Lanxi Zheng Family Temple and Kan public opinion Zheng Jingzhao
Cai Yuxin (Original)
In the early years of the Southern Song Dynasty, when the war was in the north, the Zheng family crossed the Yangtze River to the south and moved to Lanxi, the place where land and water meet. "At the time of the southern crossing, Fan Junyi was the one who rushed to the land and water, and the giant clan of the old family was scattered." (1) According to the Lanxi fish scales during the Shaoxing period of the Southern Song Dynasty, the ancestors of the Zheng clan "lived in the southeast corner of the county rule", and later "set up the county street South Base" (2). The Zheng clan of Che Ma Lawton had just settled in Lanxi for a while, and experienced a disaster, and Zheng Wan, in the Ming Dynasty, once mentioned that in the Southern Song Dynasty, "On the night of May of the fourteenth year of Emperor Gaozong, the flood reached Lanxi, and more than 10,000 people died, and the county and city waters were left behind, and the descendants of the Seven Dukes all went with the water?" (3) The Qing "Guangxu Lanxi County Chronicle" also has the same record: the Southern Song Dynasty "Shaoxing fourteen years (1144) in May B ugly flood flood, the next night more violent, to drown more than 10,000 people." （4）
Zheng Kun (1428-1516) and Zheng Wan (1453-1534) father and son spent decades painstakingly examining and exploring the origin of the Zheng clan in Lanxi, but only got some brief information: "At the beginning of Emperor Gaozong's relocation of the capital, the fish scale map left behind, the southeast corner of the county town, there are Zheng family house foundations, Zheng family alley entrance roads, Zheng family wutong halls, etc., which are still there. And the family has five tongtang, but Wu customs are so, and it is not a day that his family has migrated from Yangzhou to the south." （5）
Lanxi Zheng Family Temple was built in the Ming Dynasty. Zheng Wan's grandfather Zheng Di (1388-1436), the character Zongji, was a Chinese poet. He was in the Yongle Penzi branch Zhejiang Township Examination, and he was selected in the examination. At first, Zheng Di gave the official county teaching, and later li sheng Lu Wangfu Zuo Changshi. "The eldest father, Chengle Gongshi, was the grandson of the eighth duke, the sixth year of Deng Yongle (1408), and the official was the long history. Rites, the doctor had to set up a family temple to worship his ancestors and died early. "(6) Chang Shi , Zheng Wupin , in charge of the government decrees of the royal palace, auxiliary rules and regulations, in charge of the affairs of the royal palace. All the names, seals, marriages, enze and Chen Xie, and the dedication table Qishushu are all played by the history of the chief of the royal palace, and if the king of the domain is wrong, he will ask the long history. According to the ming dynasty ceremonial system, officials of the level of Changshi (正五品) could create a family temple to worship their ancestors. Unfortunately, Zheng Di died early in middle age, and the creation of the family temple ended.
Zheng Di's third son, Zheng Wan's father Zheng Kun, also had the idea of creating a family temple, but he did not realize his wish. "The father listened to the unsuccessful desire of the annunciation, and left him to blame him." (7) In the tenth year of Hongzhi (1497), Zheng Ou abandoned the official and returned home, he returned to his hometown of Lanxi, and immediately carried out his father's last wish. However, Zheng Wan, considering his family's lack of financial resources, intends to mobilize the family's strength to complete this cause.
In the twelfth year of Zhengde (1517), the Zheng family sold the trees on the ancestral tomb hill to timber merchants for silver ingots, and the clan entrusted Zheng Wan to manage the money. Two or three years later, Zheng Ou used this money to buy it to sacrifice Tian Yi to pick up three stones and fight wu sheng wantonly. A few years later, it has been profitable to silver one hundred two hundred two nine money. Zheng Ou released financial data to the clan and proposed the creation of a family temple.
