925, the mystery of the thousand-year-old curse of the poem monument of "Fengqiao Night Park".

After this tragic scene, let's take a look at another night view of the ancient city of Suzhou-

"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. ”

On an autumn evening, the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji berthed on the Fengqiao Bridge outside Suzhou. The beautiful night blue mountains of the autumn night in the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River attracted this sad guest, so that he touched the scenery and appreciated a kind of poetic beauty with a timeless taste, so he wrote this ancient village elegant, artistic conception of the small poem "Fengqiao Night Park".

Since then, although there are still many poets who have described "Fengqiao" and "Midnight Bell", no one has been able to reach Zhang Ji's artistic level, it can be said that this "Fengqiao Night Park" has reached the level of thought, art, and supremacy, the world's best, "the world's first", the world's first, the world's first, no one can compare!

The mystery of the thousand-year-old curse of the poem monument of Hanshan Temple's "Fengqiao Night Park".

Qingfeng Mingyue Xiaoyao original · 2021-09-13 07:50 · Creator in the field of history

Hanshan Temple, located in the ancient city of Suzhou, outside the west gate of the ancient canal, adjacent to Fengqiao, was once called Fengqiao Temple. When it comes to Hanshan Temple, people can't help but think of the Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji's poem "Fengqiao Night Park": the moon falls and the sky is full of frost, and Jiang Feng is sad and sleepy. Hanshan Temple outside the city of Gusu, the bell rings in the middle of the night to the passenger ship.

Historically, Hanshan Temple has changed its name several times. According to legend, Hanshan Temple was built in the period of Emperor Wu of Liang, has a history of more than 1,500 years, the original name is "Miaoli Puming Pagoda Courtyard", renamed Hanshan Temple in the Tang Dynasty, renamed "Puming Zen Temple" in the Northern Song Dynasty, called Fengqiao Temple during the Southern Song Dynasty, and called Hanshan Temple in the Yuan Dynasty, which is still in use today. Regarding the origin of the name of Hanshan Temple, it is inseparable from the "two immortals of harmony" in folklore. Legend has it that during the Tang Zhenguan period, the high monk Hanshan and Shide came here as the abbot, and then changed the name to Hanshan Temple.

Before the Tang Dynasty, Hanshan Temple was an unknown small temple, and since Zhang Ji's "Fengqiao Night Park" has made Hanshan Temple famous. Hanshan Temple has been repeatedly destroyed and built repeatedly, and it can last for thousands of years, and Zhang Ji's contribution is indispensable.

Tang Wuzong Li Yan believed in Taoism, and in view of the spread of Buddhism and the damage to the treasury revenue, under the strong encouragement of Taoist priest Zhao Guizhen and the support of Li Deyu, he ordered the demolition of Buddhist temples in 845 AD (the fifth year of Huichang) and sent the imperial history to separate the inspectors. After several months of hard work, more than 44,600 monasteries, Zhaoti, and Lanruo were demolished across the country, 261,000 lay monks and nuns, 150,000 slaves and maids, and a large amount of monastic land was confiscated. Due to the success of the destruction of the Buddha, the tax sources of the Tang Dynasty government were expanded and the centralized power was consolidated.

Because Wu Zong took the so-called elixir, his body was greatly damaged, and the Taoist priests told him that he was sick because his name was Li Han, and there was "water" in the word "Qian", which was inconsistent with the Tude advocated by the Tang Dynasty, Tuke Shui, so it was unfavorable, and it should be renamed "Yan", Yan Cong "Fire", which is in harmony with Tude, can eliminate disasters. However, the name change did not bring him good luck, and his condition worsened day by day, and Prime Minister Li Deyu and others asked for an audience, but they were not allowed. Just 12 days after he changed his name to Li Yan, he died and became another emperor in history who died because of taking the "elixir".

Legend has it that Tang Wuzong loved Zhang Ji's poem "Fengqiao Night Park", and a month before his sudden death, he also ordered Lu Tianfang, the first stonemason in the capital, to carefully carve a "Fengqiao Night Park" poem tablet, and said that on the day of his ascension, he would take this stone tablet away. So after the death of Tang Wuzong, this monument was buried in the underground palace of Wuzong and placed on the coffin bed. Moreover, Tang Wuzong issued a decree on his deathbed: "Fengqiao Night Park" poem tablet only has the appreciation of the Kele stone, and future generations cannot be blessed with me, if there are rebellious ministers and thieves who carve the poem tablet, they will be punished by heaven, and the catastrophe will never be recovered!

That is to say: "The poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park" can only have this piece, as long as someone engraves the poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park", they will die." ”

On April 22, 846 (the sixth year of Huichang), Li Yan died in Hanfeng Palace, the temple name Wuzong, and was buried in Duanling. Duanling is located in the west of Xu Mu Yuan, Sanyuan County, Shaanxi Province (now the northeast of Taogou Village, Xu Mu Township, Sanyuan County), about 5 kilometers away from the tomb of Li Yuanxian, the ancestor of the Tang Dynasty, and about 6 kilometers away from the tomb of Li Yuyuan of the Tang Dynasty in the northwest.

Duanling has been stolen in history, and there are different opinions as to who the tomb robbers are, but the focus is on the two people.

