The new rain has just begun, Jishan is like black daisy, and the water is like smoke. With a heart of admiration for Mr. Lu Xun, I came to Shaoxing Luzhen Customs Park.
Lu Town is a small water town in the south of the Yangtze River that is both familiar and unfamiliar to people, has a long history and is young and lively.
"The layout of hotels in Lu Town is different from other places: there is a large square-shaped counter on the street, with hot water prepared in the cabinet, which can be used to warm wine at any time. The workers, in the afternoon and evening After work, I often spend one copper coin to buy a bowl of wine..." This is the first time that Lu Zhen appears in Mr. Wang's works. Accompanied by the faint scent of Shaoxing rice wine that has been "melted with water", it appears in Kong Yiji's " "How much? Not much?" Lu Zhen became increasingly accepted and familiar to people.
As Lu Xun said, most of his novels were written in Shaoxing. According to statistics, among all 25 modern Lu Xun novels, 11 are set in his hometown of Shaoxing, among which Lu Town appears most frequently in the novels. In his works such as "Kong Yiji", "Tomorrow", "The Storm", "Social Opera", "Blessing", "Hometown", "Diary of a Madman" and other works, the place name Luzhen appeared successively, and Mr. Weichuang, the place where Ah Q lived in the immortal work "The True Story of Ah Q", was a village in Lu Town. The reputation of Lu Zhen is inseparable from the characters such as Kong Yiji, Old Lady Jiujin, Sister Xianglin, and Ah Q. In his works, Lu Xun left us an ancient water town with Ming and Qing characteristics that was both lively and prosperous and rich in cultural heritage as a cultural heritage. The artistic charm of Lu Xun's works is far-reaching and long-lasting. Thanks to this literary master's wonderful pen, the reputation of Lu Town has spread far and wide at home and abroad, including the tiled walls, shops facing the river, Taimen buildings, stone bridge piers in various shapes, criss-crossing water alleys and creeks, and stage with upturned eaves and corners, etc. , all of them are the style of Shaoxing in the early 20th century.
In fact, there is no such town as Lu Town in the history of Shaoxing. Lu Town is a fictional place in Lu Xun's novels. It reflects Shaoxing's water, bridges, wine, stone, architecture, folk customs, dramas and celebrities, and many other cultures. It is undoubtedly the epitome of that era. Lu Xun was full of enthusiasm for Lu Town during his lifetime, which originated from his dreamlike attachment to the landscape of his hometown and his childhood life. My husband has always had a very close relationship with his mother and grandmother. My mother’s surname is Lu, which is the main reason why my husband particularly likes to use the town of Lu as the background of his novels. Anqiaotou outside Shaoxing is my grandmother’s home, my uncle’s home is in Huangfuzhuang, my eldest aunt lives in Wurong, and my younger aunt lives in Dongguan. In these villages and towns, my husband’s lively childhood footprints were left. Therefore, Lu Town is an artistic textual summary of Lu Xun's childhood memories of several water towns such as Dongpu, Fanjiang, Dongguan, Huangfuzhuang, and Anqiaotou. It is just a written water town that exists in the novel. But this small town has indeed existed in Lu Xun's heart for a long time, and also survives in the hearts of millions of readers through his novels.
However, the Lu Town created by Lu Xun was not a good place to be isolated from the world and live and work in peace and contentment. Lu Xun integrated joy, anger, sorrow, laughter and curses into this water town that is also so beautiful, simple and prosperous. Lu Town is a romantic and realistic platform that Lu Xun condensed many market towns in Shaoxing into. The characters created by Lu Xun are running, shouting, and looking forward to Lu Town... The Lu Town written by Lu Xun also embodies his thoughts on the real society. dissatisfaction and denial, and pinned their own social ideals.
Now, a rural town-style theme park has been built in Keyan Scenic Area in Shaoxing, which turns the two-dimensional images in literary works into three-dimensional images that can be visited and visited, resurrecting the characters in Lu Xun’s works. environment, characters, and customs. It is undoubtedly a wonderful idea to revive the ideas and characters of Lu Xun's works into the world through artistic means such as reproduction, virtualization and reproduction. Mr. Zhou Haiying, the son of Lu Xun, was also very happy about this. He believed that doing so was "returning Lu Xun to the world and to the world."