The Zheng family bought a gap foundation outside the east gate of the county town, which sat facing east and west, and was originally the original burial cemetery of Zheng's ancestor "Cheng Ergong". The family temple broke ground on November 16, 1527, the sixth year of Jiajing (1527), and was completed on the twelfth day of the first month of the following year (1528), at a cost of silver and two lands. In addition to the source of funds, in addition to the accumulation of silver one hundred and two hundred and two seven money, plus the whole clan's apportionment of Ding Yin forty-seven two nine money and four points, the clan's helper Silver two hundred and fifty-six two seven dollars, and the gift silver seven two two dollars. The family temple is "18 meters deep from east to west, 15 feet wide from north to south, with five rooms in the middle, five bedrooms in the back, five banquet houses on both sides, and a door house and an ear room in the front, a total of five rooms. "(8) On the day of its completion, the whole city was sensational, "the greeters and bystanders were all overjoyed, and Dr. Yi smelled it and paid tribute to it, and all of them came to congratulate him in person. (9) In March of the eleventh year of Jiajing (1532), Zheng Wan, who was already eighty years old, was frail and sick, and had difficulty walking. But he still couldn't help but write: "Oh, beautiful! The Zheng clan made him known as the Lanxi Shan Clan in the day, wouldn't it be beautiful! (10) Zheng Wan's prediction really became a reality, the Zheng clan settled in Lanxi from the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yanlu Blue Wisp, which lasted for the Yuan, Ming, Qing, and the Republic of China, and for hundreds of years, the population multiplied, The Kedi flourished, and talents came out, and it was already a noble family in Lanxi City.
More than 40 years later, during the Wanli period, the Zheng Family Temple was expanded, and the project was presided over by Zheng Benli and Zheng Guobin. Zheng Benli (1515-1573), Zi Chong Dao, Dong Quan, Jiajing Twenty-sixth Year (1547) Li Chunfang List Jinshi, the first Suzhou Prefecture Pushing Official, The Imperial History, the Counselor of the General Envoy Division, to the Taibu Temple Shaoqing, author of the "Fei Ting Anthology", Wanli Thirty-five Years (1607) Qifu County Xiangxian Ancestral Hall. Zheng Guobin (1519-1573), zi ru jia, number Yue qu, Jiajing twenty-ninth year (1550) Tang Ru Yu list jinshi, the first wuyuan county zhi county, li bing section, li ke right to give the matter, author of "WoyunTang Collection".
Two Lanxi celebrities, Hu Xi and Zhao Zhigao, left valuable ink chapters for the expansion of the Zheng Family Temple. Hu Was the father of the famous Ming Dynasty literary scholar and bibliophile Hu Yinglin (1551-1602). Hu Xi wrote a "Record of the Zheng Family Temple", and the payment of his article was as follows: "In the fifth year of the Wanli Calendar (1577), the year of Ding Ugly August JiDan, zhi Jinshi, the imperial government doctor, and the huguang cloth political envoy Si Right Nephew Hu Yi" He used a "nephew" character to indicate the relationship with the Zheng clan. Hu wrote: "The Duke of Beiyuan (Zheng Wan) is the cousin of his mother's eldest father. The Beiyuan Gongzi Tong Judgment Group, the eastern suburb of Budiyi, was created as an ancestral hall. When it was time for the Yi Nei Ju clan to have a shrine to the public family. To the hometown people more public energy. Shilin is heavy. He often follows his mother and father, and can still remember his face. (11) Hu Xian saw Zheng Ou when he was a child, so he remembered it like yesterday.
Zhao Zhigao wrote a "Record of rebuilding the family temple", and the payment of his article was as follows: "Wanli Pengyin (1578) Midwinter Jidan, Zhongjidian University Scholar, Shangzhu Guo, Shaofu and Crown Prince Taifu, Guanglu Doctor Zhao Zhigao". Zhao Zhigao (1524-1601) was the first assistant during the Ming Dynasty, and the Lanxi people called him "Zhao Gelao". Zhao Zhigao's payment does not indicate his relationship with the Zheng clan, but in the article, he still points out: "Do not miss the door of Mr. Dongquan, the servant of The Lesser, and Zhongzi Fengchong, so advise Mr. Yuequ's son-in-law." (12) Bu Yu is the self-designation of Zhao Zhigao, who studied under Zheng Benli in his early years, and his second son, Zhao Fengchong, was Zheng Guobin's son-in-law (the second daughter of Zhao Wenyi's son Langzhong Fengchong). Zhao Zhigao and Zheng Zhengguobin are pro-family and have a lot to do with each other.
