Chapter 1,484 There have always been different opinions, and it has become an eternal mystery
For example, Yu controlled the floods and carved inscriptions on stones;
Yu successfully controlled floods and erected monuments to commemorate his virtue;
Hengshan folklore and so on.
Of course, there is also a lot of controversy.
What's more, it is also believed that the "Monument of King Yu" is a stele engraved by Qin Shihuang to commemorate Yu the Great during his southern tour, or it may be the writing of Chu State, etc.
However, no matter how you interpret the life experience of the "Monument of King Yu", it will not affect its huge influence at all!
Therefore, a large number of celebrities and literati throughout the dynasties have shown great interest in it.
They all wanted to go to see and worship the legendary "Monument of King Yu".
However, no one knows the exact location of the "Monument of King Yu".
Therefore, for the "Monument of King Yu", everyone only hears its name but does not see it.
As for the earliest written record of the "Monument of King Yu", it is generally believed to be found in "Records of Xiangzhong" written by Luo Han (living in the Western Jin Dynasty and Eastern Jin Dynasty).
The book records the "Stele of King Yu": "There is a King's ultimatum on Mount Kuangji (anciently referred to as Hengshan Mountain), and Yu controlled the water according to its text. There is a stele of Yu on it."
After that, during the Northern and Southern Dynasties and the Xu Ling period of the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, the "Monument of King Yu" was also mentioned in his "Nanyue Ji".
That is: "There is a stele of Yu's flood control on Yunmi Peak, all with tadpole characters. There is a stone altar under the stele, with flowing water flowing around it, which is the most beautiful."
Moreover, it is said that Xu Lingqi, a Taoist who once practiced Taoism at Zigai and Yunmi Peaks of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue, also saw the "Monument of King Yu" with his own eyes because he collected medicine and made elixirs.
However, it is a legend after all and cannot be verified.
Of course, if the Monument of King Yu is still just a legend from now on, many people will not choose it even if it is fake.
However, it kept appearing later.
For example, during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the Xiao Qi period of the Southern Dynasty, the reputation of "King Yu Monument" began to spread to the world for the first time.
This incident was recorded in "Cui Ji Lu" written by Liu Xian during the Liang Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties.
Namely: "The great ancestor of the Xiao Qi Dynasty, Zishuo, was granted the title of King of Hengyang. A mountain man Cheng Yi traveled to Hengyang Mountain and obtained the stele of Yu. He copied it and presented it. Wang Baozhi picked up a good stone and carved it, and it was first seen in the world."
However, the legendary mother stone of "King Yu Stele" and the reprinted version of "King Yu Stele" circulated during the Southern and Northern Dynasties have basically never been found by later generations.
In addition, the "Wuyue Chunqiu" written by Zhao Ye of the Eastern Han Dynasty also records the "Stele of King Yu".
Namely: "When Yu climbed Mount Heng, he dreamed of a messenger from Cangshui, who gave him a book with gold slips and jade characters. He learned the key to water control and carved it on the top of the stone mountain."
Obviously, before the Tang Dynasty, the Han Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, etc. all had records on the "Monument of King Yu", which had a huge impact on later generations.
Therefore, Han Yu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty, personally went to Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue to look for the "Monument of King Yu".
But he couldn't find it. Disappointed, Han Yu composed a poem called "The Monument of the God of Yu in Mount Yu" and returned home angrily.
I saw Han Yu writing a poem: "The stele of the god Yu at the top of the mountain is marked with blue stone and a strange shape. The body of Ke Douquan is draped upside down, and the luan floats on the phoenix to hold the tiger and chi. The secrets of the deeds are so strict that no ghosts can peep, and the Taoist is alone. Occasionally, I came to consult him, crying and crying. I have searched countless times to find it, but it is full of green trees and apes are sad."
In addition, Liu Yuxi, also a poet from the Tang Dynasty, is also known as the Monument of Ode to Yu.
He wrote a poem: "I often hear that there is a stele of Shen Yu on Zhurong Peak. The ancient stone is in the shape of a glazed tiger, and the secret text is in the shape of a tiger."
