Gu Yanwu (1613-1682) was a Han nationality. His original name was Jiang and his courtesy name was Zhongqing. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he changed his name to Yanwu, with the courtesy name Ningren, and also signed himself as a servant of Jiang Shan. He is respectfully called Mr. Tinglin. A native of Kunshan, Jiangsu. A famous thinker, historian and linguist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He participated in the anti-Qing struggle and later devoted himself to academic research. In his later years, he focused on the textual research of Confucian classics and the study of ancient pronunciation, which was divided into 10 ancient rhymes. The author of "Rizhilu", "Five Books on Phonetics", etc., he was the founder of ancient rhyme studies in the Qing Dynasty and made numerous achievements; he also contributed to Qie Yun studies, but not as much as he contributed to ancient rhymes studies.

The most significant feature of Gu Tinglin’s academic work is that it contradicts the idealist metaphysics of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming dynasties, and emphasizes objective investigation and research, creating a new trend for a generation. To save the world, what’s the use of just poetry and seal cutting?”

Gu Tinglin emphasized that learning must first establish character: “Rites, justice, integrity, and shame are the four dimensions.” He advocated that “the rise and fall of a country depends on the individual. Responsible". Volume 13 of "Rizhilu" "Zhengshi": "Those who protect the world are as humble as ordinary people, so how can they be held responsible?"

[Edit this paragraph] Academic contribution

Gu Yanwu divided the ancient rhyme into 10 parts, four of which have become conclusive, namely the song part, the yang part, the plowing part, and the steaming part. The remaining volumes were all roughly in scale, and later each Guyun branch was based on Gu's branch with more details.

Gu Yanwu's greatest contribution to phonology was the study of ancient rhyme by analyzing "Tang Yun" (actually "Guang Yun"). People in the Song Dynasty also studied ancient rhymes, but they regarded each rhyme part of "Tang Yun" as a whole and did not think of taking them apart. Therefore, even though the rhyme parts were set very broadly, rhymes were still inevitable. The other extreme is to solve the problem one by one when encountering words, without paying attention to the systematic nature of pronunciation. Gu Yanwu divided some rhymes into several parts and then re-merged them with other rhyme parts. This division and integration not only takes care of the systematic nature of pronunciation, but also takes care of the historical development of pronunciation. He first abandoned Pingshui Yun and returned to "Tang Yun". For example, some characters in Youyun, such as "Qiu" and "Mou", are classified into the "Zhi卍" department. This is "isolating Tang Yun" and returning to ancient rhyme. Another example is dividing the three rhymes of Zhi, Ma, and Geng into two, and dividing the house rhymes into three, so that they can be classified into different ancient rhymes, which fully reflects the differences between ancient and modern phonetic systems. His separation work is still recognized as very valuable to this day. Secondly, he was the first to propose using the entering voice with the feminine voice. In "The Book of Songs", there are often phenomena of rhyme characters rhyming with rhyme characters and Yin characters, as well as the phenomenon that a character has two pronunciations: Ru and Ru. From these phenomena, Gu Yanwu realized that except for the rhymes of the labial closing sound, such as Ru and He, which have no corresponding Yin rhymes. , the entrance tone should be matched with the Yin tone. Regarding the division of ancient phonetics, there is a trichotomy of yin and yang, and a dichotomy of yin and yang. According to the dichotomy, his approach is right.

In the study of ancient phonetics, Gu Yanwu made theoretical achievements on the one hand, and analyzed a large number of materials on the other, so he was later praised by scholars as the founder of ancient phonetics. His research results are reflected in the "Five Books on Music".

[Edit this paragraph] Character anecdotes

Gu Yanwu is known as the "founding Confucian master" of the Qing Dynasty and the founder of "Qing Xue". He is a famous Confucian scholar, historian and geologist. Phonologist. He traveled thousands of miles throughout his life, read thousands of books, created a new academic approach, and became a generation of thinkers in the early Qing Dynasty who inherited the past and forged ahead. He advocates practical application, opposes empty talk, and pays attention to seeking evidence. He is the author of "Rizhilu", "Zhaoyu Chronicles", "Five Books on Phonetics", "Tinglin Poetry Collection", etc.

