"I don't know to go far in the middle of the night, is a boat crossing Cangzhou" or "nearly far" or "distance"?Which dynasty is the author?Cangzhou scholars look for roots

The picture shows the four -year engraving of the Qianlong Qianlong of the Intelligence Literature Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, (Qing) Sun Ying's "In the Original Poetry" (Wu Shuqiang's picture)

Tianjin Library has a ten -year engraving of Qing Xianfeng, (Qing) Dong Yan's "Jiangbei Yunchong" (Wu Shuqiang's picture)

"The long river and twilight are smoky, and the red leaves are small on both sides of the strait. I don't know the far near night, and a boat has passed Cangzhou." In recent years, a "Night Cangzhou" has continued to spread with the changes in the Cangzhou section of the Grand Canal. This ancient poem was quoted again and again with its deep but not losing mood, and it almost became a "poetic business card" when describing this Cangzhou "mother river". However, in this poem, in the sentence "I don't know to go far in the middle of the night", many reports or articles have also been written as "I don't know if I do not know the line in the middle of the night." Although it is "the difference between the word", the two scholars who are dedicated to studying Cangzhou regional culture for the director of the Cangzhou Regional Culture Research Institute and Wu Shuqiang, the director of the Cangzhou Library Special Collection Department, are also related to history. Awe, the rigor of academics is even more necessary to ensure its accuracy because of its widespread spread. Therefore, the two scholars also conducted some research on this poem.

Is it "Song" or "Qing"

In addition to the reversal of this "far" and a "near", the two scholars first verified the age of the author.

This is because on the Internet, there is also the author of this poem on the relevant books, Sun Yan of the "Song Dynasty". As two scholars who have studied local culture over the years, they know that Cangzhou in the Song Dynasty was not by the canal at all, but in the old state of Cangxian. Combined with the poem, the author cannot take the boat to "overnight Cangzhou." More importantly, in the Qianlong "Cangzhou Zhi" Volume 16 "Arts and Books · Poetry", there is this poem. This poem was edited by the cultivator in the "National Dynasty" -the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, in 2011 and 2014, the "Selection of Cangzhou Poems" and "Our Grand Canal" published in 2011 and 2014 have clearly marked the author of the author Sun Yan as "Qing".

Is it "close" or "far away"?

The author's age is determined. But there is another problem that follows, that is, in this poem, the last two words "I don't know to go far in the middle of the night", which is written in "Cangzhou Zhi" in the eighth year of Qianlong. However, in the four -year carving of the Qianlong Intelligence and Literature Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in the four years of "The Original Poetry", it was written "Far" -the finally found the "original version" of this poem.

The reason why I finally found "The Original Poetry" is to thank "Foreign Aid". It turned out that in order to verify this poem, Wu Shuqiang contacted Mo Xiaoxia from the Intelligence and Literature Center of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Because the title of this poem is just printed at the seams of the book, it was not read at the beginning. Later, Teacher Mo entered the library again to check it carefully, and finally found the poem: "Long river sun and twilight, and red leaves are floating on both sides of the strait. I do n’t know the way in the middle of the night. Tanabata Festival.

In addition to finding the "source", when Wu Shuqiang later sorted out the literature, he also found a "evidence", which was the "Jiangbei Yunchong" that was written in Xianfeng for ten years. This is a compilation of data from Beijing, south to Guzhou, and the canal of the canal north of the Yangtze River. It is a compilation of the data of the canal during the period of the Yin period of Shuntianfu. In this book, there is this "Cangzhou Night" - "The long river is smoky, and the red leaves are floating on both sides of the strait. I do n’t know far at the middle of the night.

"One word difference" is not a "small thing"

In order to verify this poem, the two scholars spent a lot of time. But in their opinion, such research is not a trivial matter, even if it is only to determine the upside -down or "far away", it is also the responsibility of being a scholar, and it is also the rigor and responsibility of spreading the local history and culture of Cangzhou.

However, with the continuous "popularity" of this poem in recent years, "Song" is still "clear", "nearly far" or "far away", these contents appear in different articles and reports, plus the rapid spread of the Internet. Make these two confuses never get the final clarification. This also made the two scholars constantly voice when they saw confusion: it was the Qing Dynasty, "from afar". In their opinion, even if it is only a "difference", it is not "trivial", because it is related to the rigor of academics and the accuracy of the historical and cultural spread of this "mother river". They hope that more people will pay attention to the research on this poem. With the "root -seeking journey" of this poem, they also have more of the Grand Canal on the land of Cangzhou. Understanding and perception.

(Overview of the news Yanzhao Metropolis Daily reporter Li Jiawei)

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