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
People tour in front of the Ruins of St. Paul's In Macau. Photo courtesy of Xinhua News Agency
Zhuhai fisherwoman. Nandu profile picture
"For Xiangshan culture, we have not done enough." 2022 is the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County. How to keep the spirit of innovation and innovation? How to revive Xiangshan culture to promote social and economic development? Zhuhai Zhongshan Macao a number of guests offered suggestions and suggestions, they proposed: to let more people, especially young people are willing to understand the culture of Xiangshan, spread the culture of Xiangshan.
Xiangshan is the cradle of modern Chinese history
Qiu Shuhong, director of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, librarian of the Museum of Culture and History of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government, and former chairman of the Zhongshan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, once commented on Zhongshan: the hometown of the great Sun Yat-sen, the center of brackish water culture, the cradle of China's modern history, the model of the private economy, and the originator of authentic new Cantonese cuisine; plus Macao and Zhuhai, there can be two more sentences: world cultural heritage, emerging special economic zones. From this point of view, Xiangshan is the cradle of China's modern history, and it shakes out the great figures represented by Sun Yat-sen, Zheng Guanying, and Rong Hong, and a great contingent of celebrities from all walks of life, as well as the great ideas represented by the Three People's Principles, the Founding Strategy, and the Thought of Commercial Warfare. Sun Yat-sen was the greatest emissary of China's Maritime Silk Road in modern times.
Qiu Shuhong said that it is precisely because of this particularity and importance of the humanistic history of the Xiangshan area that the commemoration of Xiangshan is very different from the commemoration of other general areas, and the significance is very significant and far-reaching, so he suggested: Coinciding with the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County, more should be excavated into the historical, practical and future significance of Xiangshan culture. Commemoration is not to commemorate for the sake of commemoration, but to look back at yesterday and find a source of motivation, so as to spur today and promote tomorrow.
Let more young people understand the culture of Xiangshan
Xu Huiping, former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and former chairman of the Zhuhai Women's Federation, proposed that "the cultural corridor formed by Xiangshan humanities" is the core of cultural exchanges between China and the West in the Greater Bay Area. "Zhongshan proposed to revive the ancient city of Xiangshan, I think this can further promote the revival of Xiangshan culture, what do we want to revive?" It can be carried out in three ways. Hu Bo, a full-time standing committee member of the Zhongshan Municipal CPPCC Committee, said. Qiu Shuhong also believes that the revival of the ancient city of Xiangshan is not only the revival of the "shape", but also the revival of the "soul".
Yang Changzheng, director of the Zhuhai Museum's Preservation Department and deputy to the Xiangzhou District People's Congress, said that in order to let more young people understand Xiangshan culture, the museum should play a role, hoping that zhuhai museum and Zhongshan museum can communicate with each other and jointly shoulder the historical responsibility of spreading Xiangshan culture. Liu Yunde, chairman of Zhuhai Meixi Arch Development Co., Ltd. and director of the Institute of Cultural Theory of Zhuhai University of Science and Technology, suggested: Set up a special research institute to study Xiangshan culture; combine traditional culture with real culture.
Chen Yingxian, a librarian of the Guangdong Provincial People's Government Research Museum of Culture and History and former director of the Macao Museum, suggested that this year is the 870th anniversary of the establishment of Xiangshan County, and Zhongshan may consider leading Zhuhai, Macao and Zhongshan, which originally belonged to Xiangshan County, to jointly host a series of activities with the theme of marine culture.
Talk about the spirit of Fragrant Mountain
Qiu Shuhong, director of the China Soong Ching Ling Foundation, librarian of the Museum of Culture and History of the People's Government of Guangdong Province, and former chairman of the Zhongshan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference:
Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Macao are inextricably linked
Xiangshan was the first place to propose the "Chinese Dream". More than 100 years ago, the "revitalization of China" proposed by a generation of great people Sun Yat-sen was the prototype of the Chinese dream. Xiangshan is also the closest place to the Chinese Dream. After the reform and opening up, Macao returned to the motherland, Zhuhai and Zhongshan walked in front of the whole country, daring to be the first in the world, and the economy, society, and culture underwent vicissitudes and earth-shaking changes, creating and providing many experiences for the whole country, especially the common people embarked on the road of prosperity and well-off, and were very close to the goal of modernization.
