Genealogy and fangzhi can complement the lack of detail in history. Today, Yuehua found a text by the Yuan Dynasty scholar Yang Huan in the genealogy of the Guo family in Juye, Shandong, which consciously has more important value, which is helpful to investigate Yang Huan's life and also help to understand the social situation of the Yuan Dynasty.
<h1>01 The life of Yang Huan</h1>
Yang Huan (1234-1299), also known as Wuzi (武子), was a famous philologist and calligrapher of the Yuan Dynasty, who wrote "Six Books", "Traceability of the Six Books", "Calligraphy Zhengyun", etc., and participated in the compilation and revision of the "Great Yuan Yi Tongzhi" of the General Chronicle of Local History. The existing seal book ink "Shang Shu Wuyi" has survived, and xiao Hu's Lishu and Zhao Mengfu's calligraphy (the same content) are combined into one volume. Its inscription has a large number of surviving inscriptions, and in 2011, he also unearthed his inscription "Zun Jing Ge Ji" in Jining.
Yang Huan's life in the "History of the Yuan" (including other historical records and their self-descriptions) is roughly as follows:
Born in 1234 (the year of the Mongol Extinction Of Jin), he was a young vigilant, read the Analects to the Zaiyu Day-to-Day Chapter, and never slept day-to-day for life without illness.
Later, he studied under Kang Ye and others in Dongping Province and received a traditional Confucian education.
In 1263, he was recommended to be the professor of Jeju. During this period, he wrote the epitaph of Kong Zhiquan (1264) for the deceased Qufu County Order "Yan Sheng Gong".
In 1279 (to the sixteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty), Jining Province was promoted to Jining Road, and he served as a professor of Jining Road. During his tenure, he wrote the "Monument to the Confucius Temple of ShanZhou" (1280) and the "Record of the Rebuilding of the Queli Temple Wall" (1282) and other monuments.
In 1285 (to the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty), he was summoned to Dadu and appointed as the Shulang of the Taishi Academy. During this period, Feng Shu revised the "Order of the Calendar Day of the Instrument Inscription".
In 1288 (to the 25th year of the Yuan Dynasty), he served as a secretary and supervisor as a congshilang.
In 1293 (until the 30th year of the Yuan Dynasty), he was appointed as the inspector of imperial history.
In 1294 (to the 31st year of the Yuan Dynasty), he served as a secretary and a young supervisor as Ru Linlang. During this position, he participated in the compilation and revision of the "Great Yuan Yi Tongzhi".
He died in 1299 (the third year of Daitoku). After his death, his works such as the Six Books were published (about the first year of the Great Era, that is, in 1308).
Yang Huan's wife, Kong Shi, was the fifty-third grandson of Confucius and had five sons and five sons. (See notes for references)
<h1>02The main content and value of the newly discovered Yang Huanyi text</h1>
The newly discovered Yang Huan An wen is an inscription contained in the Guo Clan Genealogy of Juye Chengzhitang in Shandong Province, entitled "Guo Clan Nanzhi Inscription", which is a Jizong inscription written by Yang Huan for the Guo clan at that time.
The full text is nearly 1,000 words, including inscriptions and inscriptions (praises), integrating narrative, discussion and lyricism into one furnace, with clear ideas, clear levels, and considerable words.
According to the content of the inscription, this stele was originally erected in Guo's Land near Pangerzhuang (now the left building of the new city) in Juye County, with the purpose of "forever walking for the road view", but unfortunately this stele is now missing. Its manuscript is the eleventh year of the Ming Wanli Calendar (1583), which indicates that at the latest in 1583, this stele still exists.
If you compare it with the "Records of the Zun Jing Ge" stele, it can also be inferred that the shape of the Guo's Nanmei stele is relatively large.
Although there are no ancient monuments, the articles that have been preserved through copying and preservation also have their existential value.
1. This article can be used as a reference and supporting material for Yang Huan's life.
(1) Evidence of Yang Huan's life in Juye (where jining Road Governance Office is located).
