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Every day, I read Xia Chengtao in | diary: I don't do anything difficult in my life, and I write straight to the lamp

Every day, I read Xia Chengtao in | diary: I don't do anything difficult in my life, and I write straight to the lamp

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Author:Wu Bei (Researcher, Zhejiang Academy of Social Sciences)

Biography of scholars

Xia Chengtao (1900-1986), a native of Wenzhou, Zhejiang. Lexicographer, poet, lyricist. He graduated from Wenzhou Normal School in 1918 and taught at several primary schools, middle schools and Northwest University. Since 1930, he has been a professor at Zhijiang University, Zhejiang University, Zhejiang Normal University, and Hangzhou University, and a special researcher of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He is the author of "Annals of Tang and Song Poets", "Tang and Song Ci Series", "Jiang Baishi Ci Chronicle School", "Tianfengge Poetry Collection", "Tianfengge Cishu Collection", etc.; there are "Xia Chengtao Collection" in the world, "Xia Chengtao Complete Collection" is in compilation; the first birthday is recorded in the "Xia Chengtao Diary Complete Compilation".

Every day, I read Xia Chengtao in | diary: I don't do anything difficult in my life, and I write straight to the lamp

Xia Chengtao Image courtesy of the author

When I was in my 20s, when I read the first compilation of Mr. Xia Chengtao's "Diary of Learning Words in Tianfeng Pavilion" (hereinafter referred to as "The Diary of Learning Words"), I had a doubt in my heart: The diary began on July 20, 1928, when Mr. Xia was not yet in his inception, why was he so old when he started to major in lexicography?

Mr. Xia once said that "around thirty years ago, he began to specialize in lexicology", but from the beginning of the "Diary of Learning Words", he did not see the jerkiness of the beginners. He doesn't seem to need a period of adaptation, but he sees it as smooth and methodical, constantly having new ideas, and soon having new results. In short, after making an appearance, it seems to be a style of everyone.

In recent years, I have edited and sorted out the "Complete Diary of Xia Chengtao", and the "Complete Compilation" has supplemented the deleted contents of the "Diary of Learning Words", and added a new diary of the early years and the diary of the later years. In Mr. Xia's early diary, I saw the young figure of the young man who recited, copied, and reviewed the Thirteen Classics day after day, year after year, and all of this began: it turned out that Mr. Xia's child skills were to recite the original texts of the Thirteen Classics.

Through reading these diaries, Xia Chengtao's image became more plump and three-dimensional in my heart.

From 1916 to 1985, the diary left by Xia Chengtao, the "Generation of Words", spanned 70 years, and although there are still defects in the middle, it is still the longest and most complete text of the diary of the 20th century scholars that has been published so far. His diary is a rare lexical document, an account of the life course of an individual scholar, poet, and lyricist, and also Xia Chengtao's observation of his time.

History

The decade from 1916 to 1928 can be said to be the most diligent, the most read, and the most extensive stage in Mr. Xia's life.

It is difficult to separate the classics and history, and the traditional knowledge elements regard the study of the classics and history as the "right way" to do learning. The scholarship of the two Zhejiang provinces since the Qing Dynasty has formed a deep soil for the study of the classics in western Zhejiang and the history of eastern Zhejiang. Young Mr. Xia, eager to read, absorbed the nutrients in this fertile land. In order to facilitate reading, he lived in a house next to the Wenzhou Yuan Library and spent two years going through the 90,000 volumes of books in the Garden, most of which were classics. When he was teaching at Yanzhou No. 9 Middle School, he systematically read the photocopy of the Twenty-Four Histories and other historical books of Hanfen Lou in the school library.

Mr. Xia has always been a writer of reading, and his early diary has left many reading notes. These notes, or the writing of summaries, or the writing of inscriptions and examinations, or the comparison of deeds, or the issuance of comments, are quite considerable. The diary also records some of the writings of the study of the scriptures, history, and primary schools at this stage, such as a diary in July 1928 that said:

In the past three years, there have been several kinds of manuscripts, such as "Notes on the History of the Five Dynasties", "Tang Zhu Wanxue Examination", "Ten Records of Speaking Texts", "Records of the Wudi Room", "Xun Ziwei" and so on. There are two kinds of "Shuowen Guangxian" and "Shuowen General Theory", and the nearest party is in the collection.

