Reading in his hometown
Text/Jiang Feng
01
The water gushed and sang an ageless love song. The river flows with the blood of life. My soul has melted into the surging of your sea of clouds and the melodiousness of the waves.
When I was a teenager, I stood by the river, always thinking, where does it flow? Where does it come from? In middle age, in the face of the thick Ningxiang culture, I always think, why do Ningxiang people read books and raise pigs?
Pigs will be well understood, Ningxiang is a big pig city, Ningxiang flower pig is a public area brand of agricultural products in Hunan Province, and it is a famous local breed of pigs, which originates in the upper reaches of the Chu River, a tributary of the Huijiang River, and Caochong Village in Liushahe Town.
Ningxiang people can read, how to understand?
Since ancient times, the concept of "Park Gengxiu Reading" has been passed down from generation to generation in the hearts of simple Ningxiang people. Ningxiang people attach importance to and respect culture, respect readers, admire readers, and look up to readers.
For thousands of years, the land of Chuchu has been overflowing with books and talents.
Ningxiang people can read, when did it start? Where is the source?
I think that to explore the source of the cultural context, it is always inseparable from the big rivers.
The mighty Nile River gave birth to the splendid ancient Egyptian civilization, and the decline and prosperity of the Euphrates River affected the rise and fall of the Babylonian Kingdom, flowing in the East of the Yellow River and the Yangtze River, nourishing the profound Central Plains culture and the mysterious and splendid Chu culture.
The gushing river that rushes from the majestic mountains has nurtured generations of Ningxiang people and nourished the splendid Ningxiang culture.
The source of the Ningxiang cultural vein is the source flow of the Shuishui cultural vein.
When I stood at the source of the River, in the distance, the mountains were stretched out, and the momentum was magnificent, "the mountain is long and unchanging, and the clouds fly east and west"; under the Pilu Peak, the Sanskrit yin of the Miyin Temple, the great poets of the Tang and Song Dynasties, Qi Ji, Wen Tingjun, Pi Rixiu, Tortoise Meng, Liu Changqing, Wang Wei, Zhang Ji, Lu You, Zhang Yu, etc., waved poems here, and the strings and songs continued, and the thousands of years continued.
Nearby, a reading lang came from the mouth of the alley and went to Anhua, sitting in the pavilion of the source of the River in one eye and three realms, and even forgot the time, because he was holding the sage book in his hand.
As long as he reached the source of the River, the traces of this Yuanlang were always lingering.
The source of the Fu River, the source of the Mother River in Ningxiang, is also the source of the Cultural Context of Ningxiang.
From the source of the Huijiang River, along the Nine Fold Lun for about 20 miles, it is to the mouth of the alley. The River has two sources, north and south, the south source is at the mouth of the alley, the Tang and Song Dynasties, the mouth of the alley is also known as "the source of the river".
I know that this Yuanlang of The Source of the River is the core of ningxiang's cultural context, and the key to exploring whether ningxiang people can read.
02
Xiangzikou, 73 kilometers away from the county seat of Ningxiang, is also known as the hometown of Zhuangyuan. It is only more than 20 kilometers from my hometown of Huangwu Town to Xiangzikou Town.
Pass by the Zhuangyuan Bridge and go to the Zhuangyuan Square in the center of the town, where there is a statue of the Southern Song Dynasty Zhuangyuan Yiqi.
But I would like to look for the long-cherished "Zhishan Lou", where there will still be the sound of reading aloud?
Yi Qi (1156-1240), a jinshi in the 12th year (1185) of the Southern Song Dynasty, was the first in the temple examination, then known as "Shi Brown Zhuangyuan". He was a scholar of the Imperial Household Bureau. Fengning Township was a prominent vassal of the three dynasties of Emperor Xiaozong, Emperor Ningzong, and Emperor Lizong.
In opera or novel stories, we often see that the students enter Beijing to take the exam, there is no coiling, and they are exiled to a certain member's home, and the lady of the member's family likes the scholar, not only gifts and coils, but even promises to each other, the title of the golden list of scholars, the high school title. After the student left, the young lady stayed alone in the empty room, thinking about it day and night, one day, there was a sudden sound of gongs and drums outside, it turned out that the student kept his promise and came back to marry his beloved wife, and since then, the two have lived a happy and loving life. There are also students who have been chaotic and abandoned, becoming "Chen Shimei" who has been condemned by the world.
This beautiful story is just the yearning of every reader, or the beautiful imagination of poor and destitute students.
