On January 21, 2022, the Song stele found in Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, was confirmed to be the "Monument of Liu Gong Shinto, a scholar of the Guanwen Temple" written by Zhu Xi in the sixth year of Chunxi (1179).
Figure 1: On January 21, 2022, the Song stele found in Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, was not included in the list of cultural relics protection units at all levels in Jian'ou City. The stele is 317 cm high and 134 cm wide, and it is confirmed that Zhu Xi wrote the "Monument to the Divine Path of Liu Gong, a scholar of the Guanwen Temple" in the sixth year of Chunxi (1179).
According to volume 88 of the Collected Works of Zhu Wen, the Stele has: "Guan Wen Dian Scholar Liu Gong Shinto Stele", which contains records that "Gong's heir Xueya and others were buried in the source of the new calendar in Fengleli, Ouning County, Jianning Province" (present-day Yangdun Natural Village, Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City).
Figure 2: On January 21, 2022, 6 meters away from the Song Stele found in Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, the stele of another stone stele has been lost. I saw that the base of the monument was 247 cm long and 150 cm wide.
Liu Jue (1122–1178), co-father of the character, was a native of Chong'an Wufu (present-day Wuyishan, Fujian). He was born as a scholar and successively served as a rebbe official, a Zhongshu Sheren, a shangshu official, a member of the Shangshu official's department, a supervisor of yushi, Quanzhou Zhizhou, Tanzhou Zhizhou and Hunan Pacification Envoy, a Hanlin Scholar, a Zhizhi And attendant, a Privy Council Counselor, a Guanwendian Scholar, a Taizhong Doctor, and a Jiangnan East Road Pacification Envoy.
Figure 3: On January 21, 2022, the Song stele found in Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, has endured more than 800 years of ups and downs, but the handwriting of "Song Guan Wendian Scholar Gifted Silver Qing Guanglu Doctor Pengcheng County Zhongsu Liu Gong Shinto Inscription" is still clearly visible.
The Liu Jue family was a famous family of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhu Xi had an extraordinary relationship with his family. Liu Jue's grandfather Liu Wei and father Liu Ziyu were both famous generals in the Northern Song Dynasty, and his father Liu Ziyu and Zhu Xi's father Zhu Song were both in the main war faction in the dynasty, and they were close friends with each other, and When Zhu Song died, he entrusted Liu Ziyu, Liu Ziyu became Zhu Xi's righteous father, and Liu Jue and Zhu Xi had brotherly feelings. Liu Jue's uncle Liu Ziyi was one of Zhu Xi's three gentlemen (Liu Ziyi, Liu Mianzhi, and Hu Xian) who studied at Wufu Pingshan Academy in his early years, and Liu Jue and Zhu Xi were both educated by Liu Ziyi at the same time. Liu Jue was 8 years older than Zhu Xi, and after his birth, he also recommended Zhu Xi, such as when Liu Jue was serving as the Governor of Tanzhou, he advocated the construction of Yuelu Academy, and promoted the talks between Zhu Xi and Zhang Yu at Yuelu Academy, leaving behind a good story that Zhu Zhang would tell throughout the ages.
Figure 4: On January 21, 2022, the Song stele found in Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, the "Song Guan Wen Dian Scholar Gave Silver Qing Guanglu Doctor Pengcheng County Zhongsu Liu Gong Shinto Inscription" stele, has a slight cracking phenomenon and needs to be protected urgently.
In July of the fifth year of Chunxi (1178), Liu Jue, 57, died in Jiankang. In August, the 49-year-old Zhu Xi personally went to Yiyang to cry to welcome Liu Jue's coffin back to Chong'an Wufu. Subsequently, he wrote three sacrifice texts: "Sacrifice to Liu Gongfu Privy Secret Text", "Sacrifice Liu Gong father Privy Secret Text", and "Sacrifice Liu Gong Father Privy Secret Text", and ordered the second son Zhu Wei and the doorman Lin Yunzhong to prepare wine dishes to go to the memorial. In the sixth year of Chunxi (1179), Liu Jue was buried in the source of the new calendar in Fengleli, Ouning County, Jianning Province, and Zhu Xi wrote a Shinto inscription for him.
Figure 5: On January 21, 2022, around the Song Monument found in Shanbian Village, Xudun Town, Jian'ou City, there were many masonry and stone piles with a length of more than 100 meters, and there were bricks and tiles wrapped in lime scattered.
On the road of Liu Jue's tomb, "Song Guan WenDian Scholar Gave Silver Qing Guanglu Doctor Pengcheng County Zhongsu Liu Gong Shinto Inscription", after more than 800 years of ups and downs, it has still been preserved, and is an important Zhuzi cultural relic in northern Fujian, which is of great significance.
▌The author of this article: Wu Zhangzhong Wei Yongqing
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