Gu Yanwu was born into a prominent family in Jiangdong, but his family fell into decline in the late Ming Dynasty. After he obtained the qualifications for being a disciple at the age of 14, he returned to the village with his close friends from Tongli and joined the Fushe Society. Since the age of 27, he has categorically abandoned the study of imperial examinations, read through historical records, county chronicles, anthologies, and memorials of all dynasties, and compiled records about farmland, water conservancy, minerals, transportation, etc., as well as geographical history. In order to collect the materials, he began to write the "Book of Benefits and Diseases of the Counties and Countries of the World" and "Zhi of Zhaoyu".

After the Ming Dynasty fell, Guizhuang and others, aiming to restore the Ming Dynasty, participated in the armed struggle against the Qing Dynasty twice under the Nanming regime and decided not to cooperate with the Qing court. In the seventeenth year of Kangxi's reign (1678), the Qing court discussed the revision of "History of the Ming Dynasty" but refused to recommend him; the following year, he even vowed to die not to enter the "History of the Ming Dynasty" library. After that, he lived in Shanxi and Shaanxi, devoted himself to writing and no longer participated in the world.

During his more than 20 years of traveling to the north, Gu Yanwu traveled to Henan, Hebei, Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi, carrying books with him on two horses and two mules. He traveled thousands of miles and read thousands of volumes. Book. Gu Yanwu was knowledgeable and had profound attainments in Confucian classics, history, phonology, primary school, epigraphy, archeology, local chronicles and geography, as well as poetry and literature, and he made a contribution to the past and the future. He inherited the anti-Neo-Confucianism trend of scholars in the Ming Dynasty. He not only made a cleanup of Lu Wang's philosophy of mind, but also showed his academic interests that were very different from Cheng and Zhu's Neo-Confucianism in many categories such as nature and heaven, rationality and energy, Taoism, knowledge and action, and natural principles and human desires.

Gu Yanwu’s clear purpose of studying the world and applying it, his simple and inductive textual research method, his exploratory spirit of creating new paths, and his achievements in many academic fields announced the end of the Kongshu style of study in the late Ming Dynasty. It pioneered a generation of simple academic style and had a very beneficial influence on scholars in the Qing Dynasty.

Gu Yanwu also advocated "benefiting the country and enriching the people" and believed that "those who are good for the country should hide it among the people." He boldly doubted the power of monarchs and put forward the idea of ??"government by the many" that was colored by early democratic enlightenment thoughts.

The slogan he put forward, "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world," has far-reaching significance and influence, and has become a spiritual force that inspires the Chinese nation to forge ahead.

Gu Yanwu fought hard for the anti-Qing cause throughout his life, which was closely related to his experience of ruining his country and his family and the good education he had always received. "The city of Kunshan fell, and more than 40,000 people died. Gu Yanwu's biological mother He had her right arm cut off by Qing soldiers, his two younger brothers were killed, and his friend Wu Qikang was also arrested and suffered hardship. Gu Yanwu took refuge in Changshu with his stepmother Wang. When he heard that the city had fallen, he went on a hunger strike for fifteen days. On his deathbed, he left his last words to Gu Yanwu: "Although I am a woman, I have been favored by the country, and I will die with the country. It is righteous for you to be a minister of a foreign country, and I have no responsibility for the country's kindness in the world." If I forget the teachings of my ancestors, I can rest in peace in the ground. '"

In 1680, Mrs. Gu Yanwu died in Kunshan. He wept and worshiped in front of his wife's memorial tablet, and wrote a poem saying, "My aunt Ma Xi is in Jiangcun. I send you to your six-year-old grandson in Huangquan. I will meet my father and grandma underground, and there is still one person left."

Gu Yanwu wrote a poem: "Everything is uneven, so why should you suffer for yourself? ? I wish to level the East China Sea, and my body and mind will not change; the sea will never be flat, and my heart will never change." In other words, he hopes that the Qing Dynasty will be destroyed, just like Jingwei wants to level the East China Sea, "the body will sink and my heart will not change. There is no peace, and there is no end to my heart."

Late Ming Dynasty

In March of the 14th year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng's peasant army entered Beijing, and Emperor Chongzhen hanged himself. Prince Dorgon of the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing; in October, the Qing Dynasty established its capital in Beijing. Fulin ascended the throne, changed the Yuan Dynasty to Shunzhi, and ordered Prince Duo Ze of Yu to lead an army to conquer the south of the Yangtze River. In the Ming Dynasty, Shi Kefa (named Wanzhi, born in Kaifeng, Henan), the Minister of War in Nanjing, Ma Shiying (named Yaocao, born in Guiyang, Guizhou), Governor of Fengyang, and others supported King Fu Song as emperor. In early May, a small court was established in Nanjing with the reign name of Hongguang. .