In fact, where are there so many elements? From the Sui Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, when the imperial examination system was abolished in 1905, a total of more than 700 titles were produced in the country, but there were only 5 champions in Hunan, and if two people from other provinces were added to Hunan to take the examination, there were only 7 people.
The only Wen Zhuangyuan in the history of Ningxiang and even Changsha is Yi Qi.
In Xiangzikou Town, Xiangshi Village, there is a family with a surname of Yi, who has been farming for generations, the owner is called Yi Jixian, very industrious, and the family conditions are still good.
Yi Jixian, who married at the age of 20, did not have children for many years, until the age of 27, after the Wang clan was pregnant, after October, after two days of difficult childbirth, in the early morning of march 1156 AD, a boy was happy, and the child's cry broke the tranquility of the remote mountain village.
The family rejoiced, and the happiest thing was the child's grandfather, Yi Miao, who had read a little book in the Yi family and had served as the ling of Yongping County in Jingzhou. Yi Miao named his grandson Yi Qi (易祓), the character 彦章 , and the number Shan Zhai (山斋).
One day, Yi Miao took her grandson, who was a few years old, to play at the door. A local gentleman who could watch the fortune teller pass by, saw this white and fat child, very curious, picked up the child's hands, looked left and right. The gentleman said: "Yi Gong, this place at the mouth of the alley, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, the source of the water, a few years ago, I have seen the heavenly phase, sooner or later there will be a Wenqu star under the fan, today I saw your grandson's palm, I feel that he is the next mortal Wenqu star."
Yi Miao was overjoyed after hearing this. Since then, he has focused on cultivating his grandchildren to read.
The young Yi Yi read diligently, was talented, never forgot to read, would recite poems at the age of 8, and was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics at the age of 15, known as a "child prodigy".
Later, Yi Yi met one of the best teachers at that time, that is, Zhang Yu, a famous master of science and a generation of masters of the Huxiang School.
In his early years, Yi Miao worked as an official outside the home and had a relationship with Zhang Yu. When Yi Yi was 14 years old, his grandfather Yi Miao sent him to study at the Changsha Chengnan Academy founded and taught by Zhang Yu.
Yi Yi became the youngest student in Seongnam Academy at that time, and his cleverness and studiousness were appreciated by Zhang Yu.
Chengnan Academy was the predecessor of the Hunan First Normal School, where Mao Zedong later studied.
Subsequently, Zhang Yu presided over Yuelu Academy for seven years, and Yi Yi followed Zhang Yu to Yuelu Academy for further study.
Zhu Xi also went to Yuelu Academy to give lectures for more than two months and conducted academic exchanges with Zhang Yu, which is the famous "Zhu Zhanghui Lecture" in history. It can be said that Yuelu Academy was the best academy in the country at that time, bringing together many ambitious and talented scholars. Later, Yuelu Academy gradually evolved into the source of Huxiang culture and became the spiritual temple of Hunan people.
Yi Yi went to the most famous university in the country and was taught by the best teachers. He studied diligently under Zhang Yu's disciples and obtained the True Transmission.
Yi Yi and Zhang Yu are not only teacher-student relationships, but also another special kind of friendship.
Zhang Yu's father, Zhang Jun, was once a chancellor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and after his death, he was buried in Guanshan (then known as Longtang) at the mouth of Ningxiang Xiangzikou, close to Yi Qi's family. Every time Zhang Yu went to his father's tomb to worship, he invited Yi Qi to accompany him on horseback, and often stayed in Yi Yi's house for a few days.
After Zhang Yu left Yuelu Academy, he came from other places to Ningxiang Xiangzikou Guanshan to pay homage to his father, and Yi Yi learned that he would also rush back to Xiangzikou to meet with Enshi, live in Yi Yi's house for a day or two, and then accompany Enshi to Changsha.
Changsha, Ningxiang, Alley, teachers and students come and go together. Now it takes three hours to drive from Changsha to The Alley, then it takes two days to ride a horse, and at least three days to ride a horse. On the way, he wanted to find a shop to rest, and along the way, Zhang Yu taught Yi a lot about learning, the principle of being a person, moral thoughts, etc.
From thought, learning, and personality, Yi Qi received the true transmission from his mentor Zhang Yu.
Diligence, combined with talent and intelligence, coupled with the best teachers, made the later Yuanlang.
Unfortunately, Zhang Yu died young at the age of 48 (1180) and did not see his proud protégé in high school. However, after Zhang Yu's death, he was also buried next to his father in Ningxiang Xiangzikou Guanshan, so that Yi Yi could often go home and go to the tomb of enshi to pay homage.
