Pu Songling's former residence

Pu Songling's former residence

Pu Songling's former residence "Liaozhai" is located in pujiazhuang, Hongshan Town, Zichuan District, Zibo City, Shandong Province. Pu Songling's former residence was burned by the Japanese Army during the Anti Japanese War and was restored to its original appearance in 1954.

In 1958, the government set up the management organization "Pu Songling's former residence management committee" to protect it properly. During the "Cultural Revolution", the former residence was once occupied, but the cultural relics were not seriously lost. In 1973, the former residence was recovered. In 1977, it was announced as a cultural relic protection unit in Shandong Province. In 1980, it was expanded into Pu Songling Memorial Hall. Covering an area of more than 5000 square meters, the museum has five exhibition halls and more than 13000 cultural relics, including Pu Songling's cultural relics before his death, various versions of strange tales from a lonely studio, and Pu Xue's research papers and monographs. On May 25, 2006, Pu Songling's former residence was announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit by the State Council.

brief introduction

About 8 Li East of Zichuan City, Zibo City, Shandong Province, there is an ancient village that still retains the architectural style of Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is a remote village that is not easy to be found. However, it is famous at home and abroad for a strange tales from a lonely studio, which has been spread to all corners of the world. This is pujiazhuang, the birthplace of Pu Songling, a famous writer in the Qing Dynasty and the king of short stories in the world.

Pujiazhuang, formerly known as sanhuaizhuang. It was built in Song Dynasty and got its name from three ancient locust trees in the village. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a well in the East gully of the village. In ancient times, it was often full and overflowed as a stream, so the name of the village was manjingzhuang. According to Pu Songling's "rebuilding the stele of the temple of the Dragon King" written in 1713 A.D., there is Liuquan in the east of Zizhou. The city carries it and forgets to win. Clear water to Chongqing, sweet taste to Fang, wine purpose. The fragrance of tea is added. Spring deep Zhang Xu, water full different, wear stone Yan, so also known as Manjing This is the only document that can find the earliest appellation of "Liuquan" and "Manjing".

There is Manjing temple in the village, with flying eaves and carved beams, elegant and generous. Chen Shiwan, the governor of the Ming Dynasty, wrote three poems about revisiting Manjing Temple: "the weeping willows and the fine grass are green in a stream, and the sick body is talking and resting in a secluded Pavilion. When the old Zen was walking, he could learn to chant sutras. Temple south of the tree peak slope, with wine re search upper bound flowers. Sick bone thin to the end ups and downs, still can beat the drum to get mixed Lao. Open front dew top, take advantage of the sky wind, fold knee Linquan ten thousand worry empty. Sitting on the muddy face of the cold rock, the mountains are broken and the setting sun is red. "

In 1980, Pu Songling memorial hall was built, the former residence, Liuquan and cemetery were repaired and expanded, the houses were requisitioned, the edition of works, the exhibition room of calligraphy and painting, the reference room, the reception room and the office were rebuilt, and the south gate was added, which made the management of the former residence more and more perfect. The former residence has become a research field of Pu school and a famous tourist spot at home and abroad.

present situation

Today's former residence of Pu Songling is a quiet courtyard. In front of the former residence are several ancient locust trees, which shade the sky. In 1962, Guo Moruo inscribed the gold plaque of "Pu Songling's former residence", which hung high at the gate of his former residence.

Through the door to the north is a courtyard with one front and two compartments. Three main rooms and two East and West Wing rooms were built in 1954. The cypress and pomegranate on both sides of the main house, the jasmine and hundred day red in front of the wing house were planted by later generations. The Taihu stone in the courtyard was also added after the restoration of the former residence. The main house of the former residence is an ordinary house of brick and adobe structure, with wooden lattice doors and windows, a plaque of "Liaozhai" written by Dahuang on the road inside the house, and a picture of Pu Songling hanging under the plaque.

Detailed introduction

overview

At the age of 74, Zhu Xianglin, a famous painter in the south of the Yangtze River, painted his portrait. On both sides are couplets written by Guo Moruo, There are also a Duan Inkstone he used, a bed he used when he was teaching in the Bi family, and a hand stove in the room. There are also plaques of chuorantang, Lingbi stone, Sanxing stone, and frogging stone that are directly related to Pu Songling. In addition, the tables, chairs, tables, shelves, cabinets, and wood shadow stoves in the room are all the old things of the Xipu Bi family that Pu Songling had set up for more than 30 years.

The East and west sides of the former residence

The thatched eaves are small, narrow and simple. They were rebuilt. There is still a gap in the northeast corner of the courtyard, where Pu Songling's writing and three related inscriptions are placed. Besides pujiazhuang, there are famous Liuquan and cemetery. Liuquan is at the bottom of manjinggou outside the east gate of pujiazhuang. The mouth of the spring is built of bluestone, about 0.6 meters square. Beside it stands the "Liuquan stele" written by Shen Yanbing. Liu Quan was originally an underground spring well. It is said that he once set up tea here to entertain guests and collect creative materials.

Cemetery

The cemetery is 40 meters long and 38 meters wide in the east of pujiazhuang, with 37 ancient cypresses. The tombs of Pu Songling, his father and his eldest grandson are all buried here. In 1980, the tombstone of Pu Zhang, the first member of the Pu family, was also moved to the cemetery.

