Dingwangtai

Dingwangtai

Located in the south of Liuzheng street, Changsha City, Hunan Province, Dingwangtai was built by Liu Fa, the son of emperor Jingdi of the Western Han Dynasty. Every year, he would select the best rice and send it to Chang'an (today's Xi'an, Shaanxi Province) to honor his mother. Then he would transport the soil back to Chang'an and build a platform in Changsha. Year after year, the earth transported back from Chang'an has been built into a high platform. Whenever the sun goes down, Liu Fa steps on the stage and looks north to express his yearning for his mother. Therefore, "Ding Wang Tai" is also known as "Wang Mu Tai".

Basic introduction

geographical position

Dingwangtai is located in the deep lane on the south side of Liuzheng street in Changsha City, Hunan Province. It is a place that scholars of all dynasties must visit after they come to Changsha. For more than two thousand years, it has been praised by the poets, and sung so much that some people call Changsha the city of King Ding.

origin

Today, the Changsha library on the east side of Jiefang Middle Road Viaduct in Furong district is the former site of Guding Wangtai, whose foundation can still be found. There is an old lane behind the library, which is still called "Dingwangtai". Dingwangtai was built by Liu Fa, the son of emperor Jing of Han Dynasty. Tang Ji, Liu Fa's mother, was originally Cheng Ji's maid. She was born in a humble family. In 155 BC, Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty made Liu Fa king of Changsha, which was regarded as "the land of Southern barbarians". In the early Western Han Dynasty, Changsha was sparsely populated and regarded as a "poor country". After 14 years, the kings went to the court in Jinjing and called their father shougewu. Liu Fa just slightly opened his sleeves and raised his hands low. The courtiers in the palace laughed at his clumsiness. King also strange and asked him, Liu Fa replied: "minister country is small and narrow, not enough to maneuver." Emperor Jing granted him additional titles of Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang. From then on, Changsha King's fiefdom included the whole province of Hunan.

Because Liu Fa was concerned about his two mothers, Cheng Ji and Tang Ji, he sent people to transport rice to Chang'an, and then transported soil from Chang'an back to Changsha. He chose the Highlands in the east of the city to build a platform, so that he could step on the stage and look at it from time to time. After Liu Fa died, his posthumous title was king Ding of Changsha, so he was named king Ding Tai. It's more than 1500 kilometers from Chang'an to Changsha. I'm afraid it's impossible to transport soil. But he built a platform to look after his mother and showed filial piety.

Are Cheng Ji and Tang Ji buried in Chang'an or Changsha? In ancient times, there have been endless debates. According to the Taiping world, the tomb of shuangnv is the tomb of King Cheng and Tang of Changsha in Han Dynasty, and the tomb of Ji is seven Zhang high, which is beside Changsha County This theory is also held in the records of Ming Dynasty and Hunan archaeology. However, the tomb of shuangnv has never been designated and has not been studied. In terms of reason, it is more credible that Cheng Ji and Tang Ji were buried in Chang'an. If you are buried near Changsha, you can visit the tomb at any time and cry. Why build a platform to look far away? Only when you are far away in Chang'an, the river of Hunan, the Weiyun River, and thousands of miles away, and you are eager to think about your family, can you build a platform to look forward and talk about your filial piety. Liu Fa was the king of Changsha for 27 years, and his "achievements" are not known by ordinary people. However, Liu Xiu, his six generation grandson, who started the foundation of the Eastern Han Dynasty, is well known and well-known.

Later, the site of Taiwan was abandoned, also known as dingwanggang. There is a temple of King Ding in front of the hill, which is full of incense at the age of. By the Song Dynasty, the temple had been destroyed, and Changsha academy was established here. Zhu Xi wrote the poem Dingwangtai

Lonely Fan Jun, Guanghua emperor came.

For more than a thousand years, everything is empty.

The sun and the moon can be seen from east to west.

From the knowledge of Shuangjiu music, do not make yongmen sad.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, some CI poets living in Changsha liked to visit Dingwangtai to express their feelings in spring and autumn. At that time, in addition to Yuelu Mountain in the west of the river, Dingwangtai was the most famous scenic spot in Changsha. The poet and musician Jiang Kui lived in Changsha in 1186. In Changsha, Xiao dezao met a poet and did not drive in Changsha. Xiao appreciated his talent and married his niece. In the same year, he and Xiao went to Dingwangtai and wrote yicalyx red

Ancient city Yin, a few palace Mei, red calyx not appropriate hairpin.

Ice glue on the surface of the pool, old snow on the wall, and heavy clouds.

Green rattan together with leisure through the path of bamboo, gradually laughing, startled the birds lying in the sand.

Yelaolinquan, the ancient wangtaixie, calls for boarding.

What's the matter? Dang Xiangyun Chu water, eyes very sad.

Zhu family sticky chicken, the whole cluster Yan, empty sigh.

I want to see the willows and the gold.

When the time comes, I'm afraid the spring will be deep.

It is a natural and fluent Lyric word, which sums up the scenery around Changsha. At the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the Academy moved away, and a yamen of the Lian visit department was built on the abandoned site

The yellow leaves are flying in the morning, and the Chu mountain and Xiang River are separated from Chang'an.

The grass on the barren terrace is clear and dewy. It's like tears are still wet.

