Look northwest and quietly set off for a distant place
Yan Jianguo
The world is so big, I often want to see it.
Many people have this idea, but it is very difficult to achieve it, in the real world of pyramid shape, no matter what layer, everyone has the constraints and shackles that are difficult to say and go.
For many years, I have always wanted to go to the Tomb of Cao Zhi in Dong'aYuShan, dozens of miles away, or to Liaocheng, more than a hundred miles away, to visit the Fu Sinian Exhibition Hall, but for various reasons. On November 1017, 2021, I met up with several friends who like literature and history, and drove to the two places to visit and visit Xian.
In order to reduce the cost, we set a study route of liaocheng first and then dong'a, for the simple reason: Liaocheng is a prefecture-level city, and its catering cost must be higher than that of dong'a in county-level small cities. I wanted to see the Fu Sinian Exhibition Hall and the Fan Zhuxian Memorial Hall in Liaocheng for no more than two hours, but I didn't expect that the content of the Fu Sinian Exhibition Hall was so much that several Chinese studies enthusiasts couldn't pull their feet at all, so the time was repeatedly postponed, just in this exhibition hall we looked at it for two hours, or under my repeated urging, we reluctantly left this "Fu Family Museum" with a clear context.
On the way to visit the Guangyue Tower, we stopped by to visit the Fan Zhuxian Memorial Hall. Recently, I was writing a series of articles about the Eastward Detachment of the 115th Division of the Eighth Route Army in Luxi, and as fan Zhuxian, an iron-blooded general of the Anti-Japanese War, he was the spirit and soul of the Taixi War of Resistance, and he was a person who could not go around this period of history. Looking at Fan Zhuxian's historical materials and relics, I feel that my next pen has a foundation and inspiration. After a hurried look at the Fan Zhuxian Memorial Hall, we stopped by to visit the "Haiyuan Pavilion", which is known as one of the four major library buildings of the Qing Dynasty, which is a two-story courtyard building built by Yang Yizeng during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, and has been carefully collected and maintained by five generations before and after, with a total collection of more than 4,000 kinds of books and more than 220,000 volumes, which is deeply admired by scholars at home and abroad. When we came out of the gate of "Haiyuan Pavilion", the time was already more than 12 o'clock, so we drove to Dong'a County with regrets that we were not exhausted. Looking at the remnants of ancient buildings flashing on both sides of the car, we can more clearly feel the soul and roots left by cultural factors to a city.
When we arrived at dong'a county, everyone was already hungry. I ordered eight bowls of a restaurant online in advance, the taste was very good, the meal was sumptuous, and it was less than four hundred yuan when I calculated the account, and we were all amazed at the quality and low price of this small county-level town that we were also. Cao Zhi's tomb is located in the western foothills of Yushan Mountain, 20 kilometers south of Dong'a County, back to the mountains and waters to the west, as a representative of Jian'an literature, his famous works "LuoshenFu", "White Horse", "Seven Lamentations" and so on are widely recited by posterity, the outstanding poet Wang Shizhen in the early Qing Dynasty on the Han and Wei dynasties since the poets can be called "immortals", only Cao Zhi, Li Bai, Su Shi three people, it can be seen that Cao Zhi has a great influence on future generations. Cao Zhi served in Dong'a for less than two years, but because he liked the customs and customs here, he began to build his own tomb in Yushan soon after his arrival, even though in 232 he changed the title of King Chen to death in Chen County, that is, in the huaiyang district of present-day Zhoukou City, Henan Province, there was a distance of nearly a thousand miles between the two places, because Cao Zhi's last words on the burial of Yushan were invited by his son Cao Zhi, the king of Jibei, so Cao Zhi was finally able to return to a good place. The royal city of the King of Jibei was in the south of the present-day Changqing District of Jinan, which was only more than 150 miles away from Yushan Mountain, and perhaps Cao Zhili asked his father to bury Dong'a more conveniently.
Time is always hurried, we visited the Cao Zhi Memorial Hall, it is already five o'clock in the afternoon, the sunset is setting, driving back, looking at the stars that have been twinkling in the sky, although everyone is a little tired and hungry, but walking in the countryside, feeling the study of the ancient sages still makes everyone full of fun and excitement. Every time we break free from the ordinary life, there will be a different kind of sprout, not to mention, we, as educators, will bring these to the students around us.
It is expected that soon we will study in another place and feel another great heart that ignites history and culture.