Where the Xinghua Village in Du's poem is located, some say it is in Fenyang County, Shanxi Province, and others say it is Guichi County, Anhui Province. In recent years, there have been mentions of Xinghua Village in Yixing, Jiangsu, Xinghua Village in Xuzhou, Jiangsu, and Xinghua Village in Macheng, Hubei. There are more than 20 places across the country claiming to belong to Xinghua Village, but none of them has sufficient evidence. On the afternoon of the 9th, Wu Xinggu opened his suitcase full of Xinghua Village research materials and introduced it to reporters with great interest.
Among the two main theories, the reason for Xinghua Village in Fenyang, Shanxi is that the village’s winemaking began in the Northern Wei Dynasty and has a history of more than 1,500 years. Fenjiu is also a famous Chinese wine; the reason for Xinghua Village in Guichi, Anhui is that it also Brewing, and Du Mu once served as an official in Chizhou. The Guichi speaker refutes the Fenyang speaker: There is no record of Du Mu's visit to Fenyang in the two "Tangshu" biographies and the "Du Mu Chronicle". The Fenyang speaker cited Du Mu's poem "Bingzhou Daozhong" as evidence, and the Guichi speaker also said that "Bingzhou Daozhong" is not reliable either. The monograph "Xinghua Village Chronicles" by Lang Sui, a Qing Dynasty scholar from Guichi County, Anhui Province, who was selected by Ji Xiaolan, editor of the Hanlin Academy of the Qing Dynasty, for inclusion in the "Sikuquanshu" also has a note: "'Ask where the restaurant is, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. The sentence "Huacun" refers to the scenery in general, and it must be described as a village, so the sentence is stagnant!" After reading "Xinghua Village Chronicles", the location of "Xinghua Village" described in it is also vague. The words are vague and indistinguishable. The oldest county chronicle in Yushan was compiled in the Qing Dynasty. Today there is only one solitary copy left, which is now in the National Library in Beijing. It was compiled in the 10th year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1671). There are five detailed records about "Xinghua Village".
Wu Xinggu took out three thick handwritten copies and told reporters that in 1984, in order to re-edit the county annals, Yushan County officials sent two comrades to the then Beijing Library and spent three days. It took him three months to copy down the solitary county annals word for word, and the three books in his hand were copies of the handwritten manuscript. Two years ago, in order to protect the cultural relic "Dongjin Bridge" built during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, he and several old comrades found relevant records about Xinghua Village and Du Mu while searching the county annals.
"It rains heavily during the Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to die. I asked where the restaurant is, and the shepherd boy points to Xinghua Village. ——Du Mu from Xinghua Village, Yuxi", the original record recorded in the poem in the county annals is Such, and other records about "Xinghua Village" are as follows: "Xinghua Village is located in the west corner of the county. It is near the stream and there are many apricot flowers, so it is named. In the old days, there were singing halls and restaurants, and many boats were parked under it. An ancient poem said: "I asked where the restaurant was, and the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village." "Cai's home is located in the west corner of the county and is adjacent to Xinghua Village. It was a place where people visited in the past." "The old Xinghua Village is in the south." Go out on the Yuhong Bridge." "The lower street goes from the third bridge of East Street to the front of Yuhong Bridge, and then turns north to Xinghua Village. The south corner of the city belongs to it." The local chronicle was the official history, and it had to be sent to the imperial court for "recording". The imperial officials at the prefectural and county levels would definitely not risk the crime of "deceiving the emperor", and the "Yushan County Chronicle" compiled must be authentic and reliable. The local map in the county chronicle also accurately indicates the geographical location of "Xinghua Village". The location and boundary are very specific. Wu Xinggu told reporters that looking at the historical materials about "Xinghua Village" across the country, there are no such affirmative narratives and specific geographical descriptions, so he believes that "Xinghua Village" in Yushan is Du Mu. Xinghua Village in the poem. The green water flows slowly. A dozen village women are washing clothes by the river. More than ten meters away from the river, there are many weeds beside the mottled old city wall. Inside the city wall is a piece of cement. House. On the afternoon of the 9th, when I stood on the Yuhong Bridge in Bingxi Town, Yushan County, I saw this scene.