In addition, there are more than 200 pieces of contemporary celebrities' calligraphy about Pu Songling and his former residence in his former residence. Among them, Guo Moruo's "writing ghosts, writing demons, being superior to others, stabbing greed, stabbing cruelty to the bone" gives a relatively correct evaluation of Pu Songling and his works.

Personal profile

Pu Songling (1640-1715), the word Liuxian, also the word Jianchen, another name Liuquan Jushi. Pu Songling had a brilliant personality and won a literary title for a time. In 1658, he was asked to take the boy's test and "take the county, government and Taoism as the first to supplement the doctor's second member". But since then, it has been repeated, until the age of 71, when Gu was a rare man, he became a "year-old Gongsheng". He was upright and cynical all his life. He often used fox ghost stories to joke about the corruption at that time. His articles were witty and self-made. In addition to Liaozhaizhiyi, which is famous both at home and abroad, there are more than 400 Anthologies in 13 volumes, more than 900 poems in 8 volumes, more than 100 poems in 1 volume, and 14 kinds of slang. There are three plays and five miscellaneous works.

Pu Songling's former residence is a quiet and simple courtyard. The courtyard faces south in the north, with four entrances in the front and back, and a side courtyard in the West. On the lintel hung a plaque inscribed by Guo Moruo, the former residence of Pu Songling. In the courtyard, the moon gate and flower walls are arranged in an orderly way, with mountains, rocks and pools reflecting each other. The three main rooms in the north courtyard are Pu Songling's birthplace and his study "Liaozhai". There is a picture of him at the age of 74 on display with his own handwriting. There are two bungalows in the South courtyard, formerly known as "leixuan", which is named after Pu Tuo, the eldest son of Pu Songling. The newly-built exhibition room of the Department of Western medicine, Pu's genealogy, handwriting and various works, as well as English, Russian, Japanese, French and other foreign versions. There are six exhibition rooms behind the main room of Liaozhai, displaying a variety of works by Pu's researchers at home and abroad, as well as more than 100 paintings and inscriptions by contemporary cultural celebrities Lao She, Zang Kejia, Feng Zikai, Li kuchan, Yu Jianhua, Li Hua, Dai dunbang, etc. In 1977, it was announced as a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level.

Liuquan

Liuquan, also known as Manjing, is located in a valley about 100 meters east of pujiazhuang, Zichuan District. According to records, in the early years, the clear spring gushed in the well, overflowed into the stream, and the drought did not dry up, so it was called Manjing in ancient times. At first, pujiazhuang was also named Manjing village. At the end of Ming Dynasty, the surname of Pu became more and more popular, so the village was changed to its present name. At that time, there were hundreds of green willows around the well, so later generations also called it "Liuquan". It is said that Pu Songling had set up tea here many times to entertain passers-by and collect creative materials. Pu Songling loved this place very much and called himself "Liuquan Jushi". In 1980, a new grass Pavilion and a pavilion were built beside Liuquan, and railings were added around the well head. The stone tablet of "Liuquan" beside the well was inscribed by Shen Yanbing, a famous writer. In the north of Liuquan, there was a Dragon King Temple, also called Manjing hall. In the west of the temple, there was a tablet of Xinjian Longwang temple, written by Pu Songling. Now there is no temple left, and the stele has been moved to Pu's former residence.

Pu Songling's tomb

Pu Songling's tomb is about 500 meters southeast of pujiazhuang, Zichuan District. The cemetery is surrounded by brick and stone walls, with 10 pines and cypresses inside. The ancient trees are shady and lush. There are dozens of ancient tombs in the cemetery. Pu Songling's tomb is on the north side of the cemetery, with a height of about two meters. The tomb faces southwest and northeast. In front of the tomb is the epitaph of Mr. Liu quanpu written by Zhang Yuan, a posterity of Tongyi in 1752. In 1954, a four legged stele pavilion was built, and in 1979, a stele named Tomb of Mr. Pu Songling and Liuquan, written by Shen Yanbing, was built in front of the pavilion.

Liaozhai Garden

Liaozhai garden is located in the east of pujiazhuang village, Zichuan. It was built in 1987, covering an area of 24000 square meters and a construction area of 6100 square meters. Liaozhai garden is divided into six parts: Art Gallery, fox fairy garden, Shiyin garden, Liaozhai palace, Manjing temple and fox garden. There are three exhibition rooms in the Art Gallery: the first and second exhibition rooms display poems and manuscripts reflecting Pu Songling's life, as well as pictures, poems and calligraphy praising Pu Songling; the third exhibition room displays 18 groups of life statues of Pu Songling, which are vivid. The buildings in "Fox Fairy Garden" are well arranged, small and beautiful, including gongxiao Pavilion, Liuxian bridge, liula stele, fantasy gate, Juxian peak, crouching fox, one eyed fox, etc. There are Yuanxin Pavilion, Tongchun hall, Chi Yue Pavilion, nine corridors, Wenzi tree, Mansong bridge, Xiayi Pavilion and various stone scenes in the "Shiyin garden", as well as rockery, strange stones and flowers. The Liaozhai palace contains such artistic sculptures as luochahai City, Xi Fangping, Huapi, Jiaona, and the corpse. It also uses modern scientific and technological techniques such as lighting, sound, and Movie Stunts to reproduce the artistic image of ghosts and goblins in Pu Songling's works. There are more than 1400 foxes in "Fox watching garden", which has high ornamental and economic value.

Personal life

Pu Songling,

Chinese PinYin : Pu Song Ling Gu Ju