That year, I went to Kaohsiung, Taiwan for an interview. I was unfamiliar with the place. I looked through the map and found that the main routes in the city start with numbers from south to north: Yixin Road, Ersheng Road, Sanduo Road, Siwei Road, Wufu Road, Liuhe Road, Qixian Road, Bade Road, Jiuru Road and Shiquan Road .
Local tour guide introduces that behind each road name is traditional Chinese culture. For example, the Second Saint Road is to commemorate the Wen Sheng Confucius and the Wu Sheng Guan Gong ; the Four-dimensional Road shows "propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame, the four dimensions of the country"; the Six-dimensional Road is taken from "Zhuangzi Qiwu", that is, "the four directions of heaven and earth are called Liuhe"; the Eight-Deed Road is to commend the " loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, faith, righteousness and peace" advocated by Mr. Zhongshan; the Ten-full Road is quoted from "The Literature of Zhou", and the Ten-full Road is the best.
In the past few days, it has been said online that the Shandong Dumpling Restaurant and Shanxi Noodle Restaurant in Taipei are said. Even though , Kaohsiung , the city that claims to be the "green" in Taiwan, we can still perceive obvious Chinese elements, which cannot be deleted or erased.
"Taiwan is successful everywhere"
continues to travel to Taiwan.
Get on the bus from Kaohsiung and walk eastward, and arrive at , Taitung County, where there are more than 230,000 people living on 3,515 square kilometers of land. is blowing the sea breeze from Pacific . When walking on the mountain trail, you often see old and dust-stacked temples with statues of Zheng Chenggong . 1662, Zheng Chenggong led his army to return to the territory of China and promoted the roots and spread of Chinese civilization in Taiwan. After his death, the local people "established a temple for him, and the list was the Kaishan King's Temple. During the year, the year was filled with wax and fragrant sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial sacrificial
In the first year of Guangxu, the first official building of Taiwan " Yanping County King Temple " was completed in Tainan . Now Zheng Chenggong's temple has long been scattered, and there are about 100 palaces and temples on the island to worship Zheng Chenggong. Walking in Taiwan, whether it is a magnificent temple or a small brick temple, as long as the words "Kaitai Shengwang Temple", "Guoxian Palace", "Kaitian Palace", and "Yanpingwang Temple" appear, the main worship must be Zheng Chenggong.
The local friend we met happened to live in Yanping Township, Taitung County. He introduced that Taiwan not only has Yanping Township , but also Yanping South Road and Yanping North Road in Taipei, Taichung has Chenggong Road, Nantou has Guoxian Township, and Tainan has Guoxianli ... If you have the opportunity to "go thoroughly across Taiwan", then there are countless place names, school names and village names related to Zheng Chenggong from east to west, from north to south. "Congratulations, you will be with Chenggong all the way."
What’s more coincidental is that that friend also graduated from successful university in Tainan. The "Oral Historical Record of Bai Chongxi" records the past of Chengda's founding: "People in this province require the establishment of a 'successful university' to commemorate Zheng Chenggong, but people from Taipei and Tainan have different opinions on the location of the establishment... I said: 'There is National Taiwan University in Taipei, and Zheng Chenggong is of great significance in Tainan. I am not a Taiwanese, so I will not intend to favor it. It is more reasonable to set up a successful university in Tainan.'" The four best universities in Taiwan are collectively called "Taiwan Qing Transaction". Because NTU, , Tsinghua , and Jiaotong University are all in northern Taiwan, Chenggong University has become the number one school in the central and southern part of the island.
Therefore, whether it is shopping, burning incense or studying, it is impossible to escape the imprint of Zheng Chenggong in Taiwan. It is not an exaggeration to say that "Taiwan is successful everywhere" is even more impossible, and it is even more impossible to cut off the cultural connection between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait.
The familiar place name, the traces of history,
, we took the "Ziqiang" train from Taitung to Taipei.
is similar to Kaohsiung. Taipei's roads not only connect to east, west, south, and north, but also to China's past and present. The north and south main roads in the old city of Taipei are called Zhongshan North Road and Zhongshan South Road, and the east and west main roads are called Zhongxiao East Road and Zhongxiao West Road. The song "Handling the Zhongxiao East Road in Powered Train " is caused by this.
uses Zhongshan Road and Zhongxiao Road as the cross to divide Taipei city into four areas, just like the southeast, northwest and northwest of China map. Northeast area has many northeast place names, Jinzhou Street, Siping Street, Liaoning Street, Tonghua Street, etc., and the southeast area has many coastal area places names, Wenzhou Street, Xiamen Street, Lishui Street, Qingtian Street, etc.Similarly, in , the southwest and northwest slabs, it also corresponds to the place names of relevant regions in China.
