Meng Nan: Ru Gui Ru Bi Meng Du Tang

Such as Gui Rubi's Meng Du Tang Meng Nan

Zhu Zhongyue Wen

MengDutang is Meng Nan, the character 遽林, the number Ruomu, Junxian Weixian village people, ming Dynasty Wanli twenty-sixth year jinshi, official to Shaanxi Cloth Political Department Right Cloth Envoy, Xun County people called Meng Du Tang.

Wei Xian is in the southwest of Xun County, west of Qishui, and many of the poems in the Book of Poetry are produced here. Meng Nan was taught by his father Meng Shanren since childhood, he was diligent and studious, and when he grew up, he paid more attention to self-cultivation and often encouraged himself with the aphorisms in the Book of Poetry. After four years of watching the government of the Ministry of Works, he served as Le'anzhi County, Qingzhou, Shandong, and on the way to his post, Meng Nan remembered his father's teachings, unconsciously recited the "Poetry Classic, Qi'ao" in his mouth, "like gold like tin, like Gui Rubi", and secretly vowed in his heart that he would be a gentleman like a jade all his life and a clean official with one heart for the people.

Meng Nan was in office in Le'an, diligent in government for the people, honest and honest. Heavy farmers and people, XiuXian Xue, Andi County Chronicle. The people who had been in exile for one year had returned to their hometowns one after another, and in the second year, the barren fields in the territory had begun to be recultivated, and the people had lived a prosperous life for three years. The people of Le'an live and work in peace and contentment, and the scholarly style of learning is flourishing. After three years of service, his political achievements were remarkable, and the imperial court issued a commendation. On the day of the edict, there were bees gathering on horse heads, gathering into a cover, and following them to the official house as a nest, and accompanied Meng Nan until he left office. Meng Nan took office in Nanjing, and the bees gathered at his home in Junxian County, which became a strange talk for a while.

During his tenure in the Nanjing Household Department, Meng Nan, Huang Zhenfu, Wang Tixian and others donated funds to the blind poet and scholar Tang Ruyuan to build a garden to repair the Pavilion. Gong Yu and his friends gathered in the garden pavilion, singing and singing. Soon, Meng Nan acted as the acting director of The North New Banknote Pass as Langzhong of the Ministry of Works of Nanjing, serving in Hangzhou, wide businessmen and loving the people, and never being greedy. Tang Ruqian once visited Meng Nan in Hangzhou, saw that Meng Nan was busy with official duties, inconvenient to disturb, hurriedly saw him in the public court, did not stay and parted, and praised him with the verse "The heart of the messenger of Linguan is like water".

Meng Nan in Hangzhou Pass, all over the scenery of Hangzhou, when admiring the chanting, thought of welcoming the elderly father, but the old man was already eighty-four years old, and the road was far away, and he could not come, so he asked someone to draw a picture of the Hangzhou landscape, and when he visited his relatives, he took it home for his father to admire.

Throughout his life, Meng Nan remembered his father's teachings, collected ancient and modern maxims and practiced them by himself, and finally became an official to the right envoy of the Shaanxi Cloth Political Department, and the place where he served was called a follower. He once made a strange plan to level the chaos of the thieves in Yanqing, killed the thieves and smashed the thieves' caves, and made great achievements. Meng Nan was deeply trusted by the imperial court, and the Wanli Emperor personally gave him the holy decree to build EnrongFang in Wei County, Xun County. Today, Enrong Fang has been moved to Da Ling Mountain by the cultural relics department for protection. Enrong Fang became the only existing royal stone arch in Xun County, and it is a fine stone medal left by Meng Nan to Jun County.