Because I saw you in the mountains where the sunset glowed, I never forgot your beautiful countenance; in order to keep you in your dreams forever, I would rather cross the mountains and mountains to come to you. This is the charming Baohe Village, the foundation created by Wang Zhaoji, Wang Zhaoyang and several generations of wang clan - the mountain certificate of the Triangle Pond University Hall.
Jia Pingwa commented on the Triangle Pond University Hall: "He is like an ancient myth, telling the life force of a party landscape and a family, which holds a group of faiths and the cultural inheritance of a nation. Especially Wang Kaitai, he is Mr. Wang, who has always stood next to the osmanthus tree, he has a plain robe, stepping on the countryside under his feet, offering incense in the ancestral hall, and using the length of his life to build education into a peak. These words are enough to show that the Triangle Pond University Hall is a monument in the history of local education.
Wang Zhaoji and Wang Zhaoyang were brothers, and Wang Kaitai was the son of Wang Zhaoyang and the nephew of Wang Zhaoji. The "Chronicle of Shangnan County" and "Triangle Pond University Hall" record the deeds of their Wang family in a more general way, and are briefly described here.
Wang Zhaoji, zi Xizhi, born in the nineteenth year of Jiaqing (1814), the second son of Changyu Gong, the former Qing Jinshi, was the governor of Qianzhou, because he was not accustomed to corrupt officialdom, after resigning from the official position, he returned to live in Shangnan Triangle Pond, and had a deep friendship with Xiang Bozhong, a hermit of Lushan Mountain, and became the second generation of abbots and leaders of the Triangle Pond Private School. Wang Zhaoji is a local poet, and he said in the "Triangle Ancient Pond": "Fangtang half an acre is inserted obliquely, pointing to a jagged swamp parsley." Qing Ke Mao Song Zi Zi, Xiang Kan Wash Yan belongs to Swen. Thousands of years of water and blue light and moon, thousands of miles of azure shadows inverted clouds. The mountains and seas have been strangely thought of, and the spirit in this has not been heard before. "People can see his talent in it. Later, Wang Zhaoji took the lead in funding the construction of Bohol Village for the safety of the lives of people in the area of Baoxuetang and Triangle Pond, and took the lead in funding the construction of Bohol Village, which had a huge impact in the surrounding three provinces, and was later hired by the county order as the person in charge of building Qingshan Academy. He died at the age of eighty.
Wang Zhaoyang was the fourth son of Duke Changyu and the younger brother of Wang Zhaoji. He studied reverence and pragmatism, learned to be flashy, former Qing Jinshi, once served as the prefect of Lingzhou, because of his upright personality, just and upright, dared to give advice, was rejected by corrupt officials, resigned from the official and returned to the Triangle Pond, assisted his brother in running a school, funded the construction of Bohol Village, and later presided over the Triangle Pond Private School, loved to read bodhisattvas in his later years, promoted good deeds, and advised others to be good. On his deathbed at the age of eighty-one, he said to his sons with a book of goodness in his hand, "The book is me, and I am the book, and to obey it is to honor me and respect me." ”
Triangle Pond is located in the south of Shangnan County (now at the mouth of the expressway), with the beauty of the Dragon's Nest in the east, the water of manna in the south, the beauty of Qinglonggang in the west, and the beauty of the Mu River (County River) in the north. The original Muhe Riverbed is along the eastern mountain root of the triangle pond to the southern foot bay to the front of the Qinglonggang Mountain, because the southern mountain ridge will be the Qinglonggang Mountain Wall wrapped, in the triangle pond old ancestral hall on the east side of the formation of an area of about 300 acres of natural pool, people from the north can not see the exit of the pool. Standing at the top of Qingshan Lion Peak looking north, the confluence of the county river and the leopard river has nine mountains stretching out from different directions to the big pond, just like nine long dragons arching to guard the holy place, there is a "nine-dragon pilgrimage" reputation, the Wang clan built the Wang ancestral hall in front of this feng shui treasure Qinglonggang, the hall name is "Three Acacia Hall". Also because it is the confluence of three rivers, the water flows into a triangular pool all year round, and the water depth is unpredictable; there is a huge red willow by the pool, with three branches, and the half of the pool surface is obliquely covered; when the mountain wind rises, the willow tree emits a harsh whistling sound, which is creepy. Legend has it that there was a three-legged toad in this pond that was large and milled, which often haunted, harmed living beings, and devoured many passers-by, and was later killed by a hunter named Ichthyosaurus with a musket, which was a victim of this harm. This legend is recorded in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and the last two sentences of Wang Zhaoji's poem are "The mountains and seas have been strange, and the spirit in this has not been heard." That's the allusion.