In the Ming Dynasty, Dingwangtai was a desolate scene of "how to mourn the barren hills, the cold clouds and the Ficus pumila". It was not until the 19th year of Jiaqing (1814) that Zhou Tingmao, a native of Xiangtan, advocated the public to rebuild the platform. He built stones around the platform to raise the site of the platform, and the Dingwangtai was booming again. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, Xiong Shaomu wrote a poem

One hundred feet to the east of the city lies on Cui Wei, passing the land back to Chang'an.

The setting sun and the spring trees are green, and the birds fly around Dingwangtai.

Later, it became desolate. In 1879, Xia Xianyun of Daotai took the lead in donating money for restoration, and built a large building with the stone couplet of "Chaohan Taizong's Changsha Qing temple; a view of Guo Wan's family from a thousand miles away". On the left side of the platform, there is the Polygonum garden. It is also said that it is the hometown of King Ding. For a time, it was known as the brilliant Dongzi and the elegant garden, and it was restored to be the place where scholars chanted wine cups and hung ancient times.

Hunan Library was set up in Dingwangtai at the end of Qing Dynasty, which was the earliest public library in China. There are many ancient books in the collection. Wu gongheng, a poet of Nanshe, has a couplet of Dingwangtai library

Let me read five thousand volumes of Cui Biao;

The thirteen kings of Hanjing were hanged with others.

In 1912, Mao Zedong spent more than half a year of self-study here. Later, the books were moved to Zhongshan Library, where only all the editions of Sixian publishing house were stored. During the period of the northern and southern warlord war, it was occupied as a barracks, which was devastated, and the site of the platform also collapsed. In 1938, it was completely burned in the "Wenxi" fire. In 1980, Changsha library was built on the site of Dingwangtai.

New look

Close to the Tianxin Pavilion scenic spot, today's Dingwangtai has almost become the pronoun of Changsha's "book market"; when it comes to Dingwangtai, Changsha citizens and even Hunan people will think of Dingwangtai book market and Hunan Xinhua Bookstore at the intersection of Jianxiang road and Jiefang Road. Dingwangtai book market originated in the late 1990s. After the Huangnijie book market in Changsha was neglected, Dingwangtai book market came into being.

There are many famous buildings on the same street as Dingwangtai book market, such as Xinhua Bookstore in Hunan Province, Shuntian fortune, Dingwang building, Fenghuang building, Tianxin city square, Wanshun home, Guangmei building in Changsha

The catering, culture, food, health care, medical and financial institutions on the same street with Dingwangtai are also adjacent to each other. They include: Honglou catering culture restaurant, Weichu animation culture square, Samantha (Jinan, Shandong) beauty chain, Enshi selenium products store, Hunan Provincial People's Hospital, China Construction Bank, Bank of Changsha, etc.

Of course, when it comes to Dingwangtai, there is another Olympic champion that has to be mentioned - Liu Xuan, whose alma mater "Changsha xiuye school", one of the cradles of China's Olympic gymnastics champion, is also located here.

Today's Dingwangtai has a wide range of roads. It is very convenient to reach Jiefang Road, Renmin Road, Furong Road, Wuyi Avenue and cai'e road.

But Dingwangtai needs to improve the quality and after-sales department in time, otherwise it will not get long-term development. The Haoji Star Store on the third floor is a famous negative textbook! Through this example, we know that the service of Dingwangtai should be improved.

History related

Historical story

From the autumn of 1912 to the spring of 1913, young Mao Zedong lived in Xiangxiang experimental Library of Xin'an Lane in Changsha. He walked to Dingwangtai library to read every day, rain or shine.

"Shanhua county annals" says: "Dingwangtai is in Liuyang gate. Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty appointed Wang FA as his vassal to Changsha and built a platform to look after his mother According to the custom, the king carried the soil to Chang'an and built the platform here. " He said, "build a platform to look at my mother, but cloud looks at the tomb of Tang Ji." Tang Ji's tomb, also known as shuangnv's tomb, is located outside the east gate of Changsha. According to Hanshu, Tang Ji, the mother of King Ding, used to be Cheng Ji's waiter. Once, Emperor Jing called Cheng Ji to sleep with him, but Cheng Ji didn't want to. He asked Tang Er, the waiter, to pretend to be her and spend the night with him. That night, emperor Jing got drunk and thought it was Cheng Ji. When he found that Tang ER was pregnant, he realized that it was Tang er who was sleeping with him. Later Tang Er gave birth to Liu Fa, who was appointed king of Jin Dynasty. Liu Fa was granted the title of "humble, wet and poor country" in Changsha because his mother was not in favor of him. Cheng Ji and Tang Ji also went to Changsha with Liu Fa. The mother and son depended on each other.

Dingwangtai, built in the Western Han Dynasty, has a history of more than 2100 years. Due to the changes of the times, both the former Wangtai and the tomb of Cheng Tang Erji, which can be seen from the Wangtai, have disappeared. Just like a person with a soul, although the bones have disappeared, the cultural atmosphere formed by it will not die out. In the two thousand years before the 20th century, Dingwangtai was like an eternal and approachable work, which was read by people. Its human relationship and warmth transcended the appearance of things, pursued the trend of human morality beyond thousands of rivers and mountains, and made people close to it gain moral power. The existence of Dingwangtai is a test of the social patience of the ancient city of Changsha.

Filial piety and family affection

Family affection is an important coordinate in traditional morality. Confucius said: "benevolent, people also, pro."

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