The diary also left a long list of proposed books. The bibliography of the history of the Song Dynasty alone includes 20 or 30 kinds of books, such as "Song History Table", "Song History Examination", "Song History Beilu", "Song and Yuan Cultural History", "Two Song Dynasty Social History", and "Southern Song History". We can fully speculate that if Mr. Xia had not specialized in lexicography later, he would have made more achievements in classics, history, or primary school.

In the past ten years, Mr. Xia has accumulated profound skills in catalogs, proofreading, editions, notes, rhymes, and texts. It is on such fertile soil that the "spectacle" of sowing the seeds of lexicology and blossoming and bearing fruit in an instant has taken place.

The study of classics and history is the origin of Xia's lexicology; the art of jingshi is the art of xia's lexicology. The art of classical history is Mr. Xia's greatest contribution to the academic history of China in the 20th century.

Northwest Grand Tour

Mr. Xia has traveled mostly in Zhejiang Province, especially in Hangzhou and his hometown of Wenzhou, where he has been teaching for a long time. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Zhijiang University moved to Shanghai, and Mr. Xia also taught with him for more than three years. He lived in Beijing for ten years in his later years, during which he avoided earthquakes and went to Luoyang and Xi'an, and then to Changsha and Guilin, and to Chengde for summer vacation, all of which were short-lived. Mr. Xia's two guest trips with the longest distance, the longest itinerary and the widest travel period were counted as "the second time he entered Qin" when he was in his 20s.

In July 1921 (according to Xia Chengtao's diary from September 1, 1922, the Gregorian calendar was used, and the dates mentioned in this article were also handled according to this), Mr. Xia went to Beijing to serve as the editor of the supplementary magazine of the "Public Opinion", and in Beijing, in April, he decided to teach at the Xi'an Chinese Episcopal Middle School, thus starting his first entry into Qin. On the tenth day of the first month of November, Mr. Xia took the night train of the Beijing-Hankou Railway, crossed the Lugou Bridge and Baoding, and entered Henan. After passing Through Zhangde, arrived in Zhengzhou for an overnight stay. The next morning, take the Longhai car, pass through Gong County, and arrive at the Guanyin Hall accommodation. After that, he took a mule cart, bumped and bumped, crossed the jiaoshi (that is, Du Fu's stone trench village), arrived in Shaanzhou, passed through Quwo, crossed the Hangu Valley, and crossed the pond... Three or four days later, he arrived in Xi'an.

Xi'an is the ancient capital of the Thirteen Dynasties, and its thick history is hidden in layers of wind and sand. Mr. Xia, who likes to explore history, cannot help but be attracted by such a thickness.

During his three or four years in Xi'an, he was able to investigate the whereabouts of ancient poets on the ground and personally drew the "Tang Dynasty Poet Chang'an Deeds Map". This figure was later appended to the 1979 edition of the Treatise on the Moon Wheel Mountain. This picture was looked at by a Soviet sinologist in the 1950s and 1960s, saying that it could be translated into Russian. In the context of the integration of culture and tourism, the "academic map" and "poet's track map" have become prominent studies, and looking back at what Mr. Xia did in the 1920s, we cannot but be sincerely admired.

Friends who lack a sense of lens for ancient history may have seen the movie or TV series of "White Deer Plain". Where is White Deer Plain? When Mr. Xia crossed Lintong and baqiao, he had already set foot on the land where the story of "White Deer Plain" took place. Liu Zhenhua, the prototype of the warlord "Liu Blind" in "White Deer Plain", has been in charge of Shaanxi government for many years, and Mr. Xia was in Xi'an for several years, he was serving as the governor of the province, so this name has repeatedly appeared in Mr. Xia's diary. as:

Inspector Wen Feng is out of customs today, and Governor Liu Zhenhua is acting as his agent. On the way, he encountered many men of the Eleventh Division carrying ordnance. In the afternoon, he received the twelfth "Declaration", and he had not yet begun to fight with Fengzhi. It was also reported that bandits had arrived in Weibei to wugong, and the 20th Division was defeated, two hundred miles away from the provincial capital. (23 March 1922)

This diary reveals one end of the warlord melee history. At this time, on the eve of the first Zhifeng War, in addition to Liu Zhenhua, there were also local warlords of all sizes such as Wu Xintian, Dang Yukun, and Ma Zhenwu who were entrenched in Shaanxi at that time.

