For thousands of years in China, from the perspective of official products alone, eunuchs are only divided into two types of people: one is Bao Zheng, and the other is people outside of Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng is a man, and the rest is for himself. "There is a Bao Qingtian in Kaifeng Province, who selflessly distinguishes between loyalty and adultery with an iron face." In the not-so-distant era, "Bao Qingtian" was also our childhood, and Bao Zheng was also an idol of people. Here, I would like to let you take a look at the ancestral precepts of the thousand autumns left by Bao Zheng in the last 10 days of his life 10 days ago, hanging on his last breath.
Future generations of eunuchs, who commit adultery, shall not be released to their own families; after their death, they shall not be buried in the great cocoon. Not from my will, not from my descendants. ------------------------
Future generations are not allowed to return to their own homes if they become officials and commit corrupt deeds; after their death, they are not allowed to be buried in their ancestral graves. If anyone goes against this ambition, he is not a descendant of my bao. From the Bao Zheng family training, the spirit of "integrity" and "incorruptibility" came to the front. So how have the descendants of the Bao family done in the past thousand years? Hefei, Anhui Province, excavated the Tomb of the Bao Zheng Family, composed a song of alpine flowing water to the world, and also explained what a real "famous and prestigious family" is.
In 1973, the provincial cultural relics protection unit, Bao Cemetery, ushered in a catastrophe. The local government should requisition land, remove all tombs within a time limit, and treat them as unowned graves in violation of the time. Fortunately, the old general Li Desheng attached great importance to this, contacted Bao Zheng's descendants in time, and organized manpower, and decided to move the Bao Cemetery. Archaeologist Wu Xinghan, in danger, was appointed to preside over the relocation of the Bao Cemetery. But the scene in front of them made everyone's mood become heavy, and the "Bao Cemetery" that people said by word of mouth was completely excavated.
The stolen "Bao Cemetery", numbered M6, is known as the "Bao Cemetery", but strangely, the bones of Bao Gong were unearthed in M1. What's going on? Compared with the main tomb M6, M1 is extremely inconspicuous, and there is no sealing soil. But it was the M1's lack of appearance that saved Bao Gong from death. In the small M1, there is a valuable Nanmu coffin, and the "Tomb Inscription of shangshu XiaosuBao Cemetery of the Deputy Envoy of the Song Privy Council" and the "Epitaph of the Lady Dong of Yongkang County of the Song Dynasty".
The 35 broken bones in M1, after testing, were all left by a middle-aged man in his fifties and sixties, plus the tombstone of Bao Cemetery. It can be determined that its unassuming M1 is where Bao Gong lives. However, Bao Yixu, the 33rd generation of Bao Zheng's descendants, pointed out: The descendants of the Bao clan in the past generations have been passed on by word of mouth, and the main tomb of M6 that has been destroyed is the Bao Cemetery, which must be worshiped every year. Bao Gong's epitaph is really placed in M1, but Bao Zheng's descendants, word of mouth is the M6 main tomb, who is right?
After cleaning up the silt and stagnant water, the missing corner of the tomb of Dong, the wife of M1 Bao Zheng, was found in the stolen M6 main tomb. This shows that M6 was the original main tomb, but in order to prevent tomb robbery, Bao Zheng and his wife were moved to a smaller M1. However, this mysterious age, coupled with the purpose of secrecy, has not been passed on to Bao Zheng's descendants, and the M6 main tomb is still the existence of their annual worship. Originally, the matter should have come to an end, but the 73-year-old Xia Guanghong, as the tomb keeper of Bao Cemetery, told the expert Wu Xinghan that the real Bao Zheng tomb was under the road.
According to the description of the tomb keeper Xia Guanghong, an M8 underground tomb larger than M6, reappeared in the sky. In the M8, there is a 35 cm tall wooden figurine, which is the twelve gods of the Song Dynasty funeral high-ranking officials, and only Bao Zheng of the Bao Zheng family has this qualification to use, and a bigger secret has been revealed. The last M8 spoken by the tomb keeper is Bao Zheng's original tomb, and the M6 commemorated by Bao Zheng's descendants is the tomb of Bao Zheng's wife Dong Shi, and the two were buried separately, and finally moved to their unassuming M1 together.
After Bao Zheng's death, more than 60 years later, the Jin dynasty overthrew the Northern Song Dynasty and ravaged the Anhui territory. The magnificent M8 Bao Cemetery, as a senior official of the Song Dynasty, was retaliated against by the Jin soldiers and completely collapsed. After Jin Bing returned to the north, Bao Zheng's descendants moved Bao Zheng and his wife Dong Shi, the remaining coffins, broken bones and other things to the small M1. And covered up this news, so that Bao Gong's shelter was peaceful for nearly a thousand years. From generation to generation, the tomb keepers passed down the M8 Bao Zheng tomb, which was destroyed by jin bing; the descendants of Bao Zheng sacrificed the M6 Dong tomb; and the M1 that was moved away and buried together was fully protected.
In the entire Bao Zheng family tomb, the most valuable cultural relics are 6 epitaphs and more than 10,000 written records on them. Behind this, it is the clean wind left behind by Bao Zheng's dying family training. Bao Zheng's younger son, Bao Shou, became an official at the age of 25, served as a guozi supervisor and a judge in Ruzhou, and served as an official for 23 years, but after his death, he did not even have the money to move back to his hometown for burial. "Three years of Qing Prefect, 100,000 snowflake silver". However, After twenty-three years of bao shoushi's eunuchs, he had no money to bury his ancestral grave, and after Bao Shou's death for a full 16 years, his adult sons only gathered enough money to move him back to Hefei.
The entire Bao Zheng family tomb, there is no gold and silver jewelry, some are just epitaphs, incense burners, copper mirrors, brick platforms, copper seals, and other ordinary personal belongings. In a few texts, it is written that the children of the incorruptible Bao Zheng family died of poverty; they were officials for many years, but they did not have the wealth to bury themselves, and often after more than 10 years, they were moved back to Hefei by their descendants. For the officials, it is really as clean as water! "Despicable is the passport of the despicable, and the noble is the epitaph of the noble". But I always believe that epitaphs can be noble for thousands of years, and the pass will eventually be forgotten. Here, may the thick blackness, self-interest, and the greatness of what they say, the kings can abide by their hearts. With a trace of warmth left in the bottom of my heart, I believe that impetuosity will turn into a cloud of dissipation. The long river of time will eventually leave a precipitate of thousands of autumns.