n Haidu Quan** reporter Wu Xuewei
The arrival of the Year of the Dragon is full of joy and anticipation. Of the 12 zodiac signs, the dragon is a special case. No one has ever seen a dragon, but it is alive in our hearts. This is thanks to the painters of the past generations, who have established a morphological paradigm for it step by step. Among them, Chen Rong, a famous calligrapher and painter in Changle in the Song Dynasty, is known as "the first person to paint dragons" in the history of ancient Chinese art. In fact, in Fujian, where the dragon is hidden, there are many well-known stories related to "dragons". Today, we are going to talk about those celebrities who are related to "dragons" in "Blessed Heaven and Blessed Land".
If you talk about the legend of the Min people and the dragon, the story of Yu Shan, the second son of the king of Dongyue, and the dragon is the most popular. Yu Shan once built a fishing dragon platform on Damiao Mountain, and legend has it that he once caught a white dragon, which made the area on the top of Longling in Damiao Mountain a blessed land of Taijiang River and Cangshan, and now you can still find "Fishing Dragon Terrace" and "Fishing Dragon Well" on Damiao Mountain, and also let the tributaries of the Minjiang River that flow through the vicinity become "Bailongjiang" and "Wulong River".
The aura brought by the double "dragon" river flow has been brought by the surrounding people, so that there are many "dragon" names and celebrities here. There is a "bamboo mountain house" in Longtan Corner of Cangshan, which is the residence of Zheng Zuyin, president of the Fujian branch of the Qing Dynasty Alliance, who participated in the Xinhai Revolution; Cangshan District Xiadu Street area was called "Denglongjing" in ancient times, the Ming Dynasty ** Chen Ji was in this place to log in to the "Dragon Gate", he once served as the Henan Provincial Supervision Imperial History, North Zhili Xuezheng, Shaanxi according to the inspection envoy, the title of Xuanfu Governor of the Imperial History, the right deputy capital of the Imperial History, a lifetime of official integrity, improve the salt law of the two Zhejiang, consolidate the border defense of Xuanfu (now northwest Hebei), and won the trust of Ming Xiaozong.
In addition, the most beloved celebrity in Longtanjiao is probably the "Mrs. Linshui" Chen Jinggu. Chen Jinggu was born on the fifteenth day of the first month of the first year of Tang Tianyou (904), and at the age of 13, he went to Lushan ** Courtyard (now South Taichungzhou) to learn the Tao, and three years later claimed to have obtained the "Lushan Righteous Law", and cast a spell in the area of Fuzhou Mansion to "subdue demons" and recruit **. According to "Jin Anyi Zhi": Yongfu (Yongtai) has a white snake that is harmful, ** Min Wanggong Palace, Phantom is the queen to confuse the king, Jinggu was invited to rate ** Shufu night around the palace, cut the snake for three sections. Therefore, the king of Min named Jinggu "Mrs. Linshui". Legend has it that in the second year of Tang Tiancheng (927), there was a great drought in Fuzhou, and the people of Fuzhou begged Jinggu to pray for rain, when Jinggu was pregnant, but she still went to Longtan (now in the middle of the Longtan Jiaojiang) to pray for rain and fight dragons, and unfortunately died when it rained heavily. When the King of Min heard the news, he specially named her "Zhaohui Chongfu Linshui Lady", so it became the Shinto of Fujian folk belief. Whenever she prayed for rain, drove away epidemics, slayed demons, saved births, and begged for heirs, everyone came to pray to her.
Longtan Jiao - Chen Jinggu praying for rain (data map).
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Chen Wenlong, a famous minister, was a well-known household name for his deeds of being honest and loyal to the country throughout his life. Lin Zexu praised him as an anti-Yuan hero who can "confront Wen Tianxiang". According to the relevant documents of the Fujian Provincial Archives, the Ming Emperor had three times enshrined Chen Wenlong as the "Shangshu of the Ministry of Water", so the people called Chen Wenlong "Shangshu Gong" and the shrine as the "Shangshu Temple", becoming the protector of river traffic safety with the Minjiang River basin as the main body. The belief about him spreads all over Fuzhou, among which Taijiang is the most, and there are three Shangshu temples in Wanshou, Longtan and Zhulin. From the beginning of the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty to the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Wenlong, as one of the three famous "sea gods" in Fuzhou, went to Ryukyu 14 times with Mazu and Nagong to accompany the "canonization mission" to protect the envoys of both sides to travel safely, and was admired and worshiped by the government and the opposition of the Ryukyu Kingdom. On August 28, 2007, "Fuzhou Chen Wenlong Belief and Folk Customs" was approved to be included in the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list of Fujian Province.
Located in the Shanghanghang Wanshou Bridge near the Chen Wenlong Shangshu Temple (Fujian Provincial Archives).
Yu Dayou, a famous anti-Japanese general in the Ming Dynasty who was called "Yu Long and Qi Hu" with Qi Jiguang, can be described as another celebrity in Fujian who is "as bold as a dragon". Yu Dayouming was born in Jinjiang, Fujian Province in the sixteenth year of Hongzhi (1503), and has been experienced in a hundred battles since he joined the government at the age of 32. According to Lu Zhiming and Liu Xinyi, experts of the Fujian Provincial Minnan Culture Research Association, since the Ming Dynasty, the Fujian Sea has not been quiet, and the Japanese have risen one after another. From the 41st to the 44th year of Jiajing (1562-1565), Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou entered Fujian several times to fight against the Japanese invaders. In February 1564, Qi Jiguang led the Qi army to pursue the Japanese to Tong'an Wang Cangping (now Longhai) and killed hundreds of enemies. In the autumn of 1565, the armies of Yu and Qi joined forces at the junction of Fujian and Guangdong, completely annihilating the main force of the Japanese invaders. Since then, Yu Dayou has made significant contributions to the stability of the southeast sea and frontier in order to basically calm down the Japanese invaders who have suffered for many years.
Portrait of Yu Dayou (data map).
In addition to the name "dragon", Fujian celebrities also "draw dragons". Chen Rong, a famous calligrapher and painter in Changle in the Song Dynasty, is known as "the first person to paint dragons" in the history of ancient Chinese art. He is not only a representative of the "good dragon painting" in the late Southern Song Dynasty, but also a model of dragon painting in later generations. "Nine Dragons" is Chen Rong's masterpiece, and art critics have called it "a precedent for the trinity of poetry, calligraphy and painting after the Kaiyuan Dynasty", and "all Chinese art history is a must-choose, no matter what kind of viewpoint or genre". Chen Rong paints dragons like to take advantage of the excitement after drinking, and uses the splash ink method to paint clouds and water strange stones, setting off the vigorous and vigorous, chasing tangled, haunting and looming dragons, with heavy ink, strong and spicy, with a strong sense of dynamic, physical and mysterious atmosphere. Later generations described his works as "clouds steaming and raining, the sky hanging down and the sea standing, soaring and pretentious, and the strange and sneaking". The hand-me-down works include the shaft of "Lin Yu Tu" and the volume of "Molong Tu", which are now in the Palace Museum; There is also a huge masterpiece "Cloud Dragon Picture" shaft, which is in the National Art Museum of China.
Chen Rong, "Cloud Dragon" (National Art Museum of China).
In Japan, for hundreds of years, most of the paintings with dragon motifs were modeled after Chen Rong. The famous Japanese painter Junsaku Koizumi once commented sincerely: "Chen Rong's dragon is charming, lively and beating like the real thing, only a genius can paint such a picture!" ”
Editor: Pan Pan.