Mr. Xia's diary also records the situation on the day when Liu Shi concurrently served as an overseer:

Reading the local newspaper, the president has ordered that Zhang Zuolin and Zhao Qian be relieved of their posts, with Wu Junsheng, Feng Delin, and Hei'er Provincial Overseers, Feng Yuxiang transferred to henan overseers, and Shaanxi governor Liu Zhenhua concurrently serving as overseers... Governor Liu took over the post today, and the provincial capital was full of national flags to celebrate. (April 21, 1922)

Liu Zhenhua, as the governor of Shaanxi Province, monopolized military and political power. At that time, Opium was widely cultivated in Guanzhong, and Liu Shiguang levied a tobacco tax, making a windfall, and finally incurring impeachment. Mr. Xia's diary reads:

Recently, the provincial Shaanxi Association impeached the governor of shaanxi province, Liu Zhenhua, the governor of shaanxi province, for increasing miscellaneous taxes. The first paragraph is to force the people to grow tobacco. The annual tobacco tax in Shaanxi Province is more than 10 million yuan, and only one county of Wugong has 1.6 million yuan per year. Grain has been levied for sixteen years, miscellaneous taxes such as animal taxes, blood taxes, etc. are innumerable, all the people who sell eggs and vegetables on the street have taxes, and the soldiers are even more openly robbed in person. The people bear the military expenses, and the wugong county needs one thousand yuan a day. Last year, because of the tobacco tax, more than 70 people were forced to throw themselves into a well to pass through the dead... Whenever it came time to collect taxes, the servants urged and could not bear to hear. After five or six years since the Republic of China, the people of Shaanxi have not had a single life. (22 June 1924)

Perennial scuffles, the people are not happy. The history of the land of Guanzhong gave Mr. Xia a heavy intoxication, and the reality of the people gave him a heavy blow, which made Mr. Xia's poetry a little less of a diseaseless groan for the new words to say strongly, and more of a realistic coldness. For example, "Supplementary Westbound Miscellaneous Poems": "The chaotic crows are scattered by the oblique sun, and the lonely city of Mashou is mourning." "Xi'an Cold Food": "Qianjiaye wept along the mourning sacrifice, and the city of Yancheng was still non-smoking." "Spring Sense": "The abandoned pond trees are even more absent, and the spring in the battlefield is enough to break the soul." "Ke Si": "Picking people's worries and laughing, reading the wind and frost of the world forced the old to become old." Heaven and earth are still far away, and the rivers and lakes are difficult to not stop the troops. In the second of the three songs of "Twilight and Li Zhongqian", Mr. Xia expressed his worries about DuLing:

The wind is blowing in the day, and the scenery is like a bright moon.

Shuofang is bitter and cold, and this winter is even more depressed.

The wild old man believed in the disaster and was worried about a winter drought.

The winter drought hurts the wheat, and the gun is not present.

In the past ten years, guanzhong has fought dozens of battles large and small.

Both material resources are tired, and hunger is common.

…………

Closely heard the Yuxi thief, and then channeled the Mountain Yang Road.

The old and the weak turned around, and the room was swept away.

The cave is foggy and uncertain.

Jackal Fang Dang Tu, who pitied and did not tell.

Smelling the witch in vain, the Nine Curses closed canghao.

Yonghuai ancient monuments are an indispensable theme in Qin. Mr. Xia traveled to the ash pile shop (now ash pile slope) in the west of the city and wrote a seven-word ancient style "Ash pile shop , Qin Shi Huang's book burning place". From the black soil in front of him, he thought from afar: "Khan Jian has no green soil and is gray and black, and the midge fish should worry about the ancestral dragon." Writing about Qin Shi Huang's burning of books: "Qin Guan's two torches have been red one after another, and Ah Fang has not had such a fierceness before." He also wrote about the irreparable losses caused by the book burning pit Confucianism on cultural history in history: "The tombs of The Xiannong have been dazed for a long time, and a hundred homes have scattered cold and desolate smoke... Nai knew that this move had been a pit for thousands of years, and qin was not a disaster to burn books. ”

Mr. Xia also searched for the tomb of Han Ru Dong Zhongshu:

