Song Xiang (1757 ~ 1826), as a famous poet, calligrapher and educator in the mid-Qing Dynasty, has a long history with Huizhou Hufeng Academy because of the spread of his poems "Hufeng Fangcao Lush", "Five Poems of West Lake" and "Zou Lugu, Small Mountains and Rivers". This article starts from here. Song Xiang, a native of Jiayingfu (now Meixian), graduated from Guangzhou Yuexiu College at the age of 27. In the college, Song Xiang, with quick thinking, quickly stood out among his classmates. "Every class of art is posted on the wall of the classroom, and the students are surprised and think it is ancient humanities", which has won the reputation of "excellent writing" for teachers and students. However, due to lack of resources, Song Xiang still needs to sell literature to support his classmates after school, and his business is quite prosperous. The paper that asks him to write a composition is often filled with tables and chairs. However, romantic Song Xiang was not satisfied with food and clothing. His habit of "a romantic genius" is revealed from time to time, and he often goes in and out of Gelou pub. He once said in the third and fourth poems of "Seven Memories of Teenagers" that the ups and downs in the literary world are strong in ten years and frustrated in the middle. There is no stone to accompany Liu Yi at home. Whenever he is free, he is like Li Yang. It's hard to be imprisoned for killing tigers. A week is a good thing. Life wine market building often sits alone, go out and lose ht autumn!

2. Making friends with poets and painters in Guangzhou, I met poets and poets such as Huang Danshu, (Er Qiao), Zheng Bingchang, Li, Zhang Weiping, Yin, Chen Tan, Lu Jian, Lv Xiang, Ye Menglong and Feng. Especially Huang, Zheng He and Li.

Huang Danshu, whose word was granted by the imperial court, is called Virtual Boat. He is from Shunde and is good at calligraphy, painting and especially poetry. Together with Zhang Jinfang, Li Jian and Lu Jian, he is also known as the "Four Lingnan Schools", and has written Poems of Hongxuezhai and Walnut Zhai. Zheng Bingchang, born in Guo, was born in Xiangshan. Later, he worked as a school instructor in Chenghai County, making poems and paintings, and wrote "Series of Pavilion Legacies". I lived in the Zheng family for two years and went to school with him. After Song left Zheng Jia, he was a guest of Guangdong scholar Chen Guisen. In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong (1792), Zheng Bingchang rented a house in Guangzhou, lived with Song Xiang and prepared to take the exam together. That year, after having obtained the provincial examination, the examiner was Chu (No.1 Art Garden), with the title "Seal of the Wheel of the Catalpa Craftsman" and the poem "Blessing a Feather with the Wind". As a result, Song Xiang Senior High School won the title of "First Prize in the Province". As soon as he boarded the Dragon Gate, he wrote two poems to express his thoughts and notes: "Rotary goes out to sea, and the sunset is 100 feet high." There is a tiger soul in the sky, and there are fruit feathers on the road. Ten years around the lamp, to see the brocade robe. The voice was boiling, and He Deyu called Hao. ""Longmen forehead two points, blue fifteen years. Only this three broken, dare to boast not empty string. Great men are full of ambition. A He Zudao is a little comforting. "This is Song Xiang's earliest poem, in addition to the" Trial Post Poetry ",there is also a daily expectation test. Look at his personal letter, it's not in the poem. When Song Xiang quit his studies and returned to his hometown, Li Jian wrote a poem to see him off: "Take your time, take a short boat, forget the beautiful scenery and go home instead of doing evil. ".Bamboo rain pool pavilion medicine continent stone, plum butterfly magu clothes. The window chicken star rises first, and the wind flies away forever. Disciple Donnan today, last year, the snow in the north reached Menxi. "(in memory of Song Xiaolian's Wan Zhi) Song Xiang was also impressed by Li Jian. Song also met the poet Li. Jian 'an, whose name is Jushui, is from Xiangshan, and once studied under Zheng. When Huang and Song saw his poems, they were surprised and they made friends. Later, he was a tribute student in Jiaqing, and he wrote Yuan Shao's Poems and the Complete Works of Rong 'an Hall. I became friends with Li in Guangzhou in my later years. Lizi Zuoting, a native of Yaoshan, Nanhai, belongs to Gong Sheng, and is good at painting bamboo, and is the author of Draft of Spring Rain House. Make friends with Song Xiang. Ming Sheng once painted bamboo to send to Hunan, and said in a poem, "Cool T moves Cui Yun, and clouds and smoke recall ten years. "The beams of the house fall on the moon, and stay open-minded to the old friends." There is also a "leave a gift" epigram "kudzu needs a sword in the world, and the wind and rain are deep in the heart."

