Editor's note: The original article was published in Du Fu Research Journal, No. 3, 2021, No. 149.
Nie Dasheng is a professor at the School of Literature and Cultural Communication of Tianshui Normal University
In June of the first year of emperor Suzong's reign, Du Fu was demoted to the rank of Huazhou Sigong and joined the army for rescuing Fang Zhen, and the following year he went on a long journey to Guanyuan and began his career of "one-year-old four-line service" in Huazhou, Qinzhou, Tonggu, and Chengdu. The trip to Longshu was a turning point in Du Fu's life, and for the people of Longyou and Shu County, it became a link between the hearts and minds of future generations. Du Fu liu yu Long Right for less than half a year, leaving nearly 120 poems, but his Long Right Line Has been in a state of neglect, fortunately, the "Du Fu Research Journal" with its keen academic vision, broad research horizons, has spared no effort to expand the study of Du Fu Long's right poems. In the early 1980s, the newly published Caotang published articles by Tianshui scholars studying Du Fulong's right poems, which was a challenge for the Caotang at that time. Faced with a limited capacity and a large number of manuscripts, Zhu Jun of the Editorial Department of the Academic Journal paid attention to Du Fulong's right poetry and Tianshui scholars, and this kind of insight and open-mindedness played a positive role in promoting the study of Du Fulong's right poetry.
On August 20, 2006, the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association came into being, and the Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum, the Sichuan Du Fu Society and the editorial board of the Du Fu Research Journal sent sincere and warm congratulatory letters; in the autumn of 2012, Chengdu solemnly held the "1300th Anniversary of Du Fu's Birth Commemorative Conference", in which I also participated as a delegate, the scale of the meeting was grand and unprecedented; in May 2014, I was invited to participate in the Du Fu Chu Zhou Poetry Seminar and reached a consensus with the Caotang princes to jointly organize the next annual meeting. In October of the same year, the "Du Fu and Regional Culture Academic Seminar and the 17th Annual Conference of the Sichuan Du Fu Society and the 8th Annual Conference of the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association" were held in Tianshui, and more than 280 people from 20 provinces and cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Sichuan and Zhejiang attended the meeting. The Du Fu Research Association of China and the Tang Dynasty Literature Society of Gansu Province sent congratulatory letters to the conference. Mr. Zhang Zhonggang said in his congratulatory letter: The Du Fu Society of Sichuan Province and the Du Fu Research Association of Tianshui are the two societies that adhere to du fu research most frequently, most persistently, and most successfully, and have made important contributions to promoting Du Fu's research.
This annual meeting is the first national academic seminar jointly held since the establishment of the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association with the Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum, the Sichuan Du Fu Society, and the Du Fu Research Journal, which provides learning and exchange opportunities for Du Fu researchers and enthusiasts in Gansu, especially in Tianshui and Longnan regions, and arouses the attention of experts and scholars to the study of Du Fu Long's right poems and the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association. Since then, the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association has had close contacts with the Caotang Fang, and in April 2015, our inspection team of four people went to Caotang to study and exchange, and the two sides introduced the construction and development of the Caotang Museum, the history of the Du Fu Research Journal, the rich Cultural Resources of Du Fu in Tianshui Area, and the research and publicity work of the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association, and our party benefited a lot.
Over the years, the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association has been striving to open up a new situation, which is also inseparable from the support and help of Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum, Sichuan Du Fu Society, and Du Fu Research Journal.
In 2016, initiated by the Chinese Society of Literature and Historical Materials and the Editorial Department of Literary Heritage, and jointly sponsored by the Editorial Department of Du Fu Research Journal, the College of Literature of Northwest Normal University and Longnan Normal College, the "Du Fu and Qinlong Cultural Academic Seminar" was held in Lanzhou and Chengxian Successively. Experts and scholars from Beijing, Gansu, Henan, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places attended the meeting, and I was arranged to give a speech entitled "Du Fu Long's Right Poetry and Long Right Regional Culture". Teacher Peng Yan of the Editorial Department of the Academic Journal submitted the conference paper "Du Fulong's Right Poetry Creation and Related Research Outline", which made a systematic and comprehensive evaluation of the history and current situation of Du Fulong's right poetry research, which not only summarized the achievements achieved, but also pointed out the problems that should be paid attention to, which was extremely enlightening and instructive. The article affirms: "The Tianshui Du Fu Research Association was established on August 20, 2006. With this as a sign, Du Fulong's study of right poetry entered an unprecedented period of prosperity. Most of the results of Du Fulong's research on right poetry appeared after this. The establishment of the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association is an excellent thing for Du Fu's research, for the academic community, and for Tianshui. ...... Mr. Nie Dafu is a representative scholar of Du Fu research in longyou area, with rich achievements, and has done a lot of work for Du Fu research in Longyou, especially after the establishment of the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association, he has become the main promoter of Du Fu research in Tianshui area. "This is not only Teacher Peng Yan, but also the editorial department of the Academic Journal, the Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum, and the Sichuan Du Fu Society's care, encouragement and encouragement to us. In 2018, we reprinted this article in the self-run Journal, which caused a warm response inside and outside the Research Society, and played a positive role in promoting the further study of Du Fulong's right poems and the further development of the Du Fu Research Association in Tianshui, for which we express our sincere gratitude.
