Chastity Layman

  Chapter 661 Auspiciousness is present and sealed Mount Tai

  Tai Chi Palace, above the Golden Luan Hall.

  Ten stones three feet high and two feet in diameter were placed in the golden hall.

  The seemingly inconspicuous stone is shaped like a drum, and each of the granite stone surfaces is engraved with a four-character poem in seal script.

   "There are ten poems in total, totaling seven hundred and eighteen characters!"

  Academician Su Xu marveled at the seal characters on the stone drum, "It's like a piece of gold on the ground, and the grass is like a cloud. It doesn't bother you to trim it, and it has its own uniqueness."

  Yu Shinan, who is also a master of calligraphy, also watched for a long time.

"Your Majesty, these stone drum seal carvings are rigorous in words, profound in meaning, and difficult to read. The font is neither like official script nor like oracle bone inscriptions. Although it has been old for a long time, it is still as complete as new. The writing is vigorous and decisive, like a fast sword cutting a dragon. The same. The strokes are stretched and vivid, like a phoenix dancing lightly, or like immortals descending to the earth. The strokes are thin, hard and strong, criss-crossing, like corals and eucalyptus trees with overlapping branches, it is so beautiful!"

  Although both Su Xu and Yu Shinan are great calligraphers in the present age and are the most proficient in characters, they couldn't recognize these stone drum characters that were said to be popular in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties for a while.

   "Can't recognize it?" Li Shimin was also surprised.

  These stone drums were created on the day of the Shangyuan Festival in the fifth year of Zhenguan. The Sanzhiyuan in Chencang, Qizhou suddenly turned over, and the mountain cracked, revealing these ten stone drum-shaped granite stones with strange characters. Zheng Yuanxuan, the governor of Qizhou, recognized that this was the seal script used in the Zhou and Qin Dynasties. He felt that Qizhou was originally the land of ancient Qin, and now these relics of ancient Qin that had been buried for thousands of years suddenly appeared in the mountains of the land of ancient Qin. This is properly auspicious.

  God bestowed the auspiciousness on the emperor, Zheng Yuanxuan, the governor of Qizhou, immediately personally escorted these stone drums to Chang'an, offering auspicious congratulations.

"Your Majesty, I can be sure that the characters on the stone drum must be the big seal characters, but these big seal characters are similar to the 籀 characters recorded in Shuowen Jiezi, but the characters on the stone drum that I watch are not included in Shuowen Jiezi. above."

A group of well-educated people explained the character zhou to the emperor there. It is said that at the turn of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was a book called Shi Zhou Pian. It is said that it was written by Zhou Xuan Wang Tai Shi Zhen. book.

   This kind of legend is that King Xuan of Zhou wanted to show his country's prestige, so he asked Taishi Zhen to complicate the original Zhongdingwen characters into Zhenwen, which is also the predecessor of Xiaozhuan.

  The characteristics of these scripts are that the fonts are complex, square, and beautiful in strokes, but they are not image-like, breaking away from the pictographic function of ancient characters.

  After Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, they unified the script, and this kind of script was no longer used. Only one or two hundred ancient scripts were handed down in some ancient books.

   "To be precise, this is Zhuanwen, a type of seal script, and a variant of the seal script." Chu Liang, who is also a calligraphic character, said.

  Dazhuan is relative to Xiaozhuan from the Qin Dynasty, so Zhong Dingwen is Dazhuan, and the character is a font alienated from Zhongdingwen.

  Dazhuan is an important process in the development of Chinese characters, which makes Chinese characters break away from the original shape of the picture, lines and standardization, especially the basic structure of square characters.

  However, although both the big seal script and the small seal script are called seal scripts, there is a huge difference, especially the 籀 script, which is a variant of the big seal script, is neither pictographic nor pictorial, it is purely a new artificial symbol. Only one or two hundred characters have been handed down from generation to generation, and the people of Tang Dynasty did not know these characters long ago.

  But from his very standardized four-character sentence format, from those strokes, and these calligraphy, we all infer that this should be an engraved poem.

  Some people speculate that this should be the work of Zhou Xuanwang, and some people think that it may be the work before Qin unified the six kingdoms.

Ten stone drums, with more than 700 unrecognizable characters, made the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty stand around and look at them together. Of course, not all the emperors and ministers of the Tang Dynasty have the spirit of archaeology. In fact, because of the birth of these stone drums, Now an interesting thing happened.

Qizhou Inspector Zheng Yuanxuan sent the stone drum with the Chinese character "Zi" to the capital, and the whole world knew about it all the way, clamoring about the auspicious appearance of the world, praising the emperor for being so great, and by the way, he did not forget to publicize himself, which means that the stone drum with the Chinese character "Zi" appeared in his presence Qizhou under the rule must also express that God is very satisfied with him as a herdsman official, which is a manifestation of benevolent government.

  Xingyang Zheng's public relations ability is strong, and it is publicized everywhere.

Auspiciousness is something that rulers of all dynasties like. Even wild animals with albinism, such as white tigers, white bears, white snakes and white turtles, can be auspicious. If the crops grow better, they can also be called Jiahe auspicious. Of course, things have to be publicized.

   After all, auspiciousness represents the satisfaction of God. This is like a catastrophe, which represents a warning from the heavens and is dissatisfied with the heavens. Auspiciousness represents the satisfaction and praise of God.

  Under the leadership of the Zheng family, countless officials came up and flattered Li Shimin one after another, making Li Shimin groan in comfort, and it is said that he woke up laughing several times from his dreams.

