The Spring of Chang'an is a paperback book by [Japanese] Ishida Gannosuke, published by Tsinghua University Press, book price: 39.00 yuan, page number: 243, article bar I have carefully collated some of the readers of the readers of the aftermath of the book, I hope that you can help.
The Spring of Chang'an read (1): Bai Juyi's account of buying a house in the capital.
Written in front:
Chang'an science has become a discipline. No academic bottom of the people, just like from the historical cloud sea eight a little bit of their favorite things. Feel free to imagine their own story of Chang'an. This article "Bai Juyi Beijing to buy a house", is a summary of several books recently read Chang'an. My favorites are his Huayangguan years, and Zhaoguochang (昭国闲居). The Zhaoguo Fang period is still largely due to his involvement with Wu Yuanheng. Bai Juyi has survived a particularly large number of poems in which he describes much of his life and where he lived. This is why people like to write about him buying a house. Of course, Bai Juyi delayed to buy a house, in addition to monetary reasons, I think it is more in the hands of the money and like the house can not correspond, because near the age of 50, finally in the Hsinchang Square purchased ten acres of residential, Bai Juyi did not particularly like. Although the bamboo windows and pine lodges finally became an image of memories. But compared to the hard reading of Huayangguan and the acacia blossoms of Zhaoguofang, it seems that Xinchangfang is not so dazzling. Just this is what it seems to me. Bai Juyi's favorite is still the garden of Cuidao Square in Luoyang, there should be fifteen acres, half of which is a pool. According to his will remodeling, bamboo, lotus crane, no shortage. The last decade of his life, Bai Juyi in this peacefully spent.
"Spring in Chang'an" read (2): the designer of this book can do this book to commit hara-kiri = =
First of all, the cover design of this 10,000 big bad reviews, because of the vulgar color tone and random design, causing me to miss the book repeatedly. I'm sure it's not just a temporary design left on the hard drive in 2005, but it's also a book that was written in the first half of the year. Can not figure out the designer and the final review of the people in the head in what things, this kind of color and design can pass, are their relatives so random? Actually still Tsinghua University Press, this publisher's book I also bought a few books, not this is faulty is that faulty, really is a self-smash signboard, no wonder the Jingdong on the 30,000 attention.
Inside the paper and layout of a difficult to say, the most people are furious is the note behind each chapter, a stream of elementary school students reading compositions to understand the sense of vision. The most intolerable thing is to make the font so, so, so small! Look at a moment all hard, sore eyes, can not wait to take a magnifying glass to look at, otherwise look at a long time the eyes are going to be out of trouble. This book is how unpopular, when looking through the pages of the book at all times can be felt between the coping and perfunctory, blind so good content, and now beg for a better publisher, or find a reliable designers and editors, reprints. This book is really hard to turn, not to vomit!
"Spring in Chang'an" read (3): standing Chang'an
The Japanese pen of Chang'an has a different kind of sentiment, fine, as if the Chang'an will be dismantled to get a glimpse of the truth.
The old man was a learned man, well versed in the Chinese language, and had even read through the All-Tang Dynasty Poems. At first glance, this book seems to be a book of leisure, lively, fun, easy to understand, but it is a collection of serious essays, for example, the opening chapter of "Spring in Chang'an" language, as if reading Japanese literature, but the "hu xuan dance Xiaojiao" article and logical, rigorous evidence.
Mr. Lao wrote in the preface: "In today's world (1941), but get some of these useless words. My idea is that, on the study of China, there is a distinction between "today's use" and "tomorrow's use", and tomorrow's use has ten years, twenty years later. If we don't do these seemingly useless research, learning will inevitably be a building on the sand."
In such an awkward era, the Japanese so-called "today's use", "tomorrow's use" in the end why, do not dare to speculate, but such an attitude of learning, really admirable.
To say that the shortcomings, that is, although the book as a whole has been carefully organized, or can not avoid some of the content of the repetition, seems to be a little fragmented, lack of systematic, the more you read the more you have such a feeling, which may be a collection of essays can not be avoided. However, the flaws do not cover up the excellence, after reading, I feel a lot of benefits, just like an appetizer, leading people to want to go to this dynasty to eat.
I stumbled upon a website where I could learn about Tang Dynasty artifacts--
Shaanxi Digital Museum
The Spring of Chang'an (4): I can't help but remember Chang'an!