...... Go to Nancheng root to find the tomb of Dong Zhongshu... The ancestral hall has been abandoned, and a huge monument has been erected at the head of the door, with the inscription "Tomb of Dongzi of the Han Dynasty and rujiang capital", and Bi Yuanli in Qianlongjian is standing. From the temple to the door, the ancients have many monuments, there are Kangxi Shi "Re-repairing the Ancestral Hall", written by Li Erqu, the text is not long enough to read it all. The tomb is under the rouge slope, and it is said that Han Wuxing Furong Garden, after this dismount, Wenwu attendants can not get off the horse, so it is called "Xia Ma Ling". The keeper of the shrine gave the key, opened the back door of the temple, saw the bad soil tired, short inscription "Han Dong Zhongshu Mr. Tomb", the tomb around thirty or forty steps, high can be zhang, thorns and reeds everywhere. After climbing the tomb for a nap, he saw the inscription "Justify his friendship without seeking his own benefits, and know that his way does not count his merits", and Song Ru took this as a scholar.

The tomb of Dong that Mr. Xia saw in 1923 is not known today. Mr. Xia also wrote an ode to Dong Tomb, making his own understanding and judgment on Dong's "deposing hundreds of families and respecting Confucianism alone".

Mr. Xia returned to Wenzhou in the winter of 1924 to get married, and the return time took January, which was extremely difficult. Who thought that in the spring of 1925, he entered Qin for the second time and once again experienced the difficulties of traveling in a chaotic world. At that time, the war situation was more chaotic, the armament was even worse, the railways were often on strike, and the traffic control was changed day by day, and the obstacles were uncertain. Departing from Wenzhou on February 22 and arriving in Xi'an on April 16, thousands of miles of travel, walking nearly two months to arrive.

It is said that the country is unfortunate that the poet is lucky. The ups and downs have also spawned many poems. That is, in terms of the second time he entered Qin, Mr. Xia wrote many poems such as "Xuzhou", "Kaifeng Dragon Pavilion", "Zhengzhou Keci", "Passing Zhengzhou GudongliZi Ancestral Hall", "Shanxi Daozhong", "Puzhou Chezhong", "Quwo", "Niangziguan", "Fenglingdu" and so on.

During his stay in Shaanxi, Mr. Xia wrote more than 80 poems, of which only 9 were included in the Tianfengge Poetry Collection; the number of words was much smaller, less than 10, and the Tianfengge Poetry Collection contained 4 selected poems. That is to say, the vast majority of Mr. Xia's early poetry works have not been disclosed to the world, and these works are important materials for understanding Mr. Xia's mental journey and studying his creative ideas, and they are also rich evidence for exploring the initial stage of his poetics.

In short, Mr. Xia's early diary, represented by his second entry into Qin, is a major key to understanding Xia Chengtao's "treasure life". This opening chapter has the magnificent color of the northwest, and has the solidity of lexicology and the thickness beyond age, and only by reading it can you enter the colorful world of Mr. Xia.

The stars are shining

At the end of July 1975, Mr. Xia went to Beijing to see a doctor under the arrangement of his successor Wu Wuwen, and spent the last decade of his life in Beijing.

In the early years, Mr. Xia may have regretted not being able to enter the university for further study, so he was particularly keen to find teachers and friends, and after becoming famous in the 1930s, he made more friends. In his later years, his fame was booming, and the Chaoyang Building where he lived was even more star-studded and eye-catching. I don't know which other diary can bring together so many 20th century cultural celebrities - Lu Xun, Ma Yifu, Xiong Shili, Zhu Kezhen, Hu Shi, Chen Yinke, Yu Pingbo, Zheng Zhenduo, Qian Zhongshu, Zhao Puchu, Huang Binhong, Pan Tianshou, Sha Menghai, Zhu Yicun, Wu Mei, Ren Erbei... Later in his life, gu jiegang, Ye Shengtao, Mao Yisheng, Liu Haisu, Zhang Boju, Huang Juntan, Zhong Jingwen, Zang Kejia, Li Jianwu, Ye Qianyu, Deng Guangming, Wu Shichang, Xu Bangda, He Qifang, Qi Gong, Wu Zeyu, Zhou Ruchang, Yin Shoushi, Shi Shuqing, Chen Yixuan, and so on, were numerous.

