(I) History
Li Peng, the first ancestor of Guangdong, was originally from Shuitouli, Yundu County, Ganzhou Prefecture, Jiangxi Province (changed to Yudu County in 1957), and entered the soil in the second year of Longxing (1164) of the Southern Song Dynasty, serving as a bachelor of Hanlin, because of the advice of the emperor Guangzhou Lu Xuezheng, and later settled in the capital of Xinhui County.
From the nomination to the present day (1164-2023), time and space have passed 859 years. During this period, it witnessed the Southern Song Dynasty (Zhao Zhi became emperor in Hangzhou), the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, and Dr. Sun Yat-sen's democratic revolution to the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation. It has witnessed the Li family's unremitting self-improvement and indomitable inheritance.
Today, the descendants of the Li clan at home and abroad gather at the New Meeting, gather at Phoenix Mountain, and hold a grand sacrifice in order to strengthen unity among the clansmen, carry forward the spirit of the ancestors, and serve the motherland with practical actions.
In the long history, the descendants of the Lai family have also spread all over the world, giving birth to countless talents, and extracting several handsome talents from many celebrities to inspire future generations.
(1) Lai Xiongcai, founder of the Lingnan School, died at the age of 91. Li Xiongcai was born in Zhaoqing, Guangdong, and his ancestral home is Gaoyao. Contemporary Chinese painter, Meiza educator, founder of the Lingnan School.
There is an art museum named after Li Xiongcai in Gaoyao City, Zhaoqing, which covers an area of 8,800 square meters and a building area of 2,800 square meters, which was completed in 1993 and is a business card of Gao Yao. The museum has a collection of 300 famous paintings from all over the country, of which Li Xiongcai donated more than 200. One of his landscape paintings once fetched 74.8 million yuan, 200 famous paintings, the price is difficult to calculate. In order to repay Mr. Li Lao's selfless dedication, the Gaoyao Municipal Government specially rewarded 2 million. Li Xiongcai said that I received the government's reward, but the money should be transferred to Hope Primary School.
2〉Former Guangzhou Mayor Li Ziliu, died at the age of 91.
Li Ziliu was born in Chen Yong Village, Shunde District, Foshan City, and was the former mayor of Guangzhou in Guangdong Province. During his term of office as mayor of Guangzhou, this civilian mayor and doer, who was previously the secretary of the Shunde County CPC Committee and the secretary of the Jiangmen Municipal CPC Committee, said the most during his term as mayor of Guangzhou: If you have to go, you have to return to Shunde, don't say what you do, do more and talk less, and talk about it after you finish it.
3〉 Li Yuxi, 89 years old Li Yuxi, a native of Daxian County, Sichuan, former commander of the Kuomintang Navy, chief of staff, and first-class general. 2. Go to the new meeting
At 10 o'clock on the evening of May 1, under the leadership of Chairman Li Minghui, 173 people of the Oujia Li clan took three luxury buses and eight cars, carrying the banner with the character "Li" and carrying banners, and rushed day and night to Xinhui. From this, I think of ancestor worship activities before liberation. I asked my father, in the past, there were no cars and no boats, more than 40 kilometers away, how did you go to worship the ancestral tomb of the first ancestor of Luogangling and the eighth grandmother Mo's family on the south bank of Yang Qing? My father said that after eating at home, he carried pigs, picked up firewood, rice, oil, salt, incense candles, and money, carried triangular kerosene lamps, walked in the dark all night, and after arriving at his destination, he killed pigs to cook and worship ancestors.
On May 2, under the leadership of President Ming Fai,
Carrying a banner with the character "Li", dressing uniformly, pulling banners,
As the flow of people up the mountain reached the cemetery group, more than 1,500 people participated in the festival at home and abroad, and the event officially began.
Ancestor Ming,
The gongs and drums are noisy.
Whoops,
Firecrackers sounded in unison.
The dragon lion dances,
All solemn.
Pray to the ancestors,
Rest in peace in hell,
Pray for the people,
Prosperity.
Create miracles,
Serve the motherland.
In this ancestor worship activity, I would like to thank President Li Minghui, Li Ri Cham and Li Li Ru and other more than 20 clansmen for their selfless sponsorship, and thank many clansmen for their donations to the new Lai Gong Ancestral Hall, wishing them good health and all the best. This event was a complete success, I am happy, and I give a poem:
Ancestor Li Peng Hanlin,
Later, he served as Guangzhou Lu Xuezheng.
Settle in the new meeting to end the old,
Fukuzawa Hyakushi is full of incense.
Oujia Zong inherits the ancestral inheritance,
People are brilliant and spiritual.
Phoenix Mountain worships Taizu,
The descendants are affectionate in the heavenly court.
Concluding remarks (not a superfluous topic)
Yudu, located in Gannan, Jiangxi, Gongshui passes through the city, on both sides of the river, beautiful scenery, rich products, and outstanding people. At the end of the 69th century of last century, the 215th Division to which I belonged was transferred from Taishan and Heyuan in Guangdong to the Ganzhou area of Jiangxi Province to carry out tasks at the order of its superiors: military training, production and construction, three branches and two armies, camping and training, visiting the old areas of the Red Revolution, and so on. The footprints cover Xunwu, Dingnan, Longnan, Xinfeng, Ganzhou, Xingyuan, Yudu, Jishui, Ji'an, Yongfeng, Fuzhou's Le'an and Jinggang Mountain.
Yudu is the assembly place of the world-famous Red Army's 25,000-mile long march, where 86,000 Red Army set out...
The Republic was awarded the title for the first time, and sixteen generals were produced in Yudu.
The author is young and ignorant, and always thought that we were Cantonese soldiers in Jiangxi. Now go back to the roots, our roots are there, we are returning to our hometown to serve in the military, as evidenced by poetry:
The ancestors became famous in the capital,
The juniors became soldiers in the capital.
The world happens to be the cause,
Eight hundred years through time and space.
The trip to Jiangxi is far away,
Looking back, it's a lot to look back.
The illustration in this article is provided by Li Jin, a senior photographer of the family.
May 4, 2023