The adjacent water is worthy of being the gateway to the east of Sichuan, and the pace of spring is always slow and orderly, like a woman with very small feet. The adjacent water is at the bottom of the Sichuan Basin, and there is Huaying Mountain, the highest mountain at the bottom of the basin, blocking the cold north wind. Of course, it also blocked the autumn waves that the south wind watched like a girl. Having stayed in a place like the water neighborhood for a long time, I often suspect that the term "spring cold and precipitous" is specially made for the water. After the Spring Festival, the spring near the water is still like a baby in swaddling clothes, wrapped in a ball in the cold wind, and it is necessary to wait until the spring of March to dare to let go of your hands and feet, and the mountains and fields are full of flowers.
The town of Tangzi is the northern gate of the water. It's spring, and it's a late shot in the adjacent water. But as soon as spring came in Tangerine Town, it overwhelmed the crowd. This infinite spring light is brought by the plum flowers all over the mountains. Speaking of the creation of plum orchards, there are also some years of maturity, but they are always raised in the deep boudoir and people don't know it. In 2019, the east wind of poverty alleviation came, and the town built a ring road, which opened up the bottleneck of the plum orchard sightseeing.
In fact, there is another crucial reason why Li Ziyuan has formed such a powerful magnetic field, that is, this is the hometown of Li Zhun, the commander of the Qing Dynasty.
Tracing back to my Li family, it is out of Longxi
"On the sixth day of the first month of February, he was born in the living ditch of Tai'anli, Tai'an Township, Dongzhi, Linshui County, Sichuan. Tracing back to my Li family, it is out of Longxi. Originally from Shangyuan County, Jiangning Prefecture, Jiangnan. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there was a person who was obsessed with the Yuan Gong, and he was awarded the teachings of Linshui County with Jiangnan Gongsheng. Ming Dingge, then reclaimed the Tai'an River weir in Tai'an Township, East of Yi. With the multitude of people, he called it Lijiaba, which is the ancestor of my entry into Sichuan. ——— excerpt from "Ren An's Self-Chronicles"
At this moment, I am standing on the Guandou Stone Mountain of the Plum Garden, and the dense plum trees are scorching under the spring sun, which is very visually impactful. Among these rows of plum trees, there are also occasional dots of one or two peach trees. Peach and plum white, extraordinarily enchanting. Farther uphill, the rape flowers are also blooming, and they are large chunks of crisp golden yellow. The warmth of the sun is getting better day by day, and I seem to hear the sound of these flowers crackling and bursting in the sun.
Under the Guandou Stone, there is a newly built house, with the graceful meaning of the south of the Yangtze River, with green tiles as a cover, wooden planks as a wall, carved beams and painted buildings, and a horse and a pavilion. If you go back to those days, you can't find a single nail in the whole building, and it all depends on the carpenter's craftsmanship to stack the bed frame house, which is extremely exquisite. This is the Li Zhun Memorial Hall restored on the site of the former residence of the Li family. So far, there is still a piece of screen of Li Zhun's house in the adjacent hydrological management office, and I am fortunate to witness its style, which is worthy of being the treasure of the mainland's carving art.
The official fighting stone is a strange stone made in heaven, boxy, big and small, like an official seal. It is said that the ancestors of the Li family chose to live here because they took a fancy to the feng shui treasure of Guandoushi. Strange mountains and strange waters!
Lee Joon is nothing more than a historical figure from a hundred years ago. A hundred years of wind and clouds will meet, and the smoke and clouds of history have not gone far. As the figure of Li Zhun, the commander of the Guangdong Navy, in today's changing situation in the South China Sea, he has stepped forward step by step, and novels, biographies, and operas about Li Zhun have appeared. As a native of Li Zhun's hometown, I try to understand Li Zhun and his inner world, and collect and read as many books and articles about him as possible. I feel that most of these articles and operas are collected and collated, but there is a lack of more profound research and understanding of Li Zhun as a flesh-and-blood person.
At this moment, I am sitting on the official fighting stone, missing my fellow countryman, Li Zhun.
