The Shen family in Zhejiang first built bridges for their hometown and then built roads for the village to pass on the family style of benevolence and righteousness

Backed by a small butterfly-shaped hillside, the turquoise Hangci Creek and the meandering Qianxi Creek are triaged, which is the xia village of Shantou in Fucun Town, Jindong District. In the more than 550 years since the seven years since the Ming Dynasty Jingtai, this beautiful mountain and river has been inhabited by the Shen family for generations.

What kind of family is this? The story can start with one bridge, two roads.

●About the bridge

To facilitate the villagers to cross the river

After Shen Yue, he built a bridge

ShantouXia Village is the settlement of the descendants of the famous historian and literary scholar Shen Yue of the Southern Dynasty, in the seventh year of Ming Jingtai, Shen Yue's 31st grandson moved from Yiwu Shen Mansion to Shantouxia because of "moving from a scenic spot through Lü Xian's finger", and multiplied and developed into a village. After more than 500 years, almost everyone in the village is now surnamed Shen.

The introduction of the Shen family starts with a bridge.

There is a mother river in the village of Yamashitatou, Qianxi. There is a stone bridge above the Qianxi, the main bridge is about 15 meters long and about 1.5 meters wide, and the bridge body is engraved with the words "Renshou Bridge", and the words "Shen Ganqingzao" are engraved under it.

About the story of this bridge, the old people in the village can introduce one or two.

Legend has it that Shen Ganqing, the 41st generation of Shen Yue, expressed a wish to his children at the age of 80, he did not want to hold a birthday banquet, and wanted to donate the silver two that made shou to build a bridge to facilitate the villagers to cross the river.

In 1841, before his death, Shen Ganqing once again told his descendants to fulfill this wish. In the twenty-third year of Daoguang (1843), Shen Ganqing's descendants gathered enough silver to build the bridge and built this stone bridge, which is considered to have fulfilled the old man's last wish.

This bluestone slab bridge is full of the benevolent and righteous family style of the Shen family.

●About the road

The roads in the village are dilapidated

Someone built two more roads

Similar to the story of the bluestone slab bridge, 15 years ago, the village of Yamato was staged again.

20 years ago, Shen Jinlu, who was only 18 years old, went out alone and made small achievements after experiencing wind and rain, and returned to his hometown.

After returning to his hometown, Shen Jinlu stayed in the village and became the village director, and what has always worried him is the sand road in the village. "A body of soil on a sunny day, a body of mud on a rainy day", he always thought that one day he could change by his own efforts.

In 2001, when Shen Jinlu's mother was on her 80th birthday, she originally wanted to hold a birthday feast, but seeing that the road in the village was dilapidated, Shen Jinlu felt really uncomfortable.

"I'm going to use this money to build a decent road for the village." Shen Jinlu told his family about his idea and received everyone's support. In this way, the village has Yong'an Street and Yongjin Street.

Hold

The Shen Family Training has been preserved for hundreds of years

One bridge, two roads, is the best interpretation of the Shen family style. For the clan, no matter how the world changes, the "Shen family rules" have been integrated into the blood, affecting the Shen family from generation to generation.

Today, in the village of Yamato, there is an ancient house with a white wall called "Sanyi Hall".

The "three benefits" are derived from the "three friends of the beneficiary and the three friends of the loser" in the Analects. Friendly straight, friendly forgiveness, friendly smell, beneficial. Friendly and gentle, friendly and gentle, friendly and gentle, damaged. This was originally the place where the ancestors of the village under the mountain opened the dyeing workshop, and the villagers named it "Sanyi Hall" to warn the younger generations.

Walking through the gate of the museum, a large screen stands in front of the eyes, and the two big characters of "diligence and thrift" are very eye-catching, not only that, the four words of thrift and thrift are also hung above the lobby of "Sanyi Hall".

The emphasis on the word thrift can be seen in the "Shen Family Training". "Filial piety to parents, respect for the elders, dunyou, inside and outside..." For hundreds of years, the clans have used family training to strictly demand themselves.

Inheritance

Prostitution and gambling are prohibited, and there has never been a corrupt official in the village

Although the village under the mountain is small, it is a place of personal excellence, and there have been many celebrities in the village. For example, Shen Tangwang, who participated in the research and development of China's first atomic bomb, Shen Caigen, who participated in the development of the first nuclear submarine, and Shen Binhan, who served as a pilot in the war to resist US aggression and aid Korea, all went out from the village.

"There have been celebrities and high-ranking officials in the village, but there have never been corrupt officials." The village chief Shen Jinlu is very proud, in his opinion, this is related to the inheritance of the "Shen Family Training". For example, a "Brief Introduction to Forbidden Prostitution and Gambling" guides people's way of dealing with the world.

"Now the atmosphere in the village is very good, young people are working outside, older people are doing handicrafts at home, and no one is gambling and prostituting."

According to the relevant person in charge of the Jindong District Discipline Inspection Commission, many things in rural areas rely on personal moral cultivation to maintain, and the basis of personal quality stems from the edification and cultivation of family style. Nowadays, as an invisible moral force, family training regulates people's words and deeds, so that the descendants of the Shen family can see the wisdom and wisdom.