Shi Naian was born in Shijiaqiao outside Nagato, Suzhou. According to Shi's Genealogy, Yan Duan is a descendant of Confucius, one of the seventy-two sages. His father is a boatman. At the age of 65,438+03, he entered the Hu private school, and at the age of 65,438+09, he was a scholar and married Ji. 29 years old, juren.
In order to escape the war, Shi Naian moved here to live in seclusion and wrote Water Margin. According to folklore, Zhang Shicheng rose up against Yuan, called the prince of Wu to Pingjiang (Suzhou) and hired him as a military adviser. Later, Zhang Shicheng reduced his salary to Yuan, refused to persuade him, and left his post to sit in Torinji, Zhutang, Jiangyin. Zhu Yuanzhang sent troops to besiege Pingjiang and the war spread to Jiangyin. Shi Naian remembered that Gu Ting, a friend of Songjiang Tongzhi and Jiaxing Daotongzhi, was from Xinghua. There is a remote place, surrounded by water, with inconvenient transportation. There has always been a saying that "Zhaoyang (Xinghua alias) has been good at avoiding soldiers since ancient times", so I specially sent someone to send Gu Ting a letter with a poem:
Wandering around the world, I found a good home in Yangshan (referring to Zhaoyang, improvisation).
May grass plant many kinds of trees, but don't teach plums to bear fruit like melons. (At that time, the folk song: "Li Sheng cucumber, the people are homeless")
After reading the letter, Gu Ting immediately wrote back to Shi Naian, welcoming him to take refuge in Xinghua. The letter also answered a poem:
I came from Jiangnan for advice and sent a smile to my old colleague.
This is not heaven. Where can Taoyuan avoid Qin?
After receiving the letter, Shi Naian left his eldest brother Yan Ming in Suzhou, took his second wife Shen Shi, his second brother Chae Yeon and his master Luo Guanzhong, braved the strong wind, crossed the Jiangbei River, stayed at Gu Ting Xinghua's home first, and then, with the help of Gu Ting, bought land and real estate at Baima Farm, a sparsely populated seaside east of Xinghua, and lived a secluded life of water economy. He met many farmers and salt people. When writing this book, Shi Naian wrote two poems:
Emperor Taiping sat in the middle, and the cautious officials were divided into four parts.
But see the fat sheep but not the elders, and don't smell the horse moving generals.
I'm a family business, and I want to send an essay with a eulogy.
Don't learn from the southeast, there are clouds in the northwest.
Generally speaking, life is a mound, and so is a hundred years.
The plow is safe and respectful to the chariot, and the sudden temperature is better than the fur.
Zi is an empty tiger, Zhuang Sheng is a cow.
The night is cold, thin and drunk, and the language is not surprising.
The first one is about confessing one's political ideals, hoping that a wise monarch can rule the world and let the people live and work in peace and contentment, and there will be no more wars. The second book is about his quiet life of writing books in seclusion, which is not obvious in this world, but it is also very comfortable and comfortable. However, the fact is not what Shi Naian thought. After the Water Margin was written, it spread to the palace and spread like wildfire. Zhu Yuanzhang said: "This book is also a book that advocates chaos. This person must have a conspiracy." He ordered Shi Naian to be imprisoned for more than a year. After being rescued by Liu Bowen, Yu Ming was released in Hongwu for three years and died in Huai 'an on the way.
After his death, his first 12 grandson Shi Dianbang initiated the transformation of his former residence in Baiju Town into a stone ancestral hall. Later, after several repairs and expansions, it became Sanjin, and there was an auditorium next to the hall. The first entrance is the hall, which has a teahouse; The second is the bookstore where the artist said "Water Margin"; The third entrance is Yin Fu Hall, which is dedicated to the spirits of Shi Naian, the ancestor of a thousand lines, and his descendants, and is used to worship ancestors here every spring and autumn. Unfortunately, the Stone Temple was destroyed in War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. In the early 1990s, the Ministry of Culture and the People's Government of Jidafeng County, Jiangsu Province raised funds from various sources. Referring to the Restoration Map of Shi's Ancestral Hall drawn by Professor Yu Heng of Fudan University in Shanghai, the Shi Naian Memorial Hall was designed on August 20th 1993 under the auspices of a famous ancient architecture expert and professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University.