When news of the fall of the capital reached Jiangnan, people were panicked for a while. In order to avoid the war, Gu Yanwu led his family to hide in Tibet. At the end of the year, they moved to Yulianjing, which is more than 80 miles away from Gaojiu's residence. Recommended by Kunshan County Magistrate Yang Yongyan (also known as Cenli, a native of Kunming, Yunnan), Yanwu was appointed by imperial edict to serve as the director of the Ministry of War.

"It should be noted that the Sixth Army has marched out to wipe out Shenzhou." ("Tinglin Poetry Collection" 1, "Reflections") Gu Yanwu pinned his hope of revenge on the Hongguang court. He was full of enthusiasm, " "Thinking has made some achievements" (Wu Yingkui's "Chronology of Mr. Gu Tinglin"), and wrote "On Military System", "On Situation", "On Field Gong" and "On Qian Fa", which are the famous "Four Essays on Yixi". ", to make suggestions for the conduct of the dynasty, and put forward a series of suggestions in terms of military strategy, sources of troops and financial consolidation in view of the military and political degeneration of the Nanjing regime and various shortcomings in the late Ming Dynasty. In May of the second year of Shunzhi (15th year), Gu Yanwu went to Nanjing via Zhenjiang to take up his post. Before he arrived, Nanjing was captured by Qing troops, Emperor Hongguang was captured, the Nanming army collapsed, and the Qing cavalry pointed at Su and Hangzhou.

At that time, anti-Qing rebels were rising in various places in the south of the Yangtze River. Gu Yanwu and his close friends Guizhuang and Wu Qihang (named Tongchu, from Jiading, Shanghai) joined the army and joined a rebel army led by Wang Yongzhao, the censor of Qiandu. All the rebel armies conspired to take back Suzhou first, and then Hangzhou, Nanjing and the coast. For a time, "the spears and spears reached overseas, and the words moved the east of the Yangtze River" ("Tinglin Poetry Collection" 1, "Thousands of Miles"); The enemy's arrogant elite Eight Banners rebels attacked Suzhou City and were ambushed and collapsed. Songjiang and Jiading also fell one after another. Gu Yanwu sneaked back to Kunshan and defended the city with Yang Yongyan, Guizhuang and others. Within a few days, Kunshan fell, and as many as 40,000 people died. Wu Qikang died in the battle. The right arm of Yanwu's biological mother He was cut off by Qing soldiers, and his two younger brothers were killed. He was killed, but Yanwu himself was lucky enough to escape because of his previous mistakes before the city was broken. Nine days later, Changshu fell. When Yanwu's stepmother Wang heard about the change, she went on a hunger strike and died for her country. On her deathbed, she told Yanwu: "If you have not become a minister of a foreign country, have not failed the country's favor, and have not forgotten the teachings of your ancestors, then I can rest in peace underground." ( "The Deeds of the Predecessor Wang Shuo") Yanwu was filled with grief and anger, and kept his mother's death in his heart.

In the leap six months of this year, King Xingjian of the Tang Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty proclaimed himself emperor in Fuzhou, with the reign name Longwu. Recommended by the great scholar Lu Zhenfei (also named Jianbai, Haoyue, from Quzhou, Hebei Province), Emperor Longwu appointed Yanwu as the head of the Ministry of War's Staff Department. Due to the recent death of his stepmother, Yanwu could not take up the post immediately, so he had to " "The dream is in the halberd-bearing class" ("Collected Poems" 1, "The Arrival of the Yanping Envoy"), but he still actively participated in the struggle to resist the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty.

At that time, Admiral Qing Songjiang was at odds with Governor Tu Guobao. In the former Ming Dynasty, Chen Zilong (also known as Woyu, a famous scholar in Fushe, and a native of Songjiang), Cheng'an Prefecture official Gu Xianzheng (alias Duanmu, from Kunshan), and the head of the Ministry of War Yang Yanshu (alias Weidou, from Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province) secretly instigated Wu Shengzhao's move. Anyway, Xianzheng is the elder of Yanwu's same clan, Chen Zilong and others have close contacts with Yanwu, and Yanwu was also involved in this matter. In the summer of the fourth year of Shunzhi (17 AD), the matter was exposed, and "several things went wrong, and the world turned dark again and again" ("Collected Poems" 1, "Crying of Chen Taipu"), Sheng Zhao was taken to Nanjing and beheaded, and the Qing government vigorously hunted down the same criminals. people. Zilong went to join Yanwu, who had already left home to flee. So Zilong fled and hid in the home of Gu Xianzheng's sons Tianlin and Tiankui. Soon the three of them were arrested, and Yanwu tried many different methods to rescue him, but to no avail. In the meantime, Yanwu went to look for Chengzheng and urged him to leave in time, but Xianzheng refused to listen. As a result, Chen Zilong threw himself into the water when the official was not paying attention. Yang Yanshu and Gu's father and son were killed one after another. More than 40 people were implicated in the case and died.

