China’s Diplomatic Year: Towards the Center of the World Stage

  Cctv news(Reporter Wang Jiazhu) Open or closed? Cooperation or confrontation? Win-win or zero-sum In 2017, the international community needs to choose and maintain the correct course at this crossroads in history. At sunrise in the East, China used his wisdom and responsibility to give the answer to how to better benefit the world, to unite the greatest common denominator of all countries in the world, and to connect the Chinese dream with the world dream. In this year, the diplomacy of a big country with China characteristics entered a new era.

  In this year, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China established the Supreme Leader’s Socialism with Chinese characteristics Thought in the new era, opened a new journey of Socialism with Chinese characteristics’s cause, and defined the orientation, direction and strategic connotation of China’s diplomacy in the new era. In this year, customary diplomacy led China’s diplomacy to keep moving forward, safeguarded national interests, enhanced its international status and established the image of a big country; This year, from Davos to Geneva, from Hamburg to Da Nang, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader delivered important speeches on a series of international and multilateral occasions, putting forward clear ideas, opening the way for the world economy and contributing to global governance.

  In this year, China, which entered a new era, helped the world, telling the world with its own actions that we are the mainstay of stabilizing relations between major powers, the strong voice of the times leading the direction of globalization, and the firm watcher of maintaining regional peace and development … … We ourselves, while becoming a "famous world power", are moving towards the center of the world stage step by step.

  Thought: Draw a general plan for China’s diplomacy in the new era.

The opening ceremony of the 19 th National Congress Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang photo

The opening ceremony of the 19 th National Congress (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Lan Hongguang)

  On October 18th, the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing. In his report, the Supreme Leader General Secretary summed up China’s diplomatic work and historic changes in the past five years, and made it clear that China’s diplomacy in the new era should promote the building of new international relations and the building of a community of human destiny. He pointed out that the world is in a period of great development, great change and great adjustment, and peace and development are still the themes of the times. China will continue to play the role of a responsible big country, actively participate in the reform and construction of the global governance system, and constantly contribute to the wisdom and strength of China.

  Wang Yi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China made a top-level design for us to do a good job in diplomatic work in the new era. The report of the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China clearly pointed out that the diplomacy of a big country with China characteristics should promote the construction of new international relations and a community of human destiny, which pointed out the way forward for us. Among them, the "two constructions" are the inheritance and innovation of China’s peaceful development, and the connection and intersection of the Chinese dream and the world dream. It embodies the greatest common denominator of all countries in the world and contains the common value of human society, which has become a distinctive symbol of China’s diplomacy as a big country with characteristics entering a new era.

  In fact, since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the CPC Central Committee with the Supreme Leader as the core has actively promoted the innovation of diplomatic theory and practice, put forward a series of new ideas, new ideas and new strategies, and has formed and established the diplomatic thought of the Supreme Leader General Secretary.

  Wang Yi said in August this year that the core of the diplomatic thought of the Supreme Leader General Secretary is a main line, two pillars and three characteristics.

  A main line is to firmly grasp the main line of adhering to peaceful development and promoting national rejuvenation. The two pillars are to build a new type of international relations with win-win cooperation as the core and to build a community of human destiny with one heart. Related to this, the General Secretary also put forward a series of new concepts and ideas, such as new security concept, new development concept, global governance concept, and correct justice and interests concept, which constitute the basic framework of the diplomatic theory system of China as a big country with characteristics. The three characteristics are advanced, pioneering and stable.

  Footprint: hands-on diplomacy.

On January 18, 2017, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. (-Xinhua News Agency reporter Rao Aimin photo)

On January 18, 2017, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader delivered a keynote speech at the United Nations Headquarters in Geneva. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Rao Aimin)

  In 2017, from home to the other side of the ocean, from G20 to APEC, in addition to the two "home diplomacy" of "Belt and Road Summit Forum" and "BRICS Xiamen Meeting", the Chairman of the Supreme Leader went abroad for five times, covering three continents of Asia, Europe and the United States and visiting eight countries … … In 2017, Chairman Supreme Leader will continue to build China’s diplomatic "circle of friends" to promote the stability and development of relations between major powers and neighboring countries.

