Chapter 33: Little Third Son
A few more steps to the "Yiyun Pavilion", this is where the queen lived, the Empress Dowager Longyu and Concubine Zhen, Concubine Jin all lived here.
I asked Lin Zi if all of you women want to be queens and are willing to live here? She thought for a while and said that if she could access the Internet, she could consider it, haha......
There are stone carvings on the walls on both sides of the entrance, which are the imperial pen inscriptions of Emperor Qianlong. I am also good at calligraphy, I have practiced some calligraphy since I was a child, and I think his penmanship should be to learn from Wang Zhao, dignified and delicate, well-proportioned and moderate.
In Yuelu Academy, Kangxi's "Xueda Xingtian" and Qianlong's "Daonan Zhengmai" are hung there. You can see that in fact, although his grandfather Emperor Kangxi's words are not much stronger than him, Lao Kang's words are scarce, and they can be sold at auction! And Lao Qian is too fond of showmanship, and there are too many calligraphy works handed down, so that the fate of his poems is not very valuable.
The world's Polytechnic is the same, scarce is expensive, I asked if Lin Zi loves to give too much and is not worth it? She said that people who love each other will only love less, not too much......
For first-time friends, there is another place in the garden that I usually go to, that is, the stone boat that integrates the characteristics of China and the West, and its real name is "Qingyan Fang". The entire hull is Chinese, while the top decoration and paddle pattern are of Western origin. Qianlong Lao'er built it into a stone boat, as if the rivers and mountains of the Qing Dynasty were as solid as a rock, and there was no worry about capsizing. Wei Zheng quoted the sentence "Fu water can carry a boat, or it can overturn a boat" in Zhang Heng's "Erjing Fu" of the Eastern Han Dynasty, to advise Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, to put the people first. Today's "people-oriented" probably comes from this!
After passing the stone boat, it is time to start climbing Wanshou Mountain. Although it is not very high, as soon as you reach the "middle of the painting", you will find that your eyes are suddenly bright, and your body and mind are also refreshed. Climb the stairs and reach the highest peak of Wanshou Mountain, "Wisdom Sea", and there is still a kind of comfort in returning to nature in my heart. The sea of wisdom comes from the Buddhist "Amitayus Sutra" in the sentence "If you come to the sea of wisdom, there is no cliff bottom in the deep house". It was indeed a little tiring to climb between the rocks leading to the top of the mountain, but fortunately, a few of us were still young, and we used our hands and feet to climb to the highest point of the Summer Palace.
Surrounded by the green trees on the top of the mountain, the autumn sun shines on the lake. The pagoda and fragrant mountain of Yuquan Mountain are the color of green daisiness. There are deep and shallow, thick and light, it seems to be a splashed ink landscape painting, thick and elegant, which makes people feel relaxed and happy, and I forget almost everything. The Buddha Xiang Pavilion on the mountain was built in the 23rd year of Qianlong, that is, in 1758, it was rebuilt in the 17th year of Guangxu, and it cost more than 780,000 taels of silver, which is the most expensive project in the Summer Palace.
I always wondered how the rulers of that time had so much spare work, spent so much money to build gardens, and after being beaten so many times, they still didn't have a long memory, and they didn't concentrate on developing national defense and replenishing military spending.
The Buddha Xiang Pavilion is the center of the whole park building, standing on the platform, you can overlook the entire Kunming Lake and Paiyun Palace. When I went in, there were files of eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty on the wall, which was fun. Under the illumination of the sun, several Tibetan-style stupas appear more golden and yellow, **solemn!
I heard that this Summer Palace was originally called "Qingyi Garden", and I still think the original name is good. Now I hold my breath when I hear this name, what is "discussing peace and discussing peace", it is obviously seeking peace, and this place was destroyed and repaired by foreigners back then...... Lin Zi said that this is the royal garden and palace of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor, the concubine, the Buddha, etc., have left many, many footprints here, when we step on this land, maybe which footprints are just printed on the emperor's or the prince's footprints, hehe.
The tranquility of the Buddha Xiang Pavilion and the elegance of the 700-mile corridor have crossed the 5,000-year-old culture of China, and the historical traces of the destruction of the British and French forces have also been left on it.
The garden art is ingenious, and the wind and clouds are light and think of the emperor. Like a mirror on the surface of the water, the scene in the painting recalls the vicissitudes of life.
When I came back, Peng Yu and Qian Cheng were still arguing for the three words "Summer Palace", whether it was Guangxu's handwriting, I think these questions are actually not important, the important thing is the history of the past hundred years carried by these three words, as well as our footprints today.
On the eve of leaving the capital, everyone went in groups of three or five, and I had a meal of authentic Hunan cuisine at the Xiaoxiang Hall near Xinhua News Agency with Qian Cheng and Peng Yu.
Xiao Sanzi called and called us to go to KTV together, Xiao Sanzi is Don Juan, but recently "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview" has been more popular, everyone thinks that he and the three virtues in it are very similar, everyone loves to call it that, get used to it.
He haunts with Qian Cheng on weekdays, and someone always asks if Qian Cheng and him are two brothers, Qian Cheng is not happy every time he hears it, you might as well say that I am fat, like Maitreya and listen to it more comfortably, saying that I am like a eunuch?
Especially his round face is basically not bearded, I didn't feel anything before, but recently I always felt awkward when I heard others shouting like this.