★ Tourist location: Baoyan Scenic Area, Changshu, Suzhou

Walking along the mountain road, I did walk a lot, and finally saw groups of statues after groups. It turned out that this was Liancheng Shibi Square. I don't think the young couple didn't get here. In fact, it's just the difference between ninety-nine steps and a hundred steps.

With the natural Yushan mountain as the background, the square extracts the essence of Yushan culture and uses sculpture to showcase the seven cultural highlights of Yushan poetry school, painting school, piano school, printing school, book collection, calligraphy, and medicine.

A group of sculptures in medicine has four people. One is sitting on a small bench, the other is standing, and the other is obviously a doctor. There is a patient sitting opposite him. The doctor is taking the patient's pulse.

Poetry and painting are group carvings, especially in painting, there are five people, most of whom are elderly people. Some are twisting their beards and smiling, some are leaning over to enjoy the painting, and some are sitting aside and smiling happily.

I continued to walk forward. This part of the road was a little lonely. Except for my little friend and I, I didn't see anyone else on the road. I guess they all walked out of the way and looked back on the same path.

Fortunately, after walking for long, I saw the sign of Emperor Shiyuan. Emperor's teacher, is that Weng Tonghe? There are many celebrities in Changshu, but Weng Tonghe is definitely one of the best among them.

The Emperor's Teacher Garden is located in the Fengxiang Forest, opposite the Pingyin Lu where Weng Tonghe lived in seclusion in his later years. It is built by using the inner and outer wooden plank roads to change the terrain. Walking in the maple forest is like walking in the air in the maple forest. Outside the plank road, there are also sculptures and steles to tell the story of Weng Tonghe's legendary life.

At the entrance is a statue of Weng Tonghe. He is dressed in Qing Dynasty costumes, holding a book in his hands, and looking into the distance solemnly, as if he is thinking about something or looking forward to something.

Weng Tonghe was smart and studious since he was a child. He was able to recite the four books and five classics when he was six years old. He was a scholar at the age of fifteen and took the tribute examination at the age of nineteen. He ranked fifth in the first class in the imperial examination. He was promoted to the first place in the reexamination and was famous throughout Jinghua. At the age of twenty-two, he won the exam, and at the age of twenty-six, he participated in the general examination. He won the first prize, which opened his legendary life.

In the first year of Tongzhi, Weng Tonghe served as the co-examiner of the Shaanxi Examination and the chief examiner of the Shanxi Provincial Examination. After his father passed away, he went home to observe his filial piety until the four-year period of Tongzhi expired. He was promoted to the right Zhongyun. Later, he was promoted all the way. In the tenth year of Tongzhi, he was awarded the Bachelor of Cabinet and Assistant Minister of Rites. In the eleventh year of Tongzhi, he was awarded the first grade and the top wear. In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, he was awarded the Bachelor of Cabinet. As a top scholar, his knowledge is indeed enough to teach the emperor. Later, he became a teacher at Guangxu. The teachers of the two dynasties became Weng Tonghe's most prominent identity.

In the eighth year of Guangxu, Weng Tonghe was appointed Minister of Military Affairs. He was mainly involved in handling the Yunnan military reimbursement fraud case and the Sino-French and Vietnam negotiations. Around the tenth year of Guangxu's reign, he served as president of the imperial examination, examiner of Shuntian Rural Examination, plus Prince Taibao, and gave him eyes with flower feathers and purple reins. It can be said that he was a high-ranking official.

In the twenty-fourth year of Guangxu's reign, Kang Youwei was recruited to discuss new policies. In August, a coup was launched and Weng Tonghe was dismissed. Guangxu died at home thirty years later at the age of seventy-five. In the first year of Xuantong, an edict was issued to restore the official position, and later posthumously posthumous title of Wen Gong. For Wenchen, having the word "Wen" in his posthumous title is a great mourning after death.

