What are the stories of the Eight Scenes in Ganzhou?
In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Zhang Zhaocheng was transferred to the magistrate of Ganxian County, and his father and brother Zhang also came to Ganzhou. Ganzhou city entered a cultural peak because of the arrival of the three fathers and sons, which formed the cultural anecdote of eight scenes in Ganzhou. Zhang Sanren, a native of Cizhou (now Cixian) in Hebei Province, is a well-read person. Among them, "Zhang Zhao took the Eight Gongjiao as an official school, and in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, he was a magistrate." The records about him in history books are quite praised, saying that he is "talented and capable" and can take on heavy responsibilities. Shortly after he entered the city, "Please move the Restoration Palace (the Confucian Temple) to the old site in the east of the city", that is, restore the county school under the existing Ciyun building, and personally participate in the management and teaching activities of the county school after his official position, and select a group of ambitious and ambitious young students to serve in his county department. After six years of painstaking efforts, the talents in Ganxian county have gradually grown up. At that time, there was no social warehouse in Ganxian county, so Zhang Zhao tried his best to persuade the rich to donate grain and set up warehouses in urban and rural areas for storage in case of crop failure in disaster years. Shuidong area in Ganzhou City has been called the Flame Mountain since ancient times, and the mountain is red. Zhang Zhaocheng was worried that the people were suffering from fire and blood disease, so he took the lead in planting pine trees and encouraged the urban and rural people to participate together, and finally achieved today's lush Wansongshan. In order to prevent floods, he also asked the people along the three rivers in Zhanggong and Jiangxi to plant banyan dikes, which made banyan trees inside and outside Ganzhou, especially on the six banks of the three rivers, a scene, and the floods in Ganzhou were obviously controlled. During his tenure, he also carried out activities that won the hearts of the people, such as "repairing the wall of Eight Wells, cleaning up the government offices and adopting babies". His series of actions greatly touched the people of Ganzhou city. His noble virtue won him the love of the people, and scholars spontaneously donated money to build an ancestral temple for him to show his virtue. Because of his outstanding achievements, Zhang Zhaocheng was later promoted to be a Tongzhi of Raozhou Prefecture, and later served as a magistrate of Ji 'an, Nanchang and Jiaxing.
Today, when we look at Zhang Zhaocheng, we will feel that his greatest achievement is not his political achievements, but the "Eight Scenery Map" that he and his father Zhang (the son of Che, who wrote Selected Works and Quandelu) and his younger brother Zhang drew for Ganzhou City. This is a cultural problem, or it may just be the product of their father and son's leisure. However, political content is what every politician must do, and cultural content is not necessarily what every politician can do. Once this cultural content is established, it has been a link between the past and the future for nearly a thousand years!
When Zhang Zhaocheng took office is unknown, and no one can remember how many times he went to Bajingtai. This time, Zhang is still "taking the eldest son to take care of the ride, and taking the second son to take care of Li". He walked ahead with great interest. They walked up and down the stage, looking around the mountains and rivers, looking back at their predecessors and talking about Su Dongpo and his eight scenic poems. Zhang believes that Su Dongpo's eight scenic poems are works that yearn for happiness in the distance, but Su Gong can sing famous works in "Wind and rain across the waves", and even his old father Su Xun, who visited Ganzhou decades ago, is "enough to be told with mountains and rivers". Zhang said that he "didn't dare to look at Su's". In fact, on the contrary, he is more interested in Sue and his son. He thinks that Su Dongpo and his eight scenic poems make his father Su Xun's experience in Ganzhou (Su Xun has been to Tianzhu Temple in Ganzhou) a classic. Now that my son is a magistrate in Ganzhou, we can also do some articles on the eight scenic spots in Ganzhou, which can not only "chat" but also compare the elegance of Su and his son. So, the three of them, father and son, divided eight scenes according to the scenery they saw at Bajingtai (see "Records of the Place Names of Ganzhou City").
On the Bajingtai, the farthest scenery is the peak mountain and the reservoir. In the eyes of Qing people, Fengshan is the Feng Shui Mountain in Ganzhou City, guarding the Three Rivers and gathering Feng Shui; Chutan is the wind pool of Ganzhou city, which brings together the geomantic omen of Ganjiang River and Ganzhou. Zhang and his son think that Chutan is "the distant view of Taiwan Province"-Chutan is like a giant mirror, with clear water and wide river surface, which can reflect eight views of Taiwan Province and is the soul of Taiwan Province Yantai. With such a poetic understanding of Chutan, Chutan surpassed himself-not only to sacrifice and pray for safe passage through the temple, but also to find the body in a deep roundabout.
Then, on an early spring day, Zhang Zhao and his son met and came to the Chu altar, and wrote the beautiful Sutra of the Chu altar respectively, which showed the wonderful artistic conception of the Chu altar to the fullest.
For decades, due to the depletion of water resources, the riverbed of Ganjiang River has risen, the water surface has narrowed and the water flow has decreased, which has affected the famous "Chutan Small Well" scene. Coupled with the prosperity of the industrial revolution, air pollution and reduced visibility, the beautiful scenery of "Chutan Xiaojing" can't be seen at all from Bajing Station. Chu Tan Xiao Jing gradually withdrew from the "Eight Scenes" cultural stage. (