Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Dongyang City and Nanyang City are separated by the Nanyang River, and a Nanyang Bridge connects the two urban areas.This Nanyang Bridge is a wooden arch bridge with exquisite structure, flying across the banks like a rainbow, without a single supporting pillar under the bridge.

Wang Pizhi, a native of Linzi in the Song Dynasty, recorded in the "Mian Shui Yan Tan Lu": "Qingzhou City is surrounded by mountains in the southwest, and Yangshui (Nanyang River) runs through the middle, which is limited to two cities. In the past, pillars were planted across the water as bridges, and every six In July, the mountains and rivers are soaring, the water and the pillars are fighting, the bridge is often broken, and the state thinks that it is a disaster. In Ming Dao, Xia Yinggong (that is, Xia Song) guards the green, thinks to defend it, and will be imprisoned. , piled up boulders to solidify the bank, took dozens of big trees to connect them, and built a flying bridge without pillars. It has been more than [-] years and the bridge is not broken."

Before Xia Song, a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty, knew Qingzhou, the Nanyang Bridge was a bridge with wooden pillars and slabs.He invited a very wise retired prisoner to design and create a wooden arch bridge with a novel structure without wooden columns, which withstood the test of the flood.

Qingzhou Nanyang Bridge became famous because of this. Since then, there have been many wooden arch bridges imitating Qingzhou Nanyang Bridge all over the country in the Song Dynasty.

Because of the successful construction of the wooden arch flying bridge in Qingzhou City, it caused a sensation in Bianjing. Zeng Zhao, the younger brother of Zeng Gong, one of the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties", wrote "Records of Repairing Nanyang Bridge" for him, which was written by the great calligrapher Mi Fu and engraved on the stele. , Standing at the bridgehead to commemorate.

Chapter 171 The Lantern of Return Hall

After visiting Nanyang Bridge and admiring Mi Fu's calligraphy, Zhao Mingcheng and his wife took Ximenqing and his party westward out of Qingzhou City to the beautiful Pushuijian.

Pushuijian, also known as Shijingshui, originated in the mountainous area in the southwest of Qingzhou and is a tributary of Nanyang River.Guanggu City, the former Qingzhou government, is on the west bank of this waterfall.

It's a pity that Guanggu City was destroyed by Liu Yu's war against Nanyan in the Eastern Jin Dynasty during the period of Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms in the Two Jin Dynasties.Today, there are only a few ruins left for people to remember the style of this famous eastern city.

Downstream of the waterfall, there is a waterfall named "Stone Waterfall Ice Curtain", which is one of the ten scenic spots in Qingzhou.Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao brought Ximen Qing and others here.

Ximenqing stood in front of the waterfall and looked up, only to see that the "Stone Waterfall Ice Curtain" had three areas of stones, with a height of three or four feet.It is winter now, and the waterfall is not very big. It pours down from the stone on the top of the waterfall, like a piece of silk shining with silver light in the sun.

If a few days later, when the new wind blows and the snow falls, the entire waterfall will freeze and become a real ice curtain.

On the opposite side of the "Stone Waterfall Ice Curtain", there is a stone pavilion named "Fugong Pavilion", which is a good place to watch the waterfall.Zhao Mingcheng and his wife led Ximenqing and others into the stone pavilion, and they chatted while watching the waterfall.

Zhao Mingcheng told everyone that this "Fugong Pavilion" got its name from Fubi, a famous city in this dynasty.

Fu Bi once served in Qingzhou as the magistrate for two years.When he was in office, there was a drought in neighboring states, and a large number of victims flooded into Qingzhou.Fu Bi opened a warehouse to release grain, rescued hundreds of thousands of victims, and won the reputation of benevolent government among the people.

When Fu Bi left office, the people were grateful for his kindness, and built a stone pavilion named "Fu Gong Pavilion" at the place where he led the people to pray for rain beside the waterfall.

Afterwards, another famous minister, Fan Zhongyan, followed Fubi to Qingzhou, visited the Fugong Pavilion, and once wrote such a poem:

Digging open the Qisheng Cuiwei room, the car, riding, singing and singing have not returned at dusk.

Yan Guo is just like Xie Anshi, and he is Dongshan at that time.

After Zhao Mingcheng told everyone about the origin of the Fugong Pavilion, Li Qingzhao said that Fan Zhongyan also left a pavilion on the west side of Qingzhou City, and he can visit it later when he returns to Qingzhou.

It turned out that when Fan Zhongyan learned about Qingzhou, he also left a medicine for Qingzhou.

At that time, there was a kind of "pink eye disease" in Qingzhou, which was very popular, and there was no cure for it.Fan Zhongyan collected proven prescriptions everywhere, studied carefully with doctors, and made "Qingzhou Baiwan", which effectively cured pink eye disease.

The clear spring that prepared the pills was named "Liquan" by Fan Zhongyan.In order to commemorate Liquan's contribution to the treatment of pink eye, Fan Zhongyan also built a pavilion on Liquan.

Later, in order to commemorate Fan Zhongyan, people called the pavilion "Fan Gongting".

Zhao Mingcheng told Ximen Qing and the others that Ouyang Xiu had also known Qingzhou before, and had left some interesting anecdotes...

The magistrates of Qingzhou City are all famous and important ministers in the Northern Song Dynasty!After listening to Zhao Mingcheng and his wife's story, Ximen Qing secretly sighed in his heart.

