Zhuzi culture, glowing with new brilliance

? Confucius emerged in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, and Zhu Xi emerged in the Southern Song Dynasty. Ancient Chinese culture, Mount Tai and Wuyi. ?The evaluation of the famous historian Cai Shangsi reveals the status of Zhu Xi, a giant of Confucianism, in the history of Chinese thought and culture.

Zhu Xi spent his whole life in Fujian, especially in Wuyishan, Jianyang, Zhenghe, Jianou, and Yanping, where he grew up, studied, wrote, lectured, and taught disciples for 50 years. Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism sprouted, developed, and gathered his mastery here. , and spread to home and abroad, Zhu Xi's culture has become an important part of China's excellent traditional culture.

In recent years, with the great attention of the Provincial Party Committee, the province’s Zhuzi cultural brand building work has been solidly promoted, with one protected area (Zhuzi Cultural and Ecological Reserve), five projects (protection, academic, communication , education, exchange project) and a mechanism (Leadership Mechanism for Zhu Xi Cultural Brand Building)? as the starting point to deeply explore the essence of Zhu Xi’s culture and actively build a world-class Zhu Xi cultural brand.

Polishing the cultural brand

Recently, on the bank of Sanxuan Lake of Wuyi University, the newly-opened Zhuzi Academy has an ancient charm and elegance. The establishment of Wuyi University’s Zhu Xi Academy will help Fujian build an important academic base for Zhu Xi’s cultural exchanges at home and abroad.

In December last year, the first Kaoting Forum was successfully held in Nanping City. More than 20 domestic experts and scholars in the field of Zhu Xi studies shared their theories and discussed how to promote the creative transformation of Zhu Xi culture. Innovative development has launched a series of important academic results. At present, the preparation work for the second Kaoting Forum is in progress, which will further build the Kaoting Forum and polish the Zhuzi cultural and academic brand.

Zhu Xi created the splendid Fujian School of Confucianism and left behind rich sites and relics.

In September 2017, as the area with the highest concentration of Zhu Xi’s cultural relics in Fujian Province, Nanping took the lead in promulgating the first substantive local regulations, the “Nanping City Regulations for the Protection of Zhu Xi’s Cultural Relics.” In recent years, Fujian Province has organized relevant departments to repair cultural relics and historic sites such as the Liu Family Ancestral Hall, Xingxian Academy, Wuxian Well, Ziyang Academy, and Lianshi Jiexiaofang, and to protect Pingshan Academy and other sites; it has hired cultural coordinators. Members and cultural relics conservators are responsible for the daily maintenance and management of Wufu cultural relics; Jianyang District restores and rebuilds Kaoting Academy, and carries out investigations of academies (ancestral halls) in the region, ancient village regulations (forbidden monuments), and a census of Zhu Xi’s cultural relics. Currently, there are 116 cultural relics of Zhu Xi in Fujian Province, 7 national key cultural relics protection units and 24 provincial cultural relics protection units related to Zhu Xi's cultural relics.

In order to inherit and develop the culture of Zhu Xi, Fujian Province proposed to establish the "Zhu Xi Cultural Ecological Reserve", which successively included the Zhu Xi Ceremony in Youxi, the Legend of Chengmen Lixue in Nanping, Zhu Xi's Family Banquet, Zhu Xi Ceremony, Zhu Xi Family rituals (coming-of-age ceremonies, apprenticeship ceremonies, and weddings) were included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects; preliminary work was carried out for the construction of Zhuzi Cultural and Ecological Reserves, and the "Zhuzi Cultural Streaming Map and Administrative Division Map" and "Zhuzi Cultural and Ecological Reserves' Culture" were formed. Activities", etc., and promoted Nanping and Sanming to launch the preparation of the "Zhuzi Cultural and Ecological Reserve Master Plan", and Zhuzi Cultural and Ecological Protection has made significant progress.

The prosperity of culture cannot be separated from the innovation and improvement of the system. This year, the Propaganda Department of the Provincial Party Committee took the lead in improving the joint meeting mechanism for Zhuzi Cultural Brand Construction in Fujian Province, further clarified the main responsibilities of member units and personnel, and further strengthened the overall planning, overall coordination, and overall promotion of various tasks for Zhuzi Cultural Brand Construction in Fujian Province. Supervise implementation.

Innovation and Diversified Communication

A half-acre square pond is opened, and the skylight and cloud shadows linger endlessly. Ask him how clear he is? Come for living water from a source. ?Just after the National Day holiday this year, the 2022 Fujian and Taiwan Youth Zhuzi Cultural Research Camp, sponsored by the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism and hosted by the Provincial Fujian and Taiwan Cultural Exchange Center and other units, opened at Ziyang Building, Wufu Town, Wuyishan City.

