Ming Dynasty Shanxi Pingyang Province Pu County Wei Quanyu Weng Jiao Cemetery Inscription (Jiao Tianbin)
Today tells about the third-party epitaph in the monument gallery.
The epitaph was engraved in the eighth year of Ming Chongzhen (1635), and Zhiwen was engraved on two Zhishi stones, which were 71. 5cm, width 71. 5 cm, thickness 14 cm, bluestone. Zhiwen has a total of 48 lines, 28 full lines, a total of 1302 words, and italics.
There is no Zhi Gai, only the 18-character seal book is engraved on the yin line in the blank space of the latter Zhi Shi Zhiwen: Ming Dynasty Shanxi Pingyang Province Pu County Wei Quanyu Weng Jiao Cemetery Inscription. This method of engraving is more special, which may also be the reason for calling it a stele rather than a inscription.
According to Zhiwen, Zhizhuo Jiao's surname, name Tianbin, quanyu, a native of Dezhou, has been a canonical history of Pu County, Pingyang Province, Shanxi, and a canonical history of Shahe County, Shunde Province. Zhi Lord was born in the sixth year of Longqing (1572) and died in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631) at the age of sixty.
His ancestors Jiao Feng and Jiao Yun were both xiangxian, and his father Jiao Yingyuan was even more a xiangyi sage. Zhi Lord's ambition was lofty but he did not obtain a meritorious name, so he honored his father's order to "imitate The Fa Tao Zhu to fulfill my gentle ambitions". Tao Zhu, that is, Tao Zhu Gong Fan Li, the "History", said: "Fan Li floated out of the sea, changed his name, called himself a bird Yizi skin, cultivated on the seashore, died bitterly, and the father and son ruled the property." There is no geometry, resulting in hundreds of thousands of production. The Qi people smelled his sage and thought it was a picture. Fan Li sighed and said, "At home, it will give thousands of gold, and the officials will be the qingxiang, and this cloth is also extreme." Long-respected, ominous. 'It is to return to the seal, to scatter its wealth, to share it with the party of the confidant township, and to carry its treasure, and to go between them, and to stop at Tao. I think that in this world, there is no way to trade, and you can get rich for a living. So he called himself Tao Zhugong. "Tao Zhu" is extended in the Zhiwen to mean to engage in commercial production and to be weak.
After the Zhi Lord became a merchant, "within a few years, there were surplus fields in the wilderness, and there were surplus goods in the pockets, although it did not reach the point of being called a huge wealth, it was also several times the property of the Chinese people." "After the father and son made the family well-off, they often helped people to marry, the capital was buried, and there were occasional disputes between the townspeople, and they also asked the zhi lord to mediate, because they were kind and charitable, and they were praised by the Yi people. After "losing millet to Taicang, to aid the three ways". Yuntu refers to the three ways to obtain official positions in addition to the imperial examination: recommendation, requisition, and section A.
Zhi Lord was first the canonical history of Pu County, Pingyang Province, Shanxi. Pingyang Province, Shanxi, the seat of government was in present-day Linfen, Pu County, that is, pu county in present-day Linfen City; the canonical history, the History of Ming, contains: one person in Zhi County, one person in Zhengtun Pin, one person in the county, one person in Zheng Bapin, and one person in the main book. Its genus is a canonical historian... The canonical texts are moved to the cashier. If there is no county clerk, or if there is no main book, the clerk is assigned. The canonical history is an adjutant official, not in the grade, and the canonical history position is selected by the official Jian, and can be selected by the donation, so the previous text said; "Losing the millet Taicang, aiding the three ways". Later, he served as the canonical history of Shahe County in Shunde Province (present-day Shahe County, Xingtai City, Hebei).
At the end of the main text, the author of the engraving is "the first article written by Shi Jinshi, Tongyi Dafu, Right Attendant of the Ministry of Works, Former Inspector of Henan, Right Deputy Governor of Duchayuan, and Cheng Shaodun, a relative."
Cheng Shao was a representative of the Cheng family in Dezhou, a jinshi in the seventeenth year of the Wanli Calendar (1589), an official to the Tonghui Doctor, the right attendant of the Ministry of Works, and posthumously awarded the title of Shangshu of the Ministry of Works.
Jiao Tianbin, the lord of Zhi, was open-minded and charitable all his life, and later donated local officials to serve the imperial court, while Zhiwen was written by the Right Attendant of the Ministry of Works, the Inspector of Henan, and the deputy capital of the Duchayuan, Yushi Chengshao, and the two wrote this article because of the disparity in status, I think there are three reasons;
First, zhi lord's good deeds are famous for avoiding election, as a fellow countryman, Cheng Shao naturally heard about it and recognized his behavior very much, so he wrote this article;
Second, Jiao Yurun, the eldest son of the Zhi Lord, is twenty years old, that is, if he is in shangku, at this time there should be an official position, and the two are officials in Beijing and fellow villagers, and it should be reasonable to ask for an inscription;
Third, the text says: the second daughter Huang Mu out, Shiku Sheng Cheng Dingnan, Cheng Xiansheng", Cheng Shao's grandson is named Cheng Xianzhen, according to Chinese customs, the text said that Cheng Xiansheng and Cheng Xianzhen are likely to be brothers of the same ethnic group, so the two major families of Jiao and Cheng are relatives of each other, so it is also natural to write this article.
This epitaph is rare in form and is the only epitaph of this form preserved in Dezhou City.
(Wen Lu Hongwei)