Brief introduction of "The Abandonment of Farmland in Nancun";
1. The Record of Dropping out of Farming in Nancun, referred to as the Record of Dropping Out of Farming, is a note about the history of the Yuan Dynasty created by Tao, a writer of the Yuan Dynasty, with 30 volumes, 585 articles and more than 200,000 words.
2. The nature of Nancun Tuyegeng Record belongs to historical anecdote notes, mainly in the Yuan Dynasty, followed by the Song Dynasty, and some of what Tao saw and heard, and extracted the previous historical materials for textual research and identification, so Tuyegeng Record preserved a wealth of historical materials.
3. Especially in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, laws and regulations, miscellaneous notes of historical events, cultural relics technology, folk stories, etc. , as well as novels, calligraphy and painting, drama and related poetry skills. This book has high historical and academic value and is an important historical material for studying the history of the Yuan Dynasty.
Creative background:
1, at the end of Yuan Dynasty, there was social unrest and smoke everywhere. At this time, Songjiang Prefecture, located at the junction of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, was relatively stable, and scholars from all directions went to Songjiang to escape the war. Historian and writer Tao is one of them. About the eighth year of the Yuan Dynasty (A.D. 1348), Tao and his family went to Huating to escape the chaos. Tao lives in seclusion here, tilling the fields, teaching and educating people, and living a poor life.
2, Tao is often "short brown", a person singing in the country, not suffering from labor, but taking pleasure in farming. "Forever fallow, rest in the shade, tuck your knees and sigh, drum up your belly and sing". After work, every time I meet a festive occasion, I will have a drink and sing a poem of my own. When I am proud, I will clap my hands and laugh.
3. I often get together with friends such as Yuan Kai, Shao and Sun, who were famous people in Huating at that time, or talk about classics, learn from each other, and write poems and lyrics; Or travel by boat, wandering between San Mao and Jiu Feng, drinking tea.
4. Tao Zong Yi is usually reticent. Once he meets a bosom friend and talks about articles and knowledge, he will be witty. "As far as ancient and modern figures are concerned, they have been tireless for thousands of years."
Whenever he is idle, he takes a rest in the shade beside the field. When he thinks of anything, he immediately takes out pen and ink and writes it down. At that time, paper was very expensive, and Tao could hardly eat enough and wear warm clothes, so he used leaves instead of paper. Later, he recorded his academic experience and what he saw and heard on the leaves in time.
6. Write a leaf and put it in a pot with a big belly next to it; An urn was installed and buried in the soil under the tree. So day after day, the cumulative number of urn leaves exceeds 10. In a blink of an eye, 10 years passed. Tao Zongyi took out the leaves in the urn and copied them one by one with the help of the students. Compiled into a book, called "Nan Cun Dropped out of Farming".