Because of a poem by the great poet Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty, "Qingming", an "apricot blossom village" turned out to be a "village of apricot blossoms", and for decades, "archaeologists" and "Fang Zhi authorities" across the country broke the "head" in order to find out the "apricot blossom village".
They first found 19 ancient villages with the same name in the country, and then circled 6 of them that were "probably related", and after several rounds of "flower selection", after quoting the classics of the war of words, they finally screened out the three families of Shanxi, Hubei and Anhui, and are still fighting endlessly.
Finally, shanxi people who advocated the spirit of "hard work" quietly brewed fine wine on the side when the two families in Hubei and Anhui were inseparable, and successfully let the CCTV "Happy Dictionary" column group come forward, hammered out the sound, and gave the "Apricot Blossom Village" to Shanxi.
However, Du Mu never stopped in Shanxi, but only passed by. On the contrary, he served as an official in Chizhou, Anhui and Macheng, Hubei province for several years, and also left some legends and shadows.
Seeing that Shanxi was about to be "expelled" by the expert group, Shanxi brought out Du Mu's great-grandfather Du Hope. Shanxi experts said: Du Mu's grandfather was once an assassin in Fenyang, and he was buried here after he died! "Qingming" writes about Du Mu's mood on the grave, so "want to break the soul", do you have any opinions?
At that time, the reconstruction of Anhui's "Xinghua Village" was still in progress, and seeing that the business plan was about to fail, Anhui experts jumped out and said: Nonsense! "Xinghua Village" is a virtual noun, it is not in Shanxi, not in Anhui, not in Hubei, it is in "outer space"!
"It rains a lot in the spring and tomorrow.". Why do experts believe that Fenyang, Shanxi, is not the location of the "Apricot Blossom Village"? Because the climate of Shanxi is destined to be around the Qingming Festival, it is impossible to "rain" like in the poem.
Fenyang, Shanxi, belongs to the temperate monsoon climate, every year around the Qingming Festival, how windy the local, the moisture in the air is easy to evaporate, rainfall is scarce, drought is serious, and often sudden cooling and snowfall.
Du Mu once passed through Shanxi and wrote a poem called "Hezhou Daozhong". In the poem, the scene of Fenyang is a "spring cold with snow" school of Xiao Suo, definitely not like the taste of "apricot blossoms smoke and rain in Jiangnan" in "Qingming".
However, experts in Shanxi believe that the Tang Dynasty is more than a thousand years old. In this millennium, the climate has already changed. Fenyang is now dry and rainy, which may not have been the case a thousand years ago.
Yu Xuanji, a famous female poet of the Tang Dynasty, once mentioned in the poem "Fenyang March rain, Jinshui Hundred Flowers Spring", which can be seen that at that time, Fenyang, there was rain before and after the Qingming Festival, and the scenery after the rain did not lose Jiangnan.
Even today, a thousand years later, the Fenyang Qingming Festival in Shanxi will sometimes "rain". Therefore, it is not objective to talk about things with the geographical meteorological knowledge in books.
Shanxi experts proved that Du Mu's grandfather Du Xiang had done a history of stabbing in Fenyang before his death, and buried his bones in Fenyang after his death. Later, Du Mu twice took advantage of the Qingming Dynasty to go south from Taiyuan to Fenyang to worship his great-grandfather. The emotion of "wanting to break the soul" in the poem "Qingming" was generated because Du Mu was mourning the hope of his great-grandfather Du.
In the past, people tasted Du Mu's poem, and generally thought that Du Mu was in the middle of the journey, coinciding with the Qingming season, feeling lonely in the trip, so he began to miss his deceased relatives, he wanted to find a restaurant, borrow wine to pour sorrow.
That is to say, Du Mu did not actually come to the "Apricot Blossom Village" with a purpose. Otherwise, why would he "ask the restaurant where it is"? When the shepherd boy "pointed remotely", he knew that there was an "apricot blossom village" in front of him.