In recent years, many theme parks have been built with historical and cultural connotations across the country, but these parks are either built for film and television shooting, or they simply virtualize a certain historical and cultural environment in a certain place. . The Lu Town on the side of Jianhu Lake is different. It was built in the place where the novel takes place. It replicates the local customs and customs in local history and life, and is closely connected with the stories of the well-known characters in the novel. Relying on the water town scenery of Jianhu Lake and the profound heritage of Shaoxing, a famous historical and cultural city, a quaint water town with the style described by Lu Xun is presented in front of us. It incorporates the content about his hometown of Shaoxing in Lu Xun's works, making people walking on the streets and rivers of Lu Town feel that the characters in Lu Xun's works are always around them, and Mr. Lu Xun's shouts seem to still be echoing over the ancient town. Therefore, walking into Lu Town is like walking into history and Lu Xun's novels, which gives people a feeling of fantasy and reality, a feeling of feeling and experiencing history with the soul.
Lu Town integrates the folk customs, architectural charm and natural scenery of the old Shaoxing water town. It is a microcosm of the Shaoxing water town a hundred years ago. Lu Town is a reproducible cultural theme scenic spot, a product of the combination of traditional tourist attractions and modern theme park concepts. It combines Lu Xun's works with Shaoxing's traditional culture, and uses Yue culture as its foundation to comprehensively display Shaoxing Water Street Ancient Town.
Lu Town covers an area of ??150 acres, with a construction area of ??more than 30,000 square meters. It is divided into five major areas: traditional dining area, traditional shop area, leisure display area, traditional residential area, and water tourist area.
Lu Town has one lake, two rivers and three streets. The lake is Jian Lake, which is a famous lake in central Vietnam and the "Mother Lake" of Shaoxing people. Lu Town is built next to the lake, with two small rivers running across it from east to west. The town flows into Jianhu Lake; there are three streets lined with shops, with black tiles and pink walls, lanterns hanging high, wine flags fluttering, the procession of welcoming the bride blaring drums and trumpets, and the drama on the social stage running smoothly, making people feel as if they have walked into the 20th century. Among the pictures of customs and people in Shaoxing water town at the beginning of the century. That day, when we went to Lu Town, it happened to be raining lightly. After passing the stone archway at the entrance of the town, everyone hurried into the town. There is a bluestone statue of Mr. Lu Xun in the Luzhen Square paved with bluestones at the entrance of the town. His eyes are like torches, lighting up everything. Lu Xun, who is in deep thought, seems to be introducing the disaster-ridden China behind him to everyone. Lu Xun started writing in "Hometown" like this: "I braved the severe cold to return to my hometown, which was more than 2,000 miles away and had been away for more than 20 years. Since it was late winter, when I approached my hometown, the weather became gloomy again, and the cold wind It blew into the cabin and made a whining sound. Looking out from the awning, I saw several desolate villages far and near under the pale yellow sky. There was no life, and my heart couldn't help but feel sad!" Although Lu Xun recalled it in a beautiful way! Although he wrote about his childhood life in his hometown, he wrote in a very heavy tone how he felt about returning to his hometown. How sad and heavy the life of Chinese farmers in the old society was. Lu Xun's desire and confidence for a new life filled him Read between the lines of the work.
After walking through the town square and walking through the streets and alleys of Lu Town, the fresh and moist breeze on the river gently blew on my face, and riverside homes in the water town can be seen everywhere. Lu Town adopts Shaoxing’s typical architectural layout of white walls and black tiles, with one river and one lake on two streets. Therefore, when walking into Lu Town, the first impression you get is that you have walked into an ancient water town where "everyone's family rested on the river, and the towers leaned over the boats." The water is sparkling, there is a sound of lapping on the shore, and endless awnings and dragon boats are rushing back and forth, just like a Venetian city; there are buildings on the shore, pink walls and black tiles, small bridges and flowing water, and the residential houses and shops along the river are scattered in an orderly manner. It just feels like this " "Ancient Town" is a bit newer. This brand-new ancient town allows us to see a condensed version of Shaoxing. Walking along the old streets of Luzhen, which runs east-west, you can admire the whitewashed walls and black tiles against the green mountains and green waters, as well as the "Xinweizhuang" in the east and the "Gujian Lake" in the south. The reporter felt like he was in the "people's home" in those days. It is in the water town of Luzhen, where "all the people are leaning on the river" and "the towers are overlooking the boats".