Mr. Xia's diary in the early 50s, just a day less deliberately cut off, can teach people to lament what kind of situation it is to "talk and laugh and have a great Confucianism":

clear. New Year's Eve. Before noon, drive to Su Kui, Yi Ma Zhan Weng, present a near word. Weng said "sit for Lei Feng" sentence does not dare to be. Show a copy of each of the near poems and near words, and say that classical literature will never be able to do anything from now on? Weng Zi loves "Man Jiang Hong", that is, a whisk note for the gift of a gift to the book... It is also said that Jiang Su'an's life is very embarrassing, and he is close to Shanghai... In the afternoon, I passed through Menghai and knew that the cultural relics had been kept. Pass by Bin Hongweng and watch Wang Mengduan (芾) fly white painting bamboo. Bin Lao said that the old print "Painting Ancient Wei", which has been abridged a lot by the bookstore, recently plans to re-write "Painting Micro". Encourage him to start writing as soon as possible, and the humble is not high, but can be widely taught for beginners. Weng Kaizhen produced many manuscripts to see the old manuscript, zero and simple, cluttered, and others could not sort it out. Weng Yu still has four or five boxes, and I am afraid that I have no energy to deal with Dong Yi. (10 February 1952)

The old man's diary calls people with many words and numbers, and now people look inevitably a little diaphragm. Ma Zhanweng is a horse floating. Jiang Su'an was a disciple of Ma Yifu and the master of Jiang Zhuang, whom everyone in Hangzhou knew. Menghai is Sha Menghai, and Binhong is of course Huang Binhong.

Such shining days can be easily intercepted in his diary in his later years. Mr. Xia arrived in Beijing at the end of July 1975, so he chose one or two days from this year to take a look:

In the afternoon, he visited Zhou Ruchang at No. 14 Hongxing Hutong. More than ten years have not been seen, this year more than fifty years, deaf and blind, has entered the old world. Talking about "Dream of the Red Chamber", it is said that it was passed on to the manuscript of "Dream of the Red Chamber" in Hangde. Visiting Gu Jiegang at No. 61 Ganmian Hutong, he is 82 years old this year, and his eyes and ears are still clear. Suzhou Gu Lu, a man from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, wrote the "Records of the Tongqiao Leaning", with an inscription. It is said that its secretary Suzhou affairs, there are two items of city and work, which are rare for others. In his early years, Jie Gang received a volume of his painting poems and packed it into a volume, many masterpieces of poetry... Ru Chang instructed the unheard of not to delete the poems, and to keep the full manuscript. Yu said that the ancients only Li Dushi was a full-drafter... On the way, I met Li Jianwu, who said that the publications of the Institute of Literature and Literature, Literary Review and World Literature, were all preparing to resume publications, and he recently wrote articles to study Balchaik. (August 5, 1975)

Zhou Ruchang, Gu Jiegang, and Li Jianwu are all famous. The Tongqiao Yizhuolu is a twelve-volume terroir from the Shantang area of Huqiu in Suzhou, published in the twenty-second year of Daoguang (1842), and the original inscription was destroyed in the war and rarely circulated. Gu Jie just got this, and if he received the most precious treasure, he asked Yu Pingbo, Xie Guozhen, and Wu Shichang to write inscriptions, and repeatedly showed his friends. The documentary value of Mr. Xia's diary can be proved by this article.

"Ru Chang instructed the unknown not to delete the poems", according to Mr. Xia's complete collection of poems, there must be times the "Tianfengge Poetry Collection" and "Tianfengge Poetry Collection" that have been published. For various reasons, Mr. Wu Wuwen failed to comply with the instructions of "do not delete" and allowed him to obey the orders of the late life.

In the morning, the iron string Kai Cao Qu Gong brought the thin stone to the little elephant to see, showing the picture book, belonging to the couple to write. Talking about the story of the painting garden is very beautiful...