Li's birthplace is Li Zhun's birthplace, where he waited to be fed, toddled, read and write, and kept fit until he left here to start a business in Guangdong with his father, and spent 17 long years. I believe that a few years ago, Li Zhun must have often come to play on this official fighting stone. As an ignorant teenager, this should be a paradise for him to play, and those polished stones must have a share of his credit. He may have seen the wonder of this stone, but he would never have imagined that the legend about it would be fulfilled to him in the future.
Li Zhun was able to do the immortal merit of inspecting the South China Sea and firing cannons to swear sovereignty, which should be the collective glory of the Li family. "Ren An's Self-Compiled Chronicles" said: "Tracing back to my Li family, the department is located in Longxi. This shows that the Li family's roots are in Longxi. There is a Tianshui in Longxi, Li Guang, a general who has been out of the Han Dynasty's mighty desert, and Li Ling, who led 5,000 infantry into the desert for Zu Xue. They are the pillars of the Han family, and their spirit is the gene of Chinese civilization. Tianshui should be the starting point of the Li family in the world. Li Ling's army was defeated in the desert, and victory and defeat were a common thing in soldiers, but he was beheaded all over the house. The Xiongnu exiled Li Ling to the shore of Lake Baikal, but admired the prestige of the Li family and was willing to marry the princess to the tomb. It is said that Tang Li Yuan is not only surnamed Li, but also surnamed Tuoba, and he is the descendant of Li Ling. The Li family has always preserved the tradition of worshipping their ancestors. In all dynasties, people have come to Tianshui to worship. It is said that foreign descendants from the shores of Lake Baikal also came here to find their roots. In this way, the Li family in the world is out of Longxi Tianshui. Whether Li Zhun is a descendant of Li Guang and Li Ling remains to be further verified by historians.
Get back to business. Li Zhun's ancestors were sent to Linshui to teach in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, indicating that his family has always been a scholarly family, from Tianshui to Jiangning, although after many dynasties, Li Zhun may have heard some stories from his ancestors, but for some reason, he did not write on his chronology, leaving a blank in history, which makes people speculate. But I have reason to believe that Li Zhun's ancestors were by no means idle people, and all dynasties and dynasties were serving the country.
When Li Zhun's ancestors came to Linshui, it was when Zhang Xianzhong suppressed Sichuan, and the last straw crushed the great cause of the Ming Dynasty. Ming Dingge, the ancestors of the Li family, the old man Li Tiangui, led his family to cultivate Tai'anli. Although the neighbor is a small town, the county was established in Liang Datong for three years, that is, in 537 AD, which has a history of more than 1,000 years. Since I was a child, I have listened to the sad stories of Zhang Xianzhong's extermination of Sichuan and Huguang's reclaim of the great immigrants in Sichuan. Li Zhun's family lives in Tai'anli, Tai'an Township, outside the city, and I think it should be the steep and strange mountains and rivers there that have allowed them to escape this life-and-death catastrophe. Now, the trend of reading heirlooms in the neighborhood should be regarded as the source from that time. Reading and learning is the consistent family style of the Li family. When Li Zhun was young, the Li family disciplined him strictly. Li Zhun's own next generation, Li Zhun even hired the famous Wang Jingwei as the child's tutor. Wang Jingwei, who was in his prime, also earned a lot of money because he was a tutor for Li Zhun's children, and he had enough money to study in Japan.