While instigating Wu Shengzhao to rebel, Yanwu also carried out other activities.

In the third year of Shunzhi (16 AD), Yanwu planned to go to Fujian to take up the post of head of the Fang Division. About the time he was about to leave, Lu Zhenfei sent someone to contact him and asked him to contact the "Heroes of Huaixu". In the next four or five years, Yanwu "went as far as the sea in the east and as far as Wangjiaying (now Huaiyin, Jiangsu Province) in the north" (Deng Zhicheng's "Chronicles of Qing Poems"), running among various anti-Qing forces, "every time from Huaihe Returning, he must go to Dongting (which is also Taihu Lake) to inform Zhenfei's son Zepu, or he may go to sea to get the news" (ibid.), with the intention of gathering the rebels from various places and waiting for the opportunity.

Although the Southern Ming regimes of Hongguang and Longwu along the coast of Fujian and Zhejiang collapsed successively, and the anti-Qing activities that Yanwu personally participated in were repeatedly frustrated, Yanwu did not become depressed because of this. He compared himself to the Jingwei who reclaimed the sea: "Everything is uneven, so why do you have to suffer for yourself? You will grow an inch of your body and hold a tree until the end of time. I am willing to level the East China Sea. My body will sink and my heart will not change. There will be no peace in the sea, but my heart will never end. Time" ("Collected Poems" 1, "Jingwei"), full of loyalty and anger, unable to control himself.

Early Qing Dynasty

In the last years of Chongzhen, Yanwu's heir Shaofu and his elder brother Gu Xiang (also known as Xia Zhuan) passed away successively, and there was a severe drought in Wuzhong. "Rangji" (Guizhuang's "Preface to Gu Ningren's Northern Journey"), Yanwu had no choice but to give 800 acres of his ancestral land to Kunshan wealthy Ye Fangheng (also known as Meichu) at a low price; at that time, Yanwu's cousin and others were paid They competed for inheritance and provoked family troubles. They also colluded internally and externally with the Ye family, who had deliberately embezzled Yanwu's property. Yanwu's hometown in Qiandun, Kunshan, and his residence in Yulianjing, Changshu were robbed and looted several times by this group of people. Set on fire. In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), Ye Fangheng tried to harm Gu Yanwu again. In order to avoid disaster, Yanwu had to "slightly shave his hair on his temples and change his appearance to become a merchant" ("Collected Poems" 2, "Circulation") and left Kunshan. In the next five years, he traveled between Wu and Hui.

Although he escaped from being a merchant, Yanwu still cared about his homeland and was always paying attention to the progress of the anti-Qing struggle along the coast, hoping to have the opportunity to make contributions. He wrote in the poem "Liu Zhuan": "...I went up to Beigu Tower in the morning and burst into tears like rain... Haoran thought about the Central Plains and vowed to go to Jiang Margin. When fame and fortune come, the staff will pursue Guangwu." When Zhang Mingzhen (also known as Houfu, Nanjing native) defeated the Qing troops at the mouth of the Yangtze River in September of the 10th year of Shunzhi (1653), and entered Chongming (now part of Shanghai). In the first month of the next year, he led "hundreds of naval ships" up the Yangtze River, arrived at Zhenjiang, and climbed Jinshan Mountain. On the occasion of offering sacrifices to Xiaoling (the mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang, Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, outside today's Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing) in the distance, Yanwu was very happy and inspired. He wrote excitedly: "The east wind blew the river water, and it flowed westward overnight. The Jinshan Mountain suddenly shook, and the pagoda The bells are ringing. One hundred and ten thousand sailors are approaching Huangzhou. The giant ships are in the camp, and the flying boats are in the forefront. When the brigade comes, Yanyou will be moved first, and Yan Ying will not be able to accept him. He is willing to follow the example of the Nanguan prisoner, and he will not stay in trouble. "Jinshan")