03
Yi Yi was a senior in high school when he was 29 years old. He passed the third place in the temple examination, and the official in charge of the examination submitted the top three lists and their examination papers to Emperor Xiaozong Zhao To hand-pick the titles.
The exam paper is about writing an essay. On that day, Emperor Xiaozong Zhao Yun carefully looked at the candidates' examination papers, but after reading the articles written by the first two, they were not appetizing and almost did not want to read it.
Zhao Yun took a sip of tea, patiently looked at the third article, and suddenly his eyes lit up, which was really a good article! Looking at the author, it is Yi Qi, a Hunan native.
"Emperor Jiazhi, grant the title of Brown Yuan".
What exactly did this article, which made Emperor Xiaozong's eyes shine, write?
This imperial examination paper, entitled "Xiao, Cao, C, and Wei on Excellence", is more than 1300 words in full, and it is about the governance of the four famous ministers of Xiao He, Cao San, Bing Ji and Wei Xiang.
The beginning goes like this:
"The minister shall maintain the rule of the world in the use of the world, and the last quarter shall not be with him." That is, the last section of the district, and compared with its current strengths, its work is seen in the cause, and it cannot be without a hierarchical distinction, but it is not the way to talk about the minister to the world. ”
It seems to be the "eight strands of text" at the beginning of the big talk, but the imperial examination is the "eight strands of text" of the examination.
This continues:
"There is a definite body for ruling the world, and those who are lenient and happy have a long-term plan, and those who are strong and bold are urgent. Those who are ministers should cultivate the foundation of the country, consolidate the hearts of the people, and make the rule of the world, as for the thousands of worlds, they should not be poor. But those who rule the body without noticing and all those who are strict and resolute, and the heart is not without shrugging, its praiseworthiness, and the vitality of the rule of the Tao. In the past, the rule of the Han family had a long history, and it was true that it could not be strictly determined for a while. Xiao He's painting one, Cao San's purity, and Bingji's elder are enough to maintain the benevolent government of the Han family. ”
Yi Yi believes that the most fundamental way to govern the country is to "cultivate the foundation of the country and consolidate people's hearts" and implement "benevolent government."
Read through this article, which was greatly appreciated by the Southern Song Emperor, and its core content was to promote Confucian benevolence. Of course, this view was also inherited from the master of ensignor science, Zhang Yu.
But this view is very much in line with the taste of the emperor at that time.
Emperor Xiaozong Zhao Was the second emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty and the most accomplished emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, and after he ascended the throne at the age of 36, he rehabilitated Yue Fei and exposed all the unjust, false and wrongly decided cases created by Qin Juniper. Reuse the main war faction, re-worship Zhang Jun (Zhang Yu's father) as the prime minister, rectify the rule of officials, and actively prepare for war. Attaching importance to production, persuading peasants to teach mulberry, and building water conservancy, there has been a scene of shengping in the world's Kangning, which is called "the rule of Qianchun" in history.
Emperor Xiaozong wanted to unite the hearts and minds of the people who had been torn apart to regain the lost land in the north, and he held up the brand of renzheng.
Therefore, writing articles must have a main purpose, to cater to the trend of the times, in order to be appreciated, perhaps all dynasties and dynasties have been like this, but such articles may not be able to pass through the ages.
04
Why is Yi Qi called "Shi Brown Yuan"?
Originally, there were two kinds of Imperial Examination Titles in the Song Dynasty, one was the first place after passing the township examination, the meeting test, and the temple examination, which was called the Examination of the Department of Science and Technology; the other was the first place in the selection of excellent students to participate in the temple examination after the study of Taixue, called the Shi Brown Zhuangyuan. Both types of yuan are treated the same.
The original meaning of the browning was to take off the cloth and change into official clothes, from ordinary people to court officials.
Yi Yi took the temple examination after passing the Taixueshe examination.
Yi Yi completed his studies at Yuelu Academy at the age of 20 and entered the Guozijian for further study with the first place in the provincial examination. Guozijian was the educational institution and highest institution of learning in the Song Dynasty, also known as "Taixue".
Yi Yi set off from Changsha and came to the capital city of Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou), where he studied hard for nearly ten years, and the excellent students of aether studies directly participated in the temple examination and won the title.
The title of the gold list is still the first name, and it is inevitable that there will be various celebrations in the capital. This is two months, which can be anxious to spoil his wife Xiao Shi, who lives alone in Ningxiang Alley.
