2017-11-19 08:09:37 This family produced 3 prime ministers, 18 court officials, 29 Beijing officials, and 58 jinshi during the Tang and Song dynasties, which was known as "the first in the world" at that time. This family has continued to multiply, and now the population totals tens of millions, and its descendants have spread all over the world, and its descendants have deeply influenced the historical process of modern and modern China. CPC leaders Chen Duxiu, Chen Tanqiu, Chen Yi, Chen Yun, Chen Geng, Chen Changhao, Chen Xilian, Chen Pixian, and others, as well as national government officials Chen Guofu, Chen Lifu, Chen Cheng, and Chen Bray, as well as university scholar Chen Yinke, all came from this family. This is the largest and most legendary family in Chinese history, and this family is Jiangzhou Yimen Chen.
Jiangzhou Yimen Chen
Yimen Chen clan, also known as Jiangyou Chen clan, Jiangzhou Chen clan. In the twelfth year of Tang Kaiyuan ((724), Chen Dynasty Yidu Wang Shuming's fifth grandson Chen Jianjinshi and the first and first officials of Jiangzhou, followed by Chen Wang and Chen Chang, the fifth grandson of Chen Shushen, the king of Yueyang, who also came to Jiangzhou from Yingchuan Runan. Later, Chen Jianzuo moved to Fengqiu County, and Chen Wang built Yongqing Village in Pingping Township, Putangchang, Xunyang County, in the nineteenth year of the new century (731).
Chen Shushen is the younger brother of Chen Shubao, the king of the subjugated country who "does not know the hatred of the country and sings the flowers of the backyard across the river". After the fall of Chen, Chen Shushen was moved to Chang'an with his brother. His descendants also competed and were admitted to the jinshi. Chen Wang was serving as a pastor in Jiangzhou at this time, and because of the official property, he led four generations of his family to move to Jiangzhou. The descendants of the Chen family deeply feel the pain of the destruction of the country and the death of the family, and understand that the driving force for the endless reproduction of a family is the inheritance of good family style.
Restoration of Yimen Chen Monument
"Loyalty and filial piety are based on righteousness, cultivation and reading are passed down from generation to generation", the Yimen Chen clan has been living endlessly, multiplying and growing, creating a history of fifteen generations of the same church and lasting 332 years of living together.
By the time of Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, the total population of the Chen family had reached 3978. The Chen family style is very strict, and the children of the Chen family are diligent in their own business, advocating frugality, being loyal, abiding by the law, and having good and gentle conduct in life. Although they live a rich life, they cannot marry concubines and raise servants, they cannot be subordinated to animals, they are not allowed to live luxuriously, people are not noble and lowly, they work together, family members have no private property, the economy is equal, the material is uniformly distributed, and the family is responsible for spending on marriage and funeral. If someone makes a mistake, there is a scepter hall within the family. There are inmates and temples within the family, as if it were an independent kingdom.
The core of the Chen family's "family law" is "selflessness to the public". The descendants of the Chen clan are familiar with the Confucian classics and enter the military with the purpose of serving the country.
The first in the world
In such an environment, the people of the Chen family are self-disciplined and diligent, knowledgeable and reasonable, have few selfless thoughts, and are harmonious and friendly.
At this point, the Chen family is famous all over the world, and the story of "one dog does not arrive, and a hundred dogs do not eat" is widely circulated. When Emperor Taizong of Song heard that the Chen family "has their own people and righteousness, and dogs follow suit", he personally visited the Yimen Gate, only to see that the Chen family had a hundred dogs, ate the same trough, slept together, and whenever it came to eating, if there was not a dog, the remaining dogs would not eat.
Emperor Taizong ordered people to make 100 rice buns, put them on the ground, and summon dogs to eat them. None of the 99 dogs moved their mouths before they stood still. After a dog gave a steamed bun to an old dog in the hall, he turned back and barked softly, and the dogs began to eat.
A dog does not arrive, a hundred dogs do not eat
After Emperor Taizong saw it, he was amazed, and the imperial pen gave him the "Zhongxiao Family", named the Chen family "the first family in the world", and personally wrote a couplet: "A dog has not reached a hundred dogs and does not eat, and the aliens in the prison are all righteous; a bark suddenly rises a hundred barks and is angry, and the village is guarded by the same voice."
The "General Book of Chinese Surnames" praises this as: Yimen Chen's world is strange, and a hundred dogs are strange in the same groove. In 1996, "one dog does not arrive, a hundred dogs do not eat" was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records.
The Chen family has more than 300 zhuangtian and gardens, all over the land of Jiangzhou, and even beyond the provincial border.
One door three elements
In addition, the Chen family separately listed the "Twenty Acres of Learning Fields" as educational funds, and founded two schools, "Dongjia Bookstore" and "Dongjia College".
"Dongjia College" can be said to be the first private university in history, allowing its children to go to school for free. Later, with the continuous expansion of the scale of the school, it began to recruit children with foreign surnames, known in history as "Yan Sifang scholars, Fu La are all resourceful!" Jiangnan celebrities all worked in their homes", which had a great influence on the culture of the Northern Song Dynasty.
The sons of the Chen family, only in the 4th year of the Xianping Dynasty of the Northern Song Dynasty (1001 AD), as many as 430 people passed the imperial examination to serve as officials in the dynasty. The children of famous eunuchs came to see each other even more, scrambling for the first place.
Panoramic restoration of Dongjia College
Because the family was too large, the emperor was uneasy. At that time, the famous minister Bao Zheng and The Minister Wen Yanbo discussed a "magic method". They advised Emperor Renzong of Song several times that the filial piety of Yimen Chen should be spread to the north and south of the great river, as a model, and to educate the people.