Lu Town is quite large. Along the winding river, most of the buildings are mentioned in Lu Xun's writings. Probably because of the new opening of Lu Town, many "residential houses" are still uninhabited, and many shops are not yet operated. Only family workshops and mom-and-pop shops facing the street and river are still doing a prosperous business. Tribute shops, tin foil shops, oil candle shops, tea lacquer shops, banks, pawn shops... shops that no longer exist in modern cities are here. Walking on the stone road, when you see the patrolling soldiers wearing Qing Dynasty costumes, you feel like you have arrived in another dynasty.
Lu Mansion, Zhao Mansion and Qian Mansion are the key buildings in Lu Town. Lu Mansion is the residence of the "Four Masters of Lu" where Sister Xianglin lives, and Zhao Mansion is the home of "The True Story of Ah Q". "Mr. Zhao"'s home, Qian Mansion is the residence of the "madman" in "Diary of a Madman". I walked into the Lu Mansion and watched the blessing ceremony going on there. Then I walked into the Lu Mansion Garden and admired the famous plaques from past dynasties displayed there. As a group of us walking between the water alley and the stone bridge, our minds were completely occupied by the stories and characters in Lu Xun's novels. We couldn't help but put ourselves into the old Shaoxing of the 1920s and 1930s. It was as if I was witnessing everything happening in the novel. Therefore, when we walked to the door of Xishi Tofu Shop, we immediately naturally thought of the thin-footed Compass Yang Ersao. It was only when I sat in front of the curved counter and drank the steaming tofu noodle served by the waiter that I realized that Sister-in-law Yang had become a fictional character in history forever.
After visiting the Lu Mansion, we quietly watched a "Happy Reunion" play in the "Town Office": Ah Q was lying on the ground drawing circles, and sitting in front of the desk " Figures in long robes", two rows of government servants holding water and fire sticks. "Ah Q lay down and tried his best to draw a circle. He was afraid of being laughed at, so he was determined to draw a circle..."
After leaving the "town office", our hearts felt a little heavy. , no one spoke for a long time. A man walked towards me from a distance, wearing tattered clothes and a broken felt hat. When he came closer, he pretended to be glib and made various weird faces, and even squinted his eyes and shouted, "Rebel! Rebellion!" It turned out that it was true. It's that "Ah Q." Just as everyone recovered from their surprise, an old woman with gray hair walking on crutches walked sideways. She was in ragged clothes, her eyes were dull, and she was muttering something in her mouth, calling "Amao, Amao". Walking behind us was the ill-fated Sister-in-law Xianglin in "Blessing", and our hearts were once again immersed in the stormy years described by the teacher...
In Lu Town, you can often see Ah Q, Mrs. Xianglin, the fake foreign devil, Mr. Lu Si... the characters in Lu Xun's works appear on the street one by one. When there are many tourists, they play their roles to amuse the tourists and attract them to take out their cameras to take pictures. When there were few tourists, Mr. Lu Si would wander around with a hookah box, Ah Q would rest on the signboard, and Mrs. Xianglin would sit on the shopkeeper's counter and drink tea, which really brought out the interest in life.
What is also eye-catching in the town are groups of street statues with exaggerated images and different shapes. Ah Q's revolution, Ah Q's beatings, Ah Q's teasing of little nuns, and marriage-robbing... make people laugh, and also let people see the characters and fates of the characters in Lu Xun's works. Diary of a Madman interprets interesting games and creates a cannibalistic environment, forming a unique scenery in Lu Town, a water town.
Today's Lu Town is bustling with people from all over the world, with endless laughter and laughter. People admire the natural beauty of the blending of sky and water, appreciate the strong Jiangnan style of the water town, and reminisce about the rich folk culture. Continued Everything Lu Xun dreamed of but could not realize...
Take a boat from the river port of Lu Town and sail around Jian Lake slowly out of the town. At this time, Lu Town in the drizzle became more picturesque. As Lu Town gradually faded out in the shadow of the rain, I sat on the boat and reflected on my previous tour experience. Only then did I truly realize that this old Shaoxing township-style theme park, designed with Lu Xun's novels as its connotation, is so popular among people. I love it because it is authentic, and because its connotation is well-known and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, so it can give people a feeling of reality and fantasy.
Ah! Lu Town is the spiritual home of Mr. Lu Xun and a key for people to interpret Mr. Lu Xun. Walking into Lu Town is like approaching Lu Xun.
Gently, stepping on the poetry of bluestone, let me invite you to walk together and walk into the dream-like artistic conception of Lu Town, Shaoxing