Filial piety, integrity, ethics, and learning
——The family style of the family of Li Shufang, a Jinshi in Quxian County
Dai Lianqu
The former residence of the Li Shufang family of the octagonal four-mast Qianlong Jinshi Hanlin is located in the courtyard of the Li family in the seventh group of Yuanfeng Village, Shuangtu Township, Yuanqu County (now Heli Town), a row of old houses, sitting in the north and facing south, adjacent to the Wenchanggou section of the National Highway 318, which is the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty to highlight the upright integrity of the Li Shufang family of Jinshi Hanlin, and has been standing for more than 250 years. There were originally 6 stone masts, which were arranged in an isosceles trapezoidal shape symmetrically, and there are 4 extant masts, which is unique in the known mast house; Opposite 300 meters outside the canal county to the ancient post road next to the big bamboo archway beam under the original stone archway, the side of the stone tablet has the words "civil officials get off the sedan chair, military attache dismount", the second batch of county-level cultural relics protection units announced in 1988 by the department of Qu County. From the end of the Ming Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, there were five generations of the Li family recorded in the "Quxian Chronicles": a family of seven sons wrote books and said, two jinshi and six people were entitled, and they practiced filial piety, kept integrity, emphasized ethics, did learning, and talked about honesty.
Li family mast
Unique, the Li family octagonal four-mast
The literati of the feudal society were examined to show talents, raise people, jinshi and official positions above the fourth grade, so they carved their names, life and main deeds on the stone flagpole, and carved auspicious decorations such as dragons and phoenixes or lions and tigers. Due to the different grades, the number of corners of the base is different, Xiucai is four corners, the lifting person is hexagonal, and the Jinshi and the four rank officials are octagonal shapes. The people of Quxian County have a tradition of respecting literature and valuing education. During the feudal period, if someone in the family of Quxian County was admitted to the Jinshi, in addition to hanging the plaque of "Jinshi and the First" on the door of the ancestral hall or hall, a stone mast should be erected in front of the ancestral hall or the surrounding houses to show glory and inspire future generations to study.
In the courtyard of the seven groups of Li family in Yuanfeng Village (commonly known as Wanshouli) of Wenchang ditch, there is a row of old houses that wear buckets, sit north and face south, stand a stone mast 20 meters apart from each other outside the dam in front of the door, pass 9.5 meters high, the base is a rectangular stone face, which is placed on the octagonal stone stone of 0.54 meters high, the two ends are circular, decorated with drum pattern. On the side of the stone, there are other relief patterns such as red birds, birds, beasts, flowers and plants. The center of the stone is erected round stone pillar, the upper is small and the lower is large, the bottom diameter is 0.4 meters, there is a bucket in the middle, the four corners are slightly warped, the height is 0.35 meters, the width is 1.48 meters, the four corners are supported by the stone fang of four pieces of spiral pattern, the shape is like a wax platform, the column diameter is around two single line patterns, the top is made of diamond shape, like the fire after the candle is lit. 200 meters of slope head extending out of the hillside on the left and right sides of the house, commonly known as the long grave forest dam, the big tomb forest dam, and a group of stone masts (now the left and right sides are destroyed one), forming an isosceles trapezoid; The shape is roughly the same as the stone mast in front of the door, only the size is slightly lower, 7.9 meters high, it is the plain pedestal, the middle square bucket is 0.4 meters high, 1.1 meters wide, the end top makes a torch shape, there is the meaning of shining for ten thousand years. To the south opposite the mountain under the ancient post road built next to the stone archway to highlight the status of the Li family, the stone tablet on the side of the square has the words "civil officials get off the sedan chair, military attaches get off the horse", has been destroyed now, only four symmetrical arrangement into a trapezoidal mast - Li family mast remains.
