Lang Sui, a Qing Dynasty Guichi, was an outstanding local chronicler. The twelve volumes of the "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle" written by him play a very important role in stimulating the ideological feelings of the people of Chizhou to love the country and the hometown, and to develop the xinghua village cultural tourism area.
Lang Sui was a descendant of Lang Wenshao of Chizhou County at the end of the Song Dynasty, and the Yuan people entered Chizhou, and Lang Wenshao lived in seclusion in Zhuhuan Garden in Xinghua Village, the western suburb of Fucheng, and since then he has multiplied and lived in a group, making the Lang clan a huge surname among the residents of Chizhou City at that time. In the Ming Hongwu dynasty, the Lang family inherited the first and the last, "the family voice was greatly vibrant", among them, the Wen eunuch martial generals were either separated from the neighbors or moved to the city, and the only Lang Sui father of "Shou Xian Lu in the old village" was Lang Biguang. Lang Suizi Zhao Ke (赵客), nicknamed XiQiaozi (西樵子), was born in the eleventh year of Qing Shunzhi (1654), and was born as a teenager by Zhu Sheng to Taixue, and was named after his poetry.
Although he was talented, but he was not happy to travel, Qing Kangxi and his children read Xinghua Village, out of love for the countryside, he began a huge cultural project to compile the "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle". It took 11 years from the spring of the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1674) to the summer of the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty. In the process of compilation, "ordinary people, gentlemen, and xingbu, all consulted; talking in the streets, all of them were not rude", and there were more than 100 kinds of bibliographies, and about 103 literary figures from the state capitals who participated in the examination were invited.
The Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle consists of twelve volumes, with the following sixteen sub-headings, including Cunzhong, Cunnan, Cunbei, Cundong, Cunxi, Characters, Lady Shu, Xianshi, Inscription, Zifu, Chenhan, Article, Humu, Lineage, Legend, and Miscellaneous Records. The key content of the book can be summarized into four aspects:
First, examine the mountains and rivers in detail. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the capital city of Chizhou at that time, the mountains and rivers were beautiful, the scenery was pleasant, and the entire ecology and natural vegetation were intact. After some detailed investigation, Lang Sui drew a general map of the situation of the mountains and rivers and the distribution of scenic spots and monuments in Xinghua Village, placed it at the beginning of the volume, and divided the natural scenery in the area of Xinghua Village into twelve scenic spots, which were "Pingtian Spring Rising", "Baipu Lotus Wind", "Xixiang Smoke and Rain", "Tea Field Wheat Wave", "Santai Xizhao", "Qiyun Songyue", "Huanggong Jiuyuan", "Iron Buddha Zen Forest", "Zhaoming Academy", "Duwu Fishing Song", "Mulberry Danfeng", "Meizhou Xiaoxue". Each of these attractions is accompanied by poems and pictures to make the reader feel immersed.
Second, examine the micro-excavation. Although the ancient ruins of Xinghua Village were rebelled by the left soldiers at the end of the Ming Dynasty, most of the old entities or ruins in the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty were still available, which provided Lang Sui with many archaeological conditions. Therefore, he "cut the thorns and split the thorns" and "asked the wine and yellow mound", wrote down more than 70 monuments in the zhishu, and made responsible accounts to the readers. Such as the "Guangrun Spring Broken Stone" cloud: in the south of Xinghua Village, near the lake. In jiajing, in the field of the village farmers, before the county cheng zhang bangjiao visited the martial arts field, the pavilion was built to show it." Youyun: "During the rebellion of the left soldiers in the Ming Dynasty, the good deeds were moved to the Qiupu Building with broken stones, and after Yi You, Liu Meigen Prefecture Had visited and did not get it, and The County Yizhi said that they were still alive, and they also stayed here, waiting for future generations to help them."
Third, a wide range of recruits. The "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle" collects more than 200 poems from The Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, and the poet inscribed Guichi Xinghua Village, accounting for one-third of the total volume. The forms of poetry are divided into seven absolute poems, five ancient poems, seven ancient poems, five laws, seven laws, five-word poems, five-word absolute sentences, etc., which fully reflect the traditional cultural characteristics of Chizhou, which is a "land of poets for a thousand years". Fourth, prepare household registration. The "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle" uses household registration data from the Ming and Qing dynasties to describe the Lang clan lineage, which is mixed in the Qing Dynasty, but this is undoubtedly a rare and precious historical material for contemporary research on population changes and social development.
In addition to the above key contents, "Legend" and "Miscellaneous Notes" are also quite readable. For example, the "Legend" series to the German Wang Ergang's miscellaneous drama "Apricot Village Drunken Rain", in which du Mu, a man in the play, travels in the spring and talks with shepherd boys, boats, and bartenders in the village where apricot blossoms bloom, expressing feelings and giving readers the enjoyment of beauty. After Lang Sui's "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle" came out, the world praised it as "the first river to compile the village history", and Qing Yongzheng was appointed by the editor of the "Four Libraries Complete Book".
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Liu Shiheng, a great collector and engraver, and a Guichi man, included the "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle" into the "Testament of Guichi Xianzhe" that he proofread and printed. The general summary of the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book" comments on the "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle": "According to Du Muzhi as Chi Yang Shou, The Qingming Sunrise Travel, the poem has the sentence 'Borrowing where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy remotely refers to the Apricot Blossom Village', and the words of gai congyan scenery are like the willow reeds and ears, which must refer to a village to be real, then the living sentence is stagnant."
Liu Shiheng disagreed with the comments of the editors of the Siku Quanshu, saying in the "Trek" of the re-engraving of the "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle": "The summary is a stagnant phase, but also a partial view", and Youyun: "The work of the village name began with a poem by Du Mu's Spring Sunrise Tour, and the present village was written by Zhao Ke, and it was also named after Zhao Ke, and the Lang clan was surnamed, and the Ju clan lived in Yan." Liu's concise and concise commentary highly summarizes Lang Sui's historical merits of loving the countryside and compiling the "Apricot Blossom Village Chronicle". Lang Sui died in the fourth year of The Qianlong Dynasty (1739), more than 260 years ago, the years have passed, the vicissitudes have changed dramatically, and the people of Chizhou will always remember this "old man of Xinghua Village".