Engrave the name of your hometown on the blue waves of the South China Sea
Li Zhun debuted in Guangdong at the age of seventeen, and it can be said that he has met nobles everywhere. He raised funds for Zhang Zhidong, an important minister of the Westernization Movement, and won a big victory in his first attempt, demonstrating his courage to take on a great responsibility. Zhang Zhidong was also not ambiguous, and promoted him as an official in the imperial court. Although he did not find a real position this time, it can be said that he has emerged and registered in the imperial court. Immediately afterwards, Li Hongzhang became the governor of Liangguang and offered a reward for the confiscation of money. Li Zhun boldly unveiled the list and began his real career. Guangdong faces the sea and is full of river bays, and the main channel for gold is river transportation. However, water thieves are rampant, and it is difficult to collect centigold. Li Zhun saw the problem and set up a patrol fleet to crack down on the bandits, and the Sanping pirates captured the bandit leader Lin Guasi alive, so that the bandits could be eliminated in one fell swoop, and the shipping industry was effectively protected, and the gold could also be collected, exceeding the target task assigned by Lord Li. Li Hongzhang promoted Li Zhun to the imperial court. For a time, the important ministers of the late Qing Dynasty who promoted Li Zhun also included Zhang Caijun, Cen Chunxuan, Yuan Shikai, etc., all of whom were extremely heavyweights. At this time, coastal defense was imminent. Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu urgently summoned Li Zhun and promoted Li Zhun several levels, from Daoyuan to the commander of the Guangdong Navy Division, which can be described as an eclectic talent reduction.
From our current point of view, the Admiral of the Guangdong Navy Division is the commander of the South China Sea Navy. But at that time, the late Qing Dynasty was already riddled with holes and was in a dying state. Li Zhun started with his own patrol fleet and pulled up a team of sailors with extremely combat effectiveness. He seized the blatant smuggling of the Japanese cargo ship Nitatsu Maru, and expelled the Japanese ronin Nishizawa, who had occupied Dongsha Island for more than two years.
However, these are still pediatrics.
In 1909, he inspected the South China Sea! This is the big thing that Li Zhun wants to do!
According to the strength of the water division at that time, the conditions were still not very mature to complete this major event. But in the face of the division of the motherland's territory by the great powers, Li Zhun did not hesitate. He led the three ships Fubo, Chenhang, and Zhenwei on an expedition to the South China Sea, which lasted nearly a month, and returned due to the lack of supplies he carried. This is the first time that a mainland government has patrolled the South China Sea. Everywhere Li Zhun went, he conducted field investigations, carved stone names, raised flags and fired cannons, and swore sovereignty. These behaviors show that Li Zhun is a very national-minded military general. And the name of the island he ordered was the name of his and his entourage's hometown. Among the Nansha Islands, the largest island is Yongxing Island, where Sansha City is now located, which is naturally named Linshui Island.
Cracking down on bandits and inspecting the South China Sea, in a big way, Li Zhun has made immortal miraculous feats for the country and left ironclad evidence for the South China Sea as the territory of the motherland. From a small point of view, Li Zhun has a strong hometown feeling. He gave this honor to his hometown. Let the remote town in the southwest be close to the water, and the blue waves of the South China Sea will be famous.
In 1910, Li Zhun wrote his experience of inspecting the South China Sea into "The Illustration of the National Defense Fortress of the Guangdong Navy Division", leaving a monument of words for history!
Li Family Mansion
The Li family mansion was built by Li Zhun's grandfather from the living ditch in the river weir dam, because there is a high mast in front of the mansion, so the locals are commonly known as the mast bend. When Li Zhun was born, his father Li Zhengyong had been seeking fame in Beijing, but he failed many times until seven years later, when he was admitted to the Jinshi and won the position of Nanhai County Commander. When he returned to the Li family mansion and saw Li Zhun, Li Zhun was already more than seven years old. A few years later, Li Zhengyong and Ding Wei returned to the Li family mansion and led the villagers to set up an industry. The local officials were red-eyed and told him to compete with the people for profit, and Li Zhengyong was forced to transfer the factory and mine he ran to his relatives and friends, and stepped into the officialdom again, during which another seven years came.
After Li Zhun debuted in Guangdong, Li Zhengyong successively served as the commander of Nanhai, Xiangshan, Haiyang, and Jieyang County, and his official reputation was quite good, supported by the people, favored by the imperial court, and served as the Minister of Mines in Sichuan. A few years later, Li Zhengyong died of illness in Guangdong, and Li Zhun returned to his hometown with his late mother and was buried on the hillside behind the mansion with his late mother.