Third, return to your alma mater.

In the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803), 48-year-old Song Xiang returned to Yuexiu College and presided over the teaching as an open dean. It turns out that there is another candidate for the post of provost-Jiangxi scholar Tang Fan, who was hired by the Governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. But when Tang arrived in Guangzhou, Hu had left his post, and the new governors Wu Shibu and Sun Yuting had no friendship with Tang Su, so they ignored him. In a rage, Tang left. Therefore, the authorities extended Song Xiang, who had been idle at that time, to this post. Song Xiang lectured at Yuexiu College for two years, and it was not until the winter of Jiaqing's ninth year (1804) that he resigned from the capital.

In the past two years, he has worked day and night to contribute to the development of education in Guangzhou. He is well aware of the suffering of "cold window", so he pays special attention to poor students and enjoys high prestige among them. Meizhou villagers are even more competitive, and from the perspective of scholars, quadrangles are intolerable. Since then, Meizhou's style of writing has been gradually strengthened, and scholars have come forth in large numbers. It is generally recognized that "Mr. Zhao Shi is the reason why Cheng Xiang's ancestors became fashionable, and later Master Li Xiuzi (Li Yuping) inherited him." In those days, he gave lectures at Yuexiu Academy, and it happened that Feng was also the host of Yuehua Academy. The two academies were only one kilometer apart, so they walked together and talked about learning. After Feng's death, his master brought Feng's poems to Beijing, and asked Weng Fanggang, Wu, Chen Shouqi and others in Beijing to carefully select them, and got more than 400 poems, that is, the poems of Xiaoluofu Caotang handed down from generation to generation. Xiangshufang is located in Shangcun Village, Fengdeling Town, Dongguan City. It was built in the 52nd year of Qing Qianlong (1786) by Zhang Chaoqun, the 17th ancestor of Shangcun family, and his daughter. During War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, the underground party in China held a training class in the Xiexiang Library and founded the Xiexiang Girls' School, a key cultural relic protection unit in Dongguan. The study faces south, with a width of 19.86 m, a total depth of 20.09 m and a building area of 399 square meters. The facade is three rooms, with a width of12m and a depth of two rooms. It has a hard mountain peak, a gray tile and a dragon boat with a gray plastic ridge. The threshold is Song Xiang's title "Xiang Shu Shi". "Four Classics Hall" plaque on the beam of Golden Bell Hall; The back hall is equipped with a long platform with a height of1.25m.. The eaves of the whole study room. Gables are decorated with flower-and-bird painting rooms, or painted or gray plastic. In 2004, Dongguan Municipal People's Government announced it as a cultural relic protection unit.

Residents are Hakkas, mainly from Fujian and Meizhou, Guangdong. The founder of the library is Zhang Chaoqun of Fenggang Shangcun. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty, Song Xiang, a talented Guangdong scholar, gave lectures in the library. There are many houses around the study room.

