The "pearls" of the long river of culture will be salvaged one by one - Zhao Jianchao and Zhao Yijuan's father and daughter in Heshan District, Yiyang City, excavate the story of inheriting local culture

(Zhao Jianchao and his daughter Zhao Yijuan are sorting out literature.) Photo by Guo Xuan)

Hunan Daily Huasheng online reporter Xing Ling

【Well-off Index】

Zhao Jianchao, 56 years old, is the vice chairman of the Heshan District Literary Association of Yiyang City. For more than 10 years, it has been committed to the dream of "rich pockets" and "rich heads", "salvaging" excellent local culture, and in 2009, it built the most complete exhibition hall in the country with the Hulin Wing collection, with an average annual number of visitors of more than 40,000 people; Collect nearly 8,000 sets of Yiyang historical and cultural celebrity letters, manuscripts, and documents, and more than 20,000 volumes.

Daughter Zhao Yijuan volunteers to give more than 200 lectures in cultural and expo venues every year, and the special films and party courseware of "Hu Linyi Family Style and Family Training" produced by her are broadcast on authoritative platforms, becoming a firm inheritor and disseminator of local culture.

【Dream Story】

To others, Zhao Jianchao is a legend; For Guo Chun, Zhao Jianchao is a "strange flower".

Guo Chun is Zhao Jianchao's wife. 14 years ago, Zhao Jianchao, who had a wealth of tens of millions and a decent job, had a good life, but he had to plunge into the bottomless cultural river to engage in "salvage", "is it not 'strange'"?

"Today, material life is richer, but spiritual culture is somewhat desolate, and the rural customs of respecting the elderly, loving children, respecting relatives and neighbors that have been handed down from generation to generation have also faded." Zhao Jianchao said that relying solely on the "rich pockets" of the economy cannot make up for the barrenness of the "head." The dream of moderate prosperity requires both "rich pockets" and "rich heads". He wants to excavate and inherit excellent local culture and make more people more spiritually rich.

"I listen to Teacher Zhao now, and I am willing to do whatever he asks me to do." On October 15, Guo Chun, who was preparing lunch around the stove, told reporters while cutting vegetables.

From resolutely shaking his head to nodding everything, the change in Guo Chun's attitude reflects that Zhao Jianchao's dream journey of "cultural well-off" has won more and more support.

He took out all his wealth and set up the Hulin Wing Exhibition Hall

"After reading a stomach full of books, writing well, singing songs very well, and passing the examination in 1986, he became a cadre of the Heshan District Cultural Center; He stayed in his post without pay, ran a business and set up a factory for 13 years, and accumulated tens of millions of net worth. In the view of Hou Juxiang, deputy director of the Heshan District Cultural Tourism and Sports Bureau, Zhao Jianchao is a legend.

What is even more legendary is that in 2007, Zhao Jianchao, who had returned to work at his unit, once read the collection of Hu Linyi, an "famous minister of ZTE" and an outstanding representative of Huxiang culture in the late Qing Dynasty, and was attracted by his hard work, practical use of the world, and his feelings of home and country, and "madly fascinated by him". Since then, as long as he hears the news about the cultural relics and books of Hu Linyi, he will get them back no matter how far he goes or how much money he spends.

"For a board to build a chicken cage, he made more than 200 phone calls, pursued 3 provinces, spent more than 2 months, and spent 45,000 yuan to buy it back." Zhao Jianchao's past of searching for "treasure" thousands of miles, Guo Chun said casually.

That year, she accompanied Zhao Jianchao on a visit to Ancient China in Quanjiaohe Town, Heshan District, Hu Linyi's hometown, and occasionally heard a jiaoyu say that a board she had used for many years to build a chicken cage had been bought for 900 yuan by a dealer surnamed Long in Yongzhou. Later, the family said it should be a plaque related to Hu Linyi. When Zhao Jianchao heard this, he immediately tuoyongzhou's friends in the collection circle and heard that the cultural relics merchant had sold a plaque with the inscription "Wing Fenpeng Cheng" to Changsha. He chased him to Changsha again, but learned that the plaque had been sold to Shanghai by many dealers. Zhao Jianchao was not reconciled and chased after Shanghai again. Touched by his persistence, the shanghai vendors took him all the way to track down, and finally found this plaque in Zhejiang.

Gradually, there were more and more "treasures" about Hu Linyi in the family, and they could not be piled up. Zhao Jianchao had another "crazy" idea: to set up a Hulin wing exhibition hall.

At the family meeting, a large group of people collectively questioned him: "Hu Linyi, who is not even known to the people of Yiyang, is not related to you, what museum do you have to build, is it not crazy?"