Zhao Zhigao wrote: "The Wuyi Zheng clan created the ancestral hall for Lu Li rate, shi on Jiazhi. It is also said that the Zheng Family Temple was founded by Zheng Ou, "the foothills of the eastern suburbs of Bu, the dove, and the yingjian ancestral hall." (13) He mentioned that Tang Long (1477-1546) also wrote an article about this matter.
Zhao Zhigao also told a story in the article: in the third year of Longqing (1569), the Zheng clan accumulated 2,000 taels of silver and proposed to expand the family temple. Zheng Benli and Zheng Guobin convened a family meeting and elected six members of the clan as the backbone of the project. The six men began to prepare building materials, and once, they went to the "Youxi" to purchase timber, but they happened to encounter a major flood, and the water was almost overflowing above their heads, but the gods protected them, and they were not buried in the belly of the fish. Afterwards, these six people still worked hard, diligently, and never complained until the project was completed. Zhao Zhigao said that "youxi" should be today's youbu, Ming "Zhengde Lanxi County Chronicle" has the name of "youdu", during the Wanli years, called Youbu City, since then prospered for more than four hundred years.
The project began in the autumn month of the fourth year of Longqing (1570) and was completed at the end of the fourth year of the Wanli Calendar (1576). After the expansion of the family temple, it is magnificent, the scale is larger, and the facilities have increased a lot. "The temple is still the same as the Lord's throne, and the same is true of the dormitories and the hall of enjoyment. However, the number of rooms in the two sides is wide from five to seven, and there is a warehouse room and a fasting and changing room. In front of the hall, there is a stone road, and the ancient cypress on the left and right intersects with the green. The seven houses of the front door of the road, depending on the old zeng two, the middle Troon chong, with the appearance of the zhuang temple, and the left gap of the yi gate as the land shrine, while the right side of the Ku people stop at Yan. ”（14）
Today's people can no longer see the grand situation of that year, but we can imagine it through the description of The Articles of Hu Xi and Zhao Zhigao. Hu Xian praised: "The temple is in the shade of the forest foothills, and when you climb the city, it looks like dignity, and those who pass in front of the temple know that it is the Zheng Family Temple." (15) He described the Zheng Family Temple as a landmark building outside the city.
Zhao Zhigao took the guests out of the city with great interest to see: "Do not eat and travel with the lives of the guests, go out of the east gate of the city, fold hundreds of martial arts to the north, look at the beautiful people, Zheng Ciye." (16) The "wu" in the text refers to the length and means "half a step". Zhao Zhigao also instructed the relevant personnel to display the inscription of the "Record of Rebuilding the Family Temple" he wrote in the Zheng Family Temple, "not to the Zheng family and yourong Shiyi." Then he gave it his words, and inscribed the shrines to show those who came to life." （17）
In addition to The three Lanxi celebrities Hu Xi, Zhao Zhigao, and Tang Long, who left a glorious chapter for the Zheng Family Temple, did anyone else leave a poem for it? The answer, of course, is yes. In that year, a Shanghainese came to Lanxi, visited the Zheng Family Temple, and wrote a poem, this person is He Sanwei.
He Sanwei (1550-1624), zi shi wei, trumpet rope wu, Ming Dynasty Huating people (now Shanghai). Wan Li RenWu (1582) raised a person, and the official was promoted to Shaoxing Province. He Sanwei held the position of judicial trial, enforced the law impartially, was upright, and his works were also very rich, and in his "Julu Collection" there are poems entitled "Four Poems titled Zheng Family Temple":
Wind and smoke in the suburbs, there is a Zheng Gong Ancestral Hall.
Ancient wood Chonggang he, layer of beautiful sun drape.
