I was born in Tongcheng, not a large city but a city with long history. Now let me introduce it to you.
There is a very famous place in Tongcheng called six-chi lane which has a story behind it. In Qing dynasty, there was a prime minister named Zhang Ying who came from Tongcheng, once his relatives had a dispute with his neighbor, just because both of them wanted to enlarge their house, and they took a fancy to one land at the same time. Zhang Ying’s family required the neighbor to give up the land, but the neighbor didn’t agree. To maintain face, his family wrote a letter to Zhang Ying in Beijing about this matter, hoping that he would use his power to force the neighbor to give in. but Zhang Ying just replied with a poem telling them to be magnanimous and tolerant, he said that it was no need to do so just for the three chi land. His family then felt ashamed after reading his letter. So they decided to give three chi lands to their neighbor. And their neighbor felt sorry for Zhang Ying’s tolerance, so they gave back three chi lands, too. As a result, it came into today’s six-chi lane.
And Tongcheng is famous for Tongcheng Pai, which is a mark of brilliant literature. Towards the end of Qing dynasty, many literati such as Fang Bao, Yao Nai sprang up; they represented the thought of common people, voiced out their opinions bravely.
Another point to mention is my high school whose founder is Wu Rulun; he was a remarkable person who had been in charge of
Well, these are just a little about Tongcheng, if you visit Tongcheng one day, maybe you will know more about its history.
The history of one city is always fascinating. It's such a pride to understand the culture of one's hometown and introduce it to others. I used to hate the subject of history. But now I think that might be a mistake.
ReplyDeleteOh, the six-chi lane story is very famous.But I knew it is tongcheng until having seen your blog .You are lucky to born in this place which has a long history.
ReplyDeleteI really wanna go and have a look...so interesting~~and hope you enjoy yourself in the concert tonight~
ReplyDeleteWhat a historic city!I like the story you told.Maybe I will visit your hometown someday and I think my father may have been there once or twice because he has travelled a lot on business.
ReplyDeletep.s.I like your image-Hero!^^
it's lucky for you to be born in such a city!my hometown has nothing to say compared with yours,but i like it too!
ReplyDeleteYou bored in TongCheng!!! It's really a famous place. I know it from our chinese class, just like FangBao and YaoNai, both of them are very fomous,their articles are so wonderful that even from their articles we can clearly sense the wonderful smell of TongCheng!!
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