Xiang Shu House has a close relationship with Song Xiang. Dating back to the middle of Qianlong period, about 1782, only the surviving advocates (Zhang, whose word was fashionable, was born in Qianlong period, that is, 1753, when Rulinlang was the chief secretary) did business in Guangzhou, met him, and found him knowledgeable, so he recruited him back to his hometown and later hired him as a teacher in the library. According to legend, at the beginning of the opening of the museum, Song Xiang displayed an advertisement that read "Opening Today". When the villagers saw it, they all covered their mouths and smiled. Song Xiang was not annoyed or angry, but only wrote "Today, he opened a grocer in Nishan, and others entrusted a cheap museum to recruit talents from all over the world". These twenty words are magnificent and free and easy in Gu Zhuo, and they are all amazed at it. Since then, Xiangku has been compiled and the students are enthusiastic.

Song Xiang, known as the "wizard of couplets", once wrote a couplet for the Tianhou Palace in Shangcun: "Thanks to the gods of the Great Temple, the people in Shangcun are safe." In addition, there are couplets such as "Happiness never comes to this day, but misfortune never comes alone last night", which are very popular in the local area.

Song Xiang has been teaching in Shangcun for many years. He studies hard while teaching. Seeing that he was intelligent and knowledgeable and unwilling to delay his career, Zhang sponsored him to go to South Australia for further study. After that, he was the first person in Guangdong and the eleventh scholar, and Song Xiang had an open career.

Brick House has an indissoluble bond with Song Xiang. But Zhu Ke Zhang, a little-known scholar, is far-sighted, enthusiastic about public welfare and advocating culture. His grandson, Zhang Ying, should carry forward his father's virtue, be discerning and knowledgeable, employ famous teachers to cultivate talents, and be helpful to others, which will always be worthy of future generations' admiration. First, write about Dongpo's life. If you know the West Lake, you already know the officials in Huizhou.

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Hu Feng Academy was built by Yi Bingshou. The remains of Hufeng Academy of Huizhou University are all from the Yi Bingshou era. In fact, the existing couplets of "Zou Lu, a small landscape with ancient humanity" were written by Song Xiang for the Second Gate of Hufeng Academy. The couplets on the gate of Hu Feng Academy were inscribed by Yi Bingshou, saying, "Learn to be excellent, be an official, and be knowledgeable." After the restoration of Hu Feng Academy, Yi Bingshou invited the famous poet Song Xiang to preside over Hu Feng Academy.

He also worked out the rules and regulations of Hu Feng College with Song Xiang. Song Xiang's poetry anthology includes a volume of "Feng Hu Cao" and a volume of "Feng Hu Hou Cao", both of which were written by him during his two years in Ren Shan College. During his stay in Hufeng Academy, Song Xiang loved Huizhou landscape. From his poems, we can see a very charming Hu Feng and an equally charming academy: endless open water, a quiet courtyard, cool breeze and bright moon, reeds in autumn in Chun Lv, which is a charming picture.

Second, take a walk. Don Juan Village happily wrote Night in Don Juan Village. Song Xiang visited yongfu temple, and the monks admired his talent and asked him to be Mo Bao. He happily wrote yongfu temple; He walked in Don Juan village. When he saw the smoke curling from the kitchen stove and the shepherd boy coming home, he painted a Huizhou farmhouse with a poem: "Tung leaves and Ficus microcarpa leaves set each other off, and bamboo chickens and water chickens crow in spring." I am greedy to see cows riding water, and I don't feel the bell ringing in the distant temple. "(see Don Juan Village Night); Song Xiang lives in Hufeng Academy, which is accompanied by the lake every day, and has a special liking for the West Lake. He wrote "Ten Lakes", and the following is an excerpt: "Sprinkle the wind of two lakes, and the mountain is full of Erythrina. Kapok blows like floc, butterflies scatter like awnings. Wild bamboo shoots wear white fences, and river fish have a net name. The whole city is on the mound, on the west and east of the water. "This newspaper once introduced Huizhou Talent Jiang's Nine Best Poems of Huizhou West Lake (5th edition of Dongjiang Times on March 29th, 2008). As early as 76 years before Jiang wrote the West Lake Acura, he had written 10 West Lake Acura, including one. If Dongpo solves the West Lake music, it will solve the problem of official residence in Huizhou. " Song Xiang lived in Huizhou for two years and wrote 195 poems, with an average of nearly 100 poems a year. His poems in Huizhou include Hu Feng Hu Cao and Hu Feng Hu Cao. Besides Su Shi, Tang Geng and Jinshi, he is another poet who can compile Hui's works. 1. Yunnan is the most respected and praised in 13 for being an honest official.