Xiangshan has its special and important position in the whole country and the whole world. Speaking of Xiangshan County, people must first think of Sun Yat-sen, who overthrew the thousand-year-old feudal monarchy and established the first republic in Asia, and was a great man who influenced China and the world; people will think of Zheng Guanying, whose "Dangerous Words of prosperity" was the first work printed in China's history for officials to study, and also influenced celebrities such as Sun Yat-sen and Mao Zedong; people will also think of Zheng Mano, the first student studying in Italy, Rong Hong, the first student studying in the United States, and the first Xu Rongcun to participate in the World Expo; people will also think of Xiangshan's "Red Four Masters" I will think of the xiangshan overseas Chinese who first crossed the ocean, the first xiangshan merchants who developed Shanghai...
Whether from economics, politics, education, culture, commerce, military, diplomacy, and even sports, Xiangshan people have an inextricable relationship with the Maritime Silk Road and marine culture as a special group, and have made positive explorations and contributions to China's opening up. Xiangshan has close ties with the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area and Guangdong Province and overseas Chinese around the world. Coinciding with the 870th anniversary of the founding of Xiangshan County, more should be excavated into the historical, practical and future significance of Xiangshan culture. Combined with the reality of Zhuhai, the reality of Zhongshan and the reality of Macao, we will explore the experience of excavating Zhuhai Zhongshan and Macao along the way, what problems exist at present, and where is the future direction?
I will give two examples, first, the most important humanistic spirit of Zhongshan people is pragmatic - pragmatic without conservative, open and not ostentatious, innovative and not impetuous. But in the past two decades, this core spirit has encountered relatively big problems. Second, zhuhai does not seem to consciously put Sun Yat-sen culture and Fragrant Mountain culture in an important position in terms of historical and cultural excavation and utilization, including museums, which are not done as key themes, which is like giving up the "golden rice bowl". These hope that by re-finding and utilizing the spirit of Xiangshan from the Culture of Xiangshan, we can be honest and innovative, inherit and carry forward, so as to promote urban development.
Zhuhai, Zhongshan and Macao have inseparable relations, and it is recommended to take the culture of Sun Yat-sen as the banner and contact Zheng Guanying and Rong Hong, including Yang Yin, Su Zhaozheng, Yang Zaian, Lin Weiming and other historical celebrities such as "Fragrant Mountain Red Four Jies", and use this as a humanistic value chain to strengthen exchanges and cooperation and promote the common development of the city's economy, society and culture.
Talk about cultural rejuvenation
Huang Zhongbin, member of the Standing Committee of the Zhongshan Municipal People's Congress and founder of Zhongshan Yuanyi Agarwood: Using agarwood as a carrier to promote Xiangshan culture
Agarwood and Xiangshan culture have an inseparable relationship, and it can even be said that the name of Xiangshan originates from agarwood, so agarwood culture is the root and soul of Xiangshan culture. More than 10 years ago, we began to plant agarwood in a large area, making agarwood into different products, and materializing the agarwood culture into a variety of products that we ordinary people can use.
In terms of disseminating agarwood culture, we let students and citizens feel the charm of agarwood through the agarwood cultural center, and use agarwood as a carrier to promote our Zhongshan culture and Xiangshan culture. A few years ago, the Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference took the lead in planning and organizing the Xiangshan Agarwood Name Rectification Activity, and won the approval of the State Intellectual Property Office for the "Xiangshan Xiangxiang" brand, so that the Xiangshan area has a unified agarwood regional brand, which is an important carrier for us to develop the agarwood industry and agarwood culture.
Jiang Xiujuan, host of the "Zhongshan Story" program and general manager of Guangdong Sound Screen Media Co., Ltd., integrates the local culture of Zhongshan into the lives of young people
Zhongshan culture contains a lot of content, of which Sun Yat-sen culture is very clear, but in addition to Sun Yat-sen culture, we do not have a very clear concept of specific urban culture to present to you, I think it may be possible to refine the connotation quality of urban culture, but also need a very accurate and specific positioning, a mention of it to know that we Zhongshan, we Xiangshan, in this aspect can be reconsidered and positioned.
I think that if young people are to truly love and inherit local culture, they may still need to be integrated into the business model, such as the development of cultural creativity, which can be bought, used, seen, and truly integrated into their lives, which is a kind of subtle inheritance.
Chen Fuxing, director and general manager of Zhongshan Chinese Dress Co., Ltd.: Encourage social resources to participate in Zhongshan Cultural Rejuvenation
In the soil of Xiangshan and Zhongshan, it is a very meaningful thing for us to revive the dresses designed and advocated by Dr. Sun Yat-sen. Zhongshan clothing is the clothing of our Chinese nation, it carries the cultural symbols and memories of a generation, but also affects the clothing of our Chinese, the revival of Zhongshan clothing, for our Zhongshan cultural rejuvenation, Xiangshan cultural revival have a certain significance.