  From January 15th to 18th, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to Switzerland, attended the 2017 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum and visited international organizations in Switzerland. This is the opening of China’s diplomacy in 2017, and it is also the first time that the top leaders of China attend the annual meeting in Davos. On the 18th, the Supreme Leader of president delivered a keynote speech entitled "Building a Community of Human Destiny Together" at the UN headquarters. This paper systematically expounds the major international initiative of building a community of human destiny.

  From April 4 to 6, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to Finland. During the period, the heads of state of China and Finland witnessed the signing of bilateral cooperation documents in the fields of innovation, justice and giant panda cooperation research.

  From April 6th to 7th, the Supreme Leader of president met with President Trump in Haihu Manor, Florida, USA. This is the first face-to-face communication between the two heads of state since the new US president took office. The meeting laid the tone for Sino-US relations, pointed out the direction and planned the future, which is conducive to better benefiting the two countries and their peoples and benefiting people all over the world.

  From June 7 to 10, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to Kazakhstan and attended the 17th meeting of the Council of Heads of State of SCO member States and the opening ceremony of the special World Expo in Astana.

  On July 3-4, the Supreme Leader of president paid a state visit to the Russian Federation. During the period, the two heads of state witnessed the signing of the Sino-Russian Joint Statement on Further Deepening the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership of Cooperation, the Sino-Russian Joint Statement on the Current World Situation and Major International Issues, and the Sino-Russian Foreign Ministry’s Joint Statement on the Korean Peninsula issue, which outlined the blueprint for Sino-Russian relations.

  From July 4th to 8th, the Supreme Leader paid a state visit to Germany and attended the 12th summit of G20 leaders in Hamburg, where he delivered an important speech on the world economic situation and put forward four "China Propositions" to promote the development of the world economy.

  From November 10th to 14th, the top leaders attended the 25th APEC Informal Leaders’ Meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, and paid state visits to Vietnam and Laos. This is the first visit by the supreme leader after the 19th National Congress, and it is also the opening work of China’s peripheral diplomacy in the new era.

  During the APEC Da Nang Summit, the top leaders attended 17 events within 44 hours, and in their keynote speeches, they revealed the profound changes facing the world economy, pointed out the development direction of the Asia-Pacific region, shared the experience of governing the country, and comprehensively explained the new development journey of China initiated by the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

  Voice: China wisdom leads global governance.

"One Belt, One Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum (Xinhua News Agency reporter Pang Xinglei)

"One Belt, One Road" International Cooperation Summit Forum (photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Pang Xinglei)

  At the beginning of 2017, the deep-seated impact left by the impact of the international financial crisis still exists, the economic recovery is weak, global trade and investment continue to be weak, and anti-globalization thoughts prevail … … It is at this time when the international community is generally worried and at a loss that China’s wisdom, like a bright lamp, continues to send out the strong voice of the times leading the direction of globalization and lead global governance.

  In Davos, the top leaders actively responded to the concerns of all parties at the opening ceremony of the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, and profoundly answered major questions such as "What’s wrong with the world" and "What should we do", stressing that it is not feasible to reverse the historical trend of globalization, and engaging in protectionism is like putting yourself in a dark room, calling for joint efforts to create an innovation-driven growth model, an open and win-win cooperation model, a fair and reasonable governance model and a balanced and inclusive development model.

  During his visit to the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, the Supreme Leader systematically expounded the major international initiative of building a community of human destiny in the forum of the Palais des Nations, and put forward a Chinese plan to solve the global challenges facing human society, thus raising the China concept to an international consensus.

  In May this year, the first "Belt and Road" international cooperation summit forum was successfully held in Beijing. Twenty-nine foreign heads of state and heads of state gathered in Beijing, and senior representatives of more than 130 countries and heads of more than 70 international organizations attended the meeting, forming a global consensus that all countries in the world should work together to promote the construction of the Belt and Road Initiative. The forum reached more than 270 cooperation achievements, weaving a mutually beneficial cooperation network centered on the Eurasian continent, radiating all continents around the world and connecting all the oceans in the world. We will build an international cooperation platform that integrates development strategies, complements each other’s advantages, is interconnected, and is inclusive and open, thus opening up a new path for rebalancing globalization.

  At the G-20 Hamburg Summit held in July, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader made an important speech on the world economic situation and put forward four "China Propositions" to promote the development of the world economy. From Hangzhou to Hamburg, the "China Plan" of global governance in the same strain has become clearer, pointing out the direction and path for the world economy to achieve prosperity, stability and sustainable development.