Dominated, Li Jiashi is excellent in learning
Li Shufang, a character art garden, was born in the eleventh year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1733) in a generation of scholarly families in Wanshouli, Quxian County. According to Jiaqing's "Qu County Chronicles": "The public department is out of Longxi, and the people of Wanshou in the canal. The original name Qingfang, after ascending to the top, the Beijing official has the same name, the ministry changed to Shufang, the word art garden, the number Wenxuan; The public is born and different, and the Six Classics and the Four Books can be understood with reading. Honest and pure by nature! Learn to be talented, still temperamental, more outspoken, all of them are afraid of their demeanor, their participation in the power at the time, what people dare not say, folded the Son of Heaven to Jia Qi's courage, promoted to things. The public is grateful for this benefit, and the liver and gallbladder are inspired. It was to play the untruthfulness of the king of Shandong, and he moved to the head of the Ministry of Rites. In the near future, he will be promoted to a foreign man, and he will not be promoted, so it is not said that he will return home. And he died. "Qianlong died in the forty-ninth year (1784) at the age of 52.
His high ancestor Li Gaokui, the word green quinoa, was named "Fengzheng Doctor", and his wife Chen was named "too pleasant"; Uncle Gao Gaozu Li Zhaoyi, Ming Wanli 34 years (Bingwu) raised people. Gaozu two brothers: Gaozu Li Hanyi, the word Heting, Ming Chongzhen seven years of Jinshi, once served as the governor of Gaoyou Prefecture, the Ministry of Rites of the Central Dynasty Rites Department of the Ministry of Etiquette Wailang, the right waiter of the Ministry of Gifts, the author of "Qin Stamp Collection"; Uncle Gao, Li Chuyi, Ming Chongzhen raised people for four years. Three great-grandfather brothers: great-grandfather Li Qi, the word Gongzhi, the number Heting, Shunzhi Ding Youjuren, once served as the magistrate of Ningde County, Fujian, was knowledgeable, and wrote "Saying Sword Zhai Collection"; Great-uncle Li Jin, the word Danshan, the number Meicen, Shunzhi Jiawu Juren, once served as the magistrate of Fengyang County, Jiangnan, suffered from the funeral, difficult to taste, after Chengping began to concentrate on learning, the author of "Pian Shi Zhai Collection"; Great-uncle Li Yong is the author of "Wen'an Collection". Grandfather's three brothers: uncle Li Fu, the word Chucai, Kangxi Xin Youjuren, author of "Hao Liang Collection", and for Nanchong "Shunqing Mansion Chronicles" proofreading, the so-called poems and ancient words, vertical and horizontal, and Li Jue, Li Jin known as "Li's three masters"; Uncle Li Bing, Kangxi Gongsheng, author of Yongzheng's "Qu County Chronicles" and Jiaqing's "Qu County Chronicles"; Grandfather Li Peng, the word ten friends, Qianlong Xin Chou was awarded the "Fengzhi Doctor". Father Li Zudan, the word Daoyuan, Zhen Sheng, Henan Province supervised the imperial history, Qianlong Xinmao was awarded the "Fengzheng Doctor"; Brother Li Lianfang, Qianlong was awarded the "Fengzhi Doctor" in the second year. cousin Li Zugao, son of Li Bing, Gongsheng, unsuccessful recitation of the Zhi, cousin Li Chunfang, son of Li Zugao, Qianlong Gengyin Gongsheng; cousin Li Defang, Li Chunfang's brother, Qianlong Guiyouju, Xingwen County Teacher; Cousin Li Huaifang, Shu Sheng.
