Experience the breadth and depth of Huaxia and Yue culture

The school year of my granddaughter's primary school will start soon after the winter vacation. We returned to Shanghai from Nanchang before the Lantern Festival. Last weekend, while our son still had a few days off from college, we started our second self-driving trip since the beginning of spring 2019: the planned trip to Shaoxing. If the trip to Donglin Temple in Lushan Mountain on the second day of the 2019 Spring Festival is to feel the tranquil Zen meaning of Buddhist culture, then this trip to Shaoxing is to experience the breadth and depth of Huaxia Yue culture!

Shaoxing, the first city of Zhejiang, has the praise of Chinese amorous feelings, great states, excellent people, numerous dramas in the world and immortal capital in heaven. Shaoxing is a famous oriental city that integrates Chinese landscapes and poems and paintings south of the Yangtze River. It is recognized as a city with beautiful scenery, a state of historical relics and a gathering place of celebrities. it is known as a museum without walls. Especially with landscape scenery, ancient city style, cultural landscape as the trump card features.

The beauty of Shaoxing lies in the figures, Wang Xizhi, Lu you, Tao Qian, Lu Xun, who is not the outstanding person who is leading the fashion of the times? Which gentleman is not the one who left pen and ink to guide sentient beings through ancient and modern times? And who is not the patriot who is the first to worry about the world and beg for the welfare of the people? Therefore, the trip to Shaoxing has been waiting for a long time.

Because my granddaughter has a dance class on Saturday morning. Our trip is only one and a half days. Except for the round trip from Shanghai to Shaoxing, the actual tour time is only one day. There are many cultural scenic spots in Shaoxing, and time is very compact and precious to us. In addition to the important scenic spots that must be seen, it seems that there are many places. You can only take a quick look at it and have a rough sense of it.

We set out at noon and arrived in Shaoxing at nearly three o'clock in the afternoon. the first stop was Lu Xun's hometown. A huge picture of Lu Xun holding a cigarette in the distance. The black-and-white mural of contemplation comes into view!

Lu Xun: later renamed Zhou Shuren, a native of Shaoxing, Zhejiang. Famous litterateur and thinker, an important participant in the May 4th New Culture Movement and the founder of modern Chinese literature. Mao Zedong once commented: the direction of Lu Xun is the direction of the new culture of the Chinese nation.

When we stood under the national backbone of regular script and looked up at the bronze statue of Lu Xun, a national fighter with a cold vision, a thin face and a beard, we were filled with emotion: the essence of Shaoxing land made Lu Xun's national soul. The special standing of its soul and the vastness of its soul are enough to make every tourist respect the land of Shaoxing.

The first thing we visited was Baicaoyuan and Sanwei Bookstore. "from Baicaoyuan to Sanwei Book House" is a reminiscent prose written by Lu Xun in 1926 about the interesting life of childhood. The author writes a hundred grass garden, with music as the center, which is interspersed with the legend of the beautiful snake and the story of catching birds in the snow in winter.

Sanwei Book House means that it is called the strictest school in the city, where children are bound by rules. However, the author did not make the Sanwei study lifeless, but through the students sneaking into the back garden to play during the recess, and the old private school teachers were absorbed in reading in class and the students took the opportunity to steal music. The narration of two short stories, so that Sanwei Book House is full of humor, showing the unsuppressed happy nature of children. The prose was selected into junior high school Chinese, the seventh grade of the people's Education Publishing House (Volume 2). Today, we have the honor to come to the scene to see the old wooden house, the high-walled courtyard, the vegetable garden and the green vegetable show, and we can feel the real life of Lu Xun's childhood more strongly.

After coming out of Lu Xun's former home, we gave up driving and bought Wupeng boat tickets to the next scenic spot, Shenyuan. Before boarding, we were required to wear orange lifejackets and take two black boats. The boat moved leisurely in the narrow water lane, and the old boatman in the local jet-black felt hat shook the single oar skillfully, constantly reminding us what to pay attention to when taking the boat. Especially keep your head down when crossing the doorway of the stone bridge. We experienced the life situation of going through the streets by boat with great interest.

Shen Yuan, also known as Shen Shi Yuan, a private garden surnamed Shen in the Southern Song Dynasty, was built in the Song Dynasty and covers an area of as much as 70 mu. The pavilions and pavilions in the park, small bridge and flowing water, shady trees, Jiangnan scenery. Shenyuan, a national 5A scenic spot, is the only Song-style garden preserved among many classical gardens in Shaoxing.

Shen Yuan witnessed and recorded the mournful love story between Lu you, a patriotic poet of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Tang Fu, where Lu you once left the famous poem "Hairpin Toufeng". The words between the walls are extremely painful to say. Tang Jie met with it, feeling sad, and soon died of depression. Lu you visited Shen Yuan several times and wrote poems. At the age of 75, forty years after the death of Tang Jie, Lu you revisited the old place. every time he entered the city, he would climb the temple and look out over the temple. He wrote down two unique sentences in "Shen Yuan":

Dream off incense disappeared for forty years, Shen Yuanliu old do not fly, this body acts as a funny mountain and land, still hanging traces of a sudden.

The setting sun on the city paints a corner of sorrow, and Shenyuan is not an old pool platform. Under the bridge of grief, the spring wave is green, and it used to be a startled photo.

In his later years, Lu you would pay tribute to Tang Yuan in Shenyuan every spring, and every time he would send love to his poems or lyrics. These poems and songs have become the last song of love tragedy through the ages.

After visiting Shenyuan, it was 06:00 in the afternoon, we came to the famous time-honored Xianheng Hotel for dinner and tasted Jiangnan cuisine. My son specially ordered a bowl of hot Shaoxing yellow rice wine for me, and the dishes are naturally local specialties. After we had had enough to drink and eat, we came to the hotel that we had booked in advance. Along the way, we sat in the car and enjoyed the unique night scene of Shaoxing, with melodious Yue opera singing beside our ears.

On this trip, we put the highlight of our visit to the Keyan Scenic spot in Shaoxing on the second day. Keyan Scenic spot is a national AAAA tourist area, which began in the Han Dynasty and has a history of more than 1800 years, with a total area of 6. 87 square kilometers, with ancient Yue culture as the connotation, ancient quarrying relics as features, Shaoxing water village customs, ancient quarrying relics, mountain ecology in one of the scenic spots, including Keyan, Jianhu, Lu Town and Xianglin four scenic spots.

Stone Buddha Scenic spot, during the period of the three Kingdoms, it was once a quarry, which was continuously dug by skilled craftsmen of all ages, and created different postures of Shitang, Shibi and Shibi. For thousands of years, with the intervention of religion, the rendering of literati and celebrities and the development of later generations, it has formed a scene such as Tiangong Giant Buddha, Pillar clear smoke, Seven Star Rock, eight diagrams Taiwan, Wenchang Pavilion, Silkworm Cave, Lotus listening and so on.

Jianhu Lake is the mother lake of Shaoxing. Its beautiful and unique scenery attracts many writers and writers to praise it. Li Baiyun, the poet of the Tang Dynasty: the water of Mirror Lake is like the moon, and the woman of Yexi is like snow. Lu you Gaoyin, a poet of the Southern Song Dynasty: the daughter does not need to buy pictures, listen to my long song Jianhu. Ming Dynasty miscellaneous Yuan Hongdao Yi Yu: people of more than six dynasties, do not hear of the West Lake is good. Qi Zhaonan poem praise in Qing Dynasty: White jade long dike road, black awning small painting boat. We took a cruise to Jianhu Lake, where the water and sky are the same and the dream is blurred.

Luzhen Scenic spot is a reproducible cultural theme scenic spot, which is the product of the combination of traditional tourist scenic spots and modern theme parks. According to the typical environment of Luzhen, which appears many times in Lu Xun's works, the Luzhen scenic spot combines Lu Xun's works such as "the True Story of Ah Q", "Blessing" and "Mad Man's Diary" with the traditional culture of Shaoxing, taking Yue culture as the foundation. Shaoxing Water Street ancient town, folk customs and architectural features are fully displayed. During this period, the platform doors and shops of the Wuwa pink wall, various stone bridges and railings, cross rivers and lanes, stage and temple with flying eaves, and relying on the traditional architectural style of Jianhu, one river and two streets, have formed a water village full of pillow rivers and towers.

As soon as I stepped into the scenic spot of Luzhen, I was attracted by all kinds of statues on the street. These statues are all characters written by Lu Xun, and each character has a sad story. The sculpture sketch characters are realistic and exaggerated, the dynamic expressions are real and touching, the scenes are properly arranged, and they have high artistic taste and profound technical attainments. they stereoscopically interpret all kinds of small potatoes written by Lu Xun. tourists scramble to take pictures in front of the statue.

Puzhao Zen Temple is a Tang-style architecture, according to the situation, tortuous extension, the mountain gate, the edge of the wall, the clock tower, the God of Wealth Hall, Maitreya Hall, the main Hall, etc., magnificent. It is currently the largest imitation of the Tang Dynasty in China, in which the main Hall covers an area of 1000 square meters and is 25 meters high. It has an original structure of heavy eaves, and the eaves pick out 4 meters, like an eagle spreading its wings and raising its head in Keshan. There are 18 ordinary-sized stone Luohan in the Luohan courtyard in the park. What shocked me in particular was the more than a hundred murals painted on the walls of the hatchback corridor in the temple. These art treasures, which are based on Buddhist classics, myths and legends, and historical stories, are a classic volume of ancient Yue culture. Its humanistic and artistic value is amazing.

Relying on the thousand-year-old Yue culture, Keyan Scenic spot highlights Shaoxing's unique cultural resources such as stone culture, water culture, bridge culture, wine culture, opera culture, celebrity culture, folk culture and so on. The scenic spot of Jianhu Lake, which is beautifully built with beautiful lakes and mountains, shows the former elegant demeanor of Shaoxing Mother Lake.

We returned to Shanghai at 8: 00 p.m. on the 24th. Although the time of this trip to Shaoxing is short, due to the beautiful weather, the rest of the rain, full preparation and scientific and reasonable itinerary, it has achieved the desired results. Although very tired, the mood is very comfortable, personally felt the Shaoxing unique water culture, bridge culture, wine culture and other rich Yue cultural connotations. But then again, if we want to have a comprehensive and profound understanding of Yue culture and examine its profound historical origin, there are still many aspects that need to be involved, such as Wang Xizhi, Cai Yuanpei and other cultural giants. We can only look forward to arranging a more abundant time to see you next time. If you want to read more wonderful articles, please follow the reading and appreciation of American articles.

Shanghai, February 25, 2019