Xiao Shi is a native of Changsha County, and his father, Mr. Xiao Lao, is a teacher at Yuelu Academy and a mentor to Yi Qi, who took a fancy to Yi Qi's talent and gave his beloved daughter Xu, who was only 15 years old, to his beloved student. The Xiao family has no sons, only two daughters, and Mr. Xiao has raised this daughter as a boy since he was a child, teaching her poetry, calligraphy and painting.
This old mr. Xiao still has a unique vision, and the selected son-in-law has become the only leader in the history of Changsha.
I think of the Hunan First Normal School, which was in the same line as chengnan academy more than seven hundred years later, and there was a teacher surnamed Yang who also married his beloved daughter to his own student, who later became the founder of the People's Republic of China.
After marriage, Yi Qi studied Taixue in the capital City of Hangzhou, and Xiao stayed in The Alley, where the two places were separated for a long time. This year, Yi Qi had already won high school, but more than two months had passed, and he had not seen his home for a long time, and there was still no news.
Xiao Shi was not happy, and specially wrote a poem "A Cut of Mei Dyeing Tears Repair Book":
Dyeing tears to repair books and send Yan Zhang, coveting the front porch, forgetting the cloister. Meritorious achievements do not return to the hometown, stone does the heart, iron does the heart.
The red sun three poles are not groomed, the wasted shaoguang, the thin and damaged appearance. Acacia when the day to become a pair, shame to the Mandarin Duck, lazy embroidered Mandarin Duck.
This poem is very interesting, the beginning is to write the wife's sadness, expectation, resentment, and blame for her husband: I write to you with tears, are you fascinated by the beauty of the West Lake in Beijing? Even forgot the way home? If you become famous, you will not return to your hometown, it is really the heart of stone! Heart made of iron!
Xia Yan wrote about his own pain of lovesickness, and expressed his desire for the love of the couple with the sincerity of the Mandarin duck: the sun has risen three poles, I am too lazy to dress up, lonely waste time, people are thin, and their faces are haggard. When can we become pairs of love? I was also ashamed to see the right pair of Mandarin ducks.
It's a really sad read, and it covers up a long sigh.
Yi Yi received his wife's weeping words, deeply understood his wife's love, and frankly replied with a poem "Happy Migration Warbler Spring Feeling":
Imperial city spring day, see apricot face peach cheeks, rouge faintly transparent. A moment of sunshine, a moment of rain, it is the time to destroy the flowers. Light smoke and fine willows are picturesque, and elegantly called stepping on the green hand in hand. How do you know that the man was alone and emaciated?
Don't break the sound, it should be teardrops, dripping all over the sleeve of the incense. I remember that when I was young, I used to smell the peony with the bottle. The hometown mountain is far away, how to get new joy as the old. Strong pastime, push idleness into, spend a glass of wine before.
This singing and harmony, Ice released the gap between the little couple, and Xiao Also understood her husband.
But by the autumn of the following year, she did not see her husband return, and her longing was even more intense, so she wrote a poem "Sauvignon Blanc AndHiko Chapter":
Towards sometimes, twilight sometimes. The tide is known twice a day, and people grow apart.
Come sometimes, go sometimes. The swallows still know that after the return of the society, the king's line is irregular.
The following year's Spring Festival, Yi Yi returned to Ningxiang from Hangzhou.
This kind of recourse tells the sorrows of the couple to sing and work, and carries through every separation of their lives.
30 years later, Yi Qi, who was nearly a year old, experienced the ups and downs of the official arena and was demoted to a post in Guangxi. Mrs. Xiao is already a mother of four children and lives alone in Ningxiang Alley.
When a heavy snow covered a small mountain village, in the face of the fluttering snowflakes, this talented woman of the Southern Song Dynasty could not help but miss her husband who was far away from home, and sent her husband the poem "To the Snow":
One after another, the snow has crushed the mountains and rivers, and the novelty and song have been specially developed.
The Le Dao Ghost Fang closed the house, and the fisherman who sang the song was wearing a robe.
Since the old scenery is fast, who makes the best time feel more.
More miss the widower living in the haggard, yingshu no sleepless nai ho.
In the poem, it tells the loneliness and melancholy of living alone. Although he is an old husband and wife, his feelings of sorrow and hatred have not diminished in those years.
Xiao was known as the second largest female lyricist of the Southern Song Dynasty (Li Qingzhao was the first female lyricist). The words of Yi Yi and his wife were both included in the Quan Song Ci, which is also rare in the entire history of Chinese literature.
