Text/Yangcheng Evening News all-media reporter Sun Lei
Photo: Courtesy of Guangdong People's Publishing House
At the beginning of the new year, the Guangdong People's Publishing House "Fu RenShi" book followed the city biography "Guangzhou Biography" and launched the "Chaozhou Biography". (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)
With rich and detailed historical materials, beautiful and affectionate brushstrokes, rigorous and credible historical quotations, and large prose tones, "Chaozhou Biography" shows the details of the people's livelihood in Chaozhou and establishes a biography of Chaozhou culture.
Huang Guoqin, the author of the seventy-year-old, is a native of Chaozhou, who is familiar with the history and culture of Chaozhou, and his dedication to the establishment of his hometown Chaozhou is his inner wish.
"'The Biography of Chaozhou' is the spiritual genealogy of the Chaozhou people, the history of Chaozhou's urban construction, the history of Chaozhou commerce, the history of the lives of the Chaozhou people, the cultural history of Chaozhou, and it is also a general history of Chaozhou with beautiful writing and easy to read." Wang Quanru, the editor-in-charge, commented, "Being able to write a city biography to the point of tears does require a deep emotional injection; establishing a biography of a city from the perspective of ordinary people is the concrete embodiment of the people's view of history." ”
The book traces back to the Neolithic Floating Binguo until the development and change of Chaozhou as a famous historical and cultural city, an important town of the Maritime Silk Road, an important overseas Chinese town and an old revolutionary area in China in 1949, aiming to show its historical details and details of people's livelihood.
The book is divided into dynasties, interspersed with four threads.
The first is the change of urban form: for example, how the city of Chaozhou came from scratch, and how its cities, buildings, and streets have changed over the centuries.
The second is the change of life form: especially the style of people's dress in different eras, how the cuisine has evolved more and more exquisite and delicious; what classes of people live in the streets and alleys, and even what surnames live in what places, how these people's homes have changed; the structure, decoration, use and differences of famous buildings and ordinary houses have detailed descriptions; and the unique customs and festivals of Chaozhou folk are also described in detail.
The third is the change of economic form: what did Chaozhou develop, the development process and changes of commercial development at home and abroad, and the production and sales of small commodities, all written from the cultural origins, and it is interesting to read for a long time.
The fourth is the change of cultural form: including Chaozhou's culture, education, religion, folk arts and crafts, etc.; this is the author's more focused content in the book, but also a highlight of Chaozhou's local culture, folk admiration for culture, creating a unique and long-standing cultural characteristics of the region.
Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie
Editor-in-charge | Lili
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