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The inscription at the beginning of the article: Ge Chunlin
Shao "half of the word" "swamp" beautiful water abundance "Ming" to seek friends, thinking of the mother "Zhaoying" Zhaoming heart traces human culture.
The trip to Dragon City "Jinshan Jimei".
On the evening of February 28, 2024, the Spring River Flower Moon.
(a).
On the night of New Year's Day, the bullet train from Taiyuan to Jinan galloped in the night sky, sometimes skimming over the dark fields, sometimes driving past the brightly lit towns. When I arrived in Shijiazhuang halfway through, the red characters of "Hebei Market Supervision and Management" on the high-rise building outside the window shone brightly, which suddenly made me feel a sense of intimacy of meeting my old acquaintance in a foreign country.
Three days ago, when I was traveling from Jinan to Taiyuan on the morning of the car, I saw the houses and trees covered in snow, as well as the vast farmland and rolling mountains. After arriving in Taiyuan City, I saw "Shanxi University of Finance and Economics" and thought of my alma mater "Shanxi University of Finance and Economics", which also shocked my heart.
The whole train takes more than four hours, and in order to pass the time on the train, when I went out from home, I took a copy of "Guwen Guan Zhi" to read in the car. After reading a book for a long time, and then looking out the car window at the scenery that was quickly thrown behind me, my thoughts drifted away. At the end of the year, looking back on the unquiet year of 2023 and this trip to Longcheng (the ancient name of Taiyuan, also known as Jinyang and Bingzhou).
In the first half of last year, the old father returned to the west by crane, and in the second half of the year, he adjusted his work and went to Bao Village. Ben was born in the countryside, and after working for 28 years, he went around and around, and started the book of "rural revitalization" from scratch. But there is no longer the earnest teachings and warm care of his parents, so he can only move forward with one foot deep and one foot shallow. is over half a hundred years old, and there is only a way back in life.
Towards the blue sea and twilight, seeing the blue sky and climbing the white sun" is the oath and dream of Xu Xiake in the early years of the Ming Dynasty; On New Year's Day in 2024, I "went to Longcheng and Dusk Spring City": in the morning, I ushered in the first ray of sunshine of the New Year in Taiyuan, and in the evening, I returned to Jinan under the light of the moon, completing a cross-provincial journey of "Jinshan and Jinmei".
(b).
The opportunity to go to Taiyuan this time was to attend the wedding of relatives and children, and took time to visit the Qiaojia Compound, the Jin Temple and the ancient city of Taiyuan, which are nearby scenic spots in Taiyuan. Over the years, although there are relatives in Taiyuan who are convenient and yearn for it, they have not made the trip.
In the Qin period, the bright moon and the Han period, the Long March has not been returned.
But to make the dragon city fly will not teach Humadu Yin Mountain.
Wang Changling's poem "Out of the Stopper" makes the "Dragon City" out of the circle, Taiyuan has a history of more than 2,500 years of city building, "the key point of the four stops, and the capital of the five plains" is very strategic. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the three families of Zeng Han, Zhao and Wei were divided into Jin, and Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang, established the Tang Dynasty after raising troops against the Sui in Taiyuan.
Shanxi Province, which is known as the "Cradle of Chinese Civilization" and "Museum of Ancient Chinese Culture", has a cultural tourism slogan of "Jinshan Jinmei", which means "perfection".
The idiom "perfect" means: extremely perfect, extremely beautiful, describing things as perfect without a single defect.
It was first published in "The Analects of the Eight Hundred": "Zi is "Shao": "It is perfect, and it is also good." It is said that "Wu": "It is perfect, but it is not perfect." ’”
In the Qiao family compound, Qiao Zhiyong, a leader in Jin businessmen who is "perfect"; In the Jin Ancestral Hall, Li Shimin, the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who realized that "perfection is not necessarily perfect", created the "rule of Zhenguan" after the Xuanwumen incident; On New Year's Day, witness a unique and "perfect" wedding.
If there is any imperfection in this trip, it is that the three-day holiday is too short, and I have not been able to visit Wutai Mountain, which has been admired for a long time but is 300 kilometers away from Taiyuan, as well as the famous Hongtong locust tree.
(c).
We first drove more than 40 kilometers to visit Qiao's compound. CCTV once broadcast the hit TV series "Qiao's Courtyard", I haven't watched it. Now after coming here, I see the courtyards with ancient Confucian charm and magnificence, which seems to tell the glory of the Qiao family's business world in the past.
"Contentment Pavilion" is meaningful, "Fu Chong Langhuan" and other plaques shine in the courtyard, and the couplet of "harming people and wanting to restore heaven and morality" shows the family heritage.
Time travels to the Qiao family compound 117 years ago, where a pompous ceremony is being held, and the stream of mourners has lasted for 48 days, and the scene is very spectacular. This funeral took a long time, a large amount of pomp, and a huge amount of silver, which was almost unprecedented among the people.
The deceased is Qiao Zhiyong, who pushed the Qiao family's business to the extreme, he was full of poetry and books, eloquent and strategic, showed his skills in the family business, and single-handedly created the prosperous situation of "in the middle hall".