Two days ago, a rare snow day in Beijing, the circle of friends was screened, the Forbidden City was crowded, the Internet said: "Beijing once the snow turned into Beiping." Full of praise for the imperial capital snow drift. Beiping is beautiful, and in my heart there is another imperial capital: Chang'an.
I am a real old Xi'an, origin, birthplace and growth in Xi'an. So, when I saw the title of the book "Spring in Chang'an", I felt that no matter what, I had to buy it to have a look. After reading the book once, I actually felt like rolling on a field of peonies blown down by the spring breeze, which is exactly "10,000 miles of fuming wind, and the place where I come from is Chang'an." I don't know whether it is the beauty of the writing, the beauty of the translation, or the fact that the Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty depicted is the great beauty itself. Spring in Chang'an is a collection of essays by the Japanese scholar Gannosuke Ishida on the customs of Chang'an in the Tang dynasty, and the title comes from the name of the first essay. The article is so beautifully written and gorgeous that it is hard to imagine that this emotionally charged description came from a foreigner, and it is assumed that the translation played a role in this, as the translator, Qian Wanjiao, is the granddaughter of Qian Mu.
Majestic and majestic
But the city of Chang'an itself cannot be described as beautiful in any way. Although located in the Guanzhong Plain, but in the larger geographical context of the yellow earth is wrapped, destined to be the "wind from the slope" of the heroic, coupled with the pattern of the Tang Dynasty and the style of the capital, the city is endowed with a majestic posture and towering momentum. For example, the book about the Tang Dynasty "word dance" said: "In other words, the Tang Dynasty music and dance on a grand scale, the scene is spectacular, hundreds of beautiful women in full dress and gongs and drums and strings of the rhythm of one into the other, quickly change clothes to form the word pattern". "As for the said numerous people dancing, specifically as few as sixty-four people, as many as one hundred and twenty people, one hundred and eighty people, the grandest even hundreds of people in formation". I am afraid that such a scale of dance would require a rather grand stage to match. Sure enough, in another place to see the records echo each other, corroborate each other - 1504 this year, "read the library" published an article on the Tang Dynasty architecture, "Dreaming of the Tang Dynasty," which has a few paragraphs of text, will be the Tang Chang'an City and the city of Beijing to do a comparison: "(Tang Taiji) Palace east-west width of 1,200 eighty-five meters in width from east to west and one thousand four hundred and ninety-two meters in depth from north to south, covering an area of one point nine square kilometers, about two point seven times larger than the Forbidden City in Beijing." "The most grandiose of all is the horizontal street in front of Chengtianmen, the main gate of the Taiji Palace, which is surprisingly two hundred and twenty meters wide, which is feared to be the widest big sister in the history of China, and east-west length of two thousand eight hundred and twenty meters, covering an area of six hundred and twenty thousand square meters, which even exceeds today's Tiananmen Square (four hundred thousand square meters)." So it seems that a few hundred people did dance! Even after thousands of years, the grandeur of Tang Chang'an still lingers. When I was a child, I rode my bicycle to school every day and had to pass through the city wall via the Anding Gate (West Gate). Whenever the winter, early in the morning, the day is not yet bright, pedestrians few, cycling to the root of the wall, I always can not help but slow down, from far and near the wall slowly close to the gray walls in a quiet dark color seems incredibly heavy, calm and solemn. It is also in this scenario, this simple, full of loess flavor of the city in my heart has taken deep roots.
