Did you know: Liuzu Huineng's birthplace was once the seat of the county seat

The birthplace of Liuzu Huineng

On the eighth day of february in the twelfth year of Tang Zhenguan (638), Liuzu Huineng was born in Xialu Village, Xinzhou (present-day Xinxing County, Yunfu City), Guangdong, as the former residence of Liuzu and is regarded as the gate of the holy land.

The birthplace of Liuzu Huineng is Xialu Village in Xinzhou, which was once the county seat of Solu County. Solu County was established in the fourth year (523) of the Liang Dynasty during the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and was a county under the jurisdiction of Xinzhou, which was later abolished and incorporated into Xinxing. When Liuzu Huineng's father was demoted to Lingnan, he lived in the county seat of Solu. Kangxi's "Xinxing County Chronicle" "Old Solu County" records: "In Renfeng, thirty miles south of the county, the old site exists today, and it is a civil residence, that is, Xialu Village." Qianlong's "Chronicle of Xinxing County" said: "Solu County is in the thirty miles south of the city, Renfeng Capital, Tang Wude is in the center, Song Qianyuanzhong was merged into Xinxing, and the site is now the people's land." Gu Zuyu's "Minutes of Reading the History of Fang Public Opinion" "Suulu Abandoned County" Yun: "Thirty miles south of the county." Liang Chuzhi belongs to Xinning County. Sui belongs to Xinzhou. The great cause was abolished. Tang Wude was restored in four years, still belonging to Xinzhou, and after Qianyuan, it was incorporated into Solu County. The Chronicle of Longshan Guo'en Temple also says: "Solu County is a county under the new prefecture of the Tang Dynasty, built in the fourth year of Liang Ping, and the ancestor of the Six Ancestors, Lu Xingyao, was demoted to Xinzhou and was assigned to stay in Solu County, which was not abolished until the first year of tang Qianyuan (758) after the death of the Six Ancestors in 713. "The Yunfu Municipal CPPCC Compilation "Yunfu Ancient Ruins" has "Solu County Ruins" Yun: "Located in Xialu Village, Liuzu Town, Xinxing County." Solu County was established in the fourth year of the Southern Dynasty Liang Dynasty (523) and the third year of the Sui Dynasty (607), abolishing Xinzhou, and abolishing Solu County and merging it into Xinxing County, a period of 84 years. In the fourth year of Tang Wude (621), Solu County was re-established. The jurisdiction of Solu County is not large, and according to historical estimates, it includes most of the areas such as present-day Liuzu Town, Lidong Town, and Dajiang Town. The area was sparsely populated and was a place of exile for degraded officials in the imperial court. The county rule is built on the mountain, and there are no trenches, walls and other defensive facilities."

If Xialu Village is indeed the county seat of the old Solu County, then in the era when Liuzu Hui could live here, Xialu Village may be a larger surrounding village, not necessarily a poor and remote area.

However, specific to the place where Liuzu Huineng was born, the literature records another way, Qianlong's "Xinxing County Chronicle" said: "The former residence of Liuzu, in Renfeng Capital Xialu Village, twenty-five miles away from the village, to Longshan Guoen Temple one mile ago." Donsolu County. It is the birthplace of the six ancestors. When the master and father first came to live here, there is no grass on the site of the house, and the hair of the people nearby is thin and bald." Qu Dajun's "Guangdong Xinyu" volume 2 "Lu Village" article said: "Lu Village, Xinzhou, is the birthplace of the six ancestors, so far the house site has no grass and trees, close to its residents, hair is thin and bald, the misfortune of this place is also." The "Guangdong Zhongzhong Insights" written by Fan Duan'ang in the Qianlong Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty is no different from qu Wengshan's theory, only changing "the misfortune of this place" to "the strangeness of this place". However, some people also believe that Qu Said is insulting and contemptuous of the sages, such as The Qianlong Tancui of the Qing Dynasty in the Chu Ting Barnyard Pearl Record, Volume II "The Life of the Six Ancestors": "The Six Ancestors were born in Xinxing, and now their former residences do not produce grass, and Weng Shan is slandered, and this insult to the sages is even worse."

Qu Dajun et al.'s statement that "there is no grass and trees on the site so far, and those who live close to them have thin hair and bald hair" do not know whether this phenomenon existed at that time, and the author now refers to the gurudwara, and its old site is overgrown with weeds, and there are no hairy and bald people in close residence. Si Zhiyun: "The houses born in the village of the Six Ancestors have long collapsed because of their age, and the base of the houses, which is known to the people in the village and guides the believers to look up to, is gradually crowded with the surrounding houses." ”