The stone statue of Wei Zhongxian, a high-ranking official of the Ming Dynasty, existed in the Puning Xuegong, what was the reason for this?

introduction

Puning, a famous cultural town in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong Province, is rich in historical monuments and natural ecology, and there is a palace-like building here, which is puning Xuegong.

Historiography

Puning, a county-level city and managed by Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, is located in the south-east of Guangdong Province, in the western part of the Chaoshan Plain, and in the upper reaches of the Rongjiang, Lianjiang and Longjiang rivers.

Puning has two pillar industries, one is clothing and the other is medicine. China's largest shirt production base is in Puning, and the largest Chinese herbal medicine base in South China is also in Puning.

In the forty-second year of Ming Jiajing, in 1563, the imperial court newly established Puning County.

From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, Puning County belonged to Chaozhou Prefecture in Guangdong Province.

After July 1949, Puning County was subordinate to Chaoshan Special District of Guangdong Province.

In 1952, Puning County belonged to the Administrative Region of Eastern Guangdong.

In 1956, Puning County belonged to Shantou Special District.

In 1968, Puning County belonged to Shantou District.

In 1983, it belonged to Shantou City.

In 1991, it belonged to Jieyang City.

In 1993, Puning County was set up as a city under the custody of Jieyang City.

The Book of the Temple of Literature

The ancient city of Puning has a history of nearly 500 years through the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Republic of China, and the Republic, and although it has gone through the vicissitudes of the years, the Puning Xuegong built during the Ming and Qing dynasties still exists.

In ancient times, there were three official standard buildings in the county, the Temple of Literature, the City God, and the County Palace, and the completion of the Xuegong symbolized the development of local education and the prosperity of humanities, and indoctrinated the local people in etiquette and culture.

Puning Xuegong is located in Hongyang Town, Puning City, Hongyang Town is the old county seat of Puning, and Puning Xuegong is a temple dedicated to Confucius.

Puning Xuegong was built in 1575 of the Ming Wanli Calendar, overhauled in 1712 in the 60th year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty, and became the first middle school in the county in 1920 in the 9th year of the Republic of China.

Puning Xuegong, sitting north facing south, symmetrical layout.

The Confucius tablet enshrined in the main hall of the Puning Xuegong Palace has Yue Fei's inscription "Taihe Yuanqi" on the back of the main hall, Wei Zhongxian's life and death shrine on the right side of the entrance, and it is very rare to have a stone statue of Wei Zhongxian and an inscription plaque of Yue Fei in the Temple of Literature.

Puning Xuegong is divided into three roads in the east and west, and there are a number of functional unit buildings, with a total construction area of nearly 4 acres.

Judging from the literature and the information on the site, the process of the rise and fall of the Puning Xuegong is as follows:

Ming Jiajing was founded in 42 years, and The church was founded in the third year of Wanli. In addition to the two schools of Minglun Hall, the two temples of Literature Temple, Dacheng Gate, Lingxing Gate, Ming Ancestral Hall, Xiangxian Ancestral Hall, and Confucian Gate were built, and the main pattern has been formed, laying the main pattern.

In the fifth year of Qing Shunzhi, Tukou fell to Yi and demolished the Xuegong, and in the twelfth year of Shunzhi, Haikou destroyed the city and destroyed the Xuegong.

Kangxi rebuilt the temple, the gate and the Qisheng Shrine in the ninth year of Kangxi; the twenty-first year of Kangxi rebuilt the education temple; the twenty-second year of Kangxi rebuilt the Lingxing Gate, liteng jiao raised the fengfang, and moved the zhaobi, that is, after more than ten years of batch reconstruction, the pattern of the demolished and destroyed xuegong was gradually restored.

In the twenty years of Qianlong, he rebuilt the Dacheng Hall and the Dacheng Gate.

In the promotion, maintenance, expansion and other aspects of the Puning Xuegong, successive Zhixian have contributed, according to the data:

During the Ming Jiajing period (1563-1566), at the beginning of the establishment of a county for Puning, the Xuegong began to establish rules of learning.

In the third year of the Wanli Calendar (1575), Liu Du of Zhixian County, founded the Minglun Hall and the Two Schools.

In the thirteenth year of the Wanli Dynasty (1585), Zhao Xian of Zhixian County, jianwen temple two rooms, Dacheng Gate, Lingxing Gate, Famous Eunuch Ancestral Hall, Xiangxian Ancestral Hall, Confucian Gate.

In the twenty-fifth year of the Wanli Calendar (1579), Wang Ji of Zhixian County was destroyed by a hurricane in Minglun Hall and Ear Room, so he rebuilt and built the Qi Sheng Ancestral Hall.

