On October 25th, seven people from the "Mei's Cultural Journey" delegation of the Mei's Cultural Professional Committee of the China Mei Lanfang Culture and Art Research Association came to Xuancheng City, a famous historical and cultural city, to visit and investigate. Xuancheng has been a famous city in Jiangdong since ancient times, Xuancheng Meishi, a jiangnan family with a prosperous culture, a thousand years of Xuancheng history and culture, showing the Mei family style. "The shangjiang humanities are the first Xuancheng, and the old clan of Xuan is the Mei clan." The famous jia of the bandit shi eunuch branch is in the distant past, and the article economic science is famous Confucianism, since the Han and Song dynasties, the binbin is depressed and lush" (Zhang Tingyu).
Guo Jinyou, member of the Standing Committee of the Municipal Party Committee and Minister of Propaganda, and Huang Min, vice mayor of the Municipal Government, met with all members of the delegation, the main leaders of the Wanlingmei Cultural Research Association, and representatives of Xuancheng Mei's entrepreneurs in the midst of their busy schedules. Mr. Mei Tieshan, President of the Wanling Mei Cultural Research Association, and Cultural Scholar mei tieshan of Xuancheng City, Xuanzhou District Literary Association, Yijiang Town Literary Association, and Cultural Scholar, have successively accompanied the visit and inspection, and Xuancheng Mei's entrepreneurs Mei Xueguo and Mei Fuxing have provided a lot of convenience and assistance for the visit and inspection of xuancheng city of the "Mei's Cultural Tour".
On the morning of the 26th, the members of the delegation walked into Xuancheng Meixi Park with great reverence. Meixi Park is a Meishi cultural theme park invested by Xuancheng City Government for more than 200 million yuan. It is not only the location of the ancestral mausoleum of Xuancheng Meishi, but also the concentrated display place of The Meishi culture of Xuancheng for thousands of years. The members of the delegation first paid homage to the ancestral cemetery of the Mei clan in Xuancheng, and Teacher Mei Tieshan served as the main priest, and all the members of the delegation presented flower baskets and flowers in a solemn atmosphere.
Subsequently, accompanied by the main leaders of the Wanlingmei Cultural Research Association, the members of the delegation visited cultural attractions such as the Park's Mathematical Avenue, the Face Art Wall, and the Meiwending Mathematics Square.
At about 10 o'clock, the delegation visited the Mei's Hall of Fame and xuancheng Mei's Cultural Exhibition Hall. For a thousand years, the Xuancheng Mei clan represented by Mei Yaochen, Mei Wending, and Mei Qing has been in a continuous vein, and the humanities have risen and famous families have emerged. "There are two main kinds of characters produced by Xuancheng Meishi: one is a writer and a mathematician. Mei's family style combines literature and science into one, which is unique in our country" (Zhang Qiyun). According to rough statistics, there are 162 people in the Xuancheng Mei family who have left their writings, and there are 483 kinds of various works published in the world, of which 125 are included in the Qing Dynasty's "Four Libraries". The fact that so many famous figures and works have been handed down from generation to generation cannot but be said to be a miracle in the history of science and culture at home and abroad. Looking at the famous Mei's sages and outstanding cultural and scientific historical achievements, the members of the delegation were amazed and felt extremely proud and proud.
At two o'clock in the afternoon of the 26th, the Wanling Mei Cultural Research Association presided over the "Welcome to the Beijing Mei's Guests' Mei's Cultural Seminar." All members of the delegation, leaders of the Cultural and Historical Committee of the Xuancheng City CPPCC Committee, representatives of Xuancheng City Cultural Scholars, and main leaders of the Wanlingmei Cultural Research Association attended the meeting.
Professor Mei Tieshan introduced the academic achievements of Mei's cultural research in the past few decades, discussed the research direction and research methods of Mei's culture, and other participating scholars made in-depth discussions on the lives, literary and artistic achievements, research fields and research methods of Mei Yaochen, Mei Guangdi, Mei Qing and other Mei's sages. Mei Shiming, executive chairman of the Beijing Meishi Association, and Mei Shi, director of the National Meishi Cultural Research Center, respectively made speeches, and The Hubei Mei clan's relatives Mei Xueshu made a speech entitled "Mei Bo Descendants Migrate to Huangmei Examination.".