Walk there, looking at the familiar place names, and feeling the traces of history. These smoke-like history have thousands of connections with the mainland: Fu Sinian "Mainland Bookstore" written by couplets, Dihua (old name of Urumqi) Street, which is a must-visit for New Year's goods, " China Post " established in the late Qing Dynasty, Taipei Xuhui Middle School, which has the same roots as Shanghai Xuhui Middle School, Shanghai Commercial Savings Bank , where Rong Yiren's cousin Rong Hongqing serves as chairman, and "China Travel Agency" under the wholly-owned bank...
On the Taipei itinerary, one stop is to visit the Zhongshan Memorial Hall. From a distance, the entire memorial hall looks like a big official hat. Its designer is the son of the first diplomatic chief of the Nanjing Provisional Government Wang Chonghui Wang Dahong . In 1966, Wang Dahong's design patterns were selected, but because the design was too foreign and did not conform to the "Chinese Cultural Revival Movement" promoted by Taiwan at that time, it eventually had to add Chinese-style buildings on the roof before they could pass. There is another saying that Chiang Kai-shek requires Wang Dahong to design it as the style of the Qing Dynasty Hall of Supreme Harmony, but Wang Dahong said, " Mr. Zhongshan's revolution is to overthrow Manchu ." In the end, he changed the roof of the memorial hall to a traditional civil servant hat style, which made him look like today.
No matter what the saying is, what is presented to us is this solemn and atmospheric building, with a very Chinese style and Chinese style. and Taipei 101 Building , which form a strong contrast between tradition and modernity.
Chinese style is a humanistic sentiment reflected in history and architecture. Whether or not someone wants to admit it or not, it stands there.
seems familiar but a little strange
not only have appearances such as place names, school names and architecture, but also Chinese culture has long been immersed in people's hearts from the outside to the inside, and is engraved in language, words, and all aspects of life.
"In searching for Chinese culture in Taiwan, you can feel a kind of warmth, familiar but a little strange to each other." When Xiao Feng, a student from Taiwan, "eat ice" at a dessert shop near the school, he recalled the scene of his initial email exchange with Taiwanese scholars, "I was really flattered when I first saw the big words Taiduan, Junjian, and Jingqi, and now we are gradually becoming more and more accustomed to the local customs." Before , mainland scholar Tan Ru had sorted out classical Chinese written languages that Taiwanese friends like to use, such as "Taiduan", "Taijian", "Jiangqian", "Please help", "Zhesi", "Tingshu", "Tingxue", "Fu", "Run", etc. These words that are no longer commonly used in mainland China are used very commonly in Taiwan life, especially in official documents and letter writing.
In that exchange, Xiao Feng mentioned traditional Chinese characters. For example, "Yi (Yi)" has me, "family (kind)" is to meet each other, "love (love)" is to have a heart, "soft" (tea) needs to be worshipped frequently, "enter (in)" has a good word, which means that people are "better the better" , "Chinese traditional culture is hidden in this Chinese character code, and we need to savor it carefully."
also is Taiwanese Mandarin. In addition to the coquettish voice, if you listen carefully, you will find that there is still a slight difference between the pronunciation and the mainland. For example, Taiwanese friends will pronounce "harmony" as "Han", "garbage" as "leicolor", and "liquid" as "meaning". This is thanks to Mr. Qi Tiehen, the "old Beijing". It turned out that after Taiwan was liberation in 1945, in order to enable compatriots to master Mandarin as soon as possible, Qi Tiehen would conduct demonstration pronunciation broadcasts on Taiwan Radio Station every day from May 1, 1946. "His words are the law, and you can read whatever you teach." Since the teacher is an "old Beijing", the "Taiwan Public" he taught naturally also brought Beijing Yin.
No wonder Lao She The son of Mr. 4 Shu Yi After visiting Taiwan in 1994, he sighed, " Taiwanese people actually speak Beijing dialect! The whole island from north to south, from west to east, from adults to children, plenary session! 20 million people on the island speak the Mandarin of Beijing, which is a miracle..."
Taiwan and Beijing are thousands of miles apart. Behind this voice connection for more than half a century is the spiritual bond between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait that is boundless and unbreakable. "The traditional Chinese culture we know is still in Taiwan." In the view of Xiao Feng, this part of the spiritual imprint cannot be erased by external forces. Taiwan culture is truly true.
Source: Author: Hong Junjie