The first person is the famous Huang Chao. The reason is that after Huang Chao withdrew from Chang'an City, Gao Biao, the general of the Tang Army, wrote a note to Tang Xizong that "the garden and mausoleum are destroyed today".

The second person to rob the tomb was Wen Tao. Wen Tao's theft and excavation of the Tang Emperor's tomb is documented, and there are clear records in both the official history and the wild history. After serving as the chief executive in Chang'an for seven years, almost all the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty in the Guanzhong area were excavated by him during the war, and only Qianling was lucky enough to escape the disaster.

As for what was stolen from Duanling, due to its long history, there is no evidence at all. However, Tang Wuzong's curse on a poem tablet through thousands of years of time and the ghost lingers, and later generations have carved the "Fengqiao Night Park" poem tablet, and sure enough, they all suffered accidents, is it really in response to Tang Wuzong's curse and "will be punished by heaven, and the catastrophe will never be recovered"?

The first to engrave the poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park" was Wang Qi, a scholar of the Hanlin Academy in the Northern Song Dynasty. After Wang Qi carved the monument, his family suffered even changes, and Wang Qi himself died violently.

Shi Zai: Wang Qi is Li Qingzhao's grandfather and the grandfather of Qin Hui's wife Wang. It is recorded in the history books that Wang Qi is timid and afraid of things, has always obeyed the emperor's will, and is a well-known "prime minister of the three decrees". Although he is politically inactive, his literary attainments are really good. In fact, after writing the inscription, his own power in the court was not weakened. In October of the fourth year of Yuanfeng (1081), the emperor discovered that a minister had committed adultery with Wang, the wife of Shi Shiduan, a commentator in Dali, and someone wanted to take the opportunity to frame Wang Jue's father and son, but the conspiracy did not succeed. Wang Jue's death, although the cause of death is not clearly recorded, the history books say that he died in office and lived to be 67 years old.

The second inscription of the poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park" is the Ming Dynasty calligrapher and painter Wen Zhengming. More than 400 years later, because the poem tablet "Fengqiao Night Park" written by Wang Qi has disappeared, Wen Zhengming, the most famous in the Chinese book world at that time, wrote this poem tablet again. But it is said that not long after the poem tablet "Yucheng", Wen Zhengming was also seriously ill, suffered from illness in the world, and died with hatred.

Shi Zai: Before Wen Zhengming died, he was writing epitaphs for others on a small boat. At that time, he was writing very quietly, but before he could finish writing, he put down his pen and sat on a stool and passed away peacefully. It is speculated that Wen Zhengming most likely died of a heart attack.

Tang Dynasty Zhang Ji's poem "Fengqiao Night Park" poem tablet, which was written by Yu Yue, a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty, has become a unique Hanshan Temple. The monument is about 3.5 meters high and 1 meter wide.

The third inscription of the poem "Fengqiao Night Park" is Yu Yue, a scholar in the Qing Dynasty. Nearly 400 years later, when Chen Long, the governor of Jiangsu, rebuilt Hanshan Temple, he felt that the vicissitudes of life and the ancient monument did not exist, so he asked Yu Yue to write the third "Fengqiao Night Park" stone tablet. Dozens of days after Yu Yue wrote the book, he passed away suddenly......

History: When Yu Yue wrote this poem "Fengqiao Night Park", it was in the 32nd year of Guangxu at the end of the Qing Dynasty (1906), as a proud disciple of Zeng Guofan, Yu Yue was 85 years old, but he still used his full feelings, steady chapters, and round brushstrokes, swaying and dripping, and completed it in one go.

The fourth inscription of the poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park" is Qian Rongchu, a master of Suzhou carving tablet. During the Anti-Japanese War, the Japanese invading army plundered Chinese cultural relics on a large scale, and the famous poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park" attracted special attention from the Japanese. At that time, Japan's Osaka Asahi Shimbun tried to transport the poem tablet to Japan in the name of holding the "East Asia Construction Expo." The big traitor Liang Hongzhi did not dare to risk the world's disapproval and go against the people's will to transport the poem tablet out of the country, so he invited Qian Rongchu, the master of Suzhou inscription who originally carved Yu Yue's poem tablet and had undertaken the inscription project of Nanjing Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum with a group of inscription artists in Suzhou, to engrave the monument with the fake instead of the real one according to the original situation.

History: On the morning of March 20, 1939, on the road to Hanshan Temple, Qian Rongchu was found dead by pilgrims. A note written in blood was found in the pocket of his clothes: "Death to those who engrave and desecrate monuments!" I forgot my ancestors' teachings, and I deserve to be wronged! ”

The third person to engrave the poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park" is Zhang Ji, a veteran of the Kuomintang. In 1947, Wu Hufan, a famous painter in Suzhou, asked Zhang Ji, a veteran of the Kuomintang, to write and engrave a poem tablet of "Fengqiao Night Park". Please ask the modern poet Zhang Jishu Tang Dynasty poet Zhang Ji's poems, which was rumored to be a good story at the time, but Zhang Ji wrote the poem "Fengqiao Night Park", and passed away the next day.

Shi Zai: Zhang Ji died of a heart attack due to excessive fatigue.

Tang Wuzong's curse may be just a psychological suggestion, and there is no real curse, but some people connect this matter with each other and are far-fetched, and some things happen just by coincidence.