Birthday is near the plum side, and the heart is in the goose first. Choose three or two words, chew rice for a year. (Title Seventy-Five-Year-Old Portrait) (Recently recorded poem "Chewing Rice Collection")

In the afternoon, Xu Bangda visited, a Haining native, a calligraphy and painting connoisseur of the Forbidden City. It is said that the Song Gaozong character has a great influence in contemporary times, and the second "Lan" character of the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is also the "zheng" character as "zheng", which is to avoid the secret of the king. Listen to the talk about calligraphy and painting palms like a number of family treasures. In 1950, he came to Beijing from Shanghai with the introduction of Zheng Zhenduo. Xi Shi Shu Qing came and entrusted him with five volumes of Zheng Wenzhuo's words and Le Jun. I copied the catalogue of Chinese books in the Library of the University of Tokyo, and listed a total of nine kinds of books. It is said that Ye Xiao'an's "All Qing Words and Banknotes" has been printed overseas, and there are many families and few words selected. Shi Jundang has read it. (28 December 1975)

Zhang Tiexian is a translator and librarian. Cao Qugong (曹曲公) was a publisher who was good at book binding. Shi Shuqing is a historian and cultural relics appraiser.

In addition to Mr. Xia's perennial study of characters, he also occasionally dabbled in Danqing, and there were paintings circulating in the street. Many of the celebrities he befriended in his life were calligraphers and painters, and the thin stone in this article was. Mr. Xia's diary is full of calligraphy and paintings, as Xu Bangda said. Yin Shoushi painted a portrait of Mr. Xia (he had painted a portrait of Mao Zedong), and Mr. Xia wrote a poem by himself, which is not found in the published poetry collection. "Chewing Rice Collection" has not been seen today.

When Mr. Xia went to Beijing, the "Cultural Revolution" was still in full swing, and his rehabilitation was even more fashionable. In the front of the door of Hangshi, he snubbed and greeted Him endlessly in Beijing. The acceptance and courtesy of Mr. Xia in the Beijing cultural circle surprised him greatly, and two months later, he filled out a poem "Linjiang Immortal" to thank his friends:

Seventy-six years of fingers, three thousand miles away. Gao Qiu knocked on the Gate of Beijing with his staff. The mountains and rivers are bright, and the lights are cloudy at night. Everywhere the wind and rain, meet the flock of cranes and gulls. Medicinal tobacco can be said to be attentive. Five cars behind the matter, a hundred generations in front of the grace.

The text was changed when this word was later included in the Tianfengge Dictionary. Although when writing, "I am unable to walk after illness", the style of words is still high and handsome, and I do not lose the style of that year.

The welcome of Mr. Xia by the Beijing cultural circle is also a phenomenon worthy of attention.

In addition to old friends like Ye Shengtao, the first to communicate with him were friends who were good at writing old style poems, represented by Zhang Boju and Huang Juntan. This circle was introduced by Mr. Zhou Duwen at the beginning, and the two sides hit it off immediately, and in the next few years they lived with him the most closely. Repeated singing and activities, always get the positive echo of the circle. As a researcher and creator of Mr. Xia's classical poetry, it is reasonable to be the same as this group.

What is rare is that the new poet also pays attention to Mr. Xia. Diary of January 16, 1976: "Xi Qian Shiming... It is also said that xin heard the news from Zang Kejia, He Qifang, and □□□ princes. ”

He Qifang is an old acquaintance of Mr. Xia, and the first time the two met was as early as April 9, 1959, when Mr. Shi Xia went to Beijing to participate in a symposium jointly held by the editorial department of Literary Review and Literary Heritage. The diary also records that the last time the two men met was on March 20, 1977: "At noon, He Qifang, Mou Duming (Literary Association, Folk Literature) and his wife came to talk about how Chairman Mao's 'stirring up writing' should be solved... (This is the last side of Fang and me)"

Zang Kejia is a new friend he met after living in Beijing. As early as December 19, 1964, Mr. Xia's diary mentioned:

(Zhang) Bai Shan called Li Ji and Zang Kejia the new poets as "Li Qingzhao's Artistic Characteristics" to make them understand the learning methods of classical poetry.

In 1978, the diary recorded several times:

Zang Kejia sent a volume of poetry collection "Remembering Xiangyang". (August 25)

Fu Zang Ke family letter, thank you for the collection of poems. (August 26)

Zang Kejia came, saying that there were too many old poetry dictionaries, and he planned to write a short article on it. (December 13)

The acceptance of Mr. Xia by the two poet groups, old and new, seems to me to have a certain symbolic significance. It is rooted in the eternal vitality of classical poetry, due to Mr. Xia's own charm, and also represents the acceptance of "Mr. Xia" by the culture of an era and an era. This is the birds throwing into the forest and the water returning to the sea. This kind of freedom is the best reward for Xia Chengtao, who has adhered to the way of inquiry and learning all his life.