Second
The door rails are high in the sky, and the columns of houses are surrounded by deep clouds.
He Yiqi Qianyu, the layer opened thousands of trees.
Third
In the majestic temple, the left and right are divided into two rooms.
The hall has been created since the present, steaming and tasting through the ages.
Fourth
Gui Zhun Li Li, Lan Li Fu Fei Fei.
When the son's surname is Luobai, the rank of The Emperor is returned.
In the poem notes, He Sanwei explained the reason why he wrote this group of poems: "Lanxi Zhengshi, Shishi Shili, Jiake Crown Two Zhejiang". He praised the Lanxi Zheng family as a family of scholars, and the purpose of coming to Lanxi this time was to mourn a relative, and after the event, he was retained by a friend surnamed Zheng for hospitality and visited the family temple. "Yu Yi xie was hung to qiyi, and he stayed for the gentlemen, and brought the Guanjia Temple, which was magnificent in scale and magnificent, and there were no famous clans in the sea. Because the envy has been admired for a long time, it is a title." The Zheng Family Temple took him by surprise and made him can't help but compose this set of poems.
He Sanwei came to Lanxi to mourn his "Bao Jifu", this Lanxi man "Bao Jifu" life deeds are unknown, he and He Sanwei are related to "cousin uncle", He Sanwei has a poem "Sending Bao Jifu's cousin uncle to the south":
I sent my uncle's river margin, and the hibiscus on the bank covered the autumn pool.
I sent my uncle's riverside, Yingzun drunken autumn.
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Strange heads gallop bustling colors, and spring is beautiful in the blink of an eye.
He also sent the flower wine to the pedestrians, and sang a song that was once new.
He Sanwei took a boat from the Qiantang River to Lanxi, and the scenery on both sides of the river was beautiful, and he wrote two poems "The River Travels through the Mountains" and noted "From Fuyang to Lanxi":
Yacht river dry hair, look at the river is not tired of deep.
Pity the bright moon, the heart of the waves.
The hometown also has a heart, do not pay attention to the mountains,
How is it so full of dust.
Far away from the service, ten thousand mountains and walls stand.
The color moon rises from its peak, and the blue water flows under it.
There are also mountains in the hometown, and there should be no thick stacks.
It is better to lie down and lie down, and the stones are as dashing as possible.
However, this trip was in the sweltering heat, the sweltering heat in the boat was unbearable, and it also made He San afraid of suffering, as evidenced by the poem: "Eight Songs of Bitter Heat in Zhouci" and note: "When hanging in Zhejiang", choose one of them:
The red sun is turning wave by wave, and the chixia is touching the stone.
Under the tall trees, the apes lie deep in the mountains.
How to travel far away, sit cool at the bottom of the canopy.
So, when He Sanwei came to Lanxi this time, which friend surnamed Zheng was graciously retained? We still seek answers from his poems. He Sanwei has a poem "Gift to Mr. Zheng Jingzhao to Lanyin":
The ancient master was called Guo Pu, and when he was buried, Tianzi was buried with dragon horns.
Tao Gong's mother was buried at the top of the mountain, and the gods pointed out that the cow was sleeping.
There are also Zeng Yang Ben Zhanggong, and there are many strange words in the strange book.
Yi who crosses the horse and hisses the wind, Yi who plants bamboo branches.
People are cleverly doing their best to make the wrong inch, and the iron float meter can be measured.
Lanyin Zhengjun old cloth clothes, hidden smoke Xia storage hills.
The feet are wearing wax sandals and the hands are lonely, and the tongue spits out green black body white cranes.
If you want to find the dragon and the head, the only family is the king.
Traveling to the ancient clouds at the beginning of the journey, he chose a name mountain for the Yu Uncle clan.
Bu Zhi Bu Lang with the true cave, the mountain embraces a thousand heavy water and several bays.
Uncle Yu's father was not buried, and Liu Junbi looked at Qingzhuang.
The nine peaks towered over the phoenix, waving dust to climb the direction of the Mountain.
