What kind of culture is Changshu culture? How to understand?

During the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression period, Zheng Zhenduo, who was determined to save ancient books from the terrible war, came across a Yuan and Ming zaju compiled by a "Taoist". Previously, there were only a hundred kinds of Yuan Dynasty zaju handed down from generation to generation, and this "ancient and modern zaju" included 242 kinds of Yuan and Ming zaju. He hailed this as "the birth of Han bamboo slips second only to Dunhuang Shishi and Xiqiao".

Taoist is the real name of Zhao, the owner of Maiwangguan in Changshu Library.

Today, Zhao's father Zhao Yongxian's house is well preserved. Around the pillar at the door, there is such a couplet: "A bed of spring music, last month, a hundred flowers gathered in Taiwan." Exhausting the poetic life picture of literati sitting in the book city.

The inscription of the couplet is Qu, the fourth generation owner of the Bronze Sword Building.

Tieqin Tongjian Tower

Because there is a Tang Dynasty guqin and a bronze sword hidden in the house, the descendants of the Qu family renamed the library building from the former "Tian Yuzhai" to "Qin Tie Bronze Sword Building". Such a change adds a sense of heroism.

Qu Jia is really heroic.

They collect books, regardless of cost, at all costs, and they are full of energy, and the atmosphere of visiting books is broad, just as they say on the floor, "I would rather give up a hundred acres of land than give up one or two cabinets of secrets."

They also read books, proofread ancient books as researchers, compile bibliographies, swim in the sea of books, let knowledge grow, let history blossom and let wisdom continue.

They were more protective of books, and the Taiping army besieged the Qing army, entered Changshu and searched from house to house. Facing the jungle with swords and shadows, Qu Bingqing, a weak scholar, stepped forward and shouted, "Are there any scholars in the army?" Are there any scholars in the army? "Let people from all walks of life see the scholar's integrity with their own eyes.

Qintie Tongjianlou Square

They also presented books, adhering to the concept of "hiding them for use", thinking that "books are expensive to circulate, can be turned into millions, can be read at home, and are good but not much."

After the founding of New China, the three Qu brothers followed the instructions of their elders and donated all their collections to the country for free.

Zheng Zhenduo was deeply shocked: "Gentleman turned private into public, and donated his collection of Song Yuanming periodicals and proofreading books to the Central People's Government. After receiving it, they were inexplicably moved. "

A trickle, a thousand turns, singing all the way, and finally becoming the sea.

Located in Guli Town, Changshu City, Qintie Bronze Sword Building has a history of more than 200 years.

Here are two couples who have been widely admired. One is "the crane peeps at the morning alone, and the neighboring chicken listens to the night piano", and the other is "everyone who enters my room is a gentleman, and this hall is full of ancient paintings and wonderful books".

The authors are all Weng Tonghe.

Weng Tonghe Memorial Hall

Weng Tonghe, a native of Changshu in Qing Dynasty, was a man of the hour. He continued to write stories about cultural heritage through the collection of books.

In April, 2000, Mr. and Mrs. Weng Tonghe's fifth grandson returned to China with "Weng's Overseas Collection" collected by Shanghai Library as a whole. Weng has 542 volumes of 80 kinds of books, including 8 kinds of national treasures.

The main hall of Weng Tonghe's former residence was named "Caiyi Hall". Among them, the couplets matched by the hall are gentle and powerful-"Mian Shize is not as good as good, but he still studies."

Reading and collecting books in Changshu is a relay race without a baton.

Spring scenery around the city

Qu was the first director of Changshu County Library, whose duties were to collect books, protect books and give books away. The place where he worked in the past has been rebuilt and repaired, and now it is the Dai Yi Academic Museum. Dai Yi named it "Yishan Building".

Dai Yi, a native of Changshu, summed up his life footprint and just said, "My life is a life of reading and writing."

On the occasion of the opening of Dai Yi Academic Museum, he donated more than 5000 books of his own collection/kloc-0, which enriched Changshu's collection.

History of Derun is an inscription by Wang Meng, a "people's artist", to Dai Yi.

The painter Hou Dechang wrote: "There are thousands of works at the bottom of the pen, and there is thousands of books in the hut." .

