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The imperial examination is an important path for ancient society to change the direction of the family, so many families have worked hard to let their children enroll in school, but in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the imperial examination was held every three years, and the children, noon, 卯, and unitary years were the township examinations, and the selection of people, ugly, unworthy, Chen, and E were tested and selected for the advancement. Many people have spent their lives in exhaustion, and it is difficult to obtain meritorious names in the end.
The Pangu Wang family in WeiXian County, Hebei Province, produced two people in the Ming and Qing dynasties, Wang Guozuo and Wang Shaoting, although this is very different from the "One Door Seven Scholars" of some families in the Jiangnan region, but in the northern region where the literary style is not very prosperous, it should also be valuable. For example, in the last township test of the Ming Dynasty, there was only one person in the whole Wei County, and only two people in the whole Wei County were selected in the last section of the Qing Dynasty. Take the whole city of Xingtai, Ming Chongzhen fifteen years (1642 AD) Nongwuke is the last branch of the township test held by the Northern Zhili, the Northern Zhili has jurisdiction over 8 provinces and 135 prefectures, and a total of 105 people are taken from the undergraduate, of which 13 are Counted by Xingtai Wang Mengxu, Julu Li Chenglong, Pingxiang Wang Guoyan, Renxian Wang Zhihan, Neiqiu Liu Shi, Guangzong Lü Hongye, Lincheng Qiao Ruyue, Nanhe Su Xizhan, Shahe Zhao Wanbi, Xinhe Zhu Ming, Nangong Zhao Yaowen, Xingtai Cao Jianhua, Weixian Wang Guozuo (101st in the middle), and so on. Wang Guozuo is the 10th grandson of the Wang family of Pangu in Wei County.
In the twenty-eighth year of the Qing Dynasty (1902 AD), Nong Yin supplemented Gengzi Xin Ugly Enzheng and Kezhong, the 17th grandson of the Pangu Wang clan in Wei County, Wang Shaoting, who was the 407th person in the North Zhili.
Wang Guozuo and Wang Shaoting not only belong to the Pangu Wang family, but also belong to the same lineage family, both of which are the bloodline of the second ancestor of the Pangu Wang clan, Wang Shaoting is the descendant of Wang Xuan, the second son of The Duke of Fuquan, and Wang Shaoting is the grandson of Wang Tai, the third son of the Duke of Fuquan. Since Ming Hongwu moved to Wei County in the sixteenth year of Ming Hongwu, the Pangu Wang family has cultivated and studied heirlooms, raised children and grandchildren, and cultivated a person through 9 generations of hard work.
According to extant sources, Wang Guozuo (王祚), known as Xiru, was born on July 21, the 37th year of the Ming Dynasty (1609 AD), and was 33 years old at the time of Zhongju, but two years after Zhongju, the Ming Dynasty collapsed, and he did not have the opportunity to participate in the examination.
Similar to Wang Guozuo, the second member of the Wang family, Wang Shaoting, was 23 years old, and three years after the Middle Lift, the Qing Dynasty announced the abolition of the imperial examination system, and Shao Tinggong had to go to Tianjin Beiyang Vocational School to study, and then taught at the Tianhe Normal School (Tianjin Normal School in Hebei).
People say, "three generations can not cultivate a gentleman, five generations can not cultivate a nobleman", in ancient society, an ordinary peasant family went through nine generations, spanning three hundred years to produce a person, its family's efforts can be imagined, but the change of dynasties, so that this training was forced to be interrupted. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the family started from scratch and finally cultivated a person. From this point of view, the family's cultural genes are worth studying, tenacity and perseverance are worth carrying forward, and to this day, the family's spirit of hard work still inspires the descendants of the family to move forward bravely and strive for self-improvement.
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[Note: The author Wang Weikai is the secretary general and researcher of tianjin research center for the theoretical system of socialism with Chinese characteristics.] Over the years, the author has carefully collected and sorted out family historical materials, immersed in the study of family culture, aiming to carry forward and inherit the family's excellent traditional culture, build a good family style, cultivate the family, remember the ancestors, enlighten future generations, and promote the construction of social civilization. The series of stories of the Wang family in Pangu Village, Wei County, Hebei Province, is a recent original work of Mr. Wang Weikai. ]