The Guo Nanmei Inscription was written at the request of the Guo family living in Jeju (later known as Jining Province and Jining Road, and the seat of government in present-day Juye, Shandong) in the Yuan Dynasty. This family belonged to the wang clan at that time, known as the "Golden Medal Guo Family", the principal guo Tianyou was a local gentry, and his brother Guo Tianxiang served as a wanhu (military position, four ranks). Guo Tianyou's name can be found in the existing inscriptions such as the "Monument to the Governor's Office of Jining Road" and the "Monument to the Good Governance of The Daru Flower of Jining Road", which were quite influential in the local area at that time.
At the beginning of the article, Yang Huan wrote that "Yu and Guo Jun have been friends for many years", and this old friendship should have been formed when he was a professor in Jeju and Jining Road.
The "Monument to the Governor's Office of Jining Road" records: "In June of the sixteenth year of the Yuan Dynasty (1279), Zhongshu Province performed the Holy Will, and Jining Province was changed to the Jining Road Governor's Office", from the 16th year of the Yuan Dynasty to the twenty-fourth year (1287) of the erection of the monument, at least for these 9 years, the seat of jining Road was in Juye, not In Rencheng (now in Jining). Therefore, Yang Huan spent at least 7 years as Professor of Jining (he was transferred to Beijing in 1285) in Juye. It was only possible to associate with Guo Tianyou in this way.
(2) Evidence that Yang Huan served as secretary and junior superintendent in Dadu
This article was written between 1294 and 1299 during Yang Huan's tenure as a secretary and a young prisoner. It is based on the fall of the "Nanmei Inscription": "Ru Linlang's secretary, Yang Huan, the young supervisor, wrote and sealed the Book of Dan".
At the end of the article, there is also the words "Dade Sanqi November Looking at the Sun Xiangdan Standing Stone". The third year of Dade, that is, 1299, was the year of Yang Huan's death. However, this can only determine the standing stone time of Guo's Nanmei Stele, not the time when Yang Huan wrote the Nanzhi Inscription.
However, it is certain that the inscription was written in most of the capitals, because the article began by saying: "The guards always brought Guo Tianyu to the capital with the deeds of his ancestors written by Liu Hao, the famous Yan Liang. ”
Second, through this article, we can also understand the living conditions of civilians in the Yuan Dynasty
Yang Huan recorded the living conditions of the fifth generation of the Guo family in the "Nanmu Inscription".
Guo Tianyou's great-grandfather originally lived in Hebei Hejian, and the late Jin Dynasty moved to Juye, Shandong to avoid war and chaos, "remembering the fertility of its mulberry soil, sui'an Hengsheng". By the time his father, Guo Quan, and his generation, they had been caught up in frequent wars.
Guo Quan had followed Yan Shishi of Dongping to participate in the Mongol campaign to destroy Jin, and after winning the battle, he "raised control of the old state village affairs" and "also served as the liquor tax".
His military position was inherited by Guo Tianyou, who was promoted to the rank of general of the guards after receiving military merits. He later gave up his position to his second brother Tianlu, who was killed in the battle of 1275, and then succeeded by his third brother Guo Tianxiang.
Guo Tianxiang successively participated in the Mongol conquest of Japan and the conquest of jiaotong, and finally won the position of wanhu and was given the gold medal tiger charm. Since then, this family has been known as the "Gold Medal Guo Family" and has gradually become a wang family.
Through the history of this family recorded by Yang Huan, we can see the impact of the war on the people at that time: he first moved south to avoid war, but his descendants were still involved in the ubiquitous war, which reflected a kind of helplessness of the common people.
In short, Yang Huan's "Guo's Nanmei Inscription" has a relatively important historical value, so it is written for the benefit of readers.
Notes: (1) Yang Huan's life refers to Yang Muyuan's "Life of Yang Huan in the Yuan Dynasty and A Brief Examination of His Calligraphy";
(2) The "Nanmu Inscription" refers to the "Guo Clan Genealogy" of Shandong Juye Chengzhitang.