? Zhuzi culture is an important cultural business card for Fujian to go abroad. ?The relevant person in charge of the organizer of the study camp told reporters that the introduction of Zhu Xi’s culture to Taiwan during the Ming Dynasty represents the unique historical context of both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

During the week-long study camp, young people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait went to Youxi County, Sanming City, the hometown of Zhu Xi, and Wuyishan City, Nanping, the birthplace of Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism. They visited the Zhu Xi Cultural Park, the Zhu Xi Cultural Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Experience Center, and Zhu Xi’s former residence. , Xingxian Ancient Street and Zhu Xi Memorial Hall, visit the cliff carvings of Lili Dynasty, and feel the prosperity of Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucianism from the rich cultural relics of Zhu Xi.

In recent years, Zhuzi cultural brand communication and communication have been continuously strengthened. Fujian Province established the Cross-Strait Academy Alliance to strengthen exchanges between academies across the Taiwan Strait and held five consecutive "Cross-Strait Academy Forum"; relevant provincial and municipal departments continued to organize "Zhu Xi's Road" Fujian and Taiwan Academy Cultural Tour" and "Ten Thousand Miles of Tea Road" to find Cultural exchange activities such as Zhu Xi’s Footsteps Taiwan Youth Photography Camp and Zhu Xi’s Road Study Camp have listed Zhu Xi’s cultural tour as a product for young people from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan to study in Fujian.

The Provincial Department of Education has incorporated Zhu Xi’s culture into primary and secondary education and teaching, and guided local education departments and schools to actively explore Zhu Xi’s culture-related content in the teaching of relevant subjects in national and local curricula for primary and secondary schools. In "Haixi Homeland" 》Set up the course "Zhu Xi, the Master of Neo-Confucianism" to encourage and guide local education departments and schools to develop school-based courses on Zhu Xi's culture.

For seven consecutive years, Fujian Province has adopted methods such as "Chinese Studies Lectures, National Curriculum, Cultural Exhibitions, Cultural Activities, and Cultural Exchanges" to promote Zhu Xi's culture to the society. ?Exhibitions and other series of activities allow Zhu Xi’s culture to further infiltrate ordinary people.

Deepening the integration of culture and tourism

Starting from Wufu Town, the hometown of Zhu Zi, Wuyishan City has launched a series of cultural study routes called "Zhu Zi's Pastoral Tea Party Building", adding a humanistic flavor to Wuyi's mountains and rivers.

In the past few days, at the construction site of the second phase of Kaoting Ancient Street in Kaoting Tourist Resort in Jianyang, the relocation of ancient buildings such as Baihe Academy, Wufeng Tower, and Tianlan Pavilion has been completed, and construction workers are working on The exterior and interior of the building will be renovated. This project is one of the key projects in the five major actions to construct the protection and development zone around Wuyishan National Park in Nanping City.

In order to give full play to the advantages of the Zhuzi Cultural and Ecological Protection Core Area, Nanping City plans to build a protective belt around the Wuyishan National Park, focusing on creating an integration of sightseeing, cultural experience, science education, leisure vacation, study and tourism and other functions. As a tourist destination, through the implementation of a number of high-quality cultural and tourism integration projects with Zhu Xi culture as the core, we strive to create a national-level research base focusing on Zhu Xi culture.

Tourism and culture empower each other. In 2018, the "Special Plan for the Development of Zhuzi Cultural Tourism in Fujian Province (2018-2022)" was completed, which provided planning guidelines for the project construction, brand building, product research and development, and ecological protection of Zhuzi Cultural Tourism in the province.

Last year, Fujian Province listed "Zhu Xi" as a "Fujian Cultural Identity" and launched a Zhu Xi cultural tourism route by connecting Wuyi Jingshe, Xingxian Academy, Yungen Academy, Kaoting Academy and other scenic spots. Highlight the promotion of Zhuzi cultural tourism products. In addition, the construction of Zhuzi Culture has been included in the provincial special plan for the reform and development of culture and tourism during the 14th Five-Year Plan, making a mid- to long-term layout for the construction of Zhuzi Culture and further strengthening the leading role of Zhuzi Culture in cultural tourism projects.

Recently, Zhu Zi’s cartoon paintings in Songbai Village, Jianyang District, Nanping City have refreshed tourists. Since 2015, this project has created a "cartoon Zhu Zi" image based on Zhu Zi. Relying on the new media matrix and traditional cultural carriers, it has focused on creating cultural IP that helps local development, and has become a vivid practice of revitalizing Zhu Zi's culture in the new era.

The role of culture as an important fulcrum for high-quality development has become increasingly prominent. In recent years, Fujian Province has vigorously promoted the construction of Zhu Xi's cultural industry. The provincial cultural industry development special fund has allocated 16.7 million yuan to support Zhu Xi's cultural industry projects in Nanping City, including supporting the second phase of Kaoting Academy, the main venue construction project of Zhu Xi's Cultural Celebration, and Kaoting Academy Improvement project (Zhu Xi Museum), etc.

Starting from 2021, the first term of the provincial cultural industry development special fund (2021-2023) will be allocated to Jianyang District of Nanping City and Wuyishan City, the key Zhuzi cultural areas, with 3 million yuan each year, for a total of 18 million yuan, to support Kaoting The support funds for the construction of Zhuzi Cultural Industry Belt projects such as the Academy and the Zhuzi Museum account for 1/6 of the total in the province.