What did it cost to set up the Datang monument of Songyang Academy weighing ten tons?

Songyang Academy is the first famous institution of higher learning in ancient China. There is a famous scenic spot in the academy-Datang Monument, which attracts tourists from all over the world. However, many people can't imagine the story behind the heavy stone tablet. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, nine people died in order to erect it. Do you know what this is about? Bian Xiao is here to reveal the secret for you.

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Songyang Academy is located at the southern foot of Songshan Mountain in Dengfeng City, Zhengzhou City, Henan Province. It is one of the four ancient academies in China, and its historical buildings, building scale and historical position are of great value. The so-called "Tsinghua campus exists today, and Songyang Academy existed in ancient times" explains the position of Songyang Academy in the minds of literati in one sentence.

Entering Songyang Academy, I saw that it is backed by Suojifeng, the main peak of Songshan Mountain, and faces Shuangxi River with flowing water. The peaks on both sides are arched and picturesque. The courtyard is towering with cypresses, and the environment is simple and quiet, elegant and quiet, which is intoxicating. Emperor Qianlong visited this place in person, leaving a poem "Songyang Academy has the clearest scenery, and the stone building is also engraved with the Forbidden City". Songyang Academy not only has the figure of Emperor Qianlong, but also traces of other "historical celebrities". Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Sima Guang and Fan Zhongyan. All of them have given lectures here, so Songyang Academy is also called "the educational place of famous Confucianism". Part of Sima Guang's Zi Tong Zhi Jian was even completed in Songyang Academy. In the mid-Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi reformed and Cheng Cheng gave lectures at Songyang Academy. He often demonstrates his theory with Sima Guang and Fan Zhongyan, and is tit for tat with Wang Anshi ... Songyang Academy is just a cultural shrine.

One of the scenic spots is a must, attracting countless tourists to visit. It's a monument in the Tang Dynasty, which is called "Monument to the Sage of Songyang Pass in the Tang Dynasty". Tang stele was carved in the third year of Tang Tianbao. The monument is 9.02m high, 2.04m wide and1.05m thick. The production process of the whole monument is very grand, but the characters on the monument surface are beautifully carved. After careful counting, I can only see that the whole inscription has the words 1078. The main content is that Sun Taichong, a Taoist priest in Songyang, was an alchemist in Li Longji during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty. It is said that the inscription was written by Li with Pei Jiong's eight-part essay. The handwriting is very correct, vigorous and elegant, and it can even be called the masterpiece of official script in Tang Dynasty.

In the Tang Dynasty, the stele weighed more than 80 tons, and only one stele cap weighed more than 10 tons. How was it erected? In the folk, the legendary story of "standing the Tang Monument with wisdom" has become one of the heavy historical contents of the Tang Monument.

What is the specific content of the story? It is said that the story happened in the Xuanzong period of the Tang Dynasty. Li Longji, the grandson of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, was the emperor's father from the first year of his life to the fifteenth year of Tianbao's reign. He was the longest-serving emperor in the Tang Dynasty and also the emperor in its heyday.

In the early days of his reign, he judged the situation and chose the right people, but in the later period, he loved treacherous court official Li. Just then, Li Longji happened to be seriously ill, and there was no way to cure him. Ministers are in a panic, trying to find a way. At that time, Songyang Academy was not an academy, but a Taoist temple called Songyang Temple. In Songyangguan, there is a Taoist Sun Taichong who can see a doctor and make an alchemist. He sought immortality for Li Longji, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, and made nine rounds of alchemy all day. Later, he didn't know how to cure Li Longji's disease.

Li is the grandson of Tang Taizu V and the son of Li Si. He joined the army in Yangzhou. He was very popular with Li Longji at court. He was very happy when he saw that Sun Taichong had cured the emperor. On second thought, he thought of a way to cater to the emperor-to draw up the inscription of Sun Daoshi's alchemy savior and invite Tang Xuanzong to make a limited-time giant monument to pray for the emperor. Li Longji was very happy when he heard this. I sincerely pray for my health. What's wrong with that? So Li Longji approved it quickly.

Li got the permission, and carefully supervised the Tang tablet, and even personally wrote the inscription. After the huge stone tablet is carved, the craftsmen put the pedestal firmly first, and then put the stone tablet firmly. When installing the huge stone hat, the craftsmen met with difficulties. How can I safely put this big guy on the tablet?

After the problem appeared, the craftsman had no solution and the project stopped immediately. But Li is still waiting to ask the emperor for credit. How can he afford it? So he was anxious, so he thought of a cruel trick-killing the county magistrate and setting rules to see who dared to neglect and who was unwilling to find a way. The head of the first county magistrate fell off, and everyone still couldn't find a better way. It was not until three county magistrates and six leading workers were killed that craftsmen came up with a way to bury the monument with loess and then cover it with a cap. Finally, dozens of tons of monuments were successfully built.

Although the monument to the Tang Dynasty has stood up to this day, it has been appreciated by the audience, but the story behind it is embarrassing. The emperor's decision to pat his head cost nine lives, and today's Datang Monument was created. This is indeed an unusual stone tablet.