"Fu Yan" stone carving.
Book of Music Book Shadow.
Minqing County Yunlong Township Shangcun Village Entrance has a cliff stone carving group, the cliff wall is two or three zhang high, ten zhang wide, ** engraved "Fu Yan" three big characters, the word diameter is about 1 meter, it is the italics straight book Yin carving. On its left and right sides, each Le a round head stele inscription, due to the age, the right stele has been diffuse, the left side can see a poem entitled "Yongfu Yan" seven-word rhythm poem: want to know the Dongjun letter to urge, the ancients quenched their thirst meaning plum. Although the rhizomes sprouted before spring, the branches and leaves once bloomed in the snow. Ten thousand trees are pushed to be the first, and the thousand flower beds are the only one. Gao Cai should be a good hand, why do you have to teach the master to say it.
According to reports, the three big characters of "Fu Yan" and the poem "Yong Fu Yan" at the entrance of Jishang Village were inscribed by Zhang Xiaoxiang, the champion of Song Shaoxing in the twenty-fourth year (1154). At that time, Zhang Xiaoxiang was invited by Chen Hezhong, a fellow jinshi (Chen Xiangdao's nephew), to visit the hometown of the two brothers Chen Xiangdao and Chen Yang of the Northern Song Dynasty (now "Ji").
The legend of Fu Yan is Chen Xiangdao and Chen Yang's old reading and resting place, and then the Chen brothers won the fame, which is the origin of the poem "Why do you have to teach Fu to say". The author uses "plum blossoms" and "and soup" to express his praise for the high fame and talent of the Chen brothers, and believes that it is not necessary to attach to the legend of Fu. "Mencius: Confession" cloud: "Shun is in the acres, and Fu Shuo is between the plates." Later generations often quoted the story of "Fu Shuo Worshipping the Prime Minister", which shows that people from ordinary backgrounds can also achieve outstanding achievements after going through some hardships.
Chen Xiangdao and Chen Yang were important scholars who advocated Wang Anshi's "new learning" in the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, and occupied an important place in the history of academic thought in the Song Dynasty, especially in the history of ancient Chinese etiquette and music. Chen Yang really became famous mainly because of his two works, one is "Hui Zongchu, into the "Heng Collection" to persuade Shaoshu, to get a doctor of Taixue, the secretary of the province of orthography", and the other is "Yang's "Book of Music" 20 volumes throughout the Ming Bei, begging his brother Xiang Dao into the "Book of Rites" story to Za. On the same day, he moved too often, and entered the driving department to enter the foreign lang, and was the official ...... of the lecture department and the etiquette and musicEnter Honglu Taichang Shaoqing, the Ministry of Rites and Waiters, and raise the Liquan View to the Pavilion of Xianmo. It can be seen that Chen Yang's later promotion to important positions such as the waiter of the Ministry of Rites mainly benefited from the "Book of Music".
Chen Xiangdao, the word is used, and in the fourth year of Zhiping (1067), Jinshi and the first. Its line, epitaph, etc. are not preserved, "History of the Song Dynasty" only after Chen Yang's biography contains Chen Xiangdao "Yuan Youzhong, for Dr. Taichang, the final secretary of the province orthography." The 150 volumes of the Book of Rites were published in parallel with Yang's Book of Music." Chen Xiangdao is famous for his book "Book of Rites", and Chen Xiangdao "tasted the Book of Rites" in the eighth volume of "Chunxi Sanshan Chronicles". Wang Anshi heard it, and the edict was written to advance. Except for the direct talk of the country". At the beginning of Yuanfeng's official reform, "the edict changed the Guozijian to speak directly to the doctor of Taixue", and Chen Xiangdao was also transferred to the doctor of Taixue. The "Manuscript of the Song Society" contains that in February of the fourth year of Song Zhezong's reign (1089), Xu Jiang, a scholar of Hanlin, recommended: "Chen Xiangdao, a doctor of Taixue, is especially deep in the ...... of etiquetteI hope to try to be a courtesy official, and take the book and pay it to the company. Then the edict took Chen Xiangdao as Dr. Taichang. According to the "Fan Taishi Collection" volume 23 "Recommend Chen Xiangdao Etiquette Officials" cloud: "Chen Xiangdao is deep in the ...... of etiquetteOn the 150 volumes of the "Book of Rites" written by him, he was promoted to the post of correction of the secret province. As a result, the elder brother Chen Xiangdao wrote the "Book of Rites", and the younger brother Chen Yang wrote the "Book of Music", and the "Lile" brothers became celebrities at that time.
