master-of-Nets Garden?" Wu Qiang quickly diverted the topic.
"I haven't heard of it." Puguang shook his head.
Wu Qiang couldn't help but guess that since he didn't even know Puguang, who was more familiar with the ground, maybe the Master of Nets Garden had not been built yet.
When Puguang took Wu Qiang to walk through a scenic spot called Yuyin Bridge, and saw a garden in front of him, and when he came to the front, Wu Qiang couldn't help but be stunned, isn't this the Master of Nets Garden? Why hasn't Puguang heard of it? In later life, he saw some pictures of the Master-of-Nets Garden, and found that there were several similarities between the Master-of-Nets Garden and this garden, and there should not be so many coincidences in the world.
However, Puguang said that this place was called Yuyin Garden, Wu Qiang did not argue again, he guessed that this may be the name of the predecessor of the Master of Nets Garden, and it was later changed to the Master of Nets Garden, and there have been too many things to change the name of the place since ancient times.
The Master of Nets Garden was built in the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty, and was formerly the site of the Wanjuan Hall of the Yangzhou literati Shi Zhengzhi of the Song Dynasty bibliophile and official to the squire, and the garden was named Yuyin, which has been changed several times. The Master of Nets Garden has changed its owner several times, and the owner of the garden is mostly literati and scholars, and each has a poem and inscription engraved in the garden, which has been repaired and sorted. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the retired Guanglu Temple Shaoqing Song Zongyuan purchased it and rebuilt it, and then named the garden as the Master of Nets Garden.
Master-of-Nets Garden is a representative work of Suzhou garden medium-sized classical landscape garden, the whole garden layout is compact, the architecture is exquisite, the spatial scale and proportion are coordinated, with exquisite garden layout, profound cultural connotation, elegant garden atmosphere, become the representative work of small and medium-sized classical gardens in the south of the Yangtze River.
Master-of-Nets Garden is a typical private garden that combines a house and a garden. The residential part is a total of four entrances, from the sedan hall, the large living room, the Xiu Building, the Wufeng Book House, along the central axis in turn, the main hall Wanjuan Hall is high and open, and the decoration is elegant. The landscape layout and the inscriptions of scenic spots in the park contain a strong atmosphere of seclusion.
Puguang pointed to the front and said, "That's Fengqiao, have you ever heard a poem?" ”
Wu Qiang immediately groaned: "The moon is falling and the sky is full of frost, and Jiang Feng is sleeping. Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship. ”
Puguang immediately exclaimed: "Hey, you also learned this poem overseas?" ”
Wu Qiang rolled his eyes and said: "Nonsense, I am overseas, and the inheritance of China has never been forgotten." ”
Puguang said meaningfully: "The Tartars are now cutting off our Chinese inheritance, what do you say?" ”
"I heard that the scenery of Fengqiao is good, let's go over and have a look." Without waiting for Puguang to react, Wu Qiang had already taken the first step.
Looking at Wu Qiang's fleeing back, Puguang couldn't help but feel angry, and it took a long time before he said, "I'll pull you into the water sooner or later." ”
The reason why Fengqiao is famous is because of Zhang Ji's song "Fengqiao Night Park". For thousands of years, countless wanderers have come to Fengqiao to find this wonderful poetry, and the famous literati of the Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties have come to pursue it, and they have continued to write hundreds of Fengqiao poems.
For example, Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi in the Tang Dynasty, Fan Chengda and Lu You in the Song Dynasty, Tang Bohu and Wang Chong in the Ming Dynasty, Shen Deqian and Wu Weiye in the Qing Dynasty have all written the poems of Fengqiao, so the moonlight of Fengqiao shines on the land of China, and the bells ring in all corners of the world.
Fengqiao is also famous because it is a scenic spot with very rich historical and cultural connotations, known as the "five ancients", that is, ancient rivers, ancient bridges, ancient temples, ancient towns, and ancient customs. The ancient bridge and ancient temple, the tower shadow is majestic, the fishing fire frost bell, the poetry is continuous; Tieling Pass, majestic and precipitous; The ancient canal, the sound of the waves is still the same; Hanshan Courtyard, winding paths lead to secluded.