Thus deduces the most tragic and magnificent great migration of the largest family in human history. The Yimen Chen clan became the only large family in Chinese history to be divided up by the emperor.
In 1062, Emperor Renzong ordered him to separate his family and sent officials to supervise and analyze the Yimen Chen clan.
Yimen Chen Fenzhuang Holy Will
On the day of the separation, the Chen clan people wept bitterly, and it is said that they smashed a large cauldron into 291 pieces, using the pot slices as a cast, and decided where to go.
After the analysis of the broken pot, the Chen clan was divided into 291 branches, which were scattered in more than 70 prefectures and counties across the country, mainly in today's Jiangxi, Anhui, Hunan, Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Henan, Shandong, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi and other provinces.
Although the various branches of the Chen family are all over the country, they have never forgotten the fundamentals, and there is a plaque of "Yimen Chen" or "Jiangzhou Yimen" hanging in the gate capital, so there is a saying that "the Chen clan in the world is out of the righteous door". From the founding of the village to the analysis, the Yimen Chen clan spanned two dynasties, lasted 332 years, and was successively praised by the handwritten edicts of several emperors of the Tang and Song dynasties and many famous poets.
Word Garden
In the fourth year of Zhonghe (884 AD), Emperor Li of the Tang Dynasty personally inscribed the title "Yimen Shijia" and gave him a couplet of "Nine Heavenly Books and Noble Books, Ancient And Ancient Worldly Righteous Characters incense" to show praise. Since then, the Chen clan has changed the original Yongqing Village in Changle To "Yimen".
In the first year of The Reign of Emperor Zhaozong of Tang (890 AD), Emperor Zhaozong of Tang personally inscribed the title "Jingbiao Yimen Chen", which was named "Yimen Chen". Today, yimen village in Cheqiao Town is still called Yimen Chen.
Li Fu, the king of the Southern Tang Dynasty, gave a plaque in the first year of the ShengYuan Dynasty (937 AD), with the word "Yimen" written on it, marking the opening of the door. At this point, the "Yimen Chen Clan" from Chen Wang's opening of Jianzhuang in the nineteenth year of Tang Xuanzong's kaiyuan (731 AD) to the first year of the Southern Tang Dynasty Li Li Fusheng Yuan (937 AD), which lasted for 206 years in the Tang Dynasty, and was successively watched by three emperors.
Table table
On July 15, 992 A.D., Emperor Taizong of Song Taizong zhao Kuangyi gave the "Zhongxiao Family" to the "Zhongxiao Family", and in the second year of the Zhidao (996 AD) to the "True Liang Family" and "Righteous Residents", in the same year, Xia Zhao collected the "Yimen Family Law" in the National History Museum, and sent pei Yu, the internal attendant, to build the Imperial Library in the Yimen Edict in thirty-three volumes, and hung the three characters of "True LiangJia" on the head of the door. In the third year of Xianping (1000 AD), Emperor Taizong of Song personally inscribed for Yimen "Ask who is the first in Jiangnan, xian said that only Yimen Chen" to show praise.
Emperor Zhenzong of Song, Zhao Heng, gave the union "the first in the world with three thousand mouths of the Ju clan, and lived together for five hundred years in the world", and in the fourth year of the Tianxi (1011 AD), he was edicted outside the Jingbiao Gate, built a high platform Zhangxu, and personally inscribed the six characters of "Jingbiao Yimen Chen Clan".
Yimen Chen
In the fifth year (1060 AD) of Emperor Renzong of Song Dynasty, Zhao Zhenjiayou posthumously awarded the titles of Chen Wang, Chen Ji, Chen Gan, Chen Lan, and Chen Qing as the Duke of Jinguo, the Duke of Qi, the Duke of Wu, the Duke of Yan, and the Duke of Xu, respectively, and wrote in a poem given to Yimen Branch Zhuang in the seventh year of Jiayou (1062 AD): "Jiangzhou Jiu wrote Yimen Zhuang, Zhuhui Jade Corridor. Deeply rooted in who merges with each other, zhuang on the branch of the village for a long time. He chased after Zou Lu and believed in king Xie Xie. Each of his descendants knows righteousness, and eternally has a heavy light in Shunde. ”
At that time, the construction of Yimen Chen's Zhuang had lasted for 331 years, and more than 3,900 people had gathered to cook together.
What a good home
As a family that has been affected by the emperors of the two dynasties, the "Yimen Chen Clan" can be called the most ancient and modern in China. According to historical records, the "Yimen Chen Clan" was at its peak during the Song Renzong period, when under the inspiration of the Yimen Chen Clan's loyalty and filial piety, the Jiangnan people's peace disputes, net disputes, knew etiquette, and were loyal to the country, presenting a scene of cultivating and reading Shengping. Therefore, later generations have the saying that "Yimen Chen" flourished in Song Zhi.
Yimen Chen Ancestral Hall
By the eighth year of Emperor Renzong of Song (1063 AD), the Yimen Chen family had about 400 officials in the past, including 3 officials to the prime minister, 29 high-ranking officials in Beijing, and 42 people who had been given gifts in the past. At that time, "Yimen Chen" presented a prosperous scene of "the pavilions stretching in all directions, the flag reflecting the purple qi of the sun, the farmers cultivating the land, and the students laughing at the ink incense".
Yimen Chen Jiaxun
After the separation of the family, the descendants of the Chen family kept in mind the family training and continued to grow and develop in various places. Later churches and branches developed numerously throughout the country. After more than 1,000 years of historical changes, breeding and migration, the Chen clan has now become a giant family. Most people surnamed Chen insist that they are the descendants of Yimen Chen, "a family multiplied into ten thousand households, and all ten thousand households were new Yimen.".