The cultural journey of "Reading Landscapes" in winter is a collection of literary creations of the Binhu Writers Association
Wen Ding Kangquan.
On November 24, 2023, the large-scale event "Writers and Entrepreneurs' Cultural Tour of Reading Landscapes" was successfully held, co-sponsored by Wuxi Binhu District Writers Association and Wuxi Binhu Landscape City Party and Mass Work Department, co-organized by Wuxi Commerce Center, and undertaken by Comma Academy. About 50 people participated in the event, including Binhu collaborators, entrepreneurs from the Trade Center, and literature and art lovers from the Xuelang Party School and Cultural Center. They used their pens and photographic lenses to record the elements of snow waves in winter, leaving a beautiful cultural imprint.
1. Amazing: The birthplace of Chinese blockbusters
Founded in 1986, after 20 years of wind and rain in the market economy, the Xuelang Rolling Mill has reached the scale of 1.1 million tons of ironmaking, 1.6 million tons of steelmaking and 1 million tons of timber in 2007, making it the largest steel plant in Wuxi at that time. In 2007, due to the outbreak of the Taihu Lake water crisis in Wuxi City, the Wuxi Municipal Party Committee proposed economic transformation and upgrading, and decided to relocate the steel plant to develop emerging industries in this treasure land. In 2009, the planning and design of Wuxi National Digital Film Industrial Park was launched, and after more than 2 years of construction, the park was officially unveiled on May 29, 2012 by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television and the people of Jiangsu Province, becoming a national park jointly built by the Ministry and the province, and also a demonstration park for Wuxi's economic development. At the beginning of the transformation, Wuxi Hualywood caused many people not to understand and support, and raised a lot of questions. Can Wuxi Hualywood learn from Hollywood Xi the United States?What kind of market share can it achieve?After ten years of sharpening a sword, Hualywood has handed over a satisfactory answer!The national digital film industrial park has risen at the foot of Xuelang Mountain, and has successively produced blockbuster dramas such as "Fengshen Part I: Chao Song Fengyun", "In the Name of the People", "The World", "The Year the Flowers Bloom and the Moon is Full", "Chinese Doctor", "In the Octagonal Cage" and other well-known blockbuster dramas at home and abroad. At present, it has become an important base for Chinese film production, a national demonstration base for the integration of culture and science and technology, a film industry innovation experimental zone in Jiangsu Province, and a national 4A-level scenic spot. Coming here today also opened the eyes of Binhu writers and entrepreneurs, and they witnessed and experienced the new technology of Chinese film development.
At about 9:30 in the morning, we came to the film planning exhibition hall, and the narrator introduced us to the past and present life of the digital film capital of Hualywood. Writers and entrepreneurs visited various sections of Wuxi Hualywood Film Capital with great interest, especially what made everyone excited was the digital virtual technology, everyone stood in front of the camera one by one, all turned into a comic face, through the visit to experience the new vision and new feelings brought by the integration of modern film technology and culture.
The visiting writers saw the fantastic changes in digital virtual technology and were moved one after another. Faced with an interview with a reporter from Wuxi TV's "Afu Liaozhai" column, Binhu writer An Juanying said: "I feel very surprised, there is this film and television base in Wuxi, and now I feel very surprised when I see the content of digital films, and I am particularly proud of Wuxi, great!."I believe that after visiting today, there will be a lot of works coming out, and there may be works as fresh as montage, especially like I am writing poetry, and I feel this urge to write poetry for this place, this place is very good." Binhu writer Xi Meigen said: "The weather is very cold today, but when I walked into this digital film industrial park, I felt hot, and I was surprised to see the original steel mill turned into this digital (film) industrial park, there are many movies in it, I have also seen it, but I don't know that post-production was born here." As a member of the Binhu District Writers Association, we just want to tell the story of Wuxi well, give full play to our talents, and use our own pen to praise our new era."
Ding Kangquan, vice chairman of the Binhu District Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of the Binhu Writers Association, said: "Today, more than 30 of our writers and entrepreneurs came to this film and television city to truly feel the development of Wuxi's culture and technology, which is refreshing. Through such an activity, we feel more confident in a culture."
At half past 10 o'clock in the morning, the group visited the recording studio, film and television shooting base, ** street, railway station shooting base, etc., watching the scenes in the TV movie presented in front of them one by one, everyone felt that the development of digital film technology was really incredible, and such a small scene could produce high-quality films.
After visiting the Wuxi National Digital Film Industrial Park, the photographer left a group photo for the group at the gate. Everyone reluctantly boarded the bus and began to explore the next snow wave element - Jiangzi Academy.
