Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News Reporter Li Wei One afternoon in March 1923, Yu Pingbo and Zhu Ziqing, who were all wet, just met each other and became angry. Left: Yu Pingbo Right: Zhu Ziqing Yu Pingbo came to visit Zhu Ziqing, who teaches at Chunhui Middle School. Zhu Ziqing

Qianjiang Evening News·Hourly News Reporter Li Wei

One afternoon in March 1923, when Yu Pingbo and Zhu Ziqing were all wet, they just met each other, and they were not angry at all.

Left: Yu Pingbo Right: Zhu Ziqing

Yu Pingbo came to visit Zhu Ziqing, who teaches at Chunhui Middle School. Zhu Ziqing wrote to say that he would meet at the "Baiguan Station". Baiguan Station was later Shangyu Railway Station, a few kilometers west of Chunhui Middle School. It was obvious that Yu Pingbo had passed the station. In the end, we had to hire a rickshaw and return in the wind and rain.

I wonder if it was a typo. Zhu Ziqing could have just written "Yiting Station" in the letter. He once described it in " White Horse Lake ": The first time I returned to White Horse Lake, it was a spring day with a gentle breeze. Baima Lake is located at the Yiting Station of the Yongshao Railway. It is a very small rural place.

Yiting Station

It is in this tiny, tiny place that a miracle in the history of modern Chinese education was born.

In the 1920s, a large number of well-known domestic scholars and celebrities gathered here because of their similar life interests and common cultural ideals. In the countryside far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, besides preaching and teaching, they also formed the "White Horse Lake School", an important group of writers in the history of modern Chinese literature.

Jing Hengyi

When he was the principal of Chunhui, Jing Hengyi’s principal’s office building was named “Shanbian First Floor”

Jing Hengyi was also a master of epigraphy. He carved the fine red seals on the first floor of Shanbian

Behind this , there is an important promoter - the famous educator Jing Hengyi. Jing Hengyi was born in the Jing family of Yuyiting. For generations, members of the Jing family practiced charity, established new schools, managed the world and benefited the people, and many sages emerged in the countryside. Therefore, Yiting, an originally inconspicuous small town in Shangyu, has become an important "station" in the history of Chinese literature; the literary style and charm that came from the Baima Lake and Chunhui Garden have influenced the construction of Yiting to this day. The future of the pavilion; and the Erdu bayberry nourished by this landscape, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is one of the most literary fruits.

Yangmei in Erdu

Coincidentally, it is another year when Yangmei is red, so let’s take a look at the Yiting.

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Yiting, just from the literal name, it is not difficult to guess its main role in the long history. It is a post station with developed land and water transportation.

Yiting Town Old Street

is located at the midpoint between Hangzhou and Ningbo Ancient Post Station. East Zhejiang Canal passes through the town. People who come and go by land and water have to stay here, so houses are built next to the weir and a post station is named. pavilion. The pavilion has been abandoned for a long time, but its name remains unchanged. Thousands of years of water and land transport, and the official travelers traveling from north to south, brought a bustle to the town. It was not until the beginning of the last century that there were new changes - in 1914, the section of the Xiao-Ningbo Railway from Ningbo to Shangyu was opened to traffic. It only takes two hours by car from Shangyu Baiguan to Yuyao. Shangyu has three stations: Baiguan, Yiting and Wufu. Yiting Station is right in the middle.

In the 1920s and 1930s of the last century, Li Shutong, Xia Zunzun, Zhu Ziqing, Kuang Husheng, Zhu Guangqian, Feng Zikai, Wang Renshu and others got off the bus here one after another, and walked along a The two-metre-wide Cinder Road goes southbound.

Baima Lake reflects the walled school building of Chunhui Middle School

Facing the wind blowing from Baima Lake, you can see the spread of elegant greenery, and the "thin black particles under your feet, when you step on them, you will feel a kind of friction" The cool sound gives people a lot of fresh interest" (Zhu Ziqing). Walking along the coal chip road for more than 10 minutes, you will reach the most scenic spot of Baima Lake. The largest lake surface reflects the walled school building of Chunhui Middle School.

Chen Chunlan and the documents at that time (the 150,000 yuan mentioned in it was the first investment, and an additional 50,000 yuan was later added)

Starting in 1919, Chen Chunlan, a modern industrialist in Shangyu, invested 200,000 silver yuan and entrusted Xiangxian Wang You He Jinghengyi and others organized the establishment of the school and used their life savings to cultivate Chunhui Middle School.

