Where did the word "Fang Zhi" first come from?
How much do you know about Fang Zhi?
The compilation of Fang Zhi has a long history, and it has started in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and the word "Fang Zhi" was first seen in the "Zhou Li · Local Officials".
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the rudiments of local chronicles appeared, such as geographical records, county books, and picture classics, which recorded the mountains, rivers, customs, products, and people of a certain administrative area.
"The Great Yuan Great Unification Chronicles" created a precedent for the compilation and revision of the Great Yuan Unification Chronicles.
Local chronicles are important local documents, which have the functions of "preserving history, educating people, and providing information to the government", and are known as "the complete history of one party" and "local encyclopedia", and have played an irreplaceable and important role in the inheritance and development of Chinese civilization. Chang Xuan, a native of Chengdu, is known as the "first ancestor of Chinese local chronicles", and his compilation of Huayang National Chronicles, as the earliest existing local chronicle book in China with the most complete system, is one of the essences of ancient Chinese cultural heritage.
"Huayang National Chronicles" (Source: Chengdu City Network)
There are these firsts about "Shu Yun Moxiang".
Later Shu Emperor Meng Chang created the first Spring Festival couplet in Chinese history: "New Year's Yuqing, Jiajie Changchun."
Portrait of Meng Chang (Source: Fang Zhi Sichuan)
Chengdu historiography flourished in the Song Dynasty, among which Fan Zuyu's "Tang Jian" was the first work of the Song Dynasty to discuss history with science, which opened a precedent for the historiography of righteousness.
Zan Yin, a native of Chengdu in the Tang Dynasty, wrote "The Treasure of Economic Efficiency" is the earliest and most widely circulated obstetrics and gynecology monograph in mainland China.
Born in Chengdu in the Later Shu period, "Flower Collection" is the forerunner of Song poetry, known as the ancestor of a hundred generations of lyrics and songs, and is the earliest, most widely circulated and most far-reaching collection of words in China.
The first person in Sichuan to "open his eyes to the world" in modern history was Song Yuren. He wrote "The Theory of Current Affairs" and "The Outer Part of the Theory of Current Affairs", expounding his ideas for reform and advocating learning from the West.
Famous writers about Chengdu
Since ancient times, Chengdu has produced many famous writers, and their unique geographical environment, cultural atmosphere and lifestyle have provided many inspirations for their creations.
Compiled by Yang Shen, the most important and abundant compilation of local documents for the study of the ancient culture of Bashu is the Quanshu Art Chronicles.
Chengdu writer Li Jieren's "Dead Water Breeze", "Before the Storm" and "Big Wave" are known as "the trilogy of Dahe novels" and "the modern history of novels".
Li Jieren (Source: Chuanguan News)
"Journey to the South" is a well-known masterpiece in the history of modern Chinese literature, and its author is the Chengdu writer Ai Wu.
The scripts "Spring and Autumn Match" and "Flower Field Mistake" written by Li Tiaoyuan, a cultural celebrity of the Qing Dynasty, belong to Sichuan opera.
Fan Chengda, a writer in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote the book "Wu Boat Record", the title of which is taken from Du Fu's "The Window Contains the Thousand Autumn Snow in Xiling, and the Door Anchors the Ship of East Wu Wanli", which describes the customs and customs of Sichuan in the Song Dynasty.
Poems about Chengdu
Reading the poems of the ancients, there will always be a wisp of resonance. Each ancient poem contains the author's rich emotions, waiting for you to savor.
Lu You is a person who loves flowers very much, and he once said: "I am crazy about loving famous flowers, and I am only worried about the wind and the red fragrance." He was particularly fond of plum blossoms, peonies and begonias. During his stay in Shuzhong, Lu You visited the famous flowers of Chengdu, and even wrote a "Tianpeng Peony Spectrum", which recorded the enthusiasm of Chengdu people to appreciate peonies at that time.
Peony (Source: Shi Zhi Pengzhou)
In the second year of the Tang Dynasty (759), in order to avoid the rebellion of Anshi, Du Fu moved his family into Sichuan, and later built several grass houses on the bank of Huanhua River in the suburbs of Chengdu. Of the more than 1,400 poems he wrote during his lifetime, more than 200 were written in Chengdu.
In 761 AD, when Du Fu visited Xinjin for the second time, he wrote the "Suburban Character of Xinjin Beiqiaolou": "On the city of Wangjichun, the feast is close to the bird's nest...... Xichuan is for the eyes of guests, only this suburb of the river. ”
Du Fu's thatched cottage poetry history hall couplet: "Poetry has a thousand autumns, the south comes to find the prime minister's ancestral hall, and the same great name hangs in the universe; The bridge leads to thousands of miles, and the east goes to ask the old Xiangyang, and several people remember each other in the Jianglou. "Speaking of Chengdu Wuhou Temple, Wanli Bridge.
Du Fu Thatched Cottage (Source: Wei Chengdu)
In ancient Chinese poetry, there are poems of "sending inside" and "sending outside", the poems written by wives to their husbands, and Huang E's poems are the representatives of "sending outside" poems in the history of Chinese literature.
The plaque "Guihu" at the gate of Guihu Park in Xindu District is inscribed by the contemporary writer Guo Moruo in the Mid-Autumn Festival in 1963.
Guihu Lake (Source: Chengdu Park City)
Who is called "a scoop of poets"? He is Tang Qiu, a native of Chengdu, who has a habit of writing poems, and throws them into the big gourd he carries with him every time he finishes writing a poem. In his later years, he was ill, and he threw the gourd poetry scoop into the Weijiang River, so later generations called Tang Qiu "a scoop poet".
Wang Bo, Yang Jiong, Lu Zhaolin, and Luo Bin Wang "Four Masters of the Early Tang Dynasty" all came to Chengdu to travel and create, which confirms the saying that "poets from ancient times to Shu".
Source: Chengdu Fangzhi