2. Surprise: Jiangzi Academy has a long cultural context
Xuelang Mountain, with beautiful mountains and clear waters, is the first peak of Taihu Lake, named after the original Xuelang Nunnery of the Song Dynasty on the top of the mountain, and the environment of Xuelang Mountain is quiet, and it is an ideal place for self-cultivation since ancient times. In recent years, with the continuous investment and transformation of the Shanshui City Management Committee, Xuelang Mountain has become more and more intoxicating and charming. The people around Xuelang Mountain are outstanding and the humanities are gathered, and there have been 15 Jinshi in the history of Xushe Town in the north foot aloneXuelang Mountain was the first to plant tea in Wuxi, which began in the Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming Dynasty, and was designated as tribute tea in the early Qing DynastyXuelang Mountain has welcomed historical figures such as Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Jianwen, Kangxi, Qianlong and Chiang Kai-shekXuelangshan also established the early Liberation Society and the League to carry out democratic revolutionary activities. Xuelang Mountain has so many "firsts" and "onlys" in Wuxi.
Wuxi has been the blessed land of Zhong Lingyuxiu since ancient times, and it has been spread that "one list of nine jinshi" and "six branches and three solutions" are good stories. Since the imperial examination, Wuxi (excluding Jiangyin and Yixing) has produced a total of five champions, four of whom have studied in Jiang Zige in Xuelang Mountain. Jiang Zige was named after Jiang Chongzhen, the first champion in the history of Wuxi. Jiang Chongzhen studied in Tanyun Pavilion of Xuelang Nunnery when he was a child, and won the champion in the sixteenth year of Song Ningzong (1223 AD). He has an upright personality and dares to admonish, and once reminded the emperor to prevent the fall of power into the six proverbs of "Difficult for the King", which made Song Lizong very impressed. In order to commemorate Jiang Chongzhen, the first champion of Wuxi, the descendants called Xuelang Nunnery "Jiangzi Academy". When Jiang Chongzhen was 17 years old, he opened classes at the foot of Xuelang Mountain and Jiang Zi Academy. Jiang Zi Academy has many talents, in addition to the champion Jiang Chongzhen, there are also three people such as Jinshi Ji Zeng Yun and Qin Huitian, and even the famous "Hua Taishi" Hua Cha has also studied in Jiang Zige. Jiangzi Academy, Donglin Academy, Anyang Academy and Erquan Academy are also known as the "Four Great Academies" in Xicheng.
Lingxiu Xuelang Mountain, a thousand-year-old champion. Jiang Chongzhen (1183-1249) was the first champion in the history of Wuxi, and was the champion in the sixteenth year of Jiading of Song Ningzong. The official went to Anji Zhizhou, ** the squire of the Criminal Department, and then resigned many times, and finally resigned as the squire of the Criminal Department, and was posthumously resigned as a loyal writer after his death. He lived a total of 66 years and went through the five emperors of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Wuxi's Xuelang Mountain gave birth to Jiang Chongzhen, the first champion of the Song Dynasty, and also opened the path for Wuxi literati to participate in the governance of the world. Similarly, Nantong also produced China's last champion, Zhang Jian (1853-1926), whose name was Jizhi and whose name was Si'an. His ancestral home is Changshu, Jiangsu, and he was born in Changle Town, Haimen, Tongzhou, Jiangsu Province (now Changle Town, Haimen City, Nantong City, Jiangsu Province). In the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894), Zhang Jian won the examination and was awarded the Hanlin Academy for revision. He is a modern Chinese industrialist, politician and educator. Zhang Jian advocated "industry to save the country", is an early pioneer in the field of cotton textile in China, founded more than 30 enterprises and more than 370 schools in his lifetime, and made valuable contributions to the rise of China's modern national industry and the development of education. When entrepreneurs saw Jiang Chongzhen, the champion of Jiangzi Academy, they thought of Zhang Jian, the champion industrialist in his hometown, and did not forget the concept of "mother industry, father education" put forward by Zhang Jian. The writers saw the hundred-year-old tea trees under the Xuelang Mountain with sufficient sunlight and a warm climate in Jiangzi Academy, and they couldn't help but be poetic, and praised "the color is green and not turbid, the aroma is not pungent, the taste is strong and not dry throat, and the shape is small and not floating". Every mountain rock here tells a moving story, every plant here has a spiritual life, and every pavilion here is a beautiful scenery.
After seeing the beautiful scenery of Xuelang Mountain and the Jiangzi Academy, where humanities are gathered, writers and entrepreneurs rushed to the next stop - Xuelang Academy.