  Ten years ago, in the tide of the group rise of developing countries, the BRICS countries officially appeared on the international stage, bringing "golden power" to the world. Ten years later, in Xiamen, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader successfully presided over the meeting of BRICS leaders in Xiamen and the dialogue meeting between emerging market countries and developing countries, which opened the second "golden decade" of BRICS cooperation and built a new platform for South-South cooperation with global influence.

  "As the second largest economy in the world, China is well aware of its responsibilities." This is the solemn promise made by the Chairman of the Supreme Leader at the APEC Business Leaders Summit in Da Nang, Vietnam in mid-November. In more than 5,000 words, he accurately explained the profound changes that are taking place in the world economy, and gave China’s plan again with "continuing to build an open economy and strive to achieve mutual benefit and win-win", "continuing to seek innovative growth and tap new development momentum", "continuing to strengthen interconnection and realize coordinated development" and "continuing to enhance the inclusiveness of economic development and let the people share development achievements".

  Responsibility: the mainstay, maintaining peace and benefiting the world

On July 8, the Supreme Leader of president met with US President Trump after the conclusion of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Dawei)

On July 8, the Supreme Leader of president met with US President Trump after the conclusion of the G-20 Summit in Hamburg. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency reporter Yao Dawei)

  "For the sake of peace, we must firmly establish a sense of community of human destiny. Prejudice and discrimination, hatred and war will only bring disaster and pain. Mutual respect, equality, peaceful development and common prosperity are the right path in the world. " In 2015, the Supreme Leader said so at the conference commemorating the 70th anniversary of the victory of Chinese people’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression and the world anti-fascist war.

  Over the past year, China has continued to practice and promote world peace and development. Actively build a partnership of dialogue, non-confrontation, partnership and non-alignment, work together with other countries for lasting peace and universal prosperity, and become the mainstay of maintaining regional peace and stability.

  The guidance of the head of state is the key to the development of relations between major powers. Since the beginning of this year, President Xi and President Trump have met for three times and communicated by telephone for many times, which has played a strategic role in stabilizing this most complicated and important bilateral relationship in the world. Shortly after the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China closed, President Trump paid a state visit to China. During their stay in Beijing, the two heads of state interacted sincerely, with frequent highlights, and even signed commercial contracts and two-way investment agreements with a total amount of 253.5 billion US dollars.

  China and Russia are the largest neighbors linked by mountains and rivers. In the past year, the Chairman of the Supreme Leader and President Putin exchanged visits, held five meetings and intensively communicated with each other. Close cooperation on major issues of global strategic stability and deep docking on the development strategy of revitalizing Europe and Asia have made Sino-Russian relations an important cornerstone for maintaining peace and tranquility and upholding fairness and justice in today’s world.

  In addition to new progress in coordination and cooperation with major powers, China’s good-neighborly friendship with neighboring countries has reached a new level in the past year.

  In the face of various unstable factors gathered within Europe, China’s policy toward Europe is as steady as Mount Tai and consistent; China-ROK relations ushered in a turning point after the cold current caused by the "Sade" issue; China handled the incident of Indian border guards crossing the border into Donglang area of China in a reasonable and favorable way, which reflected the treasure of Sino-Indian relations and demonstrated the responsibility of maintaining peace. In terms of Sino-Japanese relations, Japan took measures to improve its relations with China at the end of the year … …

  "The castle peak can’t be covered, after all, it flows east." This is a poem quoted by Foreign Minister Wang Yi when talking about the South China Sea issue. Since the beginning of this year, the situation in the South China Sea has slowed down. China and ASEAN countries have re-established a consensus on peaceful settlement of disputes through dialogue and consultation between the countries concerned, and officially announced the initiation of consultations on the substantive text of the Code of Conduct in the South China Sea. China and ASEAN countries have the ability to jointly safeguard peace and stability in the South China Sea.

  In 2017, China also actively mediated around hot issues. Wang Yi concluded that on the nuclear issue on the Korean Peninsula, China, proceeding from safeguarding the international nuclear non-proliferation system, maintaining peace and stability on the peninsula, adheres to the goal of denuclearization, persists in solving the problem through dialogue and negotiation, and fully implements the UN Security Council resolutions concerning the DPRK. At the same time, it also shuttled diplomacy between Afghanistan and Pakistan to promote the establishment of bilateral crisis management and control mechanisms; Mediate Myanmar and Bangladesh, and put forward the idea of "three steps" to solve the Rakhine State problem in Myanmar.

