Zhenjiang, the intersection of the Yangtze River and the Grand Canal, adjacent to the landscape towns and the convenience of ships, has become a place where people gather, business gathers and is well informed.
In addition to enjoying the reputation of "the first mountain in the world", Zhenjiang has also occupied and written many "firsts" in historical and cultural coordinates.
Click on the "first" wonderful, from which we can feel the ancient extension of Zhenjiang cultural heroism.
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During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Liang Wudi boarded Gu Bei and saw spectacular scenery. He wrote "the first mountain in the world" in six Chinese characters.
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He heming, the "ancestor of Chinese characters"
On the stone wall at the western foot of Jiaoshan Mountain in Zhenjiang, the Chinese character "A crane crows" is engraved, which is an inscription to mourn the crane. The artistry of this tablet has a lofty position in the history of calligraphy development in China. The main feature of calligraphy on this tablet is that the round pen hides the front, and the style is changed from seal script; Broad knot and generous manners; The momentum is magnificent and the expression is flying, which makes people memorable. It is an extremely precious physical cultural relic in the transition period from official script to regular script.
"There are stone inscriptions in the north and righteousness and inscription in the south", and two inscriptions in the north and south have been circulating for a long time in the history of calligraphy in China. Huang Tingjian commented that "there is nothing wrong with big characters" and that "the ancestors of big characters are the people who wrote big characters".
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"The first spring in the world" Lingquan
Originally in the center of the Yangtze River, it is a unique spring eye in the Yangtze River. "Green as jade, thick as dew", the spring water is sweet and mellow, especially suitable for frying tea.
When Tang Lu Yu appraised the springs in the world, Zhong Ling Spring ranked seventh in China. Liu, a famous scholar in the Tang Dynasty who was slightly behind Lu Yu, tasted the water quality of tea all over the country and rated the water content as the seventh. Zhong Ling Spring ranked first because of its delicious water and good tea cooking, so it was called "the first spring in the world". Wen Tianxiang, a famous star in the Southern Song Dynasty, once wrote a poem full of lofty sentiments: "The first spring in the heart of the river, Yuan Wen went from south to north, and Loulan's poem was cut down, and he worshipped the gods at leisure."
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The Land and Water Dharma Society of China Buddhist Temple originated from Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang.
The Land and Water Law Society is the most solemn Buddhist scriptures and confessions in China, which originated from Jinshan Temple in Zhenjiang. Jinshan Land and Water Law Society flourished in Sui, Tang and Song Dynasties and Yuan and Ming Dynasties.
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Baohua Mountain, the First Mountain in Famen
Baohuashan National Forest Park is a national AAAA-level tourist area. Longchang Temple, a thousand-year-old temple, is well-known both at home and abroad, making Baohua Mountain a famous Buddhist "the first famous mountain of legalism". Baohua Mountain was once a place where Qianlong visited the south of the Yangtze River for six times, and it has a profound cultural heritage. Baohua Mountain has become one of the famous Buddhist mountains in China because Longchang Temple belongs to the Legalist Sect of Buddhism, which specially formulates Buddhist laws and regulations, and is called "the first famous Buddhist mountain" by the Buddhist community.
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"The First Blessed Land" Maoshan
Maoshan Mountain is one of the famous Taoist mountains with beautiful scenery and relatively normal climate. If you climb a mountain, you will see trees, running water, breeze in Xulai and white clouds all over the mountain, and all the peaks have no steep rock walls. Although the mountain is slightly uneven and winding, it is beautiful and lush. According to "Tales of Taoist Collectors and Cave", the Qushan in Jiangdong is called "the first blessed land, the eighth cave".
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The earliest surviving note novel Shi Shuo Xin Yu
Shi Shuo Xin Yu is a book written by Liu Yiqing and published in the Southern Song Dynasty. Liu Yiqing (A.D. 403-444) was born in Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province) and was a writer in Southern Dynasties and Song Dynasty. Shi Shuo Xin Yu shows the mental outlook of scholars in Wei and Jin Dynasties. Only heroes are real, and those who love themselves are real celebrities.
