In 2121, it coincides with the 381th anniversary of Xu Xiake's death and the 11th anniversary of China Tourism Day (named on the opening day of Xu Xiake's Travels). In order to practice the spirit of Xiake, improve the popularity of places and scenic spots recorded in Travels, enhance people's understanding and search for "the landmark of Xu Xiake's tour", enrich the connotation of Xu Xue's times, and promote the integration of literature and tourism, corporate culture and rural revitalization, the first "Xu Xiake Cup" World Chinese Poetry Competition was held ceremoniously.
The contest is sponsored by the Xu Xiake Society of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Cultural and Tourism Association, the International Chinese Poets Association, the Hong Kong Prose Poetry Society, Guizhou Qianjiu Co., Ltd., Guizhou Meili Maotai-flavor Tourism Co., Ltd. and other units. Co-organized by Jiangyin Xuxiake Research Association, Ninghai Xuxiake Research Association, Tiantai Mountain Xuxiake Culture Promotion Association and Yunxian Xuxiake Research Association. Since October 2121, after more than half a year's submission and selection process, it finally came to a successful conclusion and was grandly announced in June this year.
Xu Xiake (1587-1641) was a great traveler, geographer and writer in Ming Dynasty in China. He devoted his life to geographical investigation and tourism exploration. After 34 years of traveling, he traveled all over 21 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China, and wrote a classic of Chinese studies, Xu Xiake's Travels, which is scientific and literary, and has far-reaching influence at home and abroad, and is known as the "Chinese sage".
The theme of this call for papers is "Xu Xiake's Tour Line". Around the narrative content of Xu Xiake's Travel Notes, the places and scenic spots recorded in the Travel Notes are expressed and described in poetry, combined with local natural scenery, historical sites, local customs, wine and tea culture, gourmet culture, social and economic development, corporate culture and rural revitalization. Through the selection of 111 winning poems, the collection of winning works of the first "Xu Xiake Cup" World Chinese Poetry Competition was published, creating a "poetic journey" in the new era of Xu Xiake's Travels. This is the first time in the world to hold the "Xu Xiake Cup" World Chinese Poetry Competition, which is of great significance and will go down in history.
The response to this essay was strong, attracting the attention of Xu Xiake from all over the world, Including 16 countries in Asia, Europe, America, Australia, Africa and other places (China, Germany, Spain, Denmark, Netherlands, Czech Republic, Britain, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Angola, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea and Japan) and the whole country (Beijing, Shanghai, Tianjin, Chongqing, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi and Anhui). Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai, Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Hong Kong and Macao). The grand occasion is unprecedented, and the excellent works are colorful, forming a spectacular scene of "global poets writing Xiake".
This contest is a grand event of international Chinese cultural exchange and friendship in the name of Xu Xiake. By hosting this World Chinese Poetry Contest, people all over the world and Chinese poets will be guided and promoted to understand Xiake and respect science. This is an extraordinary pioneering work that reflects the self-confidence of Chinese culture and inherits Chinese civilization. The grand scene of the global author's love for Xu Xiake and the practice of Xu Xiake's spirit is gratifying and exciting.
There are a wide range of social fields participating in this essay. Xu Xiake's researchers, followers and poetry lovers of different nationalities, nationalities, occupations and ages participated in this world Chinese cultural event with great enthusiasm. Among them, there are experts and Xia You from Xu Xiake Research Association, as well as authors of Xu Xiake's landmarks, tourist routes and scenic spots. There are winners of literary awards at home and abroad, first-class writers, leaders of local writers' associations and poetry associations, and members of Chinese writers' associations; There are not only university professors, doctors and leaders of overseas Chinese cultural organizations from all over the world, but also scientists, entrepreneurs, artists, civil servants, editors, translators, journalists, doctors, primary and secondary school teachers, rural teachers, soldiers, workers, farmers, migrant workers, self-employed, freelancers, students and disabled people from all walks of life.
Many overseas poets, in particular, are in a foreign country, but their love for the traditional culture of the motherland and their feelings for home and country are very touching. This is the centenary of the birth of China Tourism Day and the 381th anniversary of Xu Xiake's death. We have carefully organized a "Poetry and Distance" activity, which is a tour of Xu Xiake's theory and Chinese poetry circles around the world. All kinds of works with different contents, styles, forms and genres are assembled on this stage, each with its own beauty.
