Gentleman's Zee, the fifth and cut. The Ze of the Villain, the Fifth Dynasty and the Beheading - "Mencius Away from Lou Chapter Sentence"
The meaning of this sentence is actually that the gentleman gets the legacy, and the villain gets the temperament. After five generations, it will be terminal, and the family will have to pass it on, all of which are limited. And whether it's a gentleman or a villain. In modern times, there are similar sayings with imagination, such as "rich but not three generations", which means roughly the same.
So is this sentence really a phrase, and are there any exceptions? In fact, there are not only there, but also many. In the United States, there was a Rockefeller family, which was based on the monopoly of oil in the United States and constantly controlled the financial institutions in the United States. Has been with direct or profile to control many enterprises. Today, the family has lasted for six generations. And the name "Rockefeller" has been tightly tied to the "wealth of the United States".
Coincidentally, China also has a "Qian family". This family has lasted for many generations since ancient times, and there are many celebrities. In modern times, there are Nobel Laureates, diplomats and scientists, and so on, and Mr. Qian Xuesen is also from this family. People call this Qian family "a thousand-year-old famous family, the first family of the two Zhejiang Provinces".
But in fact, all the families are not as good as this "First Family in China" - the Kong Family. The Confucius family can be said to be a super family in China, and the ancestors of their family are the sage Confucius, whom we are very familiar with. In China's cultural history of nearly two thousand years, the status of the Confucian school can not be said to be low, and as the founder of the Confucian school, the status of Confucius is not to mention.
He is the "Most Holy Teacher" of the Chinese, and also the "Master of All Ages" in the hearts of everyone. Ideas such as "benevolence" and "the monarch taking the people as the body" advocated by him have penetrated into China's thousands of years of feudal rule. He opened the precedent of "teaching without class" and "teaching according to aptitude". He was China's greatest thinker and educator.
The influence of his ideas on China has been for thousands of years, and during the Western Han Dynasty, In order to promote etiquette, Liu Bang divided the descendants of the Confucius family to preside over the sacrifices of Confucius. Later, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty, also specially named the 46th generation grandson of Confucius as the hereditary "Yan Sheng Gong", and since then, successive dynasties have inherited this title on the Kong family, and the Kong family has always had such a unique special status in history.
By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the "YanShenggong" had been passed down to the 76th generation, and the "Yanshenggong" at that time was Confucius's 76th grandson Kong Lingyi. However, when the Kong family arrived at this generation, the heirs were not very good. In the fourteenth year of Ben Guangxu (1888), he took his wife, but died not long after entering the door. The second wife had a son, but she was not in good health and died early.
At this time, the matter of having children is no longer a matter for Kong Lingyi alone, he is the only seedling of the Kong family, and his children are the bloodline continuation of the Kong family, which is related to the worship of kong saints. For the sake of incense, he took the maids around his step-brother as concubines, but he gave birth to two daughters in a row.
Kong Lingyi was almost desperate, and when she became pregnant for the third time in the concubine's room, Kong Lingyi suddenly fell seriously ill and died in the Yansheng Gongfu in Beijing. Before dying, he specially instructed that if it was a boy, regardless of concubine, he would directly inherit the name of "Yan Sheng Gong". So after Kong Lingyi's death, the concubine Wang Baocui, who was still pregnant, simply became a national treasure-like figure.
In 1920, the concubines gave birth. The Beiyang government directly sent troops to directly encircle the inside and outside of the Confucius Province, and at that time, all the heads and faces of the political and military circles were sitting in the Confucius Palace waiting for production. Confucius disciples Yan, Zeng, Meng and other family worship officials waited outside the whole time, and the south gate of Qufu, which was only opened by the Confucius Ceremony, was also opened.
With a cry, the "little sage" Kong Decheng was born. At that time, the whole process of Qufu was lively, firecrackers were fired in unison, and there were gongs and drums everywhere. Celebrating the sage's lineage bloodline has been extended, all the people of the Confucius Palace, young and old, have prayed for blessings and sacrifices, the gongs inside the Confucius House have been "bells" thirteen times, and the Beiyang government has also sent salutes to the sky to sound thirteen sounds, symbolizing the birth of the "31st Generation of Yan Shenggong" in China.
This is the biggest baby in China and the best baby boy in China. Throughout his life, Kong Decheng has been committed to promoting China's excellent Confucian culture and running for Confucian culture. In 1949, Kong Decheng went to Taiwan and settled in Taiwan. It was also there that the fifth revision of the Kong family tree in history was initiated. In 2006, the 80th grandson of the Kong family was born. In 2008, Kong Decheng passed away unexpectedly.