There are 100 ways to write the word "longevity". Write all these words 100, which is what we often call "longevity map".
Baishou Town, Yongfu County, Guilin City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is located about 90 kilometers south of Guilin City. There is a natural cave under Shouxing Mountain (also known as Gezu Mountain and Duihe Mountain) in the northeast of town 1 km. The cave is10m high and17m wide. It was called "Fuziyan" in ancient times, and now it is called "Baishouyan". There are many ancient stone carvings in the rocks, among which the largest stone carving, Hundred Days Map, is known as a "national treasure" and has long been famous at home and abroad. It has been listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in the autonomous region and included in the book China Dictionary of Places of Interest.
Since the Song Dynasty, The Outline of a Hundred Days of Birth has been widely praised as a rare treasure. Especially in the Southern Song Dynasty, the workshop devoted to rubbing and mounting the Hundred Years Map lasted for a long time. Palace dignitaries, scholarly families and ordinary people are all proud of having a "century-old picture scroll". Hanging in the hall was full of people, and guests rushed to watch! In ancient times, businessmen who traveled far or across the ocean regarded the "longevity map" as a treasure to protect their own safety!
According to legend, there was a cinnabar well in front of Baishouyan in ancient times, and the well water was sweet and cool. There are often a pair of chubby children who are white and have been changed by the first bird essence in the Millennium. Father Liao and his family who live here often eat this well water. Liao 150 began to die, and hundreds of people in his family lived for a long time.
Later, a corrupt official heard about it and tried to live forever. I often eat this well water, and I ordered people to dig out the "first living bird" and cook it. Only to die! The cinnabar essence also dried up and disappeared. Future generations will no longer need such a longevity prescription, and everyone will sigh for it. Therefore, someone once made a couplet in front of Guanyin Temple in the rock:
Once upon a time, I couldn't find the clear water and sand!
There is no fairy in Shouyan, and today I am in the green hills and trees. I am late!
In the second year of Song Shaoding (A.D. 1229), Wei Shi, then the magistrate of Yongning County, felt this and wrote this big birthday word on the day of celebrating his birthday, and invited hundreds of long-lived old people in the county to write a small birthday word. He personally arranged it, wrote it with the strokes of the big birthday characters over the years, and then hired famous craftsmen to carve it on the stone wall in the rock, which became today's "hundred-year map."
The Hundred Days Map is175cm high and148cm wide. The strokes of the whole font are very compact and vigorous. It is regular script, but it is different from regular script. But more solemn, simple and mellow. Its hook is like a dew front, and its tip is like a peach. It is neither regular script nor official script, but it looks like regular script, official script and cursive script. However, flawless, flawless, impeccable!
The characters 100 in "Hundred Years Old Picture" have their own merits, different fonts and no similarities. Among them are Kai, Li, Zhuan, Xing, Cao and Oracle Bone Inscriptions. All-encompassing, the source of style also shows the little beast next to it. Among them, the dynasties were Shang and Han. According to geographical points (called country names in ancient times), there are Qili, Yan Shu, Xixia Shu Tai, etc. As far as fonts are concerned, there are easy to pass,, and Shu. As far as calligraphers are concerned, there are Cheng Miao, Huai Su, Yu (Shinan), Cai (Xiang), Xiao Wang (Dedication) and Wang Xizhi's "Changing Goose Classic" style and so on. There are also words such as tadpole, star, fire, tree, dragon, phoenix and treasure. There are corals, ivory, rhinoceros horn, pearls, bear's paw, jade laurel and so on in the "cornucopia" with peach-shaped tips, which are vivid and dazzling.
In the Hundred Years Map, we can also see the profoundness of China culture, which is the absorption and compatibility of minority culture, foreign culture and religious culture. The "Jade Emperor Astronomy" and "Seal of God" in the picture are quite legendary. Baoyi in Yaochi, Buddhist Books in Li Si and Brahma Books in the West all have a strong Buddhist flavor. Shu Tai in Xixia embodies the blending of Han culture and minority culture, while Zhang Fei Fu, Biography of Ji Huang, Letter of Huang Qingjun, Li Xuan and Died in Jun Yu show the charm of Taoism. In the cornucopia, corals, pearls and ivory can also vaguely see the historical track of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. In the inscription of Hundred Days Map, some unknown ancient calligraphers such as Xu Baigong, Pope Xu, Zheng Shangshu, Gao Jiaxian, Mrs. Qi and Mrs. Hua Kui can all be called famous calligraphers. Unfortunately, the vast sea of books is hard to find. Especially the ancient female calligraphers in China, except for a few names in Hundred Days Map, are rarely seen at home and abroad.