"Old Man Of White Waves" is the screen name of a Sina blog. He is a native of Weifang, and because of his hometown mother river Bailanghe, he took the screen names of "Bailang Idler", "Self-Wandering Scattered Person" and "Bailang Old Man". He has a deep cultural foundation, especially the love of ancient culture. Once he went on a business trip to Zhangqiu to do business, when waiting for the car on the side of the road, he found that behind him was Li Qingzhao Cultural Square, he went in and walked around a roll, probably because it was not a holiday, the market was very depressed, there were few customers in sight, and many stores were locked.
In a small shop with an open door on the second floor, the old man of Bailang saw a Ujintuo rubbing about fifty centimeters squared in the frame, the font was regular, the rubbing was exquisite, especially the author's drop was "Shi JinShi and Di Xu Nai Spectrum", Bai Lang old man knew by feeling that "JinShi and Di" was the title of the first jinshi, and only the yuan, the list eye, and the tanhua could be worthy of "jinshi and the first". Because it is an epitaph, from the first feeling he knows that this must be the epitaph of a celebrity, and it is the first expansion when it has not yet been buried, and the value of historical documents must be very high. Ask the boss about the identity of the tomb owner, he is not clear, ask the price, it is not very expensive, and buy it. Due to the inconvenience of carrying, the frame was also removed by the owner, leaving only the rubbings, carefully folding, and then rushing back to his hometown Weifang.
After returning home, the old man of Bailang carefully read the inscription of the rubbing, looked up relevant information on the problem of uninvited Chu, and through careful study, he found that this was the epitaph of the grandfather of Meng Luochuan, a large merchant who was famous throughout the country in modern times. The old man of Bailang was very happy about this strange discovery.
He immediately published his research results on his blog, and invited Zhangqiu's literary and historical enthusiasts to study and study together, and Zhangqiu's literary and historical enthusiasts such as "Ochre Mountain Resident" and "Yanshan Weak Willow" got this information from the blog, and were also very happy, carefully and carefully studied the rubbing, and carefully interpreted it. Through research, it was found that this epitaph is indeed an important historical material of the Meng Luochuan family, which not only fills in some gaps in the meng family's research, but also corrects some errors on the score plate, which has high historical documentary value.
This rubbing is the epitaph of Meng Luochuan's grandfather, the owner of Rui Fengxiang, and the sample from the original stele just carved in the twenty-first year of Daoguang (1841), the handwriting is clearly preserved, and it is a unique product in the sea. The old Army Meng's ancestors were damaged during the Cultural Revolution, and the original stele is unknown, and this rubbing will provide extremely valuable information for the study of the Meng family and the financial and commercial history of modern China.
Meng Luochuan's grandfather Meng Yuhan (孟毓瀚), zihui dong (字汇东), xiyuan (号西園), had four sons under his knees: Chuanlu, Chuanlu, Chuanxuan, and Chuanshan (father of Meng Luochuan), and this epitaph was written by Meng Luochuan's uncle Meng Chuanlu. The inscription began to write: Daoguang Xin Jiao, Dian Test Shanzuo, Meng Sheng Crane Forest out of the YuMen, more than ten years, Meng Sheng with his examination concubine line description, not far away thousands of miles to walk the Beijing Division, Qi Zhiyou's text, is not resigned. From the above paragraph, it can be seen that Meng Luochuan's uncle Meng Chuanlu (Helin) was a Daoguang Xindi (1831) person, and the examiner who presided over the Shandong examination that year was Xu Naipu, the author of the epitaph, Hubu Zuo Shilang, and in 1841, Meng Chuanlu came to Beijing with a summary of the life of his late parents and asked the teacher to write an epitaph for his parents.
Explain clearly why the epitaph was written, the inscription began with the deceased Meng Yuhan (Meng Luochuan's grandfather): Jun Meng's Yuhan, whose secret character Huidong, alias West Garden, is zou yi, the beginning of the Ming Dynasty moved To zhangqiu, so he was born as a Zhangqiu person. Further down, the inscription writes Meng Yuhan and his predecessors for four generations, namely Gaozu Meng Xibi, great-grandfather Meng Guoyu, Zu Meng Kesheng, father Meng Youzhi, strangely these four names, and the names on the fourth series of the "Zhangqiu Wenshi Materials" are inconsistent with each other, all of which are one word behind, and the literary and historical materials are written on Gaozu Meng Zhenbi, great-grandfather Meng Shangyu, Zu Mengsheng, and Kao Meng Xingzhi. From the perspective of time, the time of the formation of the epitaph is 1841, and the literary and historical materials are copied from the genealogy of the 19th year of the Republic of China, can it be that his ancestors changed their names in these 90 years, or did they have been copied incorrectly? To this end, the Ochre Mountain resident rode 40 miles to the old military village of Meng's hometown, read the old version of the family tree, and the epitaph was accurate. The previous name is a former name, which is clearly recorded in the family tree, but it is not written in the literary and historical materials. This is in response to the old saying of experts, look up the data to see the original.
The inscription also explains some important family deeds and business strategies, how Meng Yuhan's grandmother Yuan Shi was filial piety, how his mother Pu Shi knew how to write Dali, how his wife Cheng Clan won the hearts of his younger siblings, and so on. One of the sentences is very well written, "The sound of the machine and the sound of the book", describing the sound of the machine brushing at home in the early days of the Meng family's entrepreneurship, the sound of the book, a prosperous business, cultivating and reading the portrait of the family.
Meng Yuhan did not live long, only lived for thirty-four years, when he died, there were 'Sun Yi Jixun, female grandson six', it can be seen that at that time Meng Luochuan was not yet born, there was only one uncle Meng Jixun and six uncles and sisters, and it was also known that the women in the Meng family were still relatively prosperous at that time.
This epitaph is sprinkled with more than a thousand words, and it was written by a high-ranking official in the DPRK and China, recording the names, academic qualifications, official positions, and family members of Meng Luochuan's seven generations, and can rewrite and correct many errors in historical records. For example, some sources believe that Meng Yuhan established the first financial institution pawnshop in Zhoucun during the Qianlong period, but this rubbing records that Meng Yuhan was born in the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong, so Meng Yuhan was only a child of no more than three years old during the entire Qianlong period, and it was impossible for him to build a pawnshop. The discovery of this rubbing has greatly enriched the historical information of the Meng family, and is a rare and valuable material for studying and sorting out the history of Rui Fengxiang.