Finally, Mei Xingbao, honorary president of the Mei's Association in Beijing, made an important speech through video link. In his speech, he thanked the leaders of Xuancheng City for attaching great importance to the study of Mei's culture, and thanked the cultural scholars of Xuancheng City for their attention and in-depth study of Mei's culture and Mei's representative figures. It is pointed out that Xuancheng is the benchmark of Mei's culture, the peak of Mei's culture, and also the window and display base of Mei's culture, which is worth learning and learning from all over the world. Emphasizing that family culture, as an important part of traditional Chinese culture, will certainly play an increasingly important role in the construction of china's cultural self-confidence. Mr. Mei Xingbao also entrusted Executive Chairman Mei Shiming to present calligraphy works to the Xuancheng Wanling Mei Cultural Research Association.
At 18:00, the delegation came to Meishi Enterprise - Xuancheng No. 13 Middle School to visit. Mei Xueguo, chairman of the school, personally accompanied the inspection. The 13th Middle School is a fully enclosed and boarding-managed private complete middle school approved by the Anhui Provincial Department of Education in 2000, with 90 teaching classes, 4500 students and more than 360 teaching staff. The school has a beautiful environment and a strong cultural atmosphere.
On the 27th, accompanied by the main leaders of the Xuanzhou District Literary Association and the Wanlingmei Cultural Research Association, the delegation visited and inspected Wenchang Town, the hometown of the Millennium Mei clan, hezhou Village (Dongmei Village) and Ximei Village in Yiyang Town. This is the main migration place of the Thousand Year Mei clan in Xuancheng, and the two villages still live with more than 2,000 Mei clan relatives, and there are more than 20,000 Mei clan relatives living on both sides of the Qingyi River. It is not only the hometown of Wanling Mei, but also the birthplace of Xuancheng Mei culture. From here, a large number of outstanding intellectuals from ancient, modern and even contemporary times have emerged. In Dongmei Village, the members of the delegation also paid homage to the former residence of Meiding and presented flowers and mourned the Meiding martyrs who died heroically in the 1950 Chongqing Tongliang Bandits.
During the visit to Dongmei Village, the delegation also learned in detail about the main industries of the village, the per capita income of the villagers, the construction of beautiful villages, and the implementation path of rural revitalization. Subsequently, accompanied by Mei Yangbing, secretary of the party committee of the village, everyone inspected the rural tourism resources and beautiful natural environment of Dongmei Village along the beautiful Qingyi River with great interest. During the visit and inspection, they experienced the simple folk customs, tasted the authentic farmhouse meals in the countryside, and appreciated the ancient rural folk song "Spring Song - Twenty-Four Solar Terms".
Ximei Village is the former residence of Mei Guangdi, a cultural celebrity who has studied in both China and the West and made great contributions to the cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
It is close to the Qingyi River, across the river from Xuancheng, and the exchanges between the two sides of the strait have been frequent since ancient times. In the second year of Emperor Yuanfeng of the Han Dynasty (109 BC), Xuancheng County was established, and the county administration was set up in today's Yijiang Town. Walking on the ferry port of the old street in Yijiang Town today, on the bluestone slab road, you can still feel the prosperity and prosperity of the past. "Guangdi Hometown" Ximei Village, named because it is located on the west bank of the Qingyi River, it is the same origin and lineage with Dongmei Village (belonging to Xuancheng City) on the east bank.
Mr. Mei Guangdi left Ximei Village to study at a very young age, but the spirit of diligent study and hard study in his childhood has influenced generations of Mei's descendants and has now become the most valuable spiritual wealth of Ximei Village.
The three-day "Mei's Cultural Tour" passed through Xuancheng in a hurry, and the members of the delegation left Xuancheng with pride and nostalgia, bid farewell to the Mei clan relatives of Xuancheng, and embarked on a new journey.
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