During this period, Gu Yanwu also worked with Guizhuang, Chen Chen (also known as Yaxin, a native of Wuxing, Zhejiang), Wu Yan (also known as Chiming, a native of Wujiang, Jiangsu), and Pan Zhezhang (also known as Litian). , a native of Wujiang), Wang Xichan (alias Yinxu, a native of Wujiang) and other poets formed the Jingyin Poetry Society, ostensibly as "residents of the motherland" and "youyouyouwenjiu" (Wang Yuezhen's "Nanxun Zhenzhi"), but in fact Using the Poetry Society as a cover, they secretly carried out anti-Qing activities. Yanwu made close friends in Huai'an, Wang Lue (also known as Qitian, from Huai'an) and Wan Shouqi (also known as Nianxiao, from Xuzhou), who were also patriots with strong national integrity.

In the spring of the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654), Gu Yanwu moved to the southern foot of Shenlie Mountain in Nanjing. Shenlie Mountain is Zhongshan. It was renamed Jiangshan during the Three Kingdoms period, and was renamed Shenlie Mountain again during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Three hundred years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang captured Nanjing (then named Jiqing) and used it as a base to conquer the east and west. More than 10 years later, he ascended the throne in Nanjing and established the Ming Empire. Yanwu "traveled all over the area along the river to see the prosperity of the old capital Jifu" ("Shinto Table"). The mountains and rivers remained the same but the people and people were completely changed, which made him feel that he was overwhelmed by the past and the present.

In the spring of the twelfth year of Shunzhi (1655), Yanwu returned to his hometown Kunshan. It turned out that the Gu family's servant was named Lu En. Seeing that the Gu family was declining day by day and Yan Wu had been absent for a long time, he betrayed his master and took refuge with Ye Fangheng. He accused Yanwu of "contact" and planned to put him to death. Yanwu returned to Kunshan and secretly executed Lu En. Ye Fangheng colluded with Lu's son-in-law, kidnapped and imprisoned Yanwu privately, and forced Yanwu to commit suicide. For a time, there was an uproar among the scholars due to the "disagreement between the same people". Fortunately, Yanwu's close friend Lu Zebo (also known as Su Sheng) had an old relationship with Songjiang's military envoy and spoke on his behalf, so that Yanwu's case was transferred to Songjiang Mansion for trial, and finally the case was closed on the charge of "killing a guilty slave."

When things were critical, Guizhuang had no choice but to ask Qian Qianyi for help. Qianyi was named Suzhi, and his name was Muzhai. He was from Changshu. He served as the right minister of the Ministry of Rites in the early years of Shunzhi and was a leader in the literary world at that time. Qian said: "If Ning Ren is my disciple, it will be easier for me to speak for him." Guizhuang did not want to lose the help of Qian. Although he knew that Yanwu would not agree, he still accepted Qianyi as his disciple on Yanwu's behalf. After Yanwu knew about it, he hurriedly asked someone to ask for the post of the disciple who returned to Zhuang as the secretary, but Qianyi refused. So he wrote a confession, stating that he had never been listed on the Qian family's gate wall, and asked people to post it everywhere on the thoroughfare. . Qianyi was greatly embarrassed and said mockingly: "Ning Ren is so impatient!" Yanwu's unruly character can be seen from this.

In the spring of the thirteenth year (1656), Yanwu was released from prison.

Although Guizhuang and other well-known people in the city tried their best to resolve it, Ye Fangheng was still unwilling to give up and actually sent assassins to follow him. In mid-summer, Yanwu returned to Zhongshan, and was suddenly attacked by an assassin while walking outside the Taiping Gate of Nanjing. He "hurt his head and fell from the donkey", but was fortunately saved. Later, Ye Fangheng also ordered dozens of gangsters to ransack Yanwu's house, "to carry out his legacy for generations." "Let's go" (Guizhuang's "Preface to Sending Gu Ningren to the North"). In the past few years, Yanwu had prepared several times to go south to Fujian to participate in the turbulent cause of resisting the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty in the coastal areas. However, due to various reasons, he was unable to make the trip. At this point, Yanwu decided to travel north to join forces with Nada. Anti-Qing patriots from all over the country inspected the situation of mountains and rivers in North China and worked hard to restore the Ming Dynasty. Traveling far away to avoid disaster is certainly another reason.

