On the 14th day of the first month of the decade of Tongzhi, Gu Wenbin received a letter of help from Yu Yue soon after he came back from Beijing. Originally, I wanted to print Lakeside Talk into seven volumes, but I was short of money. He said he would spend 50 yuan. Please sponsor Gu.
Yu Yue, a native of Deqing, Zhejiang, was a famous scholar, writer, Confucian scholar, ancient philologist and calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty. Thirty years later, Daoguang became a bachelor of Hanlin. After he was dismissed from office, he moved to Suzhou and devoted himself to academic research, mainly studying Confucian classics, and cooperating with other scholars in historical and exegetical studies.
However, poor scholars are always tired of money besides being full of knowledge. Qu Yuan, where they live, was built with the help of relatives and friends, but now they are short of money and have no money to publish books. Gu Wenbin is cheerful and generous, and is keen on public welfare undertakings. He has helped countless people in his life, not to mention publishing a book. He visited Yu Yue the day after he received the letter, and promised to personally support the publication of A Tale of Tiger House. Gu Wenbin and Yu Yue are ten years apart, and they are both scholars. The former is an official with an open career, and the latter is a scholar called "studying hard" by his teacher Zeng Guofan. One asks for help honestly, and the other gives financial support enthusiastically. Judging from their future contacts, their relationship is quite good.
After the Spring Festival in the same year, Gu Wenbin worked in Ning for ten years. During his visit to his boss in Hangzhou, he and his friends visited a four-story building in Hangzhou, only to know that this building is the same as the "Cloud Building to be Built". It can be said that it won my heart first. The courtyards on all sides are very wide, surrounded by Taihu rocks. Two pools are chiseled and decorated with cloisters and pavilions. In other words, this project will cost tens of thousands of gold, which is beyond my ability.
Although my ability is limited at present, this dream has been bothering me. Tired of officialdom and eager to go home for the elderly, his son Gu Cheng responded to his father's call and found land to build a garden in Suzhou. On April 4, the first year of Guangxu, he learned that the emperor had approved his application for resignation and immediately wrote a poem: "He felt sick and very moved, and raised his eyebrows happily." Like an urchin who left school. '
After returning to Suzhou, Gu Wenbin and his son Gu Cheng continued to improve the Yiyuan project. For example, when buying lake stone trees, they asked Yu Yue, Wu Yun, Shen Bingcheng and other friends to write a plaque. Yiyuan East is "three houses, surrounded by stone fences, with hundreds of plum trees and beautiful forests". Gu Wenbin is called Tang Meihua, and there is a "Dundong" in the west. A room in the cave was named "Old Moonlight". This plaque was inscribed by Yu Yue. "Old Moonlight" is taken from "Old Moonlight with Dark Fragrance" by the Song Dynasty poet Jiang Kui: "The old moon shines on me several times, and plum blossoms play the flute. Arouse jade people and climb regardless of the cold. " Qu Yuan and Yiyuan Garden are close at hand. Yu Yue said, "Lotte said,' The bright moon is like three nights', but can the moon in a garden be divided into Qu Yuan? The ancients bought thousands of neighbors, not bad! " Obviously, Grain Rain is happy to be a neighbor. On the stone screen on the east side of Xiaocanglang in Yiyuan, there is Yu Yue's ink and wash-triple screen.
On May 17, the third year of Guangxu, Gu Wenbin visited Yu Yue again and sent the Notes of Yiyuan Garden, asking him to write the Notes of Yiyuan Garden. The garden has been built, so it is very important to ask people to write down the ins and outs of Yiyuan and the landscape of the garden. Yu Yue is the most suitable candidate. Last October, at the invitation of Kang Sheng, Yu Yue wrote "Leaving the Garden" for him, thus vividly recording H.
Yu Yue directly said in the Collection of Art Gardens: "Fang Bo of Guzishan not only built Chunyu Village, but also opened a garden on its east side to save his life." This is' Yiyuan Garden'. "He started with the introduction of" Looking after Children and Grandchildren ",went through Fangzhai, Songlaige and the side walls, looked south at the beautiful house in the garden, Wu Bi Qifeng, and turned east to the Plum Blossom Hall and Lotus Pavilion surrounded by plum trees. Flowers and trees are sparse, pavilions and pavilions, lotus ponds and stone screens, and winding paths lead to secluded places. Finally, he wrote all the twists and turns. There are many strange peaks on the mountain, and great lakes win. Fang Bo personally manages the garden. When the garden was successful, he went to Wu.
Yu yiyuan's evaluation not only subjectively affirmed the beauty of the garden created by friends, but also objectively described it. As he said, "crawling and playing all day, describe it roughly." The relationship between Grace Garden and Yoga Yu continues. 1987, Xu Baojiu, the great grandson of Yu Yue, set up the "Plum Shi Ting" plaque, which is now hung in Lianyuexuan. The following is Yu Yue's art garden.
Gu Wenbin likes to write poems and lyric poems, and left eight volumes of Mei Lu Louci. On July 4th, 11th year of Tongzhi, a friend who was far away in Ningbo and missed Suzhou wrote a poem "Feng Yinfu": "Look at the old people in my hometown, pay the money, and the social drama is fresh. Blue clouds swim in secret language dolls, and white dew and light sea water block Thailand. Poems from afar are popular, and Guangxin is like a blind date. Joe is used to taking care of Mao's female companion and asking Ziting to help him be a neighbor. " On the fifth and sixth consecutive days, Gu Wenbin and Yu Yue wrote two poems. Titles, plaques, poems and songs are the ways of communication between scholars. Their elegance has a vivid past, like yesterday's clouds.