"Zeng Guofan and Tao Shu lifted him up, and Chairman Mao admired him; Such a cultural celebrity, Yiyang people do not know that it is too undeserved. ”

"You're going to have nothing because of this."

"I have no regrets!"

Unable to resist his determination, under the witness of everyone, he signed an agreement with his wife: borrow 3 million yuan from the family, and spend it without continuing; Don't borrow a penny from friends or family. If there is any violation, immediately get out of the house.

In 2009, the Hulinyi Exhibition Hall, which collected more than 2,000 volumes of important literature and gathered 460 sets of related cultural relics, was opened to the public free of charge. By this year, the cumulative number of visitors has reached nearly 500,000.

The "pearls" that sank into the long river of culture, he wanted to salvage them one by one

At the Hu Linyi Exhibition Hall, after seeing the bronze statue and related objects of the idol Hu Linyi, a boss in Shenzhen held Zhao Jianchao's hand and said "happiness"; A doctor in Yangzhou who specializes in Hu Linyi came and burned the first book he published to Hu Linyi, saying that his grateful heart had a place to rest... Over the years, Guo Chun has witnessed too many people who have come for Hu Linyi, and has slowly understood that Zhao Jianchao is doing a very meaningful thing.

At the same time, Zhao Jianchao found many precious materials of Yiyang historical and cultural celebrities. "Yiyang is a cultural celebrity worth promoting and inheriting, why not just Hu Linyi?" Zhao Jianchao sighed.

He took the reporter to a wooden house in the Hu linyi exhibition hall and picked up a few copies. "Yao Hongye initiated and actively planned to run his own Chinese public school, which had a far-reaching impact on Hu Shi; Chen Tianni, a famous historian and master of traditional Chinese studies, majored in Yiyang County Chronicles..." Zhao Jianchao said that in recent years, the more historical and cultural celebrities in Yiyang have come into contact, the more they have been shocked by the excellent local culture, and the spiritual world has become richer and richer.

"Unfortunately, many Yiyang people don't know this." Zhao Jianchao lamented, "I want to salvage these 'pearls' in the long river of culture, so that everyone's heads will be rich." Pockets and heads are rich, is really well-off. Now, he has collected nearly 8,000 sets of letters, manuscripts and documents of Yiyang historical figures, and more than 20,000 volumes, and is ready to build a library to share with the people of Yiyang.

The female inherits her father's aspirations and tells the excellent cultural story of Yiyang to the people of Yiyang

"A special mission made me decide to return to Yiyang as a cultural volunteer." Zhao Jianchao's daughter Zhao Yijuan said.

In 2013, Zhao Yijuan, who graduated from the Wuhan Conservatory of Music and was preparing to study abroad, was given her father's task: to go to Taiwan to find literary and historical materials about Yiyang. In a small second-hand bookstore, the owner heard that she was from Yiyang, Hunan, asked her if she knew "Yao Hongye", and solemnly put a book related to Yao Hongye in her hand: "You must bring the story of Yao Hongye back to your hometown and let the people of Yiyang know him." ”

In recent years, Zhao Yijuan has served as a volunteer docent in cultural and museum venues such as the Jinjiadi Party Branch Exhibition Hall, Ye Zi's Former Residence, and the Zeng Shi'e Martyrs Exhibition Hall in Heshan District, with an average of more than 200 lectures per year. The feature film "Hu Linyi Family Training Family Rules" that she co-produced was broadcast on the official website of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, and the courseware of the same name was collected by the National Library of China; Told the story of He Fengshan in the first cultural relics value interpretation and dissemination competition in Hunan Province, and won the second prize; Produced the courseware of "The Pioneer of Party Building in Fayiyang - Jinjiadi Branch of the Communist Party of China", which was rated as a high-quality course of "Party Lessons Begin to Lecture" by the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee...

Driving 2 cars and traveling 100,000 kilometers is the number that Zhao Jianchao's father and daughter "wrote down" on the road of "salvage" and inheritance of local culture. This number is still being rewritten.

【Dream Realization Speech】

The best tribute is the legacy

Zhao Yijuan

People only know that Ouyang Diyu and Ouyang Ze established the first party branch in rural Hunan in Jinjiadi Village, Bazixiao Town, Heshan District, but very little is known about why and how they dared to build it.

In order to write the commentary, I went through the relevant books in the Heshan District Library and obtained no more than 2 pages of information. Later, with the help of his father, he found the moving story of these two ancestors who dared to be the first and sacrifice in Shanghai. A lot of precious things, no longer try to dig up the inheritance will be gone.

I can't say the big truth to help cultural self-confidence, but I know that since no one does these things, let's do them. After all, for advanced figures and excellent local culture, the best learning is practice, and the best tribute is inheritance. (Xing Ling, arranged)