Editor's Note
In order to further integrate into the Yangtze River Delta and expand the influence of Tianchang in the Yangtze River Delta region, combined with the "2021 Anhui Province Self-driving Tour Conference", promote the resources of Tianchang Cultural Tourism and prosper The creation of Tianchang literature, from September 18 to 19, 2021, sponsored by the Anhui Writers Association and the Tianchang Municipal People's Government, and hosted by the Propaganda Department of the Tianchang Municipal Party Committee, the Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, the Municipal Federation of Literature and Tourism, and the Municipal Rong Media Center, the "Love in the Mid-Autumn Festival, Love to Tianchang - Well-known Writers in the Yangtze River Delta Walk in the Sky" was successfully held.
Recently, the famous writers who participated in the event sent their style works, and this public account will be launched in the form of columns to share their beautiful texts.
About the Author
Li Fan, male, born in 1974, from Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province. Poet, novelist, member of the Chinese Writers Association, currently the editor-in-chief of Youth magazine. He has published three novels, a collection of short and medium stories ,"Hustle Day", a collection of poems "Picking The Lights at Night", and a collection of English novels. He has won the Nanjing Literature and Art Award, the Jinling Literature Award, and the Purple Mountain Literature Award.
Heavenly Length Don't Cut / Li Fan
A place is a book, since it is a book, it has its own original, it is inevitable that there will be good people to check the defects and fill in the gaps, and the words that are cumbersome and disconnected from the original are for other cuts. Contemptible people are not talented, and they know nothing about the chief of heaven, but it is also the ignorance of this outsider, and they have no scruples when writing, thinking that they can believe in the reins of the horse, and the right to be the handle of the Fang family laughed.
This place is both familiar and unfamiliar to me. Familiarity is because for more than twenty years, every time I return to xuzhou from Nanjing, Tianchang is a must-pass place, and the name is very familiar. But only so far, neither have stayed in Tianchang and have encountered the reluctance of "the peach blossom pond is thousands of feet deep, not as deep as Wang Lun sent me affection", nor the close friends who have the heart and mind of "Tao Li Chunfeng a glass of wine, the jianghu night rain ten years of lights", but they are all "flowers thank the spring red, too hurried." "Therefore, the length of the sky is very strange to me."
Recently, I had the honor of joining the team of Tianchang Gathering Wind, and after walking around in Tianchang for two days, I finally had some specific understanding. Tianchang is not far from Nanjing, an hour and a half drive, out of the six alloy cattle lake into the tianchang earth boundary. In contrast, Nanjing people to play in Jinniu Lake, driving for an hour, the long people to jinniu lake as long as half an hour, which inevitably makes people give birth to the psychological gap of the long people to bargain. As soon as I arrived at the station, I also heard an interesting story, that is, the world-renowned song "Good Jasmine Flower", which is known as China's second national anthem. The local people in Nanjing I contacted all knew that this song originated from the "jasmine tune" of Liuhe folk, and it was not until tianchang that they knew that they had the same saying. Think about this is also reasonable, the original "jasmine tune" was popular in the tianchang, liuhe two border folk, the front village and the back of the shop, you sing me hum, in the end from which boundary, no one can say an absolute. And after the washing and circulation of time, finally achieved a world famous song, which for the people of the two places, after all, are the cultural pride that can fly and dance, the two compartments are safe, sharing this glory, there is no need to break out the ugly. Further, if the two sides are bold and innovative, and join hands to plan a cultural tourism project or something, and the people of the two places are blessed to achieve the goal of beauty and commonality, it will not be a transcendence of reality that only stays at the level of pride.
In addition to this beautiful jasmine flower, I think there are three more significant and memorable signs of Tianchang.
