There are a large number of calligraphy characters preserved inside and outside the ancient houses in Cai. Its carriers include stone carvings, brick carvings, paints, etc., and its contents include family instructions, couplets, celebrity epigrams, etc. There are seal script, official script, running script, regular script and cursive script. The authors are many famous writers, from the first prize, the second prize, the flower detective, the Jinshi to the Juren. Although it is mottled and hard to recognize after years of baptism, it still reveals those unchanging elegance. Walking into the ancient house and reading these calligraphy is like walking into the calligraphy grand view garden.
Calligraphy such as "Jinting", "Puyi" and "Lijia" often appears on the plaque at the gate of the mansion. Calligraphy is mostly regular script or running script, inscribed by famous calligraphers with profound calligraphy skills, which is solemn and rigorous. These inscriptions record the origin of the family-on the outer wall of the front of Qi Changcuo, there is also a couplet spliced with bricks, "Jin School, Li Family", with square lines and words in the box, which is somewhat similar to "Wonderful Biography".
"Faithful and honest, family heirloom, ancestors, poetry and calligraphy must inherit Sun Mou". Cai's predecessors advocated Confucius and Mencius and won Confucian teachings. He is honest, enthusiastic about public welfare, donating money to promote education and making contributions to disaster relief. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), he was awarded the title of senior minister by the court, and his wife was given the title of second-class wife. He knows that even if he has tens of millions of possessions, there will be days when he has no food. Only by educating future generations and establishing a career as a person is a long-term solution. Therefore, he carefully selected family instructions and asked famous artists to write or engrave them on stones, wood, halls or doors, which can be described as well-intentioned. "Brothers live together, endure it, it's not a dispute. There are children and brothers in front of us, leaving them to future generations. " This poem appears in different mansions, hoping that brothers, sons and nephews can live in harmony. In the partition of the upper hall of Cai Qian Bie Museum, you can see the Four Proverbs of Children written by Juren Wu during the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty. In Jichangcuo, you can see the words "courtesy" written on the partition of the hall. Filial piety, but clear ethics; If you accumulate a good family, your family will become successful. "In Decuo, there is a book by Yuan Jun, a scholar of Qing Daoguang." If you give me more than I can, you will be virtuous; If you stay in people's endless feelings, you can be all right. "These family training calligraphy books are various and spread all over the halls, walls and doors of ancient houses. What is self-cultivation, what is managing the family and what is serving the country still has its positive significance.
In order to better educate his descendants, he built the Drunken Classics Hall in the third year of Xuantong (19 1 1) as a place for all children of the clan to study, and invited rural sages to write books. There are inscriptions by Wu Zeng and Cai Shouxing, juren in the late Qing Dynasty, Shi Zhidong, Huang Tufu and Huang Moulie, scholars in Taiwan Province in the Qing Dynasty. "If you want to study, you don't want to learn, but you want to be clean and don't want to care; Fine is where it is, and pure is where it is. " You can see this through repeated indoctrination. People say that Cai, a senior, built a drunken temple and devoted himself to good children and grandchildren, which is indeed a far-sighted move.
The dressing room is the most classic ancient residence. She is located in the northeast corner of Dedeco, also known as Miss House. This building once staged a tearful love story. It is rumored that Cai, the nephew of Brother Cai, has an engagement with Wu Mingzhu, the daughter of Jinjiang Champion, and the Cai family is anxious to build a dressing room for the daughter of the Champion. But on the eve of the wedding, Wu Mingzhu died unexpectedly. Before she died, she asked her sister Bao Chau Ngo to complete the wedding instead of herself. On the wedding day, I came to Cai's house with Wu Mingzhu's wooden god. It never rains but it pours. Shortly after the marriage, Cai died of illness again. Poor Bao Chau Ngo became a widow at the age of 18, and never left this small building in her life. The unfortunate fate of beautiful women makes people cry. The calligraphy preserved here is also the most wonderful. The original work with the title of Lu Wu, the top scholar, "Wonderful pen gives birth to flowers, is really out of shape, and is in good health", with regular script, willow body, solid skeleton and graceful demeanor; Lu Runxiang, the top scholar born in Jiangsu Province, wrote the original book "The Case of Daobei, Dajing, Began in the Eight Dynasties, and his book" Tsinghua Langrun "is close to Europe and America. It can be said that "all the scholars here are drunk together, and the storytellers on the first floor sigh together!"
"A fragrance is far away, and everything is difficult." Silent cultural relics, endless telling. Those unspeakable years are just waiting for you to continue looking for them in ancient buildings.