The first article:

The Xinghua Village referred to in Du Mu's poem is located in Xinghua Village on the edge of Chizhou City, Anhui Province. A few days ago, I accompanied two auditors from the national industry quality certification agency to Guichi. When passing by the gate of Huanggong Jiuluo on the Qiupu River on the edge of the city, I thought of the popular poem "Qingming" written by Du Mu: Qingming It rains heavily during the season, and pedestrians on the road feel like they are dying. Asked where the restaurant was, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. He also told a fellow auditor from Shanxi that Du Mu’s poem was written here. Obviously this auditor did not know much about this. He said that our Shanxi Xinghuacun wine also mentioned this poem by Du Mu when advertising it. The implication is that Du Mu's poem was written in Shanxi. I have never seen this advertisement by Shanxi Xinghuacun Winery, but I know that Shanxi people will do propaganda. This propaganda has sent a wrong message and misled many people across the country, including this auditor from Beijing. Misled these people for many years. From the fourth to sixth year of Huichang (AD 844-846), the poet Du Mu moved from Huangzhou to be the governor of Chizhou. He served as a state official for two years and left dozens of poems. The poem "Qingming" was written by him during his spring visit to Xinghua Village, his residence. Written, not written in Xinghua Village, Shanxi. I explained to the Shanxi auditor from the following three aspects that Du Mu's "Qingming" was not written in Shanxi. 1. Heavy rain during the Qingming Festival is a typical southern climate feature that Shanxi does not have. 2. A painter in the Tang Dynasty once made a painting based on Du Mu's "Qingming" poem. In the painting, a shepherd boy wears a bamboo hat and a raincoat and rides on the back of a buffalo. . Bamboo hats and coir raincoats are used by southerners, but not by northerners. And buffaloes are only found in the south, while cattle are all found in the north. 3. Du Mu never held an official position in Shanxi, and there is no record of Du Mu ever visiting Shanxi in history. The creation time of the poem "Qingming" coincides with Du Mu's appointment as the governor of Chizhou. From this, we can conclude that the Xinghua Village referred to in Du Mu's poem is Xinghua Village on the edge of Chizhou City, Anhui. This conclusion is of course recognized by the auditor from Shanxi. Huanggong Jiulong in Chizhou City is a place worth visiting. Friends are welcome to stop by and visit Huanggong Jiulong when going to Jiuhua Mountain.

Part 2:

Lang Sui, a native of Guichi in the Qing Dynasty: devoted himself to compiling "Xinghua Village Chronicles", which was included in "Sikuquanshu". It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road feel like they are dying. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance. Du Mu, a poet of the late Tang Dynasty, wrote this popular "Qingming" poem. He sang about the intoxicating rain, flowers and wine during the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and also about a famous apricot blossom village through the ages. Xinghua Village is named after poetry. "The shepherd boy points to the Xinghua Village in Chizhou." In the Tang Dynasty, Chizhou was also known as Chiyang County. It was established as a state in the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty. Chizhou Prefecture governed Qiupu County (now Guichi District). The territory has beautiful mountains and rivers and picturesque scenery. Jiuhua Mountain, Qishan, Qiupu River, Baiya Mountain and other Jiangnan scenic spots have attracted many famous poets to linger and sing. The great poet Li Bai left "Seventeen Songs of Qiupu", Su Shi once wrote "Qingxi Ci", Sima Guang wrote "Qishan Presents Wang Shiwei", Yue Fei wrote "Chizhou Cuiwei Pavilion"... each masterpiece is brilliant. Pearls add dazzling luster to the ancient and magical land of Chizhou. "Qingming" was written by him during his spring visit to Xinghua Village, his residence. In ancient times, Xinghua Village was located in the west of Guichi City. Apricot flowers were everywhere on the hills. There were many wineries in the village, especially "Huanggong Jiulong". "Xinghua Village Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty recorded: "The wine thatched cottage is located among the red apricot bushes, with bamboo fences and firewood openings facing the lake, tallow treetops, and high wine flags. The hunting wind makes people drunk before they drink. The wine There is a "Huanggong Well" in the courtyard. The water is like a fragrant spring, which is inexhaustible. The wine brewed from this water is popular among people at that time. "Every time during the Qingming Festival, the spring breeze is drunk and the apricot flowers are in full bloom. The small village." "Ten miles of smoke and villages are all red" and "villages of wine and flowers are two shades of secluded". Its beauty and prosperity are evident. "Poems are beautiful because of scenery, and scenery is famous because of poetry." Du Mu's poem "Qingming" attracted literati from all dynasties to come here to drink wine, recite poems and compose poems. According to statistics, there are more than 300 famous poets in Chizhou who sang around Xinghua Village and wrote more than 700 poems. The saying "the best poetry village in the world" spread like wildfire. The famous Xinghua Village was continuously built. By the Qing Dynasty, with a radius of more than ten miles, the apricot blossoms were romantic, as bright as haze, pavilions, pavilions, and wine curtains in thatched houses. There were "Xinghua Village Ten Two scenes”. In the Qing Dynasty, Guichi Renlang felt its uniqueness and devoted himself to compiling "Xinghua Village Chronicles", which was included in "Sikuquanshu". The idea of ??building a village with a purpose is unique in our country, which shows the great reputation of Xinghua Village.

