南嶽總勝集 2.142

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去廟九十里。在衡陽城北。觀鎮大江有石鼓。後洞是朱陵之西門。乃唐白真人董鍊師飛昇羽化之地。仙人石恪有送殿直雷承昊奉命衡陽詩全篇云。衡陽去此正三千。一路程途甚坦然。深邃門牆三楚外。清風池館五峯前。西邊市井來商客。東嶷汀洲簇釣船。公退只應無別事。朱陵後洞訪神仙。按湘川記。此石鼓有時自鳴則兵革起。或云。盧龍推鼓入潭中。盧龍名字未詳。今驗以鼓。亦云。是盧龍廟不知立時年代。至龍朔元年八月。勅使道士郭行真醮岳。因毀廟不祀。從此之後。為郡人災患。今時百姓重祠之。至貞觀五年。故齊相公於此山頭建合江亭。唐杜荀鶴有題尋真觀詩云。寂寂白雲門。尋真不遇真。祇應松上鶴。便是洞中人。藥圃花香異。泉沙鹿跡新。題詩留姓字。他日此相親。又大中祥符年。有桂林棲霞洞暢玄先生石仲元字慶宗住持。道行超倫。詩才振楚。經營一新。重建白雲軒。下瞰青草渡。前有白雲堂白蓮池。愚自紹興丙寅度夏於是堂亦留。四十字雖不足以髣髴。其前賢但識朱陵之事。爾詩云。我愛瀟湘境（觀對瀟湘門）朱陵後洞天。白雲堂裏客。青草渡頭眠。小艇率紅鯉。幽池種白蓮。頤真堪此地。風月兩依然　本朝景德中改賜今額。

Ninety li from the Temple. It is north of the city of Hengyang. The abbey overlooks the great river where there is the Stone Drum. The rear cave is the western gate of Zhuling. It was the site where the Tang Realized Man Bai and Master of Alchemy Dong ascended to heaven as transcendents. The transcendent Shi Ke had a complete poem bidding farewell to the Palace Attendant Lei Chenghao who was commissioned to Hengyang, which says: 'Hengyang is just three thousand li from here; / The road the whole way is very smooth and calm. / Deep and secluded gates and walls lie beyond the Three Chu; / Cool breezes sweep ponds and pavilions before the Five Peaks. / To the west, merchants and travelers come to the marketplaces; / By the shoals of Eastern Yi, fishing boats cluster together. / Once retired from public affairs, there will truly be nothing else to do / But visit the divine transcendents at the rear cave of Zhuling.' According to the *Record of the Xiang River*, whenever this Stone Drum resounded of its own accord, troops and armor would arise. Some say Lu Long pushed the drum into the deep pool; the name of Lu Long is not known in detail. Verifying it by the drum today, some also say this was the Lu Long Shrine, though the era of its founding is not known. In the eighth month of the first year of the Longshuo era, an imperial decree sent the Daoist master Guo Xingzhen to offer a jiao sacrifice at the sacred peak; thereupon he destroyed the shrine and ceased sacrifices to it. Ever after, this brought calamity and disaster upon the people of the commandery. Nowadays, the common people sacrifice to him again. In the fifth year of the Zhenguan era, the former Duke Chancellor Qi built the Hejiang Pavilion on this hilltop. Du Xunhe of the Tang had a poem inscribed at Xunzhen Abbey: 'Silent and lonely is the White Cloud Gate; / Seeking the real, one does not meet the real. / Surely it is only the cranes atop the pines / Who are the people within the grotto! / In the medicinal herb garden, flower fragrances are rare; / By springs and sands, deer tracks are fresh. / I inscribe a poem, leaving my family and personal name, / To be close to this place in days to come.' Furthermore, in the Dazhong Xiangfu era, there was Master Changxuan, Shi Zhongyuan (courtesy name Qingzong), from Xixia Grotto in Guilin, who served as abbot. His practice of the Dao surpassed his peers, and his poetic talent shook Chu. He renovated it entirely, rebuilding the White Cloud Veranda, which overlooks the Qingcao Crossing below. Before it were the White Cloud Hall and the White Lotus Pond. When I spent the summer in this hall in the bingyin year of the Shaoxing era, I also left forty words behind; though insufficient to evoke those ancient worthies, they simply record the affairs of Zhuling. The poem says: 'I love the realm of the Xiao and Xiang, (The abbey faces the Xiaoxiang Gate) / The grotto-heaven behind Zhuling. / A guest inside the White Cloud Hall, / Sleeping at the head of the Qingcao Crossing. / A small skiff pulls in red carp; / In a secluded pond, white lotuses are planted. / Nourishing the real is well suited to this place; / Wind and moon remain as they ever were.' In the Jingde era of our present dynasty, its current name plaque was bestowed in change.