For a while, the suspension period was suspended, and the nostalgia was carried away.
Jiang Ting sent wine to Yingqing, and temporarily sang Li Yisan.
Qiu Zhong Chi Jun Yu toe came, and Mo Sent Ju Lu people to pity.
In the poem, "Lanyin" refers to Lanxi, and Zheng Jingzhao will return to his hometown of Lanxi, and He Sanwei wrote this poem to send him, saying that Zheng Jingzhao "first buried Bao Jifu's cousin's uncle", that is, Zheng Jingzhao chose a cemetery for "Bao Jifu's cousin's uncle". Who is Zheng Jingzhao? I found clues in the poem of He Sanwei, who has a poem "Gift to Zheng Jingzhao":
Drive around the eight poles, the eight poles are vast. Zhenyi waded across the sea, the four seas and the soup.
Kunlun Ridge in the northwest, cold spring in the southeast. Wushan Mountain is thousands of miles long, and the Yellow River is nine curves long.
The Sky Ridge is steep and rugged, and the ocean is deep. The jade fortress is endless, and the cave court is difficult to see.
The fairy transcends, and the man soars. Qiong Yao made me wear, and Yunxia attacked me.
Chi Shen is outside the eight poles, and his eyes are all over the world. Electricity came and went, and the wind rose with the wind.
A thousand rocks and a thousand valleys, the king can be buqi fang. Dan Cave and Huang Yuan, Jun can know its hiding.
Look at the dragon and tiger with stones, and see the phoenix with sand. Gathering and scattering many special colors, not a single fragrance.
Bin enjoys a thousand golden birthdays, and the king is coveted for ten thousand years. Flying out of the spirit salamander, the stream of light is born.
Guo Gongqing Wuzi is nothing but his goose line.
Poem note: "Mr. Zheng Jingzhao of Lanxi, for a time the master Zongye, JinShen competed for his skills, and Wumen Zhou Jiqing painted, for the picture title: Divine Travel Eight Poles, Eyes Empty of the Seas, Give Poetry gifts to Yin". He Sanwei said that this Mr. Zheng Jingzhao of Lanxi was a Kan public opinionist, that is, a master of feng shui, and his fame was very large, and the bureaucrats and gentry everywhere valued his skills. Suzhou painter Zhou Jiqing also specially painted and inscribed for Zheng Jingzhao.
I could not find information about Zheng Jingzhao in the Lanxi Local Chronicle, and with the help of Mr. Zheng Jianping, I found information about his life in the "Lanxi Zheng Clan Genealogy". Zheng Shiqi (1537-1620), zi Jingzhao, Huaidong, Yi Kusheng. Zheng Jingzhao is a xiucai and may not have an official position, and He Sanwei called him "Lanyin Zhengjun old cloth", which is also appropriate. The two had very close contacts, and He Sanwei said at the beginning of the "Seventy-two Birthday Order of He Gong of He Lian Lake": "Mr. Zheng Jingzhao of Lanyin, who has been carrying the art of Qingwu in his old age, has been practicing in wuhui, and his swimming valley water, the scholar Yi Respects and believes in it, and is willing to hand it over to his people, and not Yu Mou and Bao Jifu's uncle Yu Yu nicknamed him." Qingwushu, also known as Kanyushu. Zheng Jingzhao has a high reputation for feng shui for people in the Suzhou area, perhaps because of Bao Jifu's relationship, He Sanwei and Zheng Jingzhao have a close intersection.
He Huanxi of Lianhu Lake was a native of Lanxi, and he needed someone to write a birthday celebration for his birthday, and Zheng Jingzhao introduced it to He Sanwei and said, "The He Gong of Wulan Huanxi, his clan and his people are also good people." Julian Lake, the confluence of the east and west two Hua landscapes, and will be its Yu no, so the name of the creek." And He Sanwei was also willing to write this shouwen, because "the Lotus Lake He clan of the Suppressed Lotus Lake came from Song Nandu, and did not come from The He who was not shy, but also from Nandu, according to the genealogy, most of them are the same, his mother is Wuzong is also evil, and the husband of the people of the People's Shouqi Sect is also old, and the friendship is not added to this." The two families were involved with the same surname and the same sect.
