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Entries written here: the two accounts of the dialect boundary, the documentary basis of poems, the punctuation of an old gazetteer, and a survey of the heritage lists. Quotations carry juan and page; tradition and record are kept apart.

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Survey Poetry and Documents A Survey of Lishui's Intangible Cultural Heritage Lists The national, provincial, municipal and district lists, and the figures for each date Lishui has one national ICH item and 17 provincial or municipal ones as of November 2023, while district-level totals and bearer counts differ between two reported dates. This survey sets out the four tiers, the third batch and the fourth-batch public notice, and records from the fifth-batch provincial and municipal documents five provincial items of Lishui, four of them extension items, together with eight municipal items. intangible cultural heritageICH safeguardingDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Textual criticism Poetry and Documents A Textual Study of Li Bai's "On the Road from Lishui" The gazetteer record and the doubt over what Lishui refers to The Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer, juan 11, lists "Three Poems Mourning Wang Yan on the Road from Lishui" under Li Bai; a scenic-area page says he left poems in Lishui. Whether Lishui means Nanjing's Lishui or a waterway near Liyang is left undecided. A local promotional article claims Li Bai passed through Lishui in 761 CE and wrote the mourning poems on hearing of Wang Yan's death, which fits the first reading but rests on no documentary basis and is registered only as a lead. Poetry and proseDocumentsTang dynasty Confidence: Unconfirmedunchecked Standard Education and culture Poetry and Documents Bai Juyi and His Lishui Connection His uncle Bai Jikang, magistrate of Lishui, and Bai Juyi's examination there Bai Juyi's uncle Bai Jikang served as magistrate of Lishui and died in office, and was later honoured as the city god of Lishui. Later compilations say Bai Juyi joined him, sat the county examination at Lishui in 798 and passed in 800 as a Xuanzhou candidate; his own presence there is an inference, not a direct record. Notable figuresPoetry and proseTang dynasty Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Dragon-boat Racing in Lishui The Honglan dragon-boat race at the Dragon Boat Festival (revived in 2023, fourth edition in 2026) Dragon-boat racing in Lishui means the race held by Honglan Subdistrict at the Dragon Boat Festival, revived in 2023, with a second edition in 2024, a third in 2025 and a fourth in 2026, all on the Yanzhi River. The 2025 race had 24 teams and the 2026 race 27; this entry records these editions and the reports' wording only. Dragon boatFestivalsContemporary Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Poetry Poetry and Documents Li Bai's "Inscription for the Chaste Woman of Laishui" The Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer record, and the question of her home place Juan 8, Literature, of the Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer carries Li Bai's "Inscription for the Chaste Woman of Laishui", signed "Hanlin Academician". It makes her a daughter of the Shi family of Huangshanli in Liyang and tells how Wu Zixu, begging on the Laishui, was fed by her before she drowned herself to keep his secret; it names the local officials through whom the text was cut in stone. Zhenyinu and the Laishui story belong to Liyang, not Lishui, and this library records the inscription only because the gazetteer's Literature section carries it. The source used is a web transcription, not a collated edition. Poetry and proseInscriptionsTang dynasty Confidence: Qualified Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Publication of the Punctuated Edition of the Shunzhi Lishui County Gazetteer A year and a half of editorial work, reported in 2017 A 2017 report states that a punctuated and annotated edition of the Lishui County Gazetteer (Shunzhi edition) was formally published after about a year and a half of work. The publication year, publisher and editors of that punctuated edition could not be verified. Bibliographic records give the base text as a woodblock edition of the fifteenth year of the Shunzhi era (1658), in 10 juan with 1 prefatory juan, revised by Min Pailu and compiled by Lin Gudu; a sample-copy list of the Jiangsu Provincial Library also records a modern facsimile published by Nanjing Press, which is a different version and must not be conflated with the punctuated edition. Old gazetteersDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Spring Festival Customs in Lishui The great dragons of the 2025 festival and the customary performances At the 2025 Spring Festival, 40 great dragons are reported to have danced in Lishui, and the customary performances included dragon-lantern dancing, horse-lantern dancing, dragon-boat rowing and temple fairs. The figure applies to that year only. Folk customFestivalsSeasonal customs Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Education and culture Poetry and Documents Tao An's "Record of a Visit to Longming Mountain" and Wuxiang Mountain A mountain name and a ruined site in a travel account of the late Yuan and early Ming Tao An visited Longming Mountain at a friend's invitation and wrote "Record of a Visit to Longming Mountain", calling the mountain Wuxiang Mountain and noting the site of Han Xizai's reading hall and a surviving juniper. The "Mountains" section of volume 5 of the Kangxi gazetteer records the same site of Han Xizai's reading terrace and old junipers planted between the Tang and the Song, corroborating those two points; but the identification of the name Longming with Wuxiang still rests on Tao An's own judgement alone. Poetry and proseDocumentsNotable figures Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Dialect Poetry and Documents The Subgrouping of the Lishui Dialect The Wu–Jianghuai Mandarin transition zone and the competing lines of division Lishui speech lies in the transition zone between the Wu dialects and Jianghuai Mandarin, which scholars agree on. Three different boundaries have been proposed — south of the county seat, at the county seat, and north of it — and the Wu subgrouping of southern Lishui is likewise disputed. The accounts are set side by side. DialectNotable figures Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Textual criticism Poetry and Documents The Xiaoguan Stele of Pan Qian, Magistrate of Liyang The eulogy, transcription and one Lishui thread in the Kangxi county gazetteer Juan 8, Literature, of the Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer carries Zhao Xun's Han "Eulogy for the Xiaoguan Stele", erected for Pan Qian, magistrate of Liyang, in the tenth month of the fourth year of Guanghe. The appended transcription records that Yu Zhongyuan, assistant magistrate of Lishui, found the stele on the shore of Gucheng Lake in 1141 and placed it in the official quarters, that Hong Shi of Poyang produced its readings, and that by the Zhishun era a further sixteen characters had become illegible. The stele belongs to Liyang, not Lishui; this library records it only because the gazetteer's Literature section carries it and its discoverer was a Lishui officer. The source used is a web transcription, not a collated edition. InscriptionsTextual criticismQin and Han Confidence: Qualified Standard Survey Poetry and Documents Village History Halls, Worthy Halls and Traditional Village Protection Halls built in ancestral halls and old houses, and two separate lists of traditional villages By 2024 Lishui had built 12 village-history and worthy halls in ancestral halls and old houses, and its traditional villages fall under two separate lists, two Chinese and twelve provincial, with further villages listed later. Each figure is given with its date. Traditional villagesICH safeguardingDocuments Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Poetry Poetry and Documents Yuan Mei's Arrival in Lishui and "On First Arriving at the Lishui County Office" From the Hanlin Academy to acting magistrate of Lishui, and the poem written on taking up the post In 1742, the seventh year of the Qianlong era, Yuan Mei was posted from the Hanlin Academy to act as magistrate of Lishui, his first county post. He wrote "On First Arriving at the Lishui County Office"; on leaving he wrote a farewell poem. Textual variants exist and the years of his tenure are unrecorded. Poetry and proseNotable figuresthe Qing dynasty Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard

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