"Jiangnan First", located in Zhengzhai Town, Pujiang County, Jinhua City, also known as "Zheng Yimen", through the Song, Yuan, Ming Dynasties, the fifteenth generation of cohabitation and co-eating, filial piety to rule the family, the family style is clean, for hundreds of years for the official no corruption, the name of the world.
Visiting Gangnam is the first, many attractions are free to visit, and some attractions need to be checked in to enter the tour.
Coming here, the first thing you see is the 9 arches, the first archway is the "first in Jiangnan" wooden arch given by Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, because the recent night in the "Puji", equivalent to the performance type of night market, so stopped up, do not let enter, so there is no first arch in the photo. This is the arch group with the largest number of arches in the country, namely "the first in Jiangnan", "Xiaoyi Gate", "Three Dynasties Jingbiao", "Orderly", "Ende", "Linfeng", "Take Yi Chengren", "Rebbe Shangshu", and "Ninth Cohabitation". Each archway has a different story, which is the honor of the Zheng family.
Zheng Yimen has a "Nine-Curved Creek", which was changed to Bailin Creek to commemorate the ancestors of the Zheng clan. Legend has it that the Zheng family's residence is a golden pan land, because the Zheng people Ding is prosperous, the Jiuqu Creek was straightened for building houses, and the local feng shui celebrities saw that "it was broken, the nine curves became straight feet, and the gold plate was chiseled" when they saw it. When the parents heard about it, they hurriedly asked for a remedy, and the celebrities told him to build ten bridges on the creek, make up the broken gold plates, and build nine gates in the stream so that it did not leak, which is now the ten bridges and nine gates. Although the gold plate was repaired, the vitality was seriously injured, and the original ability to live together for five hundred years was interrupted in advance, only to ensure the safety of the children and grandchildren.
Linxi has built an imposing Tenjin Pavilion. The pavilion is surrounded by water on all sides, and there are small bridges on both sides to communicate, the first floor is dedicated to the gods of Guan Sheng emperor, Guan Ping and Zhou Cang, and the second floor is dedicated to the gods and heavenly generals.
Legend has it that Zheng Qi, the ancestor of cohabitation, was filial to his relatives, and his mother was seriously ill and bedridden for a long time. Zheng Qi served his mother for more than thirty years, and one year there was no rain in the drought, the rivers dried up, and her mother was thirsty and wanted to drink spring water. Zheng Qi dug several places on the Bailin Creek, did not see dripping water, his heart was miserable, he cried loudly for three days and three nights, suddenly saw dark clouds densely, a thunderclap, exploded the sand and stones, gushed out a clear spring, cool and sweet, and rushed to serve his mother with water. People think that Zheng Qi's filial piety touched the heavens, so it is called "Xiaogan Spring".
This is the first and most important attraction in Jiangnan, the Zheng Ancestral Hall, which needs to be checked in. The Zheng family settled in Jinhua Pujiang, Zhejiang from the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song, Yuan, Ming dynasties, the fifteenth generation lived together to eat, more than three hundred years without separation of families, the peak of the Zheng family more than 3,000 people to eat "a pot of rice".
The cypress in the Zheng Ancestral Hall, more than 600 years old, still exudes youth, and many cypresses have formed a phenomenon of "tree bouldering" due to stone support.
Legend has it that during the Hongwu period, Zheng Lian was elected as the head of the family. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Zheng Lian, the head of the Zheng clan, and exclaimed, "There are more than a thousand people in the Zheng clan, and it is not easy to maintain long-term harmony, how did it happen?" Zheng Lian took out the "Zheng Family Code" that he carried with him and presented it to the emperor, and Zheng Lian replied carefully: "Respectfully follow the ancestral precepts, the Zheng family's cut is based on filial piety." Filial piety is the righteousness of many husbands and wives, brothers, clans, and neighbors who love each other." Zhu Yuanzhang was very happy to hear this and rewarded Zheng Lian with two imperial pears. Zheng Lian told the clan about the emperor rewarding two pears. Everyone in the clan saw that only two pears were rewarded, and they were all worried about how to divide them, only to see Zheng Lian ask people to move two large vats, fill the big vats with sweet water, and then break the two pears into the jar, so that the clan members could drink pear water. Zhu Yuanzhang admired Zheng Lian's behavior very much, so he personally wrote the three characters of "Filial Piety Family" and stamped it with a jade seal to give to the Zheng family.
Perhaps because of the material, for many years the birds and finches in the temple did not live, the spiders did not stay, the mosquitoes and flies did not trace, and the summer was cool.
Dezhang Gong Ebony Statue, Ebony is the Oriental Sacred Wood. Zu Dezhang, the fifth cohabitant of the Zheng family, with the foresight of a century-old tree person, founded the family private school "Dongming Jingshe" in DongmingShan, which was later changed to "Dongming Academy".
Zheng Qi, the ancestor of cohabitation, tireless in learning, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Zheng Qi felt that he would soon die, summoned his descendants to the Zheng Family Ancestral Hall, and made a will: "My descendants have those who are not filial piety, not compassionate, and do not share wealth and food, and the heavens will punish them." It was this dying instruction that opened the story of the fifteenth generation of the Zheng family.
Thinking of today's society, it is rare for three generations to live together, and when they reach the age of marriage, they have to buy a marriage house, and after getting married, they live separately from their parents.
Song Lian, the head of the founding ministers of the Ming Dynasty, took over the teaching chair of Zheng Yimen at the age of 26, cultivated a large number of outstanding talents for Zheng Yimen, and consulted and approved the "Zheng Family Code" and "Zheng Family Rituals" and other family legal codes. Here, a statue of Song Lian was erected to express the descendants of the Zheng clan, respect the teachers and ancestors, do not forget the grace of indoctrination, and pass it on from generation to generation.
There are many plaques in the Zheng Ancestral Hall, and a large number of plaques and yanglian inscriptions by historical celebrities such as Fan Zhongyan, Zhu Xi, Liu Guan, Wang Xijue and other historical celebrities and contemporary calligraphers. It can be said that Han Mo Danqing is pleasing to the eye, and the poetry book Yale has a long charm.
A large bell in the Zheng ancestral hall, the people in the Zheng family have a clear division of labor, and get up, wash, eat, sleep and other daily living must listen to the bell and act. Eating is also eaten in batches, elders, middle-aged, young, and teenagers are eaten separately.
In 2002, Korean scholars verified that a large family surnamed Zheng in southern Korea came from China, so the Zheng Clan Association in Seosan, South Korea, sent a special staff to China for field investigation, and finally confirmed that the "first family in Jiangnan" of Zheng Zhai was the residence of his ancestors. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, a branch of the Pujiang Zheng family crossed east to Busan, South Korea, to avoid war and chaos, and since then settled and multiplied in Korea, and these Zheng descendants have lived in Korea for more than 760 years and have more than 17,000 people. The descendants of the Jeong Clan of Seosan in South Korea searched for more than 10 years and finally found their roots in Pujiang.
There is also a "Jianwen Well" here, I looked for it and did not find the well, the legend is that the Jianwen Emperor fled, with the help of the Zheng clan, hid in the well, escaped a disaster.
The story and customs of the first family in Jiangnan do not stop here, after fifteen generations of cohabitation, the Zheng family, due to a fire, caused the family to be unable to live together, each of them began a new life. The attractions are not only these, but also the Changsan Gong Ancestral Hall, the ChangQi Gong Ancestral Hall and so on. We look forward to your discoveries.