Acceptance of the heart of tolerance
Through the city wall, along the West Street all the way straight ahead, you come to the city center - the Bell and Drum Tower Square. The bell tower has a wooden structure as well as a brick structure, inheriting the architectural laws of the Tang and Song dynasties as well as absorbing the building techniques of the Ming Dynasty. The nationally famous food street "Hui Min Street" is nearby. The so-called Hui Min Street is a street where most of the merchants are Islamic Muslims. It is said that as early as during the Han Dynasty, this area welcomed merchants, envoys, scholars and foreign students from the western regions, and even more so during the Tang Dynasty, who gradually settled here because of their similar homeland backgrounds and religious cultures. Nowadays, this area is still the largest Hui people's settlement in Xi'an. If the formation of ethnic minority neighborhoods is a powerful footnote to the integration of multi-ethnic cultures in a city's history, then Hui Min Street, with a history of thousands of years, is an important symbol of Chang'an City, the capital of more than a dozen empires since the Han and Tang dynasties, as a center of cultural fusion. Cultural integration is an important theme of Chang'an Spring. The book examines a great deal of daily life and activities in Tang Chang'an, and it can be said that the city of Chang'an at that time was literally everywhere involving Hu! For example, the Lantern Festival - remember when we were children, every first month of the fifteenth night, the children in every household will light up the red lanterns will get together to open the "Lantern Festival", lively and extraordinary, read the book to know that this is passed down to the present day Zhang Lanterns was the first Western region of the Buddhist customs east to China. Buddhist customs east into China, and one of the three festivals combined with the Shangyuan Festival, to the Tang Dynasty development to the popularity and prosperity. There are also Hu Ji who smiles at the spring breeze in the shop, the beautiful women of the Tang Dynasty who wear threaded shoes and Hu shoes, and even a kind of gadget to persuade people to drink, "Wine Beard", which is a Hu image of a man with a "sharp nose and blue eyes". There are also countless other major figures who have been written into the popular Tang Dynasty China's treasure hunt. The author writes in the book: "Tang Dynasty China was an era full of exoticism. After the Kaiyuan and Tianbao periods, this tendency was especially pronounced. Chang'an was a center of monstrous hu style and hu customs."
Chang'an is full of fragrant dust in February, and the six streets are clattering with carriages and horses.
Every house is like a flower person upstairs, a thousand branches of ten thousand branches of red color new.
The curtains of the laughter ask each other, who has taken advantage of the spring of Chang'an?
The color of spring in Chang'an has no owner, and in ancient times it was all the women of the red chamber.
Now the people of the apricot garden, horses and light vehicles will be embraced.
--Wei Zhuang, "Spring in Chang'an"
My home is in Chang'an, so I can't help but remember it!
"Spring in Chang'an" read (5): Fangjia masterpieces
1, reading or have to read Fangjia masterpieces. Tsinghua University Publishing House and Dr. Literature's translators ensure the translation quality of this book. This book is edited from a series of small articles written by Mr. Ishida, a Japanese sinologist, in the 1940s. In terms of the style of writing, it has both the timelessness of our vernacular language in the Republican period and the little verbosity that all Japanese have. The Japanese sinologists of Ishida's generation were in the period of advancing to the continent of the Japanese Empire, and unlike the present-day scholars who are huddled in the stacks of old books, they were traveling all over the Asian continent on dusty expeditions. In addition to the information cited in the article, but also to visit the evidence. 2, this book and the last book written by Westerners, "Samarkand's Golden Peach", from the point of view of the Oriental people to talk about the life of the city of Chang'an. The information cited to see, mostly Han Chinese. The Tang poems are also not abrupt, which is the result of many years of immersion. Another major historical background for the author of this article is the eastward movement of the Morrigan Library to Japan. The Morrison Library was later known as the Toyo Bunko. Its historical significance, you can Baidu, temporary press does not table. 3, the Tang Dynasty cultural splendor, one of the factors for the Hu Feng East at this time is a great success. The so-called Hu Feng is not before I thought the nomadic hunting psychology, but with the Han civilization has the same long heritage of Persian civilization. A lot of small details are quite interesting, such as the Tang legend or notes in the common "Hu people to buy treasure" routine, spread to North Korea and Japan, and evolved into the "Women's real people to buy treasure" and "Tang people to buy treasure "The "dog big family story". After the exhaustion of the Western Region, such stories are difficult to see in the books of later generations. 4, many of the customs of the Tang Dynasty is not much survived today. Such as playing double land, playing polo, Lantern Festival, Su Mojiao (Kiln Festival) and so on. A lot of Indian customs imported from Persia. Of course, some of the impact on today's people silent. To cite two examples of Persian Zoroaster (also known as Chalastutra, yes, Nietzsche wrote that) religion, the light of the good god called Ahura? Mazda. Well, that's where the famous Japanese car Mazda comes from. The popular polo shirt is actually called polo shirt, which is the Persian name for the sport of polo. According to Tang history, the sport, which was loved by the Tang royal family (e.g. Emperor Ming Huang of Tang, who was full of artistic cells), was introduced to the Han Chinese by the Tibetans. It is said that the Tibetan language polo is called "Polo". 5, read these books about the Tang Dynasty scenery, intend to find an opportunity to go down the Shaan Bo, this year to Japan. Read more books on Persian culture and civilization of the two rivers, three or five years later to go to the Middle East to play.