Being in the southeast of the motherland, of course, I have a deep understanding of the outstanding people of this land. Whether it is the "heaven above, Suzhou and Hangzhou" that we often hear, or the "small bridge and flowing water people" in the folk customs, there is a unique temperament in the southeast land.
And this is just the geographical uniqueness, in the humanities? The southeast has also contributed a large number of historical celebrities to the mainland. As far as I am in Suzhou, I can make a long list, Fan Zhongyan, Fan Chunren and his son, Tang Bohu, Gu Yanwu, Zhu Bailu, and so on.
Looking at this list, we will also find that they are more focused on the post-Song Dynasty, and the complete prosperity and development of the southeast is indeed after the Song Dynasty. Before the Song Dynasty, the political and cultural center of the mainland was still in the north, and it was still within the scope of Luoyang, Chang'an.
So why did the social development and humanistic atmosphere in the southeast suddenly appear so improved and have such rapid development? Of course, this will make us in the southeast wonder what kind of specific history made the southeast prosper rapidly? How did it create the current situation of the prosperity of Southeast culture?
And this is due to the history from the end of the Tang Dynasty to the early years of the Song Dynasty, and it was during this historical period that the land in the southeast developed unprecedentedly. Li Yu, the queen of the Southern Tang Dynasty that we are very familiar with, appeared on the stage of history during this period and played an important role in the cultural prosperity of the southeast.
He was able to be recorded in history as a literati emperor, which just proves that the southeast has become a cultural holy land, and to become such a cultural emperor, a series of historical events must have occurred in this land, and a series of important literati played a role in fueling the fire.
Huang Tingshuo holds a bachelor's degree in history and Chinese, a master's degree and a doctorate in history from National Taiwan University. His master's thesis focused on the real situation at the beginning of the development of land culture in the southeast. The author provides us with first-hand information through a large number of historical investigations and researches, and answers all the questions we care about with such a one-step historiographical work, "Many Xiushi in the Southern Kingdom: The Southeastern Scholars in the Tang and Song Dynasties and the Southward Shift of the Center of Gravity of Chinese Culture".
In this book, the author begins with the Huangchao Rebellion in the last years of the Tang Dynasty. It was precisely because of this uprising that the north of the Tang Dynasty was in turmoil, while the southeast was unprecedentedly developed because of the good social atmosphere, and the social prosperity achieved the emergence of many scholars of the Shi ethnic group.
The author combs the real situation of Southeast history during this period in chronological order, focusing on the real scholars and individuals, sorting out their culture and official status in detail, and placing individuals in the historical space for detailed discussion.
Therefore, this book is a work of history and culture, but in fact, it is also a work of sorting out the cultural context of a series of historical figures. Because the scholars in the southeast land, their life history is actually the sum of the development of the entire society, and each person has an indelible role in history.
For example, the aforementioned Southern Tang Dynasty played a key role in this history, whether it was the central lord Li Jing or the later lord Li Yu, both of whom made a lot of contributions to cultural development, and as an emperor, having such a cognition will of course make the literati in the southeast get better development. It is precisely in the past 100 years that the literati atmosphere in the southeast has developed unprecedentedly.
In this book, the author uses a large number of charts to completely sort out the scholars of this period in the south of the Yangtze River, focusing on each specific person and their historical achievements, completing the supplement to this historical data, completing the role of entering history and supplementing related research, which is an extremely precious important content to understand the history of the scholars in the southeast. #历史##人文历史##南国#