Crack the mystery of "Xinghua Village" in Du Mu's poem!
The first article:
The Xinghua Village referred to in Du Mu’s poem is in Xinghua Village on the edge of Chizhou City, Anhui Province
A few days ago, I accompanied the national industry quality certification agency The two auditors went to Guichi. When passing by the gate of Huanggong Jiujiu by the Qiupu River on the edge of the city, I thought of the popular poem "Qingming" written by Du Mu:
Qingming Festival It rains heavily, and pedestrians on the road feel like they are dying. Asked where the restaurant was, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village.
I also told a fellow auditor from Shanxi that Du Mu’s poem was written here.
Obviously the 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 for Shanxi Xinghuacun Winery, but I know that Shanxi people know how to promote it. However, this advertisement conveyed a wrong message and misled many people across the country, including this person. The auditors from Beijing also misled these people for many years.
In the fourth to sixth years 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. It was written by Chengxing during a spring visit to Xinghua Village, his residence, but not in Xinghua Village, Shanxi Province.
I explained to this 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. There was a painter in the Tang Dynasty who made a painting based on Du Mu's "Qingming" poem. The middle 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 in Xinghua Village on the edge of Chizhou City, Anhui. This conclusion is of course recognized by the Shanxi auditor
Huanggong Jiujiu in Chizhou City is a place worth visiting. Friends are welcome to stop by and visit Huanggong Jiu when going to Jiuhua Mountain. Long.
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 dying. May I ask where the restaurant is? The shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village in the distance.
This popular "Qingming" poem by late Tang poet Du Mu sings about the intoxicating rain, flowers and wine during the Qingming Festival in the south of the Yangtze River, and also sings about a famous Xinghua Village through the ages.
Xinghua Village is named after poetry. "The shepherd boy points to the Xinghua Village in Chizhou."
Chizhou, also known as Chiyang County in the Tang Dynasty, was established as a state in the fourth year of Wude in the Tang Dynasty. Chizhou Prefecture governs 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.
In the fourth to sixth years 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. "Qingming" is the story of his spring outing in Xingzhou Written by Huacun Shi Chengxing
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 the famous "Huanggong Jiulong".
The Records of Xinghua Village in the Qing Dynasty recorded: "The wine cellar hut is located among the red apricot bushes, with bamboo fences and firewood openings facing the lake. The tallow treetops and wine flags are high, and the hunting wind is blowing. People get drunk before they drink. There is a "Huanggong Well" in the Jiulong courtyard. The water is like a fragrant spring, which is inexhaustible. The wine brewed from this water is popular among people at that time.
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Every time during the Qingming Festival, the spring breeze is drunk and the apricot blossoms are in full bloom. The small village is “ten miles of smoke and the village is red” and “the village is full of wine and flowers.” Its beauty and prosperity are evident.
"Poetry is beautiful because of the scenery, and the scenery is famous because of the poetry." Du Mu's poem "Qingming" attracted literati from all ages to come here to drink wine and recite poems.
According to statistics, there are more than 300 famous poets who sang about Xinghua Village in Chizhou, and they have written more than 700 poems. The saying of "the best poetry village in the world" spread like wildfire.
The famous Xinghua Village continued to be built. By the Qing Dynasty, it was more than ten miles away, with romantic apricot flowers, as bright as the haze, pavilions, thatched houses and wine curtains, and the Iron Buddha Temple, Baipu Lotus Wind, and Habitat. Yun Songyue, Duwu Fishing Song and other "Twelve Scenes of Xinghua Village"
Guichi Renlang in the Qing Dynasty felt its uniqueness and devoted himself to compiling "Xinghua Village Chronicles", which was included in "Sikuquanshu". /p>
It is unique in my country to build a village with ambitions, which shows the great reputation of Xinghua Village.
The ancient scenery of Xinghua Village has gradually changed beyond recognition due to changes in the world. Only the Huanggong Well has survived since the Tang Dynasty. , the well water is as clear as before, becoming a testimony to the ups and downs of Xinghua Village.