In terms of Zhongshan Cultural City, in addition to the publicity and promotion at the government level, social resources are encouraged, such as more enterprises and ordinary people to participate together, and Zhongshan Cultural City will shine brightly.
Talk about the ancient city of Xiangshan
Hu Bo, full-time standing committee member of the Zhongshan Municipal CPPCC Committee: to create a carrier of the ancient city of Xiangshan
In 1154 of the Southern Song Dynasty, shortly after the establishment of Xiangshan County, the county site was officially relocated to Shiqi. Now near the Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall, you can still find the old city wall at that time, and Zhongshan City has built an "urban origin" here in recent years. The area of the old city is not large, only 0.5 square kilometers. In the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, the city expanded to include the current pedestrian street, Minzu Road, Minquan Road, Minsheng Road and other places. After the founding of New China, glass factories and chemical factories were established along the banks of the Qijiang River. After the reform and opening up, Zhongshan's economic modernization began to take off.
Zhongshan proposed the revival of the ancient city of Xiangshan, and I think it is necessary to further promote the revival of Xiangshan culture. What are we going to revive? It can be carried out in three ways.
The first is material civilization. There are many historical sites in Xiangshan Ancient City, Yandun Mountain Pagoda, Old Streets and Old Alleys, Ancient Trees and Ancient Temples, etc., with the revival of Xiangshan Ancient City as the starting point, these historical relics can be further protected, driving the transformation of zhongshan Shiqi Old Town, improving the function of this area, and enhancing the first place of the main urban area.
The second is spiritual culture. For example, the spirit of Zhongshan people to forge ahead, dare to take risks, and have the courage to take responsibility; there are also a large number of intangible cultural heritage, dialects, folklore and so on. With the help of the revival of the ancient city of Xiangshan, combing the cultural context of Xiangshan, in the process of excavating and salvaging some contents, re-refining and excavating the contents, so that the ancient city of Xiangshan can be rejuvenated with new vitality.
The third is to further inherit the culture of Xiangshan by creating the carrier of the ancient city of Xiangshan. A city's sense of belonging and identity still stems from its cultural roots. By creating the ancient city of Xiangshan, it will also indirectly affect the temperament of the city, so that more people and young people are willing to understand the culture of Xiangshan. The inheritance of culture requires generations of young people to join, only by allowing everyone to form cultural consciousness and establish cultural self-confidence, can there be cultural self-reliance, make a difference for the spread of Xiangshan culture, and make more contributions.
Talk about the cultural inheritance of Xiangshan
Yang Changzheng, director of the preservation department of Zhuhai Museum and deputy of the People's Congress of Xiangzhou District: I hope that the museums in Zhongshan and Zhuhai will communicate with each other
It is precisely because Xiangshan culture is a concept of historical and cultural category, which is out of touch with the lives of ordinary people. However, Xiangshan culture has indeed played an important role in Chinese history, and the Spirit of Xiangshan is still very inspiring for the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation today. Xiangshan culture should be injected with the breath of life, otherwise it is still a historical and cultural concept.
It is recommended to let more young people know about Xiangshan culture. First of all, the museum should play a role, Zhongshan is building a new museum, which is a good opportunity to understand the culture of Xiangshan; the new museum of Zhuhai Museum has just opened, and it is also one of the fronts to understand the culture of Xiangshan. It is hoped that the two museums can communicate with each other and shoulder the historical responsibility of disseminating Xiangshan culture. Whether a culture is alive or not, first of all, depends on whether the language still exists, and the Xiangshan dialect has the Tang family system, the Qianshan system, the Doumen system, and other systems, and these systems are passed on to the next generation, and the culture has a carrier.
Liu Yunde, chairman of Zhuhai Meixi Arch Development Co., Ltd. and director of the Institute of Cultural Theory of Zhuhai University of Science and Technology: It is recommended to set up a special institution to study Xiangshan culture
Our study of Xiangshan culture cannot be limited to descriptive research, but must be highly theoretical research and theorize it. I suggest the establishment of special research institutions, combined with universities or relevant experts, to do academic and highly theoretical development research. In this way, it is really conducive to distinguishing the uniqueness of our Xiangshan culture and is conducive to the inheritance and development of Xiangshan culture. It is recommended to formulate a cultural inheritance plan, for example, what activities are planned to be held every year, combined with some traditional holidays, and the excellent traditional food culture, opera culture, literature and art are combined to inherit. It is recommended to run a magazine on Xiangshan culture and spread our Xiangshan culture in the form of a regular periodical at home and abroad, and among overseas Chinese and ethnic Chinese.
