Extremely fast comment| the reconstruction of the star-picking building is a model for the resurrection of folk cultural memory

Yu Yanjun, special commentator of Jimu News

"The dangerous building is a hundred feet high, and the hand can pick the stars." I didn't dare to speak loudly, for fear of frightening the heavenly people. This popular poem "Night At the Mountain Temple" is generally believed to have been composed by Li Bai in Huangmei County, Hubei Province, and the "Mountain Temple" is the Jiangxin Temple on the top of The Peak of Cai Mountain in Huangmei County, and the building is the star-picking building in the temple. More than 1300 years have passed, due to the diversion of the Yangtze River and other reasons, Jiangxin Temple is no longer in Jiangxin, and the Star Picking Building has long been destroyed. Mei Xinming, a farmer in Huangmei Caishan, led the surrounding masses to rebuild this building (for details, see the Jimu News on January 17, "Li Bai left a famous article here 1300 years ago, and huangmei farmers rebuilt the star building"), which is really an obsession with China's excellent traditional culture, and it is a valuable cultural feat.

China's excellent traditional culture is the soul and foundation of the Chinese nation, and vigorously carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture is the meaning of the topic of realizing the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. Since the Eighteenth National Congress of the Communist Party of China, General Secretary Xi Jinping has delivered a series of important speeches with profound meanings around China's excellent traditional culture, emphasizing the need to strengthen cultural self-confidence and promote the prosperity of socialist culture. In recent years, inheriting and carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture has also become a common practice.

Many of the contents of China's excellent traditional culture are rooted in the folk, and the traditional Chinese culture living in the folk memory has a strong vitality, such as Tang poetry, which has become the folk cultural memory of many regions in addition to the texts and reading inheritance paths that we are familiar with. Tang Dynasty poets walked on the land of the motherland, and their pen edges were closely related to the region. Over time, this association gradually became a folk cultural memory.

Huangmei Caishanzhen's memory of "Overnight Stay at Mountain Temple" is like this. This memory is timeless and fascinating. Mei Xinming said that he grew up listening to the story of Li Bai and Picking Star Building. Although he has only read books for 3 years, he has dreamed of rebuilding the star-picking building since he was a child, which shows the deep influence of this cultural memory on him. The plan to rebuild and renovate the building has also been affirmed and strongly supported by countless hometown fathers and elders, which shows the wide influence of this cultural memory in the local area. It is based on this belief and love for folk cultural memory that the rebuilding of the Star Tower has become a reality. Fundamentally speaking, inheriting and carrying forward China's excellent traditional culture requires the active participation of the public and the love of the whole society for China's excellent traditional culture. The feat of Mei Xinming is that they have activated the enthusiasm of the people for culture, resurrected the memory of folk culture in the locality, and made the cultural inheritance a kind of folk action consciousness, which is a useful exploration and supplement to the path of cultural inheritance, which is worthy of full recognition.

Not only that, Mei Xinming's feats also provide a model for the revitalization of rural culture. The Strategic Plan for Rural Revitalization (2018-2022) points out that the implementation of the rural revitalization strategy is an effective way to inherit China's excellent traditional culture. Wen Tiejun, an expert on the three rural issues, said: "Rural revitalization must be cultural revitalization, and the key is to turn local knowledge into local education." Without excavating the local culture and local knowledge, we cannot do the agricultural culture and tourism, because the connotation is not correct. "The reconstruction of the star-picking building is to "excavate" the localized knowledge - the story of Li Bai and the star-picking building, so that the revitalization of local rural culture has connotation, carrier and direction. A farmer raised more than 2 million yuan of self-financing, designed himself, built it himself, lasted 12 years, and finally built a five-story star-picking building standing on the top of Cai Mountain, which not only shows that rural cultural revitalization needs to start from the region, dig deep into local cultural resources, and build a touchable carrier for cultural revitalization, but also show that rural cultural revitalization is not a single top-down government action, but also an endogenous action of rural people. This kind of endogenous action stems from the persistence and affection for the memory of local culture, and they are the forces that need to be truly stimulated and relied on for the revitalization of rural culture.

In the future, as people of insight in Caishan Town said, they will "further excavate the cultural connotation and profound historical heritage of the Star Picking Tower on this basis, integrate the Caishan Jiangxin Ancient Temple and the Star Picking Tower into the tourism circle in eastern Hubei, and form a historical tourist scenic spot that echoes with Lushan Mountain in Jiangxi in the south and Huangmei Sizu Temple and Wuzu Temple in the north." "And this is the most secure path for rural revitalization." (Yu Yanjun, Executive Deputy Director of the Propaganda Department of the Party Committee of Huanggang Normal University)

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