Yangzi Evening News Network April 9 (reporter Liu Mengxue) On April 9, the first "Wutai Cultural Forum" was held in the Zhide Ancestral Hall in Wuxi Meicun, the birthplace of Wu culture. The forum was jointly organized by Jiangsu Wuyue Cultural Research Institute, Taibo Wu Ancestral Ancestral Ancestral Friendship Association and Meicun Street Chamber of Commerce in Xinwu District. In the afternoon of the same day, the Wuxi Cultural Relics Protection Unit "Guwentai" was unveiled. The old Wentai, which represents the traces of Wu culture and history, has finally broken through the limitations of time and returned to people's sight.
Wutai culture originated from the "Old Wentai" in the Meili area of the Shang Dynasty. Gu wentai, in the southwest of Meicun Sihua Lixu, that is, less than 2 kilometers from the current center of Meicun Street. According to records, after The Capital of Taibo Dingmeili, because the "Three Thousand Wilds" was his birthplace, he built a "Wentai" in the center, occupying two acres of land, about ten meters high, and was an isolated mound. Every year on the first day of spring sowing, Tabor takes the stage to celebrate, worship heaven and earth, worship ancestors, and review the subjects, wishing the wind and rain smooth and safe in the country. After lu moved the capital to Gusu, he also built a platform, which was still called "Wentai". The wentai of the three thousand deserts gradually became deserted, called "the old wentai".
"Wentai" has gone from only representing the Jingbaran people's heavenly platform to slowly integrating more cultural phenomena such as sacrifice rituals, sacrifices, and winemaking. After the changes of the times and the precipitation of history, the "Wutai culture" came into being and played an active role in people's production and life. Mao Jianping, director of the Meicun Cultural Relics Protection Institute, introduced: "The Wutai wine and Wutai culture mentioned today are actually a continuation of Wentai culture. "During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the nineteenth Wu Wang Shoumeng, he established the first water army in Chinese history, in order to keep the water army cold, he distributed the wentai wine used for sacrifice to the soldiers, but he was afraid of angering the heavens, you know, at that time, wentai wine was used to sacrifice the heavens, so he changed the name of the wine to 'Wutai wine'." Mao Jianping said that the water army at that time went out to fight, bringing two porcelain bottles, one bottle of water, and the other bottle of Wutai wine. Later, Wu was destroyed by Yue, and a large number of people surnamed Wu fled, and one of them went to the Guizhou area to brew Wutai wine with guizhou water, and the effect was better. "This time they came to Plum Village in search of roots, which also made history continue."
Wang Guoping, executive vice president of the Wuyue Cultural Research Institute in Jiangsu Province, said that behind Wuxi's strong economic situation, Wu culture has always played a vital role. Wutai culture is an indispensable part of Wu culture, with historical changes, social development, scientific and technological progress, generation after generation of Wu people and Wu descendants relay inheritance, and integration with other cultures, so that it from traditional culture to modern civilization transformation.
The forum focused on wentai culture, and experts agreed that place names are living fossils that reflect social history and mirror images of culture. Whether it is pronunciation, word construction, semantics, rhetoric, are inextricably linked to regional history, social life, national culture, is an important part of the sound of the countryside, nostalgia, these with historical traces of the place names should break through the time limits for people to know. Editor: Wang Yuxin