Ouyang Xiu and Fengle Pavilion

When you come to Chuzhou and Langya Mountain, people will think of Ouyang Xiu, a great scholar of the Northern Song Dynasty, who wrote the ancient classic "Drunken Weng Pavilion" and want to go to the Drunken Weng Pavilion to see the Drunken Weng's legacy. However, many people tend to overlook the Fengle Pavilion, which is opposite to the "No. 1 Pavilion in the World" drunk Weng Pavilion. In fact, the relationship between Ouyang Xiu and Fengle Pavilion is closer.

Ouyang Xiu was framed by the Conservatives of the court because of the New Qingli Policy in 1045. He was transferred from Hebei to Chuzhou and demoted to Zhizhou by the inspectors. This relegation was a major blow to Ouyang Xiu's politics, ideology and life. From Ouyang Xiu's poem Wen Yan from the Beihe River in Chuzhou, Hebei Province, written on his way to Renchuzhou, his desolate mood can be seen in his poem "Willow frost on the wild bank is white, and five more shocked the sleeping guests". However, Ouyang Xiu was not a sour and corrupt scholar. When he arrived in Chu, he worked hard to govern, lenient and benevolent, and shared happiness with the people, showing his maturity as a politician. Ouyang Xiu's "traveling with the Chu people" and "looking up at the mountains and listening to the spring" in Feng Le Ting Ji reflect his Confucian "noble people" thought. At the end of the full text, "the husband preaches his kindness to share happiness with the people, and the thing that assaults history" directly reveals Ouyang Xiu's political thought of "sharing happiness with the people". Feng Le Ting Ji is not only the expression of Ouyang Xiu's personal thoughts, but also his understanding of the official side, his praise and yearning for the people's happiness. Fengle Pavilion is famous all over the world and Fengle Pavilion is famous for it.

So, how did the Fengle Pavilion recorded in The Records of Fengle Pavilion be built and developed? Unlike the drunk Weng Pavilion built by the mountain monk Zhixian, the Fengle Pavilion was Ouyang Xiu's own work from site selection to completion. In The Record of Fengle Pavilion, Ouyang Xiu clearly recorded that Ouyang was happy to drink Chushui water, and the place where he sought spring water was "on top of the hill, towering but special; on the bottom of the valley, but deep hidden; there were clear springs, but looked up" and loved its scenery, so "sparse springs cut stones, open up the ground for pavilions", and took the meaning of "prosperity of things" and "joy with the people" to make this pavilion. Name "Fengle Pavilion". Ouyang Xiu loved Fengle Pavilion, and in the winter of the year when the pavilion was built (six years of the Qingli calendar), he added a scene to Fengle Pavilion (later moved to the Drunken Wong Pavilion) by "Lingxi Stone", which was found in Lingxi Village of Chudong, and wrote a letter to his friend Han Qi to share the joy of building the pavilion. Han Qi sent ten more peony plants, and Ouyang Xiude planted them on his side. In the spring of the second year after the pavilion was built (seven years of the Qingli calendar), he also ordered his assistant, Judge Xie, to plant all kinds of flowers around Fengle Pavilion, demanding that "shallow red and white should be alternated, and that they should be planted in succession; I would like to bring wine to the pavilion at four o'clock, so that I could not teach them to flower in one day" (Xie Judge Valley Seeding Flowers). Ouyang Xiu himself often planted flowers and trees here himself, from his poem "Memory of Chuzhou Valley" "All the hard work on that day is hand-planted, and today's opening and opening is the spring breeze" can imagine the scene of that year. In the autumn of the same year (seven years of the Qingli calendar), Ouyang Xiu built the Xingxin Pavilion in the east of Fengle Pavilion. Please remember Zeng Gong's work "Records of the Xingxin Pavilion". Under the direct care of Ouyang Xiu, Fengle Pavilion was built from scratch, from small to large, more and more scenic spots, more and more beautiful scenery, and Chu people also had a place of "traveling in the meantime".

With Ouyang Xiu's concern and love for Fengle Pavilion, Fengle Pavilion is constantly enriched and expanded, and Ouyang Xiu himself likes to come here. Because compared with the drunk Weng Pavilion, which needs "six or seven miles of mountain travel", the Fengle Pavilion, which is a hundred steps away from the state city, is more convenient. Therefore, most of the meetings, banquets and guests, literary associations, and people are in Fengle Pavilion. Ouyang Xiu also left a large number of poems and essays in Fengle Pavilion, such as "Valley Spring", "Three Springs in Fengle Pavilion", "Portrait Side of the Book King", "Peach Blooming in the Valley on April 9", "Fengle Pavilion Drinking" and so on. These are all Ouyang Xiu's poems inspired works in Fengle Pavilion, Fengle Pavilion, Fengle Pavilion and so on. Ouyang Xiu who relegated to Chuzhou brought a bright light. In the eighth year of Qingli (1048 A.D.), Ouyang migrated to Zhizhou of Yangzhou in the first month of the lunar calendar. Although Ouyang Xiu had only two years and four months in Chuzhou, Ouyang Xiu brought to Chuzhou such famous writings as "The Story of Drunken Wong Pavilion" and "The Story of Fengle Pavilion", which made Chuzhou famous for its mountains and rivers. Chuzhou, especially Fengle Pavilion, also comforted Ouyang Xiu's frustrated soul, and what Ouyang Xiu saw and heard in Fengle Pavilion. He felt that it provided nourishment for the maturity of his political thought, and let Ouyang Xiu "wake up" to come, put aside his indignation, build city walls, Qifengnian, broadcasting species, practice shooting, and practice the idea of "sharing happiness with the people" in Chuzhou.

Rejection to Chuzhou was a tribulation to Ouyang Xiu, but Chuzhou's administration was a transformation of Ouyang Xiu's growth. After leaving Chuzhou, Ouyang Xiu often missed Chuzhou, and Fengle Pavilion was one of the representatives of Ouyang Xiu's poems, such as "Returning Judges to Travel in the Secret Valley alone", "Recalling Chuzhou's Secret Valley", "Giving thanks to Zhongshe", "Giving thanks to Sier Pavilion to Xie Temple to return to Chuyang", etc, which were all poems of Ouyang Xiu's recalling Chuzhou and Fengle Pavilion in different periods after his departure from Chu.

After Ouyang Xiu, with scholars and ink visitors coming to visit the ruins of Ouyang Gong, the Pavilion has been expanding. More than 20 scenic spots, such as pavilions, temples, platforms, ancestral halls and temples, have been developed and built successively, but most of them were destroyed by war-torn soldiers. Until 1987, Fengle Pavilion Scenic Area was listed as a key cultural relic protection unit in Anhui Province, Fengle Pavilion.