The Book of Drunken Weng Ting by Famous Scholars of All Dynasties (I)

Song Shi's Cursive Book

In the six years of Song and Yuan You (A.D. 1092), Wang Zhao of Chuzhou Zhizhou entrusted Su Shi to write The Story of Drunken Weng Pavilion. Su Shi generously agreed to write the cursive book "Drunk Weng Ting Ji" and the regular book "Drunk Weng Ting Ji". However, after the completion of the cursive book "Drunk Weng Ting Ji", the manuscript has been kept secret for a long time. Zhao Mengfu of Yuan Dynasty, Song Guang of Ming Dynasty, Shen Zhou and other people have successively made postscripts on it. It was not until the fifth year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1571 A.D.) that Liu Xun, his son-in-law, drew his stone in Yanling (now Yanling County, Henan Province), and the long scroll of cursive scripts was tossed and drifted into the palace, where he was lost in flames. In the 31st year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty (1692 A.D.), because the Yanling Stele was worn out, the descendants of Gaogong used the rubbing stone of Yanling to build their ancestral temple in Xinzheng (now Xinzheng City, Henan Province).

The tablet of Su Shi's herbal book "Drunken Weng Pavilion" in Mao Ling is known as "the tablet of Yan Ling". The original tablet has been lost. At present, only rubbings are kept in the archives of Yan Ling and Xuchang Municipality. The tablet of Su Shi's herbal book "Drunken Weng Pavilion" in New Zheng Gaogong Temple, known as "the new Zheng Stele", was collected by Zhengzhou Museum in 1959 and preserved to date. In 1997, the Langyashan Management Committee built Tong Paradise (Ouyang Xiu Memorial Hall), collected the famous books "Drunken Weng Pavilion Records" from past dynasties, and reproduced Su Shi's cursive book "Drunken Weng Pavilion Records".