Song Xiang used to be the magistrate of Qujing, Yunnan, and worked in Yunnan 13. During this period, he served as a magistrate's agent in Guangnan, Yongchang, Dali, Shunning, Chuxiong, Silverstream and Yin Nan. In Yunnan, he is honest and honest, diligent and close to the people, and often encourages himself to "work with the people", encourages the people to be diligent in farming and animal husbandry, and spends most of his salary on setting up local public welfare undertakings.

Second, the people have no clothes to wear, buy spinning wheels and let their wives teach women to spin. When they first arrived in Qujing, there were victims everywhere after the local flood. Song Xiang actively led the local people to build cities to control water, and soon subdued the flood, and the affected people were resettled. Later, when I arrived at Malong House, I saw that the local border people could not spin and weave, and they had no clothes to wear. So I bought 500 new spinning wheels and a batch of kapok, and asked my wife Suyun Wang to teach women to spin. The woven cloth is called "Song Announcement" by local people. When he was in Guangnan Prefecture, he saw that people had difficulty in using water. He donated money and personally surveyed the water source, dug two ponds in the east and west, and brought water into the city for the people to drink. When he replaced Daixi Daoyin, famine and plague prevailed in his area. He donated money to support the people and organized them to help themselves. He also bought three stone pine nuts to guide the people to plant trees and make the originally bare Diancang Mountain green. He personally went to Cuifeng Mountain to plant a pine tree called "Taishou Forest". In the Zhongnan Flower Hall in Dali, Yunnan Province, there is a simple and solemn marble tablet —— The Poem Tablet of Planting Pines inscribed by Song Xiang, which records the history of organizing and mobilizing the masses to plant trees during his tenure. There is "a cinnabar, a tripod seal, a pine nut and a pine tree" in the monument. When will I buy another 3,000 stones and plant nineteen peaks in the clouds? When I was in Yongchang Mansion, I saw that the county middle school was in disrepair, so I donated 170 to repair the academy, which made the cultural and educational undertakings flourish.

Third, both civilian and military forces can capture the bandit leader alive and stabilize the order of one side. Song Xiang has not only culture, but also military skills. When Ren Yongchang was a satrap, Wandian Yidi, who was a satrap, died, leaving no heirs. The toast king took the opportunity to usurp the throne in the east and wanted to gather more than a thousand people to threaten to attack Yongchang City. Song Xiang learned that while organizing villagers to practise, he sent people to sneak into Wandian. After careful planning, Song Xiang led the township group to raid the Tusi yamen, captured the bandits in the east, and stabilized the order of one party.

Berlin, governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, saw Song Xiang's outstanding achievements, praised him as a virtuous minister and strongly recommended him to the court. In the fifth year of Daoguang (1825), Song Xiang was promoted to Governor of Hubei. He was 7 1 year old when he was critically ill the next year. Because most of Song Xiang's income was donated to public welfare undertakings, his family was surrounded by walls, and he had little savings when he died, but his poems and songs were very rich in Mo Bao, which was really rare among bureaucrats in the Qing Dynasty. The local people were very grateful to Song Xiang for his kindness and built a shrine for its statue. In Yunnan Dali Library, there is such an evaluation: "Song Xiang is the most respected and praised one among the mainlanders who have come to Yunnan since the Ming and Qing Dynasties."

Fourth, poetry praises the mountains and rivers of Yunnan, and I write poetry everywhere.

