Xidi free travel guide

Xidi ancient town is located near Huangshan Mountain, which is as famous as Hongcun. This is a small town with a very rural and ancient style. The natural and humanistic environment here is superb, and people and nature cooperate tacitly. Let's share Xidi's free travel strategy.

Where is the ancient town of Xidi?

East of yi county, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, China.

What are the famous scenic spots in Xidi Ancient Town?

Xidi Ancient Village, Mandarin Duck Valley and Yanshan Natural Forest Park.

A small village, on the vast land of China, is like a drop in the ocean; Compared with five thousand years in China, the existence time of a small village is like a blink of an eye.

However, this small village is like a huge sponge, absorbing the essence of China traditional culture. If you can hold it tightly in your hand, what drips from your fingers is full of rich cultural nutrition. The cultural course of Xidi is worth pondering. ?

Before writing this title, I conceived many names, such as "Xidi: a symbol of China culture", "Xidi: a dream of cultural continuity" and "Xidi: a village surrounded by culture", but after repeated attempts, they were all denied by myself.

The reasons are either profound or difficult to understand; Either the image is illusory and there is no way to put pen to paper; Either it is superficial and vulgar, and the words don't convey the meaning.

But in any case, "western delivery" and "culture" are the core contents I want to express. Finally, the word "infiltration" was finalized, and there was a sense of comfort from head to toe. ?

Yes, it is "infiltration". ?

Walking in the streets and alleys of the west, everyone feels the blowing and watering from traditional culture, like spring breeze, like rain and dew, like warm sun, like a trickle.

Even in the cracks of every house, there is an irresistible fragrance of books and ink, as if a rich meal had already been placed inside, waiting for travelers who have been hungry for several days to enjoy it.

At this time, the intense radiation of nutrients from the ancient culture of China has irresistibly penetrated into every pore and cell of the human body until it ignited the whole body like a fire, which made people excited and amazed. ?

Every time I go to a scenic spot, I always don't like to listen to the tour guide's endless explanations, because there are too many fake, real and fake business gimmicks, which will convey a lot of bad or wrong information, which will make people suspicious, difficult to distinguish between true and false, upset and finally feel swallowed up and left behind. In particular, Xidi, a place that has passed down thousands of years of cultural blood, needs to isolate itself from even a little interference from the outside world, try to calm down and try to figure out and understand. Only in this way can we really understand the mystery. ?

Xidi has no magnificent buildings that make people feel shocked and amazed, nor does it have dazzling beautiful scenery. Huizhou architecture with only white walls and black tiles, with its vicissitudes and mottled old state, stands quietly on both sides of the street, welcoming tourists from all directions. Look at his manner, just like a learned scholar, respected, humble and courteous, which makes people respect him. ?

Most scholars have a deep and inner temperament, but it is difficult to hide their brilliant temperament, so is Xidi. Here, every building in the gatehouse, windows, patios, columns and beams, halls and study rooms, including ancestral halls and memorial archways.

Without exception, there are traces of traditional culture such as sculpture, calligraphy, painting and poetry. And they all have high artistic level and ideological depth. Often inadvertently, we can touch the branches and leaves of China traditional culture.

Although it has been ruthlessly baptized by years, it is greener, fresher and full of vitality. ?

The story about Xidi must start from the Tang Dynasty, and there are documents to check, so I don't need to repeat them here. But as far as its rich cultural preservation is concerned, it took thousands of years of cultivation and accumulation to become a prosperous and colorful scene. The earlier Xidi was just an isolated village raised in a boudoir in China, which was little known, but she always existed silently in her own unique cultural way, accumulating energy day by day.

The era when Xidi's real talents came forth in large numbers was not the prosperous Tang and Song Dynasties, but since the Ming and Qing Dynasties-this is the effect that culture moistens things quietly and every little makes a mickle. ?

In fact, the formation of any culture takes a long time to polish and accumulate, and it can never be formed by shouting a few slogans overnight.

Being quick for quick success and instant benefit is a hormone and poison in the process of cultural growth, which will only erode, distort and stifle the primitive genes of culture and eventually produce a group of ugly, deformed and even mutated cultural freaks. ?

The cultural course of Xidi tells us that loneliness and persistence are the best environment and motivation for cultural individuals to thrive.

Because only loneliness can concentrate; Only by persisting can we continue. ?

Xidi is just a small village near Huangshan Mountain in southern Anhui, about 40 kilometers away from Huangshan Scenic Area. There is only one wide street in the whole village. This is the gathering place of the Hu family, which belongs to the descendants of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty.

Because of escaping from feudal political persecution, a descendant of the royal family changed his surname to Li Hu, and after many twists and turns, he moved here. ?

Hu's descendants are well-developed and knowledgeable, but there are also many businessmen, especially the famous Huizhou merchants in Qing Dynasty, Hu Guansan, Hu Xueyan, a merchant of red-crowned cranes, and famous cultural scholars in modern times. ?

