I encountered this question a few days ago: What does the whole poem of “Tishuixi Temple” (returning to stay in three days) mean? How to appreciate it?

Foreword

There is nothing special about this poem, but this temple is not simple. Li Bai, Du Mu, Jiao Ran, Mei Yaochen, Lin Fu, and Fan Cheng all wrote about the Shuixi Temple in their poems. There was even an emperor poet who wrote a poem about Shuixi Temple.

The subject’s question comes from Du Mu’s “Tishuixi Temple”:

It takes three days to return to stay, and it is impossible to travel again in a lifetime. With love and clear water, go to the Cangong Building again.

In the second year of Kaicheng (838), Du Mu entered the curtain of Cui Dan, the observation envoy of Xuanhui, and was called to train the judge of the Xuanzhou regiment. At the end of the second year (839), Du Mu left Xuanzhou and returned to Chang’an. This poem can be seen as a short travelogue.

1. The Shuixi Temple written by Li Bai

Shuixi Temple was built in the Southern and Southern Dynasties During the Qiliang period, it was on the Shuixi Mountain in Xiwuli, Jingxian County, Anhui Province. There are three ancient temples of Chongqing, Baosheng and Baiyun on the mountain, collectively called Shuixi Temple. In the Song Dynasty, the Shuixi Twin Pagodas were built, which are currently the national key cultural relics protection units.

In the Tang and Song dynasties, many poets mentioned Shuixi Temple, and the most famous one was the poet Li Bai.

“Swimming in the West Jane Zhengming House” says:

Tiangong Shuixi Temple, Yunjin Zhao Dongguo. The clear turbulent roars back to the stream, and the green water circles the flying pavilion. The cool breeze is cool, and the quiet guests rest. Thinking of Diaoqiu in May, it is said that the autumn frost falls. Shi Luo attracts ancient vines, and shore bamboo shoots open new ones. Yin play empty complex love, Acacia Er’s masterpiece. Zheng Gong’s poet is beautiful, and the rhyme is magnificent. Why should you come to travel, let me enjoy the snowy mountains.

This poem by Li Bai is a long poem in ancient style, which expresses the meaning of the scene. Du Mu later mentioned Li Bai’s work in his poems.

​2. Shuixi Temple in the Emperor’s Poems

Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty Li Chen is a bumpy emperor who succeeded in counterattack. He is the thirteenth son of Tang Xianzong Li Chun and the half-brother of Tang Muzong Li Heng.

Tang Muzong had several sons, and Li Chen would never have been the emperor anyway. But Tang Muzong’s sons were not up to expectations, and the three brothers Tang Jingzong, Tang Wenzong, and Tang Wuzong all had short lives. As a result, after Tang Wuzong’s death, Li Chen was proclaimed emperor by eunuchs, and he also became the master of ZTE, known as “Little Taizong”.

When several of his nephews were emperors, he was repeatedly humiliated. In order to avoid trouble, he used to stay far away from Chang’an.

Here, he wrote a song “Shuixi Temple in Tijing County”:

< p>The main hall is connected to the clouds and the cool stream, and the bells are also in harmony with the drums. Changan Ruo asked about Jiangnan and said that the scenery is in the west of the water.

The most famous poem of this poet emperor is “Dang Bai Juyi”:

Sixty years of adorning jade and beads, who taught Minglu to write poetry. Floating clouds are not named Juyi, and the word for good fortune is inactive. The boy can sing the Song of Everlasting Sorrow, and the Huer can sing the pipa. The article is full of people’s ears, and for a time Siqing is stunned.

III. The Shuixi Temple written by Du Mu

Du Mu’s “Tishuixi Temple” is a five-character quatrain: Travel again.

Flat and flat. Yan save.

Du Mu visited here for three days, lingering on and wanting to go and stay, so there is a saying of “three days to go back to live”. To travel again in a lifetime is the uncertainty about the future, and I don’t know if there will be a chance to come back again in the future.