Times have changed and wars have occurred frequently. The ancient scenery of Xinghua Village has gradually changed beyond recognition. Only the Huanggong Well has survived since the Tang Dynasty. The water in the well remains as clear as ever and has become a testimony to the ups and downs of Xinghua Village. Xinghua Village is a cultural monument that integrates human landscape and natural landscape. It is the most distinctive historical and cultural village in Chizhou City, Anhui Province. People in Chizhou understand that the main reason why Guichi was listed as a provincial historical and cultural city by the Provincial People's Government in 1996 is because there is Xinghua Village in the west of the city, and there is also a provincial key protection unit in the village—— The ancient well in Xinghua Village in the Tang Dynasty was called "Huanggong Well" in ancient times, also known as "Xiangquan Well". In the aspirational garden of our country, those who aspire for the village are very rare. The only village chronicle that can be included in the "Sikuquanshu", the largest document in ancient my country, is Chizhou's "Xinghua Village Chronicle".

It should be said that this all depends on the huge effect of Du Gong's eternal masterpiece "Qingming" poem. When Du Mu served as the governor of Chizhou in the fourth to sixth years of Huichang (844-846), he visited Xinghua Village in the west of Fucheng in the spring and wrote this artistic masterpiece rich in Jiangnan style. After that, celebrities from all over the ages came here in droves, and the ancient village was constantly built. By the Qing Dynasty, the entire Xinghua Village had formed an quaint and picturesque area of ??scenic spots and historic sites with a radius of more than 10 miles. There are the famous "Twelve Scenes of Xinghua Village" in ancient times, namely: Pingtian Spring Rise, Iron Buddha Zen Forest, Baipu Lotus Wind , Huanggong Jiulong, Santai Sunset, Sangtuo Danfeng, Qiyun Songyue, Xixiang Misty Rain, Zhaoming Academy, Tea Field Mailang, Duwu Fishing Song and Meizhou Xiaoxue. However, Xinghua Village has experienced many changes over the years, especially the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese invaders, which caused the destruction of the twelve scenic spots in the ancient Xinghua Village. The spring breeze of reform and opening up has brought vitality to the ancient Xinghua Village. On November 21, 1984, the former Guichi County Government proposed the beautiful idea of ??"listing apricot blossoms as the county flower", "making the Qing Dynasty the Apricot Blossom Festival" and "turning Guichi into a city of apricot blossoms". In the first spring of the 1990s, Guichi City built a large-scale Xinghua Village Park, the Martyrs Cemetery, not far from the ruins of Zhaoming Academy. During the Qingming Festival, this place becomes a base for the children of Chizhou, especially young people, to remember the martyrs’ ambitions and heroic spirit and to carry out patriotic education.

Duhu Lake in the "Twelve Scenes" refers to the water surface where the Qiupu River flows into the Yangtze River. There are Duwu Village and Duwu Mountain on the shore of the lake, and there is a fishing village called Duwu Village in the valley. Since ancient times, there has been a ferry on the Qiupu River, called Duwu Ferry. It has been crossed for thousands of years with poles and oars. When the government built the majestic Duwu Bridge on the Qiupu River in August 1990, which is "as clear as autumn", it ended the thousand-year ferry history and set up a magnificent rainbow at the Duhu scenic spot in Xinghua Village. .