Weng Tonghe is good at poetry and painting, and is famous for his calligraphy. His calligraphy drew on the strengths of everyone, having a lot of experience with Yan Zhenqing and the Northern Wei Stele Edition, and absorbed the strengths of Liu Yong, Qian Feng, He Shaoji, Zhao Zi 'ang, Dong Qichang and others, forming Weng's unique calligraphy style and became an influential calligrapher in the late Qing Dynasty.

The imperial teacher of the two dynasties presided over court education for 40 years and put in great effort to cultivate two generations of emperors. At the same time, he was also an important official of the court and held extremely important positions in the Qing Dynasty. He was a powerful figure in modern Chinese history. The two dynasties were honest officials and did make many political achievements during their tenure. However, he and Li Hongzhang were at odds. Later generations believed that the two had long-cherished wishes. Weng Tonghe "retaliated against Li Hongzhang for selfish ends, trapped and excluded him, and used all means", which led to the defeat of the Beiyang Navy due to military expenditure issues. This statement is too biased. Weng Tonghe's pattern should not be so small. The political views of Weng and Li are indeed different. Weng is the leader of the Qing faction and belongs to the Imperial Party Group. Li Hongzhang, on the other hand, was an important minister of the later party. In the final analysis, the two men's struggle for opinions between the two parties was also the struggle between the emperor and the queen.

The statue is very large and basically displays all the major events Weng Tonghe participated in his life. There are also explanations of the events next to it, which is very intuitive.

Walking out of the Imperial Teacher Garden is the "Yushan Impression" scenic spot, which is the seal cutting work of the Yushan Seal School. More than 120 classic works by Lin Gao, Zhao Guni, Pang Cai, Pang Shilong and others, representatives of the Yushan Seal School, are carved on a cliff and huge stone more than a kilometer long, forming a display corridor for natural seal cutting works.

We have seen seal cutting works by these famous artists in the Changshu Museum, but the feeling they give people is different when they are carved on stone. Seal carving meandered up the height of the hillside. Lin Gao's position in the Yushan Seal School is the most important, so his works started at the foot of the mountain. In the museum, I only felt that the seals were small and exquisite, and every word was ancient. Without the annotations next to it, we would not be able to recognize these characters at all. When they were placed on the hillside and engraved on huge rocks, every word was enlarged, and even the spirit seemed to be much greater.

While climbing the mountain, we admired the seal cuts on both sides. Of course, we could only recognize a few of the words on these seals. However, I made a casual comment. I really pretended to understand gold hooks and silver paintings. Fortunately, we both knew each other very well, so it was just a joke, and we weren't lonely along the way.

As the slope becomes deeper and higher, the vision becomes wider and wider. At first glance, you can see the gathering of residential houses in the south of the Yangtze River. What is more attractive is Shanghu in the distance. The weather is fine today, and you can still see the sparkling light from a long distance.

Imprints are everywhere, and you will always inadvertently find a side of the road. When you turn your head, you will find another piece behind you. Some are painted red, some are natural, and some are black and gray. I don't know if the color has faded due to the erosion of wind and rain.

What is surprising is that Zhao Guni's daughter Zhao Lin is also a seal carver. Although she is a daughter, her works are powerful and powerful.

In addition to Zhao's father and daughter, there are also Pang's two heroes, namely Pang Cai and Pang Shilong. It can be seen that the technology of printing and engraving is also passed down from family to family. After all, it has been influenced by it since childhood.

There was a pavilion on a cliff. We had clearly walked below but there was no way to get through. Looking at the height, we thought that the view must be wider, and we couldn't help but look for a way to one side. Since there is a pavilion, there is always a way through. Sure enough, after walking for a while, I really found a hiking path.

The vision here is really great, and your line of sight is completely unobstructed. Although it was still early spring, the ground was already covered with a layer of green. Unfortunately, there are no mountains in the distance, so Shanghu seems a little lonely. Of course, if you look across the lake, Yushan is its best background.