【New Year to the grassroots】Dongpo hometown to see the cultural inheritance

"Where do I go?" Wanli's home is in Min'e. "Under Mount Emei, on the banks of the Glass River, the small city of Meishan in southern Sichuan is Su Shi's hometown. On January 21 (the 19th day of the 19th month of the Waxing Moon), coinciding with the 985th anniversary of Su Shi's birth, the red plum greeted the spring, and the wax plum sent incense, and the reporter and several teachers and friends of the Sichuan Du Fu Research Center set off from Chengdu and were invited to Meishan City to participate in an important local Spring Shousu folk customs activity. "Shou Su" refers to the folk cultural activities of the people in various places to celebrate Su Shi's birthday every year, and the reporter observed a folk custom activity that would pass on the elegant customs, and also walked into the academic history of Su Shi's research. More than 40 years ago, with the support of academic institutions such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Bashu scholars founded the Chinese Su Shi Research Society, and since then, they have continuously promoted the in-depth development of Su Shi research and ancient Chinese literature research. From the "Shou Su Hui" to the "Su Research Association", the Bashu Scholars will integrate the elegant customs and integrate the ancient and modern, continuously promote the innovative development of Su Shi research and Shu Studies, and strive to inherit and carry forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

Huitong Ya custom "Shou Su Kai"

The Sansu Ancestral Hall is the special shrine of Su Xun, Su Shi and Su Rui. The ancient trees in the temple are sparse, the pond is quiet, the pavilion is arranged in the shade of green bamboo, and the plaques and inscriptions inscribed by poets and scholars of the past can be seen everywhere, and the humanities and nature complement each other, which is a typical representative of the natural and sparse beauty of the Western Shu literati garden.

Every year on the 19th day of the lunar month, the villagers of Bashu come to the Sansu Ancestral Hall to worship the former sages and inherit the culture. The villagers who come to the temple can receive three bunches of chrysanthemums on the side of the East Wing, and a petal of incense in the heart to sacrifice the former sages. "The beloved of the public, the monument of the heart." Public article, compendium of national treasures. Zhou Yukai, president of the China Su Shi Research Society and professor at the Institute of Chinese Folk Culture of Sichuan University, visits Meishan every year to participate in the Shousu event. As a representative of scholars, he wrote a poem this year and recited it at the scene of the Sansu Ancestral Temple. In his poems, he particularly emphasized Su Shi's many achievements in addition to literature and art: "Talking about Yingfa, huge pens are like rafters." Governing the country and discipline, written in ten thousand words. People's livelihood is the foundation, morality is on the shoulders. Going in and out of the state and county, giving relief to the poor. Catch locusts to fight floods, build embankments and open fields. Reward loyalty and refusal to be greedy. The New Year is coming, and Zhou Yukai also sends blessings in the poem: "The remnants of wax will be exhausted, and the New Year will be in front." May I be a god, Qingyun Xiangyu. ”

Outside of the style Su Xuan, the wax plum sends incense. The origin of the name Wax Plum is related to Su Shi. Zhai Xiaonan, a young scholar at the Sansu Ancestral Hall Museum, searched for literature and found that the late Song and early Yuan Fang Hui "Yingkui Law Essence" recorded that during the Yuan Dynasty, Su Shi and Huang Tingjian renamed the yellow plum blossom to wax plum. Su Shi's poem "Wax Plum a Gift to Zhao Jingyin" writes that "bees pick flowers to make yellow wax, take wax as flowers and other things", Huang Tingjian also wrote a poem with wax plum as the title, "wax plum" should be named by Su and Huang.

The latest display of archaeological achievements at the Suxuan site has aroused great interest from everyone. The archaeological excavations of the Song Dynasty canal site are displayed on the spot outside the gate, and some of the excavated Song Dynasty cultural relics are displayed in Xuan. The reporter learned that due to the construction of the Suxuan cultural relics warehouse renovation project, after the preliminary exploration and discovery of cultural relics remains, after the approval of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, the Sichuan Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, the Sansu Ancestral Museum, and the Meishan Municipal Institute of Cultural Relics Protection formed a joint archaeological team to carry out archaeological excavations from September to November 2019, and unearthed more than 500 pieces of various restorable cultural relics, including pottery, porcelain, stone carvings, pottery building components and copper coins. According to the progress of archaeological work, it can be determined that the upper age limit of the site is the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, which is roughly the same as the age of the "Three Sus" living in Meishan. This is the first time that the remains of the Northern Song Dynasty have been found in the area of the Sansu Temple, and a large number of items commonly used in song dynasty life have been unearthed to reflect the situation in the Area of the Three Su Ancestral Hall during the Song Dynasty.