At the end of 1997, the Guichi Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government regarded the restoration of Xinghua Village and the development of Xinghua Village attractions as a strategy to establish the "Xinghua Village Famous Brand" and put the restoration and construction of Xinghua Village's historic sites on the important agenda. It is supported by the Ministry of Construction and relevant departments in the province. The Huanggong Well of Huanggong Jiulong was known in history as "the fragrant spring is like wine, and it is inexhaustible." The local Xinghuacun Liquor Co., Ltd. and Xinghuacun Winery have successively developed a series of famous wines with three registered trademarks: "Xingcun", "Shepherd" and "Jiuhuashan", and launched dozens of varieties of products as tourist souvenirs, creating a lasting legacy for the apricot industry. Hanamura adds infinite poetry and painting. At the turn of the new millennium, with the implementation of the "Two Mountains and One Lake" (Huangshan-Jiuhuashan-Taiping Lake) tourism economic zone strategy in Anhui Province, Xinghua Village ushered in a bright spring. Mr. Zhan Xiaorong, an overseas Chinese and the owner of Ohua Company, was attracted by the ancient Xinghua Village and kicked off the reconstruction project of Xinghua Village. He built the Xinghua Village ancient well gate, Huanggong wine cellar and the iconic ancient bottle sculpture in the middle of the street. The Chizhou Municipal Government is beginning to organize the drawing of a blueprint for the overall project of Xinghua Village. The infinitely beautiful tomorrow of the eternally famous village will be erected as a beautiful scenery on the tourist hotline of "Two Mountains and One Lake". By that time, Chinese and foreign tourists will once again appreciate the charm of the ancient village of "a village of ten miles of smoke and one color of red" and "a village of wine and flowers."

Part 3:

The mystery of "Xinghua Village" in Du Mu's poem! Whenever the Qingming Festival comes, people often think of the "Qingming" poem by Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu: "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die. I asked where the restaurant is, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village." The poem only has four lines. Simple, but every word is exquisite, it can be called a masterpiece handed down from generation to generation. However, when people chanted this masterpiece, they also had a deep question: Where is the Xinghua Village that Du Mu mentioned?

For a long time, there have been several "Xinghua Villages" across the country claiming that they are the ones Du Mu refers to in his poems. They continue to dispute, forming a mystery of "Xinghua Village". Therefore, people tried to find some answers from the poems of "Qingming".

The poem "Qingming" contains several characteristics such as Qingming, rain, apricot blossoms, and fine wine. These have become the criteria for determining the ownership of "Xinghua Village". Many people in Xinghua Village, Fenyang, Shanxi, believe that Xinghua Village, Fenyang, Shanxi, is the "real" Xinghua Village. They said that this Xinghua Village is located to the north of Fenyang County, Shanxi Province. It is famous for its production of Fenjiu. Literati of the past dynasties have left many poems and inscriptions here to praise the beautiful scenery of its wine. Du Mu's "Qingming" poem is even more famous. The first of the group of monuments - this certainly shows that the identity of this Xinghua Village is unmistakable. However, after research, someone raised two questions: 1. According to the "Chronology of Du Mu", Du Mu had never been to Shanxi in his life, so how could he drink in Fenyang? 2. It never rains during Qingming Festival in Fenyang, and sometimes it snows. So why does it mean that it rains a lot during Qingming Festival? Two questions hit home. It seems that Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi is not the "real" Xinghua Village. Some people in Xinghua Village, Guichi County, Anhui Province also believe that Xinghua Village, Guichi County, Anhui Province, is the "real" Xinghua Village. They said that this Xinghua Village is located in the southwest of Guichi County and was famous for its wine making in ancient times. Du Mu served as an official in Guichi for two years. During this period, it was recorded that he loved drinking and going on outings. The "Xinghua Village Chronicles of Guichi County" also contains the "Qingming" poem. All these show that this is the Xinghua Village mentioned in Du Mu's poem. The above reasons seem to be sufficient, but after research, someone also raised two questions: 1. Du Mu had been in office for half a year when he wrote "Qingming". He was addicted to alcohol. How could he ask the shepherd boy for directions without knowing where Xinghua Village was? 2. Since he is an official and has servants to serve him when he drinks, why should Du Mu go to beg for it in person? Inferred from this, the Xinghua Village here is not "true" either. Some people in Xinghua Village, Yixing, Jiangsu Province, believe that Xinghua Village, Yixing, Jiangsu Province, is the real "Xinghua Village". Their view is that Du Mu lived in Huzhou after he resigned from office in his later years. At this time, Du Mu was a little depressed, so he often visited Yixing, a neighboring county, to relieve his boredom. He lived in Shilibei, Yixing, and built a waterside pavilion there. According to local chronicles, there is a village near Shili Monument surrounded by many apricot trees. Obviously, this is the Xinghua Village described by Du Mu. Unfortunately, this theory was eventually rejected: after research, it was found that there was no "restaurant" here, let alone a history of wine making, and the scenes written in "Qingming" had nothing to do with this place. Several "Xinghua Villages" have been denied. Some people say that Du Mu's "Xinghua Village" is actually a general reference and has no real meaning. "Sikuquanshu·Xinghua Village Chronicles" also said: "Du Muzhi was the guardian of Chiyang, and his poem about the Qingming sunrise has the sentence "May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village in the distance." However, most people’s opinion is that the Xinghua Village in the poem "Qingming" does exist, but it is too old to be accurate! Just discern the truth.

It seems that the mystery of Xinghua Village in Du Mu's "Qingming" poem is still difficult to solve for the time being.