Guizhou is a place with a long cultural history, which has given birth to many wonderful and different cultural characteristics. It has outstanding people and outstanding people. Among them, the most regional Guizhou culture is the "beach culture". Some people say that Guizhou Culture is in northern Guizhou, and culture in northern Guizhou is on the beach, which is enough to show the important status of culture here.
Beach culture
The concept of beach culture was first seen in the "New Chronicles of Zunyi" compiled by the Institute of History and Geography of Zhejiang University. The "beach period" refers specifically to the period of more than 100 years from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. During this period, the Li family, who had lived in Xinzhou Beach, Zunyi, and their neighbors, the Zheng and Mo families, produced numerous literary talents and wrote abundant works. Their achievements and influence constituted a well-known regional culture, that is, "beach culture".
The founder of beach culture is Li Xun, and famous representatives include Zheng Zhen, Mo Youzhi, and Li Shuchang. Three families gathered in the beach area, and they have known each other for generations, got married, and became each other's teachers and friends. Among the generations of the three families and their disciples, dozens of writers and scholars emerged, which can be described as a vast and vast sea. It became a cultural scene in the nationally renowned cultural areas in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, representing the highest level of Guizhou culture at that time. .
It is not only a miracle in the history of Guizhou cultural development, but also rare in the history of national cultural development. Many of these works were in a leading position at the time, gradually spread across the country, and then to the East and West, and have attracted international scholars to this day. attention, the impact is far-reaching. Therefore, beach culture occupies a very important position in the history of literature and academics in my country, and has become a unanimously recognized fact in modern and contemporary academic circles.
Zheng Zhen is undoubtedly the chief representative of "beach culture". Her poems were praised as the "ancestor" by the "Tongguang Style" poetry school that later became the most influential in the country. In terms of academics, she was praised by scholars at that time. Together, it is a pocket-sized edition. Zheng Zhen wrote more than 70 kinds of works in his lifetime, which can be regarded as a body of work. He was praised by modern scholars as the "Great Confucian of the Southwest".
With his achievements as a scholar and poet, Mo Youzhi has become an important representative of beach culture. He once served as Zeng Guofan's staff. He was proficient in bibliography, phonetics, and calligraphy. He wrote 23 kinds of works in his lifetime, of which 137 volumes have been published. His 16-volume academic masterpiece "Bibliography of the Biography of Fanting Zhijian", first published in Japan, is a must-have on the desks of bibliophiles and librarians. Therefore, he became the two founders of the discipline of edition bibliography in the Qing Dynasty. one.
Li Shuchang, known as "the first person from Guizhou to go global", has achieved and contributed mainly in three aspects: First, he has served as counselor to Britain, France, Germany and Spain, and twice as minister to Japan. A famous diplomat in the Qing Dynasty; secondly, he was famous for his prose in literary creation. Because he traveled far and wide and had a broad mind, his prose was rich, powerful, majestic, masculine, and feminine. A famous prose writer in the Qing Dynasty.
Thirdly, during his tenure as ambassador to Japan, he collected 26 rare ancient Chinese books that had been scattered in Japan and compiled them into 200 volumes of the "Guyi Series", which provided extremely valuable information for domestic academic research. In addition, he also majored in many historical and geographical monographs.
The works of Beach literati, with their rigorous scholarship, sophistication of insights, high level of creation, and exquisite art, have attracted keen attention from academic circles across the country. Dozens of research monographs and academic papers have been published. There are nearly a thousand articles, and the research on "beach culture" has gradually shown an international trend, which shows that its precious value and far-reaching influence have long surpassed its proper meaning as a regional culture.
The essence of the beach cultural heritage lies in: persisting in running schools; studying hard; purchasing books and bequeathing them to future generations; actively absorbing foreign culture and having the courage to innovate and develop. "Guizhou culture is in northern Guizhou, and northern Guizhou culture is in the beach." This sentence highly summarizes the status of beach culture in Guizhou.