Daming Palace

--Spirit Escape

The place where I live is very close to the Daming Palace. So I often go for a walk in the Daming Palace after dinner. Nowadays, when people go to Daming Palace, they are naturally happy and relaxed. The current Daming Palace is called Daming Palace Park.

People demolished the village in the city and repaired the Daming Palace Park. The former political center and cultural center of the country has faded away. There is also a bronze statue of the imperial concubine next to the Taiye Pool, and Danfeng Gate is still majestic. How many people have walked from Danfeng Gate to Xuanwu Gate? No one would ask such silly and meaningless questions.

When I first went to Daming Palace, what impressed me most was seeing a work of art. It was a horse, made of welded steel bars. Under the blue sky, it was rusty and the horse's legs were filled with stones by the children. It is like a living horse that has traveled from the Tang Dynasty, with only its skeleton left. Standing in the park, motionless and extremely discordant. It is pitiful and makes people feel worried. This is exactly what the artist wants to express. Time flies, but the Daming Palace is no longer the original Daming Palace. It is riddled with holes and no longer glorious.

The destiny of the Daming Palace is only connected with the destiny of people and the destiny of this country. At first, Daming Palace was called Yong 'an Palace. It is said that Li Shimin built a nursing home for his father Li Yuan, but Li Yuan passed away before Yong 'an Palace could be built.

Then the fate of Daming Palace is destined to begin to change. Why is it called Daming Palace? It is said to be based on Wei Zheng's words: "If you use copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; if you use the past as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall; if you use people as a mirror, you can understand the gains and losses." So Yong 'an Palace was renamed Daming Palace.

Daming Palace is indeed big enough. It is located in Longshou Plain and overlooking Xi'an. It is equivalent to 4 Forbidden City, 3 Versailles, 12 Kremlin, 13 Louvre, 15 Buckingham Palaces, and 500 football fields. Seventeen emperors of the Tang Dynasty handled government affairs here and received envoys from abroad. It can be said that the Daming Palace witnessed the glory of the Tang Dynasty.

The good times did not last long, and the Daming Palace was later destroyed in war. After being beaten by wind and rain, it eventually became an urban village in Xi'an. It's dirty and messy. Anyone who lives here would never have imagined that this was once an important place for the royal family and the site of the glorious palaces of the Tang Dynasty.

"During the Qin Dynasty, the bright moon and the Han Dynasty, the people of the Long March of thousands of miles had not yet returned.", "I have not sold my iron yet, so I will grind and recognize my predecessor.", "The green mountains are still there, and the sunset is red several times. "," I don't know where the face is going, but the peach blossoms are still smiling in the spring breeze." I can't think of a better sentence than these to describe my mood at the moment.

This is how the Daming Palace is. Its destiny is not over yet, so there is a matter of demolishing the village in the city and restoring the appearance of the Daming Palace. Now the Daming Palace is a park that everyone can visit for free. Old people and old women practice songs inside, couples whisper inside, and children run inside. It finally let go of its busyness, let go of its heaviness, and ushered in relief. Once relaxed, it will look young.

So the Daming Palace you see now is the young Daming Palace. It is the Daming Palace after rebirth. But its destiny is not over yet. Things related to people never end easily. Because people are complex. Only when it is completely forgotten by people and time can the Daming Palace be regarded as the soil of nature.

Like the Daming Palace, there were two people with a similar fate. Two cemeteries should be mentioned here, which are also the cemeteries I was familiar with before, namely Meng Tian's tomb and Fusu's tomb. Meng Tian was a general of the Qin Dynasty. Meng Tian's tomb is on the campus of our Suide No. 1 Middle School, but no one has ever noticed it.

When I was studying Jia Yi's "On Crossing the Qin Dynasty", I read: "Meng Tian built the Great Wall in the north and guarded the fān fence, but the Xiongnu were more than seven hundred miles away. The Hu people did not dare to go south to herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and repay their grievances." Only then did he pay homage to this general. I didn't even know about this person before.

And he slept downstairs. His tomb is huge, like a hill. Many couples who fall in love or students who study early like to climb this hill. I also heard from the old man that after Meng Tian was ordered to die, his 300,000 soldiers, each carrying soil, dug up this hill. This small mountain and the tomb of Gongzi Fusu are facing each other in a distance, and it has been more than a thousand years. The people of Sri Lanka have gone, leaving the world with a lot of emotion.

In the past two years, Suide has also attached great importance to the protection of cultural relics. So Meng Tian Square was built next to Suide No. 1 Middle School. Now, more people should know Meng Tian.

A big figure, a big representative place, is always glorious and beautiful when born. But when I went there, it was always sad and tearful.

The rules, friendship, loyalty, rights, wealth, etc. in the world are all like nets. When I was in high school, I chatted with my classmates and said,"If I were Meng Tian, I would revolt." Make Young Master Fusu emperor." Now that I think about it, I just laugh. It was difficult at that time, and people at that time had the same thinking at that time. However, whether it was Fusu or Meng Tian, we can understand how sad and conflicted they were at that time even now.

Walking from Danfeng Gate of Daming Palace to Xuanwu Gate is very tiring. As I said before, the Daming Palace is very big. But people who exercise will feel good. I hope that people walking in Daming Palace now can learn an important lesson in life from Daming Palace Park. You can live easily, you can live freely and easily, and you can get rid of the shackles of various networks.

Compared with the rise and fall of the Daming Palace for more than 1000 years, people's destiny is too short. Compared with the rise and fall of the universe over hundreds of millions of years, the Daming Palace is nothing.

Walking in the Daming Palace must be relaxing. Bring this mood to work and life. We must be like meteors. Although short, we must be bright and shine across the sky! Let those who see us feel happy. They will even make the best wishes on our faces.

Excerpted from the works of independent scholar, poet, and writer Ling Duzhe.