On the morning of September 7th, 2065438+00, Mayor Li Yuquan and his party came to the home of Yang Baolin, an old man in Bosha, Guancheng. Yang Baolin, 74, is a famous master of literature and history in Dongguan. He not only has a unique research on Dongguan Muyu Book and Yang Guo Music, but also has taught it for half his life since 1956. On the eve of Teachers' Day, Li Yuquan expressed condolences to Teacher Yang Baolin, praised his contribution to education and thanked him for "cultivating a good son". Yang Baolin's son, Yang Xiaotang, was the director of Dongguan Education Bureau, and now he is the secretary of Chang 'an Town Committee. Yang Baolin's old man's home is simple, and history books are piled up everywhere in the living room. After many years of retirement, many universities in Hong Kong invited him to give a lecture on the history of composition. When Yang Baolin met the mayor this time, they poured a pot of tea and talked about the significance of Wan Yi culture in building a famous cultural city. Li Yuquan said: "The construction of a famous cultural city is actually the construction of personal quality. One is to rely on the cultural heritage of Dongguan, and the other is to rely on education. " He said that at the just-concluded provincial education work conference, all indicators in Dongguan were among the best, which shows that Dongguan's education has made great achievements and the teachers of the older generation have made great contributions. Li Yuquan also mentioned with a smile that Lao Yang has made another contribution to the education in Dongguan, that is, he trained Yang Xiaotang, the current director of Dongguan Education Bureau: "Your son has done a good job, which has a lot to do with your cultivation and family edification. You are also a treasure in Dongguan. " Yang Baolin joked: "I am not a treasure, but there is a treasure in my name." Mr. Yang Baolin has devoted himself to the study of Dongguan literature and history for many years and is known as "the treasure of Dongguan". After graduating from Teachers College, I worked as a teacher in Dongguan Teachers College, teaching ancient Chinese. He never read the lecture notes, but talked about Li Bai, Du Fu and Bai Juyi. Tang and Song poetry became vivid allusions in his mouth, and listening to his classes was never boring. Everyone admires his rigorous academic spirit and profound knowledge of literature and history. Yang Baolin's family is an alumnus of Guancheng Central Primary School for three generations. Now Mr. Yang's hair is a little sparse, his face is thin but full of energy, he is talkative, his memory is excellent and he has no shelf. 1936 was born in dongguan. 1945 transferred to the first primary school (now Guancheng Central Primary School), 1946 was admitted to Dongguan Middle School after graduation. His father Yang also graduated from primary school, and 1945 to 1949 taught in primary schools. His son is also studying in a primary school, and Mr. Yang's family has an indissoluble bond with a summary for three generations.

Dongguan master of literature and history

Mr. Yang Baolin has devoted himself to the collection, collation and research of Dongguan literature, history and national folk culture for decades, with remarkable achievements and abundant writings. He has a long-standing reputation in Wan Yi and Guangdong, and is also quite famous in the field of history. Mr. Yang Baolin especially likes to study human history and culture. He studied three topics that caused a sensation in academic circles in the early days: the earliest person and place to introduce sweet potato in China; The earliest Sino-British war in China; White Sands in Humen is the first place in China to imitate the Buddha's machine guns. Recently, he dabbled in history and successively edited and published The Legacy of Humen with Zhong Ganquan and Deng Muyao.

These intangible heritages of Muyu Song bear the cultural memories of our nation from generation to generation, and these memories are gradually ignored and forgotten with the passage of time. Mr. Yang Baolin, an expert in literature and history in Dongguan, an expert in agriculture and forestry, and honorary director of Dongguan Natural History Library, made an in-depth investigation on the history, content, version and language features of Muyu Books and Muyu Songs in Dongguan. The Muyu book "Flower" is divided into two tunes: elegant singing and popular singing. At present, Mr. Yang Baolin may be the last person in Dongguan who can sing Muyu songs, especially his elegant singing.

Teacher Yang Baolin has made great efforts to preserve Muyu songs. Take Flowers and History of Two Lotus Flowers as examples. Due to the poor preservation of the past, later generations searched for its traces and went through many twists and turns to find relatives and friends and traveled across oceans in order to gain something. Mr. Yang Baolin learned from Zheng Zhenduo's History of Popular Literature in China and Liu Cunren's Bibliography of China's Novels Seen in London that the French National Library, the Royal Society of Asia and the British Museum all have these two printed editions. With the enthusiastic help of Professor Ke Dawei, a sinologist at Oxford University, and his Hong Kong doctoral student Miss Cheng, he made a special trip to Paris to look for it and finally got an early print. After painstaking textual research by Mr. Yang, it was confirmed that this book had been circulated in Dongguan as early as the fifty-second year of Kangxi (17 13). From the tone that critics call it "the ancients", it is inferred that it was written in the Ming Dynasty. From the extensive use of Dongguan dialect in the book, it is inferred that the author is from Dongguan, and the author of "Two Lotus History" is Mai Lian of Baicheng, Dongguan, but there is no sufficient evidence. And the printed version during the Kangxi period,

Mr. Yang Baolin is meticulous in academics and has persistent pursuit. His students clearly remember that when he was writing "Dongguan County Records", he was "stubborn" to obtain the information of "Wan Juan Tang Qin Xuan Ji". In 1960s, when Yang Baolin, a young student, was reading Dongguan County Records, he saw that most of the historical events before the early Ming Dynasty mentioned in the book were written by Qin. However, I searched the family's Judetang edition of Qin Xuan Ji, but I couldn't find the original text, which was very confusing. Later, I learned that when Chen wrote "Dongguan County Records", the piano he quoted was a collection of ten thousand volumes in Kangxi's sixty years, not a collection of Judetang handed down by his family. Later, I read Zhang Qigan's article, saying that he lent the book to Chen, and when Chen lived in seclusion in Kowloon, he wrote Dongguan County Records. According to this, thousands of books of Qin must be hiding in Hongkong, and his desire for books began.

