Is Liuzu Huineng's place of origin Fanyang, Hebei?

Each version of the Six Ancestral Tantra has the phrase "Huineng Yan Father, Ben Guan Fanyang, Left Descending to Lingnan, as the People of Xinzhou", which is from Huineng himself. Similar accounts are found in Zen texts. That is to say, the ancestral home of the six ancestors Huineng is Fanyang, Hebei.

During the Tang Dynasty, Fanyang, Hebei Province, in present-day Zhuozhou City, Hebei Province, was a famous city with a history of 2300 years. During the Gaozu period of the Han Dynasty, Zhuo County and Zhuo County were placed under the rule of Youzhou, from the Three Kingdoms to Northern Zhou as Fanyang County, the Sui Kai Emperor was abolished, and Zhuo County was restored, tang Wude seven years (624) after the seventh year also known as Fanyang County, the fourth year of the Gregorian calendar (769) Zhuo Prefecture, five generations of it. Song was the rule of Fanyang County and Zhuoshui County, jin fu name Zhuozhou rule, also Fanyang County, Yuan Yinzhi; Ming Hongwu Province Fanyang County into Zhuozhou, Qingyinzhi. Relevant history books refer to Zhuozhou as "Great Fanyang", and "Benguan Fanyang" in Huineng's "Tanjing", that is, "Great Fanyang" Zhuozhou.

The Fanyang Lu clan, from the Surname Jiang, is a prominent clan of Fanyang County. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, lu zhi was born, he was both a man of letters and martial arts, a strong and resolute man, and had the great ambition to save the people in the world. With his outstanding learning and meritorious deeds, Lu Zhi was admired by the world, and became an important historical figure in the development of the Lu family, inheriting the past and opening up the future, and was regarded as the ancestor of Lu's Zhongxing. His descendants can inherit the family style, the prestige and honor of the ancestors, lay the foundation for the prosperity of the Lu clan for thousands of years, and set up the high standard of the Lu family 'Fanyang Junwang'. Since Lu Zhi, the "Fanyang Lu clan" has gradually become a famous wang clan in the north, together with the Qinghe Cui clan, the Taiyuan Wang clan, and the Xingyang Zheng clan, collectively known as the "Four Seas Great Surname", which is a famous clan from the Han Dynasty to the Sui and Tang Dynasties in China, and there is a so-called seven surnames and ten families.

In the nearly 700 years from the Three Kingdoms to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the "Fanyang Lu Clan" was a generation of sages, with famous officials and eunuchs, and moral articles, of which 460 were officials, 20 were prime ministers, and 8 were prime ministers in the Tang Dynasty. These members of the Lu clan are all derived from Fanyang Luzhi, who is also known as the land of the Lu clan's ancestral hope. In the Lu Clan Ancestral Halls everywhere, its name is "Fanyang Hall". Its tanglian are also mostly led by Fan Yang, such as "Fanyang Wang clan, Zhuo County family voice", "Jiang Shuiyuan flows far, Fan Yang Shize chang" and so on, all of which show respect and nostalgia for Fan Yang, the ancestral land of the Lu clan.

In Fanyang, Lu Zhi's ninth grandsons Lu Yuan, Lu Min, Lu Chang, and Lu Shangzhi were known as the "Four Houses of the Lu Clan", and the Huineng branch belonged to the large house, and its lineage was arranged: Lu Zhi - Lu Yu - Lu Chen - Lu Yan - Lu Miao - Lu Xuan - Lu Dushi - Lu Yuan - Lu Daojiang - Lu Huairen - Lu Yanqing - Lu Xingxuan - Lu Huineng.

There are also different opinions on the issue of the origin of the Six Ancestors Huineng. When Wang Wei's "Inscription of Zen Master Neng" describes his family lineage, it only says that "Zen master's common surname is Lu, and people from a certain county and county are also." It is unspecified that his ancestral home is Fanyang, and later many of the "Tanjing" and related literature were proofread, and most of them changed "Benguan Fanyang" to "Benguan Fanyang" and changed wang Weibei's "a certain county and a certain county" to "Benguan Fanyang". Therefore, some scholars believe that the origin of Huineng is said to be Fanyang, Hebei, which is the masterpiece of his disciple Shenhui, because the Tang Dynasty attached great importance to the social customs of the birth of the Mendi, and the Fanyang Lu clan had such a lofty mendi prestige, so the gods would randomly implicate the Fanyang Lu clan when telling the huineng family lineage, as the identity of The Huineng, in order to cater to the social atmosphere and the psychological acceptance of the believers at that time, thus winning the recognition and acceptance of the believers and society.

Another point we should pay attention to is that the "Tan Jing" is a record of Liu Zu Huineng's usual sayings, and when he dictated the "guan" character of "Benguan Fanyang" and the "guan" character of "Benguan Fanyang", there was not much difference in pronunciation in Xinzhou, so would his disciple Fahai and others have a clerical error when recording and sorting it out?

Generally speaking, if it is "Fanyang, the official", it means that Huineng's father is an official in Fanyang, but not necessarily a Fanyang person; if it is "Fanyang", Huineng is from Fanyang.