One man attains the Word, and the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven.
This is a law deduced by the continuous change of history for thousands of years, which applies not only to ancient times, but even now, if there is a big businessman in the family, others can naturally follow the light.
However, if it is that kind of thin feeling, after flying yellow Tengda, only care about their own solo music, and do not want to bring their families to have fun with them, it can only be another matter.
In fact, relying on no one is better than relying on themselves, only if they have the ability to fly, they have the qualifications to soar in the sky, just think of relying on others to fly, sooner or later they will fall to pieces.
There are no shortcuts to success, but there are methods, and a person's success is not worth showing off too much, but if there are many successful people in a family, it is worth boasting.
In the long river of history, there are not a few powerful families, but there are not many families that can endure for a long time and have been washed away for more than a thousand years, and there are still not many families that are still famous today.
And the Wenxi Pei family is such a family that deserves to be boasted and praised.
In today's Liyuan Town, Wenxi County, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, there is a small village with a population of less than 1,000 people, called Pei Bai Village, which is where the ancestral hall of wenxi Pei is located.
Don't look at this village is small, it is very famous in the country, and it has a more resounding name, called China's first Prime Minister Village.
Perhaps you will have questions, how many prime ministers have produced in this small village, and can they afford this title?
In fact, there are still many prime ministers in the Pei family in this village, and in detail, in the more than 2,000 years of feudalism, there have been 59 prime ministers and 59 generals.
So the question is, why is the Wenxi Pei family so good?
In fact, their success depends on an ancestral precept, so what is this ancestral precept, let's look at it together.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="17" > no other in the world</h1>
The Wenxi Pei clan is an enduring family in the history of China's feudal society, and if it is traced back in detail, its ancestors can be traced back to qin feizi, the ancestor of the surname Yin.
During the reign of King Zhou, the sixth grandson of Qin Feizi was given the title of Yijun (邑君), so he went to "邑" from "Yi" and added the ancestral "non" character to the clan name "Pei".
Later, due to the increase in the population of the Pei clan, it was gradually divided into three branches, living in Hedong, Yanjing and Xiliang.
According to the genealogy of the Pei clan in these different places, they all come from the same source, all from the Wenxi Pei clan, so there is no two Pei in the world.
This means that even if the descendants of the Pei clan drift farther away, their roots are in the Pei Bai Village of Wenxi, if you happen to be the same surname, you may wish to go back to see, I think the Pei people there will definitely warmly welcome you.
Wenxi Pei's baptism through the years, not only did not disappear in the long river of history, but more and more dazzling, Pei's talent is emerging, is one of the most important factors.
In addition to the 59 prime ministers and 59 generals in the village we mentioned, there are countless other officials.
According to their genealogy, there were also 14 Zhongshu Shilang, 55 Shangshu, 44 Shilang, 11 Changshu, 10 Imperial History, 25 Jiedushi, Observation, and Defense Envoys, 211 Assassins, 77 Taishou, and nearly 3,000 officials above the Seven Pins.
In addition to those who became officials, there were also those who obtained knighthoods, of which 89 were conferred titles, 33 were marquises, 11 were enfeoffed, 18 were enfeoffed, and 13 were enfeoffed, in addition to 3 empresses, 4 princesses, 2 princesses, 21 horses, and 20 princesses.
It can be seen that wenxi pei clan is really worthy of the name, and a family can do so, and people can't admire it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="55" > the family rules established by Pei's ancestors</h1>
Wen Xi Pei clan has produced so many capable people, what are the factors, are they inheriting the wisdom of their ancestors?
Of course not, the Pei clan can do this, because their ancestors established a family rule when they established a foothold in Pei Bai Village:
Those whose descendants fail to pass the examination are not allowed to enter the gate of the ancestral hall.
In ancient times, the ancestral hall was the supreme position in the family, and it was an honor to enter the ancestral hall, and if it was excluded by the ancestral hall, it meant losing the root.
Therefore, under the influence of this family rule, pei people have been studying hard since childhood, and if they are really not interested in reading and writing, then they will learn the ability to lead soldiers to fight from martial arts.
Especially in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the high-ranking officials born in this village reached their peak, and on average, every 17 years, there would be a prime minister, Pei Yan, Pei Guangting, Pei Yaoqing, Pei Du, Pei Tan, and so on.
The Pei family has many cattle people in politics, and there are also many outstanding figures in the history of literature and diplomacy.
For example, the Western Jin Dynasty cartographer Pei Xiu, known as the "father of Chinese cartography", such as the historians Pei Songzhi, Pei Xiao, and Pei Ziye, known as the "Three Peis of Historiography", set a precedent for writing history, and then pei Shiqing, the foreign minister of the Sui Dynasty, was the first foreign minister to visit Japan on behalf of the country.
What is more worth mentioning is that among the people who served as officials in the Pei family, there were never corrupt officials, which was difficult to imagine in the feudal imperial period.
And Pei's can do this, and its ancestral teachings naturally cannot be ignored.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="57" > Pei's ancestral precepts</h1>
If Pei's family rules are a ruler, then their ancestral precepts are a sword that cuts through thorns and thorns, and they are quite similar to the family rules, and their ancestral precepts are also sixteen characters, namely:
Emphasis is placed on academic affairs, advocating culture and martial arts, promoting both morality and industry, and being honest and self-disciplined.
These sixteen words are simple, but it is not so easy to do, and only by introspecting themselves all the time can we achieve good results.
So what does this ancestral precept mean, in simple terms, is to require the clan to be down-to-earth, to have both civil and military skills, to pay attention to virtue, and to be honest and self-disciplined.
It is precisely under the requirements of the ancestral training that the Pei family never forgets the original intention at all times, firmly remembering the requirements of the ancestors, which makes it rare for corrupt officials in their families to appear.
The ancestors of the Pei family did not leave them a deep mansion compound and a million family wealth, but left behind the spiritual strength of self-improvement and the moral model of self-cultivation, which is the real and precious wealth.
The wheels of time have run over a thousand years, and Pei Bai Village, as the village of prime minister, is still telling its legend.
Now the Pei clan has been passed down to dozens of generations, and to this day we still have friends surnamed Pei around us, if you have time to ask them about the story of the genealogy, I believe they will definitely tell more wonderful than me.
A family can endure and shape a legend, the family style behind it cannot be ignored, and throughout the big family that is still thriving, their family style is very worthy of our learning.
References: Old Book of Tang, Pei Family Tree, etc.
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