Li Shufang won the championship in the 20-year-old government examination, made up for the doctor's disciple, 23-year-old Qianlong Bingzi Zhongju, 24-year-old Ding Chou Jinshi, the head of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the imperial history of Henan Province, Shaanxi, the director of the Ministry of Engineering, the director of the Zuoqian Rite Department, and the member of the Wailang. Qianlong Xinmao was awarded the title of "Fengzheng Doctor", and his wife Wang was awarded the title of "too pleasant". The public dynasty has been broadcast for a long time, and the direct voice is broadcast at home and abroad, and the elders in Zili want to look forward to the manners. than its return, scramble to be the first to see. Seeing that his appearance was gentle and gentle, the group admired each other, thinking that he was a fairy among the people. And the public is self-controlled, in the country, if he does not know his courtiers. In addition to the song, he also wrote "Art Garden Poetry Collection", and the poem "Four Pictures of Self-titled Small Photos" to stay in the county chronicles, which introduced the early death of the biological mother to take care of the young brother and the death of the brother and brother one after another. His poems are fresh and elegant, such as "On the Late Autumn River", which can be seen: the faint autumn river sunset slanting, the water is clear and the sand is white under the jackdaw. The fisherman removed the net and carried the pot away, singing all the way into the flowers.
The newly built former residence of the Li family
Unique, the Li family is good at doing good deeds
The Li family has a positive family style, and has always inherited filial piety, integrity, ethics, and learning.
Filial piety and kindness are uploaded and effective. The first is the mother sage. Qing Qianlong, Jiaqing, Tongzhi "Qu County Chronicles" contains: Chen Gao's ancestor Li Gaokui's wife, Gao Kui died early, the family is very poor, the two sons are young, Chen Qu did his best to educate the prescription, prepared for hard work, and became famous. The eldest son, Chu Yi Chongzhen, Gengwu Xiaolian, and the second son Han Yi Chongzhen Jiaxu Jinshi, Chen Shoufeng is too pleasant, "Blood is Gefu, and the husband is in danger of nine deaths; Dan's heart swears acupoints, and the class is a double Teng", 44 years of bitterness, died at the age of 75. The second is filial piety. Gao Shuzu Li Hanyi, the word Shengdong, the young brother filial piety and incorruptibility Chu B, the mother of filial piety, the Shu people call it "the home of filial piety", "Jiangnan Tongzhi" contains its benevolence and righteousness: Chongzhen nine years, know Gaoyouzhou, the year of the drought, epidemic, boiled millet set up relief, tens of thousands of people. He is shrewd and honest, and the postman still thinks about it. (Weiren Fang Xiangying, "The Biography of Li Yibu"); Although Li Chuyi is a lifter, he was sentenced to justice, and his mother is not a scholar. Shufang filial piety, eighteen years old, his younger brother is still in swaddling, feeding hands, raising adults. Township Kayuki. All his life he talked about Song Confucianism, set up his heart to make a system, and lived in an official position, all of which were self-motivated by ancient sages.
Keeping the spirit is in the same line. Qing Jiaqing's "Qu County Chronicles" contains: Wang's family, Li Hanyi's second match, and Yan's sister Yiren returned on the same day. After the defeat of the thief, Han Yi took ten sons and two daughters to avoid the mountains, Wang and the seventh son were scolded as thieves, and more than 30 relatives were killed, and the third son and Yiren were released. Subsequently, his sons Li Jue, Li Jin, Li Yong, Sun Li Fu, Li Peng, etc., successively ascended to Kedi. Yongzheng eight years of watching, worship festivals. Uncle Gao's ancestor Li Hanyi returned to his hometown in the last years of Ming Chongzhen, when Ding's mother was worried, he and his brother Li Chuyi scattered all their family wealth to raise volunteers to fight for thieves, martyrdom and rebellion, closed the door and died, "Records of the Martyrdom of the Victory Dynasty" contains: Qianlong forty-one years, gave "loyalty to the martyrs", gave the right servant of the military department, and worshiped the village sages. In the book "Anecdotes of Famous Persons of the Qing Dynasty" by Qing Ge Xucun, Li Shufang's uprightness is described as follows: Li served Yu Shufang, inspected the middle city, and had Fu Wenzhong's public slave Luan, who was powerful and powerful, and recruited scoundrels to run rampant in the market, and no one dared to ask questions. Gong Ran said: "Fu Xiang is loyal to his family, so he can worship and protect the great." His house slaves wandered, and those who were not known by the public could not make them prosperous and tired of the pepper house, which was very important. "It is ordered to arrest the big, and the trial is true, and it is immediately white. The emperor Dayue was sent to Luan Da, and Fu Gong punished him poorly, and promoted the public to give things to his straightforwardness. Qing Jiaqing's "Quxian Chronicles: Character Chronicles": Upright and selfless, impeachment is not afraid of the powerful, and the voice is shocking. Tongzhi "Quxian Chronicles: Character Chronicles": The history of the official court, the style is severe, there are impeachments, and the powerful are not avoided. In the process of recording and relocating, he can say what people can't say, and for a while he was known as the "iron-faced imperial history".