On the day of Su Shi's birthday, the special exhibition of cultural relics of "My Family Dongpo" was opened, which was a cultural feast offered to the public by the Sansu Ancestral Hall during the Spring Festival. The treasure of the Sansu Ancestral Hall, the Northern Song Dynasty Su Shi book "Drunken Pavilion Record", was also exhibited for the first time, and people came to the temple to watch and feast their eyes. According to reports, in 1959, when the Sansu Memorial Hall was established, the Palace Museum donated this Tuoben to the Sansu Ancestral Hall and became the treasure of the Sansu Ancestral Hall. In order to hold this special exhibition well, Sansu Temple borrowed 8 pieces of "Chibi Fu" theme porcelain from the Palace Museum. With Dongpo as the media, Meishan and the Forbidden City opened a new chapter of cultural cooperation, jointly polished the cultural business card of Dongpo, and carried forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture.

Integrating ancient and modern "Su Research Association"

In the "Dynamics of Literary Research" in the first issue of 1981, compiled and printed by the Dynamic Group of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the "Brief Situation of the Su Shi Academic Seminar" was published. Written by Wu Gengshun, a senior scholar at the Institute of Literature, the article records the establishment of the first National Su Shi Symposium held at sansu temple in September 1980 and the establishment of the Chinese Su Shi Research Society. According to this academic record, the Soviet Research Institute was established with the support of academic institutions across the country such as the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Comrade Hu Qiaomu met with Sichuan scholars in Chengdu in October 1979 and proposed to strengthen the study of the mainland's history and culture. He said: In order to meet the needs of development, we can invite well-known personalities from all over the country to participate, set up societies to study these historical and cultural celebrities, publish publications, and produce research results in order to meet the needs of development. According to the guidance of Comrade Hu Qiaomu, in 1980, the Bashu academic circles successively established the Chengdu Du Fu Research Society and the Chinese Su Shi Research Society, and held a national Du Fu seminar in Du Fu Caotang and a national Su Shi seminar at the Sansu Ancestral Hall.

Walking out of the Sansu Ancestral Hall and looking back at the door of He Shaoji's inscription, Xu Xiping, chief expert of the Sichuan Du Fu Research Center, recalled that when he taught ancient literature courses, he insisted on bringing students to the Sansu Ancestral Hall every year, so that young students could feel the charm of classical literature and the spiritual strength of the former sages. Wang Meng, vice dean of the School of Chinese Chinese And Literature at Southwest University for Nationalities, said that he was one of the students of that year and benefited from this tradition, and the college still retains this tradition - leading students majoring in ancient literature to the Sansu Ancestral Hall in Meishan, as well as Du Fu Caotang in Chengdu and Li Bai's hometown in Jiangyou. The students subtly formed a unique literary temperament and Shu learning tradition in Bashu.

On the occasion of Dongpo's birthday, Zhou Yukai, Xu Xiping and Wang Meng also took a group photo at the Sansu Temple. Zhou Yukai discussed "Du Fu in Su Shi's Eyes" from the perspective of hermeneutics, proposing that this was "a dialogue between two great souls". He believes that the collision and resonance between the two great poets Su Shi and Du Fu is the collision and resonance of the soul, they have traveled through time and space, and completed the "dialogue" of the next generation. In his view, the process of studying ancient literature is also a process of "dialogue" with the ancients, and scholarship must have such a spirit of "dialogue".

Su Shi is a figure who is "appreciated by both the common good and the common", or a "Shu Xue" master who can understand Confucian and Taoist thought. Not long ago, the reporter interviewed Xiang Chu, a professor at Sichuan University. When he was more than eighty years old, he pointed to the ancient books of Su Shi's works in the bookcase and said: "I like Su Shi, and when I was a student, I began to collect them in various antique bookstores in Chengdu, and successively completed various versions of Su Shi's works. Coming to Meishan, the reporter once again remembered Xiang Chu's academic paradigm of "New Shu Studies" that would be elegant and customary, integrating ancient and modern times, and pondered the dialogue and inheritance of "Shu Studies" and "New Shu Studies".

Bashan Shushui gave birth to Su Shi, and Su Shi's humanistic spirit and artistic achievements also infiltrated this land, nourishing and enriching Chinese culture.

Edit: Zong Yue