Song Xiang is not only a diligent and honest official, but also a poet and calligrapher with excellent poems and books. Guangxu's "Yunnan Tongzhi" volume 139 "Biography" describes: "Xiang talent is generous, books and books can be written, and poetry is especially fast. Everything he does is called a real genius. Officials in the past dynasties all had political achievements, and their political achievements were particularly high. It is very interesting to inherit Shilin so far. " In his spare time, he is good at writing poems. Wherever he goes, he often pays attention to local famous mountains and rivers or beautiful scenery. Later, Song Xiang compiled his poems in Yunnan into "Yunnan Hoof Collection", with three volumes 157. These poems describe Song Xiang's whereabouts and heart in Yunnan, as well as his profound friendship with the local people, and express his feelings for Yunnan.

"Today's Horseshoe Tread on Yunnan Mountain"

In the autumn of the 18th year of Jiaqing (18 13), Song Xiang became the magistrate of Qujing, Yunnan. He went all the way south, abandoned the boat and boarded the bus, crossed Anshun, left Panxian County, and finally arrived at the scenic spot at the junction of Guizhou and Yunnan in an afternoon. Song Xiang and his party rested on the ridge next to the wooden archway in Guan Jie. When he looked up at the vast mountains around him, he couldn't help feeling ups and downs and was filled with emotion. On the wall of the post station, he wrote a poem entitled "The Scenic Wall in South Yunnan":

Horseshoe stepped on Yunnan Mountain today, and the mountain is on the edge of Gankun.

The stone altar made in Han dynasty is resplendent and magnificent, and the Buddhist bell tower is full of ancestral Zen.

Six letters to open up wasteland, and the Central Plains in Daoli recognized the war.

Looking back on ten years, the incense table is straight and the sleeves are full of smoke.

This poem describes Song Xiang's mood when he passed by Shengjingguan. The first two sentences are vigorous and magnificent, extending the sight to the distant mountains at once, adding infinite vitality to Xiao Ji's wilderness and making people fascinated. The following couplets and necklaces highly summarize the close political, economic and cultural ties between Yunnan and the Central Plains since the Han and Tang Dynasties. Summarize the sentences and recall my feelings when I was working in Beijing.

According to historical records, after Song Xiang arrived in Qujing, the local area suffered a serious flood. At the beginning of his tenure, Song Xiang took the lead in leading the people in disaster relief. Through measures such as flood control, embankment construction, road construction and city replenishment, he managed floods, making the local economy advance by leaps and bounds, and achieved well-known results in a short time: "... people in the county told me that the valley has increased by 10,000 this year, fish and turtles have become crops, and Hongbo has eliminated wasteland; In this desolate state of Malone, men and women can't draw a clear line, so you can be kind to your mother. Women advise you with their hands that 500 new spinning wheels can be woven and dyed again. Isn't it fun to smell it? One hundred wishes, how difficult it is to save people, save the trapped first. How was the trip? Only one inch away. " (See Song Xiang's Collection of Points, Volume I, Four Songs of Guangnan Road, Part III). Song Xiang's performance in Qujing was praised by the Governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, Berlin.

"I write poetry everywhere."

In the summer of the 19th year of Jiaqing (18 14), Song Xiang went to Kunming to report on his work. In the meantime, he visited Daguanlou, Black Dragon Pool, Xishan and other scenic spots successively, and was moved by these beautiful natural scenery, so he improvised a poem. Look at Two Poems on the Wall of Daguanlou in Kunming Pool;

I write poems everywhere in Jiangshan, and the situation is to go upstairs and have a look.

No one has really seen Dianchi Lake since the water was heard by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

Biji Golden Horse is in the loess today, and Zhao Duan is an ancient chess player.

I want to sing 300 bamboo sticks and spread them all over the world like riding an elephant and wearing flowers.

Empty waves light into the glass, and strong winds surround the body.

