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Legend has it that during the Southwest United Congress, in 1939, Kunming sounded an air raid siren, Liu Wendian rushed out of the house with a rag bag, did not expect shen Congwen to sneak out of the house, running faster than anyone, Liu Wendian saw this and was immediately angry, pointing at Shen Congwen's back and scolding: "I Liu Someone is running for Zhuangzi, I am going to die, no one will talk about "Zhuangzi"! Student runs to save the next generation. You countryman, what are you running blindly? ”
Liu Wendian, an authoritative figure in the field of Zhuangzi research during the Republic of China, served as the head of the Department of Chinese of State affairs at National Tsinghua University and the president of Anhui University. He once said that only two and a half people in China really understood Zhuangzi. One is Zhuang Zhou, the other is liu Wendian, and finally half of all the people in the world who study Zhuangzi.
Shen Congwen became famous by self-taught. In his youth, Xiangxi still followed the Tuntian military system since the Qing Dynasty, each village had an official field, and the soldiers were brave, and Shen Congwen threw himself into the pen after he went to middle school. Later, he talked about those days and was very grateful to Chen Quzhen, the "King of Xiangxi" at that time, for his cultivation and teaching, and Shen Congwen was a document under his account.
Chen Quzhen has personally experienced the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China, and the People's Republic of China, and He Long is his friend.
Today's Phoenix, there is no charge for visiting Shen Congwen's former residence, and Xiong Xiling's former residence is charged.
Born in Phoenix, Xiong Xiling is a famous educator, industrialist and philanthropist. In 1913, he was elected as the first democratically elected prime minister of the Republic of China, opposed Yuan Shikai's restoration of the imperial system, and resigned in anger.
The Xiangxi people called Chen Quzhen, Xiong Xiling, and Shen Congwen the "Three Masters of Xiangxi" and worshipped them.
Phoenix, famous for Shen Congwen's "Border City", phoenix became a tourist punch card holy place should be attributed to his cousin Huang Yongyu. He has a lot of trouble with the design of bridges and houses in the ancient city, especially the lighting, music, and scene layout, and rebuilds the layout of the Phoenix Ancient City, a new wooden building along the river, whether it is rainy or sunny, a different situation, making it a well-known resort, and going to Phoenix to see the night view has become a tourist signboard.
Shen Congwen and Huang Yongyu of the Phoenix are self-taught, so it can be seen that the feng shui here is good, and it is said that its name is Phoenix, because there is a mountain in the southwest direction of the ancient city that resembles a phoenix flying with wings outstretched. It is located in Xiangxi, Hunan, to the Miao, Tujia mainly ethnic minorities gathered county, the old city was built in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, by the mountains and water, the shallow Tuojiang River through the city, red sandstone built of ancient city walls stand on the shore, under the north city gate, wide river surface across a narrow wooden bridge, with stone as pier, the two people need to cross sideways, only the only way out of the city.
Huang Yongyu, an academician of the Chinese Academy of Painting, was born in Changde, Hunan Province, and received primary and incomplete primary secondary education. I know that I learned to paint because I was a child, I know that I am a famous painter, because of a special exhibition. His painting of the owl, which makes one eye closed and one eye closed, is slandered by the Gang of Four as a dissatisfaction with socialism. It is said that the exhibition was held at the Beijing Hotel and was a small-scale promotion event. On the evening of November 23, 1973, the gang of four held a meeting at the Beijing Friendship Hotel and characterized Huang Yongyu's owl as a "black painting." After that, the "black painting" tracking activity was launched nationwide. It is said that after listening to the report on black painting, Mao Zedong said, how can ink painting not be black? As soon as this remark came out, Huang Yongyu was lucky to pass the pass, and the "black painting incident" quietly ended.
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Outside a restaurant in Phoenix
Phoenix Hongqiao Wind and Rain Building
Wanshou Palace - Huang Yongyu Art Museum
Inside the ancient city of Phoenix
Phoenix Tuojiang