  No way, since the Xuanwumen mutiny seized the throne, Li Shimin has also been under tremendous pressure, but the past few years have been very difficult, and now it is hard to destroy the Turks and descend to Tuyuhun.

  Among these voices of praise, a big man who had been silent for a long time also stood up and spoke out. This is Hejian County King Li Xiaogong.

  At the beginning of the founding of the country, the county king who formed a team with Li Jing and led the army to conquer the south, pacified the southeast half of the Tang Dynasty, was the most famous prince in the clan back then.

However, after the unification of the Tang Dynasty, the prince lost his military power. Before the change of Xuanwu Gate, Li Yuan took Li Xiaogong directly from the position of the governor of Yangzhou to Beijing for interrogation on the grounds of others’ accusation. Innocence, but because of this, he lost his status as a feudal official and could only shrink back in the capital.

After Li Shimin came to power, he was even more afraid of this very young cousin who was second only to him in fighting ability in the royal family. He kept on him. At the beginning of his succession, he even borrowed Qin Lang's hand to clean up Li Xiaogong's brother. Come on, come to scare the chickens to scare the monkeys, that is to say, from then on, Li Xiaogong understood and was persuaded.

  The Minister of Rites is no longer the Minister of Rites. She retired and returned home. At a young age, she spent all day repairing mansions, buying beauties, listening to songs and dancing, singing, drinking and having fun.

In the past few years, the mansion of Li Xiaogong's family has become more and more luxurious, and the beauties in the family have bought more and more. There are already more than a hundred concubines, and they are honest and no longer interfere with the government. Something out of the window.

  Li Shimin is naturally very satisfied with this interesting cousin, so when he selected Li Yuan as a hero to enjoy the Taimiao, he gave Li Xiaogong a place and became one of the six.

   From time to time, some rewards will be given.

  This year Li Xiaogong is forty years old. Uncharacteristically, this famous clan king actually made a memorial, which is not a secret memorial, but a public memorial.

  The content of this memorandum is also amazing. Li Xiaogong actually proposed to invite Li Shimin to enshrine Mount Tai.

  As soon as this memorial was published, countless officials who were still flattering and shouting auspiciously, immediately slapped their thighs hard.

  Look at the King of Hejian County, he is indeed a famous king of the clan.

  Feng Chan Taishan, he's so **** flattering.

  Conferring Zen to Mount Tai, this is a ceremony held by the Chinese emperors on Mount Tai to worship the gods and the earth. Ban Gu in the Han Dynasty once said that if the king is ordered and changes his surname, he will be granted the title of Mount Tai. Why? The meaning of teaching is also. When he was first ordered, the system was reformed to meet the heavens, and the world was peaceful, and things became Zen, so as to proclaim peace.

  The five classics generally say that the destiny of heaven is the king, so that all people can be born, and peace can be declared to the sky, and the merits of the gods can be repaid.

  Thus, those who are promoted will increase in height. The foundation of Zen Liang's father is broad and thick, and those who carve stone records can use their own achievements for self-efficacy.

The sky respects the height, and the earth regards the thickness as the virtue. Therefore, the height of Mount Tai is increased to repay the sky, and the site of Liang's father is attached to repay the earth. Thick ones are also thickened.

Since the beginning of China, the emperors who enshrined Zen on Mount Tai include Qin Shihuang, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty. Over the past dynasties, there have been many emperors who went to Mount Tai to offer sacrifices, but few were able to hold the ceremony of enshrining Zen, because there is no certain merit. .

   Feng Chan went to Mount Tai to talk directly to the heavens after he had made great achievements. If he didn’t have certain achievements, how could he have the face to face God.

  At least, the merits can be compared with Qin Huang, Han Wu and others, but there are several emperors who have this ability. Qin Huang was the first emperor, Han Wu was also a famous emperor who opened up territories, and Han Guangwu also made achievements in restoring the Han Dynasty and bringing about peace.

  The world generally agrees that two basic conditions must be fulfilled in order to consecrate Zen and Mount Tai. One is that the king is appointed and the surname is changed, that is, the founding of the country and the dynasty; With these two points, you are qualified to think about it, otherwise don't even think about it.

  Li Xiaogong didn't know whether it was because he drank too much wine at home, or he was tired of watching beautiful women singing and dancing. At this time, he proposed to let the emperor enshrine Mount Tai. Although it was a bit sudden, it made everyone in the court stunned.

  Why didn't they think of it.

   For an emperor, what excites them the most? Naturally it is Feng Chan Taishan.

  This is a grand event for the emperor, the most able to boast of achievements, and the most famous thing in history.

  Emperors like Li Shimin who had more self-control could hardly refuse such a temptation.

  Li Xiaogong asked for the Fengchan memorial. Although the emperor didn't agree immediately, he turned his head and used Li Xiaogong's meritorious service in founding the country as an excuse. His eldest son, Li Chongyi, was also immediately removed from the post of governor of Tongzhou, which is an important state in Kinki.

  The emperor's attitude can be said to be a little impatient.

  No one in the court knew that the emperor was moved.

   It's just that under this turbulent wave, the Zhengshitang is surprisingly calm.

  Even Prime Minister Fang Xuanling, who has always been the most sympathetic to the emperor's heart, didn't say a word, which made Li Shimin a little restless, so there was such an auspicious stone drum going to the Golden Palace today.

  (end of this chapter)