In the long historical development, China's calligraphy has formed a unique and profound national art. Generally speaking, calligraphy is divided into five styles: seal script, official script, regular script, running script and cursive script, and each category can be subdivided. Understanding these differences is helpful to understand the profound connotation of China's calligraphy art.
As we all know, the communication between experts usually includes not only eating meat and drinking, but also cultural and ideological exchanges. So when they go to Gayingshan Temple, they can write blackboard writing or paper cutting, which is called "literary exchange". According to experts' statistics, there are more than 300 plaques and cups in Gao Fengshan Temple, but unfortunately, only about one tenth of them are well preserved because of their age.
Although a large number of coupons have been damaged, what can be preserved today must be its essence. For example, there is a tune in Wenchang Pavilion of Sanqing Hall, which is "Wu Naiwen, saving people and saving the world, with a long-term mind. It is said that his virtue is holy and he has a lot of knowledge of Foreign Classics". There is also a couplet in the hall, that is, "people do things without talking, everything is life;" The environment is created by the heart, naturally backtracking and broad ",and so on. However, these are not the most "powerful" blows.
The most powerful couplet in the most conspicuous place is the word "longevity" that you can see at first sight when you enter the mountain gate. Therefore, some people call it "longevity couplet". Xiao Bin can guarantee that five out of nine people who saw the "longevity couple" didn't know. It is said that when Emperor Qianlong visited Gao Fengshan Temple, he saw the "longevity couple" and was very confused.
In fact, this is an ancient word formation, that is, the word formation of "six books" mentioned in ancient books. Take out the single meaning of each word first, and then combine different single meanings into new words (such as "26316; Zh or Wu Zetian), forming a new pronunciation and meaning. According to the old monk of Gao Fengshan Temple:
"Body" means that the body is a treasure or a jade;
"body alchemy", an improvement of body alchemy, may mean "melting pot";
"C fire" means fire in the body, which means "burning";
"Wood, stone and earth" refers to the transformation of five elements, which can be "essence";
"Heart of life" means to prolong life, and it can also mean to "prolong";
"Ten million" means a long time, that is, "one year";
"Own water" is a liquid in the human body, which can be said to be "medicine";
"Zhengqing" refers to a rich life, or it can be "Zhengqing";
"Thumb of human nature" is a humanitarian law, which can be said to be "Tao";
"The method of human mind" refers to the inner practice of human beings, which can be said to be "practice";
After this explanation, this pair of "longevity coupons" reads "Cultivate longevity pills in the right way and burn longevity drugs in the jade furnace". "In general, this is the practical concept and health philosophy in Taoist culture. Maybe you are still confused when you see this. Why not be nice? In fact, this is the essence of Taoist culture-you must understand it. If everyone can see it at the same time, that road can't be called. If you still find it difficult to understand the meaning of Chinese characters, it may not be because you don't understand the meaning of Chinese characters, but because you don't have a deep understanding of Taoist culture and philosophy, which is the key.