Recently, the weather has become warmer and warmer, enjoying plum blossoms, drinking tea by the river, drying quilts... The appearance of the sun has attracted more and more citizens to go out and move, of course, there is no lack of life in the major museums. Among them, on the seventh "Human Day" of the first lunar month, the number of visitors to the Du Fu Caotang Museum in Chengdu exceeded three times that of the first to sixth day of the first month.
Du Fu Caotang plum blossoms (Photo by Wang Xiao)
You know, because of the epidemic, Du Fu Caotang Museum has not officially hosted the activity of "people visiting the Caotang and paying tribute to Du Fu" for three consecutive years, why are the citizens still willing to take the initiative to enter Du Fu Caotang, what is the source of such cultural needs and cultural confidence? Yuan Tingdong, an expert on Bashu culture, told Red Star News that "the people's day trip to the grass hall has become a unique folk activity in the country. ”
Tourists: Every year, they come to worship with their families
On the morning of this year's "People's Day", it was drizzling in Chengdu, and Mr. Luo Chun took his wife and daughter to Du Fu Caotang, which was the sixth time they had come to The Caotang to celebrate the Day in the 8 years they had settled in Chengdu. After coming to Chengdu, except for 2020, when the museum was closed due to the epidemic, we had to bring our children and families to pay tribute to Du Fu every year and inherit culture. Luo Chun originally thought that it rained that day, and the official did not carry out activities to worship Du Fu, the number of tourists to Du Fu Caotang would be much less, but he did not expect to be more lively than the previous days, and even saw cultural celebrities Ah Lai, Tan Jihe and Liang Ping spontaneously go to the Gongbu Ancestral Hall to present flowers for Du Fu, "In my opinion, this has become a kind of agreement with Du Fu." Luo Chun said.
It is understood that the "People's Day" has been formed in the Western Han Dynasty, the Most Prosperous During the Southern and Northern Dynasties Period, and the Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties have become the Spring Festival, that is, the spring festival is formed Chinese New Year's Eve, New Year's Day (the first day of the first lunar month), the People's Day, the Ninth Day and the Lantern Festival. When the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu lived in Caotang, he and his friend Gao Shi sang harmony with poetry on "People's Day". Later, He Shaojit, a scholar and politician of Sichuan, came to the Caotang on the Day of The People to worship the poets, and inscribed the theme "Jinshui Spring Wind Gong Occupied, Caotang People Day I Returned", which attracted the literati to follow suit, so that the first seven people entered the Caotang on the day of the day to hang poems and praise the ancestors. This is the historical origin of the "People's Day Trip To the Grass Hall", which is the new spring custom of Rongcheng.
"People's Day Tour Caotang" picture according to Du Fu Caotang Museum
Adhering to the characteristics of traditional folk culture activities, with poetry as the core and various forms of literary and artistic performances, renyou Caotang has now become a brand and poetry event that promotes Chengdu, praises friendship, advocates harmony and carries forward excellent traditional poetry culture, and is more and more concerned and loved by the world, and is also one of the city cards of Chengdu, an ancient historical and cultural city.
Experts: From literati to the public, why not enjoy it
"Of course, the people's day trip to the grass hall is a cultural phenomenon, and it is also a folk custom with cultural connotations." Yuan Tingdong said that the people's day trip to the grass hall began at the end of the Qing Dynasty, but in fact it belonged to the niche and literati chanted poems against the custom. After the founding of New China, in order to expand its influence, the Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum insisted for many years, allowing people to travel to the caotang from a niche to a matter of public concern. "However, the Du Fu Caotang Museum previously carried out annual activities to commemorate Du Fu, and the people are more of a grass hall."
Yuan Tingdong told Red Star News that the activities to worship Du Fu need to spend a lot of time, money and manpower to organize. But Chengdu people in the people's day trip to the grass hall even if not organized there will be many people willing to go, the reason is that the seventh day of the first month of the first month has been spring, the weather is warm, the citizens are willing to go out and move around, at the same time, Du Fu Caotang Museum's various plum blossoms compete to bloom first, is also a good place to enjoy plums, "More importantly, the inheritance of so many years of people day trip to the grass hall has become a tradition, the citizens here not only fun, but also worship Du Fu, why not enjoy it." ”
Yuan Tingdong, a famous Bashu cultural scholar (photo by Wang Xiao)
In Yuan Tingdong's mind, Chengdu also has unique folk activities such as the Jinsha Sun Festival and the Wuhou Ancestral Temple Festival during the Spring Festival, "I have always exaggerated such folk activities. During the Spring Festival, it is necessary for the government to provide a rest space with cultural connotations for the people. According to Yuan Tingdong's recollection, even in the townships when he was a child, there would be a number of folk cultural activities during the Spring Festival, and Chengdu has been working hard to provide more cultural space for the masses.
Zhou Yukai, professor of the Department of Chinese of the School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University and president of the China Su Shi Research Society, made several trains that morning and arrived at Du Fu Caotang at 11 o'clock. "Last year, on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Du Fu Research Journal, I recorded my story with Caotang for decades under the title of "Caotang People's Day My Return". Because of the epidemic, I did not go to Du Fu Caotang on Human Day last year. But at the end of the article I wrote, 'I hereby make a vow: On the day of the people of the grass hall, I will definitely return to the pilgrimage, just next year!' So this year, no matter what, we must give Du Fu a new year to his old man's house." ”
Zhou Yukai told The Red Star News that although there has been no official organization to worship Du Fu in recent years, he was very excited to see many tourists spontaneously at the scene. Recalling the scene on the day of Ren'er 30 years ago, Zhou Yukai couldn't help but share with reporters: At that time, literati, old gentlemen, and university professors from all over the country gathered in front of Daya Hall in the morning to sing poetry, some played with the guqin, some sang in dialect, and some people sang new poems they wrote. "The people's day trip to the Caotang has always been a spontaneous act, 30 years ago, and it is also true 30 years later, all from the reverence for Du Fu."
Red Star News reporter | Zeng Qi
Edited | Duan Xueying
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