He knows people well and uses talents without sticking to one pattern; With marriage as a medium, form a business alliance and develop together; Regarded being an official as a dangerous path, did not study to become a scholar, but paid attention to making friends with the government and seeking a protective umbrella in troubled times.
At the same time, he has high morals, strict family rules, benevolence and generosity, compassion for the poor and the weak, and generosity, creating a smooth business environment both inside and outside, and his way of doing business in the world is almost perfect.
Qiao's family from the Qing Dynasty Qianlong orphan Qiao Guifa humiliated to the "full" generation of three brothers to carry forward the past and forge ahead, from the peak of "in the middle hall", to the sunset reflecting the sky, gradually ended, six generations spanning 200 years of turbulent years, rich and elegant and elegant, rich and benevolent do not forget to help the poor, Ze is the neighbor, well-known for future generations.
The Jin merchants worshipped Guan Gong as their faith, and under the influence of those who opposed the Qing Dynasty and restored the Ming Dynasty, the elites mostly preferred to do business rather than enter the court as officials, so that the people had the saying that "raising children and opening shops is better than being a magistrate". "Where there are sparrows flying, there are Shanxi Jin merchants", forming the spirit of "honesty and trustworthiness, pioneering and enterprising, harmony, pragmatic management, and helping the people through the world".
(iv).
On December 31, I took a bus to the Jin Temple and the ancient city of Taiyuan. Halfway through, it looks like an ancient city building from a distance outside the window on the right, and I guess it is probably the ancient city of Taiyuan.
From the early Zhou Cheng Wang's "cutting Tong to seal the younger brother", to the descendants of Tang Shuyu's merits and set up an ancestral hall to worship, there is now Tang Shuyu Temple, that is, Jin Temple. The earliest record of the Jin Ancestral Hall is found in the book "Water Scripture Note" written by Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty, the beauty of the Jin Ancestral Hall, the beauty of the mountain, the beauty of the tree, the beauty of the water, and the beauty of the writing of the "Jin Ancestral Hall" written by the famous writer Liang Heng:
The mountains here are majestic like a barrier ......The ancient ancestral hall is located in this continuous mountain, just like a lady half-covering the pipa, shy and charming.
The trees here are known for their ancient vigor ......Under the shade of ancient trees, the ancestral hall is extraordinarily quiet and elegant.
The water here is abundant, clear, quiet and soft......When Li Bai came to this point, he once praised:"The Jin Ancestral Hall flows like jasper, and the hundred-foot clear pond is cui'e. ”
From the outside to the inside, there are Jinci Park and Jinci Museum, the newly built Jinci Park, magnificent atmosphere, lake Xiu Tingjun; At the foot of the Hanging Urn Mountain, in the ancient Jin Ancestral Hall Museum, Qionglou Yuyu, the scenery is picturesque, exuding a simple, elegant and heavy atmosphere.
Our Lady's Temple, Fish Swamp Flying Beam, Offering Hall are known as the three ancient buildings of the Jin Ancestral Hall, in the Taiyuan Garden of Changqing Garden Expo Park, the representative building is the miniature version of the Fish Swamp Flying Beam; On the side of the hall beam, Qi Huai, Zhou Bai ancient wood towers to the sky, the three words of "difficult old spring" are written by Fu Shan, the anti-Qing righteous scholar at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this ancient tree, the ancient spring and the statue of the Song plastic maid in the palace are called"Jin Ancestral Hall three unique"。
The temple of the Virgin Mary enshrines the mother of Shu Yu Yi Jiang, 33 statues of Song plastic maids on both sides of the hall, "the mouth has affection, the eyes have God", the forms are different, comparable to the 40 Song plastic Arhat statues in the Thousand Buddha Hall of the Lingyan Temple in Changqing. In contrast, although each has its own merits, it seems that the Arhat statue of Lingyan Temple is more realistic and expressive.
Jin Ancestral Hall is the ancestral temple of Tang Shuyu, and there are ten directions of the holy temple and Taoist temple. In the temple of Emperor Guan, the statue of Guan Gong is uniquely dressed in imperial costumes, and the main hall hangs the plaque of "such as the peace of the sky", which means that it is the same height as the sky, and praises the greatness of Guan Gong.
In the afternoon, we will come to the restored landscape of the ancient city of Taiyuan, stroll through it, and experience the ancient history and culture of Taiyuan. Climb the ancient city wall, walk along the snow-covered road from the west side to the east side, look around at the new town surrounded by mountains, and look down at the streets and alleys of the city, and see people walking through the antique buildings. Under the afterglow of the setting sun, the banner on the wall is waving in the wind, which has a sense of transcendence.
And in Qushuiting Street in Jinan, it is the original old city building, the water is murmuring next to the old house in the old street, the fine willow is swaying, the snacks in the streets and alleys are fragrant, the crowd is bustling, and people are comfortable and leisurely by the spring water and the poplars.
(5).
In the Jin Ancestral Hall Scenic Area, there is a very important historical relic that is the only imperial monument "Jin Ancestral Inscription" handed down by Li Shimin, Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin's stone carving and the couplet of "article through the ages, Sheji Yirong clothes".
