At the moment of brushwork, Sima Qian's resolute eyes may reflect his youthful appearance when he was 20 years old. At that time, the young Sima Qian embarked on a journey that lasted several years with full of enthusiasm.
According to his recollections, he once sailed in Yuan and Hunan to visit the place where Qu Yuan sank. After the last journey of Dr. Sanlu's life, he admired Qu Yuan even more. In Sima Qian's writing, Qu Yuan's patriotism can compete with the sun and the moon, while his "Lisao" is full of deep sorrow and longing, which is moving.
After that, Sima Qian came to Huaiyin and learned from the villagers about the experience of Han Xin, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty, in the Buyi period. In "The Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin", Sima Qian vividly depicts the first half of Han Xin's life.
Han Shin experienced many difficulties and setbacks in his youth, he received a meal from his drifting mother when he was hungry, he was humiliated by the evil young man's crotch when he was difficult and frustrated, and when his mother died, he could not even throw a beautiful funeral for her.
However, the young Han already had the ambition to become a marquis, and he dreamed of one day being able to comfort his mother's soul in heaven with a princely gift. In front of Han Xin's mother's tomb, Sima Qian was deeply shocked to discover that the tomb was built on a high and open place, and that it could accommodate 10,000 families around it.
Sima Qian worshiped Confucius, traveled abundantly, met the "ancient troubled boy", inspected the Chu and Han war sites on the spot, and practiced his vow of determination to open up endless life with practical actions.
In his pen, historical figures such as Confucius, Liu Bang, and Meng Weijun are vivid, and although Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, was defeated and killed by Wujiang, he was still a hero who stood up to the sky.
Sima Qian collected the little-known past of Liu Bang's entrepreneurial team and compiled it into "The Biography of Meng Weijun", allowing us to get a glimpse of the changes in the ancient rivers and lakes.
His articles awakened the vigorous and uplifting style of writing, embarked on the road of historiography that has been sung through the ages, and became a model for countless historians in later generations.
This summer, we are no longer limited by reality, and we can explore the "endless realm" through the Internet and trace the great achievements of the ancients. Ping An, together with the China Youth Development Association and the Chinese Literature Association, launched a summer camp with the theme of "Endless Bounds, Aspiring Youth" from August 16 to 31.
In this event, the "Smart Village Education" project invited 1,000 families from all over the country to participate in the history class in an entertaining way. Through the live webcast, the students had the opportunity to travel to the Shaanxi History Museum, known as the "Pearl of the Ancient Capital, the Treasure House of China", together with the well-known writer Ma Boyong and scholar Liu Qinghe, and experienced a special historical journey of the Han and Tang Dynasties.
Writer Ma Boyong led young students to visit the Shaanxi History Museum, and started a unique journey of Xuanzang's scriptures under the guidance of the literary masterpiece "Journey to the West".
Different from the traditional classroom, Mr. Ma Boyong used the rich collection of the Shaanxi History Museum to reproduce the true story of Xuanzang, so that young students can have an in-depth understanding of Xuanzang's life and learning from the scriptures in the interaction.
Historically, Xuanzang was not an orphan described in "Journey to the West", but was born in a scholarly family in Yingchuan, Henan, and followed his second brother Chen Su to become a monk in Luoyang when he was young, becoming a young walker, and gradually emerging in the Buddhist world.
In the troubled times at the end of the Sui Dynasty, like Sima Qian in the Han Dynasty, he traveled all over half of China, starting from Luoyang and traveling to Guanzhong, Shudi, Jingchu and other places. This is a journey full of knowledge and fun, let us follow Mr. Ma Boyong and embark on this mysterious historical journey.
The portrait of Master Xuanzang shows his outstanding talent during his time in Chengdu. In a short period of time, he read through the scriptures of various sects and went to the altar to recite and explain them, which made people amazed.
A senior monk sighed: "I have seen many lectures, but I have never seen a young man with understanding like him. This trip can be said to be a rehearsal of Xuanzang's westward journey to seek the Dharma, and it also strengthened his determination to explore endlessly.
At that time, although there were hundreds of schools of thought contending with Buddhism in the Central Plains, due to the lack of Buddhist scriptures, there was no unified theory among the various schools. In order to change this situation, in the third year of Tang Zhenguan (629), the young Xuanzang gave up the recommendation of the court, chose to pay the price of his life, and bravely embarked on the road to the west, going to India, the birthplace of Buddhism, to obtain Buddhist scriptures.
Bronze statue of Master Xuanzang in Xi'an] In history, Master Xuanzang's journey to the west to seek the Dharma was full of hardships. At that time, the Turks repeatedly violated the borders of the Tang Dynasty, and westward transit was strictly forbidden.
But Xuanzang alone "crossed the charter and went to Tianzhu privately" and began his journey of learning scriptures. His road is full of difficulties and obstacles, especially in the desert, "there are no birds on the top, no beasts on the bottom, looking around, people and horses are overwhelming", only the sound of camel bells echoing on the Silk Road can make him temporarily forget his fatigue and dream back to Chang'an.
However, when he walked to the area west of the river, he was stopped by the local ** and forced to return east. But he was still unswerving, walking day and night, successfully crossed the heavily guarded Yumen Pass and five beacon towers, fell into the crisis of five days of food and water deprivation, and went through nine deaths to reach the Western Regions.
