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Following "National Treasures", CCTV's another cultural program "China in the Classics" is on fire, focusing on the most influential classic books in the long river of Chinese culture and history, and each issue selects a book with Chinese characteristics, Chinese style, Chinese style, and contains China's excellent traditional culture, and presents it to the audience through a new original stage form of speech and speech, ancient and modern dialogue.
In the latest program, Song Yingxing, a famous scientist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties and author of "Tiangong Kaiwu", played by Li Guangjie, travels to modern times, meets Academician Yuan Longping, who develops super rice, and launches a dialogue across time and space, reaching a century handshake, which is moving.
In ancient times, There was Song Yingxing, who "expensive grain and low gold and jade", and wrote "Heavenly Works and Open Things"; now There is Yuan Longping who has the "dream of cooling under the grass" and is committed to the study of hybrid rice. Despite being separated by more than 300 years, they have all found a common dream of benefiting the people through a single seed.
However, in the show, Song Yingxing's braided cleansing image has caused great controversy. As an anti-Qing fighter loyal to Daming, is it really appropriate for Song Yingxing to be braided?
In this regard, some netizens said: Song Yingxing, as a staunch anti-Qing righteous soldier, his brother died for the Ming Dynasty, his friend was killed in the Qing army to the south, and his hometown of Jiangxi was also tragically destroyed by the war. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, Song Yingxing has been living a reclusive life, spending his old age in poverty, refusing to leave the world, and expressing his loyalty to the old Ming.
The main stages of Song Yingxing's life are the Ming Dynasty, and the main achievements are also the Ming Dynasty period, and he also believes that he is a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, even if he is forced to shave his head, we should now choose his image, and we should also choose the image of Song Yingxing of the Ming Dynasty, which is a respect for a great scientist.
"Tiangong Kaiwu" is a comprehensive work on agriculture and handicraft production written by Song Yingxing in 1637, which involves almost all agriculture before industrial civilization, the production technology, process flow, design culture and many problems of all kinds of work in various fields and fields of handicraft industry before industrial civilization. It is the richest preserved of China's scientific and technological historical materials, and foreign scholars have called "Tiangong Kaiwu" "China's 17th-century craft encyclopedia".
However, such a technological masterpiece once suffered the fate of being banned.
According to records, during the Qianlong period, when daxing character prison was set up in the Siku Museum to repair the "Siku Quanshu", it was found that there were anti-Qing characters such as "Beiyu" and "Northeast Yi" in the "Tiangong Kaiwu". In the books donated by Jiangxi, it was found that the "Complete Works of Fang Yutang" by Song Yingsheng, brother of Song Yingxing, and some of the works of Song Yingxing's friend Chen Hongxu and others had anti-Qing ideas and advocated the "distinction between Huayi", so "Tiangong Kaiwu" was not included in the "Four Libraries Complete Book".
It was not until the end of the Qianlong period to the years of Jiaqing and Daoguang that there was a tendency to gradually lift the ban, so the number of Qing works that publicly quoted "Tiangong Kaiwu" gradually increased. It can be said that the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, who imprisoned ideas and suppressed the development of technology, did not respect Song Yingxing's book at all, and let Song Yingxing show people with a braided head and a clean costume, and even more disrespected him.
But some people also believe that since they have all been set to cross, they should not be too real to these details, and it is not conducive to national unity, and there is no problem for Song Yingxing in his later years to appear with a braided head and a clean clothing image.
In addition, the Ming and Qing dynasties are all Chinese dynasties, the problem of closed countries and technological stagnation is the inevitable trend of the internal involvement of feudal society, and there have been signs since the Ming Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty cannot all be left behind.
What are your thoughts on this?