In order to find the whereabouts of Wan Juan Tang whose director Qin Xuan Ji, Yang Baolin searched almost all the relevant literature, trying to find clues about this book, but with little effect, almost thought that there was no chance in this life. Until 1988, the young students of that year had become half a hundred old people. This year, Yang Baolin read the Catalogue of Hongkong Xue Hai Bookstore written by Deng Youtong, and found this set of sixty-year-old orphan books of Kangxi impressively registered. It was also found that all the books in Xue Hai Bookstore were handed over to the Hong Kong City Hall Library on a certain day. But at this time, the mainland of China and Hongkong have been heavily blocked, and it is impossible to pass freely for a long time. Yang Baolin can only look at these customs and sigh that he is a cold Confucian. How could he have lived in Hong Kong for a long time and then copied it all back? ! Since then, Yang Baolin has been inviting relatives and friends to copy in the Hong Kong City Hall. However, ten years later, only a dozen copies were obtained.

Teacher Yang Baolin learned that one of his students is not from Dongguan and usually lives in Hong Kong. He travels back and forth between China and Hong Kong every two months to attend classes, and he is pleasantly surprised. He asked him to take a letter to a friend in Hong Kong, and asked him to help him photocopy The Collection of Qin Xuan in the Great Hall of the People. Teacher Yang said that this set of books he was looking for was the only one of Kangxi's sixty years and the last one in the world. Now he is writing a book about the historical and cultural development of Dongguan, and he needs the information in this book very much. When Mr. Yang talked about this, his face showed a yearning, and his admiration for the book was beyond words.

On April 5, 2000, teacher Yang was nearly old. When Mr. Wang's students came to Mr. Yang's independent Zhai with a full set of photocopied Qin and handed the photocopied Qin to the teacher, the teacher sighed: "It's been decades! I have been thinking about it for decades! " After Mr. Yang received the book, he didn't dare to read it carefully immediately. First, he carefully put it away, turned into the room and took out a book of his own, Selected Works on Literature, History, Agriculture and History of Zilizhai. On the title page, he grinds out the title: "His neighbor's box is upside down, how many fingers can he recognize?" Sitting on the rooftop, he told the whole story of Qin, a book and several stories of Confucian scholars in Dongguan.

After Mr. Yang got a photocopy of Qin, Chen Lian was from Qiaotou Village, Dongguan, so she lobbied the Qiaotou Village Committee to get 250 copies. The second edition of Qin was revised and supplemented by Mr. Yang, and it was divided into five volumes, with the addition of Chen Lian's ink, Wan Menbian and the preface to the second edition. Qin Xuanji was first engraved in the 6th year of Ming Dynasty (144 1), and was re-engraved in the 45th year of Wanli (16 17), and the third time was re-engraved in the 60th year of Kangxi (172 1). This is the fourth engraving.

Teacher Yang Baolin spared no effort in Dongguan culture. He is a meticulous scholar and looks a bit pedantic, but in class, Mr. Yang Baolin is witty and has a unique charm.

Yang Baolin, a native of Dongguan, speaks authentic and proud Dongguan dialect. When Mr. Yang gives lectures, he always talks about interesting places. Before speaking, he spread a smile on his face, and then everyone raised their mood by eight degrees under his smile, ready to smile. When he talked about "picking jasmine lightly to make fragrant fermented grains", he especially asked "What is fermented grains? It's wine How can this jasmine be used in wine? Don't think it's made of wine, no! Some half-opened jasmine flowers were wrapped in gauze and placed under the lid of the jar, and the flowers slowly seeped in. Well, this wine will smell like jasmine. "

"Orchid fragrance is well known, but really good orchids are not casually smelled. You have to take two steps away, face it, and then take two steps forward and hit it. Come on! This fragrance is right. " When he said this, Mr. Yang took two steps back from the lecture table and hurried two steps to smell the fragrance. Speaking of orchids, he talked about visiting an orchid family one year. When he saw that the house was richly decorated with a pot of orchids, he immediately felt sorry for the orchids. Orchids are light and elegant things, unlike peonies, which live in gorgeous houses. After I came back, I wrote a poem:

Who moved the Linggenling surface? Two or three branches in first frost.

How can you be quiet and chaste in the golden valley? How can your powder pollute your muscles?

Sister Moon protects flowers, and Aunt Feng Bi Ye is uneven.

Under the chilly spring window, accompany me to read Song of the South late at night.

Deeply touched, he said to himself with a smile: "I have an uncle who is extremely proud." When people fled before liberation, he walked thousands of kilometers with nothing on his back and a pot of orchids. Hey? Did you see orchids when you ran away? Ha! My uncle was tied up. "Words are full of pride. It seems that he is the one who ran away with Lan and had a good time in it. Mr Yang Baolin is almost 80 years old, but he is still so knowledgeable and interesting. Teacher Yang's way of reading poems on the stage is particularly pleasing. When he reads poetry, he likes to walk over and over again, much like the wind of the ancients. Moreover, his toes should be very small, and they walk like a clear wave, which contains a rhythm. Sitting under the stage, the students were impressed by Mr. Lao Yang's charm and turned peaches and plums upside down. Teacher Yang Baolin is such a temperament middleman. She has a unique charm both academically and on the podium!