About Qinhuai culture in Nanjing?

When it comes to Qinhuai culture, people's minds are full of eight beauties, twelve women, eight immortals and thirty-six relatives. At the Sixth Art Festival, many familiar foreign colleagues came. When talking about visiting the Confucius Temple, they all sighed with one voice: "Ah! There are many famous prostitutes in that place! " When they learned that there had been celebrities here, such as, Wu, Wu Cheng'en, Lin Zexu, Deng Tingzhen, Zeng Guofan, Zuo, Li Hongzhang and Chen Duxiu, they were surprised with a grain of salt and said, "Really?" Probably even the former "famous prostitutes in Qinhuai" did not expect that they would become the absolute "protagonists" of the so-called "Qinhuai culture" in the future. In fact, this ending is undoubtedly a blasphemy against the essence of the real Qinhuai culture.

Zhao Jiajie believes that "Qinhuai culture" is rooted in the profound motherland culture. One of the most important aspects is the way of Confucius and Mencius, which is full of bookishness. The phenomenon of "famous prostitutes in Qinhuai" is the parasite of this bookishness. From the 18th year of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty (598) to Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty (1905), the imperial examination system in old China lasted for more than 1300 years. Located on the Qinhuai River, Jiangnan Gongyuan is the largest imperial examination room in history. In its heyday, there was 20644 examinee number Building. In the Qing dynasty alone, 58 people passed the Jiangnan township examination and won the top prize, accounting for more than half of the total number of top students in the Qing dynasty. The drama Qinhuai Family is also based on the "book" atmosphere of Qinhuai culture. Instead of talking about "famous prostitutes in Qinhuai", we focus on describing the joys and sorrows of intellectuals along the Qinhuai River and depicting the elegant humanistic scenery of Qinhuai River. Qinhuai poetry, Qinhuai cultural relics, Qinhuai anecdotes, Qinhuai flavor, Qinhuai architecture, Qinhuai customs ... are all in the play, full of flavor. This is the root of its success.

The writer Mr. Ye wrote the following sentence at the beginning of his "Old Nanjing Old Shadow Qinhuai": "Qinhuai River is a river with high cultural gold content. When people mention it, they will involuntarily pull out history. " Think about it, the "gold content" here is by no means from brothels. The development of China's ancient culture had three relative heydays, first the pre-Qin period, then the Six Dynasties, and then the Tang and Song Dynasties.

Nanjing was the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties and the political and cultural center at that time. In a sense, the cultural prosperity of the Six Dynasties was completed around the ancient Jinling. Qinhuai River is the cradle of ancient civilization in Nanjing, which gave birth to the birth and development of Jinling ancient city. The legend of Qinhuai River has a profound cultural accumulation. Fan Li once built "Yuecheng" on the Qinhuai River; Wang Dao and Xie An, famous Eastern Jin generals, once lived in Wuyi Lane, Qinhuai. The former put forward the heroic words of "defeating China", while the latter left the brilliant exploits of World War I, in which fewer people won more. Among the descendants of Wang Dao, there are great calligraphers Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi and his son. There is also the crock temple painted by Gu Kaizhi; Zhang Monk Friends make the finishing touch; Li Bai went to Jinling City seven times; Du Mu visited Qinhuai River three times; Wen Tianxiang angered Mingdetang; Zhu Yuanzhang couplet Qinhuai River; Wu Cheng'en sent a trace to Qinhuai; Jin Shengtan beheaded Sanshan Street; Wu wrote Xie Guan in The Scholars. Confucius Temple in Zhi Ming, Qiu Jin; Sun Yat-sen's speech, Juxing Hall ...

A couplet is engraved on the stone pillar of Le Siting in Confucius Temple: "The Qinhuai River in the area has washed away the sludge and turbid water of past dynasties, and the Confucius Temple has a thousand years of glory and a new look." Qinhuai can say a lot in ancient and modern times, so why should it be "eight gorgeous" at every turn?