Central Axis Culture: Unparalleled in broad and magnificent words

A set of "Beijing Central Axis Cultural Travel Classics", Huanghuang sixteen volumes, is gratifying and exciting, and for me, it is more familiar and novel.

My place of origin is not Beijing. Although he was born in Beijing, his household registration was still filled in according to the rules. Since I was a child, I have basically lived in Nanchizi Jinluo Hutong and Gulou Qianmachang Hutong on the side of the central axis, and the kindergarten is the third kindergarten in Beijing in Zhongshan Park, Beihai, Jingshan, Shichahai, etc. are the resorts where I have been in The Panhuan since I was a teenager, and I am familiar with the scenery on both sides of the central axis.

"Beijing Central Axis Cultural Tour", divided into "Yingcheng", "Architecture", "Red Traces", "Hutongs", "Gardens", "Temples", "Ancient Lions", "Inscriptions", "Shangjie", "Food", "Skills", "Opera", "Celebrities", "American Texts", "Translators and Pens", "Legends", macroscopic and foreign sprinkling, classification and meticulous, so that I think I am familiar with the central axis scenery, cultural imprints, and I have a little strange feeling, there is knowledge that I do not fully know. The ancients said that "if you don't know anything, the shame of the soldiers is also", the broad and thick cultural accumulation of the central axis is really an encyclopedia that cannot be read, which is very profound and makes people read with excitement!

Beijing Central Axis Cultural Travels (all 16 volumes) Zhu Zuxi et al. Beijing Publishing House

The significance of the publication of this set of books, Mr. Li Jianping's general preface has been incisively and concisely expounded, and I will not repeat the general meaning of the reader's own outline. Mr. Jianping is an expert, and I have benefited a lot from the activities of the CPPCC members' research and inspection and the Society of Literature and History. With regard to the application for the central axis, the CPPCC also organized members to inspect the Jingshan Shouhuang Hall, the Great High Xuan Hall, the Drum Tower, the Bell Tower, and other places that had been vacated and restored, and there would always be gains from running parallel to him, so reading his general preface had a sense of cordiality.

Mr. Zhu Zuxi, the author of "Yingcheng", is Mr. Hou Renzhi, who has a profound study of the history of Beijing, and although his book is not a professional academic work, he has the freedom to decompose and popularize professional scholarship, and it is easy to read. Needham praised the imperial city of Beijing as a "great overall layout" in the "History of Science and Technology in China", he refers to the central axis centered on the royal palace, and it should be noted that the central axis architecture is a typical royal culture, which has a profound impact on Beijing, and is completely different from the culture of scholars and folk culture. Reading "Camp City", you will have a clear understanding of the central axis of the great master's divine work, and its in-depth and simple skills enable readers to get the correct knowledge understanding.

Mr. Zhou Jiawang's "Garden", the writing is vivid and stretched, telling the history of the garden, and it is not a boring scenic spot instruction manual at all. In particular, he often inserts anecdotes related to the garden in his texts, such as the old man Liu Guangren, who once contributed to the protection of the Temple of Heaven in the chapter on the Introduction to the Temple of Heaven, which is read with great joy and kindness. In the 1980s, Liu Guangren was the superior leader of the newspaper where I worked. This kind of narrative in the book not only increases the readability, but also makes the book precious literary and historical. Mr. Jiawang is good at old style poetry, and each article in the book that introduces the scenery of lakes and mountains and garden scenery is a seven-word poem, which is extremely elegant, which shows the author's ingenuity and attracts readers to chew.

