It is another year of spring, located in the Garden Village of Wangdagua Town, Pingyuan County, in the Tanhua Manor, thousands of acres of ancient orchards, pear white, peach red... The second blooming sea of flowers will welcome visitors who come to enjoy the flowers and trace the ancient times.
Tanhua Manor is the garden of The Tanhua Dong Ne family during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty. At the beginning of April this year, a monograph on the historical figure of Pingyuan, "Notes on the Poetry collection of Dong Naliu Village", will be published, its protagonist is a Kangxi dynasty Tanhualang - Dong Ne, and its author is an elderly man - Wang Yujie.
Wang Yujie is consulting historical materials
Holding a proofreading sample of the "Notes on the Poetry Collection of Dong Naliu Village" in his hand, he tasted the legendary life of Tanhualang who devoted himself to the country and bowed to the country, and could not help but admire this "exemplary" plain historical celebrity, but more surprised was the writer behind the scenes - Wang Yujie.
The 250,000-word "Notes on the Poetry Collection of Dong Naliu Village", which lasted for one year, came from an old man who was in his old age. An unknown historical figure, who is about to be obliterated by time and years, has been collected and compiled by Wang Yujie, coming from the vast history and standing vividly in front of our eyes.
When I first met Wang Yujie, his spirit was strong and his thinking was quick, and it was difficult to believe that he was an old man who was nearly eighty years old. In his old age, Wang Yujie should have been recuperating, but after retirement, he did not write any articles on the human geography and traditional culture of the plains, and in 19 years, he achieved remarkable results.
A reference book used by Wang Yujie
Wang Yujie has embarked on a new path to realize value and serve the society in the new milestones of life. "After retirement, I did not idle, but still insisted on writing, among them, there was an elder in the family who asked me to improve the family tree left since the Qing Dynasty." It's more that I love words, I love writing, and the charm of words makes me unable to stop. Wang Yujie said.
After retiring in 1999, Wang Yujie used his strengths to give full play to his residual heat and plunged headlong into the "long river of history", digging up those celebrities and anecdotes in the history of the plains, taking history as a mirror and talking about the past and the present.
Search plain Wang Yujie in Baidu, plain Zhang Hanlin and Hanlin Courtyard, plain cheek chuan bridge diagram said... One by one, the historical celebrities we are familiar with and the historical stories we know have all been excavated by wang Yujie's hand. After his retirement, Wang Yujie published more than 100 works in media at all levels.
Reading these articles is based on the people, events or scenes and things in his hometown as the main content, and the text condenses the author's many painstaking efforts, penetrates the author's profound humanistic knowledge, contains a strong plain culture, and expresses Wang Yujie's deep love for society, his hometown and his family.
After his retirement, Wang Yujie wrote a lot of books, and he successively collected books such as "Notes on the Dragon Gate of the Plains" and "Biography of the Huilong", and also participated in the re-study of the Pingyuan County Chronicle during the Qing Dynasty and the Pingyuan County Chronicle during the Republic of China. Recently, he spent a year writing a 250,000-word "Notes on the Poetry Collection of Dong Naliu Village".
Some people say that Wang Yujie is an expert in the collation of the old records of the plains, among them, there are his contributions to the reconstruction of the county records, and he has a "special love" for the county records.
In the notes published in Qianlong's "Records of Pingyuan County", there is such a sentence, "Sorting out old records is a very professional and very hard work. Comrades Wang Zhiyuan and Wang Yujie were indifferent to fame and fortune, immersed themselves in research, forgot to sleep and eat, and worked hard to make great contributions to the collation of the old history of Pingyuan County. ”
How did Wang Yujie "relate" to the Pingyuan County Chronicle? After retiring, Wang Yujie wrote and submitted while reading. One of his submissions attracted a reader who went to Wang Yujie's son and told him that he had the Qing Dynasty county records handed down from his ancestors and was not interested in reading.
Upon hearing the news, Wang Yujie was ecstatic and immediately contacted the reader. After that, Wang Yujie was fascinated by the County Chronicle of the Qing Dynasty and wanted to record the contents word for word. However, the county chronicle has been passed down to the ground and cannot be copied, in order to preserve the contents of the county chronicle, Wang Yujie decided to copy all the county chronicles by himself.
In this way, Wang Yujie copied day and night, and spent more than 4 months to copy down the county chronicle. Historical classics have a precipitated background, and since then, Wang Yujie has been immersed in the road of collecting county records.