Ling Du's eyes lost their flag, and the clouds were too deep to close.

Wan Li's stars are near the North Pole, and a hundred years of vegetation go to Chuntai.

Look at the mountains and rivers in the area, which are mighty in Penghu and Yue Hui.

These two poems are both about scenery. Facing the picturesque landscape in front of me, the author evokes a review and nostalgia for history, is full of high spirits and soars in the sky, and also shows his ambition to make contributions. Legend has it that Song Xiang was unfinished at that time and was invited to write "Qian Qiu embraced three glasses of wine;" Wan Yishui Building. This couplet is in the same strain as the above two poems in conception and brings out the best in artistic conception. Nostalgia for the past, lyricism, metaphor and phrasing form a beautiful couplet, expressing the author's broad-minded optimism.

Five years later, in the spring of the 24th year of Jiaqing (18 19), Song Xiang returned to Kunming from Beijing and revisited the Daguanlou, inscribed "Two Stories of Daguanlou in Spring":

Chunyun lives upstairs and flies, and the spring water in front of the building is green and fat.

Where are you shaking your head? The wine is endless and drunk.

Visiting immortals on three islands is a dream, and fishing in five lakes is also a minority.

The stadium general is old, and no one talks about the snow in Tianshan Mountain.

Lake Flower Lake Liu Rushi, the world is full of spring.

Good water is seen from the beginning to the end, and mountains are surrounded from ancient times to the present.

Being a guest for a hundred years is like giving it away, but I go upstairs every day and don't come back.

Don't spread RoyceWong and this song, for fear of teaching wanderers to shed tears on their skirts.

In addition to admiring the beautiful scenery of Dianchi Lake, the poem lacks the high spirits of the past, and it is more nostalgic, implying the feeling that Song Xiang could not repay his old feelings and ambitions in his later years. These two verses and the first two sentences seem to be handy, and the language is fresh and beautiful, which adds a lot of artistic charm to the whole poem. Song Xiang's four or seven rhythmic poems, written during his two visits to Daguanlou, have reached a high level in artistic conception, poetic artistic features, words used in quotations, neat antithesis, phonological rhythm and so on, and have been praised by later generations for many years. Moreover, it is rare to preserve three works of a poet in the same scenic spot, which shows that it has aesthetic value that cannot be underestimated.

"When can I see plum trees in spring?"

Kunming, the city of spring, has four seasons like spring. There are not only many places of interest here, but also many famous exotic flowers and plants. It is a favorite leisure place for literati and poets in past dynasties. Song Xiang crossed Kunming many times. In his spare time on business trip, he once visited nearby scenic spots. Whenever he feels something, he writes a poem on the wall to express his feelings. Please read "Visiting Longquan Gumei alone in early summer, writing poems and returning":

I saw plum trees by the spring. Legend has it that they were colonized by the Tang Dynasty. Wind and thunder battle, a strong man is old, and a general is sleepy. Bai Yu, towering high into the sky, is low around the ground of Qin. White destroys rotten bones and poor skin. In spring, flowers bloom as big as lights, and the king comes down from the clouds. The ancient incense covers the sky and the blue room is fresh. The stone intestine of a beauty is a green iron liver, which contains an eternal acacia soul. Where is this sweet feeling? Full of branches and empty doors. What can I say about the guest's heart? Worried about the explosion for Guan Wanli. The barren hills and wild waters are nothing but skin and bones, and the misty rain is stained with clothes. There are few wild trips, and the dream is long away from Luofu Village. What's the size of the east corner scarf? Hand-written Xishan chatting about the sunset clouds. Green shoes, cloth and socks are ancient, and the heart should discuss with Lin Bu. Looking up at the sky and the moon, the flowers on the poem wall answered.