Because no matter it is the Jin Dynasty, the Northern and Southern Dynasties, or the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the ancients often only heard the legends but never saw the "Monument of King Yu".
Therefore, the authenticity and life experience of the "Monument of King Yu" have been covered with a thick layer of mystery.
Then, it became more and more confusing.
However, during the Southern Song Dynasty, things took a turn for the better.
In the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, in the fifth year of Jiading (1212), the poet He Zhi visited Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue.
He met a woodcutter on the road, and under his identification, he accidentally discovered the "Monument of King Yu" on one of the 72 peaks of Hengshan Mountain.
Because the "King Yu Monument" was found on the Ganji Peak, it is also called the Ganji Monument.
Probably out of research, extreme reverence, or because of too much love.
Finally, He Zhi copied the inscription and brought the copied inscription back to Ehu (South Chang) Sha.
Eventually, this copied inscription was translated and engraved on Yuelu Mountain.
However, Zhang Shinan, a contemporary of the Southern Song Dynasty, obviously had doubts about the discovery of the "Monument of King Yu".
Therefore, in "Jiwen of Youhuan", he has a detailed record of how he discovered the "Monument of King Yu".
"Why did I present the second stele of Prajna Monk written by Liu Zihou to the company commander Cao Yanyue... Cao was very happy and ordered Hengshan to search for it. The order reported that the willow stele was in the Shangfeng Temple. There was a lot of snow in the winter and it cracked. Yu
The stele was rarely seen in ancient times. I wonder why it was taken from another place to deceive Cao Cao."
He Zhi brought the rubbings of the "Monument of King Yu" back to Husha and presented it to the Southern Song Dynasty minister and transshipment envoy Cao Yanyue. This indeed made the Southern Song Dynasty minister very excited.
For this reason, the minister also sent people to search for the mother stone of the "Monument of King Yu".
However, no matter how hard I searched, I couldn't find it.
In desperation, Cao Yanyue had no choice but to carve the rubbing of the "Monument of King Yu" presented by He Zhi on the top of Yuelu Mountain and seal it with soil.
The "King Yu Monument" on Yuelu Mountain, which was carved based on He Zhi's rubbings and handed down, is not the one we see now.
Here, the story gets a little weird.
Since someone had already found it back then, we immediately went to look for it. Why couldn’t we find it?
Since no one could be found after sending people, it finally aroused suspicion.
Maybe, many people at that time, including the minister Cao Yanyue, thought that He Zhi had copied a fake "Monument of King Yu" from elsewhere and deceived Cao Yanyue.
As for the purpose, it should be to curry favor with the minister in order to obtain benefits.
Generally speaking, there have always been different opinions on the authenticity and even life experience of the so-called "King Yu Monument" carved on Yuelu Mountain.
In any case, whether the inscription on the "Monument of King Yu" he brought back was true or false, in the end, this inscription was still engraved on Yuelu Mountain.
After it was carved, it was sealed.
And this one has been sealed for more than 300 years.
It was not until the Jiajing year of the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1533, that it was searched by an official of the Ming Dynasty.
It was found by Guan Daxun, the deputy envoy of Huguang University. Later, Guan Daxun carved a copy of the "Monument of King Yu" on Yuelu Mountain into a monument and erected it in Hengyang Shigu Academy.
It was during this period that the "Monument of King Yu" was truly created and became famous throughout the world.
The government and the public in the Ming Dynasty finally saw the "Monument of King Yu" known as the Book of Yu and Xia.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, someone else carved a stone copy of the "King Yu Monument" from Shigu Academy and placed it on the Congqi Peak of Hengshan Mountain in Nanyue.
Since then, the "Yuwang Stele" and the stele pavilion have appeared near the original "Yuwang Stele" mother stone that no longer has any writing.
In any case, after the discovery of the "King Yu Stele" in Yuelu Mountain in the Ming Dynasty, people have always been careful about this legendary "King Yu Stele" which is closest to the mother stone of the "King Yu Stele".
Among them, the most obvious one is that a stone pavilion was built in 1935 to protect it.
For this reason, someone else engraved the word "Grand View" next to it.