In the essay, some works describe Xu Xiake's wonderful life, while others praise Xu Xiake's great spirit. More works reflect the places Xu Xiake traveled, such as Jiangyin Xiake's hometown, Taihu Lake, Ninghai, Tiantai Mountain, Yandang Mountain, Xidong Tianhe Grand Canyon, Qiyun Mountain, Huangshan Mountain, Taishan Mountain, Huashan Mountain, Songshan Mountain, Wudang Mountain, Wutai Mountain, Sheshan Mountain, Tonglu, Jin Huashan, Shuanglong Cave, Linwu Cave, Lanxi, Tianmuxi, Jianglang Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Luling Mountain, Wugong Mountain, Xianxiaguan, Wuyishan and Jiuli Lake. Fengyu Town, Lijiang, Yunzhou, Tengchong, Odonata, etc., contain most of Xu Xiake's travels, just like Xu Xiake's "Journey of Poetry" in the new era.
the contest received a large number of essays, and the organizing Committee organized manpower to carefully collect, register and sort out a large number of essays, and the jury conducted repeated primary selection, preliminary evaluation and final evaluation. Under the relevant requirements, the initial evaluation carefully reviewed, comprehensively compared and balanced. First, 211 works were selected, and then 111 of them were selected as finalists. Finally, the final judges composed of experts selected all the awards.
The final evaluation committee has a strong lineup, consisting of experts at home and abroad, with five members: Tang Hanzhang (executive director and deputy secretary-general of China Xuxiake Research Association and Jiangsu Xuxiake Research Association, vice president and secretary-general of Jiangyin Xuxiake Research Association, and leader of Xuxiake Travel Milestone Expert Group); Zhuang Weijie (living in Australia, doctor of literature, university professor, literary critic); Wang Zhiqing (university professor, vice president of China Wang Wei Research Association, vice president of Jiangsu Poetics Research Association, aesthetic theorist); Cui Guofa (famous prose poet and literary critic); Sun Chonggui (President of International Chinese Poets Association, President of Xu Xiake Society of Hong Kong, President of Hong Kong Culture and Tourism Association, visiting professor of four universities). This essay is Xu Xiake's proposition essay, not an essay in ordinary sense. Any essay that does not have Xu Xiake's elements and does not meet the requirements is not allowed to participate in the evaluation. Under the condition that the selection requires a certain quality of the works, six aspects should be taken into account: 1. Professionalism, and a certain proportion of Xu Xiake's landmarks, tours and authors of the seminar. 2, worldwide, there must be a certain proportion of foreign authors. 3, extensive, there must be a certain proportion of minority authors. 4, regional, there must be a certain proportion of excellent works describing Xu Xiake's travels on behalf of scenic spots and tourist routes. 5, fairness, not only famous, but also the works of vulnerable groups, such as rural teachers, the disabled. 6, take proper care of the author, such as geography, gender, occupation and authors of different ages. Works should not only look at artistic standards, but also pay attention to ideological content, pay attention to their spirit of Xu Xiake and feelings of home and country, so as to make the winning works as representative and practical as possible.
Judge Tang Hanzhang thinks that the contest has gone through hardships from initiation to completion, during which the Covid-19 epidemic is spreading all over the world. However, the epidemic can't stop the enthusiasm of the writers who love and admire Xu Xiake, and they still pick up the pen to create poems and eulogize Xu Xiake and his great spirit, feats and achievements. The author comes from 16 countries and 32 provinces and cities in Asia, Europe, America, Australia and Africa. Its extensiveness is the highest in Xu Xiake's commemorative activities, and it also opens up a new form of Xu Xue's research. The 1888 poems collected this time condense the hard work of the authors and express their respect and love for the great traveler, outstanding geographer, travel writer and great traveler Xu Xiake. This contest fully embodies the universality of the region, the richness of the theme, and the openness and fairness of the selection. One hundred authors won the prize by selection as outstanding people, and I would like to extend my warm congratulations to them!
Judge Cui Guofa thinks: the essay writers come from all corners of the country, and the award-winning poets are all over China and abroad. They are wanderers and poets. A walker is a scholar; He is a close friend of nature, but also a bosom friend of mountains and rivers, and all of them can follow Xu Xiake's journey to find the muddy existence of people and everything, the * * * feeling in the aesthetic sense, and the * * * reason when they leave the world. These poets gallop freely in the words, travel-stained, and full of enthusiasm, both in body and mind, both full and affectionate, "What people have not reached, what people have not explored", and in the journey between poetry and distant places, they are as empty as a rainbow, and they combine into a poetic world that is spiritually ethereal and broad and deep.
The judges in Wang Zhiqing thought: One of the impressions: the organizers launched enthusiastically, which was intended to promote. Mr. Sun Chonggui has the reputation of "Xu Xiake of Hong Kong". He tirelessly initiated and hosted various Chinese poetry competitions, and this time he set up a platform for poets at home and abroad. The motivation he intended to promote the hosting has formed the "civilian" characteristics of this kind of competition and produced more winners, which is bound to have a wider impact. Moved by the second: the applicant enthusiastically contributed to participate. The contributors and award-winning poets have traveled all over the world, and the contestants are from all walks of life, young and old, mainly from the Eastern Hemisphere, and many from the Western Hemisphere, even from Angola, Africa. The extraordinary enthusiasm shown by the contributors ensured the heat and quality of the competition. Touching the third: the theme of the call for papers is prominent, which is intended to praise. All poems have the same feature: they love my China, my rivers and mountains, my civilization and history. No matter where we are, we are all descendants of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River in our hearts.