Zheng Jingzhao is more than ten years older than He Sanwei, He Sanwei respects him very much, Zheng Jingzhao is a talented person, the level of education is not low, and the two may have inscriptions and singing with each other. However, so far, I have not found zheng jingzhao's related poetic works. Zheng Jingzhao built a house in "Donggao" to live in seclusion, and He Sanwei wrote the poem "Donggao Xiaoyin for Lanyin Zhengjun Tofu Two Poems":
Shuo ren became Xiao Yin, and Bu Zhu was built in Donggao.
A song can be caressed, and QianZhong wine is proud.
The smoke clouds hugged deeply, and the wind and moon waved at the foot.
The worldly ups and downs, how to perch high.
Escape the world far away from the city, whistle in the middle of the land.
The hills are white and the streams are red.
He called himself The Runaway, known as Lo Tuo Ong.
In that year, the five hiddens were conquered, and a soldier lay in the east of the clouds.
Zheng Jingzhao celebrated his birthday, and He Sanwei gave him an inscription: "Title Zhi Tu Shou Lan Yin Zheng Jing Zhao":
Koyaiwa-mae, Komataniguchi.
Ye Ye Jinzhi, fresh jade wine.
The shiba has nine stems, and the wine enters a thousand buckets.
Land and immortality, cave heaven and earth.
He Sanwei lingered in Lanxi, simply happy, for several days, Zheng Jingzhao and his brothers and nephews warmly feasted on him, He Sanwei was gracious and difficult, but he left a poem to thank him, "Lanyin Zheng Jingzhao Zhu Kundi uncle and nephew beckoned to drink tired days to give thanks":
The gentlemen of the Zheng clan, the famous Yue passed on.
The divine standard is sincerely hidden, and the crown is also preceded.
Restart the West Garden Feast and frequently open the North Sea Feast.
Hu Ran ordered corporals, so he was a high sage.
Yao Xi bao xiang fu, carved plate Zhi Zhi Yan.
Pour out the green sauce and listen to zhu strings.
The second amaranth is offered to reward, and the silk is followed by laughter.
Tired of selling summer drinks, such as on the jade pot spring.
He Sanwei's travels were very extensive, and he and the two Lanxi Zhixian both had poems to sing. One is Wang Guonan (斗倫), a native of Wuyuan, renlanxizhi county. He Sanwei wrote a poem to him, "Tou Lan Xi Ling Jun Wang Dou Lun", which notes: "When there is a great drought, the jun is praying for rain." According to the historical tradition of Lanxi, during the great drought, Zhixian must hike up Panshan Mountain and go to the Tianjin Dragon King Temple to pray for rain.
The other was Ye Yucheng, and He Sanwei and he were the same people, and several people gathered together to open a "classmate association" to tour Lanyin Mountain (Hengshan), and wrote poems such as "Lanxi Lingjun Ye Yucheng invited Ling Jue'an to put a boat on Hengshan for the same year meeting", "Visit yelanxi Jade City in the same year", "Give Jade City" and other poems.
He Sanwei and Hu Yinglin also had a trip, as exemplified by the poem "Lanjiang Night Rain Hu Xiaolian Yuanrui and Deng Tingwei Xifu Moving Boat Times". During his stay in Lanxi, He Sanwei also went to the foothills of Tianfu Mountain in the city, visited the former residence of Zhang Mao (1437-1522), and left behind the poem "Gurudwara Fengshan Ancestral Hall". He also has another poem, "Gifting Zhang Tai Servant Hill", which is also involved in Lanxi.
He Sanwei's disciple Chen Jiru (1558-1639), who abandoned Confucianism and "begged for flowers", and interacted with the three famous officials and gentry, who were quite scornful at the time, and his interests and talents coincided with those of Lanxi LiYu (1611-1680).
