Nandu News Reporter Hou Yuxiao In 2022, Xiangshan ushered in the 870th anniversary of the establishment of the county. Zhang Yunfei, member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Zhuhai Yunzhou Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., suggested that Zhuhai, Zhongshan, and Macao jointly put the commemoration of the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County on the agenda, and suggested studying and rebuilding historical landmarks such as the Zhongshan Xuegong; it was suggested that the "Xiangshan Culture" materials should be excavated. And through online and offline forms of discussion, exchange, display, activities to carry out publicity and protection.
On November 12, 2016, all walks of life in Zhongshan solemnly commemorated the 150th anniversary of the birth of Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Nandu reporter Wu Jin photographed (Nandu data photo)
Problem: "Fragrant Mountain Culture" is seriously fragmented
At the two sessions of Guangdong Province in 2022, Zhang Yunfei, a member of the Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and chairman of Zhuhai Yunzhou Intelligent Technology Co., Ltd., submitted a proposal on behalf of the Guangdong Provincial Committee of the Revolutionary Committee of the Chinese Kuomintang ( ) on commemorating the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County with high standards " ( hereinafter referred to as the "Proposal "Suggestion").
The "Proposal" pointed out that Guangdong Province has always been at the forefront of China's economic and cultural development, cultivated a number of state-level historical cities, and formed a very distinctive Lingnan culture, of which Xiangshan culture is very representative. The birthplace of Xiangshan culture is Xiangshan, which was established in the 22nd year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1152), and after more than 800 years of development, it has formed today's Zhongshan, Zhuhai and Macao.
Zhang Yunfei said: Xiangshan people's pragmatic, hard-working and enterprising spirit, and then form a unique "Xiangshan culture". In modern times, Xiangshan County has produced many talents, especially Sun Yat-sen, the great revolutionary forerunner of the mainland, who is a Xiangshan person (now Cuiheng Village, Zhongshan City). Exploring Xiangshan is of great historical significance to the exploration of China's modern history and the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, and also plays a historical guiding role in the development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area on the mainland.
Zhuhai FisherWoman (Nandu Profile Photo)
"Although Xiangshan has a rich cultural and historical heritage, it has not been effectively inherited and promoted due to the lack of effective excavation, protection and publicity." Zhang Yunfei pointed out three problems.
First, the people's awareness of inheritance is insufficient. Xiangshan culture does not have a clear administrative geographical division, due to historical development, its origin of Xiangshan is divided into Zhongshan, Zhuhai, Macao and other places. Local cities have not unified publicity methods, resulting in the general acceptance of Xiangshan culture. At the same time, with the development of science and technology, the new generation of young people has a weak awareness of the inheritance of cultural heritage.
Second, there is a single way of inheritance. At present, the publicity methods of culture are concentrated in various exhibitions and performances, covering a small circle, and have not formed a systematization, often a "flash in the pan", and have not played a real role in cultural dissemination.
Third, there is a lack of professional talents and a weak foundation for theoretical research. Cultural construction and inheritance require professional talents, but because cultural research work is boring, there are fewer people engaged in related work. Compared with the high attention of "Hakka culture" and "Chaoshan culture", "Xiangshan culture" is rarely heard and seriously fragmented, and the study of Xiangshan culture has not yet formed a systematic system, and the theoretical research foundation is weak.
Recommendation: Establish a leading institution for the coordinating of the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County
2022 coincides with the 870th anniversary of the establishment of Xiangshan County, Zhang Yunfei proposed: Taking the commemorative activities as an opportunity to promote the excavation and inheritance of Xiangshan culture is of great significance to promoting the integrated development of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and creating a world-class bay area cultural business card.
Macau St. Paul's (Nandu Information Photo)
To this end, Zhang Yunfei put forward three suggestions.
