九江简介----名胜古迹(Places of cultural interest)
In the City of Jiujiang, the natural surroundings are so nice, so are the licentious people. Jiujiang has a deep and developed cultural foundation. The people of talent come forth in large numbers. They are Tao Yuanming, a pastoral poet in Jin Dynasty; Huang Tingjian, as the chief of: the Four Scholars of Su Dongpo School. Other famous people in Chinese history are Wang Xizhi王羲之, Xie Lingyun, Li Bai, Bai Juyi, Su Shi, Lu You, Zhu Xi, Tang Yin, Wang Shouren王守仁, Kang Youwei and so on. They all enjoyed the beauty of Jiujiang and produced a lot of songs, poems, comments, handwritings and anecdote stories.
The place of Jiujiang is so important-standing by the Yangtze River and the PoyangLake and close to Mt.Lushan-which Jiujiang has been the militarily strategic city and there are a lot of stories about the city. The stories are stated in some famous books. Two of Four Chinese Main Ancient Books-- Romance of Three Kingdoms and Outlaws of the Marsh have the statement about Jiujiang. Such stories as “Zhuge Liang defeating officials of Wu Kingdom in a heated dispute” and “Zhuge Liang诸葛亮paying a mourning call at Chaisangkou” in Romance of Three Kingdoms, “Song Jiang meeting Daizong, Li Kui fighting with Zhang Shun”, “Song Jia ng writing a rebel poem, Dai Zong sending a fraudulent message”, and “Gangsters of Liangshan Marsh making havoc in the execution ground, heroes holding a meeting at Bailong Temple 白龙寺” in Outlaws of the Marsh were all somewhat related to Jiujiang.
Many pe ople know that “Apricot woods” is a medical word. It is said that when Dong Feng, a doctor in Three States Period, visited Mt.Lushan and he liked the beauty of Mt.Lushan. So he lived here to self-improve and cures the patients at the same time. Dong Feng was a kind-hearted doctor who cures the patients without any payment. He just asked the patients to plant one apricot tree if the patients were not serious and five apricot trees if they were very serious after they recovered. So many patients came to see the doctor and a lot of trees were planted there, then the apricot woods came into being. The story about Dong Feng and the apricot woods has been told from generation to generation.
Tao Yuanming (365-427), a poet in Dongjin Dynasty, also called Yuanliang and Mr. Wuliu and Qian when he was old, was a native people of JiujiangCity. We all respected his spirit that he wouldn’t bend his waist for the salary from the government at that time. His essay The Spring of the Blossom Flowers桃花源记provided the ideal world for the people and the highest chasing of the intellectuals, especially for “As I pick chrysanthemums beneath the eastern fence, my eyes fall leisurely on the Southern Mountain”. He was called pastoral poet because of his hones t feeling and natural style in his essays.
Huang Tingjian (1045-1105), also called Luzhi, was a poet and paintist in North Song Dynasty, one of the Sudongpo Scholars who is from XiushuiCounty. He created
JiangxiPoemSchool and good at handwriting.
BaiLudongAcademy is one of the most famous academies in Chinese history. In (937-942), it was a school for some famous people reading there. In the Song Dynasty, BaiLudongAcademy was set up. In 1179, Zhu Xi, an educator, came here as a prefect of Nankang military prefecture and then decided to rebuild the academy. After his hard management, A lot of people would like to visit and study. The BaiLudongAcademy is the first of four famous academies (YueluAcademy, ShiguAcademy, JuyangAcademy) and named as one of the best academies at home and abroad.
Ancient people created the wonderful culture for the City, and their followers are also creating the wonder. Since 1980s, the filmmakers such as Bi Bicheng and Wang Yimin who produced the famous films The Love Story on Mt. Lushan and The Feeling of Hometown have been going all out to make out the best films. The Love Story On Mt. Lushan and The Feeling of Hometown were awarded “Hundred Flowers Prize”, The Sound of Hometown was awarded “Golden Chick Prize”. Qualified films are being produced so that the Ci ty was named “the hometown of film” by Wenxue.。