In Zhangqiu District, Jinan City, Shandong Province, there is a town called "Xianggongzhuang Town", with a total area of about 86 square kilometers and a population of 65,000.
The Xianggongzhuang area has a long history, the earliest historical records are in the Spring and Autumn Period, according to legend, Guan Zhong and Bao Shuya once lived here, in addition, the famous Tang Dynasty prime minister Fang Xuanling, also Xianggongzhuang people.
However, the name "Xianggongzhuang" was changed to commemorate Zhang Yanghao, a famous politician and literary scholar of the Yuan Dynasty.
During the Yuan Dynasty, there was a large family in Xianggongzhuang, the Zhang family, and the Zhang family knew the importance of education, so there was a school hall in the family to educate all school-age children.
It is precisely this style of advocating education that has made the Zhang family produce many important courtiers and literary masters, such as Zhang Sili and Zhang Youyi's uncle and nephew, all of whom worship Zhongshu to participate in political affairs, a double-phase, which can be described as an incomparable glory.
The most famous person from the Zhang family also belongs to Zhang Yanghao.
Speaking of Zhang Yanghao, everyone is most familiar with his famous song "Hillside Sheep Tong Cares for The Ancients", especially the last sentence: "Xing, the people suffer; death, the people suffer!" "It has been circulating for nearly a thousand years without fading.
In fact, in addition to being a famous poet and composer, Zhang Yanghao was also a famous courtier of the Yuan Dynasty, and experienced several emperors such as Yuan Chengzong, Yuan Wuzong, Yuan Yingzong, Emperor Taiding, and Yuan Wenzong, and successively served as the inspector of imperial history, the rebbe waiter, the rebbe Shangshu, and finally the official to Zhongshu Province, equivalent to the prime minister.
Zhang Yanghao was a clean and honest official, just and upright, and successive emperors all favored him, so that after he returned to his hometown, the emperor hired him to return to the imperial court seven times and continue to serve the country.
However, the elderly Zhang Yanghao, because of his poor health and tired of official fighting, refused all of them.
In the second year of emperor Wenzong's calendar, because of the severe drought in Shaanxi, the imperial court implored Zhang Yanghao to re-emerge from the mountains and preside over disaster relief. In the face of the great righteousness of the country, Zhang Yanghao did not resign this time, and it was incumbent on him to rush to Shaanxi and serve as a taichung in Shaanxi to comprehensively deal with the disaster.
During his tenure, Zhang Yanghao was personal to the disaster situation, took care of the victims, and under his management, the losses caused by the disaster were alleviated to the greatest extent. However, due to his advanced age and overwork, Zhang Yanghao died during his term of office at the age of 59.
The people of Shaanxi were grateful for his kindness and merits, and honored him as "Zhang Da Xianggong".
After the news of Zhang Yanghao's illness and death reached his hometown, the Zhang family and the people in Zhuang were deeply saddened at the same time, but they were also proud that zhuang had produced such a big figure with high wind and bright festivals. Because the people in the disaster area called him "Zhang Da Xianggong", the hometown people changed the name of the village to "Zhang Xiang Gongzhuang" to commemorate this Zhang Yanghao, who bowed down and died.
In the Ming Dynasty, due to the emergence of many high-ranking officials, the entire family moved to the capital and other areas to live, and the Wang family in Shanxi moved here, after hearing about the deeds of the Zhang family, they were very respected, and they educated the children in the clan according to the method of the Zhang family.
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, the Wang family produced a teenager named Wang Shirui, who passed the jinshi examination, was deeply appreciated by Kangxi, and served as the zhizhou of Luzhou, and later entered Tibet to be crowned king, and was highly respected.
In this way, the Wang family also had a "Great Xianggong", and the locals felt that it was incomplete to call it "Zhang Xianggongzhuang", so they changed the name of the village to "Xianggongzhuang".
However, in the 1960s, in the trend of "breaking the four olds", the term "Xianggong" was changed to "Xianggongzhuang" because it involved the four olds.
At the end of the 1970s, it was restored to "Xianggongzhuang", which has been used ever since.