Luo Yang calligraphy
In Jiangshan Town, Yinzhou District, Ningbo City, there is a thousand-year-old village called Zoumatang, which is the first village of China's "Xueba" family by the current people, and the stone archway at the entrance of the village is engraved with the big character plaque of "China's first village of Jinshi". Standing at the bottom of the torii, I curiously asked the "village official" who received me, which era left this title from?Or who granted it?The village official proudly said: It is confirmed by our village, and at the same time, his face is full of cultural confidence.
The trees surround the village, and the water is full of Pitang", and Zoumatang Village has the reputation of "Siminggu County, the state of literature, the victory of the rivers and mountains, and the rao of water and land". According to the "Genealogy of the Chen Family", from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, there were 76 Jinshi among the Chen clansmen, and 161 local officials.
The prosperity of Zoumatang began with the ancestor Chen Jin. In the first year of Duangong in the Northern Song Dynasty (988 AD), Chen Jin moved his family from Changzhou, Jiangsu Province (now Suzhou) to Mingzhou as the prefect, and was buried in Maoshan after his death. The flourishing literary style has created a unique cultural living space here, so that the Chen family started from farming and reading, kept poems, books, rituals and music, and fell into loyalty, filial piety, and righteousness. It also makes the Chen family talented, and the whole village is full of "lush and literary" fashion.
Zoumatang was originally called "Qingfengli", according to legend, because Song Huizong gave "loyalty and filial piety", so all places ** through this place, are "civil officials get off the sedan chair, military generals get off the horse, lead the horse and cross the river pond", so it is named Zoumatang, after the Song Dynasty Lizong and the family temple "Legacy Hall", so that Zoumatang "Qing two Zhengxun name Zhen Chaogang, four Jing three Qing virtue Wangwen Township", become a pearl of literary style on the Yinnan Plain.
Walking into Zoumatang Village today, you can still see that there are many ancient houses in the village, and there are 7 district-level cultural preservation units and more than 30 city-level historical buildings in the village. Most of the houses in the village were built in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and there were 3 houses built in the ** period, reflecting the classic style of the combination of Chinese and Western in the ** period. To this day, we can still see the genealogy of the Chen family and the emperor's decree in Ningbo Tianyi Pavilion, from which we can learn about the millennium changes of this family.
The flute and drum follow the spring society closely, and the clothes are simple and ancient. "When you walk on the uneven stone road, you can follow the main line of exploring Jinshi culture, with river networks and ponds as spatial features, ancestral halls, ancient houses, and traditional streets and alleys as the carrier, sigh while walking, carefully taste the strong humanistic atmosphere here, as well as a variety of unique folk Xi customs and local customs that have been inherited for a long time, and experience the quiet and distant thousand-year-old village style in an immersive stroll, and touch the ancient essence of cultivation and reading culture.
Author: Luo Yang.
Cultural scholar and doctoral supervisor.
*Special researcher of the Museum of Culture and History.
Consultant of China Folk Literature and Art Association.
China Federation of Literary and Art Circles.
Member of the 8th and 9th Presidium.
Director of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
Vice President of the Central Branch of the Chinese Calligraphers Association.
Vice President of the Chinese Association of Calligraphy and Painting for the Elderly.
He used to be the director of the General Office of the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the secretary of the party group, the vice chairman and the secretary general of the China Folk Literature and Art Association. He is a member of the Chinese Artists Association, the Chinese Photographers Association, and the China Film Association. He has published "Chinese Traditional Culture Speed Reading Series" and "Warning Maxims". Famous Words of Traditional Culture", "Tombs of Chinese Emperors", "Watching Homesickness", "Watching the Chinese Festival", "Watching the Ancient Village", "Luo Yang Calligraphy Collection", "Luo Yang Photography Collection", etc.