Let's talk about "Liu Xiong Monument".
Wang Jiakui. There were not many inscriptions chanted by the Tang people in the past, and those that can be handed down to this day are even rarer. Wang Jian's "Cai Zhonglang Tablet in Sour Zao County": "The moss is full of words and the soil buries the turtle, and the wind and rain grind the wonderful words." Don't see the old in the picture classic, no one knows that it is Cai Yong's monument. Zhang Hu also has "The Inscription of the Sour Jujube Post Tablet": "The moss is ancient and self-carved, and who has more than enough pen strength." Changai met Wang Cang at that time, and he didn't close the book every time he came to the monument. The two poems occupy the "Han Sour Jujube Order Liu Xiong Tablet" (pictured), that is, "The Sour Jujube City has a county order Liu Mengyang Tablet" as stated in the "Water Jing Note".
"Liu Xiong Tablet" and the inscriptions of various families
The "Water Classic Note" does not mention the author of the stele, and Wang Jianshi said, "Do not see the old in the Tujing, no one knows that it is Cai Yong's stele", according to the analysis of Qing Yan Kejung: "Cai, Chen Liuyu people, sour jujube belongs to Chen Liu, Cai is the sour jujube Lingde and political monument, and it is permissible." The poem is called "Tujing", perhaps it is the old chronicles left by Chen, such as Liang Liu Zhao's annotation of the "Continuation of the Hejaz" quotes the eleven articles of "Chen Liuzhi", "It is an ancient book of the Wei and Jin Dynasties, Wang Jian or tasted it, and the language is not hollow", so it is included in the "Cai Zhonglang Collection".
Song Ouyang Xiu, Zhao Mingcheng all have the collection of this tablet rubbing, "Jigulu" recorded as "Hou Jizi Tablet of Yuxiang of the Later Han Dynasty", "Jinshi Record" called "Han Sour Jujube Ling Liu Xiong Tablet". Ou and Zhao may not have paid attention to the poems of Wang Jian and Zhang Hu, so the first book begins with the inscription "The Emperor of Heaven", and the later book discusses the lineage, without mentioning Cai Yong, and there is no special praise for calligraphy.
Song Hongshi's "Lishi" began to quote Wang Jian's poems, but on the surface, it was said that "the poems were not false", but he thought that this monument was "solid Han and Li's top products, and it seems that it is not Zhonglang's penmanship". And said: "His text has clouds 'seven industries are flourishing, Xianju is now and ancient', and his poems are said to be 'there are fathers and sons and then there are kings and ministers', the text is like this, it is difficult to say that it is a wonderful word." The implication is that the meaning of the inscription is mediocre, and it does not match Cai Yong, who is known as "wonderful words".
Most of the collectors of later generations did not take Hong Shi's opinion as a matter of course, and Zhu Yizun of the Qing Dynasty retorted that "after the stele, there are three chapters of the poem written by rumors, and the second of them is 'there is a father and son, and then there are monarchs and ministers, financial management is correct, and the bundle is silky (jiān) 戋', with three words and five words followed by four words, which is enough to see the ancient laws of the text. Weng Fanggang praised the penmanship of "Liu Xiong Tablet", and the inscription poem said: "Subordinate to Zhonglang is the best, and the pen is correct and condensed." How to easily talk about Qigu and have an epiphany of millions of layers. "The shadow of the slippery cocoon is clear, and Su Zhaike's eyes are blue. Beginning from the outside of the hammer of the furnace, the secret key Xu came to knock on the stone scripture. ”
"Liu Xiong Tablet" rubbings (detail).
Regarding the author of "Liu Xiong's Tablet", although there is a "Tujing" referring to Cai Yong, it may not be credible. The nature of the ancient illustrated scriptures is slightly the same as that of the guide manual, and it is customary to attach the local scenery to celebrities, such as the "Yiying Tablet" engraved with the appraisal opinion of "Later Han Zhong Taiwei Book, Zhang Zhigui in the seventh year of Jiayou (1062) according to the inscription of the map". The "map" that Zhang Zhigui pressed should be the "picture classic";The "Yiying Tablet" was erected in the first year of Yongxing (153), and Zhong Xuan (151-230) had just been born, so of course it was impossible to write the tablet. Gao Wen's "Collection of Han Tablet Interpretation" noticed that the inscription of "Liu Xiong Tablet" "Seven Industries Flourished" sentence, which is said to be "Seven Industries" and "Seven Generations", since Emperor Guangwu, Emperor Ming, Zhang, He, An, Shun, Huan Emperor, Fan Seven, among them, the three emperors of Yin, Chong, and Quality collapsed in one year, so it is not counted. It is determined from this that when the monument was erected in Emperor Huan, it was earlier than Cai Yong, and it was not his book that was written.
Liu Xiong Tablet is not known when it was destroyed, the current extant version of the National Museum of Liu Tieyun, Duanfang handed over the collection, the Beijing Palace Museum Tianyi Pavilion old collection of two pieces for the best, both known as "Song Ta", in fact, two pieces of residual stone, the word is about half of the "Lishi" record. Wang Zhuanghong once inspected the Forbidden City, saying that "it was tested with paper and ink, and it was rubbed after the middle of the Ming Dynasty", which should be credible. In addition, in the 1970s, the Art and Culture Press photocopied a cut and framed book, titled "Liu Xiong Tablet of the Northern Song Dynasty Rubbing", with Yi Bingshou's book "Song Tuo is the only one left" with four characters at the beginning, and Wang Chang, Weng Fanggang and other inscriptions, all of which were praised more than once, but in fact, they were under two residual stones, which were so diffuse that they could not be killed by readers.
* At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Gu Xieguang of the Jinshi family visited the inscription of the stele Yin and the Song people on the left side of the stele under the halberd gate of the Yanjin School Palace, and the remnants of the inscription of Su Mai were given to the same people, and it became a grand event of gold and stone, and the sages inscribed a lot. Wang Xuzu, a Jinshi family in Zhucheng, used Wang Jian and Zhang Huyun to inscribe poems: "The jade chopsticks are even round and the button is better than the turtle, and the Qingyi Debao is given a new word." From now on, I don't think about the tiger, but fortunately, there is no monument in the world. "The autumn color of the visit monument is sparse, and there is more than enough music in the martial arts. The mystery tried to participate in the plain secret, and learned the Su book from the pen. Zhang Meiyi's inscription poem also uses Wang Jianyun: "There is no broken turtle left, and the relics of Mengyang are words." Wang commented on Su Mai's inscription, not as good as Tinglin's hand rubbing monument. ”
Zheng Xiaoxu also uses Wang Jian's poem rhyme and poem Yun for the Duanfang Tibetan inscription: "The picture is vague and the yarrow turtle is lost, and the text conveys bitter words." Wanggu can hold Wang Jianji, Linchi should believe in Cai Yong's monument. I also used this rhyme to collect Song Xian's sentences: "Shilin often pushes the Yuan turtle (Deng Lin), and the jade and the gold make good words (Xiang Anshi)." I have Cai Yongshu to pay (Liu Kezhuang), and the sediment has been eroded and the monument (Wang Yanchang). "Mo will smile at the empty (Su Zhe), and all the people cough and salivate (Zhang Shangying). can stop Zhonglang Tiger Ben (Fang Hui), Su Yun left Cai Yongshu (Li Xuji). ”