The bandits under the mountain acted recklessly near the Triangle Pond University Hall, smashing the door when they saw it, and robbing it when they saw it. The bandit leader said to himself, "It's strange, how come there is no one in such a big village?" Who missed the wind in advance? "This group of bandits spent the night in the triangle pond, slaughtering the stolen chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, etc., and packing up all the stolen potatoes, sweet potatoes, corn and other miscellaneous items to be taken away at dawn. After dawn, the bandits searched the Qinglonggang Mountain up and down the hill again, and threw the students' textbooks everywhere, and when they saw that there were many tablets in the ancestral hall, they thought it was a god's seat, and they all hurriedly prostrated themselves and bowed before they hurried away.
The people hiding in Baohe Village were very concerned about the situation under the mountain, and because of their fear, the people slowly descended the mountain at noon the next day after the bandits left. When the people returned to their homes, they found that their homes were in a mess by bandits, the doors and windows were broken, the water tanks were smashed, the iron pots on the pot table were missing, and the carriages, boxes and some clothes were also robbed. A man quickly ran to Wang Zhaoji and said, "Teacher Wang, the bandits snatched away the copper incense burner in the Sanxiao Temple." Wang Zhaoji said: "Bandits have no morality, and as long as we are young and old and unharmed, it is a blessing." Although they snatched the copper incense burner from the Three Heavenly Temples, they will be punished. ”
A month later, the life order of the Triangle Pond University Hall and the villagers returned to normal, and people admired Wang Zhaoji's wisdom measures while being frightened. One day at noon, the villagers shouted, "Catch the person who grabbed the copper incense burner." "The villagers took a bandit to Wang Zhaoji's teachers and students and asked him to dispose of him." Oh Lord Wang, please spare my life, right? The bandit knelt on the ground and said, "We took this copper incense burner to use as a manger, but we did not expect that the horses, donkeys, cattle and sheep would all die after eating the feed in this copper incense burner, and seven of our brothers would also die of illness." I thought that I had offended the Three Xiao Niangniang here, so I sent this copper incense burner back. May the king spare my life? "That's fine." Wang Zhaoji said, "I can let you go." I will write a letter to your head, and you will bring it back, you are also from a poor background, do not harm good people in the future, otherwise the disaster will be even worse! "After this bandit brought back the letter written by Wang Zhaoji, this band of bandits never came to the triangle pool to do anything bad. This is the miracle of Wang Zhaoji's "palindromic caress" in folklore.
Soon after, Wang Zhaoji was hired by the county order to operate the Qingshan Academy, Wang Zhaoyang presided over the work of the Triangle Pond University Hall, after Wang Zhaoyang's death, Wang Kaitai took over the work of the Triangle Pond University Hall, so that the school reached its most prosperous period. Later, the Guanzhong Party kidnappers led a group of bandits to set fire to the Triangle Pond University Hall and attacked Bohol Village, causing the sound of the cottage cannon to shake the sky, and the soul of this bandit flew away and fled in the wind. Later, the foundation of the Triangle Pond University Hall was washed away by the flood, baohe village was destroyed by other bandits at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and most of the wall stones were stolen down the mountain to go down the foundation, but those remnants of the stone wall that stood on the peak of the mountain were resolutely the mountain testimony of the Triangle Pond University Hall, and the people and ancient stories here were looking forward to the dream of revival.