The first half of this seven-character ancient poem tells the origin of Tang Mei, a white pine on the Black Dragon Pool, and highlights the extraordinary charm of plum blossoms after being attacked and honed by wind, frost, rain and snow. The author vividly depicts Gu Mei's tall and unyielding autumn song character and the bright and moving charm of plum blossoms when spring comes, eulogizing Gu Mei's indomitable image. The second half expresses the poet's carefree days of enjoying flowers at the foot of Luofu Mountain in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, and his homesickness is vividly on the paper. The last two sentences push the idea of the whole poem to the extreme, which is thought-provoking and won't get tired of reading it for a long time.

Later, when Song Xiang's good friend Sha Chen (whose real name is Xianru, Xuehu, a native of Dali, Gan Long, was once a magistrate of a county, and wrote Poems of Diancang Mountain People) visited the Black Dragon Pool, he saw Song Xiang's poem on the wall and wrote a chorus poem "Black Dragon Pool is full of old plum blossoms, feeling nostalgic, keeping rhyme second with the wall" (see Poems of Diancang Mountain People).

"Yunnan camellia is also blurred"

Yunnan is known as "Camellia is the best in the world", and look at the poem about Camellia written by Song Xiang when he visited Yun 'an Temple in Xishan, Kunming:

There is nothing unusual about camellia in the world, and camellia in Yunnan is also confusing. When I was admitted to the hospital, I suddenly saw this book, Kyushu Kongchun! High fire umbrella, low mani; Ruby, purple mud; A hundred thousand stoves, an army. The sun does not dare to come out, and the moon does not dare to peep; Zhu Xia sky, lightning Qi Fei. What was planted in what year? Flowers and leaves are not everywhere, but thin flames still cross. Only in this way can the two instruments be independent. The world has a saying, the country is few, and the trees are really a group. Whoo-hoo! Plant a thousand flowers, see a thousand flowers and drink a thousand bowls of wine. Didn't you see Liu Ling wave at Li Bai, and the people in Yun 'an Temple wrote poems?

In this poem, Song Xiang used exaggerated expression, and the first two sentences highlighted the context of "cloud tea is the best in the world", which made it reach a beautiful position. Then, the author enthusiastically praised the tall tea trees, beautiful camellias and colorful images of Yun 'an Temple. When the poet praised the spectacular, rich and splendid scene of camellia, he did not forget to uphold justice for Han Yu, and could not help but shout out the voice of "true trees" and oppose those villains who framed Zhong Liang. The whole poem is full of pen and ink, vivid in image, lively in rhythm, vigorous in rhyme, high in emotion and rich in artistic conception. At that time, the famous poet Wu (Zi Zishan, No.,1767, a native of Dongxiang, Jiangxi Province, served as a cabinet secretary during Jiaqing's reign) read the poem and sincerely admired: "The camellia in Dingguang Temple (that is, Yun 'an Temple) was completely struck by lightning, and the flowers were filled with thousands of lakes of wine, so drunk as a bucket. Who can resist the hand of Taibaizi? " (See Complete Works of Su Xiang Mountain Pavilion, Volume 12).

In the spring of the 24th year of Jiaqing (18 19), Song Xiang revisited Yun 'an Temple after five years, hoping to appreciate the beautiful scenery of camellia in full bloom. When he stood in front of the tea tree, he noticed the camellia and was fascinated. He wrote "Re-titled Two Camellia in Yun 'an Temple" and praised Camellia. The second is:

The immortal was neither drunk nor awake. Last night, the East Emperor sacrificed to heaven.

The road is really a lion country, and the wind is long and peony is spring.

In my dream, crayons convey the message of celebrities, while Zhu Bantian is different.

No wonder peaches and plums are smiling outside. This flower is full of courage.

