Professor Zhou Yukai of the Department of Chinese of Sichuan University: Du Fu Caotang and Sansu Ancestral Hall are cultural spiritual spaces丨 Looking for new landmarks of Chengdu-Chongqing Cultural Tourism

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On October 18, the "International Fan, Chinese Flavor, Bashu Rhyme - Looking for the Top Ten New Landmarks of Cultural Tourism in Chengdu and Chongqing in 2021" sponsored by Cover News and West China Metropolis Daily was officially launched, and the audition of the most representative new landmarks of cultural tourism in 2021 aroused the attention of many netizens in Chengdu and Chongqing. Recently, Zhou Yukai, professor of the Department of Chinese of the School of Literature and Journalism of Sichuan University and president of the China Su Shi Society, was interviewed by a cover news reporter, focusing on du fu caotang and sansu ancestral hall. In his view, these two places are a carrier of cultural inheritance and a cultural spiritual space.

Poets write poems to achieve great ambition; lyricists fill in words and lyrically with things. As a famous cultural symbol in the Literary Circles of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Du Fu was selected by the World Peace Council as one of the "Four Cultural Celebrities in the World" in 1962; Su Shi was named "Hero of the Millennium" by the French newspaper Le Monde in 2000.

Zhou Yukai

"Sichuan is not Du Fu's hometown. But it is absolutely fine to call Chengdu the place where Du Fu's soul rests," Professor Zhou said, "and the best time of his life was in Chengdu." Chengdu's natural environment and humanistic environment are reflected in his poetry, especially the humanistic environment. Most of the poems Du Fu wrote in Chengdu were happy and relaxed. When he left Chengdu and went to Kuizhou, Du Fu was always recalling, and the Eight Songs of Qiuxing was recalling, "Du Fu seems to be able to survive only by relying on memories." ”

Regarding the cultural connotation of Du Fu Caotang, Professor Zhou said: "It is of great significance to the study of Du Fu in the whole country. After Du Fu wandered all his life and found his home in Chengdu, then Du Fu Caotang is a kind of spiritual settlement. After Du Fu's death for so many years, his soul was also placed in Chengdu. Although the current surviving building is from the Qing Dynasty, it has had ruins since the Northern Song Dynasty and has always been in this space. It is very meaningful to pass it down through the generations. ”

Professor Zhou admitted that he liked Du Fu very much during his undergraduate years, "I personally feel that every period has a spiritual pillar. From a purely poetic point of view, Du Fu can be said to be the greatest poet in Chinese history, but in terms of social influence, he believes that Su Shi's influence will be even greater. Du Fu only had poetry, but Su Shi "is a sea", all-encompassing, with literature and words, as well as painting, calligraphy, food, and honest government education.

Talking about the Three Su Temple, Professor Zhou said that although the time has been long, many things have changed. But after all, you can still feel the breath of Su Dongpo's life. He told a true story that made him feel very emotional. "Once, at a meeting in Chengdu one year, when an American scholar who was studying in the history department of Peking University came to the Sansu Temple, he stood in front of a cage of bamboo and stroked the bamboo for a long time. He studied art history, and now he knows that the ink bamboo in the original culture is real. Before, he had only seen it on the paintings, but now when he went to the Sansu Temple to really see such bamboo, he was very excited. That is to say, the paintings of the Northern Song Dynasty at that time had realistic elements, and the words written were sichuan bamboo. ”

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