Xinghua Village is a cultural monument that integrates human landscape and natural landscape, and is the most distinctive historical and cultural village in Chizhou City, Anhui.
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Chizhou people 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 village in the village. The protected unit - the ancient well of Xinghua Village in the Tang Dynasty was known as "Huanggong Well" in ancient times, also known as "Xiangquan Well".
In my country's Zhiyuan, it can be said that there are very few people who are dedicated to the village.
The only village chronicle included in the "Sikuquanshu", the largest document in ancient my country, is Chizhou's "Xinghua Village Chronicle"
It should be said that this is all due to Du Gong's eternal masterpiece "Qingming Festival". "The great effect of the poem.
When Du Mu was 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 with Jiangnan style.
After that, famous people from all dynasties came here in droves, and the ancient village was continuously built. By the Qing Dynasty, the entire Xinghua Village had formed an antique and picturesque scenic spot with a radius of more than 10 miles. There is the famous ancient "Xinghua Village Twelve". "Scenery",
namely: Spring rise in the sky, Iron Buddha Zen Forest, Baipu lotus breeze, Huanggong wine cellar, Santai sunset, Sangtuo Danfeng, Qiyun Songyue, Xixiang mist and rain, Zhaoming Academy , Tea Field Mailang, Duwu Fishing Song and Meizhou Xiaoxue
However, through the ages, Xinghua Village has experienced changes, especially the indiscriminate bombing by the Japanese invaders, which made the ancient Xinghua Village 12. The scenery was tragically destroyed.
The spring breeze of reform and opening up brought vitality to the ancient Xinghua Village.
On November 21, 1984, the former Guichi County Government proposed to "renovate Xinghua Village". Listed as the county flower", "the Qing Dynasty as 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.
On the shore of the lake are Duwu Village and Duwu Mountain, and in the valley there is a fishing village called Duwu Village.
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.
In August 1990, the government built a majestic Duwu Bridge on the Qiupu River, which is "as clear as autumn", ending the thousand-year ferry history and giving Xinghua Village the scenic spot of Duhu Lake. A magnificent rainbow was set up.
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, where Huanggong Jiujiu was built, 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 Winery and the iconic ancient bottle sculpture in the middle of the street.
Recently, the Chizhou Municipal Government is organizing the drawing of a blueprint for the overall project of Xinghua Village. The infinitely beautiful tomorrow of this famous village will be erected on the tourist hotline of "Two Mountains and One Lake". .
At 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 the Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu: "It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and passersby on the road want to die. I asked where the restaurant is, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. "The poem is only four simple lines, but every word is exquisite, and it can be called a masterpiece passed 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".
So, 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".
Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi
Many people believe that Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi is the "real" Xinghua Village. They said that this Xinghua Village is located to the north of Fenyang County in 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:
First, according to the "Chronicle of Du Mu", Du Mu had never been to Shanxi in his life, how could he drink in Fenyang?
2. It never rains during Qingming Festival in Fenyang, and sometimes it snows, so why does it “rain a lot during Qingming Festival”?
Two questions hit home. It seems that Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi is not the "real" Xinghua Village.
Xinghua Village in Guichi County, Anhui
Some people also believe that Xinghua Village in Guichi County, Anhui 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 sufficient, but after research, some people also raised two questions:
1. Du Mu had been in office for half a year when he wrote "Qingming", and he was addicted to alcohol. How could you ask the shepherd boy for directions when you don't know where Xinghua Village is?
2. Since he is an official and has servants to serve him when he drinks, why does Du Mu need to go and ask for it in person?
Inferred from this, the Xinghua Village here is not "true" either.
Xinghua Village in Yixing, Jiangsu
Some people believe that Xinghua Village in Yixing, Jiangsu 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 apricot trees. Obviously, this is the Xinghua Village described by Du Mu.
Unfortunately, this theory was eventually denied: 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 references to "Xinghua Village" 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." When describing the scenery in general, he must use a sentence 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.