Zichuan District: Nanpo Village
Nanpo Village is more than 20 kilometers southwest of Zicheng and belongs to Lingzi Town, Zichuan District. Ming Dynasty Li Village, originally named Xinxing Village. Gongjiawu Village, 0.5 km northwest of the Great Northwest, was formerly known as Gongjiawu, also known as Shangwu Village. Later, the village was located on the south slope of the mountain, which was once named Nanshan slope village; at the end of the Qing Dynasty, it was renamed nanpo. Historical and cultural celebrities include Tang Siren, Tang Yueyu and Tang Menglai.
Tang Siren
Attaching importance to reading and giving alms, the townspeople called him a Tang monk. When he met someone without clothes on the road, he took off his shirt and gave it to him, and went home naked. Someone insulted him and didn't care. His horse was lost, and he didn't ask, let alone look for it. Someone saw it and said, "This is the Tang monk's horse!" He gave it back to him. In the summer, rice and soup are given on the main road to quench the thirst of those who rush to the road; in winter, houses with fires are prepared for those who do not have cotton clothes to warm up. Every year on the day of the Eighth Day of Lara, he cooked porridge and gave it to the poor. Many of Tang Siren's descendants have passed the Xiucai examination. His great-grandson Tang Mengzhao was born on the eighth day of the first lunar month; he later entered high school and entered the career. Today, this seems to be just a coincidence, but at that time, people thought that it was the god's return for Tang Siren's "Lapa Eight Days" porridge. The Kangxi edition of the Zichuan County Chronicle of Yihou records his deeds.
Tang Yueyu
Zi Yankai, in his later years, called himself the old man of Huangshan. Grandson of Tang Siren. When you are young, you have courage and insight. The exploitation of peasants in the Ming Dynasty removed taxes, as well as miscellaneous services such as Lijia and Chuma. The horse is also known as the horse, that is, the official government assigns the official horse to the people to breed; after a certain period of time, the private household will send the horse to the designated place, and the government will accept it. The cost of raising horses and delivering horses is sometimes heavier than normal conscription. The wealthy often lose their fortunes as a result. In this year, Tang Yueyu's third brother Tang Lun was sent to the horse, and he had exhausted his family property just for breeding; if he did not deliver it on time, he would be severely punished, and the disaster was unpredictable. Zhixian promised not to send him other miscellaneous servants after completing this dismissal. At that time, Tang Yueyu was still very young, so he took advantage of zhixian's visit to the Temple of Literature on the first day of this month to pay homage to Confucius and said to Zhixian: "Didn't you promise to let my brother go home after this horse removal?" That's it now. Zhixian was not good at reneging on his word in public, so he had to let Tang Lun go. Tang Yueyu still studied hard after taking the Xiucai examination, and sat and read until late at night every night. He taught his family to do good deeds, even among the family's long-term workers and hired shepherd boys. The year before, when he encountered a beggar, he called him to his home to give him food. The eldest son, Tang Mengzhong, entered the Hanlin Academy.
Tang Yueyu taught him to be humble and cautious and to stick to his duties. Later, Tang Mengzhao was deposed for neglecting his words. Tang Yueyu enlightened his son again, and there was no need to be unhappy about this; it was also an extremely rare family pleasure for father and son to be able to get along day and night to study together. The Kangxi edition of the Zichuan County Chronicle records his deeds in the Fengzhi and Continuing Literature respectively.
Tang Mengzhao
Tang Mengzhao (1627-1698), zi Jiwu, Lan Ting, alias Leopard Yan Qiao Shi, son of Tang Yue Yu. In the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648), he was admitted to the examination. In the following year, he became a jinshi and was elected to the Hanlin Academy as a Shu Jishi. In the previous six years, Shen Run of Shenjiahe Village in the east of Nanpo Village had already passed the jinshi examination; in the next six years, Qiu Lu of Gongjiawu Village in the west had won the jinshi again. For a time, the "Five Mile Three Soldiers" was rumored to be a beautiful talk. At that time, it was said that the "Three Jinshi" was originally the reincarnation of King Kong at the nearby Rushan Temple.
After tang menglai was appointed as a Shu jishi for two years, he was entrusted with the review of the secretariat. The review has the responsibility of revising history, so people call him Tang Taishi. Soon after, he was deposed for advising Emperor Shunzhi to translate the Jade Box and the Book of Xuandihua into Manchu, effectively falling victim to factional struggles between the dprk and China.
After Tang Menglai returned to the mountain, he never came back. He is proficient in eight strands of writing, and spares no effort after rewarding and relegating. Through his instructions, all became famous men. Among them, Tan Regeneration, Yang Wanchun passed the examination for the jinshi, and Su Yuanxing took the examination to lift people, and all became famous eunuchs. Funded by students and gifted by friends and friends, he built a villa in the northwest suburbs of Zichuan City to borrow pigeons, and later created a five-acre garden in the southeast corner of the city, often inviting literati and scholars to visit and watch, which was a good story for a while.