In the collection of the Shaanxi History Museum, there are many precious cultural relics that reflect the close relationship between the Central Plains and the Western Regions in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, the Tang Sancai camel figurines unearthed in Xi'an, Shaanxi Province in 1959 presented us with a thousand-year-old Tang Street ** meeting.
The Bactrian camel in the figurines must have appeared on Master Xuanzang's westward journey, and the instruments held by the characters in the figurines are basically from the Western Regions, and they probably play Hu music, which was popular in the Tang Dynasty.
This precious historical relic restores for us a corner of Master Xuanzang's life on the westward journey.
Endless exploration, kindness accompaniment" - the story behind the Tang Sancai camel-carrying figurines. In the difficult exploration of the Silk Road, Xuanzang not only had firm determination, but also the kind help of nobles and people from all over the world.
The king of Gaochang shaved the little novice as an attendant and presented ** and horses; The king of Quzhi held a banquet to avoid the disaster of ice and snow; The Western Turk chieftain sent people to escort him. Although Xuanzang's journey to the west was long and difficult, his spirit touched countless people and received a lot of help.
In the end, he obtained the scriptures from India and returned to Chang'an, where he was praised by the people and deeply remembered in the monument of history.
After Master Xuanzang returned to the Tang Dynasty, he decided to concentrate on the study of Buddhist scriptures, and politely declined Tang Taizong's invitation to become an official. In cooperation with **, they created the famous "Tang Dynasty Western Regions", which recorded in detail the customs of the Western Regions, India and other places, and many contents were not covered in the history books of the Han Dynasty.
This is undoubtedly another major geographical discovery in Chinese history, opening a new chapter since Zhang Qian, the Marquis of Bowang in the Western Han Dynasty, hollowed out the Western Regions.
Seven hundred years before Xuanzang's westward journey, another warrior set out from Chang'an to explore the endless world westward. He is Zhang Qian. In the summer camp activity of "Endless Realm Aspiring Teenagers", Professor Liu Qinghe, former dean of Shaanxi University of Science and Technology, told us the story of the teenager Zhang Qian's worries for the country, hardships, and hollowing out the Western Regions through the first micro-lesson.
In 139 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Che openly recruited envoys to the Western Regions to persuade the Dayue clan to attack the Xiongnu. Zhang Qian, a small official, bravely accepted the appointment and walked towards the ancient Silk Road that stretched for tens of thousands of miles.
Zhang Qian led a delegation of hundreds of people to the west, but was captured by the Hun cavalry at Yumen Pass. After that, he was forced to marry a wife and start a family in the Xiongnu tribe, and he was able to escape from house arrest for 10 years.
At that time, most of Zhang Qian's companions were lost, but he never forgot his duty as an envoy of the Han Dynasty. Although the Han Dynasty may have forgotten the young envoy, Zhang Qian never hesitated.
He continued with his original mission and finally found the Otsuki clan in the Amu Darya River valley in present-day Central Asia. However, the Dayue clan had given up their revenge on the Xiongnu and were unwilling to fight against the Xiongnu together with the Han Dynasty.
After staying in the Dayue clan for more than a year, Zhang Qian had to "return in vain", he wanted to detour to the Qiang tribe to return to Guanzhong, but he did not expect to meet the Huns, and was imprisoned for more than a year, until the Huns escaped from civil strife.
In 126 BC, after 13 years of hardship, Zhang Qian returned to Chang'an City. When he left, there were more than 100 people, and now only he and his entourage Tangyi's father (originally a Hu man, who was sold to Tangyi's family as slaves).
Although Zhang Qian's first mission failed, he still returned with unheard of the Han Emperor's unheard experience and investigation and research on the Western Regions. This is the first detailed record of the Western Regions in China and even in the world.
Later, Zhang Qian relied on his familiarity with the Western Regions to help the famous general Wei Qing fight against the Xiongnu, and sent an envoy to the Western Regions for the second time, on behalf of the Han Dynasty to persuade the Wusun State to form an alliance and cut off the right arm of the Xiongnu.
It was not until this time that the road from the Central Plains to the Western Regions was really opened, and Sima Qian used an incisive word when recording Zhang Qian's deeds in the "Historical Records" - "chiseling the hollow".
After 32 years of wind and rain, Ping An Group of China, which stands tall in the East, has gone all the way from a small fishing village in Shekou to the world. It is this spirit of endless exploration that has made today's peace.
In ancient China, the legend of King Mu of Zhou patrolling the world to see the Queen Mother of the West in "Zuo Chuan", and the westward journey of Zhang Qian and Xuanzang in the prosperous era of the Han and Tang dynasties are all vivid interpretations of the spirit of exploration.
Today, Ping An is standing at a new historical juncture, and we are striving to achieve a positive cycle of "technology-enabled finance, technology-enabled ecology, and ecology-enabled finance".
This is an in-depth practice of the spirit of endless exploration, and a leap forward in peace. Just like Sima Qian's youth study tour, Zhang Qian's hollowing out of the Western Regions, and Xuanzang's westward journey to seek the law, these are all vivid practices of the spirit of endless exploration.