Changsha’s second largest business district, which used to "sell mud to make money", is staging a resurgence of "East" Mountain.

"When I was here in Dong Tang, I could make money by selling yellow mud …"

Speaking this sentence, Xiong Wenzheng, deputy director of the office of Changsha Tongcheng Holding Co., Ltd., was sitting in the office on the seventh floor of Golden Family. He had been working and living in Dong Tang business circle for more than 30 years. At the peak of Dong Tang Department Store, Xiong Wen, who was in his early twenties, was passionate and splashed ink, writing a magnificent chapter "Four acres of brilliant land" for Dong Tang Department Store. (Originally published in Changsha People’s Congress Magazine)

Today, standing on the 7th floor of Golden Family, looking out from the window, Dong Tang business circle in late autumn of 2020 is still lively. The construction of the subway station has been basically completed, and the streets are crowded with people.

For an old man like Xiong Wen in Changsha, such a scene made him feel a little sentimental.

Dong Tang in the 1980s.

In the south city of Changsha, the Dong Tang business circle once flourished, bearing the memory of old Changsha. There used to be a reputation of "selling yellow mud can make money", and it also suffered from the embarrassment of declining popularity. "The road to the revival of Dong Tang business circle" has always been a hot topic.

What was the prosperity of Dong Tang business circle? Why did it once decline? Where is the road to its revival?

The east wind came overnight? Here once dominated the evolution theory of Changsha’s business.

In the memory of the old Changsha people, anyone who dabbles in the local business community will never forget the lively and beautiful era of "Fighting with Five Tigers in Changsha" …

In January, 1983, Dong Tang Department Store (the original site of Cash Family) located in the northwest corner of Dong Tang was completed and opened. In the following years, the nearby clothing trading building, cloth market and Changsha Workers’ Cultural Palace were completed and put into operation. Around this small area of Dong Tang, the integration of various formats has gradually formed. At that time, it really started an era of Changsha commerce, and the Dong Tang business circle also took shape.

The completed Dong Tang Department Store.

The salesperson of Dong Tang department store is picking up the goods for the customers.

There is a constant flow of traffic and people coming and going near Dong Tang Department Store.

In the commercial map of Changsha at that time, with the Dong Tang business circle raising the war flag in the southeast, Dong Tang Department Store, Shaoshan Road Department Store, Zhongshan Road Department Store, Xiaoyuan Department Store and Friendship Store at that time, ignited a commercial competition war of "five tigers fighting in Changsha".

Xiaoxiang Cinema at that time

Competition has promoted the development of business, but also brought an opportunity to take off.

Around 1995, a number of Changsha local time-honored brands, such as Friendship Mall, Fire Palace and Xinhua Building, successively settled in Dong Tang, which led to the completion of a large-scale upgrade of the business circle. The Dong Tang business circle and the Wuyi business circle echoed each other from a distance and became the main focus of Changsha’s business in the south of the city.

At this point, the Dong Tang business circle has entered a stage of rapid development-

17 years ago, Tongcheng Electric built a flagship store in Dong Tang, which is known as "the first store in Central China".

In 2004, Tongcheng Electric entered Dong Tang as a flagship store, which is also the largest store of Tongcheng Electric in the province.

In 2005, Dong Tang Metropolis Commercial Street opened, which is the first underground commercial street in Changsha with a total length of 624 meters.

In 2012, Friendship Mall achieved a turnover of 1.3 billion yuan with a business area of 27,000 square meters on the upper and lower floors, ranking first in Hunan’s commerce and trade industry.

With the vigorous development of commerce, in this small area of Dong Tang at that time, the Yuhua District Government embodied strategic and forward-looking policy support and planning guidance, and formed a teaching and training industry around the educational resources of Dong Tang business circle; The cultural tourism industry formed around Xiaoying Group has gradually taken shape. These characteristic industries once formed the basic market of Dong Tang business circle outside commerce. This all-round industrial layout once led the evolution and development of Changsha’s commerce …

Internet e-commerce impacts consumers’ shopping habits are quietly changing.