From "Ningshe covers an area of 100 mu and never abandons one or two cabinets of secrets" to "There are thousands of works at the bottom of the pen, and there are still huts in thousands of books", from "self-report" to "other comments", the time span is more than 100 years, which shows Changshu people's intention, confidence and determination to inherit culture.

Changshu's cultural accumulation has matured.

Yuyue Study Room is located in the East Ring Road of Yushan Street in Changshu, and it is a public reading space in Changshu. A reader left a message on the card: "At this time, I was sitting in the study room of Yu Yu in the town, and there were thick trees outside the floor-to-ceiling glass. Rows of books silently guard the study room, and soft music flows between sofas. Who can not love such a moment? "

Outside the door, there is a line engraved on the glass window of the study: learning is the first step, and learning is based on reading.

Innovation does not forget inheritance, and inheritance is not conservative. Changshu people are well versed in the principle of "opening their own lives according to the rules of the ancients" and strive to practice it to make excellent traditional culture beautiful.

Fengxi Culture and Art Center is located on the lakeside of Shang Hu, Changshu. Cheongsam is the main industry here. Here is a "Qipao Dress with George's Calligraphy Pattern". The fabric is covered with Su Dongpo's song "Flowers are red, green and apricot are small ...", and the shape, size and depth of Chinese characters have been carefully arranged, which is full of classical flavor.

There is a knowledge restaurant in Changshu that provides answering sessions. If the result is acceptable, there is a discount for meals. There are all kinds of topics, including "Which of the following delicacies is a specialty of Changshu", "How did horses sleep" and "What are the textbooks for copying ancient methods and mastering the basic knowledge of painting in Qing Dynasty".

In this restaurant, a "small fried meat set meal" is made of pork belly, pepper and northeast rice. The ingredients come from all over the world, so the menu exudes Wang Zengqi's words, "Eating in all directions is just a bowl of fireworks."

The phrase "Lettuce in Oyster Sauce" is a famous phrase in Du Fu's beginning of spring, which says that "fine lettuce blooms in spring dishes, but I suddenly remember when Beijing plum blossoms bloom".

"There is a flower on Changshu Mountain, and a three-year-old girl can sing folk songs. Folk songs are not taught by my parents. I am smart enough to do it myself. " Changshu white cat folk songs have been sung for thousands of years.

White cat folk songs

How to make traditional folk songs glow with new style?

The traditional folk song "Green across the River in Yang Shugen" is melodious, high-pitched and desolate, expressing inner sadness. "I sing and sing, and the singer is very disadvantaged. In June, the sun is like fire, drying vests. "

Contemporary Changshu musicians comprehensively use modern musical means to adapt and arrange this song;

"The sun is warm in spring, and the earth moistens the seedlings. Wheat seedlings are green and cauliflower is yellow, and everyone loves hi. The spring ploughing song should ring, the cuckoo calls, the green hills match the sky, beautiful countryside is my hometown ... "

Song of Spring Mountain is the new name of this song.

guqin

Changshu is known as the "hometown of redwood", and Soviet-style wood products have become a symbol of elegance. Yao Xiangdong, director of Changshu Oriental Mahogany Furniture Art Museum, had a whim: Why not use wood carving to repair Fuchun Shan Jutu?

In the spring of 20 15, woodcarvers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait joined hands and began to make first-class rosewood. More than 20 craftsmen used different techniques, such as carving, carving, male carving and female carving, to turn carving into carving and hold contemporary pens with knives. Knife workers followed the yellow pen and transformed the flat Fuchun into a semi-three-dimensional mahogany wood carving scene.

"Woodcarvers on both sides of the Taiwan Strait created a woodcut version of Fuchun Shan Jutu, further making Huang's masterpiece a guide for cross-strait cultural exchanges." Cai Renfu, chairman of Sanyi Wood Carving in Taiwan Province Province, said.

Changshu guqin art museum

Today, the Cultural and Creative Design Competition across the Yellow Strait has been held for three times. Observing previous award-winning works, we found that the elements of China traditional culture were creatively activated in the hands of young students on both sides of the strait. For example—

The series of seasoning cans named after "Mountain" is based on the handle, can body and relief of the seasoning can frame, which respectively correspond to the outline, painting and rendering of the three elements of yellow, light and red landscape, telling a profound and far-reaching artistic conception.