As soon as I entered the gate of the memorial hall, the first thing I saw was a white marble Shi Naian sculpture standing in the courtyard. It was modeled after the traditional Chinese painting design created by Professor Fan Ceng, director of the Oriental Art Department of Nankai University in Tianjin, and it was the masterpiece of Mr. Ye, the vice president of Nanjing Sculptor and Architects Association. Shi Naian, wearing a square scarf and a wide robe, has a thin face, deep eyes, a scroll in his left hand and a beard in his right hand, just like a cynical scholar.
Behind the statue, there is a viewing hall. Above the gate hangs the "Light of the Country" inscribed by the female calligrapher Xiao Xian, and 48 silk comic books introducing Shi Naian's life are displayed on the wall. Zhenjiang calligrapher Li Zonghai wrote a couplet saying:
Self-sacrifice is chivalrous, but it is based on Lu Da, Song Wu and Li Kui JY;
It was written by Chao Gai, Song Jiang and Wu Yong.
Then there is the exhibition hall, above which hangs the inscription "Wen Yi Ren" by the calligrapher Wu Zhongqi. Shi Naian's historical relics are displayed in the museum, which is divided into four parts: Shi Naian's family background, life, anecdotes and social influence. There are hundreds of historical materials such as the life of Shi, the epitaph of Shi Gongrang, the stone epitaph, etc., which have solved the "Shi Naian mystery" that has not been solved for hundreds of years. Fan Ning, a researcher at the Institute of Literature of China Academy of Social Sciences, happily wrote a poem after visiting here:
White pony people say that there is a reason why white pony people are passed down from generation to generation.
The stars moved a few times, leaving only a lonely and angry grave.
In the exhibition hall, people can also see many different versions of Water Margin. According to incomplete statistics, since Jiajing period, there have been 53 versions of Water Margin in China. It is also widely circulated abroad. South Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Vietnam, Italy, France, Russia, Hungary, Czech Republic, Romania and other countries have translations of Water Margin. The American version includes Water Margin, Selected Works of Water Margin, China's Classical Novel Water Margin, Shui Pai Biography, Wild Pig Forest and so on. There are more than 20 versions in Japan. Shi Naian and his work Water Margin have great influence. In China, there are China Water Margin Society, Zhejiang Water Margin Society, Shandong Liangshan Water Margin Research Society, Yancheng Water Margin Society, Dafeng Shi Naian Research Society and other academic groups specializing in Shi Naian and Water Margin, which hold seminars and publish publications. After the large-scale TV series "Water Margin" was broadcast, the audience was hundreds of millions. As Japanese sinologist Yan Puwen said, "Water Margin is an earth-shattering essay, the crown of China's novels and an excellent classical novel in the world literary world". Lu Qingbin, a doctor from London University, traveled across the ocean, not far from Wan Li to visit Shi Naian in Dafeng Baiju. Shi Naian is not only a literary master in China, but also a celebrity in the world literary world. The Water Margin is not only a treasure of China literature and art, but also the essence of world literature.
Shi Naian Memorial Hall (now Shijiaqiao Village, Xinduo Township, xinghua city) is more than ten miles west of Shi Naian Cemetery. A brick three-door archway stands in front of the tomb, and a stone carving of "Nai 'an Gongfang" hangs on the middle beam. The mausoleum is hidden among pines and cypresses, and the stone tablet inscribed by Zhao Puchu "Rebuilding Shi Naian's Tomb" stands in front of the tomb. There is also a green island nearby, and a small river flows around it. People look down from a height, but they are like hydrangeas on a lion's plate, so they are commonly called "land of geomantic omen". Zhang Huiren, an associate researcher at the Institute of Literature of Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, said:
On the other side, the white pony is misty, and the lion with the ball is bathed in the morning sunshine.
Nai Anchun lies down calmly and comments are judged by people.