Emphasis on ethics and morality. Li Hanyi was awarded Gaoyou Zhizhou, and later promoted to a member of the Ministry of Rites, and was transferred to the host and guest Shilang, shrewd and honest. Li Jin, tasted all over Wu Yue, went through the Fujian Sea, and flown for 30 years, and his rugged and down-to-earth generality was sent to the poem. Late as Fengyang, the ruler is also outstandingly good. Li Zugao, reciting the unsuccessful will, bent on teaching his son, pushing Kunji with a division of business, don't set up a field house, and dissect the property with the four sons, making four or six points, Uncle and Ji get six, and Zhong and Uncle get four. Chunfang, Defang, and Huaifang are all fathers, admonishing their children and grandchildren, and there is no gossip. Li Shufang has been an official abroad for 30 years, resigned and returned to his hometown, and the only thing he carried was a boatload of books. Incorruptibility is really extraordinary.
Doing scholarship will go down in history. Qing Kangxi, Jiaqing, Tongzhi "Quxian Chronicles, Art and Literature Chronicles" contains more than 60 poems and essays of the Li family, and the writings are very rich: Li Hanyi has "A Small Introduction to the Book of Saving the Famine", "Title City God's Temple", etc.; Li Jue has "Monument of Increasing and Repairing the Temple of Literature", "Monument of Rebuilding the City Wall of the Ditch", etc.; Li Jin has "The Tablet of the Fair Thief of the Marquis of Yi", "Wen Di", etc.; Li Yong has "Xiu Ming Lun Tang Citation" and "Dabin Cottage Record"; Li Fu has "Sending Friends Guo Dacongrong", "Sending Friends to Shu", etc.; Li Bingyou "Five-day Question, County Lieutenant Chen Gongting Affairs", "Listening to the Insects", "The Next Night and Another Question", etc.; Li Shufang has "Thief Sparse", "Drain Love", etc.; Li Chunfang has "Dengyun Wushan Feelings", "Dengkui Xinghuai Yi Jingji Two Laws", etc.; Li Defang has "Ode Duan Xuancheng" (Seven Laws). Li Hanyi is the author of "Qin Stamp Collection"; Li Jue is the author of "Saying Sword Zhai Collection"; Li Jin is the author of "Pian Shi Zhai Collection"; Li Yong is the author of "Wen'an Collection"; Li Fu is the author of "Hao Liang Collection", and is the proofreading of Nanchong's "Shunqing Mansion Chronicles", and Li Qi and Li Jin are known as the "Three Masters of the Li Family"; Li Bing is the author of Yongzheng's "Qu County Chronicles", Li Bing, Li Chunfang, and Li Defang are the authors of Qianlong and Jiaqing's "Qu County Chronicles"; Li Shufang is the author of "Art Garden Poems".
The Li family's family style of "doing filial piety, keeping integrity, emphasizing ethics, and doing learning" is of great significance to the inheritance of the traditional history and culture of the Baqu land, the establishment of a reading society for all members, the promotion of family style, and the education of officials in the construction of party style and clean government.
Source: Dazhou Evening News, page 8, May 8, 2024
Text/Photo: Dai Lianqu (Member of Dazhou Writers Association, Dean of Qu County College of Literature)