If you go back to more than ten years ago, if you come to Dong Tang at that time, you will see that the popularity is no less than the lively scene of Wuyi Square or Taiping Street today-

Dong Tang Department Store and Friendship Shopping Mall are separated on both sides of the square, where most famous brands that can be bought in Changsha at that time are gathered. And across the intersection, in the bustling metropolis commercial street and Dong Tang clothing exchange building, you can find all kinds of cheap and fashionable clothing accessories.

As an old-fashioned commercial street, the metropolitan commercial street ushered in its heyday after the Millennium.

According to the memories of merchants who used to do business here, people crowded around Dong Tang every day, and many Changsha citizens even bought clothes and swept the goods with big sacks. "Business will not be interrupted from morning till night. At that time, merchants had to go to the clothing building early every morning to grab goods, and there would be no best-selling styles if they were late. In the metropolitan commercial street and Dong Tang clothing exchange building, all fashionable clothes could be found at that time. Many young people go to Dong Tang to go shopping, eat, buy clothes or trinkets after work or after class … "

The once bustling commercial street in Dong Tang metropolis.

At that time, the Dong Tang business circle has become a rival to the May Day business circle. When it comes to Dong Tang business circle, if the admission of Pinghetang, Dong Tang Department Store and other groups is just a prelude, then the opening of Dong Tang Clothing Exchange Building and Metropolitan Commercial Street is the booster for Dong Tang business circle to reach its peak.

However, no one ever thought that after 2012, the decline of Dong Tang business circle came quietly …

With the popularity of online e-commerce shopping and the upgrading of people’s consumption level and business model, the business of underground commercial streets began to decline. Many shops are promoting sales with various discounts, but few people still patronize them, and their business is still very deserted. Some shops have already posted advertisements for subletting.

"At that time, e-commerce developed rapidly, and many popular styles of clothes were also available online, and the price was cheaper. The popularity here suddenly cooled down. Moreover, compared with other emerging business districts with rapid development and complete facilities in Changsha, the shopping environment of underground commercial streets here is not good. The business in other parts of Changsha is developing, but here in Dong Tang is stagnant … "Zhao Xu, the floor supervisor of Friendship Mall, has lived in Dong Tang for 26 years, and he can’t help but be deeply touched when he sees that the business circle in Dong Tang has grown from bustling to deserted.

Wang Yigao, deputy director, researcher and professor of Hunan Institute of Economic Geography, has lived in Dongtang business circle for more than 20 years. He analyzed the dilemma faced by Dong Tang business circle from a more professional perspective. "Internet e-commerce has a greater impact on physical stores, which has changed people’s consumption patterns and habits to some extent; In addition, shops in Dong Tang business district are generally expensive in rent and lack of functional supporting facilities. The times are developing, and citizens’ demand for shopping conditions and consumption environment is constantly improving. As an old business district, Dong Tang basically has no large underground parking lots, no boulevards for leisure walks, and no squares for fun … "

Professor Wang Yigao also said: Compared with the "Fire Palace" and "Taiping Old Street" with a strong sense of history in the May 1 business district, the Dong Tang business district lacks historical precipitation, which affects the development of diversified business patterns; For a long time, the architectural layout of Dong Tang was also lack of planning, and office buildings, factories, institutions, research institutions and commercial complexes were blindly confused, resulting in a chaotic pattern and mixed roads, which did not form a three-dimensional traffic pattern. All along, the businesses in Dong Tang have been fragmented and have not formed a unified alliance. Coupled with the subway construction in Dong Tang in recent years, various factors have caused the rapid decline of Dong Tang business circle in recent years.

Dong Tang Business Circle, Friendship Shopping Mall, Metropolis Commercial Street … These nouns have accompanied a generation of Changsha people through beautiful memories of youth. However, with the development of the times, the "old business circle" has become a lonely term.

When you make a comeback! Night economy and the "revival" assisted by subway lines

Dong Tang business district is bustling with night.

On June 28th, 2020, Changsha Metro Line 3 along Dong Tang was opened.

In the eyes of some insiders, this is a new opportunity and new kinetic energy for the revival of Dong Tang business circle. However, is it enough to solve the grand proposition of "revival of the old business district" just by a subway line?

Wang Lin, a professor at Central South University, once said in an interview with the media that all businesses in the Dong Tang business circle are fragmented, which has led to the current decline. To revitalize the business circle, we must first conform to the natural development of the economy, and then the guidance of the government.