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China's first masterpiece of literary theory and criticism, Wen Xin Diao Long.
Liu Xie, a native of Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu), was a very famous literary critic in ancient China, and his novel Wen Xin Diao Long was handed down to later generations.
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China's first collection of poems and essays, Selected Works of Zhaoming.
Prince Zhaoming is a famous writer in China, and his greatest achievement is the compilation of Selected Works of Zhaoming. Lu You, a great poet in the Song Dynasty, said: "The literary selections are bad, and the scholars are half."
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China's first anthology of erotic songs "Ode to a New Yutai"
Selected works of Xu Ling, a celebrity in Zhenjiang in the Southern Dynasties.
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China's first monograph on astronomical instruments for hydraulic operation, introduction of new instruments and images.
Su Song was a famous astronomer, machinery manufacturer and pharmacist in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is the minister of punishments, the minister of rites and the prime minister. According to the Su family tree, Su Song (1020-1kloc-0/0/) is a native of Zhenjiang. The most important contribution of his life is to make a platform of water transport instrument with world significance. This is the earliest astronomical clock recognized by the world, and it is called "Su Zhong". Su Song's monograph "Essentials of New Instruments and Images", written according to his own manufacturing practice, is the first book in China that comprehensively introduces astronomical instruments for water transport.
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Kangxi Dictionary, the first written word book named after a dictionary in China.
Zhang Yushu, a college student in the early Qing Dynasty, was born in Zhenjiang and was the editor-in-chief of Kangxi Dictionary.
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The first monograph in China's modern history, Ocean Atlas, advocated learning from the West and suggested reform.
After the Opium War, Lin Zexu was sent to Yili, passing through Zhenjiang, to meet his old friend Wei Yuan. They shared a room that night. The year before last, when Lin Zexu was appointed as an imperial envoy, he instructed his "translation team" to compile the Encyclopedia of World Geography written by British Murray, which had not yet been published. That night, Lin Zexu handed all the manuscripts to Wei Yuan, hoping that he would compile the Atlas of the Sea Countries. Wei Yuan accepted the commission and wrote a book a year later. The main purpose of Map of the Sea is to see the world, learn from foreigners and control foreigners. These are the reform ideas that are the first to open the atmosphere. Modern military scientific and technological materials, if collected, are collected in books.
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China's first systematic grammar book, Ma Shi Wen Tong.
Ma Shi Wen Tong written by Ma Jianzhong in Qing Dynasty is a Chinese grammar work compiled by Ma Jianzhong and the first systematic Chinese grammar work in China. This book pioneered China's grammar. Taking ancient Chinese as the research object, this book successfully introduced western grammar into China, established the first complete Chinese grammar system, and laid the first cornerstone of modern linguistics in China.
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China's first book handed down from ancient times recorded by Oracle Bone Inscriptions, Tieyun Hidden Tortoise.
Author Liu E, a novelist in the late Qing Dynasty. Formerly known as Meng Peng, the word Yun Lu, established by convention. Later, it was renamed e, the word iron cloud, the word agreement, and the number was old and disabled. Signed "Hongdu Bailiansheng". 1903 was born in Dantu, Jiangsu Province (now Zhenjiang City). Liu E selected 1058 pieces from his own collection of more than 5,000 pieces of Oracle bones, and compiled them into six volumes of Tieyun Hidden Tortoise.
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China's first complete cultural history, The Cultural History of China.
Author Liu Yizhi (1880― 1956), whose name is Yimou, is justified, and he is from Dantu, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu. China is the pioneer of modern historiography, the founder of China culturology and the master of modern Confucianism. The Cultural History of China was written in the 1920s. This book established the historical position of China's cultural history, and also established the basic framework of cultural history writing.