What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
No country has a home, and having a patriotic heart is a must for a Chinese citizen. From ancient times to the present, many patriotic celebrities will fight bloody battles on the battlefield to defend the country, and then even sacrifice their lives. Today we want to talk about the Yang family generals who are often put on the screen, and the Yang family will be full of heroes and martyrs, swearing to die for their monarch. The word "zhongyi" has also become an inherent impression of this family in later generations. Everyone in the family was brave and good at war, and made indelible contributions to the Song Dynasty's defense against foreign enemies, so many enemy troops did not dare to easily launch wars because of the existence of the Yang family generals.
In the Yang family, both men and women are very outstanding heroes. The image and story of their family have also been interpreted many times in the film and television series. However, there is not much record of the historical information about the Yang family general, in addition to the Golden Dagger Linggong Yang Ye, his sons are recorded in the annals of history only Yang Yanzhao, followed by the grandson Yang Wenguang. Therefore, many people are also skeptical about the existence of the Yang family generals. The Yang family will be three generations of descendants, generations of loyal to the country, the story is very legendary, compared to the facts, more people feel that this is a story handed down by word of mouth, does not have real significance, some people will doubt whether the Yang family generals really exist in history is also reasonable.
But there are indeed records of the Yang family in history, which is enough to prove that they are real. It is conceivable that the Yang family has taken the lead for three generations of Song Dynasty monarchs, and even if the Song Dynasty has perished, the Yang family army will not easily surrender and compromise. There are rumors that after the fall of the Song Dynasty, the Yang family army did not disappear with the country, and everyone in the Yang family was armed with martial arts, and it was not so easy to be captured by the enemy army, so the Yang family army, who was unwilling to submit to other countries, scattered to other safe places to continue to live and reproduce. It is said that the descendants of the Yang family are now distributed in Mianyang City, Sichuan Province, and near the village of Lujiaojian in the north. The Yang ancestral hall belonging to the Yang family preserved in the village has a history of thousands of years.
The Yang ancestral hall in Lushujian Village was identified by experts and confirmed that this ancestral hall was established from the time of the Yuan Dynasty and further restored during the Ming Dynasty. Originally built to commemorate Yang Ye's father and son, who have made many contributions to the country, now you can see the statue of Yang Ye and his descendants in the ancestral hall. Almost half of the more than 1,000 people in this village are descendants of the Yang family, all of which are known from the genealogy of the precious collection in the ancestral hall.
The genealogy in this ancestral hall can be passed down from the Yuan Dynasty for many years to the present, during which it has experienced wars and many other special external reasons, and it can still be well preserved without the careful care of the Yang family. The existing Yang Family Ancestral Hall in Lushujian Village is also the best and most complete Yang Family Ancestral Hall preserved in China. Now the more than 500 Yang family descendants have also been living a comfortable and peaceful life in the village, no longer fighting on the battlefield like the previous people.
Although many elderly people in the village are old, they have always maintained the habit of boxing, which can not only strengthen their health, but also highlight the spiritual outlook of their descendants of the Yang family. We can know that the descendants of the Yang family army have signs of surviving in Yanmen Pass, thanks to the protection of the yang family descendants in the village of Lujiaojian. Otherwise, whether the entire Yang family really existed could become an unknown mystery. Although there are not many historical records about the Yang family, it is enough to see the courage of the Yang family. Yang Ye was brave and good at war in his life, and was tragically captured because of his credulity to others, but he still did not change his original intention to serve the country loyally, and finally contributed his life. Yang Ye's son Yang Yanzhao and grandson Yang Wenguang also passed on this family style very well.
Compared with the glory left by the family, for the descendants of the Yang family in Luhujian Village, the greatest wealth they can get should be the spiritual temperament left by their ancestors. Now in the prosperous era of peace, the people after the Yang family may not be able to fight on the battlefield like their ancestors, but their hearts are also the same as the ancestors, and they also have the same patriotic blood.
The Yang family's genealogy can be well protected and passed on to this day, which makes me think that what should be protected and circulated more than the family tree should be the kind of bold loyalty that the Yang family generals are born with. From the Yang family general, we can learn a lot, their bravery, their persistence, their fearlessness, and their courage to resist foreign evil forces. The legend of Yang Jiajian has not ended, they not only exist on TV, but also in our hearts. The people are an important part of the country, and if the people of a country have not loved their country, then the country has no future after all. Therefore, we must work harder to live, with a patriotic heart, to love ourselves and this country.