Tang Menglai often harbored compassion. When the Seventh Uprising broke out, the Qing court sent a large army to suppress it. Tang Mengzhao urged Zu Zepu, the governor of Shandong, to solemnize military discipline and strictly prohibit the indiscriminate killing of innocents and the killing of good and bad deeds, so that the abducted women and children could be returned to their hometowns. After the outbreak of the "San Francisco Rebellion", Tang Mengzhao wrote to Li Zhifang, the governor of Zhejiang, advising him to be kind to the people in the rebel-ruled areas. Li Zhifang did not live up to Tang Mengzhao's good intentions, strictly forbade his subordinates from arsonists and mobs, and ensured the smooth progress of the counterinsurgency war.
Tang Mengzhao pushed the poor and was helpful. He personally wrote the preface to Pu Songling's "Liaozhai Zhiyi" and "Liaozhai Poetry Collection" respectively, and tried his best to praise it. Although Lin Sihuan, a famous scholar in Fujian, and Tang Mengzhao were in the same department, the two did not meet. When Tang Mengzhao learned that Lin Sihuan was poor and could not be buried, he poured his money into running funerals for him, and married Lin Sihuan's son who was unable to marry and started a family, and also copied the collection of poems he left behind and brought it back to Zichuan.
Tang Menglai paid attention to agricultural affairs and cared about production. When traveling south to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, he saw ponds built all over the southern mountainous areas, believing that this was an important facility for drought resistance and ensuring a bumper harvest; refuting the argument that the pond dams in the northern mountainous areas were easy to dry up; and pointing out that even if the north could store water, it could not make full use of it, and should learn from the south.
Tang Mengzhao's life's achievements are mainly manifested in literature and art. His poems are longer than the use of classics, beautiful and fluent; his words point directly to the shortcomings of the times and represent the wishes and voices of the broad masses of the lower classes. Dissatisfied with his works in his youth, Kangxi's works before the nineteenth year (1680) were burned by himself. Therefore, the 12 volumes of the "ZhiYuantang Poetry Collection" and the "Zhiyuantang Anthology" that people see today, and the 5 volumes of poems and 3 volumes of the "Zhiyuantang Houji" poems are not the entire works of Tang Mengzhao.
He also edited the Chronicle of Jinan Prefecture, making it a rare book in the Qing Dynasty's Shandong Oriental Chronicle, and twice edited the Zichuan County Chronicle. After being deposed, Tang Mengzhao still did not forget the important affairs of the economy and the country, and put forward a series of practical opinions and suggestions that had a bearing on the national economy and the people's livelihood, involving various aspects such as minting money, accumulating grain, raising salaries, and changing water, and clearly put forward that the sea ban should be lifted and overseas trade should be vigorously developed. He successively wrote the "Revolutionary Newspaper Cabinet Book", "Changing the Folding of Cao Grain Solution", "Exemption from Collective Taxation", etc., and tried to reduce the burden on the people by asking for an average of lijia. After the earthquake disaster, we actively advocated the repair of the city walls destroyed by the earthquake. The descendants of Zhang Zhifa paid the taxes of Xiguan Daji on their behalf, making it a Yiji. The current Zichuan Garment City was developed on the basis of the Xiguan Daji garment market. He made full use of his influence and, together with another eunuch gao heng in Zichuan, assisted local officials in improving their advantages and eliminating their disadvantages, so that those who were rich and unmerciful gentry and corrupt officials who engaged in personal fraud were afraid of the virtues of Gao and Tang and did not dare to openly harm them. The people have been benefiting for more than 30 years.
After his death, Tang Mengzhao was buried at the southwest corner of the intersection of the current Malianshan Road and Huanshan Road south of Qianmengzhuang (present-day Qianmeng Community, Zichuan Economic Development Zone). The original tomb is 4 meters high and 15 meters in diameter. In front of the tomb, there are stone offering tables and tombstones, which are known locally as the tomb of Tang Taishi. Excavations were made in 1958 and during the "Ten Years of Unrest" and the tombstones were smashed. At present, the tomb site still exists, which is a key cultural relics protection unit at the municipal level.
Tang Mengzhao was childless, and the son of his younger brother Tang Mengshi was a son. Tang Xingxue (唐行学), the character Ren Gong (字任躬), the year gongsheng ,was awarded the Guozi Supervision Book, and soon after his appointment, he resigned and returned to his hometown. He was so fond of books that he invited his fellow practitioners to come to his house to study the history of the scriptures. In the twenty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1686), Zhang Sheng, the chief of Zichuan Zhi County, continued to study the county chronicle, and Tang Mengzhao served as the chief writer. Tang Mengzhao then hired Zhang Fu and Xiu; at the same time, he asked Zhang Fu to set up a museum on the south slope of the museum to teach The Book of Shang for Tang Xingxue. (Peng Yanwen, Lin Kaiqing)
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