Many years later, in another poem, Du Mu recalled the visit to Shuixi Temple. . “One of the Three Songs of Remembrance in the Past”

Li Bai’s poem inscribed in Shuixi Temple, the ancient wood is in the style of Huiyan pavilion. Half awake and half drunk for three days, red and white flowers bloom in the mountains and rain.

Li Bai’s poem inscribed on Shuixi Temple is Li Bai’s “Swimming in the West Jane Zhengming House” mentioned above. Half awake and half drunk for three days, he said that he had visited here for three days and was intoxicated by the beauty here. The red and white flowers bloom in the mountains and rain, and it can be seen that the time of the visit should be in spring.

With love and clear water, go to the Cangong Building again.

The water of the stream is full of love, and the water is flat and flat. This is a variation of the flat and flat, which is called Koi Fanbo. Go up to the Cangong Building again, the middle is flat, the normal sentence and sentence pattern.

Du Mu’s two sentences are very similar to Li Bai’s two sentences: Stream, green water around the flying pavilion.

But Du Mu’s poems tend to be about intercession, not scenes. The last two sentences are reversed, and there are also love words in Jing Yu. The poet climbed up the Cangong Building and saw the Bixi water, which was full of love and could not bear to run away.

Cangong Building, generally refers to the building that Wang Can climbed in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, in Dangyang County, Hubei Province. Li Shan’s note quoted Sheng Hongzhi’s “Jingzhou Ji” as saying: “Dangyang County City Tower, Wang Zhongxuan ascended it and made a fu.”

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However, the Cangong Building in this poem refers to the building in Shuixi Temple. “One of the Three Songs of Remembrance in the Past” also mentioned “Gumu Huiyan”The style of the pavilion”. Cangong, is a high-ranking monk in the Sui Dynasty and one of the “Three Patriarchs of Zen”.

Four. The second year after writing this poem, he returned to Chang’an in 839. After the second year (840), Emperor Wuzong of Tang succeeded to the throne, an emperor famous for destroying Buddhas. In the fifth year of Huichang (845), seven In that month, Emperor Wuzong of Tang ordered the extermination of the Buddha:

More than 4,600 temples were demolished in the world, 265,000 monks and nuns were returned to the world, two tax households were collected, and more than 40,000 dykes and Lanruo were demolished. So. “Old Tang Book”

Tang Wuzong died in the second year, and the uncle Li Chen who once hid in Shuixi Temple was the one who succeeded the throne. It was Tang Xuanzong.

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The emperor hated his dead nephew so much that he ordered the revival of Buddhism after he ascended the throne. During the Buddhist movement, the Shuixi Temple was also destroyed. After Tang Xuanzong ascended the throne, was the Shuixi Temple rebuilt again?

From historical records, at least in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Shuixi Temple was rebuilt. The West Temple is in ruins.

After the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, during the period of Taiping Xingguo, a monk Chu Yuan led dozens of disciples to build a house at the site of Shuixi Temple and rebuild the Wusong Courtyard. At that time, Emperor Taizong of the Song Dynasty Zhao Guangyi also gave Three axes of royal seal. In the fifth year (1082) of Yuanfeng, Emperor Shenzong of Song Dynasty, the edict was changed to “Fengguo Baosheng Temple”. After the Yuan Dynasty, it was renamed Baosheng Temple.

Concluding remarks

As a person living in Qingdao, the most regrettable thing is that our landscape here lacks the influence of Tang poetry and Song poetry. After searching all over the Tang poetry, there is only one The first Li Bai’s:

I used to eat Zixia in Laoshan in the East Sea. I met An Qigong in person, and the jujube was as big as a melon. “Meng Darong from Wangwu Mountain”

It’s a pity that it was Li Bai Just a casual mention when writing to others.

Seeing an inconspicuous Shuixi Temple with so many poetic records of everyone from the Tang and Song Dynasties, I can’t help but envy.