Pay attention to the canal in the canal to take care of the canal -Li Denan, visiting Huai'an Social Sciences, Professor of Huaiyin Teachers College

"I have an incomprehensible relationship with the canal." For Li Dan, a professor at Huaiyin Normal University, the Grand Canal is a valuable heritage left by the ancestors. It condenses Chinese wisdom and can be called "flowing culture". If it is marked by his master's dissertation "The Historical Inspection of Hong Lu Lianghong in Xuzhou in the Ming Dynasty", Li Denan has been engaged in the canal in the canal field for 20 years.

When he was a child, Li Dean liked to listen to historical stories. From the history teacher to the master's degree, doctoral, and doctors who took the history of the Ming and Qing dynasties, his attention to the Yellow River and Canal was increasingly comprehensive.

"As a researcher at a local college, we must stand on the local, serve the place, and pay more attention to local history and culture." After Li Denan went to work in Huai'an, Huai'an's rich historical and cultural resources made him a treasure, and he started to study Huai'an as the center. The complex systems of Huang, Huai, Yun, and Lake have completed the later funding fund -funded project "Yellow River hydrological and canal transportation in the background of the Ming and Qing Dynasties" and the Provincial Social Science Fund Project "the evolution of the Hongze Lake's return to the sea since the Ming Dynasty "With the regional society of northern Jiangsu", the State Social Science Fund project is currently undergoing research.

"The canal is a large classroom that needs to be inspected on the spot to understand the story." Li Dinan said. In 20 years, Li Denan has conducted a large and small canal for less than dozens of times. In 2009, Li Dinan published the article "The Cultural Heritage and Protection of the China Canal" in the "Guangming Daily", proposing "strengthening the research and protection of the Canal culture and its protection, which is not only an urgent need for the Grand Canal application, but also the inherent requirements of the regional economic and cultural construction of the canal. "Li Dinan believes that there are many existing aquatic heritage in Huai'an, with characteristics, connotations, and stories. To do a good job of protecting the canal culture, we must focus on the stories of "Southern Shipyard and North Malaysia Land", "Shui Man Sizhou City", "Nine Niu Two Tigers and One Chicken". The historical development process enriches its cultural connotation. In the new era of the construction of the Grand Canal Culture Belt, Huai'an should thoroughly excavate the connotation of aquatic culture, tell the unique canal story, and build the Baili Gallery of the Grand Canal. It is not enough to make the canal culture last, and it is not enough to rely on experts and scholars alone. Let more young people participate in it and promote and inherit them in a way of seeking young people.

20 years fingers. The young man who rode the canal in the canal at that time, now he always adheres to the front line of academic research, loves the canal, and studies the canal. In recent years, Li Dinan has undertaken 2 national social science funds projects, 4 provincial and ministerial projects, 4 publishing monographs, and published more than 70 papers. The young and young academic leaders of the "Blue and Blue Project", the "Zijin Cultural Talent" training objects in Jiangsu Province. The canal research has a broad world. In the context of the construction of the Grand Canal Cultural Belt, like the canal that has flowed for thousands of years, scholars' research on the canal never stops. (Li Rong)

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