Xushen Cultural Park

Xushen Cultural Park, with Xushen tomb as the core, covers an area of 100000 square meters. It has six character stone pillars, text gate, Hanlin Pavilion, scenic area management center, Xushen cultural research center, tourist service center, tourist souvenir shop and other buildings.

Xushen Cultural Park

Xu Shen Cultural Park, with Xu Shen's tomb as the core, was started in September 2008. The buildings in the park are symmetrically arranged according to the traditional regulations, with three zones, one axis and twelve nodes. From south to north, it is distributed on the third level platform. The square service area is 32000 square meters, with six character stone pillars, text gate, Hanlin Pavilion, scenic area management center, Xushen cultural research center, tourist service center, tourist souvenir shop and other buildings. The exhibition area of the center is 33000 square meters, with main buildings such as Hanzi Avenue, Zisheng hall, Shuchong hall, Shuowen hall, cultural corridor, Kuixing Pavilion and zigzag archway. The tomb protection area is 43000 square meters, mainly composed of cultural relics, radical square array, glyph interpretation, etymological stone, changui mountain and other landscape sketches. On May 25, 2006, Xu Shen's tomb in the Cultural Park, as an ancient tomb of the Han Dynasty, was approved by the State Council to be listed in the Sixth Batch of national key cultural relics protection units. In April 2014, it was rated as a national AAAA tourist attraction.

Xu Shen's information

Xu Shen was a philologist and Confucian scholar in the Eastern Han Dynasty. In the Han Dynasty, when all schools of thought were deposed and Confucianism was ruled by Confucianism, he was regarded as "Wujing unparalleled" In the special period of disputes with ancient and modern classics, he abandoned all his fame and wealth, cherished his country and nation, and devoted his whole life to writing Shuowen Jiezi, the earliest dictionary in China and even in the world, which had a great impact on the development of the Chinese nation and the inheritance and development of Chinese civilization. Xu Shen's works and his spirit have influenced generations of Chinese people, and he has been respected as the sage of Chinese characters for his great contribution. Every year in the college entrance examination season, there are always some students to worship in front of Xu Shen temple. But what they worship is not superstition, but spiritual strength. They want to get some spiritual support from sage Xu.

Cultural contribution

Qin Shihuang unified China by force, while Xu Shen unified Chinese characters by a book, standardizing the shape, sound and meaning of Chinese characters, and also standardizing a cultural framework. It is the first dictionary in China to analyze the characters, explain the meaning and identify the phonology. It is the foundation work of literature language, and also a comprehensive work of written language, characters, phonology and exegesis. It is a very important contribution made by Xu Shen to the study of Chinese philology. It not only preserves the font of the pre Qin Dynasty and the exegesis of characters before the Eastern Han Dynasty, reflects the face of Chinese vocabulary in China, summarizes the development history of ancient Chinese characters in China, but also puts forward the "theory of characters" for the first time. It is said that in 1926, only Guo Moruo could understand oracle bone inscriptions because he read Shuowen Jiezi. A book sets up a time and space tunnel connecting the ancient and modern, so that modern people can follow this tunnel to the unknown future. This is Xu Shen's contribution. More than 1000 years ago, Xu Shen was a great man. He was the first person to theoretically expound the great significance of words. He said: "those who cover characters are the foundation of art and the beginning of Wang's administration. That's why the predecessors came down, and that's why the posterity knew the ancient." Through the comprehensive and systematic collation and research of the characters, he "studied the source of all kinds of words". It is because of Xu Shen's unremitting efforts that the study of Confucian classics is brought into the correct scientific track. Xu Shen's academic achievements have extensive and far-reaching influence. Not only today, but also in the future, the study of philology and ancient philology can not be separated from Shuowen Jiezi, and all ancient disciplines, especially history and philosophy, need to find information and clues from Shuowen Jiezi to get answers. Therefore, we must clearly recognize the epoch-making significance of Xu Shen's role and influence in the development of philology and exegetics.

Without the spread of Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi, we would not be able to understand the seal characters, oracle bone inscriptions, Zhongding inscriptions in the pre Qin period and the ancient writings in the Warring States period. Sun Liyan once said in the preface to re engraved zongben Shuowen: "the five classics were destroyed in the Qin Dynasty, but existed in Shuowen.". If Shuo Wen is not written, we hardly know about literature and art; if literature and art are not understood, we can't understand the ancient prose of Tang and Yu dynasties, and we can't understand the five classics. " Therefore, scholars of all ages evaluated his achievements as "comparable to Confucius and Duke Zhou", and respected him as "the teacher of a hundred generations" and "the master of Confucianism". During the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty, in order to commend Xu Shen, Jiuqing, a bachelor, together with the Ministry of rites, once asked the emperor to "allow Xu Shen, a Han Confucian, to be worshipped in the Confucian Temple", and Xuezheng of Henan Province approved the construction of "Xu Nange Temple" in Yancheng county. In spring and autumn, there were two sacrifices and three kneeling and nine kowtowing.

