Shanghai culture, a very familiar name, but also seems to be a relatively vague concept. In the past month, seeing the "Liberation Weekend" launched 4 consecutive issues of the "Red Culture, Shanghai Culture, Jiangnan Cultural Resources everyone talks" series of articles, let people's understanding of this concept become concrete and concrete.
Shanghai culture naturally has the characteristics of water, which is the result of Shanghainese people's interaction with the natural and human environment in order to pursue a happy life. It is a gentle spring rain, it is a magnificent sea, it is an endless topic.
Shanghai, once a seaside town, is a treaty port in modern times, and is an international metropolis in modern times. Her growth, her perseverance, all stem from her natural charm.
Shanghai family lives in Jiangnan, the small bridge flowing water is her dance music, and the apricot blossom spring rain is her poem. The dense rivers, ports, lakes and lakes are her blood vessels, and the Wusong River and Huangpu River that run across it are her arteries.
Good is like water. Water is dirty and dirty, and it is not polluted, and it is as clean as ever; water is good at helping all things, not competing with all things. More than 3,000 years ago, "Taibo Ben Wu" vividly interprets Lao Tzu's thinking about water.
Water is invisible and tangible, and water takes shape with the terrain. Nearly 2,000 years ago, Yongjia Nandu and nearly 1,000 years ago, the Song Dynasty moved south, bringing a large number of books and literati to Jiangnan. This combination of humanities and nature has cultivated a strong style of cultivation and reading for Jiangnan.
He Liangjun, a Huating man mentioned in "Everyone Talks", studied hard when he was young, studied hard behind closed doors for 20 years, retired from his career and wrote in seclusion, encountered different books, disregarded hunger and cold, and used the cost of food and clothing to buy, and his family had more than 40,000 volumes of books and more than 100 famous paintings. He built the "Qingsen Pavilion" and "Wangyang Building", which were specially used to collect books, famous paintings, gold stones and so on.
A good scholar must be happy. The wind of reading prevailed, and the great ideas also arose. In the Ming Dynasty, Cheng Zhu Lixue had the problem of a serious separation between knowledge and action, reason and heart, and Wang Yangming saw this problem and resolutely stepped out of the science of science and carried out a "Copernican revolution" in the ideological circles. He believes that reason is not in external things, but in the heart. The banner of "heart" learning he set up has written a brand-new chapter in the history of Chinese thought.
Water does not stop flowing. For thousands of years, the thinking of the people of Jiangnan Water Township has never stopped developing.
Emphasizing the basics and suppressing business is the national policy of successive dynasties and dynasties, but in the eyes of Jiangnan people, the important thing is not the industry, but whether they abide by their duties. This idea has traveled thousands of years and has been used today.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Zilong, a Huating man, reflected on the empty talk of the people at the time, actively advocated the practical learning of the application of the world, and compiled the "Huangming Jingshi Wen Compilation", 504 volumes of the Emperor, involving politics and military, taxation, finance and economics, farmland, water conservancy, education culture, and the canon system, which is a rare document and inspired future generations.
Bordered by the sea, Shanghai has the same mind as the sea; facing the sea, let Shanghai look forward to the outside world. In the "Gradual Learning from the West and the East", Shanghainese Xu Guangqi, Sun Yuanhua, Xu Yizeng and others actively accepted new ideas and enriched the characteristics of modern Shanghai.
In 1902, the Shanghai Guangzhi Book Company published "Socialism", and Chinese began to fully understand Marxism. In 1920, Chen Wangdao translated and published the Communist Manifesto. In 1938, three volumes of Capital were published in Shanghai, and the theory of surplus value provided an advanced ideological weapon for the Chinese revolutionary movement and the workers' movement.
Shanghai is under the hundred rivers, and the sea is full of hundreds of rivers. Since ancient times, Shanghai has embraced immigrants with a broad mind and enthusiasm, and these foreigners are not only domestic, but also foreign. Heroes do not ask the source, most of the people who step into the land of Shanghai are vigorous, aggressive, eclectic, and can identify with and smoothly integrate into Shanghai. They bring a variety of different cultures to Shanghai, making the shanghai city culture colorful and unique.
Shanghai, conceived by the sea, is the son and daughter of the sea. When the wind and waves are calm, she is delicate and gentle; in the storm, she roars wildly.
In modern times, Shanghainese regard the affairs of the state as their own. The Anti-Russian Movement, the Boycott of American Goods, the Restoration of Shanghai in Xinhai, the May Fourth Movement, the May Thirtieth Movement, the Three Armed Uprisings of Workers... The patriotic movement was endless. In the Anti-Japanese Salvation Movement, the people of Shanghai took the lead. In 1931, on the third day after the September 18 Incident, Ma Xiangbo made an impassioned anti-Japanese speech, and delivered 12 national disaster radio speeches in four months. All walks of life in Shanghai formed a volunteer army and rushed to the northeast battlefield. Filmmakers filmed "Children of the Storm", and the interlude "March of the Volunteer Army" spread in all directions.
The sea gives Shanghainese passion and responsibility, and also gives Shanghainese courage and mission.
The personality of Jiangnan Water Town, the influx of various cultures, and the interaction between people and the world have finally created today's colorful Shanghai culture. The life of the sea is not a photograph of the sea can be presented, the water rhyme Shanghai has never been fixed in a certain time and space, Shanghai is always developing.
(The author Lin Qihua is a distinguished associate researcher at the Institute of Knowledge and Value Science of Shanghai Normal University)
