On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the son who started a business in Beijing returned to Oil City for a vacation. One afternoon, seeing that the sky was high and refreshing, we temporarily proposed: go to the tomb of Feng Guozhang in Hejian to have a look, and Quan Dang should take a short trip of "talking and leaving".
From Renqiu, we took National Highway 106 and headed straight for the river. This 30-kilometer journey, in the heart of the North China Oilfield, I don't know how many times I have walked in the past, when the official business is in the body, there is no distraction; now it is leisure tourism, naturally you can watch the scenery as you want: the green shade on both sides, the corn green yarn tent of the Pingchuan River in the distance, indicating a harvest scene; the green yarn tent flashes from time to time, which is what people often call the "kowtow machine", indicating that this place is rich in oil.
We followed the navigation guide and entered the country road, and the road sign marked "Shijing Village" was both poetic and "Confucian". Head north into the village and walk through the endless green gauze tents. The navigation said "the destination has arrived", only to see a small courtyard surrounded by flower walls, a large iron gate opening, a tall tombstone standing in the south, and a huge mantou-shaped tomb mound on the north high platform. Looking around, there are all the green corn yarn tents, and the taller ones are rows of poplar trees. Oh, this is the tomb in the evergreen bushes - Feng Guozhang's tomb!
We approached the tombstone and saw that the front side was engraved with 11 big characters "Hejian Feng Gongguozhang's Tombstone of the Great President"; and then look at the inscription on the back, the opening speech said "Vice President of the Republic of China Acting Grand President Feng Gongzhi Guozhang Character Hua Fu Ming After the Founding Hero Feng Sheng", a slip of ancient language, there is no punctuation. Let's talk about the vernacular below; on January 7, 1859 (the fourth day of the first month of December in the eighth year of Qing Xianfeng), he was born in Shijing Village, Hejian County, Zhili County, with a poor family, and studied half-time at the Lianchi Academy in Baoding, and graduated from the Beiyang Wubei Academy. He participated in the Sino-Japanese War and the Battle of Pyongyang, but fortunately survived, retreated with Nie Shicheng's troops, and later became an ambassador to Japan, writing a military book for studying the Japanese military, and giving it to Yuan Shikai when he trained troops at the small station, praising him as "the first person in the military school", so he turned to Yuan Shikai. Later, because Yuan did not listen to dissuasion and "claimed the emperor", he contacted the generals from all over the country to jointly send a secret telegram (then called "five generals secret telegram") to ask Yuan to abolish the imperial system...
My son picked me up the stairs and ascended to the high platform, only to see a cement wall more than one person high surrounded the grave mound, weeds and ferns, full of weeds, and an unknown towering tree grew on the upper left, which was very strong. Unexpectedly, on the back of the grave mound, there was actually a group of old ladies and parents laughing shortly, and there were also groups of men and women in the shade below the grave mound, or playing cards or chess, and there were electric cars, tricycles, and bicycles stacked next to them. "It seems that this is also a place for the villagers to relax and entertain!" Standing on a high platform, looking around, in addition to the crops that are about to ripen, it is the "kowtow machine" for oil production: some are in groups of three or five, some are alone; some are still, as if they are recuperating; some are reverently bowing to the earth, as if thanking god for its gifts. If this is the feng shui treasure that Feng Guozhang chose before his death, then these kowtow machines are steel men who harvest oil treasures. I think that Feng Gongjing is lying in this oil treasure, and there is a prostration machine to worship day and night, so I should be blind!
Seeing that we were foreigners, an old man took the initiative to introduce us, saying that this tomb of Feng Guozhang was rebuilt by the Hejian Municipal Government in 2006. The original tomb was built in 1917, covering an area of 138 acres, covered with pine cypress, with monuments, squares, pavilions, and platforms, which is very imposing of a feudal imperial mausoleum, but unfortunately the "Cultural Revolution was destroyed". It is also said that Feng Guozhang followed Yuan Shikai to fight and made meritorious contributions, and was awarded a second-class baron by the Qing court, and was moved to cry: "I didn't expect that A poor boy could also be knighted!" It is also said that during the Xuan reunification years, he used his ambition of "the country is forbidden to open, and the eastern events begin" to arrange the order of the Feng family's generations: the first character of his generation is "guo"; the five sons are the "family" characters, namely Jia Sui, Jia Di, Jia Yu, Jia Mai, and Jia Zhou; the grandchildren from the "sea" characters, there are Haidai, Haisheng, Haiyan, Haigang, Haidao, etc.; the great-grandchildren should have been from the word "forbidden", but because "forbidden" is really difficult to become famous, so Feng Gong's generation will no longer be ranked with the word "forbidden", it is said that Feng Gong's next generation will continue to use the word "kai" The word got a name. It seems that this ancient and rare old man can be described as Feng Guozhang's "iron powder", and even the names of the Feng family's descendants can be remembered so clearly!
We left the tomb and returned to the village to visit Feng Guozhang's former residence. Because of the epidemic, the gate was closed, and the outline of the house in the courtyard was omitted from the gap, and the weeds were everywhere. Embedded in the doorway: The former residence was built in February 1913, covering an area of 100 acres, courtyard-style buildings, more than 400 halls and pavilions, grand scale, magnificent, all with bright corridor painting columns, high ridges and wide houses. Damaged during the Cultural Revolution. In 2008, it was designated as a provincial key protected cultural relic by Hebei Province.
"The Cultural Revolution was destroyed"! On the way back, I closed my eyes and remembered the precious cultural relics that were destroyed by the "Cultural Revolution". Another thought, if you make full use of the tomb of Feng Guozhang in the evergreen bushes, together with Feng Guozhang's former residence, take the construction of the new countryside as an opportunity, restore the original appearance, and upgrade and transform, enrich the variety, upgrade the grade, highlight the characteristics, build a cultural tourism area, so that the villagers have a good place to relax, how good it should be!