Huang Dekuan: I put Xu Shen's contribution to the whole Chinese culture mainly in philology, which is the foundation of the whole Chinese culture. We know that classic is a very comprehensive thing, including voice, text, vocabulary and so on, and the inheritance of classic is mainly text, that is, voice and text. Xu Shen's greatest contribution is to lay a solid foundation for the spread of Chinese classics through Shuowen Jiezi, so his most important contribution is to lay an academic foundation. However, it is undeniable that Xu Shen's attainments and contributions in the study of Confucian classics are not contradictory to his main achievement in the study of Chinese characters.

Ye Guoliang: in my opinion, Shuowen Jiezi is not a book compiled purely from philology or exegesis. In fact, part of it explains the characters according to the five classics at that time, and the other part explains the classics with characters. In it, we leave a lot of materials for studying ancient Chinese classics. Therefore, it is an ancient Chinese character book, and it is also a Confucian classics book, which can not be completely understood Look at it from the perspective of philology.

Peng Lin: I am very concerned about how Luohe people define Xu Shen. In my opinion, it is not enough to define Xu Shen as a "sage of characters", because his study of Confucian classics can achieve the status of "unparalleled in the five classics". He originally studied characters for the study of Confucian classics, and the study of characters is actually a tool for his study of classics. Therefore, I think Xu Shen's contribution to Chinese culture should be oriented to Confucian classics.

Shan Zhouyao: Shuowen Jiezi is very important for us to understand ancient classics, literature and culture. Chinese characters are closely related to the whole Chinese nation and Chinese literature. Shuowen Jiezi is very important to the stability of Chinese characters and plays a great role. In the Tang Dynasty, the official paid attention to the unification and standardization of Chinese characters, which was based on the standard of Shuowen Jiezi. Later, with the advent of textbooks, the characters gradually stabilized and passed down.

Wen Huaisha: I am full of respect for the extensive and profound culture of the Central Plains. At the same time, I deeply feel that Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi is the essence of culture. Central Plains culture is mother culture. To know China, we must first know Henan. Henan has produced China's greatest poet Du Fu, medical scientist Zhang Zhongjing, philologist Xu Shen, and so on. Now there are many heroes in Henan, which is a wonderful place. Xu Shen made great efforts to systematize and standardize the scattered characters. Not only Henan people should be proud of their hometown, but all Chinese people should be proud of Zhongzhou's thick soil, because Luohe in Zhongzhou has Xu Shen. Today, I feel the beauty of Luohe with Shali culture. There are two rivers in Luohe, Shahe and Lihe, and there is one in Hunan, which reminds me of my hometown.

Gu shenglongyi: Xu Shen is one of the sources of all the Chinese learning, because when we study history, the most fundamental thing is literature and Philology, and Xu Shen's Shuowen provides such a channel to understand ancient academic works and records. His contributions to philology and Confucian classics are integrated and inseparable. Xu Shen's role in Chinese culture cannot be ignored.

Song junfen: "Xu Shen does not only belong to China, he should be a world-class historical and cultural celebrity." This is song junfen's conclusion after studying Xu Xue for many years. Song junfen is a professor of Capital Normal University. When he was a doctor, he studied Chinese phonology. Now his research direction is Xu Xue. His works include Shuowen, Chinese philology and Chinese Lexicology. Song junfen said this for four reasons: first, Xu Shen created the first dictionary in China and even in the world. Xu Shen's Shuowen Jiezi created 540 radicals, arranged 9353 small seal characters according to their radicals, and explained and analyzed their meanings and forms one by one. Some characters have documentary evidence or phonetic notes. It is the first Chinese dictionary with complete form in the world. It was not until the 18th century that dictionaries of this type appeared in Western Europe, 1500 or 600 years earlier than in Western Europe. Second, Xu Shen is a great philosopher. Xu Shen put forward that "those who cover characters should be the foundation of Arts and the beginning of politics", which linked characters with politics and made Chinese civilization continue. China has a vast territory and many dialects. It is unimaginable that there is no unified character. In addition, "the predecessors are the reason why they are backward, and the posterity is the reason why they know the ancient." the excellent traditional culture is handed down from generation to generation by writing. As early as 1900 years ago, Xu Shen saw that writing is so important and how great it is. However, in the 1920s and 1930s, some people advocated the use of Pinyin instead of Chinese characters, shaking the foundation of Chinese characters. The consequences are terrible. Just imagine, if a nation's culture is lost, will the soul of the nation still exist? Third, Xu Shen is the founder of Chinese characters. It is often called "six books" in philology, which is the ancient people's high recognition of the construction method of Chinese characters

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