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The Spring Festival is just around the corner, and the epidemic situation is current, so play on the spot. As a tourist, I only look at the scenery, not politics. 2021February 3rd, I was driving on G220 National Road in Fenyi County, Jiangxi Province. Suddenly, a very eye-catching billboard of scenic spots flashed in front of my eyes, which read: Qiaojie Ancient Village. I know, this is the hometown of Yan Song, the prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, so I quickly turned around and drove into the village.

Qiaojie Village is a thousand-year-old village with the reputation of "eight generations and one product". It is the birthplace of Yan songs. He lived in this life for decades after being removed from office when he was young and old. Now it is a famous historical and cultural village in Jiangxi Province and a traditional village in China.

Yan Song was born in the 16th year of Xianzong Chenghua (1480). He lived through five emperors of the Ming Dynasty and was in charge of state affairs for 20 years during Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. He can be called a "tumbler" in politics. Yan Song died in the forty-fifth year of Sejong Jiajing (1566) at the age of 86. It is a miracle that he lived to this age in ancient times.

Yan Song entered a private school at the age of 5, was rated as a child prodigy at the age of 8, and was promoted at the age of 19. At the age of 26, he joined imperial academy as a waiter, joined the cabinet at the age of 63, and returned to his hometown at the age of 83 to "sell sweet potatoes" (write down the knowledge points quickly). He lived in Qiaojie Village, Fenyi County for 40 years.

When I entered the ancient village, I was eager to see Yan Song's home first. According to the guide signs all the way, I passed through several ancient alleys in the village. In the middle of the village, there is a glass room. Did Yan Song follow the fashion in the Ming Dynasty?

No, no, no, the outer glass is a protective layer added by the cultural relics department. The focus is on the inside, but there is nothing in it, just a broken wall two meters high.

I can't imagine that this is the birthplace of Yan Song and Jolie Concert Hall, where the Enlightenment was launched.

This house was not built by Yan Song, but by his ancestors, with a history of more than 600 years. In those years, there was a beautiful bamboo forest in front of the house, and Yan Song wrote an article about it-The Story of Jolie Garden. Unfortunately, at present, there is only this half broken wall left in Jolie Hall, and bamboo forest has been occupied by people to build houses.

On this broken wall more than two meters high, there is a century mystery that has not been solved so far. There is a bust of an elephant sculpture on the wall, which is not clear because it was taken with a mobile phone through the glass, but it is very vivid when you look closely with your eyes. An elephant rushed in from the outside, and just entered half of its body, its legs and nose were vividly displayed, which was beyond the reach of ordinary folk artists.

As we all know, there are no elephants in Jiangxi. Most villagers have never seen an elephant in their lives, and there are no photos or sculptures of elephants in local houses. Then why did the elephant sculpture appear in Yan Song's former residence? Is this related to Yan Song being attacked by an elephant in the middle of the night?

It shows that after Emperor Jiajing moved to Xiyuan, a new rule was introduced, and the cabinet assistant ministers must work in shifts and be ready to be summoned at any time. In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Yan Song was on duty on February 15th. Suddenly, an elephant broke into the room, growled at the bedside and stamped its feet. Yan Song was so scared that he was thinking about Crossing the Han River (a poem by Cheng Yichuan). After a long time, the elephant keeper came and took the elephant away, and a false alarm finally passed. The question is how the elephant got into the palace and the duty room, where did the ouchi guards go, and what if the assassin came? That night, Yan Song wrote a poem, "Auspicious Entering the House": staying alone, meeting an elephant, suddenly entering the house and ringing the bell around the bed; I have tasted more dangers in my life, and I am not surprised when things are surprising. Fierce as a roaring monarch, just holding his breath and sitting in the curtain; After several times, Jiang Zhou lost his fear and remembered Master Cheng. From the poem he wrote, it can be seen that this incident has greatly stimulated him. Was this elephant picture specially carved on the wall of the former residence when Yan Song rebuilt the Jolie Pavilion several years later? Hundreds of years later, the elephant picture on the wall of Yan Song's former residence is still puzzling.

Qiaojie Ancient Village can be visited far more than Yan Song's ancestral home, and there are also ancient buildings such as Yanshi Ancestral Hall, Shidetang, Fanbaotang, Doctor Hall, Yushidi, Jinshi, Kejiadi and Yangliutang. These ancient buildings are three-step, and magpies build nests. Their decorations are carved with dragons and painted with phoenixes, which are antique.

Yan's ancestral hall is the largest ancestral hall in the village. This ancient ancestral hall was burned down as early as the Cultural Revolution. The rebuilt ancestral hall is painted with gold, tall and majestic, and the main hall is dedicated to the memorial tablet of Yan's ancestors.

The Yanshi Ancestral Hall is built on the spring water, which is a rare land of geomantic omen. Every plaque hanging in the ancestral temple in Yan Song tells the story of the Yan Song family.

