Jimu news reporter Xu Ying
The famous writer Liu Xinglong belongs to the writers with strong creative power in the contemporary literary world, and there are representative large works in each important historical period. Among them, the novella "Phoenix Qin", published in 1992 about the fate of "rural teachers", is considered to be Liu Xinglong's famous work, which has touched countless people as soon as it came out, and the novel has become a household name after being adapted into movies and TV series. In 2019, CCTV relived the story of "Phoenix Qin" with a set of "China in the Story" program.
CCTV's "China in the Story" once relived the story of "Phoenix Qin", and Liu Xinglong was interviewed
Recently, the Jimu News reporter learned that in the process of building a "village and town" in the new countryside, after the merger of two villages in Tuanfeng, Hubei Province, the new village was named "Fenghuangqin Village". Naming a village after a literary work has never been heard of before. The famous literary critic Yu Kexun joked, "The new village of the earth has been born." ”
Novel "Phoenix Qin"
The new village of the earth, "Phoenix Qin Village", is about to be launched
"The hometown of the famous writer Liu Xinglong is Liu Jiayuan of Zhangjiazhai Village, Shangbahe Town, Tuanfeng County, and we hope to use the well-known name 'Phoenix Qin' to light up the new rural construction in our village." On November 1, Jimu News reporter contacted Liu Aiguo, secretary of Zhangjiazhai Village, Shangbahe Town, Shangtuanfeng County, who was very excited to tell reporters that the seal of "Fenghuangqin Village" has been issued to the village committee, and the work of changing the village committee after the merger of the two villages is currently underway.
The phoenix is an instrument with status symbols
The two merged villages, namely Zhangjiazhai Village, Shangbahe Town, Tuanfeng County, luosigang Village, Shangbahe Town, Tuanfeng County, are separated by a small river ditch between the two villages, originally about 1,000 people each, according to the relevant policy of "combining villages and towns", administrative villages with a population of less than 1,200 people need to be merged, and after the merger of the two villages, the newly born "Fenghuangqin Village" will have a population of more than 2,000.
"We originally thought of a new village name, called Luozhai Village, from the original names of the two villages to choose a word combination, but repeatedly considered that there is no connotation, called out is not good, and later discussed and decided to call 'Fenghuangqin Village', the new village name after the villagers voted, the village directly participated in the voting of more than 200 households." Liu Aiguo told reporters.
Chen Tingqing, secretary of Luosigang Village in Shangbahe Town, Tuanfeng County, also said that he told the villagers the origin of the new village name of "Fenghuangqin Village", and they also agreed with it, hoping to build a better hometown with the help of cultural popularity.
It is the hometown of Liu Xinglong, the author of the novel "Phoenix Qin"
"Grandpa's name is now impressively engraved on a hill in Zhangjiazhai Village, Shangbahe Town, Tuanfeng County. In front of the stone tablet with my grandfather's name engraved on it, I had to go back to my knees every year to worship. The loess behind the stone tablet is Grandpa's eternal story..."
"Holding father. I was on my way back to my hometown. A vague little figure floats freely above the path..." Liu Xinglong has a affectionate account of his hometown and his relatives in the second chapter of "Liu Xinglong's Literary Memoirs", "Only hometown can give us the future".
Liu Xinglong told jimu news reporters that Zhangjiazhai in Shangbahe Town, Tuanfeng County, is his hometown, the place where his ancestors came from and where the fallen leaves returned to their roots, and he returned to his hometown for the first time in his 30s, "That year, my father found a barren mound in the field of thatched grass, fell to his knees in an earth-shattering way, and shouted at his mother against the deep land. I know that this is my grandmother, who left us many years before I was born. Next, I knelt down and gave my heart a feeling of rebirth. As he wrote, "The countryside seems to have roots, but it is really a kind of wandering." Such wanderers' dreams and nostalgia for their hometown are unimaginable to ordinary people..."
Liu Xinglong was born in the small riverside city of Huangzhou, when he was more than 1 year old, his father hired two porters, one burden to carry the family's belongings, the other burden to carry him and his sister, the family moved to The Stone Mouth Town (now part of Yingshan County) under the main peak of Dabie Mountain. Regarding his place of origin, there have also been disputes between Tuanfeng and Yingshan. Later, Liu Xinglong said, "My soul and flesh and blood are given by tuanfeng, and my thoughts and wisdom are abundant in Yingshan", which calmed down the dispute.