However, whether for official or business, Xidi Hu family always regards cultural accomplishment as its foundation. At the beginning of Hu Jiaxun, there is an admonition that "reading is the foundation of a family".

According to this ancestral motto, some ethnic groups have created "Good study, good business, good career, and hard work in starting a business", "People accumulate goodness for a hundred years, but the first goodness is not enough to study", "Filial piety is the only family style in all generations, and the cause of a hundred years is to study", "You must study for your children and grandchildren" and "Reading is a courtesy and filial piety", which has become the starting line for the growth and continuation of Xidi culture. ?

In Xidi, couplets with neat antithesis, far-reaching ideas and long aftertaste can be seen everywhere. And a pair of couplets is often a superb and wonderful calligraphy work, either official or model, or line or grass, which is really pleasing to the eye.

It is conceivable that in Xidi, where the cultural atmosphere is so strong, what kind of shame and embarrassment will a person who neglects to recite poems, write articles and draw pictures face?

According to records, many families in Xidi eat chaff and swallow vegetables all the year round, but the tuition fee for children to go to school-the teacher's daily necessities-is quite high. In order to save fuel, no matter how hard and tired the adults' work is, they have to finish it during the day and don't turn on the lights at night. There are also lamp oils for children to see, but they are never stingy and often light up late at night. ?

That is, under the influence of the sound of reading and the subtle embellishment of culture, the blood of China's traditional culture has gradually melted into the bodies of Xidi people, and has consciously become their compass for dealing with people and settling down. At that time, the Xidian people were proud of "poetry handed down from generation to generation" and "scholarly family", and they taught by example until today. ?

Scholars in Xidi have the boldness and responsibility of "taking the world as their own responsibility". The most representative is the "writing on the bus" incident launched by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in 1895, which shocked the ruling and opposition parties. According to historical records, at that time, eight candidates in Anhui Province risked being beheaded and signed books, among whom three were Xidi people. Holding a ruler, the heart is the world, which is also a broad mind of Xidi culture that cares about the country and the people. ?

Although Xidi Hu family preached feudal family culture, its essence was a copy of Chinese excellent traditional culture. For example, the original words advocated by the Hu family, such as "frugality and housekeeping", "harmony at home is precious", "loyalty and filial piety at home", "ruling the country and calming the world" and "security will change", can be found in relevant ancient books. ?

Xidihu's copying of traditional culture is actually an inheritance and development of culture.

Even today, these things should be the main theme of our efforts to sing. The most valuable thing is that this cultural heritage is completely conscious. No matter which dynasty or generation they lived in, no matter how successful they were, they never did anything unwise, and their cultural consciousness never stopped. ?

Xidihu advocates "taking business as an official and literature as an official", which has a strong feudal utilitarian color and deserves good discussion and criticism in modern society.

But shouldn't his thought, which is based on culture and puts culture in a very high position, be worth learning and learning from later generations? In their common sense and cognition, culture is by no means a dispensable decoration and embellishment, let alone an arty expedient.

They firmly believe that doing business or being an official is not far away without culture. Doing business by writing without losing elegance; With the officer is not without integrity. ?

Perhaps, it is precisely because of this cultural awareness and atmosphere that Xidi, a small village, has finally become the purest, clearest and brightest drop of water in the long history of China culture. ?

The Hu people in Xidi valued culture but didn't shy away from writing. Among them, there are many outstanding Huizhou merchants. Many wealthy Xidi businessmen who are developing abroad are not addicted to dogs and horses to satisfy their personal enjoyment and spend money like water, as some so-called "rich people" are now. Instead, they choose to return to Xidi's hometown, build ancestral temples, memorial archways, build houses and run schools, and are enthusiastic and addicted to public welfare undertakings, thus realizing the feedback of business to culture. ?

This is a great spectacle of Huizhou merchant culture. And this, I am afraid, is also an important reason why Xidi culture can last for a long time. All the wealthy businessmen in Xidi have many excellent qualities in common: honesty, friendliness, modesty, self-denial, eagerness to learn and courtesy. "Sneaking into the night with the wind, moistening things silently", the cultivation of these qualities can not be separated from the infiltration and edification of heavy cultural atmosphere. ?

Now, Xidi, a world cultural heritage, has become a well-known tourist attraction at home and abroad. At the beginning, old houses and old houses were not only tourist attractions, but also business places. But its business behavior is also closely related to culture.

Some operators are good at calligraphy, some are good at carving, some are good at painting, and some are members of national or provincial painting and calligraphy associations. They enter the business with literature, cultivate literature with business, and pay equal attention to literature and business. Now, walking around Xidi Village is equivalent to watching a painting and calligraphy exhibition with high artistic level and a live demonstration, which makes people feel happy and benefit a lot. ?