Some people in the industry also pointed out that if the opening of the subway brings good times to the revival of Dong Tang business circle and Dong Tang’s own location is favorable, then it is necessary to find the "harmony between people" in the revival of business circle, that is, to face the shortcomings of business circle directly, and enterprises and the government should come up with some effective ways to break the situation.

Dong Tang Metropolitan Commercial Street

On July 15th, 2020, Liu Suyue, deputy secretary of Yuhua District Committee and district head, led a team to investigate the surrounding environment of Dong Tang business circle, and visited Golden Family, Xiaoxiang Film Group and other enterprises, and then organized some business representatives from Dong Tang business circle to hold a symposium on the theme of "How to revive Dong Tang business circle".

At the symposium, representatives of Xiaoxiang Film Group, Fire Palace, Golden Family, Pinghetang, SINOMACH International, Tongcheng Electric Appliances, Xinhua Building and other enterprises launched a heated discussion around the "revival" of Dong Tang business circle.

The person in charge of Hunan Xiaoxiang Cultural Industry Investment Co., Ltd. proposed that the Dong Tang business circle is in urgent need of transformation and upgrading! With the arrival of the economic development tide in experience tourism, Xiaoxiang Film Group wants to build an experience city of film and television culture, attract more people to know about film and television culture, and turn it into a "meeting room of film and television culture" in Hunan, so as to drain the business circle and provide a new engine for its development, thus driving the development of the whole business circle.

The relevant person in charge of Friendship Mall said that during the epidemic, the mall launched a series of live online activities, which was a great success. The sales performance in May and June increased by about 3% compared with last year. Through practice, it is found that the influence of live broadcast sales is very strong, so the next step will continue to deepen online channels, and at the same time, fashion brands that young people love will be introduced one after another.

Think about how to transform and upgrade, how to attract consumers, especially young consumers, and how to strengthen linkage, dislocation management and information sharing between businesses?

This is the thinking put forward by Liu Suyue, deputy secretary of Yuhua District Committee and district head, to Dong Tang business circle at this meeting.

Today’s Dong Tang business circle

At the meeting, the specific arrangements made by the Yuhua District Government for the development of Dong Tang business district are also ready to come out: good guidance, good planning, scientific positioning, focusing on Dong Tang’s characteristics and advantages; Plan more activities related to consumption festival according to time nodes, and guide businesses to strengthen linkage consumption and related consumption; It is necessary to take the lead in setting up business alliance institutions and strengthen the linkage between enterprises and governments and between enterprises; With the help of Tik Tok and other new media, strengthen the publicity of Dong Tang business circle; It is necessary to improve the basic supporting facilities of the business circle, strengthen the rectification of advertising spaces, improve the lighting at night, and solve the problem of parking difficulties through the sharing of parking spaces, so as to create a good market environment for the business circle.

There are indications that Dong Tang, the "old business district", seems to have signs of oriental wind. With the comprehensive promotion of Changsha’s "Night Star City" consumption festival and the launch of Yuhua District’s "Slow Nightlife, Meet You" activity, the Dong Tang business circle reappeared after the epidemic.

Dong Tang business circle in the future, just like a young man gearing up, is coming back with a new attitude, which is expected to reproduce the "paradise for shopping and leisure" in Changsha people’s mind.

Text | Li Jie

Poster | Wan Tao

Editor | Fan Jin

Source | Netease Hunan

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A summary of the international symposium on Duan Yucai and Qing Dynasty.

    Recently, the International Symposium on Duan Yucai and Qing Dynasty, sponsored by the Chinese Culture Research Institute of Nanjing University and the People’s Government of Jintan City, Jiangsu Province, and undertaken by the Propaganda Department of Jintan Municipal Committee of Jiangsu Province and Jiangsu Hongde Culture Publishing Foundation, was held in Jintan City, Jiangsu Province, the hometown of Duan Yucai, which is known as a blessed land in the east of the river. During the meeting, experts and scholars attending the meeting exchanged views on Duan Yucai’s academic contribution, the Confucian tradition in Duan Zhu’s Shuowen, Duan Yucai in the perspective of ideological history, Western Sinology and Duan Yucai studies, and achieved rich academic achievements, which can be summarized as follows:


    On Duan Yucai’s Linguistics and Philology


    Duan Yucai’s most important academic achievement in his life was in philology, and his main achievements were concentrated in the book Notes on Explaining Words and Characters. Annotation is an important genre of ancient writing. If Xu Shen’s Shuo Wen Jie Zi in the Eastern Han Dynasty focuses on revealing the original meaning of Chinese characters through their glyphs, Duan Yucai in the Qing Dynasty focuses on revealing the extended meaning of Chinese words with handed down documents. Today, we talk about the contribution of paragraph notes to semantics and lexicology, which is mainly based on the extension of paragraph notes. Duan Zhu connects the ancient and modern glyphs, pronunciations and meanings, which makes it more thoughtful.


    Another important contribution of Duan Zhu is that more than 9,000 Chinese characters are placed in the new ancient phonological system, and the rhymes of each character are marked one by one. Attached to Duan’s annotated book, Liushu Phonology Table is the position system of more than 9,000 words, that is, the ancient rhyme system. Duan Yucai’s achievements in ancient phonology can be summarized into two aspects: first, he put forward a series of principles of ancient phonology, became a master of ancient phonology, and especially opened up a new way and a new method system to study the division of ancient phonology from the perspective of harmonic radicals. Second, it is divided into six categories and seventeen parts, which surpass the predecessors and enlighten the later. Duan Yucai and Dai Zhen talked about rhyme for fifteen years, which became a much-told story in academic history. After discussion, the two sides reached a consensus on the part of the three rhymes of "Zhi, Zhi and Zhi" in ancient times. However, Dai has never accepted Duan’s opinion on the separation of ancient truth and literature. Today, the division of ancient truth and literature has become a conclusion and Duan is correct. 


    Another important contribution of Duan Zhu is that, in addition to pointing out the meaning relationship between the related Chinese characters in the radicals of Shuowen, Xu Shen Shuowen has become orderly and "like a text", and it has also been constantly checking instructions on the meaning-related words in the whole book, making them combined and classified.


    What are the new ideas for studying paragraph notes today? To sum up, there are four kinds: one is to absorb the essence of paragraph notes to serve the compilation of contemporary dictionaries, the other is to make a deeper study of paragraph notes by using the sound and meaning of Buddhist scriptures, and the other is to use the "waste words" regulation of paragraph notes to include the study of waste words in the standardization of Chinese characters, so that the International Organization for Standardization can officially publish the Universal Multi-octet Coded Character Set (number ISO10646) as an open mode for editing.


    Some scholars combine the study of Duan Zhujin’s folk characters with the study of dialect characters, which is also very innovative and valuable.


    On Duan Yucai’s Confucian Classics


    First, Duan’s extensive and profound primary school is the methodological support of Duan’s Confucian classics. In the early Qing Dynasty, when Gu Yanwu answered the question of what is Confucian classics, he once said, "Neo-Confucianism is also Confucian classics." That is, "there is no neo-Confucianism without Confucian classics". Similarly, we can also say that there is no Confucian classics without primary school. Duan’s primary school serves the interpretation of classics, and primary school is a tool for studying classics. Duan’s primary school is magnificent, and his achievements in Confucian classics are therefore rich. In Duan Yucai’s view, the history of Confucian classics is really a history of the logical application of pragmatic tools around the group classics, and the history of Confucian classics is a history of the annotation of Confucian classics.


    The second is the language logic of reading classics in Zhou Lihan’s Reading Test (1794). Duan Yucai’s most important contribution to Zhou Lihan’s Reading Test is that he put forward the style of Han Dynasty’s annotation on Zhou Li in order to understand Zhou Li: the preface to Zhou Lihan’s reading test put forward three forms of "Chinese annotation is correct reading". Duan said: "Chinese is a note, and there are three examples: one is to read if, and the other is to read if; Second, read as, read as; Three times. " This passage, also found under the word "read" in Shuo Wen Duan Zhu, can be regarded as an independent ancient philology transferred to Confucian classics as an example of speech. Reading Ru, Reading Ruo: "Imitating its pronunciation" is used to imitate homophones and homonyms. Read for, read for: mainly used to indicate the change of meaning. When: Duan said: "A word error or a sound error is correct, all of which are called when."