Judge Zhuang Weijie thinks that it is difficult to see the selected works in general, although it is difficult to see the works that make people's eyes shine and their hearts shake, which may be the reason why it is difficult to write the essay style well, especially to express a specific proposition in the artistic form of poetry, which may restrict the normal play of poets to varying degrees. However, the winning works of this "Xu Xiake Cup" poetry contest still show a high level of writing and aesthetic consciousness. Most works can explore beauty and express beauty with special vision, and even let people see the author's life wisdom, memory traces and spiritual origin. Individual excellent works not only stay in the dimensions of natural landscape, homeland complex, historical imagination and ecological ethics, but also break through geographical time and space, skillfully handle the imaginary space and symbolic scenes of poetry, interweave time consciousness, mountains and rivers with individual life experience, and blend authenticity, imagination and rhetoric, which shows a humanistic feeling of understanding life, history and nature in the life of everything in the world and fireworks. No matter from the conception, language expression and artistic texture, it gives people telepathy and aesthetic enjoyment, and at the same time, it has its specific aesthetic value. Of course, as an essay contest, the works are not completely equivalent to pure poetry creation, and their degrees of freedom are different, so the horizons and realms presented by the works are naturally different. Those who are relatively distinctive and individual, or integrated into individual life experience, or with personalized language, can be both inside and outside, and can write and be lively, even if not satisfactory, but remarkable. What needs to be faced up to is that individual works are still conceptualized, that is, abstraction is greater than image, concept is greater than art, and poetic expression and presentation with individuality and uniqueness are lacking.
Judge Sun Chonggui thinks that it is gratifying to receive nearly 2,111 essays from authors from five continents, and it is touching that so many people have written works that love Xu Xiake. When reading the poems of Xu Xiake's researchers, followers and poets of different nationalities, nationalities, occupations and ages, and comparing them with Xu Xiake's Travels, I can't help feeling surging and thinking profusely. As the sage of China tourism culture, Xu Xiake is inextricably linked with us spiritually. He is not only a great geographer, but also an outstanding writer. He is a "strange man through the ages", and his Travel Notes is an "extraordinary book through the ages", which is praised as "true writing, Daimonji and strange writing". He wrote, "Peach blossoms and flowing water never leave the world, and the clouds and shadows are covered with moss, forming their own years." How wonderful, used as advertising words to promote Yunnan tourism. This essay is to advocate learning from his style of "natural simplicity, scene blending" and inherit and carry forward the fine tradition of Chinese national tourism literature. In view of the numerous masterpieces and fierce competition, the final judges, after careful selection and repeated comparison, thought that although there were masterpieces, they did not see any masterpieces that brightened their eyes and shook their hearts. Therefore, the original gold prize was adjusted from 2 to 1, and 1 silver prizes were added, and the total number of ranking prizes remained unchanged at 32. After overall planning and balance, 111 winning works (1 gold, 11 silver, 21 bronze and 68 excellent) were finally selected (to be announced separately). There are also 6 outstanding contribution awards and 4 organization awards (to be announced separately).
At the same time, 11 poets will be awarded the title of "Top Ten International Chinese Poets in 2121" (to be announced separately). There are also some shortcomings in this selection, and there will be a legacy of the sea. If the author is not shortlisted for the award, please understand that participation is the most important, and thank you for your support! During the first "Xu Xiake Cup" World Chinese Poetry Competition, the COVID-19 epidemic broke out repeatedly. The development of this competition, the participation of the author and the selection of experts were all carried out during the fight against the COVID-19 epidemic, which showed the confidence in this war without smoke and courage to overcome it. It is commendable! We take this event to pay tribute to Xu Xiake, to Xu Xiake's researchers and followers, and to the poets and authors who participated in the world! At the same time, to the Xu Xiake Society of Hong Kong, the Hong Kong Cultural and Tourism Association, the International Chinese Poets Association and the Hong Kong Prose Poetry Society; To Jiangyin Xuxiake Research Association, Ninghai Xuxiake Research Association, Tiantai Mountain Xuxiake Culture Promotion Association and Yunxian Xuxiake Research Association; To Guizhou Qianjiu Co., Ltd. and Guizhou Beautiful Maotai-flavor Tourism Development Co., Ltd., which provide prizes for sponsorship; I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to the judges! The First "Xu Xiake Cup" World Chinese Poetry Competition finally completed its mission and ended successfully. However, the practice of Xiake spirit will not end. Xu Xue has great vitality and will play a great role in promoting the development of cultural tourism in China. Xu Xiake is a "national football team", and I hope all of us can become a "national football team", embark on a "poetic journey" in the new era of Xu Xiake's Travels, and climb the peak of Xu Xue's research and new poetry creation.
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