First, strengthen organizational coordination. It is recommended to excavate the humanistic history of Xiangshan and commemorate the past of Xiangshan, aiming to inspire future generations with the spirit of history and culture. It is suggested that Zhuhai, Zhongshan, and Macao jointly put the commemoration of the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County on the agenda, set up a leading institution for the overall planning of relevant commemorative activities, make decisions as soon as possible, formulate plans, and coordinate the development of commemorative activities, and hold high-standard forums, seminars, exhibitions, and literary and art evenings through online and offline forms.
The second is to study and rebuild historical landmarks such as the Zhongshan Xuegong. In 1152, Xiangshan Town was upgraded to Xiangshan County, and the county site was Zhuhai Shanchang Village, and it was proposed to set up the Xiangshan Museum to tell the history of Xiangshan County, which was prosperous because of salt, to Xiangshan County, which was "called Tuding City". In 1154, Shiqi was built as the county seat of Xiangshan County, and the original site of the county office yamen was the area of the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall in Shiqi, Zhongshan City, and the original site of Shiqi Xuegong was near the current Zhongshan People's Hospital. It is recommended that the only remaining sites and cultural relics be protected, with reference to the historical materials of the county office Yamen and the representative buildings of Lingnan such as the Zhaoqing Gaoyao Xue palace, combined with urban renewal (near the historical and cultural area of SunWen West Road), the county office Yamen and Shiqi Xuegong should be restored.
The third is to coordinate the excavation of "Fragrant Mountain Culture" data. Earnestly do a good job in the protection of important historical relics of Xiangshan, set up commemorative signs on the site, combine artificial intelligence and three-dimensional digital technology, reproduce historical scenes with images, films, television, and three-dimensional models, and do a good job in relevant publicity and reporting. Following the footsteps of the ancestors of Xiangshan, overseas Chinese from Macao, Nanyang, Hawaii and other places were invited to return to their hometowns for exchanges, and to carry out publicity and protection through various forms of online and offline discussions, exchanges, displays, and activities, and jointly collect and sort out relevant historical relics and documents.
The core area of Wuguishan Ecological Reserve. Nandu reporter Wu Jin photographed (Nandu data photo)
Know more: About Fragrant Mountain
(The article "Back to Xiangshan" was published with the authorization of Mr. Qiu Shuhong)
Back to Fragrant Hill
——Written on the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County
Yau ShuHong
Fragrant hill is a polysemantic word. According to the "Handbook of Buddhist Culture", there is a mountain named Xiangshan near the birthplace of the founder of Buddhism, Shakyamuni, and many Buddhists have been practicing in Xiangshan since then. After Buddhism was introduced to China, the name "Xiangshan" also spread to the mainland, and most of the mountains with Buddhist temples were called "Fragrant Mountains", such as Xiangshan in Beijing.
The Xiangshan mentioned in this article is the name of a place: Xiangshan County in Lingnan. In ancient times, Xiangshan was an island. According to the "Chronicle of Xiangshan County", in the second year of Tang Zhide (757), Xiangshan Island belonged to Dongguan County; Dongguan County set up Wenshun Township on Xiangshan Island as a local administrative unit. Xiangshan Town was set up in Haotan (present-day Shanchang Village, Zhuhai) at the township garrison, which was a military unit in Shubian, and the town would be of the same rank as the county order. In the Northern Song Dynasty, the entire Wenshun Township was transformed into Xiangshan Town, a local administrative unit. At that time, the territory of Wenshun Township and Xiangshan Town was the area around Shiqi, Shaxi, Dachong, Nanqu, Wuguishan, Sanxiang, Shenwan, Zhangjiabian, Nanlang, Cuiheng, Shanchang Village in Zhuhai City, Qianshan in Zhuhai, Tangjiawan and Xiazha in present-day Zhongshan City.
