Scholarly inkstone pond
Text/Li Qiangguo
After going from house to house for a few years, every time I went to a small village, I wanted to understand the process of population evolution and development in the village, and the people who came and went about the family with the surname family, and those mortal interesting stories that appeared in the process of ups and downs, which were compiled into short articles for information preservation and circulation.
I am interested in this because since the rural areas have returned farmland to forests and schools have been withdrawn, young farmers have become migrant workers and have become the pillars of all walks of life in the cities, especially the construction industry, and they have also left their sons and daughters in the cities. As a result, the land in the countryside was abandoned, and the people who guarded the villages were old people. If this continues, remote villages may be uninhabited in 20 years, and the folk customs and culture of the people and sophistication precipitated by farmers over thousands of years will disappear from history.
In our Zhangjiatou Town, many villages are located at the junction of urban and rural areas, and of course, there are some small villages in the "back mountains". Each village has a similar development process and many differences. Compared with each other, from the perspective of cultural level alone, among the more than 20 natural villages in Zhangjiatou Town, it should be said that Yanchiqi Village is special, and there have always been many scholars and corresponding talents. Therefore, a few years ago, I began to collect information and make preparations, to write the history of the Yanchi people, especially in terms of population, from the ancestor Wang Shiji alone, a village of more than 600 people, and more importantly, the Wang family has people who have lived on Confucianism for generations. Now I'm writing, out of a sense of mission.
Scholarly inkstone pond (1)
Four years ago, I accompanied Wang Junning to his hometown, Yanchiqi Village, Zhangjiatou Town. That day is the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, according to local customs, on this day in the world to go to the grave to burn paper, to the ancestors of the underworld to send winter clothes, reflecting the feeling of gratitude for the relatives and relatives, the grass and trees have roots and water sources, and it is also a culture that traces the origin.
Wherever I go to the village, I like to go around the temple in the village and look for the monuments and bells in the temple. If there is a text, I must pay attention to observation, excerpts, and find some records of people and life from them as a collection.
On the temple of the inkstone pond, there is a small temple, and there is a "Rebuilding the Tablet Preface of the Buddha Guandi Temple" in the Mid-Autumn Valley of the 25th year of Jiaqing (Gengchen 1820), which is written by the heir of the king of Lisheng. The inscription is well written, one is written in a way that is contrary to the norm, and the other contains philosophy, so you may wish to excerpt it as follows and share it with the same people:
The patriarch brother Dongxuan returned from Taocheng, and passed through my museum, and rebuilt the shrine tablet in his village as an order. Yu asked the gods he worshipped, then the Buddha, Emperor Guan, the dragon god, the moth, the worm, the mountain god, the land, etc.; Ask the place where it dwells in the gods, then it is on the high Fu, overlooking the plain; Ask the breadth and narrowness of its scale, then increase the old hoop stone kiln to four, more outline and larger than the predecessors; Because he asked how much time he reads and how much money he uses? It begins with the chrysanthemum moon of the year of Wu Yin, and ends in the laurel month of the year of its own year; For every day there are thirty hundred and sixty years, and the cost is two hundred thousand, which is roughly like this. Gai Chang thinks about it, where is the divine fruit? It's just in people's hearts. Sacrifice your heart and seek clay sculpture and wood carving, or the end. Although, the god of the human heart, untouched and unmoved, has a touch shape. Today, I try to refer to the area of barren smoke and grass, when the ruins are broken, and the speaker says: "God is here." "So that the best name is described in a song, and people still don't believe it. And enter the temple with it, look around the light of the land, and look up at the image of dignity, that is, do not bow down and worship. If so, what? The change in the observation is in the past, and the guard is easy to solidify, and it is reasonable. In other words, the God of the heart is invisible, and if the God of the heart is the God of the heart, which is the God of the form, and it is a God of the form, and it is bound to gradually lose its form for hundreds of years, then it is not possible to restore the old form with the one who rejoins it, and the God of the heart is always there. Today, the people of our people are also in the gods, the broken bricks of the tile level, the lack of folds of the truss, and the dark pickle of the gold and green, the colorless of the danqing, can not bear to sit back and watch the dove work shelter (庀) material, re-arranged, so that it is rejuvenated, this thing is also this will. His heart can be described as sincere, and his achievements can be described as great. Yu not only inherited the instructions of Brother Dong, but also Jiazhu belonged to the same virtue, so as to become a grand event, so he was a book. ”
This stele preface was made by the heir of the king of Lisheng at the request of his brother Wang Dongxu. Wang Sizun is not a Yanchi Qi person, but he and Wang Dongxu are the same ancestor, according to the tablet order, the supervisor Wang Dongxu returned from Taocheng in Henan, passing by Wang Sizun's library, only to obtain the tablet order. It can be seen that they are all talents, and Wang Sizun's literary talent must be higher than others.
The inscription is written by Huang Fuyi, who is good at calligraphy and is also the son-in-law of the Yanchi Wang family. He is the eighteenth descendant of Huang Yancai of Huangjiajian in Huoqiu County, Anhui Province who moved to Suide at the end of the Yuan Dynasty and was buried in Lanmaguan. The Huang family is a Wang family, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Zhongse was a person who was a pedestrian, and he was awarded the title of doctor in the first year of the Apocalypse. The emperor said, "...... The officials who protect the country also have to defend the country. ……”
Leaving the temple, we came to the place where the Wang Shiji Road Monument was erected, where Wang Shiji's tombstone was erected at the same time, and the tombstone was relocated from the cemetery Cai Xi Pagoda for the purpose of protection when the meritorious monument was erected. On the book Wang Shiji, the room is Wyeth, Hao, the time is Kangxi fifty-four years old Yi Wei Ji Hitachi.