Group photo of Liu Xinglong with local cadres when he returned to his hometown in 2020
Liu Aiguo, secretary of Zhangjiazhai Village, said that Liu Xinglong was very concerned about the construction of his hometown and gave a lot of help, and he sent a photo of the "big stage in the countryside" in the village to the reporter, and the couplet on it was exactly what Liu Xinglong wrote. In just two sentences, it highlights the humble and unobtrusive cultural style of this small village.
Liu Xinglong wrote a couplet for his hometown village
On November 1, Liu Xinglong said in an interview with Jimu News, "I was surprised to hear that my hometown was going to be renamed 'Fenghuangqin Village'. The year before yesterday, I went to Ezhou to investigate, saw a folk museum built by the villagers themselves, the local construction of the airport demolished more than 6,000 households, the villagers will be demolished things to display, of which the discarded house number made a wall, one of the place name plates called 'Shi Fa Jia' - I admire the ancients' use of poetry to make a fortune. Nowadays, the material conditions in the countryside have been greatly improved, and the villagers have a new pursuit in terms of cultural taste, which makes people happy for their hometown. ”
The story of "Phoenix Qin" is a microcosm of the fate of 2 million rural teachers in the 1990s
Liu Xinglong's novella "Phoenix Qin" was first published in "Youth Literature" in 1992. The novel tells the story of what happened at Jieling Primary School, which is located at the foot of the paradise village of Dabie Mountain. There are only 5 people in Jieling Primary School: Principal Yu, Vice Principal Deng Youmi, Teaching Director Sun Sihai, and one teacher is Principal Yu's lover, Caritas Fen, plus Zhang Yingcai, a young teacher who has just arrived at the school. These 5 people are all private teachers. Even though the school is running hard, the private teachers are poorly paid, and their lives are very hard, they still stick to the post of "enlightenment for the countryside". In the novel, a group of primary school students, led by the teachers, and the national anthem played by two flutes, stand in front of the dilapidated school building and raise the national flag, which has long become a classic picture of Chinese rural education and rural cultural spirit in Chinese stories.
The phoenix qin that Zhang Yingcai likes to play in the novel represents a metaphor for identity - in the countryside at that time, as long as you heard the sound of the phoenix piano in any room, you knew that there was probably a rural teacher at home. The phoenix piano was designed in the late 1950s to promote the popularization of culture, playing the phoenix piano requires the knowledge of simple scores, and those who play the phoenix piano in the countryside are local cultural people.
When Liu Xinglong wrote "Phoenix Qin", there were still 2 million private teachers in China, and the publication of "Phoenix Qin" and the film and television adaptation made the private teacher group focus and played a great role in promoting the regularization of private teachers.
"Phoenix Qin" is a novella, the novel is based on the fiction of reality, "Phoenix Qin" published 29 years ago, the speculation about the prototype of the novel has not stopped, for many years, there are schools and teachers across the country is the prototype of the novel, Yingshan County also has several schools have said that they are prototype land, Liu Xinglong has not responded to this before. He said: "I am afraid of causing some unnecessary misunderstandings. It wasn't until last year that Liu Xinglong confided that the "prototype land" of "Phoenix Qin" was his second hometown, Father and Son Ridge Primary School in Yingshan County.
Experts say that rural revitalization can just take advantage of the momentum to develop
Is there any precedent for naming a place name with a literary work? The reporter contacted Ma Yong, an expert of the Hubei Provincial Geographical Names Expert Committee and the dean of the Tourism Development Research Institute of Hubei University, who told reporters that from ancient times to the present, place names are derived from ancient poems, rivers, mountains, historical stories or place names in literary works, but it is rare to name place names after a literary work.
Ma Yong believes that the birth of "Fenghuangqin Village" has positive significance, "Fenghuangqin" has influence, themes, folk customs and cultural carriers, and the revitalization of local rural areas can take advantage of the momentum to develop. He also put forward feasible suggestions, for example, when developing tourism, the local can re-emphasize the life scenes of modern classroom teachers and rural teachers, reproduce the description of the scene, the description of the story, and the description of food in the novel, invite tourists to experience, activate the local intangible cultural heritage, agricultural products, and homestays together, and drive the villagers to get rich.
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