Why is it called Fragrant Mountain? There are several claims. One is to say that this place has the highest mountain on the west bank of the Pearl River called Wugui Mountain, and the flowers on the mountain are in full bloom and the flowers are fragrant; the second is that the agarwood of Wugui Mountain is very famous; the third is that during the Zhenguan period of the Tang Dynasty, Wugui Mountain had a famous ancient Xianglin Temple. Most people tend to say agarwood. The name of Hong Kong and the name of Zhuhai Xiangzhou are said to be related to the agarwood of Xiangshan. The agarwood of ancient Xiangshan was called Guanxiang, because at that time the area around Xiangshan Island still belonged to Dongguan County. In recent years, Sheng Shixing Agarwood, Zhongshan people have awakened, through my initiative, and approved by the State Intellectual Property Office, to Xiangshan Agarwood is named "Xiangshan Xiang", has become a common regional brand in Xiangshan area.
In the 22nd year of the Southern Song Dynasty, that is, on October 14, 1152, Xiangshan County was separated from Dongguan County to form Xiangshan County, which mainly included the area of today's Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Macao, as well as parts of Guangzhou and Foshan. After the establishment of Xiangshan County, the Xiangshan culture (or Xiangshan Humanities, the same below) began to gradually form. Xiangshan culture is a subculture of Lingnan culture and Pearl River culture, which in essence embodies the main characteristics of Guangfu culture in Lingnan culture and Pearl River culture, and is the product of the collision and continuous integration of Chinese culture and its Lingnan culture, Pearl River culture and marine culture.
Xiangshan County has been full of talents since ancient times, and one of the great generations, Mr. Sun Yat-sen, is a Xiangshan person (now Cuiheng Village, Zhongshan City). In 2007, I initiated the concept of "Sun Yat-sen culture", which became a proposition in Zhongshan In 2008. With the joint efforts of all walks of life in Zhongshan City, "Sun Yat-sen Culture" was written into the Work Report of the People's Government of Guangdong Province in 2011 and became a provincial proposition; on February 18, 2019, the CPC Central Committee and the State Council issued the "Outline Development Plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area", which clearly pointed out that "support Zhongshan to dig deep and carry forward the cultural resources of Sun Yat-sen", and Sun Yat-sen culture was officially elevated to a national proposition. The Xiangshan culture, with Sun Yat-sen's culture as the core symbol, has become the cradle of China's modern culture; she has shaken out the great figure Sun Yat-sen, shaken out a great contingent represented by Sun Yat-sen, Zheng Guanying, Rong Hong, Su Zhaozheng, Yang Yin, Yang Zai'an, Lin Weimin, and so on, and has shaken out the great ideas represented by Sun Yat-sen's Three People's Principles and the Founding Strategy, Zheng Guanying's Thought on Business Warfare, and Rong Hong's proposal for studying abroad, which has played an important role in enlightening and promoting the process of China's modern history. In modern times, from the aspects of politics, economy, education, music, comics, movies, photography, sports, military, etc., Xiangshan has appeared a series of pioneering figures who can be called the first in the country, which can be described as full of stars and brilliant, illuminating the sky of Xiangshan, Lingnan and even China, and making outstanding contributions to the development of the country, the nation and even mankind.
Figuratively speaking, The Fragrant Mountain Culture is the "Brackish Water Culture", the saltwater is the Seawater of the South China Sea, and the freshwater is the water of the Pearl River.
I have worked and lived in Zhuhai and Zhongshan for more than 30 years, and I regard the water and soil of Xiangshan as my second hometown and my own blessed land. "Love House and Wu", like her, fear her, and often ponder her and study her, so he has his own unique statement. In 2000, he once printed these two sentences on the back of his business card: Xiangzhou: More than a hundred years ago, it was the epitome of China's economic continent culture to the marine economy and marine culture, and after the reform and opening up, China moved from a closed economy and closed culture to an open economic open culture. Later, this "Xiangzhou" was replaced by "Zhuhai" and "Xiangshan". After I went to Zhongshan in 2004 to work, I had a five-sentence statement about Xiangshan, "Xiangshan: the hometown of the great Sun Yat-sen, the center of brackish water culture, the cradle of Modern Chinese History, the model of the private economy, and the originator of authentic New Cantonese cuisine." Of course, this is mainly about Zhongshan, if you add Macao and Zhuhai, you need to add the humanistic elements of these two places. In recent years, some people have asked me: Why do Hong Kong people particularly like the Fragrant Hills area, especially Zhongshan? Can you sum it up in a few words? I thought about it for three months, and then came up with the "three tastes" of Zhongshan (Fragrant Mountain): the most humane Zhongshan, the most pyrotechnic Zhongshan, the most cultural Zhongshan, for which I wrote an article of nearly 3,000 words to interpret, and the social response was quite good.