Jade Mountain Butterfly Chair is a set of butterfly chairs with modern feeling and practical value. It is inspired by the concept of "opening and closing" in the traditional furniture "Butterfly" in China, and integrates the natural form of Changshu Jade Mountain into the line trend of the chair.

"Practice makes perfect"

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There is a swallow tomb in Lushan Mountain, surrounded by lush vegetation. The stone workshop inscribed by Qianlong has its own majesty.

Yan Yan, a native of Changshu, is a poet and often appears in The Analects of Confucius. Confucius said, "There is a depression in my door, and my way is south." Yan Yan is also known as the "Southern Master".

"Historical Records" records: "Ziyou has been collected by the industry and slaughtered by Wucheng. Confucius said that when he heard the string singing, Confucius smiled and said,' How can you cut the chicken with an ox knife?' The son lobbied,' the former learned from the master, the gentleman learned to love the Tao, and the villain learned the Tao easily.' Confucius said:' Two or three sons, Yan Zhi's words are also, and the order is the ear of the play. "

On September 28th, Yanzi's former residence was restored and officially opened to the outside world, which became an important place to show Yanzi's ideological background, spiritual outlook and Confucian culture.

Changshu is protecting the physical space of Yan Zi's thought and broadening the spiritual space of Yan Zi's thought.

Huancheng riverside

Zhang Qinglian was born in Tangzhi Town, Changshu City. He is an academician of China Academy of Sciences and an inorganic chemist. He said that when he was in primary school in his hometown, the principal was a scholar and was revered by students for his "honesty and modesty". The school environment is quiet and beautiful. "There are four straight buttonwood trees on one side of the playground, which symbolizes that people should be so upright and so noble."

The demeanor of the principal of his alma mater and the posture of four buttonwood trees in his hometown participated in Zhang Qinglian's life growth and ideological formation.

On September 20th, the exhibition "Backbone-The Road of Pang Xunqin's Art Power" opened in Changshu Art Museum. The artist who walked out from the foot of Yushan has long declared: "Art should also walk out of the ivory tower and onto the cross street."

Part of the exhibition is the result of his field investigation in more than 80 Miao and Buyi villages in Guizhou. He said: "the hearts of ethnic minorities are pure, kind and beautiful. We should see this inner beauty. "

Changshu people are good at discovering and presenting an "inner beauty".

The first snow in Cheng Nan

On April 27th, Changshu held the launching ceremony of a collection of prose poems, Lonely Dream at a Cold Window. Gao Chun, the author of this new book, was born in 1984. He suffered from congenital muscular dystrophy since childhood, and his movements were severely hindered. However, he controlled the mouse with his only movable right index finger and created literature. The word count has exceeded 3.4 million.

"Good books are like stars shining in the dark, which can bring some light to the disappointed people and make good hopes spread all over the country." Gao Wei said.

Painter Yao Xinfeng is also committed to finding the "inner beauty" of rivers and mountains. There used to be many fishing villages in Yuhai Town, Changshu City where he lived. He often mingles with fishermen and feels their daily life.

Yao Xinfeng shows his paintings to the fishermen's brothers from time to time. They are all happy: isn't this the scene in front of them? It is such a scene, how to draw it so beautiful! Take a good look at this scene again, not to mention, it's really beautiful!

China Changshu World Union College, located in Kunchenghu West Road, encourages students from hundreds of countries to form the habit of observing attentively.

World United College

2065438+September 2008, Yushan Academy was unveiled here, and the "Literature Academy" founded in the Yuan Dynasty was reborn again. China Project Center was established in the College to spread the seeds of Chinese excellent traditional culture to all teachers and students.

With a total area of 3,800 square meters, the Academy is a typical residential building in the south of the Yangtze River, with white walls and tiles, and has traditional architectural elements of Soviet-style gardens such as courtyards, waterside pavilions and pavilions.

"Academic integrity is self-sufficient and education is beautiful." This is a couplet written in seal script at the entrance of Xuedao Hall of Yushan Academy, which is a summary and symbol of Changshu cultural heritage.