After discussing with Xin Zan, Ximenqing realized that Qingzhou was the location of Luzhi on Jingdong East Road in the Song Dynasty, and it was an important town in the east of the Song Dynasty. Famous ministers and marshals have always served as the magistrate of Qingzhou.

Ximenqing thought to himself, no wonder the current governor of Qingzhou is Murong Yanda, and his sister is the imperial concubine of the current emperor Song Huizong.As a foreign relative, Murong Yanda was naturally an important minister in the eyes of Song Huizong.

In the area of ​​Shandong and Hebei, the Zhizhou of Gaotang Prefecture is Gao Lian, the uncle and brother of Taiwei Gaoqiu, and Liang Zhongshu, the son-in-law of Prime Minister Cai Jing, is left behind in the Daming Mansion in Beijing, but these two are not as noble as Song Huizong's wife and uncle Murong Yanda.

No wonder in history, after the defeat of "Double Whip" Hu Yanzhuo's attack on Liangshan, some nearby state capitals did not seek refuge, but traveled a long way to seek refuge with Murong Yanda.

This guy knew in his heart that as long as Murong Yanda was favored, Song Huizong would never hold him accountable for his defeat.

Ximenqing thought to himself, it seems that Qingzhou is a state capital that cannot be ignored around Yanggu County!After returning to Yanggu County this time, Lu Xiaoyi must ask Lu Xiaoyi to arrange more people to go to Qingzhou...

Everyone chatted by the side of the waterfall, enjoyed the "Stone Waterfall and Ice Curtain" waterfall for a while, and then set foot on their way back to Qingzhou City.On the way, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao led the crowd to Liquan, where they stayed for a while under the Fan Gong Pavilion.

Everyone traveled a lot today and returned with all their heart's content. By the time they got back to Qingzhou City, the sun had already set.

In the next few days, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao accompanied Ximenqing, Xin Zan, and Luan Tingyu to travel to places of interest and historical sites in various parts of Qingzhou, seeing the local customs and customs of Qingzhou.

Jiao Ting and Shi Yong didn't know a lot of Chinese characters, and they were really bored with those places of interest, inscriptions and stone carvings, so they separated from Ximen Qing and others, and went to the Goulan tile houses and gambling houses in Qingzhou City. To pass the time, and to be merry.

Lajin is back in spring, and the Lantern Festival is approaching, and it will be the Lantern Festival in three days. On the street, you can already see lantern sheds set up in front of every house, and various lanterns are being hung.The people in Qingzhou City are preparing for the Lantern Festival night and have a good time with their neighbors for a lantern competition!

On this day, Ximen Qing and the others did not go out to play, and they all watched Zhao Mingcheng direct his servants and hired craftsmen to build the lamp shed at the entrance of the hall of return.

Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao are worthy of being famous cultural figures in the Song Dynasty, but the lanterns they made are different.

Most of the other people make lanterns in the shape of various animals and flowers, or lanterns in the shape of some mythical characters.However, Zhao Mingcheng made some square colored lanterns, on which were drawn some precious inscriptions on gold and stone inscriptions that he had collected and researched.And Li Qingzhao also arranged for someone to make a few lanterns in the shape of palace lanterns, on which were some proud poems she wrote before.

Ximenqing has no interest in Zhao Mingcheng's inscriptions on inscriptions on inscriptions on inscriptions on inscriptions on inscriptions on stones.

So, he walked to Li Qingzhao's side and admired the several lanterns placed on the ground one by one.After all, he had read several poems by Li Qingzhao when he was studying, and Ximenqing wanted to see if he could find some more familiar poems.

"Crimson lips

Strike off the swing, get up and trim your hands.

Lu Nonghua is thin, light sweat and light clothes.

Visitors come to the store, and he is a golden banker.

He walked away in shame, leaned on the door and looked back, but sniffed the green plum. "

This poem seems to have been seen before, it should be written by Li Qingzhao when he was young!Seeing a more familiar poem, Ximenqing secretly laughed in his heart that Li Qingzhao must be an extremely narcissistic person to make the old poems into lanterns.

After walking two steps, Ximen Qing suddenly saw a palace lantern with a completely different style of poetry written on it:

"The wind and rain send spring back, and the snow welcomes spring.

It is a cliff with hundreds of feet of ice, and there are still flowers and branches.

Qiao does not fight for spring, but only reports spring.

When the mountain flowers are in full bloom, she laughs in the bushes. "

Huh!Isn't this an original poem by this official?

Chapter 172 A Beautiful Woman Came From Afar

When Ximenqing discovered that Li Qingzhao had also made his own poems into lanterns, he looked at Li Qingzhao in surprise.

Li Qingzhao blushed when he saw Ximen Qing looking at him, and then calmly ordered the craftsmen to hang up the lamps.

Ximenqing looked at it again. Among the palace lanterns made by Li Qingzhao, there were some poems by Tang people, as well as lyrics by Su Shi, Liu Yong and others.From this point of view, the words in his poem "Bu Suanzi? Yongmei" are not too abrupt.

While Ximen Qing and the others were watching the craftsmen putting up tents and hanging lamps, outside Qingzhou City, a few men on horseback entered Qingzhou City from the south gate with a carriage.

This carriage crossed the Nanyang Bridge, entered Dongyang City, and headed straight for the Hall of Return.After a while, it stopped outside the gate of Guilai Hall.