The early Chunhui Middle School was a typical Swedish building, combining Chinese and Western styles, connected by a long corridor.

The Yangshan Building in Chunhui Middle School

A wealthy businessman from Shanghai who was an illiterate peasant returned to his hometown and his most heartfelt donation was not to donate money to build a temple, but also to build a temple. It’s not about paving roads and building bridges, it’s about running schools.This insight comes from the enlightenment and edification of Shanghai Beach, as well as from the virtuous culture accumulated over generations in Yiting.

The Jing family has been farming and studying for generations, and it was passed down to Jingwei in the 17th century, where they worked in Shanghai and earned a huge family fortune. This wealthy man in Shanghai's money industry spent his entire life as a commoner, spreading wealth and doing justice. He ran three churches to benefit old and young women, built a porridge factory, and helped poor people. When he was over sixty years old, he spent the last years of his life building the seawall , and died of illness due to overwork.

Jing Yuanshan, like his father, is also a philanthropist, Westernization entrepreneur and educator. He founded the first women's school in Shanghai and built an agricultural and industrial school in Shangyu. In 1877, he took the lead in disaster relief in Henan Province. With Shanghai as the center and Jiangsu and Zhejiang as the basis, the scope affected most of China and even spread to Japan, Europe, America, and Southeast Asia.

Jing Shuping

In the "Yiting Jingshi Genealogy" compiled by Jing Yuanshan and edited by Heng Yi, there is also a famous rural sage, a legendary figure who has witnessed the ups and downs of China's non-public economy for decades. Jing Shuping, the founder of Minsheng Bank, is a generation of political and business leaders.

went from spending money to help the people and running charities, to engaging in Westernization, running new schools, providing disaster relief and educating the people, from advocating the new cultural movement and leading a generation of innovative educators, to a financial master who explored a balanced and harmonious development path for New China... Thanks to them, the sky in the countryside of eastern Zhejiang has left a brilliant mark on the development of modern Chinese teaching, literary history and the non-public economy of New China.

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Nearly a hundred years later, this coal dust road was taken again. Now, it is a narrow country road paved with asphalt, nearly three meters wide. Following the road along the lake, when the huge White Horse Lake water rushed over me, the gleaming water was just blocked by a hundred-year-old camphor tree Grandpa’s thoughtfulness. At this time, I passed the house on the roadside. It was 丏Weng's "flat house".

The bungalow faces a large area of ​​Baima Lake.

Bungalow hall

Among the many former residences of celebrities on the shores of Baima Lake, the only one that can truly be called home is Xia Zunzun's "bungalow". He truly made his home in Baima. It's by the lake, so the "bungalow" is the most exciting.

The kitchen is not big, but a large wood stove is particularly eye-catching. There is also a small self-dug well. When you lift the lid, you can see that there is still water a foot deep. The most friends come to visit the bungalow. The warm and hospitable host brings out the neat Shaoxing rice, good wine, and champion red . Mrs. Xia also "always prepares a large table of dishes, which is always full every time." Full dishes are taken out, but empty ones are taken back.”

The bungalow was once the most lively place in the former residence of famous people in Baima Lake. Next door to

Xia Zunzun are the three cabins where Zhu Ziqing lived.

Zhu Ziqing's former residence

Zhu Ziqing's second son, Zhu Runsheng, who was born here, recalled that one day Xia Zunzun and Feng Zikai were at his home. Feng Zikai saw ready-made pen and ink on the table, so he drew a portrait of Zhu Ziqing's four-year-old eldest daughter. He also asked Xia Zunzun to write an inscription, saying, "This painting is useful to me." What was it used for? Insert from the collection of essays "Back".

Feng Zikai’s former residence: Little Willow House

The Little Willow House was designed by Feng Zikai himself

Feng Zikai liked willows the most. The Little Willow House he designed himself had a small willow planted in a small corner. I got it from the willow growers by the lake. Back then, everyone loved to come to the Little Willow House for gatherings.

The comic "After the People Dispersed, the Crescent Moon and the Sky Are Like Water" was also created on the Eight Immortals table in the room. This is Feng Zikai's first publicly published comic work.

Wanqingshanfang

Wanqingshanfang was built on a slope.