Li Zhun returned to the Admiral's Mansion in Guangdong, and the Guangzhou uprising set off by Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, Hu Hanmin and others began. They concentrated their firepower to storm the Liangguang Governor's Palace, and the then Governor Cen Chunxuan was so frightened that he fled from the back wall and was embarrassed.
The Guangzhou Uprising failed, and the seventy-two martyrs shed blood. The revolutionaries counted this blood account on Li Zhun and began assassination operations against Li Zhun again and again, and they were bound to put him to death as soon as possible. The most ruthless one, until Li Zhun was seriously injured in the head, and his life hung by a thread. In fact, if you think about it, Li Zhun rescued Cen Chunxuan, which is also his duty.
Li Zhun was a politically minded bureaucrat. In the general pattern of the world turbulent and heroes from all walks of life, he has his own political considerations, not a martial artist with brute force. This spirit can be traced back to his father, Li Zhengyong. In that year, Emperor Guangxu's Wuxu reform failed, and two of the six gentlemen of Wuxu who were beheaded were Sichuan villagers. Li Zhengyong, who was stranded in Beijing, went to the court to collect the body as soon as possible, and this was a political risk. Although Li Zhun sent sailors to suppress the Guangzhou Uprising, he secretly communicated with the surviving revolutionaries in the Guangzhou Uprising. For example, Xiong Kewu, a revolutionary from Sichuan, and others, he also sent his subordinates to secretly send them back to their hometown in Sichuan. Soon, Li Zhun simply led the sailor anyway, and unconditionally gave the official hat of the commander of the sailor to the revolutionary Hu Hanmin, avoiding a bloody disaster. Li Zhun confessed his thoughts at the time in "The Beginning and End of the Liberation of Guangdong": "Zhun tacitly observes the heart of heaven, looks down on personnel, knows the people's thoughts and minds, the general trend is not human power." Indulging in personal revenge will harm justice in vain, and will not benefit the country and bring disaster to the souls. Afterwards, even Sun Yat-sen, Huang Xing, and Hu Hanmin said that Guangdong's recovery did not cost a single shot, and Li Zhun made great contributions.
Li Zhun was assassinated in Guangzhou, and the Li family mansion in his hometown was not spared, and the revolutionary Li Shaoyi of Dazhu burned it down in one fell swoop, and the Kuomintang allocated funds to rebuild it. During the Cultural Revolution, the Li family mansion was ransacked, and even the tomb of Li Zhengyong and his wife behind the mansion was opened and flattened.
Tianjin Yugong
You can kill the enemy on the horse, and you can write poetry when you get off the horse.
Li Zhun is such a genius who is both civil and military.
After the victory of the Republic of China Revolution, Li Zhun was invited by President Yuan Shikai to take up his post in Beijing and traveled back and forth between Beijing and Tianjin. In 1916, Li Zhun left Beijing on the occasion of going to Guangdong to reconcile the contradictions between the independent armies, and in November, he purchased land on Guangdong Road in the British Concession in Tianjin and built a five-storey, one-bottom Western-style building. At the end of the year, his wife Huang and his nephews moved here. Lee Joon began his 20-year life in Jinmen. ”
Li Zhun, who quietly faded out of the officialdom, "only studied in the pool, and did not hear about him." Tianjin is full of humanities and scholars, and Li Zhun quickly integrated into this cultural highland that is immersed in the traditional Chinese context. Study Lishu ("Ode to the Stone Gate" style), oracle bone bell tripod, large and small two seals, two Han inscriptions and regular scripts, all have attainments, their works are round and jade, without losing the ancient meaning, "Shilin in the right to praise the people are elegant than calligraphy". For a time, book seekers flocked to Luoyang, and Luoyang paper was expensive. The three words "Ta Kung Pao" on the masthead of Tianjin's "Ta Kung Pao" are enough to appreciate the pure temperament of his calligraphy.
During Li Zhun's stay in Tianjin, he compiled the "Transcription of Ren'an Linchi", which was divided into 16 volumes. After 1925, Li Zhun picked up old news and compiled several volumes of "Ren Anwen Jianlu", "Records of Political Affairs in Central Guangdong", and one volume of "Guangdong Revolutionary History", and compiled the ancient Jinshi characters he had seen in the past 10 years into "Ancient Classics", a total of 12 volumes.
