"Dragon Tu Bao Gong, what is his life?" Lungs and liver ice and snow, chest sub-mountains and rivers. Serve the country loyally, and there is no government. Gao Gao qing name, eternal and unbranded. This is the world's evaluation of Bao Qingtian, but a few short sentences contain the high respect of future generations for him.
Bao Qingtian was a famous Qing official in the Ming Dynasty, he was just and upright, loved the people like a son, and was deeply loved by the people. To this day, TV dramas with him as the theme are still loved by the public, and it is conceivable that his position in people's hearts is very important. What is the life of Bao Qingtian's descendants today?
Bao Qingtian, whose original name was Bao Zheng, was born in Hefei, Luzhou (present-day Hefei, Anhui), and was a famous courtier during the Northern Song Dynasty. Because of his impartial law enforcement and selflessness, he was deeply favored by Emperor Renzong, and because he was aware of everything and solved countless cases, he was called "Bao Qingtian" by the common people.
Because Qingtian represents Lang Lang and Qiankun, officials, like Qingtian, enforce the law on his behalf, handle cases shrewdly, and do not wrongfully do good people. The most well-known moon on Bao Zheng's forehead is not actually a real moon, but a scar left by the wound. Only because the moon represents discernment, honesty and incorruptibility, and Bao Zheng's skin is dark, the crescent moon appears more obvious, just like the moon, so there is the moon on Bao Zheng's head.
When Bao Zheng was first born, his complexion was darker than ordinary people, and his parents thought that he was rude, so they abandoned him on the side of the road, and then he was carried home by his sister-in-law and raised. After Bao Zheng grew up, his sister-in-law told his family his true identity, and Bao Zheng's parents decided to recognize him again. However, Bao Zheng's second brother and sister-in-law wanted to kill him, because they were afraid that Bao Zheng would compete with him for property, so they designed to let Bao Zheng jump into a dry well to pick up a hair pin for them. Fortunately, Bao Zhengfuxing was highly illuminated, but his head was wounded, and later the wound on Bao Zheng's head healed, but he left a small scar, and the crescent moon came from it.
Bao Xianliang and his wife
It has been more than 1,000 years since Bao Zheng's death, and his descendants have more than 100,000 people, mainly concentrated in Anhui and Jiangsu generations. One of the well-known ones is Bao Xianliang.
Bao Xianliang, his 35th generation descendant, is now in his 70s and lives in Bao Village, Hefei, Anhui Province, where Bao Zheng was born at that time. But unlike ordinary people, since 1994, people in the village have come to the city to seek a better life, but he has been sticking to the village.
What's even stranger is that he has since stopped working, not because he can't work, and not because he wants to have fun. So where did he spend his time? He spent these decades of precious time tirelessly guarding the Bao Zheng Ancestral Hall. In the ancestral hall, there is a Bao family training, which says: Future generations of eunuchs, those who commit abuse of stolen goods, must not be released to their own families; after death, they must not be buried in the big house. Not from my will, not from my descendants. Although it is only thirty-seven words, it is a pearl of words, which contains a deep philosophy of life.
Therefore, all along, the descendants of the Bao family have strictly abided by the ancestral precepts, and they dare not violate half of them, and very few of the descendants of Bao Zheng are engaged in business, afraid that they are inextricably linked to the ancestral precepts. In the Bao family, it is a very sacred thing to be able to guard the ancestral hall, so Bao Xianliang will not hesitate to spend time and money to take care of the ancestral hall.
But he thought that this was still not enough, he wanted more people to know Bao Zheng, understand his way of dealing with the world and benefit from it, so he explained the historical story about his ancestor Bao Zheng to tourists from all over the world who came to visit the ancestral hall for free, so that more people would know Bao Zheng's upright and incorruptible spiritual sentiments.
Bao Xianliang sacrificed his ego and exchanged his precious years for more people's understanding and understanding of Bao Zheng and his conduct. He has always insisted on guarding the family ancestral hall, using his spare time to work as a cleaner in the village to sweep the floor, and his salary can only maintain a basic livelihood. But he never gave up and enjoyed it, not asking for anything in return. This perseverance and spiritual quality of guarding the homeland also deserves our praise.
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