"My house has two walls, 100 meters long in front and back. Walk in the middle of morality and righteousness, and stand on both sides of courtesy. "On Chinese New Year's Eve, the song "Six Feet Alley" sung by the famous poet He Dongjiu from Susong, composed by Zhang Zhengyang, a young singer from Tongcheng, and sung by Zhao Wei, an actor from Wuhu, Anhui Province, appeared on the 2016 CCTV Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Monkey.
Six-foot Alley is a comparison between the past and the present.
Since February 8 this year, there has been an endless stream of tourists who come to Six Feet Lane every day to visit and sightsee, including wanderers who return to their hometowns for the Spring Festival, as well as tourists from all over the country. For a while, the hundred-meter-long six-foot alley was surrounded by water.
Zhao Wei sang "Six Feet Lane" at the Spring Festival Gala of the Year of the Monkey in 2016
Mr. Cheng Zixun from Yangzhou, Jiangsu Province, came to visit the site with his wife on the third day of the first lunar month because he watched CCTV's Spring Festival Gala "Six Feet Lane". He said that he didn't have a deep impression of Six Feet Lane before, but after watching the program "Six Feet Lane" this year, he consulted a lot of information about Six Feet Lane, plus on-site visits, and felt more deeply.
Cao Wei, who has been working in Guiyang, took the opportunity to go home for the Spring Festival, and on the morning of the third day of the first lunar month, he took his lover and children from his hometown Xindu Town to visit Liuchi Lane. He said that when the whole family visited Six Feet Lane together, they hoped that the traditional virtues of harmony, courtesy and tolerance contained in Six Feet Lane could be passed on and passed on among family members. At the same time, he also said that he should bring this spiritual virtue out and better spread it among colleagues and friends.
The song "Six Feet Lane" is based on the allusions of Six Feet Lane in Tongcheng, and integrates elements such as Huangmei Minor, Peking Opera and modern pop**. Located in Tongcheng, Anhui Province, the six-foot lane, its name comes from the story of Zhang Ying, the chief assistant of the Kangxi Dynasty, who "gave up three feet" to his neighbors.
According to historical records, during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty, the old family of Tongcheng (1637-1708), a scholar of Wenhuadian University and a scholar of the Ministry of Rites, had a dispute with the neighbor Wu family over the issue of the housestead. Because both sides are famous families with prominent official positions, the county officials do not dare to make a decision easily.
So, the Zhang family sent a letter to Zhang Ying in the capital for help. After receiving the book, the current dynasty Zaifu sent a poem back to his hometown, which is this limerick poem that has been handed down to this day: "A paper book is only for the wall, so why not let him be three feet." The Great Wall is still there today, and Qin Shi Huang is not seen. ”
As soon as they saw the reply, the Zhang family suddenly brightened up and retreated the wall three feet. Seeing this, the Wu family was deeply moved, and also gave up three feet, forming a six-foot-wide alley.
Since then, this six-foot-wide alley has been famous in the township as "Six-foot Alley" and has become a folk story.
Today, although the old mansions of the Zhang and Wu families have entered history for more than 300 years, this alley still stands quietly there, and attracts ordinary people and officialdom dignitaries to come and understand its cultural connotation of mutual respect, harmony and tolerance, and a degree of advance and retreat.
*: Anhui Business Daily, etc.