In the early Qing Dynasty, the poet Song Wan, who was in charge of the inspection of the Right Path of Long, was stationed in Qinzhou, and presided over the publication of the "Ermiao Xuan Monument", selecting 60 poems by Du Fulong's right poems, collecting the characters of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, and integrating them into one; the poetry of the holy book, the poetry of the mysterious characters, known as the ermiao, can be called a must. The wonderful products of the two saints, the combination of pearls and the ink of rhyme, provide people with a new artistic enjoyment, a high-grade cultural influence, which is the first in the history of Du Fulong's right-line yin culture dissemination, and there is no precedent in Du Fuliu's residence. In recent years, Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum has continued to open up the future and carefully built the "Du Fu Thousand Poems Monument" project with great boldness and great strokes, covering Du Fu's poems from various periods, with magnificent momentum and great influence. At the beginning of 2019, I was invited to caotang to participate in the meeting, and as soon as deputy director Fang Wei met, he put forward the idea and plan to display the results of the "Thousand Poems Monument" in Tianshui. On the morning of the 2019 Lantern Festival, Teacher Yang Heng of Caotang called me to discuss specific matters. I immediately went to the Tianshui Museum and the Cultural Center to contact and negotiate, and when I decided on "May Day", I postponed the other already listed exhibitions and specially arranged the exhibition of the results of the "Du Fu Thousand Poems Monument", because this is of more special significance to Tianshui, which has produced the "Ermiao Xuan Monument", and everyone is looking forward to it. Later, due to changes in planning, the "Du Fu Thousand Poems Monument" project results tour exhibition was exhibited in xi'an, Beijing and other key cities first, and could not come to Qinzhou as scheduled, but the care and care of the caotang leaders for Tianshui made us deeply moved. Mr. Feng Zhi once said in his commentary on Du Fulong's right poems: "When he wrote these poems, he not only used his eyes, let alone his imagination, but most importantly, his two feet; we can say that they were taken out step by step by step by Step by Step. "Du Fu's footprints in Longyou are related to the poems, and they cover the special places and customs of Longyou. Twenty years ago, I put forward the idea of "one poem and one place, one place and one stele". It is to write a Du poem of Long Right Wind Object for each chant, to clarify a place, or to carve a poem according to the mountain stone, or to move the large stone to carve a poem to make a record, or to carve a poem stele. After the establishment of the Tianshui Du Fu Research Association in 2006, I proposed to build a forest or stele gallery of Du Fulong's right poems, and carved all 117 poems. This is both a inheritance and an extension of the Ermiao Xuan Monument, but for various reasons, it has not been realized. On November 6, 2020, with the cooperation and assistance of the Zhangjiachuan County Cultural Department, we erected the first poem of Du Fu's "Miscellaneous Poems of Qinzhou" on the Guanshan Laoye Ridge where Du Fu entered the Long place in the past. I wrote the "Monument" and jointly unveiled the poem with Comrade Su Hongjuan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Zhangjiachuan County CPC Committee. More than 100 people attended the ceremony, including leaders of the Zhangjiachuan County Party Committee, the county government, the Cultural Bureau and other relevant departments, as well as people from all walks of life, as well as some experts and scholars in Tianshui. Years of long-cherished wishes have borne fruit, although insignificant, but it can also be regarded as a small beginning. And this is inseparable from the encouragement and promotion of the achievements of the "Du Fu Thousand Poems Monument."
Here, I would like to say a little more about my personal relationship with the Journal, the Academy, and the Caotang. After the New Year of 2017, my family and I were invited to visit friends in Chengdu. Although the friend's plan did not arrange the caotang, and in recent years, because of the "official affairs" such as attending the meeting and inspecting the caotang, he has also visited the caotang many times, so when he arrives in Chengdu and does not go to the caotang, his heart is always too unwilling to go. However, this time was a "private visit", we bought our own tickets, self-help viewing, did not bother the teachers of the "Academic Journal", just when they were preparing to leave, they happened to meet Teacher Zhang Hong, and received a warm reception from the editorial department of the "Academic Journal". When the year-end council of the Sichuan Du Fu Society was held in Caotang, I saw Zhang Zhilie, Qi Hehui, Zhou Weiyang, Zeng Yalan, Pu Hezhang, Wu Mingxian, Xu Xiping, and some teachers who came from afar, and I was really very happy to meet with Director Liu Hong, Secretary Jia Lan, and other leaders! On the way back I kept thinking: How did it happen so coincidentally? This is really driven by the complex, driven by fate! More than a year later, I was invited to the grass hall for a meeting again, and once again felt the enthusiasm and love of the teachers. Once again, I would like to express my sincere thanks!
At the Tianshui Conference six years ago, Mr. Zhang Zhilie gave a poem entitled "Farewell to Professor Nie Dafu": "Longnan Shu is closely adjacent, and the mountains and rivers are connected to customs. Learn to work together as brothers and sisters, and carry forward the tradition of unity. "Gentle and elegant, gentle and gentle, sensitive and thoughtful. Returning to Jinjiang on the night of the bright moon, Shushan Wanglong remembered the breeze. "The poem aptly summarizes the friendship between the two places and the two societies in Longshu and Shu, and speaks to our common voice. In this right, he borrowed flowers to offer Buddhas as a sincere congratulations on the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Du Fu Research Journal and the 66th anniversary of the establishment of the Du Fu Caotang Museum.