Regarding the inheritance of Xiangshan culture by young people, I believe that We should make Xiangshan culture a popular education on the basis of theoretical research, such as primary and secondary schools, museums, exhibition halls, etc., to widely publicize Xiangshan culture. In addition, in the Daxiangshan area, it is widely disseminated in some traditional and literary and artistic forms. We must attach importance to the study of new culture, sometimes when we mention cultural inheritance, we overly regard culture as traditional culture, in fact, traditional culture and actual culture should be combined.
Talk about Xiangshan cultural exchanges
Xu Huiping, former deputy director of the Propaganda Department of the Zhuhai Municipal Party Committee and former chairman of the Zhuhai Women's Federation:
The "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" is the core of cultural exchanges between China and the West in the Greater Bay Area
In my opinion, the "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" is the core of cultural exchanges between China and the West in the Greater Bay Area. The history of "taking history as a mirror can know the rise and fall of the place" and "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" has fully proved that the combination of the two can flourish together.
The first integration of the "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" originated from the convergence of Chinese and Western cultures after the opening of Macao, making it the earliest bridge connecting China to the world and promoting the ideological enlightenment and social transformation of modern China. The second integration of the "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" originated from the National Special Economic Zone Strategy in 1980, which became the earliest test field for China's reform and opening up, and then promoted the reform and opening up of the whole of China. The third integration of the "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" stems from the current construction of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and a world-class city cluster is just around the corner. Every integration of the "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" will bring great take-off to this region. This is the development trajectory of the "Xiangshan Cultural Corridor" that has been continuously confirmed by history.
Chen Yingxian, librarian of the Museum of Culture and History of the People's Government of Guangdong Province and former director of the Macao Museum:
It is recommended that Zhongshan Zhuhai and Macao jointly host a series of activities on the theme of marine culture
The development of the Greater Bay Area relies on the ocean, and in recent years, the ocean has also brought more important development opportunities to Guangdong, especially the Greater Bay Area. Therefore, the study of marine culture is the main task of Guangdong.
Born in Xiangshan County, the sea, Sun Yat-sen is deeply influenced by marine culture, he is also a practitioner of marine culture, he has visited the United States, Japan, Britain and Europe and Asia, and is an advocate and defender of continental sea power. Sun Yat-sen's exposition of the ocean is also one of the topics that we have rarely touched on and deserve in-depth study. This year is the 870th anniversary of the establishment of Xiangshan County in history, and Zhongshan may consider leading Zhuhai and Macao, which originally belonged to Xiangshan County, to jointly host a series of cultural activities with the theme of marine culture, which not only explores the impact of marine culture on the Xiangshan area in history, but also strengthens the connection and cooperation between cities in the Greater Bay Area.
Zheng Guoqiang, President of the Macao Association for the Concern of Historical Relics and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of the Macao Scholars' Alliance:
It is suggested that Macao Zhongshan Zhuhai once again study the way of cooperation
Can the commemoration of the 870th anniversary of the establishment of Xiangshan County be carried out in Zhongshan, Macao and Zhuhai this year?
Twenty years ago, initiated by myself, initiated by the Macao Association of Concerns about Historical Relics, and cooperated with the Guangdong Academy of Social Sciences, the Zhongshan Local History Office, the Zhuhai Local History Office, etc., to hold a seminar on "Commemorating the 850th Anniversary of the Establishment of Xiangshan County" in three places, calling for historical and cultural memory, and published a special book, calling on the governments of the three places to cooperate and promote it. Ten years ago, Qiu Shuhong, then chairman of the Zhongshan Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, also planned and organized a series of "Xiangshan 860" activities with the theme of the Maritime Silk Road, which had a wide impact.
The former Xiangshan County was divided into three administrative regions, namely today's Macao, Zhongshan and Zhuhai. Today, in the era of the Greater Bay Area, we must have new thinking, seek new breakthroughs, complement each other's advantages, and accelerate development. Today, in the era of the Greater Bay Area, it is recommended that Macao Zhongshan Zhuhai once again study the way of cooperation, explore the cultural context of Xiangshan, and create a common future.
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About Fragrant Hills culture
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 Culture of Xiangshan Began to take shape gradually. 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 culture, an image of the saying is "brackish water culture". (Excerpt from Qiu Shuhong's "Back to Xiangshan - Written in the 870th Anniversary of the Establishment of Xiangshan County")
Xiangshan County 870th Anniversary Reporting Group Written by: Nandu reporter Hou Yuxiao, Liu Xianpei, And Lu Jing