According to the marks on the map, all the private houses seen inside and outside the city wall belong to this category. The name of Xinghua Village was still used until the Qing Dynasty, and the location where the village women washed their clothes may have been the place where tourists parked their boats thousands of years ago. Wu Xinggu said as he walked along the cement road beside the ancient city wall. He took the reporter to a city gate that had been sealed with bricks and told the reporter that this was the main gate for Xinghua Village to leave the city. It was called Xinghua Gate when the government built the Yuhong Bridge in 1994. The city wall was destroyed again. A long section, after seeing Xinghua Gate, walk along Yuhong Road towards the south of the city. It turns out that it is all ancient city walls. When you are about to reach Yushan County People's Hospital, a thin bend of water passes through the city. Wu Xinggu pointed to the small stone grid made of red stones that was pressed under the cement road and said that the name of the bridge is Xinghua Bridge, which is also recorded in the county annals.
It is located in the People's Hospital next to Yuhong Road. Two ginkgo trees tower into the sky.
The first one is located next to the second ward in the hospital. It takes three people to hug it. The other one is located at the entrance of the hospital building. Because of its age, a protection sign has been hung on it. Gu Wenlong, a member of the Shangrao Writers Association who was traveling with him, told reporters that these ginkgo trees are still blooming and bearing fruit. They grow very slowly and are at least hundreds of years old. Du Mu probably wrote the poem in the Qingming Dynasty in the third year of Yamato (828), and the place was in Yushan, Wu Xinggu said. From the "Epitaph" written by Du Mu when he was 50 years old and the "Biography of Talents of the Tang Dynasty" written by Xin Wenfang, a scholar of the Yuan Dynasty, we learned that Du Mu wrote "A Fang Palace Fu" at the age of 23, and ranked fifth as a Jinshi at the age of 26, but was only The imperial court awarded him the title of Ninth Rank Official Secretary of Hongwen Hall. In October of the same year, Shangshu Youcheng Shen Chuanshi was appointed as the Observer of History of Jiangxi, and Du Mu was recommended to be the ninth rank inspector of Jiangxi Tuanlian Prefecture. As an inspector, he was naturally ordered to go on patrol in Yushan County across the province. Du Mu was from the north. He was young and impatient at the time and was not used to the southern climate. When he first arrived in Yushan, he was not familiar with the place. Also, he was on patrol during the Qingming Festival. Tianyu Road When you are slippery, anxious and thirsty, it is quite normal to feel the emotion and complaint of "the soul of a pedestrian on the road is dying".
And when Du Mu was promoted to Anhui and other places, he would ride on horses and sedans when he went out, and he would be greeted by people in front and behind, and treated with delicious food and wine. Why should he condescend to ask for wine? In addition, this poem by Du Mu is not found in Du Mu's "Collected Poems of Fanchuan" and "Collections of Other Poems", nor is it included in the "Complete Poems of the Tang Dynasty" prefaced by Emperor Kangxi Xuanye, indicating that the poem was written from the Tang Dynasty to the forty-sixth year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1707). ) has not yet been recognized and circulated by all walks of life. However, with the public release of the Kangxi edition of Yushan County Chronicle in 1671, the poem became widely circulated and became a household name. Yushan is a county with a thousand-year-old history. It is the hometown of Chinese folk culture and has a strong spirit of devotion to learning. It is home to the famous Taoist mountain Sanqing Mountain, which is beautiful and majestic and longed for by the world. It is also known as "the key to two rivers and the thoroughfare of eight provinces". Beijing Avenue, land and water transportation is developed; since ancient times, the wonderful landscape cultural tourism resources have attracted many poets and poets to Yushan to write poems and paintings.
According to county records: After Wu Zetian came to power, the Tang Dynasty painter Yan Liben (official to Zhongshu Ling, the prime minister) chose a place to build a house at the foot of Wu'an Mountain and set up a studio to study. During the Zongzhang period (669-670) , and "the house was converted into a monk's house", and it was converted into the Puning Temple in the suburbs of Yushan County today; the Tang poet Dai Shulun, a Jinshi, served as an aide to the Jiangxi Observation Envoy and the governor of Fuzhou during the Jianzhong Period (780-783). He visited Yushan and left behind "My family is in my hometown between Wu and Chu. The ice is the stream and the jade is the mountain. I have transformed the old government into neighboring towns. I can see the Bo people chasing each other back from afar." This famous poem was written by Gu Kuang, a poet of the Tang Dynasty. He was a Jinshi in the fifth year of Zhenyuan (789). When Si Hu of Raozhou (now Poyang, Jiangxi Province) was in the army, he sent his friends to Yushan and wrote a poem: "Good birds are singing in the trees near the water, and you only owe money to buy the mountain. If you can plant thousands of poles of bamboo, you will be attracted by it." A spring at home." Wait.