Zheng Jingzhao lived to be 83 years old, which was also a high-life old man at that time. After his death, he buried the Seventeen Capitals (Hexi) JinGuoshan Riding Dragon Cave. He himself is a feng shui master, and this "dragon riding cave" should be the Ji Cave he chose before he died. Zheng Jingzhao had five sons and two daughters, and in ancient times, "five men and two women" was very auspicious. The Book of Poetry has clouds: "Five men and two women of the King of Wu", which means that the descendants will multiply and be blessed. After the Song Dynasty, the blessing pictures of five men and two women were widely circulated in the folk.
From the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, from the expansion during the Ming Dynasty to the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, the Zheng Family Temple experienced more than 140 years of ups and downs. "The timber decayed and decayed, and it became an ant nest." The sons of the clan conspired to kill with the funds of Mo Zhi." (18) Due to a shortage of funds, the maintenance work had to be stopped. In July of the 10th year of Yongzheng (1732), the maintenance project of the Zheng Family Temple was restarted, and "the first bedroom, the second hall, the second two rooms, and the second gate building were all completely renewed." That is, the road to and from the outside of the temple is also repaired and smoothed." (19) Yongzheng eleventh year (1733) was completed in November, a total of more than 1,490 silver consumption.
In the fourteenth year of Daoguang (1834), the bedrooms and gatehouses of the family temple were rebuilt. In the eleventh year of Xianfeng (1861), the Taiping Army captured Lanxi and the family temple was burned. In the twelfth year of Tongzhi (1873), the dormitories of the family temple were rebuilt first, and the two ancestral halls of Gonggong and Xiuxian were built one after another. In the thirteenth year of Tongzhi (1874), the main project of the family temple was basically completed, and the Zheng family academy "Chongwen Pavilion" was also restored. In the sixth year of Guangxu (1880), the head gate of the family temple was also built.
It is said that in the 1980s, some of the buildings of the Zheng Family Temple remained. At that time, the family temple had become the factory area of Lanxi Porcelain Factory. Later, the porcelain factory went bankrupt, and the land became a warehouse for the building materials market. Unfortunately, the few remaining side houses of the family temple were also demolished in the past few years, and the bricks were used as a wall.
One weekend after the Qingming Festival this year, we went to the original porcelain factory to inspect the traces of the Zheng family temple. Looking around, there are no old buildings on the ground, and there are still many broken bricks and tiles on the abandoned site, but they have long been a vegetable garden. All kinds of vegetables and weeds are growing well, and it is a scene full of spring. Touching the scene, a word subconsciously popped up in my mind: "Di Di". I remember reading a song "Yangzhou Slow" written by Jiang Fu in the Southern Song Dynasty, and there was "Yu Huai ran, sighing in the past and present, because of this song." Old Man Qianyan thought that there was sorrow for the departure of the dragon." "Huang Li" is a pre-Qin folk song, included in the Book of Poetry. "The seedlings of The Pi Are Separated, the Seedlings of the Pi Ji." The line is moving, the center is shaking. He who knows me is called worried; he who does not know me is called what I want. Who is this person? "This is a poem that feels the rise and fall of the home country, the poem is composed of things and feelings, allegorical to the scene, the scene is integrated, take it as the end of this article, I don't know if it is appropriate? After reading this article, the princes hoped that there would be no sense of responsibility for the past and the present, nor would they have the thought of entering the seat. (2021.4.14 First Draft)
Citation Notes:
(1) (2) (3) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) Lanxi Zheng Clan Genealogy Zheng Wan "Zheng Family Temple"
(4) Qing "Guangxu Lanxi County Chronicle" Volume VIII "Xiangyi"
(11) (14) (15) Lanxi Zheng Clan Genealogy Hu Xi "Zheng Family Temple"
(12) (13) (16) (17) "Lanxi Zheng Clan Genealogy" Zhao Zhigao "Reconstruction of the Family Temple"
(18) (19) "Lanxi Zheng Clan Genealogy" Qianlong Twenty-eight Years Zheng Wangzhou "Rebuilding the Family Temple"