At that time, it was said that camellia was imported from overseas to Yunnan, which Song Xiang questioned and denied. Yunnan camellia is originally local, how can it be said that it is foreign? It is wrong to belittle the existence of camellia in Yunnan like peony. The camellia here is bright and dazzling, just like Jiang Yan, with brilliant pixels and noble morality! Finally, in the fiery atmosphere of Camellia, the author got spiritual comfort, and a deep affection for beautiful things rose from the bottom of my heart. The greatest feature of this poem is that it makes good use of anthropomorphic expression, and the quoted language seems handy but natural and skillful, without any trace of axe and chisel. It is a masterpiece of the Seven Laws with high artistic taste. No wonder Song Xiang's fellow countryman friend Huang Zhao praised this poem in "Reading Poems to Huatang": "After reading a thousand balls, Zhu Liang will spend half a day."

"Who am I?" Song Xiang once wrote such a poem: "In the past ten years, I have forgotten this Chang 'an, read all the splendor and endured all the coldness. Whoever I am must be me, and real poetry should not be seen by outsiders. "Whether he is an official, a writer or a poet, he does it with a sincere heart; No matter how big the official is, he maintains his "true self" and is not covered by clouds. During Song Xiang's three years in Yunnan as an official/kloc-0, "share weal and woe with the people" was his motto. Wherever he went, he went deep into reality, investigated and studied, sympathized with the people's feelings, and purposefully solved first-hand problems for the local people. He has done a lot of good things for the local people, such as fighting disasters, finding rich roads, eliminating villains, promoting culture and education, donating money, and writing poems ... He is dedicated to the public regardless of personal gains and losses. "Gains and losses for a thousand years are in my heart." Records of Dali Library in Yunnan, Biography of the Qing Dynasty, Guangdong Annals and Jiaying County Records all record that Song Xiang has always lived a simple life and spent most of his salary on revitalizing local public welfare undertakings. People really admire and miss him.

When Song Xiang left Yunnan, there was a long line of people to see him off. People also spontaneously raised funds to build temples and monuments in his place of work. Song Xiang lived a clean life. In the sixth year of Daoguang (1826), he died in Hubei on December 25th and had no money for burial. It was the local people and their elders who raised money to help him with his affairs. During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty, a group of Guangdong talents went to Beijing to catch the exam, crossed the Han River and Meiling until they came to the south bank of the Yangtze River.

One day, when they were crossing the river, suddenly an official ship went down the river and was blocked by the ferry. The officers and men on board shouted loudly: "F Ferry! Ferry! Get out of the way This is an official ship. What should you do if you are in the way? "

This group of people crossing the river are all scholars. First of all, they are full of ambition. Second, outnumbered. Third, they are afraid of being late. Besides, they don't know who the official ship belongs to, so they ignore the shouts of officers and men.

It is said that the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi is sitting on an official ship. Seeing that the official ship was blocked, he went out of the bow to see what had happened. He saw the civilian ship blocking the road and was about to attack. Suddenly, he was more careful when he saw that these people were all talented people who went to the exam. He thought: these scholars can't tell which one won the first prize this time, and it will become a climate in the future, which is not good for themselves. So I dare not offend rashly. However, Guan Wei was not satisfied with being wiped out, so he shouted, "Hey, it's not difficult for you to cross the river first. I'll make a pair. Whoever can make sense among you will let you go first. "

Then, he made the first couplet casually: "Ten thousand horses stand upright with blue frost, generals go north, east is wide, west is wide, and governor is wide!" He revealed his identity in order to scare these scholars and let them make way for themselves.

Sure enough, the scholars were frightened when they heard that it was the new governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and no one dared to deal with them.

At this moment, a scholar wearing ramie suddenly flashed out of the crowd. He separated the crowd and shouted, "I can handle it!" " "

Everyone looked at the little man for a moment, wondering what kind of couple he could make.

I saw the scholar say slowly, "Hold the seven-inch pipe and swing it into a big strip, in the yuan, in the champion, in the three yuan!" " His amazing words hit the key and scruples of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, so the governor had to praise him for his extraordinary talent, and at the same time found himself a step to let their ferry pass first.

This scholar was none other than Song Xiang, who later became famous and was called a gifted scholar in Guangdong.