According to the "Drum Tower Tourism" WeChat release on November 12, Fuzhou Daguangli is a narrow alley hidden in the WenruFang of Sanfang And Seven Alleys. The alley is small, but the former owner here is not simple. Let's go back to 115 years ago, in 1905, the famous modern poet Chen Yan bought the courtyard of No. 8 Daguangli. The house is not large, more than 600 square meters, Chen Yan himself designed the entire courtyard. Although there is no ornate decoration or precious wood, it is not poetic to collect books in Huaguang Pavilion, smell the rain building and read poems, and read by the small pond.
Chen Yan (Chinese: 陈延; pinyin: Châtīn Đồng Đồng Đ In the twenty-fourth year of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Yan was in the capital and advocated the restoration of the ten articles of the "Discussion on the Reform of the Law of Wushu". After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Yan taught at universities in the north and south, and presided over the revision of the Republic of China edition of the Fujian Tongzhi. Chen Yan once wrote a poem about himself: "Who knows the five willows and lonely pine guests, but lives in three lanes and seven alleys." ”
Chen Yan (1856–1937)
Qian Zhongshu worships the master
Now when it comes to Chen Yan, many people are not familiar with it. In fact, in his time, he was a gentleman that even Mr. Lu Xun admired.
According to historical records, when he was teaching at Xiamen University, when Lu Xun was also at Xiamen University, Lu Xun wrote in his diary: "Chen Shiyi (Chen Yan's stone relic) came, and everyone worshiped him, and so did the great poet!" Qian Jibo, a master of traditional Chinese studies, admired Chen Yan very much, and even asked his son Qian Zhongshu to worship Chen Yan as a teacher and learn to make poetry.
Chen Yan's "Who knows the five willows and lonely pine guests, but lives in the three lanes and seven alleys" copper carving
Develop Taiwan and promote Western studies
Study classical poetics, daily poetry to make a pair, but poets also have the heart to care about state affairs.
In the Provincial Museum of Culture and History, the reporter inquired about the book "The Chronology of Mr. Chen Shiyi", which records that in the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), the 30-year-old Chen Yan went to Taiwan to assist Liu Mingchuan, the first inspector of Taiwan, in developing Taiwan. Help appease local ethnic minorities, expand the city, build railways, and develop Taiwan's economy. Nine years later, Chen Yan held a test in Beijing, which was in the late stage of the Sino-Japanese Sino-Japanese War, and the Qing court sent representatives to Japan to seek peace at Maguan, and the whole country was in an uproar. Chen Yan, Lin Shu, Zhuo Zhinan, and others in Beijing resolutely signed a petition to the Metropolitan Inspection Bureau to oppose the cession of territories such as the Liaodong Peninsula and Taiwan. Therefore, he got to know Liang Qichao and other reformist figures, and was later introduced to Shanghai by Lin Xu, one of the "Six Gentlemen of Wushu", and became the chief writer of the monthly magazine "Qiushi" run by Chen Ji and others, vigorously advocating learning advanced Western science and technology culture and taking the road of strengthening the country and enriching the people.
China's first cooking textbook
The local literature room of the Fujian Provincial Library holds a manuscript "Recipes for the Stone Relic Room", signed "Xiao Xiansuo", and the librarian Liao Jianhua accidentally opened it and recorded on the last page of the book that "the "Recipe for the Stone Relic Room" was renamed "Cooking Textbook" after the book, edited by Mr. Chen Yan of Fuzhou.
Is "Xiao Xiansuo" Chen Yan? Liao Jianhua said that this pen name is easily related to Chen Yan's wife Xiao Daoguan, who once called himself "Master of Xiao Xiantang", and Chen Yan also called himself "Xiao Xian". When the Commercial Press published this textbook in 1915, Chen Yan used this name, one was to commemorate his wife, and the other was to remember Xiao Daoguan from the Battle of Majiang in 1884 to avoid the war in Baofu Township, Fuzhou, and began to learn to cook.
Chen Yan not only learned to be rich in five cars, but also "managed the family diligently and frugally, was extremely interested in life, and was known as 'a gentleman does not have to be far away from the kitchen', and whenever he met friends with poetry, he often cooked his own food and served guests."
In this book, there is also a Fuzhou dialect everywhere. Jiang Weiqiao, an old man at the Commercial Press, once recalled the "Kettle Ding Dispute" between Gao Mengdan and the editor at that time: the editor believed that Chen Yan's use of the word "Ding" was too ancient, not ordinary, and unusable. However, Gao insisted that "Dingzi is a word used in daily life", and the two fought fiercely. Gao is Chen Yan's Fellow Fuzhou compatriot, and he naturally understands Chen's expression. Perhaps it is precisely because Chen Yan did not sign his real name that this cooking textbook has been forgotten for a long time.
The burrow is not ugly Poetic
The courtyard of Daguangli No. 8 is Chen Yan's former residence, covering a small area, two entrances from the front to the back, from the first entrance to the second entrance, not like the common traditional rear hall plus box room layout, but a two-story Chinese-style small building and ancient house combined. From the second entrance to the west side of the passage can be detoured back to the patio, where there is a small moon door connected. There is a garden on the east side, which is still inhabited by residents. Looking inward through the iron fence, the garden is small and exquisite, the bougainvillea is in full bloom, and behind the garden is a two-story wooden building, with chairs and tea trays in front of the house, and the sun shines down, which is very comfortable.
"Chen Yan is a man of letters, and he calls himself a burrow, but everywhere he embodies the poet's elegant feelings." Lu Meisong, former director of the Provincial Museum of Culture and History, said that Chen Yan mocked himself as a "widower and a puppet" and named Erjin "Piyuan". The small building in the park is named "Huaguang Pavilion" to store books. There used to be a small pool in front of the moon gate, and behind the door was a small bookhouse, called "mid-moon".
Through the Moon Gate, there is the "Mid-Moon" Reading Place (Bao Hua/Photo)
"The word Huaguang is taken from the poem 'Rupi Hua Guang, Smoke My Twilight' by Chen Yan's wife and late Qing Dynasty daughter Xiao Daoguan." He said that more than ten years ago, when he came to the former residence, he could still see the couplet of "Moving Flowers and Planting Bamboo Gang Three Paths, Listening to the Rain and Looking at the First Floor of the Mountain", written by Chen Baochen, the "Last Emperor", and the three-character plaque of "Huaguang Pavilion" written by Zheng Xiaoxu was also hung on the cabinet.
Lu Meisong introduced that the small building on the east side is named "Wenyu Building", which is used for the printing of poetry collections and literary treatises composed by Chen Yan and his wife and poets.