The above statement of Xiangshan, because it is very concise, naturally not accurate and comprehensive, but the core meaning is still in place, and because there is some sense of humor and a relatively strong humanistic taste, when it is introduced to outsiders, it has been widely recognized, and people's understanding of Xiangshan is suddenly more impressive.
The vicissitudes of the sea and the mulberry fields, the bucket turns to the stars. With the change of time and space, Macao in the Xiangshan area has become a special administrative region of the Republic today, the lotus flower that has been wandering for hundreds of years has finally returned to the embrace of the mother, recently listed in the United Nations cultural heritage, and is now building a deep cooperation zone with Guangdong in Hengqin, Guangdong and Macao; Zhuhai, which has also become a well-known special economic zone, I praised her as "the pearl of the sea, the sea of pearls". In 1925, in order to commemorate Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Xiangshan County was renamed Zhongshan County, and now Zhongshan City is already a world-famous overseas Chinese township, which is not only a national historical and cultural city, but also the first batch of civilized cities in the country. More than a hundred years ago, as the west bank of the Pearl River, Xiangshan was the first to put forward the slogan of "revitalizing China", creating a miracle for China's modern history and modern culture, and more than a hundred years later, Shenzhen on the east bank of the Pearl River wrote the story of spring for contemporary China and created a model of the "Chinese Dream". Thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river. Today, in building socialism with Chinese characteristics in the new era and building the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, in the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative and the community of human destiny, as the Xiangshan area on the west bank of the Pearl River, it will inherit the spirit of Xiangshan, will certainly carry forward the culture of Xiangshan, and will surely bloom more gorgeous flowers, emit more fragrant fragrances, and create new renewal and greater miracles.
Blood is thicker than water, and affection is eternal. The administrative division never separates the brackish water and soil of the Xiangshan area, and never separates the brackish water cultures of Macao, Zhuhai and Zhongshan. Fragrant mountain incense, the first incense in Lingnan! Today, on the day of the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County, let us look back at yesterday's Xiangshan, let us share today's Xiangshan together, and let us look forward to the future Ofxiangshan together.
There is a poem from "Fragrant Mountain":
You are the flower of my heart
It is the brightly colored slope of Wugui Mountain
Hundreds of millions of years of vicissitudes
Still reaping the fruits of heaven and earth
Beauty grows into a party of water and soil
The aroma drifts into a legend
You are the incense in my heart
It is a song sung by the wind and rain of white wood incense
Again and again, bumpy suffering
It's still full of essence
The fire ignites the soul to sing
Green smoke walked into the river of life
You are the light in my heart
It is the incense that is lit in the year of Zhenguan
Year after year of sunshine and rain
Still haunting the sun and the moon
The morning bell rings to wake up the Qijiang cooking smoke
Twilight drums beat the fishing song of the South China Sea
Fragrant Mountain, Fragrant Mountain
Thousands of years of wind and rain and sunshine have passed
Thousands of years of heaven and earth and people
March 4, 2022 (Dragon Head) in Zhongshan Inspiration Corridor
(Qiu Shuhong: Director of China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, Librarian of the Museum of Culture and History of the People's Government of Guangdong Province, Former Chairman of the Zhongshan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference)