Bashu culture has a long history of more than 5000 years. It occupies an important position in the three major cultural systems in ancient China, and together with Qilu culture, Sanjin culture and other regional cultures, it constitutes a splendid Chinese civilization. Bashu land is another cradle of the Chinese nation and one of the cradles of human civilization.
In modern Bashu, cultural giants such as,,, Li Bai, Su Shi, Zhang Mushi,,,, Guo Moruo and Ba Jin emerged, and they were at the forefront of the country in many cultural fields, such as Han Fu, Tang Poetry, Song Poetry, Ba Xue, Shu Studies, History and Taoism, Astronomy and Yi Studies. The culture and religion of Bashu, together with Confucianism in Qilu, Legalism in Sanjin and Taoism in Jingchu, have formed the remarkable characteristics of the ancient culture of the motherland.
Bashu area is the starting point and main road of the Southwest Silk Road. Since ancient times, it has maintained close contacts with all ethnic groups in southwest China and South Asian countries. Bashu culture has influenced all ethnic groups in southwest China and even in South Asian countries, making Bashu culture break through its own regional characteristics, thus having the significance of cultural exchange in southwest China and internationally.
"Bashu culture" has been put forward as an academic term for nearly 50 years. Guo Moruo, Gu Jiegang, Xu Zhongshu, Meng, Feng, Ren Naiqiang, Miao Yue, Zhang Xiushu, Deng, etc. have made pioneering research on the ancient history and legends, ancient history, nationalities, academics, religion and archaeology of Bashu, and achieved a number of epoch-making achievements.
In southwest China, Chongqing University and Sichuan University have always been the leaders in the study of Bashu culture. Over the past 50 years, they have published about 450 kinds of works, and great achievements have been made in Bashu archaeology. The discovery and research of Sanxingdui site, the excavation of the ancient city site named "Baodun Culture" in Chengdu, and the discovery of the ancient human site in the Three Gorges all condensed the painstaking efforts of Sichuan University scholars. From 65438 to 0999, teachers and students of Sichuan University made great contributions to the site of Lijiaba in the Three Gorges Project. The museum has more than 40,000 cultural relics with Bashu and Southwest culture as the main content, which provides rich material conditions for research work.
Bashu is a specific title, which can be called Shu for short now, but before the Warring States period, Bashu was separated and distinct. The ancient meaning of "Ba" is "a python that swallows an elephant", and the central area is Chongqing, eastern Sichuan and western Hubei, covering southern Shaanxi, Hanzhong, central Guizhou and western Hunan. "Shu" means "silkworm in sunflower" in ancient times, and its main geographical location covers the central and western plains of Sichuan Basin. From this perspective, the core areas of Bashu are Chongqing and Sichuan Province.
Generally speaking, Bashu culture is long, mysterious and splendid, which can be enjoyed in nature or born in death. You can do nothing but live by the sword. Culturally compatible with Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism, paying attention to the character of Sichuanese; Take Confucianism as an example to promote Sichuanese to be officials; To explain, people who go to Sichuan should hesitate; Between advance and retreat, life and death are rich.
Ba people are lively and shallow; Shu people are calm, but inert; The treasure is far away from home, and it is even more ghostly; There are many people, especially poets. Bashu land has always been called the land of four blockades. It is not closed, but the rivers are densely covered, towering out of the Three Gorges and becoming river of no return. It is sharp, rushing and boundless, which makes people feel ashamed.
Sichuan has been full of talented people since ancient times, but few generals since ancient times. How many lofty sentiments and ambitions have been cut into bits and pieces, turned into bits and pieces of leisure, covered with spring flowers and autumn rain, merged into rivers and disappeared without a trace.