On New Year's Day of the 14th year of Shunzhi (1657), Yanwu Jin visited Xiaoling Mausoleum. In the past 7 years, Emperor Yanwu visited Xiaoling Mausoleum six times to express his thoughts about his homeland, and then returned to Kunshan to transfer his family property to Kunshan. He sold everything and turned his back on his hometown, never to return. That year Yanwu was 45 years old. In the next 20 years or so, Yanwu Ziran traveled erratically throughout Shandong, Hebei, Shanxi, and Henan. "He traveled twenty to thirty thousand miles and read more than ten thousand volumes of books." (Supplement to the Collection of Lost Texts in Tinglin, Shu After "Yang Yi Wanshou Che"), he met many like-minded friends; in his later years, he settled in Huayin, Shaanxi until his death on February 15, 1682.

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Thirty-two volumes of "Rizhilu".

Volumes 1 to 7, On the Classics

Eight to twelve, on politics

Thirteen volumes on world customs

Thirteen and four volumes on etiquette

Sixteen and seventeen volumes on imperial examinations

One volume from the 18th to the 2nd period discusses art and literature

The 22nd to 24th volume discusses the name

The twenty-five volumes discuss the truth and falsehood of ancient events

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Twenty-six volumes on historical law

Twenty-seven volumes on commentaries

Twenty-eight volumes on miscellaneous matters

Twenty-nine volumes On Military Affairs, Foreign Countries

Thirty volumes on astronomical phenomena

Thirty-one volumes on geography

Thirty-two volumes on miscellaneous examinations

Gu Tinglin considers Rizhilu to be his proud work: "All his ambitions and career are in it."

The phonology work "Five Books on Phonology", thirty-eight volumes before and after Ten years, revised five times

Three volumes of "Ancient Yin Table"

Three volumes of "Yi Yin"

Ten volumes of "Shi Ben Yin"

Twenty volumes of "Tang Yunzheng"

Three volumes of "Yin Lun"

Six volumes of "Inscriptions on Epigraphy and Stone"

"Book of Benefits and Diseases of the Counties and Countries of the World" "One Hundred Volumes" "Twenty-one histories, as well as county and county annals from all over the world, collections of official documents of a generation, and chapters and volumes, etc., and recorded them into more than forty volumes as soon as they were found"

[Edit this paragraph] Former Residence of Gu Yanwu

This is the hometown of Gu Yanwu, a famous thinker who said "Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world". It is also the hometown of Gu Jian, the founder of Kunqu Opera, "the ancestor of all operas". This is also the place where writer Tao Xian, the ninth-generation descendant of Tao Yuanming in the Tang Dynasty, pioneered the creation of silk bamboo in the south of the Yangtze River. This place where dragons and crouching tigers are hidden is Qiandeng Town. Zhouzhuang and Jinxi are close neighbors of Qiandeng. They vigorously developed tourism resources and successfully shaped " "China's No. 1 Water Town" and "China's Museum Town" awakened the Qiandeng people. They discovered that the cultural heritage left by their "ancestors" was no less than that of other famous towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Therefore, the town was transformed from top to bottom. To form a political awareness, although the tourism development of this town is relatively late, the ancient town has very good resources and should vigorously develop tourism and find its own characteristic tourism road---cultural road. In today's "Hundred Journalists" During the "Approaching the Ancient Town - Qiandeng" collecting activity, the author experienced the profound cultural heritage of the ancient town on the spot.

Gu Yanwu was a famous patriotic scholar in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. "The famous saying passed down from generation to generation has become the motto of generations of descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties who aim to serve the country. Gu Yanwu also wrote 370 volumes of works in his life, such as "Rizhilu", "The Book of Benefit and Diseases of the Prefectures and Countries of the World", "Zhi of Zhaoyu" " is one of the three major works. Gu Yanwu himself was rated as one of the seventy-two great men in two thousand years by contemporary historians, and Qiandeng Town is the place where this great thinker was born. The author saw at the scene that the garden-style scenery has begun to take shape. The scenic spot that originally covered an area of ??only 6 acres has now expanded to 60 acres, forming a complex including Gu Yanwu’s living area, Gu Yanwu Ancestral Hall, Gu Yanwu Tomb, and There are several scenic spots in Gu Garden, among which Gu Yanwu's cemetery is connected with Gu Garden, forming a garden layout integrating tomb, ancestral hall and hall, which is the first among Qiandeng.