3. Marvel: Yan Keqin's lecture is funny and elegant
Green bricks and tiles, wooden lattice windows, knee-high wooden thresholds. A hundred-year-old tree stood in front of the pavilion in front of the house, and when we stepped into Xuelang Academy, we felt a strong smell of books. At 2:00 p.m., we invited Yan Keqin, a famous Chinese calligrapher and painter, president of Wuxi National College History Research Association, consultant of Wuxi Binhu Writers Association, and consultant of Wuxi Commerce Center, to give a vivid lecture on "Containing Ancient Elegance and Brilliant Culture: A Brief Discussion on the Cultural Characteristics of Jiangnan and Wuxi Cultural Confidence".
After the start of the event, I first hosted and introduced the guests who participated in the event. At the same time, the four happy events obtained by the Wuxi Binhu District Writers Association in 2023 were introduced, the first happy event is that the members' works are frequently unveiled and published in the province and even the whole country, especially the 12 members of the Writers Association in the name of the Comma Academy Poetry Society, collectively appeared in the Yangtze River Poetry Journal hosted by the Jiangsu Writers Association in September 2023. The second happy event is that the Taihu Lake "Into Xiaonanli" rice field poems cooperated by the Binhu Writers Association and the Party and Mass Department of the National Tourism Resort were published in Nantong "Rudong**" and "Yangtze Evening News", and the creation of the activity was full of harvest. The third happy event is to play a new role and actively serve the economic and cultural undertakings of Binhu District. The fourth happy event is the cultural tour of the lakeside writers and entrepreneurs into the Shanshui City held today. He Ming, Secretary-General of the Federation of Literary and Art Circles, made an encouraging speech on behalf of the District Federation of Literary and Art Circles, saying that it was particularly good and creative for the Binhu Writers Association to hold such activities, and hoped that more such activities would be carried out in the future to stimulate the creative enthusiasm of writers. Lu Sheng, principal of Shanshui City Party School, introduced the culture of Jiang Zige and the history of Xuelang Mountain, and he hoped that the Binhu Writers Association would use Jiang Zige as a creative base in the future to create more works.
Yan Keqin, as a consultant of Wuxi Binhu Writers' Association and Wuxi Commerce Center, highly affirmed the activity planned by the Binhu Writers' Association, and the practice of integrating culture and economic singing is worthy of promotion and reference. Chairman Yan Keqin, as my old leader of the Radio and Television Group 20 years ago, also cared for me. He praised me many times in this lecture for starting a business in the sea, and I am currently the chairman of the Writers' Association and the president of the Chamber of Commerce, grasping culture with one hand and economy with the other.
After the lecture began, President Yan composed the four systems of Jiangnan culture from the four contexts of Jiangnan's culture, painting, music, and art. Speaking of Wuxi's economic and cultural development has made such great achievements, there are three main genes: one of the genes is that Wuxi has a 3,000-year-old Taber "three lets" humble spirit;The second gene is for the use of the Donglin Party people;The third gene is Fahrenheit's promotion of education and cultural philanthropy. These three genes demonstrate that Wuxi's economy and culture complement each other and develop together. Speaking of Wuxi's unique pragmatic concept, he told four stories, namely: Furuo Tao Zhu, Donglin Xuefeng, Rong's entrepreneurship, and Jingshi Taoluo. Finally, he talked about the four inspirations given to us by Wuxi's local culture: one side of the water and soil and one person, the roots of the original in the fertile soil, the erudition and the lofty deeds, and the prosperity of virtue and ambition. Looking back at the fruitful cultural achievements of the past, the people living in Wuxi should cherish the excellent traditional culture preserved by their predecessors, carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, continue to increase their cultural self-confidence and cultural consciousness, improve the quality of comprehensive civilization, let the fragrance of books continue, and let the cultural inheritance last.
Live up to the time, take the dream as the horse. After a thousand sails, he is still a literary boy when he returns!At the end of the event, the writers and entrepreneurs took a group photo with President Yan Keqin, and everyone said that the cultural trip was full of harvest, and the Binhu writers will use affectionate brushstrokes to resurrect every grass and tree in the landscape city, one person and one thing in the literary works, and continue to write the historical inheritance of Binhu culture with deep attachment and love, and gather the new power of Binhu development.
November 30, 2023.
About the Author: Ding Kangquan, pen name comma. He is a famous poet, television reporter, director, producer, cultural scholar, and economic critic. He is currently a member of the China Reportage Society, a member of the Chinese Prose Literature Association, a member of the Jiangsu Writers Association, a member of the Jiangsu Literary and Art Critics Association, the chairman of the Wuxi Binhu District Writers Association, a visiting professor of the Business School of Jiangnan University, and the founder of Comma Academy.
Editor in charge: An Juanying.