As soon as Yi Yi became effective, Sima Guang refused to take a concubine, and it was always this talented woman's wife. His physical practice and earnest teaching also deeply affected his sons and nephews. The two sons, Yi Lin, Yi Xia, and many nephews, were all honest officials, and none of them had a concubine.
05
The title of the gold list means that you can directly become an official. From the authentic peasant children into the career, without any political backing, Yi Qi can only take every step of the official field well by relying on his own diligent efforts, due diligence and caution.
The thirty-year-old Yi Yi's first official position was Wen LinLang, a position belonging to the Secretary Province, equivalent to the Nine Pins Official.
After twenty years of struggle, by the age of fifty, the official Shangshu was already a member of the imperial court, and these twenty years were also smooth sailing.
In such a special dynasty as the Southern Song Dynasty, internal and external troubles, the imperial court has always had a dispute between the main war faction and the main peace faction.
Yi Yi vigorously advocated resisting Jin, saying that "the enemy has the tendency to commit a crime, and the middle one has the reason for victory" and "the enemy is a person who is strong in the middle of the country, and only breathes a sigh of relief," and has always stood on the side of the main war faction. His friends Jiang Kui, Lu You, xin qiyi, etc., are all the main war faction.
At the age of 51, after the defeat of a Northern Expedition, the lord and faction had the upper hand, and Yi Yi was demoted from the capital to rongzhou in Guangxi.
This depreciation is ten years, full of enthusiasm, and there is no way to serve the country.
At the age of 61, he resigned and returned to Changsha, where he and his wife fell in love with each other and lived a civilian life in seclusion in Changsha Yaowang Street.
Half a mile away from the place of residence is Jia Yi's former residence, often lingering in Jia Yi's old residence, how similar his experience is to this ancient man!
Jia Yi was demoted to Changsha and immersed himself in Han Fu's creation, and the famous "Bird Fu" was completed here. Perhaps inspired by it, Yi Yi decided to return to his hometown and concentrate on academic research.
Originally, I took the imperial examination to become an official, but who knew that this official was so difficult to do.
The erudite Yi Yi is more of an article left by his 25 years of seclusion in his later years.
06
At the age of 63, Yi Qi returned to Ningxiang Alley.
At that time, the 14-year-old fei fei teenager, starting from the water source, Changsha, Hangzhou, Guangxi Rongzhou, Quanzhou, went around a big circle, walked so far, and now, it is an early birth Huafa, and back to the same place.
From an ignorant teenager, to a "spring breeze triumphant horseshoe disease" Ofsan Lang, from the Rebbe Shangshu of the Erpin Grand Master, to the return of the cloth people, what is the true meaning of life?
Perhaps, more yearning for tranquility, more yearning for something in this world.
Therefore, between Fuwang Mountain and Fushan Mountain, an elegant mansion was newly built, named "Zhishan Lou".
The vermilion colonnade of the mountain tower, the blue roof, the upper floor is the library building, the lower floor is the reading hall, and there is a self-written yanglian on the pillar:
The size is well-organized with the master
The line is hidden without alarm
This is a portrayal of one's own mentality.
The house covers an area of more than 10 acres, of which the pool is about 3 acres, named "Buyue Pond", a well in the courtyard, named "Zhishan Spring".
The "Zhishan Building" is facing north and south. Although he is a hermit, he seems to be unwilling, always keeping the world in mind, thinking of the great rivers and mountains in the north that the Southern Song Dynasty lost.
Why was it named "Zhishan Lou"?
Yi Yi wrote his own "Records of Zhishan Lou", which was carefully carved on a wooden screen and stood in the hall, clarifying his intention to build "Zhishan Lou". Taking the poetic meaning of Su Dongpo's "I don't know the true face of Lushan Mountain, only because I am in this mountain", I named it "Zhishan Lou".
"Thirty meritorious deeds of dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons." Mo waited for idleness, white youth head, empty sorrow", this is the sigh of Yue Fei, who was a contemporary of Yi Qi and a little earlier.
From the age of 29 in high school, starting to become an official at the age of 30, and retiring at the age of 61, isn't it also thirty years? I wanted to do something myself, I wanted to recover the lost land in the north, but I was framed and degraded, and the Great Song Dynasty was still shattered.
It is better to build a building to know the mountain, face the history, and face the future.
Knowing mountains is actually knowing things, knowing people, and knowing life.
For more than twenty years, in the "Zhishan Lou", Yi Yi began his journey of sutra learning.