It was not easy for the Lile brothers to achieve such an achievement. The Chen brothers did not come from a famous family, but on the contrary, they came from a poor family. According to the genealogy of the book, the Chen brothers' family is really poor, and Chen Xiangdao "When he was first established, his father beat the public to death, and Xiangdao let him be guilty and abandoned for a long time", causing him to be idle at home for 20 years.
In the fifth year of Yuanyou (1090), Chen Xiangdao completed the 150 volumes of the "Book of Rites" and was able to enter the imperial court. The Book of Rites summarizes the pre-Qin ritual system, sorts out the way of the evolution of the ritual system in the past dynasties, and examines the function of the famous object shape system in the ritual system and the direction of the etiquette festival. After the "Book of Rites" came out, Fan Zuyu, a bachelor of Hanlin and a reviser of the National History Academy, praised it as "detailed and knowledgeable, beyond the reach of Confucianism". The Northern Song Dynasty writer Li Di said that "the Book of Rites is well-read, and it is rare for a while". Zhang Pu, a famous scholar of the Ming Dynasty, compared Chen Xiangdao's Book of Rites with Zhu Xi's Interpretation of the Book of Rites and Rites, believing that the former is a branch and leaf, and the latter is the root, and the two complement each other, and those who read the ritual Xi should look at the two books together.
By the time of Chen Yang, the family's situation had not improved. According to local cultural and historical records, in 1983, the tomb of Chen Yang's biological mother Xie was picked up due to a cemetery dispute, the tomb is a single-hole stone arch pond, there is no epitaph, and there are no real objects, Ming vessels, terracotta figurines and other funerary goods, it is actually the tomb of a cold family, which shows that the Chen brothers are indeed from a poor background.
Although Chen Yang's career was relatively smooth compared with his brother Chen Xiangdao, the political environment in which he lived was the worst in the Northern Song Dynasty. After Chen Yangke won the first place, he was awarded the primary rank of official hall, and was in charge of the Shunchang army on the North Jingxi Road, not far from Kaifeng, the capital, for seven or eight years, when the dispute between friends and parties was in full swing. The party struggle caused by political opinions among scholars and doctors in the Northern Song Dynasty sprouted in the reigns of Renzong Jingyou and Qingli, prevailed after Shenzong Xining, and roughly experienced three stages: Xifeng's New Deal, Yuanyou's Change, and Shaosheng's "Shaoshu" until the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty. During this period, the Yuan You changed the period of eight years in which the Northern Song Dynasty party members tended to be emotional and high-spirited in the political struggle. In such a political background, Chen Yangzhongju entered the civil official system of the Song Dynasty, and the first thing he faced was the intensifying partisan dispute. Written in the second year of Chongning (1103) of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, the Book of Music was written by Chen Yang who did not follow the trend and tended to follow the trend, but devoted himself to the study of ritual music. The Book of Music is also the world's first encyclopedia, more than 600 years earlier than the first European encyclopedia, the German Dictionary. "The General Catalogue of the Four Libraries: The Summary of Music Books" contains the "Music Book": "The music book of the Northern Song Dynasty is only "Huang You's New Music Illustrated Records" and this book are stored in the ear. "It's not a bad rating.
Traditional Chinese society attaches great importance to the culture of etiquette and music, Chen Xiangdao and Chen Yang, who were born in cloth clothes and have a poor family, have completed the "Book of Rites" and "Book of Music", which has established their position in the history of Chinese thought. (Su Jingqiang, Zhou Zhijie, Wentu).