Qiaojie Village, as an ancient village with profound historical and cultural heritage, has many ancestral halls, with more than 20 original ancestral halls. The structure of the temple is different, leading the way, and it still preserves 65,438+00. On the west side of Yanshi Ancestral Hall, there is an ancestral hall called Zhupo Gongci, also called Yuqing Hall, which means "accumulate goodness and celebrate success, and future generations serve the country".

Above the gate of Zhupo Temple, there are two plaques, one is Zhupo Temple and the other is Fangbo Family. On both sides of the outer wall, there is a couplet left by Zhu Shi, the prime minister of the Qing Dynasty, when he visited Qiaojie Village: the water is long; The peak is beautiful and delicate, full of people and trees.

Zhu Pogong Temple (Jade Qing Hall) was not built by Yan Song, but by Yan Zhonggong, the ancestor of the ninth generation. It has a history of over 600 years. After three overhauls and antique renovation in recent years, it has been restored to its original appearance before 1.949. The hall of progress and the hall of progress have basically retained their original appearance.

Before 1944, Yu Qingtang had as many as 124 plaques. There are a large number of cultural relics left over from Yongle period in Ming Dynasty, including the original works of Jiajing Yubi, Shi Kefa, Liu Tongxun, Yuan Shikai, Dai and other historical celebrities, such as "Fan Hou's Mansion", "Prime Minister's Temple" and "Imperial Patent". Today, when I walked into Zhupo Temple, I was lucky enough to see many plaques hanging, and one of them, "Winning with the Japanese", contained a story behind it. At that time, after the fall of Yan Song, his son Yan Shifan was killed and his grandson Yan was sent to Dingyuan County, Anhui Province to exile the army. Not far from the Yangtze River, the enemy often comes to plunder the people. Yan made great contributions to helping the country fight against the Japanese invaders. At Zuo Du's suggestion, Yang Lian awarded him a plaque of "Defeating the Japanese Invaders". It can be seen that the court at that time did not completely deny its descendants because their parents and ancestors were guilty.

Yan Song donated three bridges to his hometown, one of which was built on the Yuanshui River and named Wannian Bridge. After the completion of the 1588 bridge, he wrote an inscription at the request of the villagers. The next year, the magistrate of a county carved it on a stone tablet and stood at the bridge. 1985 The dam built made Fairy Lake, but it flooded the bridge. 1986, the water level of Fairy Lake dropped, and Wannian Bridge emerged from the water. Later generations of the Yan family salvaged this 2.5-ton stone tablet and moved it to the side in front of the ancestral hall.

Although Yi 'an Ancestral Temple is not prominent, it is also an indispensable existence. Also known as the praise hall, I feel that all the ancestral halls in the village have taken an nickname.

Qiyuantang is also a public temple in the village, and the gold-plated plaque directly above it is very eye-catching.

There are four uncles sitting on the threshold of Shaoquan Temple. One is smoking, two are playing with mobile phones and one is in a daze.

Qiaojie Village has been farming and teaching for generations. In Longfu Village, I saw a Qianyang Academy with a small courtyard in front. Every time a private school leaves school, it must be full of young people's hilarity.

However, in this small village, the imperial examination continued to expand from the 13th year of Yongle (14 15) to the first year of the apocalypse (162 1), with seven scholars successively. Because Yan Song and his great-grandson Yan Yun are close friends, as many as eight people have been awarded the rank of first-class official or imperial seal, so the village has the reputation of "one product for eight generations". Yan, an anti-Japanese hero with great achievements, and Yan, the first martial artist in Jiangxi, have also emerged here.

The lanes in the village are criss-crossed and reticulate, connecting many ancestral halls and houses built in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, including ten ancestral halls, nine mansions and twenty-nine furniture halls, which are very dazzling in western Jiangxi.

There are also many modern farmhouses here, and some doors are hung with the most popular political slogan of "carry forward the revolutionary tradition and strive for greater glory" in the last century.

Surprisingly, there is a two-story building in the house of Jiangxi school. Because of its age, it has no contradiction with the surrounding buildings.

There is an ancient street in front of the village, which was formed in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. It is the main traffic artery between Anfu County and Fenyi County, and the herringbone road paved with blue bricks on the ground still exists.

Just a few days before the Spring Festival, the descendants of Yan Song, a migrant worker, dragged their heavy suitcases back to her roots.

The vibrant ancient camphor tree group in Song and Yuan Dynasties is another scenic spot in Qiaojie Village, which is located 2 kilometers away from Fenyi County. In the 1970s, there were more than 40 ancient camphor trees in the village. Later, because of the need to build railways and new houses, half of them were cut down, and now there are only more than 20 trees left.

The oldest is the "King of Zhangshu" in the south of the village. It has a history of nearly a thousand years, with a tree diameter of 9.2 meters. It takes several adults to hug, and the crown area is nearly 1 mu.

There is a wall next to the ancient camphor tree, and the iron gate is locked. Through the iron gate, we can see that this wall is the tomb of Yan Song's ancestors. Yan Song's great-grandfather, grandfather and his father were all buried here, but he was not buried in the village after his death.

There are four marble horses in front of the tomb, and you can still see the prestige of that year.