Du Mu, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, wrote a poem "Qingming Festival": "It rains a lot during Qingming Festival, and pedestrians on the road want to lose their souls. Asked where the restaurant was, the shepherd boy pointed to Xinghua Village. " This poem is very popular and has been praised all the time. However, there are different opinions about where the "Xinghua Village" in the poem is, or in Fenyang, Shanxi, or Huangzhou, Hubei, or Guichi, Anhui. So, where is the Xinghua Village referred to in Du Mu's Qingming today?
The first statement is: Xinghua Village, Fenyang City, Shanxi Province. As early as 15 years ago in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the apricot blossom village wine here was famous all over the country. Moreover, Xinghua Village in past dynasties is famous for its wine-making and wine culture. During the prosperous Tang Dynasty, it became the ancient capital of wine culture with "Xinghua Village wine is like a spring" and "green curtains are exposed everywhere in the street". Famous China scholars in history, such as Li Bai, Du Fu, Song Yanqing, Gu, Fu Shan, Ba Jin and Guo Moruo. Write poems in praise. Li Zicheng passed by Xinghua Village on Beijing Road and stayed for three days, leaving a "perfect" plaque. Xinghua Village was once renamed "Perfect Village".
Although some people think that the poem "Rains in the Ching Ming Festival" describes the spring scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, the spring in Shanxi in the Tang Dynasty is also full of spring rain. In fact, there are many poems describing spring in Shanxi and the north in Tang poetry. Yu, a famous talented woman in the Tang Dynasty, said in the poem "To Liu Shangshu": "It rains in Fenchuan in March and flowers spring in Jinshui." Du Liang said in the Qingming Banquet Tour: "It rained heavily in Mao Mao, and the spring breeze was late." Yao He has a poem: "A generation of Malones is mixed, and the Fenhe River is dark." "The golden leaves rain early, and the Fenhe River is clear." But the second statement of Shanxi
is next to the ancient town pavilion in Macheng County, Huangzhou, Hubei Province. The pavilion, located on the main road from Luoyang to Huangzhou, is an ancient city since the Southern Dynasties. Qiting, an ancient town, has always been a place where politics, economy and culture are concentrated. Now it still guards the Hanma Highway, at the junction of Macheng, Xinzhou, Huangpi and Hongan counties. It also includes: Xinghua Village is located in the north five miles of Qiting Town. It is natural for Du Mu to write this poem, because it is a traffic artery.
has du mu been here? There are poems to prove it. : "Bow-bending films fight for human beings, and once strong and thrush in dreams. A few times, I returned the wine and pointed to the cloud to wish Fei Ming. " This is a poem written by Du Mu for Mulan Temple when he climbed Mulan Mountain as the secretariat of Huangzhou. Du Mu must pass Xinghua Village from Huangzhou to Mulan Mountain. Du Mu was caught in the rain during the Qingming Festival and wanted to drown his sorrows by drinking. In the Song Dynasty, Su Shi moved to Huangzhou, passing by, and met his old friend Chen Jichang, who lived in seclusion in Xinghua Village.
As for the "restaurant" in Xinghua Village, there is a saying circulating here: "Li Santao Flower Shop, Li Si Xinghua Village, there is wine at the head of the village and beauty in the shop." According to the Records of Huangzhou Prefecture, the wine here is a distinctive "water wine". "If it is brewed with glutinous rice, its song is flesh-free, so it tastes the most mellow. Lu Jing, I put it in a porcelain jar and sealed it for storage. After years of yellowing, it tastes delicious. " This wine-making method has been passed down to this day and is a unique wine in Macheng. According to the records in the Temple of Mulan, about two or three years after Du Mu arrived in Xinghua Village, Xie Wuyi, a poet of the Song Dynasty, also passed by here, and wrote the poem "Preface of Macheng County Records" on the wall of Xinghua Village: "The flag of Xinghua Village is windy, the smoke is heavy, the water is soluble, the boat crosses the river, and the Liu Yin is strong"
The third statement is Xinghua Village in Guichi, Anhui Province. Some scholars believe that Fenyang in Shanxi belongs to North China, and the poem "Clear and rainy" is a rainy phenomenon in the south of the Yangtze River, not the climate in the area north of the Yellow River. This is the most important point. Since the beginning of spring, the days in the northern hemisphere have become longer and longer, and the southern heating mass has gradually moved northward. Before and after the Qingming Festival in April of the solar calendar, it just moved to the south of the mainland and met with the cold air mass in the north, resulting in a rainy spring in this period. However, in the north, the Qingming Festival is still dry and cold, and there will be no "abundant rain".
Not only that, Xinghua Village in Guichi has been confirmed by a large number of ancient books. A Random Record of Fu Zhai, two volumes of Jiangchengzi in the 24th year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty and the 43rd year of Qianlong in Qing Dynasty, two volumes of Jiangnan Tongzhi in the light years of Qing Dynasty and Guangxu period, and the printed version of Chizhou Fuzhi in the 24th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty.
has du mu been here? According to Guichi County Records, during the four years of Huichang in Tang Wuzong, Niu Li fought fiercely, and Du Mu also suffered greatly. From Huangzhou to Chizhou, the official career was not satisfactory. With his personality, in his spare time, he will inevitably go to the shops outside the city to have a few drinks and drown his sorrows.
The auction loan was exposed by the financial magic mirror, and the dispute over the location of "Xinghua Village" became more and more fierce. Perhaps the "Xinghua Village" referred to by the "shepherd boy" in pastoral poetry is not necessarily the real village name, nor does it necessarily refer to restaurants, but only the village in the depths of apricot flowers referred to by the "shepherd boy".