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"Testament of the Teaching Hall": the legacy of Yanshi Wuyi

author:Zenhon Koseki
"Testament of the Teaching Hall": the legacy of Yanshi Wuyi
"Testament of the Teaching Hall": the legacy of Yanshi Wuyi

"There are friends from afar" interpretation, "have" or "friends", non-"White Tiger Pass" quotes "friends from afar".

The word "righteousness" of the intercourse, the son of his old life, is also in the way of the friend, which is infinite in respect and inferiority, and those who are related to each other can be balanced with etiquette.

- "Testament to the Church"

The Qing Dynasty name was Ru Wuyi

In the Qing Dynasty, it was popular to use jinshi scripts to prove the history of the scriptures, and the Yanshi name Ru Wuyi was particularly proficient in this. He did research and emphasized practicality, and wrote all his life, including "Three Stones of Jinshi", "Records of Yanshi Jinshi", "Qunjing Righteous Evidence", "Qian Spectrum", etc., most of which were collected by posterity in the "Testament of the Teaching Hall".

"Zhongzhou reads ancient books, reveres scriptures, searches for inscriptions, prepares one party to hold the past, and starts with more than one billion." This is the praise of Wu Yi by the famous scholar Sun Xingyan of the Qing Dynasty. At a young age, his father Wu Shaozhou found that he was a good seedling.

Wu Shaozhou was a jinshi during the Yongzheng dynasty, with a temperament of Gengjie and "Bogu Duozhi". He served as a local governor, but was later transferred to the Capital Division for offending the powerful. In 1745, Wu Yi was born in Kyoshi, and he "rarely had a different appearance, did not play" and took reading as his greatest pleasure. Wu Shaozhou saw that this son was endowed with extraordinary gifts, he could taste the articles of his predecessors at the age of eight or nine, and he could write a thousand words when he was a teenager, and he couldn't help but be particularly pleased.

In 1757, Wu Shao Zhou Zhishi returned to Li, and the 13-year-old Wu Yi returned to Yanshi with his parents. A few years later, his parents died one after another, and Wu Yi was hit to the point of "mourning and ruining his bones", and still encouraged himself by reading. At that time, the Luo River and the Yi River swelled, and all the houses in his family were washed away, so he built a hut out of wood and insisted on studying hard inside.

However, after the 26-year-old Zhongju, Wu Yi kaojin was frustrated. He failed to pass the examination three times, and was later introduced by others to stay in the Beijing Division, and paid homage to Zhu Yun, who had a collection of thousands of books and was proficient in the study of golden stones and examination evidence, and his knowledge increased greatly in a few years. In the forty-fifth year of Qianlong (1780 AD), Wu Yi participated in the fourth examination and finally won the tenth place in the third division.

It should be said that Wu Yi inherited the character of his father Wu Shaozhou in many ways, such as the same temperament Geng jie, the same love of reading, and the same official Qingzheng. In 1791, he was appointed as the governor of Boshan County in Qingzhou (present-day Zibo, Shandong), but was also deposed for offending the magnates.

In the post of Boshan Zhi County, Wu Yi only worked for 7 months. He handled the backlog of cases, opened a college and gave lectures in person, which was deeply supported by the people. At that time, the university scholars and Yan Quan fell to the opposition and sent Fan Gong to run rampant in the state and county in the name of catching thieves, and others dared not speak out, but Wu Yi took them in and blamed them. The Inspector of Shandong was afraid of harming himself, so he dismissed Wu Yi for the crime of "indiscriminate staff".

After being deposed, Wu Yi's family was poor and made a living by setting up a museum to teach apprentices. In 1799, Jiaqing pro-government, and Yanfufa. The emperor wanted to summon this famous Confucian to Beijing in preparation for recruitment, but unfortunately Wu Yi did not wait for this day, he had died a month before the emperor issued the edict, at the age of 55.

A lifelong love of goldstones

Wu Yi was a scholar and had a high attainment in literature, scripture and Fang Zhi. In terms of jinshi examination, he worked hard in his life. The Qing Dynasty classicist Jiang Fan once said in the "Records of the Masters of Sinology" that Wu Yi "was a cool lover of cui ink, traveled to every place, such as Songshan Taidai, encountered stone carvings, moss and moss, and devoted himself to modeling".

In fact, Wu Yi's obsession with Jinshi began when he was a teenager. After he returned to Yanshi with his parents, he found that there were many monuments in this area, and various inscriptions were full of them, so he often wandered alone among the ruins of the abandoned temple, and occasionally picked up one or two stone pillars of the ancients, then "caressed all day long, or until the waste food did not return.".

