Where is Digu Town?
East of yi county, Huangshan City, China.
What are the famous scenic spots in Xidi Ancient Town?
Xigu Village and Mandarin Duck Valley and Yanshan Natural Forest Park.
A small village, on the vast land of China, is like a drop in the ocean; Compared with five thousand years in China, the existence time of a small village is like a blink of an eye.
However, this small village is like a huge sponge, absorbing the essence of China traditional culture. If you can hold it tightly in the palm of your hand, what drips from your fingers is full of rich cultural nutrition. Xidi's cultural history is worth pondering.
Before writing this title, many names were conceived, such as Xidi: a symbol of China culture, Xidi: a dream of cultural continuity, Xidi: a village surrounded by culture, but they all denied themselves after repeated attempts.
The reasons are either profound or difficult to understand; Either the image is illusory and there is no way to put pen to paper; Either it is superficial and vulgar, and the words don't convey the meaning.
However, "western delivery" and "culture" are the core contents I want to express. Finally, the word "infiltration" was finalized, and I felt the feeling of dripping from head to toe.
Yes, it is "infiltration".
In Xidi, people will feel the influence and watering from traditional culture, such as spring breeze, rain and dew, warm sunshine and trickle.
Even in the cracks of every house, there is an irresistible fragrance of books and ink, as if there had been a rich meal in it, waiting for travelers who have been hungry for a few days to enjoy it.
At this time, the intense radiation of nutrients in the ancient culture of China has irresistibly penetrated into every pore and cell of the human body until it ignited the whole body like a fire, which made people excited and amazed.
Whenever I go to a scenic spot, I always don't like to listen to the tour guide's endless explanations, because there are too many commercial gimmicks that are difficult to distinguish between true and false, which will convey a lot of bad or wrong information, making people suspicious, difficult to distinguish between true and false, upset, and finally feel that they are running around. In particular, Xidi, a place with thousands of years of cultural heritage, needs to be isolated from the outside world. Even if it is a little interference, we should try our best to calm down, ponder with our hearts and understand with our hearts. Only in this way can we truly understand its beauty.
Xidi has no magnificent buildings that arouse people's emotions, and there is no dazzling beauty. Only the Huizhou architecture with white walls and black tiles stands quietly on both sides of the street, welcoming tourists from all directions, and it is a vicissitudes of life. Look at his manner, just like a great scholar, he is well versed in learning, and he is respected, humble and supercilious, which makes people respect him.
Most scholars have a deep and beautiful temperament, but they can't hide their brilliant temperament, and so does Xidi. Here, the gatehouse, windows, patios, columns, beams, halls and study rooms of every building include ancestral halls and memorial archways.
There are traces of traditional culture such as sculpture, calligraphy, painting and poetry. Moreover, no matter in the way of being a man, in the principle of establishing the world, or in the way of running a family, it has a high artistic level and ideological depth. Inadvertently, we can touch the branches and leaves of China traditional culture.
Although it has been ruthlessly baptized by years, it is greener, fresher and full of vitality.
Xidi's story starts from the Tang Dynasty, and there are documents to check, so I don't need to go into them here. But as far as its rich culture is concerned, it took thousands of years to cultivate and accumulate, and then the study was prosperous and colorful. The earlier Xidi was just a quiet village "locked in a boudoir" on the land of China, which was little known. But she always exists silently in her own unique cultural way, accumulating energy day after day.
The era of real talents in the west is not in the prosperous Tang and Song Dynasties, but since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. This is the effect of silently accumulating culture.
In fact, the formation of any culture takes a long time to polish and accumulate, and it can't be done overnight by shouting a few slogans.
It is a hormone and poison in the process of cultural growth, which will only erode, distort and kill the original genes of culture, and eventually produce a group of ugly, deformed and even mutated cultural freaks.
The cultural history of Xidi tells us that loneliness and persistence are the best environment and motivation for cultural growth.
Because of loneliness, you can concentrate; Only by persisting can we continue.
Xidi is just a small village near Huangshan Mountain in southern Anhui, about 40 kilometers away from Huangshan Scenic Area. There is only one main street in the village that is not wide and runs through things. This is the gathering place of the Hu family, a descendant of the royal family in the Tang Dynasty.
In order to escape the persecution of feudal politics, a descendant of the royal family changed his surname to Hu Li, and after many twists and turns, he moved here.
Hu descendants are well-off and knowledgeable, but there are also many businessmen, especially the famous Huizhou merchants in Qing Dynasty, Hu Guansan, Hu Xueyan, a merchant of red-crowned cranes, and famous cultural scholars in modern times.