Hanshan Temple is one of the famous ancient temples in Suzhou, which was built during the Liang Dynasty Tianjian period of the Six Dynasties. Because of a sentence in "Fengqiao Night Park" about Hanshan Temple outside Gusu City, it is famous at home and abroad, but Wu Qiang remembered the name of Hanshan Temple because of a song "The Sound of the Waves is Still".
Wu Qiang and Puguang traveled around the mountains and rivers for a day, naturally they got nothing, Ling Yuqiang and Yang Yi were probably for a bounty of ten taels of silver, and they worked very hard, although they also got nothing, but when Wu Qiang returned to the inn to see the two, he found that the two of them were full of dust.
The two of them were obviously serious and worked hard, which made Wu Qiang and Puguang blush for a while. Although Suzhou is the site and base camp of Hoututan, the rumors of the government have been relatively tight recently, and it is really not easy to contact the people of Hoututan for a while. For this reason, Wu Qiang raised the reward by five taels of silver, and the green light in the eyes of the two became even stronger.
Under the pretext that they had spent money, Wu Qiang and Puguang Houfeng cheekily traveled for a day, but the effect of the reward was also revealed. After Ling Yuqiang and Yang Yi came back in the evening, they finally brought good news.
The two met a peripheral person of the Houtu Altar, and found out from his mouth that who was going to handle the marriage of the Houtu Altar recently, as if the other party's origin was not small, and he lived in a Zhuangzi called Liuyuan at the foot of Huqiu Mountain outside Suzhou, and he didn't know anything else.
The news is already good to find out this step, Wu Qiang paid the bounty happily, Ling Yuqiang and Yang Yi probably never had such a large sum of silver, the two of them were so excited that they danced, if it wasn't for Wu Qiang dragging them, both of them would have a bit of a posture of floating to the sky.
Regardless of whether this news is true or not, Wu Qiang decided to check it out, and the next day Wu Qiang gave Ling Yuqiang and Yang Yi a vacation, and the two of them also worked hard for two days, and they had a few sassy money in their hands, if they were not allowed to go out for a while, it would be easy to get sick.
Puguang took the initiative to give up his spare time and asked to accompany him, so that he could have one more helper, and he would have a good response in case of emergencies, and Wu Qiang naturally couldn't ask for it. Huqiu Mountain is very close to Suzhou City, and the two of them quickly found the willow garden according to the address provided by the peripheral personnel of Hoututan.
The area of Liuyuan is not too large, and there is no difference between the Zhuangzi of the ordinary rich family, and the heaven and earth will do a killing job, so it is natural to be cautious and cautious, act in a low-key manner, and be in harmony with the ordinary people.
Not to mention that the two are not members of the Heaven and Earth Society, even if Pan Afu was present in person, he didn't speak to the incision and was introduced by the leader, and he didn't dare to go straight to the hidden stakes at the entrance of other altars, which could easily cause misunderstandings, and it would be too unjust to die in the hands of his own people.
Naturally, the two of them didn't dare to break in, but hid in the grove outside the Zhuangzi and secretly observed the situation in the Zhuangzi, but this seemed to have no effect, and they didn't find anything after squatting for a day.
Leaving like this, Wu Qiang was a little unwilling, so he let Puguang stare first, and he found a relatively dry grass to doze off, ready to recuperate and sneak in at night to investigate.
Wu Qiang soon fell asleep, and I don't know how long it took, he was woken up by Puguang in a daze, and because his mind was still a little drowsy, he was still dissatisfied: "What are you doing?" I just fell asleep for a while. ”
"Lazy pig, wake up, I see Miss Yu."
"Light smoke?" When Wu Qiang heard Yu Qingyan's name, all of his sleepiness suddenly disappeared. "Where is she?"