Although he was later reinstated to his official post, he also "had no class to go to", and still looked at the official field coldly in the mountain building, studied painstakingly, and wrote books to entertain himself.
Thus came two important works of scripture among the treasures of Chinese culture, namely the twenty volumes of the Zhou Yi Zongyi and the thirty volumes of the Zhou Guan Zongyi, both of which were later compiled into the Siku Quanshu. In addition, there are books such as "Yugong JiangLiji", "Hanbei Military System", "Yi Xuejuyu", "Zhou Li's Interpretation of Doubts", and "Shanzhai Collection".
The spring of 1240 AD came very late, the winter drought was connected with the spring drought, it was already the third month of the lunar calendar, and the grass and trees were still yellow.
Yi Yi completed his 85-year-old life. On the day of the burial, the clouds rose, and drizzle fell at the mouth of the alley that had been dry for several months, like a silk net, not hurried or slow, floating for three days and three nights.
The villagers have a legend that this is the fall of the Wenqu Star, which awakened the Dragon King, alarmed the heavens, brought down Ganlin, relieved sentient beings, and destroyed the context of the water, which will surely continue to be continued in the future generations.
07
I wandered under the ancient kettle mountain in Xiangzikou Town, Xiangshi Village, looking for it, but I did not see any trace of the "Zhishan Lou".
The "Buyue Pond" of that year is still there, with green bamboo on the side of the pool, and a small two-story building built by the farmhouse.
Local elderly people recall that the 800-year-old ancient buildings still existed before 1949, and they were not completely destroyed until 1959, when steel was smelted.
After the Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China, the "Zhishan Lou" that existed for nearly 800 years does not have the significance of its preservation in this house, but the custom of reading for hundreds of years.
From the cloth people to the Jinke Zhuangyuan, Yi Qi's way of success has inspired generations of students in Ningxiang.
The sound of reading aloud in the "Literacy Building" spurred Ningxiang students to overcome difficulties, concentrate on reading, and aspire to become talents.
Ordinary people who are based on cultivation and reading must study hard to get ahead and make a difference.
From the Southern Song Dynasty theorist Hu Honglai Ningxiang Zhu Liangqiao founded Lingfeng Academy, to the Ming and Qing Dynasties Ningxiang founded Yutan Academy, Nanxuan Academy, Yunshan Academy, etc., plus a variety of private schools, the land of Chuchu, the cultivation of rain and rain, love to read, can read the atmosphere gradually formed.
For thousands of years, Ningxiang people have become popular in reading. The most remote mountain villages, the poorest families, also have to feed one or two pigs, and the money from the sale of pigs is used to send their children to school. The purpose of raising pigs is to be able to read, and to raise pigs can be used for children to read.
In the hundreds of years from the Southern Song Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, in such a remote small mountain village as The Alley of Yi Qi's hometown, there were about 20 jinshi, who were known as "Shikeli". ShiKeli, that is, the generations of examinations have been awarded meritorious names, and more than 50 jinshi have been examined in Ningxiang.
The water is leisurely, starting from the source of the River, ningxiang talents are full of talents.
From the Tang Dynasty poet Qi Ji, to the Song Dynasty Yi Qi, the Song Jinshi Yi Kai, Luo Zhongru, Lei Zhiqin, Yi Bing, Long Liang, Yi Liang, Liu Yanju, Yuan Shiwen, to the Yuan Dynasty Jiang Yanming, to the Ming and Qing Dynasty Zhou Kangeng, Zhou Cai, Yuan Jing, Wang Wenqing, Tao Shiwei, Tao Ru Nai, Huang Yulong, Yuan Mingyao, Mei Zhongshu, Tong Xiuchun, Wang Tanxiu, to the modern Chen Jiading, Zhou Zhenyun, Liu Shaoqi, Xie Jueya, He Shuheng, Jiang Mengzhou, Wang Lingbo, Gan Qi (Jiang Fengwei), Liao Shuyu, Tao Zhiyue, Zhou Guangzhao and so on.
They are the dazzling stars of the chu land, illuminating the generations of students in Ningxiang to study diligently and forge ahead.
The context of the water continues to this day, continuing to interpret the legend of "Ningxiang people can read". (The pictures in this article are provided by the author)
Jiang Feng, real name: Jiang Taijun, a native of Ningxiang, Hunan, graduated from the Department of Chinese of Central China Normal University, served as a teacher and associate professor in colleges and universities, and is currently working in a provincial unit in Hunan.