    The third is the meritorious service in the field of Shangshu. In the early Qing Dynasty, it was enlightening to denounce the fake ancient prose Shangshu, and Liang Qichao’s Academic Introduction in Qing Dynasty called it "one of the great liberation of sincere ideological circles". Shangshu is one of the thirteen classics, and the thirteen classics are the orthodox guiding ideology of feudal society. It is of course an impact on feudal ruling ideology to expose the forgery of Shangshu. During the Qianlong period, Duan Yucai’s research and verification of the ancient Chinese text Shangshu was of great significance to expose the aftermath of Mei’s pseudograph. 


    The fourth is natural science and reading classics. Duan Yucai attaches great importance to the introduction of natural science into the Confucian Classics. Zhang Binglin’s A Review of Confucianism once said that there are fewer Thirteen Classics in Duan Yucai, and it is advisable to add Da Dai Li Ji, Mandarin, Historical Records, Han Shu, Zi Zhi Tong Jian, and Shuo Wen Jie Zi, Zhou Bian Shu Jing and Nine Chapters of Arithmetic. In this way, two of the eight classics added by Duan are mathematical books, which shows that Duan’s theory of classics attaches importance to natural science.


    Fifthly, it is also worth noting that Duan Yucai’s tolerant attitude towards modern classics. Duan Yucai once asked his grandson Gong Zizhen to learn from Cheng Yaotian, a scholar of ancient Chinese classics. Later, Gong Zizhen, a scholar of Confucian classics, wrote four articles on Ming Liang, exposing the corruption of bureaucratic politics in the Qing Dynasty. When Duan Yucai was 80 years old, he read this article and praised it as "a disease in China and today" and "an outstanding one"! I don’t hate (regret) to die when I still see this. "


    On Duan Yucai’s Philosophical Thought


    There are many contents in the paragraph notes that are close to the philosophy of language. Generally speaking, Duan Zhu’s explanation of the righteous examples in Shuowen, the righteous examples, literary examples and regulations are all the logic of the book itself, and Duan Zhu’s invention of the book permission regulations is an extremely important content of language philosophy. The generalization of the logical and semantic order of the words received by the Ministry after the paragraph notes, and the classification and comparison of similar semantics in different radicals are typical philosophical problems of language. A series of principles of ancient phonology when divided into six categories and seventeen parts of ancient rhymes, especially the deep-seated principle and composition of "the homophonic sounds are the same, and the ancient rhymes are the same", the metalinguistic characteristics in the interpretation of the extended meanings in the paragraph notes, and the examples of the interpretation of Duan’s Confucian classics, are all philosophical problems of language.


    There is a problem here, that is, the ontology of language philosophy. The ontology of China’s ancient philosophy of language is Chinese and Chinese characters. Modern cognitive linguistics also believes that the words of a national language can be used to understand the culture, thought and national spirit of the nation. Duan Yucai devoted his whole life to explaining Chinese language, revealing phonology and semantic categories, which is precisely the ontological research of language philosophy. The deeper value of this research lies in carrying forward the national cultural spirit. Whenever we study Shuo Wen Duan Zhu with awe, we are certainly attracted by the knowledge treasure in it, but what fascinates us even more is the cultural spirit of Duan Zhu’s Chinese characters, which is the spiritual implication conveyed by Duan’s explanation. Duan’s research is, in a word, the study of the meaning of language. Our study of the meaning system revealed by Duan Yucai is of general world outlook and scientific understanding significance.


    In recent years, the academic circles have mentioned the modernity of traditional academics, that is, the modern transformation of traditional academics. Different fields have their own academic transformations. For example, in the above-mentioned field of linguistics and philology, from three segments: extended meanings, ancient phonology and analogical characters, from dictionary compilation, Buddhist phonology and meanings, from compiling Chinese character "attribute dictionary" to developing paragraph notes by using the "waste words" regulation of paragraph notes, and from supplementing Xu Shu and paragraph notes with ancient characters. In the field of Confucian classics, it is all aspects of modernity to construct the philosophy of language and philology of China’s ancient philosophy of language in the field of philosophy from the aspects of practical learning, style, enlightenment thought and natural science view.


    The more important aspect of "modern transformation" is to inherit Duan’s rigorous and realistic academic spirit. Duan spent nearly 40 years (1776-1815) creating a book "Notes on Explaining Words", which shows that Duan’s academic and cultural spirit is the most valuable spiritual wealth.


    (Author: College of Literature, Nanjing University)


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