A girl in her twenties carved bamboo slips and cursive scripts with a knife. She is skilled in knife work, and uses iron hooks and silver strokes. Her brushwork is vigorous and powerful, just like Youlong's surprise. After some bargaining, tourists can buy one of her works for about 100 yuan.

She said that she had been practicing calligraphy since she was a child and had 10 years of experience. Now I earn a good living by writing. In Xidi, her handwriting is only ok, not so good, because there are many people like her in Xidi. Even today's children are studying hard.

For the girl's words, I can understand it as a modest word, or I can understand it in another way: Xidi culture has successors. ?

But I still have some vague concerns in my heart: will the impetuous profit-seeking characteristics of modern commercial society erode the branches and leaves of Xidi cultural trees?

In fact, I hope that the descendants of Xidi can carry forward the excellent qualities and unique characteristics contained in Xidi culture in the same strain. In the near future, we can also see them do their best to repay their hometown and enrich more brand-new content for Xidi culture. ?

Some realistic cognition has repeatedly told us that there seems to be an irreconcilable contradiction between culture and profit-seeking. In a certain social background, the former often has to be sacrificed or buried for the latter. While some people still regard culture as a label rather than a soul intentionally or unintentionally, we have seen a large number of ancient buildings, cultural relics and ancient books destroyed, destroyed and declined. When our spiritual home has become a broken walls, what can we do to resist the erosion of "foreign culture"?

We don't exclude, exclude or demonize "foreign culture", but we need the creation and innovation of our own modern culture.

But in any case, we can't lose or abandon our cultural foundation. The cultural course of Xidi has shown that only by firmly believing in yourself, sticking to the bottom line, being inclusive and tolerant is great, which is also a valuable cultural self-confidence. ?

Deeply infiltrated by culture, Xidi spares no effort to publicize the core values of China traditional culture: loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. Hu Jiaxun requires future generations to be "loyal and filial", "Shunyi", "Confucian benevolent" and "virtuous". From many inscriptions, calligraphy and couplets, we can see that the Hu people in Xidi have faith, pursuit, awe and responsibility, and their spiritual world is very rich and powerful. ?

The Hu people in Xidi pay attention to standardizing their words and deeds from the details, examining their hearts and excavating their own culture even if it is a word.

In Xidi, there is an enlarged picture of filial piety, about one meter high, inscribed by Zhu, a great scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. From left to right, he is a Confucian scholar, with fists clenched and filial piety;

Looking from right to left, it is a quick-talking monkey, punching and kicking, bared its teeth, meaning "filial piety is a human being, unfilial is an animal."

I have always thought that China's calligraphy is really a strange thing. Between the turning point of stippling and painting, people can always imagine and produce many artistic conceptions beyond words, which is also the unique charm of China culture. ?

Whether Zhu had any intention in writing the word "filial piety" is now impossible to verify, but it is not important. What is important is that Xidi people gave a reasonable, vivid and appropriate explanation to this word according to their unique cultural qualities and characteristics. The word "filial piety" is also the Hu people's understanding, inheritance and development of China's filial piety culture, and its influence and efficacy have gone far beyond the word itself. ?

Cha Xidi handed over historical data. For thousands of years, the Hu family did not commit a big rape and a big evil. This is a miracle.

Imagine: Xidi is small, but Hu belongs to a local noble family, with a prosperous population of more than 10 thousand people. Among them, businessmen with deep pockets also have the right to dump senior officials for a period of time. Judging from some social situations reported by the media at present, it seems that the Hu family, which belongs to the rich family, should also have a "second generation" who is domineering, running rampant in the countryside and bullying men and women. ?

But, no, not one. ?

According to records, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were more than 400 officials handed over by the West, but none of them defiled their ancestors and humiliated their manners, nor were they brought to justice by the imperial court for graft and perverting the law. No wonder Cao Zhenyong, the minister of military affairs of the Qing Dynasty, lamented: "It is better to sing with strings than to give up. He has a gentleman's trip and has no habit of cool thin." Should all this be attributed to the powerful enlightenment and introspection functions of culture?

The value orientation and moral concept respected by traditional culture have become the goalkeeper and filter of the pure atmosphere of Xidi Hu family. This is really beneficial and helpful for us to deeply reflect on some social phenomena, such as extravagance and waste, glitz and lack of morality.

Many times, the external binding force is pale and powerless in the face of self-inner vigilance. Countless facts tell us that cultural degradation, moral collapse and irrational loss are even more terrible than natural and man-made disasters. ?

Before going to Xidian, a friend said to me, "Don't go, there is nothing interesting except a few shabby houses." Indeed, if it is fun, there is really nothing to play.

However, the culture of Xidi has been enduring for thousands of years, which is really no joke. If you want to play, don't go to Xidi.

Here, we can only sincerely understand and comprehend the essence and eternity of China culture, and feel its unparalleled moral strength, which is also a journey of spiritual purification. ?

Xidi, a village infiltrated by culture, I will go again! ?