However, whether for official or business, the Hu family in Xidi always regards cultural literacy as their foundation. 055-79000 begins with the admonition of "the foundation of reading".
According to the ancestral teachings, some ethnic groups have created works such as Learning to Be Excellent, Being an Official, Doing Business Properly, Being Difficult to Start a Business, and Advancing despite Difficulties, Being Good for a Hundred Years, Being the First to Learn, Being Filial for the Generation, Studying for a Hundred Years, Being a Master, Being Kind and Being the First to Learn, and so on. Education is the starting line for the growth and continuation of Xidi culture.
In Xidi, such neat, far-reaching and memorable couplets as mentioned above can be said to be everywhere. And a pair of couplets is often an excellent calligraphy work, either Li or Kai, or line or grass, which is really pleasing to the eye.
It is conceivable that in Xidi, where the cultural atmosphere is so strong, what kind of shame and embarrassment will a person who neglects to recite poems, eulogize songs and write paintings face?
According to records, many families in Xidi eat chaff and swallow vegetables all the year round, but the tuition fee for children to go to school and the teacher's daily necessities-yuan, is only a fraction. In order to save oil, adults' work, no matter how hard and tired, should be done during the day, and even less at night. However, the lamp oil for children to study is never stingy, and it often lights up late at night.
It is in this subtle influence of reading and culture that the blood of China's traditional culture gradually melts into Xidi people's bodies and consciously becomes their compass for dealing with people and settling down. At that time, Xidian people were proud of "family heirloom" and "scholarly family", and passed down from generation to generation by example until today.
Western scholars have the courage and responsibility of "taking the world as their own responsibility". The most representative is the "writing on the bus" incident initiated by Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao in 1895, which shocked the ruling and opposition parties. According to historical records, there were 8 candidates in Anhui province at that time, among whom 3 were Xidi people. Trusting and caring for the world is also the broad mind of Xidi culture to worry about the country and the people.
Although Xidi Hu advocated feudal family culture, its essence was a copy of China's excellent traditional culture. For example, the Hu family advocates "diligence and thrift", "family harmony", "carrying on the family line", "governing the country" and "changing with security". These can be found in related ancient books.
Woody's representation of traditional culture is true.
Hu Di's thought of "learning literature to do business and taking literature as an official" has a strong feudal utilitarian color, which is worth discussing and criticizing in modern society.
But isn't his thought, which is based on culture and puts culture in a very high position, worth studying and studying by future generations? In their common sense and cognition, culture is by no means a dispensable decoration and embellishment, let alone an arty expedient.
They are convinced that no matter doing business or being an official, they will go far without culture. Learning business is elegant; Being an official is not without integrity.
Perhaps it is precisely because of this cultural awareness and atmosphere that Xidi, a small village, has finally become the purest, clearest and brightest drop in China's cultural history.
Woody people value culture, but they don't shy away from words and interests. Among them, there are many excellent Huizhou merchants. Many wealthy businessmen in Xidi developed outside, and they are not addicted to personal enjoyment and extravagance like some so-called "rich people" now. Instead, I chose to return to Xidi's hometown, build ancestral temples, set up memorial archways, build houses and run schools, be enthusiastic and addicted to public welfare undertakings, and realize the feedback of business to culture.
This is a great spectacle of Huizhou merchant culture. And this, I am afraid, is also an important reason why Xidi culture can last for a long time. Many excellent qualities of Xidi wealthy businessmen are the same: honesty, friendliness, humility, self-denial, studious and polite. Without the infiltration and edification of heavy cultural atmosphere, it is impossible to cultivate these qualities.
Xidi, a world cultural heritage, has become a famous tourist attraction at home and abroad. At the beginning, the old house was both a tourist attraction and a business place. But its business behavior is also closely related to culture.
Among the operators, some are good at calligraphy, some are good at carving, some are engaged in painting, and some are members of national or provincial painting and calligraphy associations. They enter the business with literature, cultivate literature with business, and pay equal attention to literature and business. Visiting Xidi Village now is equivalent to seeing a painting and calligraphy exhibition with high artistic level and a live demonstration, which is pleasing to the eye and instructive.
The 20-year-old girl carved bamboo slips with a knife. Skillful knife, pen as vigorous as Youlong. After some bargaining, tourists can buy one of the works of 100 yuan at the price around her.
She said that she had been practicing calligraphy since she was a child and had 10 years of experience. Now I earn a good income by writing. In Xidi, her handwriting is only good, not bad, because there are many people like her in Xidi. Even today's children are studying hard.
