The opening volume | a magnificent history of China's famous springs

Text/Yang Liqiang

History and civilization are the roots and veins of a country and a nation. Chinese landscapes carry splendid civilization, inherit history and culture, maintain the national spirit, nourish the thousand-year-old cultural context from the Central Plains to the coastal frontiers, and are the representative symbols of the Chinese nation and the iconic symbols of Chinese civilization. Among them, spring water is one of the essences of Chinese landscapes, a flowing culture, vividly telling the past, profoundly influencing the present and the future, and providing us with rich historical and cultural nourishment. "One side of the water and soil to feed the other side, one spring to moisten a piece of the heart." For thousands of years, China has formed a unique spring culture, and the quiet and clear spring hides a clear and lovely, interesting, vivid and three-dimensional beautiful China!

"China in the Spring Water" is a magnificent and majestic history of China's famous springs, which for the first time systematically displays the magnificent geographical picture of China and the magnificent humanistic epic from the perspective of spring water, and comprehensively highlights the beauty of Chinese landscapes, culture and history. The author of this book, Yu Daofan, is more than 80 years old this year, is a senior engineer in the field of aerospace science and technology with outstanding merit, enjoys special government allowances of the State Council, and has won first-class merit. In addition to scientific research work, Yu Lao's life is fond of landscape and water history, and in more than 20 years, he has trekked through mountains and rivers, from the Central Plains to the coastal frontier, from the royal palace garden to the streets and alleys of Shijing, traversing nineteen provinces, and exploring more than 200 ancient wells of famous springs with his life's efforts, which can be described as "visiting China's famous springs, leaving few pearls". "The way of writing, only words and righteousness." While carefully searching for famous springs, Yu Laobo is involved in literature and history, "collecting the que literature of the hundred generations, collecting the relics of a thousand years", extensively searching and discerning, not only detailing the landscape and landforms around the springs, but also quoting the scriptures, digging deep into the historical evolution and cultural connotations behind the springs, exploring the profound historical meaning of the springs, so as to integrate the writing of springs, mountains, people, and history, and finally write the first comprehensive landscape culture masterpiece in China that tells the history of the evolution of Chinese civilization from the perspective of spring water!

"Leshan for the wise, happy for the benevolent", with water through the heart, it is easier to read history, to cultural people, more able to touch the soul. "China in the Spring" is divided into four themes: "Royal", "Tianxia", "Witness" and "Sifang", with a total of seven chapters, respectively introducing the famous springs of the Royal Palace, the six famous springs in the world, and the four famous springs that witness the rise and fall of history. The whole book uses landscapes and spring stones as the medium, writes mountains, writes water, writes springs, and writes stones through modern vision, and widely collects the humanistic stories behind them, telling stories with spring wells, telling characters with stories, telling history with characters, talking about culture with history, and talking about China with culture, so that readers can admire the lofty mountains and mountains, listen to the waterfalls and springs, or praise the beauty of Chinese landscapes, or express the rise and fall of dynasties, or sigh the vicissitudes of the ages, and deeply feel the unique wonderfulness of Chinese civilization.

"Ascending to the heights makes people feel relaxed, and the flow of the stream makes people feel far away." For decades, he has traveled all over the Wanzhong Mountains and read thousands of rivers, but his heart is still thinking about more than two hundred springs and wells in the book. Over the years, Elder Yu has read a large number of ancient books, field investigations of mountains and rivers, cultural relics and monuments, walking in the land of China, exploring the ancient and modern flow of streams and springs. The story behind each spring well is not an illusory creation, but is rooted in the magnificent historical situation, derived from the historical figures of flesh and blood, which can be described as "a grass and a tree have a story, and a spring and a stone have a source". When Yu Lao writes about springs, he writes about spring water, but also about characters, and even more about history. Although the spring stone is speechless, the flowing water will eventually have traces, and every drop of water reflects China's historical process and the general trend of the times, witnessing the great changes of the Chinese nation over the past thousand years, and revealing the right way in the world of the majestic China.

"China in the Spring Water" is another combing of the well-known springs in China's magnificent rivers and mountains, and another tribute to the classic humanities in China's long history. From ancient times to the present, the cultural phenomenon caused by the spring water, one character after another, one era after another, has never stopped. Whether it's poetry, painting, architecture, calligraphy, dance, music... Fascinating stories, one topic after another, in any era, we will find the shadow of "spring". One of the "Eight Views of Yanjing", the "Jade Spring Weeping Rainbow", adds color to Beijing, the "world's first spring" Baotu Spring makes the "Spring City" Jinan famous in the world, ZhenfeiJing witnesses the revolution of the late Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, and the Hot River Spring in the summer resort composes a song of unity of national integration... "China in the Spring Water" Excavates the story behind the ancient well of the famous spring, which is not only an objective statement of the real historical materials and monuments, but also integrates the author's own humanistic understanding, so that the reader feels sincere, simple and close. The author integrates the landscape paintings of the motherland with the history and culture, and gathers them into a profound understanding of unique humanistic implications: from natural landscapes to humanistic landscapes, it is full of high concentration and summarization of Chinese history; the feelings of looking at landscapes with cultural eyes are full of the sense of distress and rational philosophy of traditional Chinese literati.

The language of "China in the Spring" is smooth and elegant, and it integrates various cultural forms such as poetry, Yang Lian, historical books, legends, and architecture, creating a new mode of cultural writing, expanding the elaboration dimension of historical and cultural books, is a new window to show the beauty of Chinese landscapes, a new perspective to highlight the beauty of Chinese culture, and a new attempt to inherit the beauty of Chinese history! (For more news, please pay attention to Yangcheng Pie pai.ycwb.com)

General Secretary Xi Jinping stressed that historical and cultural heritage carries the genes and blood of the Chinese nation, and it is necessary to respect history, culture and ecology, "we must systematically sort out traditional cultural resources, so that the cultural relics collected in the Forbidden Palace, the heritage displayed on the vast land, and the words written in ancient books are all alive", and we must "let history speak, let cultural relics speak". "China in the Spring Water" organically connects sensibility and intellect in bogu tongjin from landscape to humanities, allowing readers to read the thickness and precipitation in Chinese history and culture in appreciating landscapes, culture, philosophy and artistic conception. Drink a sip of the water of the refreshing spring well, stand where the ancients stood, touch the buildings they built, look at the poems they have inscribed, look at the cultural landscape that has gone through vicissitudes, listen to the unchanging wind and birds for thousands of years, we are sincerely touched and sigh the long charm of Chinese history and culture!

"Shangshan is like water", explore the beauty of China in the mountains, rivers, springs and stones, and interpret Chinese civilization in historical details. The dream soul often goes to the spring water, and the only thing in mind is the Chinese beauty - after reading "China in the Spring Water", I only feel that the intention is still unfinished!

Source | Yangcheng Evening News Yangcheng Pie

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