The rebuilt "Wanqingshanfang" on the ruins is almost the same as the old photos. Master Hongyi came to Baima Lake as a good friend of Xia Zunzun. He did not hold a teaching position in Chunhui and spent all his time studying Buddhism or calligraphy, painting and epigraphy. In Ye Shengtao 's memory, their gatherings were just about sitting in silence and talking to each other in silence: "The time before noon in the clear autumn passed by in tranquil silence, and I felt that there was unspeakable beauty." This residence is one of the many historical buildings on the bank of Baima Lake. Among the green moss and structures with cultural imprints, it is the most lingering and emotional place.

Next to Wanqingshan House is Chunhui Bridge, which was built by Chunhui Middle School for the convenience of teachers and students.

Chunhui Bridge was originally a wooden bridge, but now it is a cement bridge.

Surrounded by mountains and water, there is a lake outside the teaching building, and there is still a lake in front of the residence. It was clear inside, and the lake was filled with moonlight on a clear night. Zhu Ziqing's splendor, Feng Zikai's simplicity, Xia Zunzun's fraternity, Master Hongyi's detachment, literature, aesthetics, and Buddhism all bloomed so fully on this lakeside for a time, and they were all as "clear, transparent, simple and unpretentious as the lake and mountains here," It is neither pretentious nor sentimental" (Yang Mu's "Selected Modern Chinese Prose: Foreword"), leaving the mark of "White Horse Lake Style".

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The coal road has become an asphalt road, and White Horse Lake is still the same White Horse Lake. The difference is that the surrounding area of ​​Baima Lake has quietly changed.

Scenery of Baima Lake

Listening to Ma Baigen, Secretary of the Party Committee of Yiting Town, the water of Baima Lake is now clearer, the shore is greener, and the water system is smoother. It has been listed as a beautiful river and lake in Zhejiang Province; at the same time, it has passed through small towns and rural areas. The living environment has been comprehensively improved, the appearance of urban and rural areas has been greatly improved, and the quality of industry has been further optimized. The magnificent picture of comprehensive rural revitalization in the new era is slowly unfolding. Next, Yiting will take the opportunity of building the Baima Chunhui 4A-level scenic spot to launch projects such as the renovation of the old Taimen, the restoration of ancient roads, the creation of old street culture, and the creation of upgraded versions of beautiful villages, and work together to build a "poetry road" Famous inn, a new highland of mutual prosperity."

Zhu Ziqing wrote about White Horse Lake: It is not a round or square lake. As you can imagine, it is the general name of many lakes, large and small, with twists and turns. This sentence is still appropriate when looking at today's map - the west is a string of long and narrow lakes shaped like white horses, and the thin river extends to the east, connecting two little friends holding hands, Xibo and Dongbo. ; Look at the tail of the white horse, extending to the south, the Zaoli Lake -Baima Lake water conveyance tunnel runs through the first and second largest lakes in Shangyu, further improving the water purification and flood control and drainage capabilities of the two lakes.

Baima Lake is the second largest lake in Shangyu, shaped like a white horse. The lakes are connected in a series of scattered beads

On the Ningshao Plain where rivers are crisscrossed and lakes are dotted, scattered beads of lakes can be seen everywhere, but like Baima Lake and Like its little friends, it is a rare waterside scenery with clear waves, tranquility and wild charm.

What’s even more rare is that when your finger jumps to the southeast corner of the town map, there are two reservoirs hidden in the green. This is the main production area of ​​Shangyu’s “Erdu Yangmei”, with a total area of ​​nearly 30,000 acres.

Baima Lake has accumulated Chunhui's century-old educational style and the personality strength of its gentlemen, while Erdu Yangmei embodies the aura of green waters and green mountains.

The crystal seeds of Erdu Bayberry are as white as jade and as deep red as roses.

Erdu Bayberry, Shangyu was the first to obtain the national agricultural product origin mark certification. It has always been "the number one fruit in Vietnam and China" and was a tribute to the imperial court. The white or light yellow "crystal species" have a slight blush, and the rose-colored deep red species have a special fragrance.

Every midsummer plum rainy season is the picking season of bayberry in Erdu. The sweetness and sourness of bayberry mixed with the fresh water vapor from the mountains fill the nose.

The history of cultivation can be traced back to more than 1,500 years ago. The Erdu bayberry, which has been infected with the cultural atmosphere of Baima Lake, has already activated memory through taste buds, enriched imagination, and has become a culture and a kind of nostalgia.

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