Notes on Kao Ting

I went to Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi during the Spring Festival and stayed in Jianyang for one night when I came back.

There is an academy in Jianyang-Kaoting Academy founded by Zhu, a philosopher in the Southern Song Dynasty. Zhu Zu was born in Jiangxi, but he had an indissoluble bond with Fujian all his life. He was born and raised in Fujian, intensively cultivated in Fujian, served as an official in Fujian, and left his footprints in many places in Fujian. In his later years, he lived in Kaoting College in Jianyang until his death and was buried in Jianyang.

Since you are in Jianyang, how can you not visit?

Kaoting Academy is located in Kaoting Village, southwest of Jianyang City. We followed the navigation and drove there. It's dusty all the way, and both sides of the road are under construction. Voice prompts arrive near the destination, get off and look around. Apart from houses and houses, there are no traces of ancient buildings on the roadside, and there is no eye-catching logo of the academy.

Asked the way, the eldest brother pointed to the road: "It's over there." I drove back for a while and still couldn't find it. Just as we looked up, we were standing in front of the gate of Kauting Academy.

It is really unfortunate that we came here and caught up with the large-scale reconstruction and expansion of the college. The whole campus was sealed by the enclosure, and only the outermost high-rise archway and the corner of the construction site inside could be seen. According to the plan, this is a magnificent tourism project. In the future, it will be a magnificent building complex with soaring eaves and splendid temples.

I really don't want to close my eyes to the air. I stood on tiptoe outside the fence and craned my neck to see the archway. I hope I can't go near it, but my neck is sore and my eyes are sore, and I still can't see the fine print on the archway.

I got on the bus angrily and was about to give up. I was overjoyed to find that there was a path in the paddock 50 meters away.

So one foot high and one foot low, we finally approached the archway. The small print on the side of the plaque tells future generations that the archway was built during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. The shape is simple and heavy, and there are various auspicious patterns such as cranes and animals. Under the erosion of wind and rain, the stone has changed color, but it shows the vicissitudes and heaviness of the years.

Standing for a long time before leaving, my chest is full and I have an unspeakable mood.

When I came back to check the information, I knew that the Kaoting Academy in history had long since declined, except for an archway that was an old thing of the Ming Dynasty, and another ancestral temple that was built in the 1990s. How many things are wasted when big waves wash sand and floods roll?

The song sings well, "Whether you love it or not, it is the dust of history." There are honors and humiliations, sorrows and joys, and all you can find are clues, which have become legends on paper.