The site of Cangjie zaozitai

The site of Cangjie zaozitai

Located in the southeast of Gongzhang village, Guodu street, Chang'an District, Xi'an City, the site of Cangjie zaozitai has a rammed earth platform about 10 meters high and 100 meters in circumference, which is built with a layer of green bricks. In the south is an 8-meter-45-degree slope, and in the middle is a 3-meter-wide cement plaster. There are about 2-meter square inscriptions on it. There are five official script sculptures, namely "Cangjie lettering platform".

As early as the Sui Dynasty, in order to commemorate the contribution of Cangjie's calligraphy, a sacrificial platform named Cangjie's calligraphy platform was built here. After the emperor Zhongzong of Tang Dynasty, the word making platform was gradually broken.

In the Qing Dynasty, Bi Yuan, the governor of Shaanxi Province, set up a stone tablet in front of the platform. Kang Youwei once appeared on this stage.

Character achievement

Cangjie, the Shihuang family. At the age of 110, he was left historian of Yellow Emperor Xuanyuan. The creator of Chinese primitive hieroglyphics. It is said that he looked up at the sky and looked down on all things. He first created the "bird trace book", which shocked the world and can be called the ancestor of humanity. The Yellow Emperor felt that he had made outstanding achievements, so he gave him the surname "Cang" (Cang), which means that one of you is superior to the other. The invention of Chinese characters is the milestone of Chinese civilization. "ShuoWenJieZi" records: Cangjie was the historian of word making in the Yellow Emperor period, and was respected as the "sage of word making" Cangjie "began to make a contract, instead of tying a rope.". "Tongjian waiji" records: "Cangjie saw the traces of birds and animals, the body type pictograph and the system of characters." Cang Jie quit his official post and went on a trip. He visited the wise people all over the country to find a good way to keep track of events. Looking up at the trend of Kuixing huanqu, looking down at the turtle back texture, bird and animal claw marks, mountains and rivers morphology and palm fingerprints, we are inspired by them. According to the shape of things, we created hieroglyphs, opening a new era of human civilization.

Historical records

According to yongshenglue, there is a platform in Sanhui temple, which is the place where Cangjie made books.

"Fayuan Zhulin" records: "Zhujing, a daoxuan lawyer of tangximing temple, practiced Taoism in Tianye temple in the south of the capital city. Suddenly a man came to the lawyer's office and asked, "how about Cangjie's calligraphy platform, which is the fourth highest platform in Xijing?" The answer is: "Cang Jie built a platform on this platform. It's not nothing for those who watch birds." In the poem "Jiaxing Sanhui Temple" written by Shangguan Zhaorong of Tang Dynasty, there is: "Shizi talks about scriptures, Xuanyuan engraves characters." CEN Shen, a famous poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem entitled "the writing platform built by Cangjie in Sanhui Temple": "the wild temple was deserted late, and the ancient trees were sad in cold weather. There are bird tracks on the empty steps, just like when making a book. " In the period of Empress Wu Zetian, Li Qiao and Shangguan Wan'er wrote: "in Cangjie li of ancient Taiwan, ziquanju of new town." "Therefore, the old knowledge of Taiwan remains, and the remnant bamboo slips are sought by the emperor." In the Qing Dynasty, Bi Yuan, governor of Shaanxi Province, set up a stone tablet in front of the lettering platform and wrote "Cangjie lettering platform".

Related anecdotes

In 1923, Kang Youwei came to see a stone tablet beside the stage with the four characters "Pudu Jianli". He said: "Cangjie is the ancestor of gentleness. How can he become a Purdue prison?" It's hard to get rid of four words. (editor's note: Here "Jian" should be connected, that is, mirror; "Li" should be regarded as internal. Therefore, "Purdue prison" should be used to make people fully understand, for fear that Kang Youwei may misunderstand it.) In 1936, before the Xi'an Incident, Shao Lizi, chairman of Shaanxi Province of the Kuomintang, accompanied Chiang Kai Shek, Zhang Xueliang, Yang Hucheng and others to visit the station, and proposed to build a Cangjie university here, but failed for some reason.

In the nineties of last century, the people's Government of Xi'an city carried out brick repair on the lettering platform to complete the preservation. What we see is the "Cangjie lettering platform" with 36 steps.

Site location

Most of the chronicles of the past dynasties of "Cangjie's writing platform" are recorded as the south of Gongzhang village. For example, the chronicles of Xi'an in the 44th year of Qianlong recorded that "there is Sanhui temple in Gongzhang village, two Li southwest of Chang'an, which is the hall of Cangjie's writing". The lettering platform is located in the north central part of Changli village, about 1000 meters east of zhoumu mausoleum, in the police dog base of Xi'an Public Security Bureau.

Address: Southeast of Gongzhang village, Chang'an District, Xi'an City, north of Changli Village (in the police dog base of Xi'an Public Security Bureau)

Longitude: 108.85154663656

Latitude: 34.176798100477

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