Not only can I write, but I can also write. Writing a new drama for Peking Opera Kunling Jin Shaomei was an important literary activity of Li Zhun in the early days of Tianjin. Jin Shaomei is the daughter of Jin Yuemei, a famous actor in Peking Opera, and once studied under Shi Xiaofu of "Tongguang No. 1 Tsing Yi". In September 1919, under the recommendation of Li Zhun, the little-known Kunling Jin Shaomei was admitted to the Jinmen Theater. Li Zhunjiao's song and dance, for which he wrote new dramas such as "Ying Ning Yixiaoyuan", "Yuqin Yuan", "The Relationship in the Painting", "Hai Boyi Quanyuan", "Stick Hitting Spring Peach", "Wenjun Danglu", "Enmity and Hatred Blood", "Picking Up Gold" and other new dramas, and rehearsed the old "Xiangfei Hate" and "Qin Jin Pei" and other plays. The dramas were very popular in the society, and Jin Shaomei became famous. After Jin Shaomei became famous, she was known as the "Three Masters of Kunling" with Bi Yunxia and Qin Xuefen. Li Zhun is happy to be happy because he advocates sticking to traditional morality and improving the social atmosphere, and he "likes to be able to express those who want to speak in my heart through the mouths of servants". After Jin Shaomei's marriage, the performances gradually decreased, and most of the new plays written by Li Zhun could not be rehearsed, "so I stopped writing them, and I put my pen on hold from then on."
Li Zhun was poor and poor in his later years, and he sold his real estate several times to pay off his debts, and repeatedly wrote to his hometown in Sichuan to ask for help. In 1932, Li Zhun once wrote in the annals: "I have been trapped in Jinmen for many years, and I can't return." The real estate is not easy to get rid of, it is difficult to use it daily, and it is difficult to support it. It is also difficult to collect money at home, and it is not necessary to generate electricity. The war in Gaichuan has begun, and I don't know when it will end? Thinking of this, I don't know what to do. ”
Take off your military uniform and lupine scarf. For more than 20 years, Li Zhun has lived a scholarly life in Tianjin. Until he died of illness at the age of sixty-six, the text panel in his relics was still marked with the price of the sale.
Li Zhun lived in Tianjin for 20 years, and he worked tirelessly, leaving behind many valuable literary and historical materials. In these cultural and historical materials, there are many signatures of Doosan mountain people. It turned out that the wanderer who lived in a foreign country regarded himself as a Doosan mountain man. The Guandou Mountain in his hometown is not only engraved on Li Zhun's heart, but he also carved him into a seal and left it on the ink treasure condensed by his own painstaking efforts, which shows the weight of his hometown and neighboring water in his heart. It's called nostalgia!
On April 8, 2014, Li Zhun's descendants from home and abroad, Li Xuanxuan, Li Yueyue, Li Rongrong, Li Zhuzhu, etc., finally gathered in the adjacent water to worship the ancestors, but Li Zhun was homesick. Li Zhun's descendants, with pure feelings, have donated Li Zhun Mobao to the great motherland free of charge.
Although the former Li Family Mansion has been converted into a school, the house could not withstand the wind and rain, and gradually fell into decay until 2002, when the last piece of rubble was demolished. But the wide stone staircase in front of the former mansion is still alive, and there must still be traces of Li Zhun growing up here in the past. Standing on this big stone staircase, thinking about how heart-warming it is for Li Zhun to start his magnificent life in military uniform when he set off from here!
In 2019, the people of his hometown built the Li Zhun Memorial Hall on the original site of the old house of the Li family in Huoshuigou at the foot of Guandou Mountain, forever commemorating the patriotic general Doosan Mountain man who is both civil and military, and the fellow we will always be proud of, Li Zhun!
About author:Zhang Dabin, a native of Linshui County, Sichuan Province, is a member of the Sichuan Writers Association and a cadre of the Linshui County Bureau of Education, Science and Sports.