However, experts in Shanxi obviously have a "new interpretation" of this poem. If according to their logic, Du Mu clearly purposefully sacrificed his great-grandfather. In that case, even if it is a long time ago, Du Mu can't find the grave of his great-grandfather for a while, and if he wants to ask for directions, he shouldn't ask "where is the restaurant".
Unless experts can further prove that Du Hope was originally a "Fenjiu fan", he was drunk by "Fenjiu" and buried under the counter of the liquor store after his death. Du Mu heard his fathers mention that this drunken great-grandfather was buried under the counter of the restaurant and buried with his beloved wine, so he found the shepherd boy and "asked where the restaurant was."
In addition, it should be pointed out that most of the local "apricot blossom villages" in Fenyang have been renamed because of poetry, and they have not always been called "apricot blossom villages". As for the locals, there is an ancient well in the "Apricot Blossom Village", and the well water is sweet and suitable for brewing "Fenjiu".
The legend is very touching, but the legend of "a well" is not unique to the "Apricot Blossom Village" in Fenyang, Shanxi. In Chizhou, Anhui, where Du Mu has worked for several years, there are also places.
According to legend, during the Tang Dynasty, there was an old couple surnamed Huang in Chizhou, Anhui Province, who sold wine in the village to survive. Small hotel business is not good, menkolo. One day, a sloppily dressed Taoist came, went into the store to drink, drank a single penny, and left.
The old couple saw that he was dressed as a beggar, so they didn't think about him, and they didn't think that he would draw gourds the next day. The old couple found that he was still a lame man, so they let him go again. As a result, on the third and fourth days, he still came to eat and drink in vain.
Until the fifth day, after the Daoist had eaten and drunk enough, he gritted his teeth with satisfaction and asked the old man: Is your wine sold from elsewhere? The old couple replied: Yes. The Taoist priest said: You have good wine in your own house without knowing it, and the wine you sell from elsewhere is gone.
Therefore, the Daoist took the couple surnamed Huang to the apricot blossom tree behind his yard. Next to a well, swipe with your finger. The old two mouths smelled a pungent aroma of wine. Scooped a spoonful of water and found that the well water had become a good drink.
Looking at the Daoist monks again, they had disappeared. Since then, mr. and mrs. Huang have begun to use the "wine" in the well water to run a business, and their village has also been renamed "Apricot Blossom Village".
The story is over, back to the wine that Du Mu drank. The wine of the Tang Dynasty was not only "Fenjiu". If you look at Du Mu's poems alone, there is no evidence to prove that when he asked the shepherd boy where the restaurant was, he went to "Fenjiu". At the very least, he can drink glutinous rice wine and his daughter Hong.
If we talk about it purely from the perspective of literary creation, because literary creation is allowed to be "fictional", it does not matter whether Du Mu has ever been to Fenyang, Shanxi, nor whether he has sacrificed his great-grandfather on the Qingming Festival.
As long as he is willing, he can indeed write "Qingming" anywhere in the country. Poetry is written only to express an emotion, with the poet's extraordinary imagination.
At present, most of the "apricot blossom villages" in China have been "renamed" because of Du Mu's "Qingming". For the sake of commercial interests, everyone broke their heads, not saying that the "apricot blossom village" in their hometown was Du Mu's "apricot blossom village".
However, it is still Shanxi's Jinshang who is more pragmatic. In the spirit of "creating history without history", they silently created the "Apricot Blossom Village" brand, and finally succeeded in making many people believe that "Apricot Blossom Village" is in Shanxi. After being unanimously rejected by the panel, they brought out Du Mu's great-grandfather.
However, whether Du Mu's great-grandfather was buried in the "Apricot Blossom Village" or not, it had nothing to do with Du Mu's purpose of going to the "Apricot Blossom Village". Because he went to ask the shepherd boy about drinking. Through the shepherd boy, he found the "Apricot Blossom Village".
However, no one could prove that Du Mu only wanted to drink "Fenjiu" at that time.