Recently, the book "Watching Gui Yang", which reflects the history and humanities of Guiyang County, was published by Hunan People's Publishing House.
The book "Watching Guiyang" briefly classifies Guiyang's more than 2,000-year history of figures, events, monuments, landscapes, etc., into five chapters of "ancient files, finding Gui Yang, returning to the scene, elegant county sages and landscape chapters", combining the knowledge of history and culture with the interest of the legendary stories.
The book contains 121 manuscripts, more than 360,000 words, and inserts more than 100 pictures, a comprehensive introduction to the history and culture of Guiyang County. The participating authors are elite in studying local culture.
The book uses the dynamic style of modern prose, pursues the fresh and delicate style of writing, and tries to break through the formal description style of professional history researchers, which is both grand and detailed. The book also shows a true Guiyang County, which lets the readers' thoughts traverse the tunnel of the times and the solemn track of history, and lets the readers clearly see the historical background of the millennium ancient county.
The whole book has clear thread, reasonable structure and rich picture and text with popular language and unified history and logic, and shows the historical evolution, local customs, scenic spots, famous historical persons and major events in Guiyang in the way of scene to give the readers the sense of reality.
The book not only propagandizes the historical culture and city image of Guiyang, but also plays an important role in carrying forward traditional culture, improving humanistic quality and building "strong cultural county".
Wu Tianliang, a researcher at the Guiyang Historical and Cultural Research Center, said that the "Watching Guiyang" can not only introduce the cultural history of Guiyang to outsiders and build a cultural brand of Guiyang, but also play a very important role in further understanding the history of Guiyang people in an all-round way and inheriting excellent traditional culture.