For the girl's words, I can understand them as modest words, or I can understand them in another way: Xidi culture has successors.
But I still have some vague concerns in my heart: will the impetuous profit-seeking characteristics of modern commercial society erode the branches and leaves of the Xidi cultural tree?
In fact, in my heart, I hope that the descendants of Xidi can carry forward the excellent quality and unique characteristics contained in Xidi culture in the same strain. In the near future, we can also see them do their best to repay their hometown and enrich more brand-new content for Xidi culture.
Some realistic cognition has repeatedly told us that there seems to be an irreconcilable contradiction between culture and profit-seeking. In a certain social background, the former often has to be sacrificed or buried for the latter. While some people still regard culture as a label rather than a soul intentionally or unintentionally, we have seen a large number of ancient buildings, cultural relics and classics destroyed, disappeared and declined. When our spiritual home is broken, what can we do to resist the erosion of "foreign culture"?
We don't exclude, exclude or demonize "foreign culture", but we need the creation and innovation of our own modern culture.
But in any case, we can't lose or abandon our cultural roots. The cultural course of Xidi has shown that only by firmly believing in yourself, sticking to the bottom line, tolerance and tolerance can we be great, which is also a valuable cultural self-confidence.
Deeply infiltrated by culture, Xidi spares no effort to publicize the core values of China traditional culture: loyalty, filial piety, benevolence and righteousness. 055-79000 requires future generations to be "loyal and filial", "loyal and righteous", "Confucian" and "meritorious". From numerous inscriptions, calligraphy and couplets, we can see that the Hu people in Xidi have faith, pursuit, awe and responsibility, and their spiritual world is very rich and powerful.
The Emperor Lakers paid attention to standardizing their words and deeds from the details, examining their hearts, and even excavating their own culture from a single word.
In Xidi, there is an enlarged running script with the word "filial piety" on it, about one meter high, which was inscribed by Zhu Wei, a great scholar in the Southern Song Dynasty. From left to right are Confucian scholars, with fists clenched and filial piety;
Looking from right to left, it's a pointed-billed monkey, punching, kicking and bared its teeth, which means "a filial person is an animal."
I always thought China's calligraphy was a strange thing. Between bits and pieces, people can always imagine and create many indescribable artistic conception, which is also the unique charm of China culture.
Whether Zhu intends to write the word "filial piety" is impossible to verify, but it is not important. What's important is that Xidi people gave a reasonable, vivid and appropriate explanation to this word according to their unique cultural accomplishment and characteristics. The word "filial piety" is also the Hu people's understanding, inheritance and development of China's filial piety culture, and its influence and function have gone far beyond itself.
Looking up the historical materials of Xidi, we can see that the Hu family has never been abroad for thousands of years. This is a miracle.
Imagine: Xidi is small, but the Hu family belongs to the local famous family, with a prosperous population and over 10,000 nationalities. Among them, the rich side has businessmen and senior officials who have the right to temporarily settle down. Judging from some social situations reported by the media at present, it seems that the Hu family, as one of the giants, should have a "second generation" who is overbearing, rampaging through the countryside and bullying men and women.
But, really, no, no.
According to reports, during the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Xidi actually occupied more than 400 official positions, but none of them defiled their ancestral business and humiliated their family style, and were brought to justice by the court for accepting bribes and bending the law. No wonder Cao Zhenyong, Minister of Military Affairs of the Qing Dynasty, lamented: "String songs are better than house sounds. He has a gentleman's trip and does not learn from cool thin. " Should all this be attributed to the powerful enlightenment and introspection functions of culture?
The value orientation and moral concepts respected by traditional culture have become the gatekeepers and filters of the pure national spirit of Xidi Hu family. This is indeed helpful and helpful for us to deeply reflect on some current social phenomena such as extravagance and waste, lack of morality, etc.
Many times, the external binding force is pale and powerless in the face of self-inner vigilance. Countless facts tell us: cultural degradation, moral decline, irrational, or more terrible than natural and man-made disasters.
Before going to Xidi, a friend said to me, "Don't go there. There is nothing interesting except a few shabby houses. " Indeed, if you play, there is really nothing to play.
However, it is no joke that Xidi culture has been enduring for thousands of years. Don't go to Xidi if you want to play.
Here, we can only sincerely experience and comprehend the essence and eternity of China culture, and feel its firm moral strength, which is also a journey to purify the soul.
Xidi, a village infiltrated by culture, I will go again!