In the thirty-second year of the Wanli Calendar (1605), Shen Rulin of Zhixian County presided over the overhaul of the Xuegong Palace and built a pavilion behind the Minglun Hall.

In the thirty-sixth year of the Wanli Calendar (1608), Zhixian Ruan Yilin and The Teachings Huang Bingzhong presided over the reconstruction of the Xuegong.

In the fifth year of Qing Shunzhi (1648), Tukou fell to Yi and the Xuegong was demolished.

In the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), Ji Tingliang of Zhixian County presided over the rebuilding of the temple.

In the twelfth year of Shunzhi (1655), Haikou Chen Leopard destroyed Hongyang City and the Xuegong Palace was destroyed.

In the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1670), Zhixian Built a Shrine, a Gate of Halberds, and a Gate of Revelation.

In the twenty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1682), he educated Pan Haoyuan and rebuilt the Teachings.

In the twenty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1683), Wang Rongri of Zhixian County, Pan Haoyuan, and Pan Yangchen, the teacher, built the Star Gate, litenged jiao, and moved the zhaobi of the original temple in front of the creek to the north of Lixi.

In the 60th year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1721), Luo Bingqi of Zhixian County rebuilt the Temple, the Qisheng Ancestral Hall, the East and West Two Temples, the Minglun Hall, and the Xuexiao Temple.

In the first year of Yongzheng (1723), the imperial court decreed that the Holy Ancestral Hall should be changed to the Chongsheng Shrine.

In the twentieth year of Qianlong (1755), the Dacheng Hall and the Dacheng Gate were rebuilt, and there are inscriptions on the bottom of the two halls.

In the sixty years of Qianlong (1795), the Dacheng Gate was rebuilt, and there was an inscription on the bottom of the beam across the lamp beam between the hearts of the Dacheng Gate.

In the ninth year of the Republic of China (1920), Puning County No. 1 Middle School was opened in the Xuegong, and then successively served as the school building of an educational institution.

Characters

Speaking of Puning Xuegong, there are two historical celebrities associated with Puning Xuegong, that is, Wei Zhongxian of the Ming Dynasty and Yue Fei of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Wei Zhongxian (魏忠贤), a native of Suning (present-day Suning County, Cangzhou, Hebei), was a eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Mingxi, he served as a eunuch of Si Li Bingbi and was extremely favored and was known as "Nine Thousand Nine Hundred Years Old". After Zhu Youjian succeeded to the throne, Wei Zhongxian was arrested and put to justice and hanged himself.

Puning Xuegong has a stone statue more than one meter high, known locally as Shi Zhuangyuan, this is the stone statue of Wei Zhongxian, why is the stone statue of Wei Zhongxian also in the Confucius Temple?

It turned out that during the Ming Dynasty's apocalypse, Zhu Youxue believed that Wei Zhongxian was the pillar of the imperial court, and was deeply trusted, Wei Zhongxian had many henchmen and great power, and his cronies wrote to the emperor to seal Wei Zhongxian nine thousand years old, and should be loved as in the Confucius Temple and Confucius, and the emperor approved the performance, and ordered all states and counties to set up Wei Zhongxian stone statues in the Temple of Literature.

After the fall of Wei Zhongxian, the stone statue of Wei Zhongxian in the Puning Xuegong Was pushed down in the Pan Pond of the Xuegong Palace and soaked for more than 200 years, and during the Qing Dynasty, when it was dug deep in Panchi, it was dug up and abandoned on the right side of the Confucius Temple.

Yue Fei was a native of Tangyin, Xiangzhou (present-day Tangyin County, Henan). During the Southern Song Dynasty, he was a famous anti-Jin general, calligrapher, and poet. The plaque "Taihe Yuanqi" hanging in the main hall of puning Xuegong is written by Yue Fei.

In ancient times, "Tai" and "Da" were connected, and "Taihe" meant "Yamato". "Yuan Qi" refers to the original substances that produce and make up all things in heaven and earth. "Taihe Yuanqi" means that the qi of heaven and earth, the sun and the moon, and the yin and yang can be harmoniously and unified together, and hanging such an inscription in the Confucius Temple means that Confucius's thought has reached a yamato realm of perfection and beauty.

For the sake of political benevolence, humility, pure folk customs, and family harmony. The Analects says, "The use of etiquette is precious." The way of the first king, the beauty of Si. "It can be said" and "always been the spiritual pursuit of the Chinese nation and the essence of traditional Chinese culture."

postscript

Puning is facing opportunities and challenges coexist, advantages and shortcomings are intertwined, power and pressure are the same, maintain the crisis awareness of "sailing against the current and slowly retreating", the development determination of "holding fast to the green mountains and not relaxing" and the fighting posture of "not breaking the Loulan and never returning", cultivating new opportunities in the crisis and opening a new situation in the change.