"Found it, found it, that's it! That's it! At 2 p.m. on March 16, under the on-site command of Li Yongrui, secretary of the party committee of Huanchuan Town, excavators and manual operations were coordinated. After intense construction, the tomb monument of Zhang Zai, the "Northern Song Dynasty Master of Science" who had been sleeping in the middle road of Zhangzhuang Village in Huanchuan Town for more than half a century, was finally unearthed.
The tombstone is dignified
According to Zhang Ximin, a descendant of Zhang Zai 32, there are tombstones, merit monuments, chronicle monuments, and four ancient steles in front of Zhang Zai's tomb, and when the farmland water conservancy infrastructure was built in the 1950s, the stone monuments in various places were all pulled to the reservoir as cornerstones, and the Zhang clan secretly transported the stele back to a piece and buried it in the ground. Nowadays, Zhang Zai's tombstone has reappeared in the sky, which has important physical value for determining the ownership of Zhang Zai's hometown, the source of GuanXue culture, and the cultural research of Zhang Zai's clan.
The picture shows the monument in front of the tombstone of Zhang Zaizu's tomb excavated
Talking about this history, Li Jianqiang, head of the county history office, sighed: "In the 1950s, the awareness of cultural relics protection was not as strong as it is now, and at that time, there was not even a distinction between movable cultural relics and immovable cultural relics. It also has a positive impact on the cultural connotation of the national famous town history cultural project that Huanchuan Town is applying for and the tourism development under construction."
The restoration of the stele in front of Zhang Zai's tomb and the Zhang Zai Ancestral Hall embodies the spirit of Zhang Zai's hometown- the people of Liuchuan who revere the Northern Song Dynasty and Zhang Zaizhi, and it is also the cultural inheritance and ideological and spiritual inheritance of a generation of Confucians. It is conducive to inheriting local history and culture, cultivating rural cultural self-confidence, stimulating patriotic feelings of love for the hometown, and helping the rural revitalization strategy. At the same time, it will also expand the influence of Huanchuan Town in the country and enhance its reputation.
Wang Guangcheng, Ma Xianfeng, Shi Yahui and Li Chao, historians of the Weishi Branch of the Kaifeng Historical Society, interpreted the inscriptions at the Weishi County Geopolitics Research Center
Attached: Introduction to Zhang Zai
Zhang Zai (1020-1077), courtesy name Hou, was a native of Daliang (present-day Zhangzhuang Village, Weishi County). When Zhang Zai was fifteen years old, his father Zhang Di died of illness in Zhizhou. Zhang Zai and his younger brother Zhang Jian left Fuling with their mother and sent Zhang Di's coffin back to Zhang Zhuang's hometown in Liuchuan for burial. When he arrived at Hengqu Town, Mei County, Shaanxi Province, he retained Dazhen Village due to insufficient road capital and the war in front, and buried his father on the spot. After that, zhang zai, except for the two summons to Jin and the three calendars, all of them lived in Hengqu or studied, or wrote books, or lectured, so they were called "Hengqu", and they were known as "Mr. Hengqu".
Although Zhang Zai was poor all his life, he wrote a wealth of works, mainly including "Chongwen Collection", "Zhengmeng", "Hengqu Yishu", "Jingxue Li Grotto", "Zhang Zi Quotations" and so on. The ideological doctrine he founded, namely "Guan Xue", was known as the "Four Schools of the Song Dynasty" along with Zhou Dunyi's "Lian Xue", Ercheng's "Luo Xue", and Zhu Xi's "Min Xue"; together with Zhou Dunyi, Shao Yong, Cheng Hao, and Cheng Yi, he was revered as the "Five Sons of the Northern Song Dynasty".
After Zhang Zai's death, he was enthroned as a sage and enshrined in the thirty-eighth place of the Confucius Temple. His "establishing a heart for heaven and earth, establishing a destiny for the people, continuing to learn from the saints, and opening up peace for all the worlds" is called "the four sentences of the horizontal canal" by the contemporary philosopher Feng Youlan, and has become the motto of the reader. Leaving a precious spiritual heritage for the Chinese nation is a monument in the history of the development of Chinese culture.
Guangxu seventeen years Zhang Zai epitaph inscription
The tombstone is 1.86 meters high, 0.685.meters wide and 0.17 meters thick, and the inscription reads:
The first line: Zhang Sheng Xie, Yi Yu Sheng, Du Shi Ren also. Yesterday, I took the scroll inscription of my family to show Yu, and Yu inquired about it
The second line: the epitaph of Zhang Zi, the first Confucian, Yu was very frightened. It is said that Zhang Ziju fengxiang Meizhou Hengqu town, the world number heng
The third line: Mr. Qu, the history books are also buried in Meizhou, and there is a tomb here? and unfold the scroll, which is a scroll
The fourth line: 洧川囗囗也, this place is actually a real tomb, there are ancient monuments to prove. 囗系勇囗本县囗囗洧
Line 5: 囗
Sixth line: Tang Xie's uncle Xiuyun is enshrined. Strengthen and repair it. The classics of honesty and kindness are also visible
The seventh line: Filial piety is done with heart! Yu is insensitive, and Zhao is in order.
Line 8: Written by Yan Yuanxian in Xunchuan County
Line 9: Yi Liu Shan student Cha Guan Yue Shu Dan
Tenth Line: Worship the Twenty-seventh Emperor's Grandson leads the Concubine To respect li Masonry: Li Lianjia
Line 11: Emperor Qing Guangxu Seventeen Years Old Xin Zhongchun Shang Huan Grain Dan
Contributed by: Weishi County History Office