The pen and ink relationship with Guangming Daily

Mr. Xia has been diligent in writing and publishing all his life. Beginning in the 1950s, he published a particularly large number of articles in Guangming Daily, Wen Wei Po, and Zhejiang Daily.

In 1955, Mr. Xia's lexical masterpiece "Annals of Tang and Song Dynasty Poets" was first published by Shanghai Classical Literature Publishing House. The following year, Guangming Daily published a review of the book, and on May 23 of that year, Mr. Xia's diary:

See Guangming Daily Literary Heritage, No. 105, Gu Xuejie's "Commentary on the Annals of The Tang and Song Dynasties", citing four advantages: first, rich materials; second, distinguishing the historical facts of writers (such as Feng Zhengzhong); third, examining the age of writers; and fourth, examining the ability of works. Too much praise.

Diary of October 8, 1957:

On the sixth day, the "Guangming Daily Literary Heritage" carried Shigemizu Shigeru's commentary on the "Annals of The Lyricists".

After Mr. Xia's other two masterpieces, "Jiang Baishi Chronicle School" and "Qu Hair On Words and Sentences", the literary heritage edition of Guangming Daily also published book reviews.

According to the diary records, from 1958 to the beginning of the "Cultural Revolution", Mr. Xia had published articles in Guangming Daily, such as "Chu Ci and Song Ci", "Xin Jiaxuan's Rural Words", "Commenting on Li Qingzhao's "Theory of Words"", "How to Evaluate "Selected Notes on Song Poems", "Tao Qian and Sun En", "Dongfeng World Dialect Plum Blossom", "Land Dongfeng Song" and other articles, as well as some lyrics and Yang Lian.

1961 was the year when the words "Guangming Daily" appeared most frequently in the diary. In addition to the manuscript, the manuscript, and the publication, two events were recorded in the year.

The first is to open a column:

He received a letter from Guangming Daily, saying that he wanted to devote a column to poetry in the supplement of "Dongfeng". (March 18)

The second thing was a reporter interview, asking Mr. Xia to talk about his academic experience:

In the morning, Comrade Zhang □□ of the Guangming Daily came and asked him to recount the experience of decades of study, and because he thought of writing a small article called "Noh House." (August 25)

Comrade Zhang of guangming daily came to ask about the history of the study, which was shown in one article. (August 29)

"Guangming Daily" sent an interview note to change a paragraph. (September 3)

The manuscript on zhixue did not seem to be published in Guangming Daily, but it opened Up Mr. Xia's review and summary of the road to zhixue. The diary shows that Mr. Xia then made a report on his academic experience in the auditorium of Hangzhou University, and the audience was 400 to 500 people, including those who came from outside the university, and the response was enthusiastic. After revision, this lecture appeared in Zhejiang Daily under the title "My Experience in Governing Studies."

Twenty years later, "Knowledge of Literature and History" and "People's Daily" respectively published Mr. Xia's "My Experience in Learning Words" and "How I Taught Myself Poetry".

On July 2, 1973, Mr. Xia wrote:

In the afternoon, the department held a meeting, and two reporters from the Academic Department of Guangming Daily talked about restoring the supplement of "Literary Heritage" and organizing a manuscript for the department of Chinese of Hangzhou University. The reporter was surprised that he was quite healthy and told him to take care of himself.

The supplement of Guangming Daily's "Literary Heritage", which is sometimes suspended and sometimes restored, is related to the direction of its political trend. Why is the reporter "surprised that the body is quite healthy"? At this time, it was the middle and late stage of the "Cultural Revolution", and Mr. Xia had already experienced various tortures such as raiding his home, going down to the cowshed, pulling back to his hometown to criticize the struggle, and showing public on the street. An old man, who is more than ancient and rare, through this frost sword, can actually be "quite healthy", how can he not surprise others! This reporter, presumably an acquaintance who had previously made an appointment with Mr. Xia, did not write his name, which should be out of a protective mentality. A sentence of "tell more to take care of yourself", intriguing to chew, tears!

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