The first is the unique geographical location of Tianchang "surrounded by Su on three sides", which can be said together with the second point, that is, the origin of Tianchang's name. You open the topographic map of Tianchang, at a glance, Tianchang is adjacent to Jiangsu Xuyi and Jinhu in the north, the west bank of Gaoyou Lake in the east, Yizheng in the southeast, and Nanjing in the south. The sky is long and the earth boundary, about a few tens of kilometers of the border line to the west of Anhui, like the opening of a pocket, to the hinterland of Anhui to encourage the wind from the east. People who do not know the administrative division can easily believe that this is part of Jiangsu, not the eastern gate of Anhui, but it is a county-level city in Anhui. As for why it is so divided, there is its own historical reason, there is no need to hang a book bag here, and it is also narrow to entangle which province it belongs to, and the rivers and mountains are thousands of miles, and the grass is long and the warblers are flying, all of which are an inch of the blood of Yangyang Huaxia.
Again is the origin of the name Oftechang, which is a place where the emperor has been hand-picked by the emperor in the history of the canon, and intends to live forever. According to the Old Book of Tang and the Chronicle of Emperor Xuanzong, in 742 AD, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang changed his name to Tianbao and set up the "Qianqiu Festival" for the celebration of his birthday, and "cut the three counties of Jiangdu, Liuhe, and Gaoyou to Qianqiu County", echoing the "Qianqiu Festival". Du Fu once had a poem "A Thousand Autumn Festivals have feelings": Since the Strike of the Thousand Autumn Festival, frequent injuries in August, the first pilgrimage to the regular banquet, the grandeur has been dusted. In the seventh year of Tianbao, Prime Minister Li Linfu also suggested that the "Qianqiu Festival" should be changed to "Tianchang Festival" and "Qianqiu County" should be changed to "Tianchang County". At the beginning of the change of name, Tang Xuanzong had "changed the name of Tianxia County to one hundred and ten places with unstable names and duplicate names", but only this "Tianchang" specially wished him Hong Fuqi Heaven and The Land was newly established, which was unusual among the five hundred emperors in Chinese history.
Finally, and one of the Tianchang labels that I am most optimistic about, is the relationship between Tianchang and Wu Jingzi. The Fang family may laugh when they see this, don't be blind, Wu Jingzi's ancestral home is Anhui Quanjiao, once lived in Ganyu, and then moved to Nanjing, and died in Yangzhou, and has no half-cent relationship with Tianchang. Indeed, in Wu Jingzi's biographical materials, I have not yet seen any intersection between him and Tianchang, and I want to talk about another person here, that is, Du Shaoqing, a tianchang nobleman in the "History of Ru Lin". Friends who have read the "History of Ru Lin Wai Shi", as well as many scholars who have studied Wu Jingzi and "Ru Lin Wai Shi", many believe that Du Shaoqing is Wu Jingzi's self-portrait. Du Shaoqing's righteous chivalry, weak meritorious name, and arrogance of the magnates and Wu Jingzi's "unaccustomed to ruling life, sex rich people", "pouring wine and singing, poor day and night", "open-minded nature, anxious for friends", the life portrayal of "people of the four squares of literature and wine", and even the fate of the two people who were poor and destitute in the end are the same. It can be said that Du Shaoqing's life was written by Wu Jingzi according to his own life, and I also agree with this statement. The details of it, familiar with the "History of Ru Linwai", and then go to the Internet to check wu Jingzi's relevant materials, are clear enough, there is no need to be cumbersome.
What I want to emphasize and ask is, why did Wu Jingzi put Du Shaoqing in Tianchang instead of his hometown Quanjiao, or ganyu county where he lived? Has Wu Jingzi ever been to Tianchang? Did he follow his father to Ganyu to take up his duties, and return from Ganyu to Quanjiao, did he choose the waterway? If so, then he may have to travel a long way out of the lake or land to return home? Further, he may have made a friend in Tianchang, and when he wrote the "History of Ru lin waishi" and painted a portrait of himself, he naturally thought of this friend and sent his fate to his name? In any case, I believe that Wu Jingzi has traveled to the sky for a long time and has a considerable liking for it.
There are many examples of a famous work achieving a place, and Yu Tianchang, the meaning and value of "Ru Lin Wai Shi" is the same as that of Quan Jiao, which is a golden signboard.