As a historical rarity, under the impact of modern trends, it is not easy to collect all of them. Wang Yujie went around asking friends, looking for a doorway, looking for Zhiguben in Pingyuan County. Kung Fu pays off, and over the past ten years, Wang Yujie has already had the Ming Dynasty County Chronicle, qing Dynasty County Chronicle, Republic of China County Chronicle, and Lao'en County Chronicle in his hands.
With these valuable materials, Wang Yujie began to focus on re-repairing and sorting out the County Chronicles of the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty, and participated in the point schooling of Qianlong's "Pingyuan County Chronicle" and the Republic of China's "Continuation of the Plains County Chronicle", changing the traditional characters inside to simplified characters, and adding punctuation, which is convenient for readers to read, so that the rare county records in the world become no longer rare.
Wang Yujie's compilation of the "Annotations on the Poetry Collection of Dong Naliu Village" was accidental, but it was indeed his intention to do it. In May 2016, Wang Yujie went to Qiu County, Hebei Province, to investigate a historical figure in the plains, Zhang Hanlin, Zhang Zengyu( yin Tongzeng), but unexpectedly found Dong Ne's three-chapter poetry collection from Zhang Zengyu's data.
After reading two or three of them, Wang Yujie was surprised to find that Dong Ne's life perception and home and country feelings were included in the poem. The ancients liked to write poems, and Dong Ne contained his life experience and life insights in poetry.
An ordinary research, an unexpected encounter. In this way, Wang Yujie met Dong Tanhua of the Qing Dynasty. After returning home, Wang Yujie began to collect relevant information about Dong Tanhua, whether it was on the Internet or in book searches, the results were not significant, so Wang Yujie was very distressed.
Later, Wang Yujie heard that a professor at Nankai University might be able to help. After Wang Yujie heard this, as if he had caught a "life-saving straw", he immediately asked the professor for advice. Perhaps the professor was touched by Wang Yujie's sincerity and intentions, or perhaps because the professor also had a persistent pursuit of such things. That night, the professor sent the collected information to Wang Yujie.
One problem is solved, and the next problem follows. If you want to read more than a thousand poems by Dong Tanhua, you need to chew words. Some of the meanings in the poems are obscure. To this end, Wang Yujie put the Kangxi Dictionary, the Modern Chinese Dictionary, and the Cihai at the table, looking at it while looking at it.
Check online
Sometimes the interpretation of a word can not be found through books, and Wang Yujie will look up on the Internet. Although it can be found on the Internet, but the explanation is various, in order to seek a formal interpretation, Wang Yujie copied down the interpretation on the Internet, and then repeatedly deliberated to determine the final answer.
Focusing on literary research requires more than just rigid flipping through books, but there are also many works left by the ancients that we need to discuss repeatedly. Wang Yujie's son taught Chinese at school, and as soon as his son returned home, the father and son discussed the verses with great interest. In this way, after a year, Wang Yujie marked out the annotations and interpretations of Dong Tanhua's more than 1,000 poems.
Located in the Garden Village of Wangdagua Town, Pingyuan County, Kangxi Tanhua Manor
Dong Ne was the Kangxi 6th year (1667 AD) Ding Weike Yijia three jinshi (Tanhua and Di), the official to congyi pin. Dong Ne is a severe and upright person, calm and steady, heroic and strategic, not smiling, fruitful in the face of things, and does not shy away from yielding with difficulties and eases. In the 40th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1701 AD), after dong ne's death, when the Kangxi Emperor made his third southern tour, he visited Dong Ne's former residence, missed this sincere courtier very much, and waved the four characters of the imperial book "Remembering the Old Lao", so that his son Dong Si was hanging on the tomb door.
Pear white of Tanhua Manor
The peach of Tanhua Manor
"Dong Tanhua is an extremely patriotic person, although his career is bumpy, but his whole life has been for the benefit of the country and the people, and he has not been cynical because of his own misfortune. This spirit is very worthy of our study, this is the beautiful quality left to us by the ancients, it is our example, and this is also the original intention of my efforts to write the "Notes on the Poetry Collection of Dong Naliu Village". Wang Yujie said.
Wang Yujie, who joined the work in 1964, first taught and then entered politics, worked as a secretarial worker in the office of the Pingyuan County Party Committee for eight years, and then served as the director of the former county family planning commission. After retiring in September 1999, he was enthusiastic about the collection and research of local historical materials. In the spring of 2005, he began to study and study the history of Pingyuan County. In 2011, he published "Notes on the Dragon Gate of the Plains". In 2018, the "Notes on the Poetry Collection of Dong Naliu Village" will be published soon.
Photo and text| Xu Zhuo Editor| Song Chunxiao