Mr. Zong Chunqi's "Temple" is also quite fascinating. I often read his articles published in newspapers about the history of Beijing, which are known for their evidence, and their words are meaningful, and there is no oily slippery tone. The temples in Beijing are closely related to the history of the founding of the city and the history of the capital. Mr. Zong said: The Peiping authorities registered three temples in 1928, 1936 and 1947, with 1734, 1135 and 783 respectively. How much is left now, he has not found, I think it must be far below the 1947 registration figures. Most of the temples described in his book are survivors through vicissitudes. Some have long ceased to exist, such as the Guandi Temple. In fact, the disappeared temples are also worth mentioning, such as the City God Temple, which is not mentioned in the book, which is very long and widely distributed in Chinese history. There is the Royal City God Temple in the northwest corner of the Forbidden City in Beijing, and the city gods in all cities across the country are loyal and righteous soldiers, and they are the embodiment of justice that protects the peace of the party. For example, Yang Jisheng in Beijing, Wen Tianxiang in Hangzhou (Wen Tianxiang also worked as a city god in Beijing), Liu Zongyuan in Liuzhou, etc., have always been respected by the people. In the Qing Dynasty, all those who came to Beijing to try to lift people would worship the statue of Yang Jiaoshan. This is worth telling, not only story, but also positive significance. In general, Mr. Zong's book is quite readable, showing a rigorous literary and historical nature and a masterful nature in his pen, and his writing method is to "find the story hidden in the temple", and in the preface, he deliberately notes that "the historical facts involved in this book have provenance." For different records of one thing, try to objectively state various statements for the reader to analyze and judge for himself. "I greatly appreciate it, which enables readers to get the dual enjoyment of correct historical knowledge and writing, including the Ancestral Hall of Inspector Yuan and the Ancestral Hall of Yu Qian, whose spiritual significance is even more worthy of a book, but unfortunately, the Ancestral Hall of Wen Cheng xiang and the ancestral hall of Yang Jiaoshan are not included in the book."

Since ancient times, China has had a tradition of revising historical records, with state-owned canonical histories, local chronicles at the provincial, prefectural, prefecture, and county levels, and literati will also write private barnyard histories of various disciplines, complementing each other with the official revision of zhengshi fangzhi. "Beijing Central Axis Cultural Travel Classic" can be said to inherit the fine tradition of shizhi, and has carried out a systematic and comprehensive classification of "the longest, greatest and most magnificent urban axis in the world today" (Mr. Zhu Zuxi's words). Many years ago, the Beijing Publishing House compiled and published the old Beijing classics written by the ancients, including the people of the Republic of China, which is of great archival significance. The publication of this series of books on the central axis is all written by the present generation, not only the project is voluminous, but the authors are experts who are good at various fields, so it is of greater documentary significance.

In the feudal era, Fang Zhi or similar books generally had the category of "official office", including zhengshi and wild history, such as "The Old Wen Kao under the Sun" and so on. In fact, this series of books may wish to open up the book "Guan Ya", because the placement and architecture of the official ya are extremely important components of the central axis and a complete chain of the operation of the national center. Since the founding of the Imperial City in the Ming Dynasty, on the east side of Tiananmen, there have been Bu Ya, Hongxu Temple, Qin Tianjian and Tai Hospital, and in the west there have been the Governor's Mansion of the Five Armed Forces, Taichang Temple, Tongzheng Envoy Division, and Jinyi Wei. The Qing Dynasty followed the practice of "Wendong Wuxi", which was roughly the same, with judicial institutions on the west side such as the Punishment Department, the Duchayuan, the Dali Temple, and the Zongren Mansion. Going north along the central axis, along the way, there are also various institutions such as the Ming and Qing Imperial Internal Supervision, the Internal Affairs Office, the County Ya, the Arrest, the Jingqi Yamen, the Official School, and even the small Yanbao Diagonal Street there is a monk who manages religious affairs... If it can be written, it will give people a deeper and overall understanding of the central axis.

In short, each volume of this series of books has its own "unique skills", each leading the way, each showing its own wantonness, leading the reader to approach the spectacular, magnificent, thick and wonderful cultural temple! I personally like the two volumes of "Inscription" and "Ancient Lion", which makes me happy but has a great harvest of new knowledge, and then sincerely praises the planners and authors, which is really in response to the words of the ancients, "Fu knows the past and does not know the present, so it is called Lu Shen" and "Fu knows the present does not know the ancient, it is said to be blind" (Wang Chong "On Balance").

Compared with Li Jianping, Zhu Zuxi, and other gentlemen, I am not an expert who really studies Beijing. But I am like Mr. Lao She said: I really love Beijing. I also very much appreciate Mr. Tao Xingzhi's famous words: "I am Chinese, I love China, China is not good now, it will be great in the future." "The central axis is the backbone of Beijing, the past is unbelievable, and the future is even more incredible- the prosperous world is peaceful, the pulse is vigorous, it will be more magnificent and brilliant, prosperous and prosperous, and it is almost worthy of being listed in the forest of world cultural heritage!"