It is rumored that before Li Yuan, the Duke of Tang Guogong, raised his army, he went to the Jin Temple to pay respects and begged Tang Shuyu to bless the success of the uprising. Eight years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, the Xuanwumen Incident occurred, and Li Shimin successfully seized power and created the "rule of Zhenguan".
"Jiantong Feng Brother" is because you have no jokes and a word. This supremacy of imperial power made the struggle for succession between princes extremely fierce. Although it is traditionally the primogeniture system, there are many examples of succession, such as Hu Hai of Qin II, Yang Guang of Sui and Li Shimin of Tang Taizong.
The danger of officialdom is that once you lose power and break the law, not only will you lose your reputation, but you will also be connected to the nine clans or even the "ten clans", and it is impossible to be a common man again. When Prime Minister Li Si was beheaded in the Xianyang market, he said to his son: "We can no longer lead the yellow dog and go out of the east gate to catch hares." ”
ruthlessness is the most emperor's family", and the Qiao family's foresight is that they regard being an official as a dangerous path, so that their children and grandchildren can only learn to apply their studies, but not to learn to become officials, so as to avoid this dangerous political whirlpool.
When it comes to marriage, the royal children have already been arranged for political marriage, and in the Han and Tang dynasties, there were still distant marriages to the Xiongnu and **, how can there be any personal autonomy? They can enjoy the glory of kings that the common people envy, but they also lose the happiness of the common people.
(f).
Throughout the New Year's holiday, relatives and families were immersed in a joyful and peaceful atmosphere of preparing for the wedding. Friends who gave up their business to help enthusiastically are busy with excitement. On the dining table, there are ingenious fruit ornaments, meaning "love", "smooth sailing", "auspicious wishes", etc., and "red dates, peanuts, longan, and lotus seeds" on the new bed in the master bedroom form the words "early birth of a precious son". All of this is done to make the wedding "perfect".
The new house is located on the side of Jinyang Lake Park, and you can overlook it from the balcony. The park is similar to the Bian Que Cultural Park in Changqing, and is a place for citizens to exercise and relax. As you walk, the grass is covered with thick snow, the sun shines reddish through the clouds on the surface of the icy lake, and a clump of withered yellow reeds stretches their stems and leaves in the breeze.
On the evening of December 31, we toasted the friends who helped as an old family member in Shandong, and it was reasonable and unexpected to see the fellow villagers of Shandong Huimin manufacturers. "Originally from Shandong, I am fortunate to meet in Shanxi. The eldest sister of the manufacturer said: "This is our fate!" ”
On New Year's Day, we rushed to the hotel with the welcome team to experience a different wedding. At 12 o'clock in the afternoon, the wedding officially began under the auspices of ** church staff, and the pastor explained in detail why God made Eve out of Adam's ribs.
God did not use Adam's skull or footbones, that is, women are not to be above men or to be trampled under their feet. The ribs are the place where the heart is close, and the hearts of women and men should be close to each other.
Therefore, a woman should be a man's "bone of bones and flesh of flesh." Men and women form a family that is to be equal, harmonious, and happy. Regardless of the religion, its doctrine is "to persuade the good and seek the beautiful".
Comparing the customs of weddings in the two places, the wedding customs are almost the same in the greeting process, and the differences are reflected in the wedding procedures, banquet arrangements, and the help of relatives and friends. The biggest difference is that there are male and female chairmen in Jinan, and the general guests sit in the seats; On the day of the wedding, all the guests were seated in the wedding hall.
(vii).
Life can be as good as you want, and everything is only half satisfied. ”
"Perfection" is just a kind of people's good wishes, life is more flawed, the so-called life is unsatisfactory ten out of ten.
Eight, nine. And the positive meaning of life is:
Do the things of entering the WTO with the heart of birth, and diligently strive for "perfect wishes" with the mentality of accepting "unsatisfactory" and "semi-satisfactory"; I am fortunate to have gained, I have lost my life, I am indifferent, I am frustrated; Do your best, obey the destiny of God, and calmly meet everything in life.
both contented and happy, but also not contented and enterprising; Looking back on the past, there is no regret and no shame, and looking forward to the future bravely and resolutely.
The long road is long, and you can hang clouds and sail into the sea; The world is difficult, and you can take a light boat to cross the mountains.
Even if we were exhausted and fell halfway, we still enjoyed the scenery of the way we came. If you come here in this life, you will be worthy of this trip, not disgrace your mission, live up to your trust, and leave no regrets.
We are always on the road of pursuing "perfection"!
About the AuthorChunjiang Huayue, born in February 1972, joined the industrial and commercial work in July 1995 and joined the Communist Party of China in June 1999; Member of Jinan Writers Association, information propagandist of Jinan Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, has written 400,000 words of poetry, prose, ** and other literary works, published on WeChat***Qilu One Point, Baijia "Swamp Ming Shibei" and newspapers and magazines at all levels; The poem "Tears of Mother" was awarded the Excellence Award of the Expert Review of the Moving China Lyrics and Music Selection Committee.