Once, he heard that in Yanshi Xingzhuang, which was more than ten miles away from home, a farmer had found the epitaph of Jin Liu Tao while digging a well, and hurried to buy it back. The epitaph was more than two feet long and weighed dozens of pounds, and Wu Yiyi was a scholar who had to carry this stone back, tired and half dead.

Wu Yi worked so the golden stone, not for anything else, but to see that the epitaph of the inscription can deduce from the biography of the group history, which has irreplaceable historical value. Of course, it was also a fashion at that time to use jinshi script to prove the history of the scriptures, and Wu Yi's collection was mostly unseen before, and the role of "the falsification of the historical records of the evidence, the gap in the records of the history of the scriptures" was even more obvious.

Later, according to the style of Ouyang Xiu's "Collection of Ancient Records" and Zhao Mingcheng's "Golden Stone Records" in the Song Dynasty, Wu Yi compiled the "Three Stones of Jinshi" and "Continuation of the Golden Stone Text", which recorded nearly 800 inscriptions of various types from the pre-Qin to the Yuan Dynasty. For example, records such as "Another Longmen Mountain Laojuntang made a statue of a small stele on a cliff, titled Shiping Gong, and the text uses yin characters, which is what he hopes to see in the stele", which abounds in his jinshi works.

In addition, Wu Yi also participated in the compilation of a number of county chronicles, such as "Yanshi Jinshi Record", "Anyang Jinshi Record", "Baofeng Jinshi Zhi", "Lushan Jinshi Zhi", etc., all of which he compiled when compiling the county chronicle. The Compendium of the Complete Books of the Continuation of the Four Libraries praised him as "knowledgeable, especially fond of Jinshi script, and his evidence can be compared with Qian Daxin's "Jinshi Script" (金石文字跋尾)."

There are sons who can keep their homeschooling

Wu Yi zi virtual valley, also known as the word zhitang, the number of the half stone mountain people. He studied and revered Han Confucianism, paid attention to the historical evidence, and founded the School of Teaching, which had a great influence at that time. After Wu Yi's death, his eldest son Wu Muchun recorded and engraved his writings, which was called the "Testament of the Teaching Hall".

Wu Muchun was "born different, able to keep his family and learn, and knowledgeable about the wise men and doctors", which is also not simple. Wu Yichang taught his son that "there is practicality in the current period of reading, and the practical is nothing more than the study of geography, which is said to be the key to the mountains and rivers and terrain, and can know everything in his palm and chest", Wu Muchun did the study, and took the same path as his father.

"Wu Yi's writings are numerous, involving many aspects of epigraphy, scripture, evidence, and literature. During the Jiaqing period, Wu Muchun compiled the "Testament of Zhitang", which included a total of 10 of them, including 8 volumes and 1 supplementary volume of "Scripture Reading and Examination", 2 volumes of "Sentence Reading Narrative", 8 volumes of "Qunjing Yizheng", 12 volumes of "Three Rites of Righteousness", 4 volumes of "Jinshi Yibao", 4 volumes of "Jinshi Erbao", 2 volumes of "Jinshi Sanbao", 14 volumes of "Zhitang Jinshi Text Continuation", 8 volumes of "Zhitang Wenqi", and 8 volumes of "Zhitang Poetry Banknote". Mr. Chao Huiyuan, a collector of ancient books in Luoyang and the owner of the Baihe Bookstore, said.

In the twenty-third year of Daoguang (1843 AD), Wu Yi's grandson Wu Qi re-engraved the Testament of the Zhitang. "This engraving is currently the largest surviving. Among them, the "Zhitang Wenqi" continued to supplement 2 volumes, a total of 10 volumes, and the 9th and 10th volumes were also known as "Sequels". The Baihe Library has a collection of 68 volumes of the Testament of the Zhitang, which is the engraving of the Daoguang Years. "Mr. Chao said that Wu Yi was a famous Confucian master, who was well-educated and insightful, and his writings were of great significance to Luoyang." I attach great importance to Wu Yi's works, and after 20 years of hard work, I have collected all the editions of the "Testament of Zhitang", as well as the "Records of Yanshi County", "Records of Lushan County", "Chronicles of Anyang County" that he participated in compiling during the Qianlong period, and so on. ”

Mr. Chao studied Wu Yi's Jinshi works carefully and collected the expanded editions according to the records therein. "In history, during the Qianlong period, there are still 14 kinds of statues and monuments in Yanshi, and only 8 kinds of statues still exist. And these 14 kinds of statues and monuments, I have collected them all, which is very rare. Mr. Chao said.

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