Wang Shiji is the ancestor of the Wang family of Yanchiqi, living in the Ming Dynasty Qingjian County Suti Erli Qijia household registration, originally in Qingjian County Chitugou, there is a record in the genealogy may be indigenous.
Wang Shiji, whose name is Weicong, was born on February 19 in the 48th year of Wanli (1620 AD), and died on December 17 of the 38th year of Kangxi (December 17, 1699). According to the old pedigree, Wang Shiji was in the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649 AD) "Pingxi Wang Gushan was commissioned to Qingjian County, and the matter was recorded in the Yi Journal". The old score details that Wang Shiji was originally married to Wyeth and was nineteen years old. Succeeded by Hao, he was born on November 20 of the year of the Apocalypse (November 20, 1627). He had three sons, namely Wang Zuomei, Wang Zuoji, and Wang Zuozhen.
Wang Shiji Road Tablet recorded: "Qingyi land as the border Yanyu area, since the Rong Gong Cheng City, I have not heard of the aborigines of the county seal, since the beginning of the prince. Gong Shiji, Xusheng, that is, Qingjian people. At the beginning of the dynasty, the rebels stole the hair, the border county was destroyed, and the staff Kong Cheng was needed, and the constitution was selected in the county and the Shiji Gong was obtained, and then the commission was appointed to manage the affairs of the county governor of Qingjian County. Gongsui came to the place to compensate the remnants of the four realms. Those who are in office still retreat to the fields, and close their homes to study and grow old. Now his descendants and grandchildren will want to erect a stone monument and ask for the rest as the order. Yu Jinglan Diewen, according to this, the public commissar is the 24th day of July in the sixth year of Shunzhi. It should be presented to the Wenlin Langyi Xusheng Bureau, the magistrate of Qingjian County, and the king of Shiji".
Xin Youkeju Hou Quanzhi County Shangjun Liu Benwei wrote a book.
According to the road stele, Qingjian Land was built by the Song Dynasty Luoyang race Shiheng, in 1040 A.D. the seed was the lord of the city, and the city was changed fifteen times after the city was built, and the county system was not established. Until the establishment of the county at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, there has been no local magistrate. In the early Qing Dynasty, the rebels were running around, the Qingjian was broken, and there was an urgent need for virtuous people to manage. In a year, the superior sent the county Cheng, Wang Shiji retired to the field, closed his house to study and grow old. According to the old system, Wang Shiji, who acted as the county cheng, should be given to Wen Linlang, enjoying the reputation of a civil official of the seventh grade, but he did not receive the honor.
Liu Benwei, the writer of the road monument, was raised in the sixth year of Jiaqing (1801 AD), Houquan County, and served as the magistrate of Neixiang County, Henan Province in the eighth year of Daoguang (1828). Liu Benwei's ancestors were from Yuncheng, Shanxi, in the early years of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, came to Yongheli, Xichuan, Suide, and extended their descendants to live in Yongheli Qijia, Liujia, and Sijia, and later the population was prosperous, and Liu Hao lived in Xuanhuali and the city. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Liu family produced five Jinshi. It can be said that the Liu family was the family with the most meritorious celebrities in Suide that year.
Legend has it that Liu Benwei was also the son-in-law of the Yanchi Wang family, which shows that although the Wang family did not record how many eunuchs there were, they also enjoyed prestige, so as to conform to the old custom of marriage between the families.
On that day, I stood on the beach of the inkstone pond and communicated with the old people who came there to offer incense. They told me, don't look at this place now, in ancient times, the stream beach was full of water, surrounded by mountains, there are the former West Tower, the back West Tower, Majia Mountain, Nanshan Pass, Zhaizi Yuanyuan, Yanglu Bay and so on. These mountains are connected into a group, there is water in the middle, forming a special landform, and the water accumulation place is the stream, and the center of the stream beach protrudes from a mountain valley, and the name is the fish's mouth and the beam.
Legend has it that the water in the stream bank accumulates all year round, and there are not only fish and shrimp in the water of the stream, but also golden foals. It rains heavily, and the water level in the streams does not rise; The red sun is scorching like a blazing heat, and the water level in the stream will not drop. The abundant water resources in the streams make the people living here live the life of a land of fish and rice.
Later, a southern barbarian came, and with evil intentions, he secretly stole the golden foal in the stream and fled south. When I walked to a place called Loess Dump, it was already dawn, and suddenly the chickens and dogs were crowing in unison, and the voice was urgent and high. While the Nanban was in a hurry, the golden foal suddenly broke free and burrowed into the ground. In a moment, the loess mounds turned into flat loess, and in a moment reeds sprang up everywhere, and in a creaking sound, the reeds grew taller than any human being. Even if the southern barbarians looked east and west, looking left and right, they could not find any trace of the golden foal.
There is a golden horse under the loess mole, and the landslide cracks to form hundreds of acres of dam land, and the soil increases when it rains and floods, and the dam area expands and expands year by year. The strange point is that there is no water in the dam on weekdays, and in case of heavy rain, mountain torrents pour into the dam everywhere, no matter how deep the water is, it then seeps into the ground, and the dam does not change much, and I don't know where the water leaks from. The peasant households around the Jiantan also gradually left the Jiantan and came to the loess mound, giving the place name of the dam land of thousands of acres.
After that, the water in the stream flows out of the mouth of the hill and washes out many ravines. Although this is a legend, it reflects the love of the land cultivators for the good land blessed by nature, and the feeling of regret and resentment for the destruction of the natural environment.
2024.4.6
About author:Li Qiangguo, male, from Wuliwan Village, Zhangjiatou Town, Suide County, Shaanxi Province, born in the countryside on December 17, 1957, is a farmer, fond of poetry and writing, and occasionally works are published.