Some people say,
The hand that drives the world,
It is the hand that shakes the cradle.
A family,
Even if the house is surrounded by walls,
As long as there is one
Honest, hardworking, kind, optimistic mother,
it is the temple of spiritual growth,
A cradle of talent.
Huxiang land spirit and people
Xiaolian is also proud of this
Today let's walk through the smoke clouds of history together
To meet a great mother who gave birth to a giant son of Xiangtan
Li Peijing
He once served as the inspector of Guizhou, the governor of Jiangsu, and the governor of Caoyun in the Qing Dynasty, and his parents and families were all scholars, and he was a turning point figure in the Rise of the Li family in Xiangtan Gaoshan and the rise of family learning.
The story of Li Mu Song is included in the "Loving Mother's Family Training"
Li Peijing was able to achieve such an achievement, and his mother Song Shi was indispensable. Guo Songtao, China's first foreign envoy and minister of the late Qing Dynasty, included in his poetry collection the "Epitaph of Li Mu Song and The Widows", which recorded the story of Li Song's urging his children to read and be human.
A collection of poems by Guo Songtao
Li Song's husband died eight years after marriage, she raised three young children and served her grandmother and in-laws, although she often cried secretly in the bedroom, in front of her family, she was always pleasant and cheerful, and went to the church to ask the elders whether they were safe to live, so that the grandmother and in-laws forgot the pain of losing their grandchildren and sons.
After the death of her father-in-law and grandmother, she became more intimate with her mother-in-law, supporting and caring for her with a sincere heart, and after her mother-in-law's death, she was buried according to etiquette, and people in the clan praised her for her virtuousness.
Since the death of their father-in-law, the children's uncles thought that the Song clan was weak and could be deceived, and tried to plunder and embezzle his family property.
Li's ancestors left a high-quality Duanxi stone stone for her family, and one of the children's cousins wanted to seize it for themselves, and Song Zhengse said to him: "Reading for the children, this Yanchi left by the ancestors I hope will eventually be preserved, and you can take away the other belongings." The cousin was deeply ashamed to hear this and left.
Li Peijing calligraphy
When the children grow up, they learn to read, and she does not assign them any housework, and always says, "Don't mess with your hearts because of family affairs." "Cousins who live in a house play games, the children secretly go to peek, and the Song clan scolds them severely.
A cousin said to the Song clan, "Your sons are fortunate enough to be adults, so why don't you relax the discipline for them?" If in the future they live outside and they want to play games, who can forbid them? Song said with tears in his eyes: "They are children without fathers." One day in the world, I will fulfill my responsibilities for one day, and I will not ask anything else. ”
When the Song family is in difficulty, what they consider is not money, but strictly teaching their children to read and study, and they are not allowed to have a lazy and loose heart.
This may seem too harsh and rigid today, which is not conducive to the all-round development of young people's physical and mental development, but it is understandable that she is bent on inheriting her husband's legacy and urging her children to study hard and be a good person.
Because of the song's good teachings, her three children later became familiar with the Confucian classics, and Li Peijing became a feudal official.
The three brothers and sisters have deep feelings for their mother, and when Li Peijing was fifty years old in the first year of Guangxu, he canceled all celebrations in order to commemorate his mother.
Li Peijing's "Self-Narrated Chronology of the Takema Daoists"
He said to himself, "Pei Jing is a young orphan, Mrs. Lai's upbringing has been established to this day, and Mrs. Lai has lived a bitter life for half a year, and she abandoned her cultivation before she was fifty years old. Dare to donate lian to the Shangjie Hall to benefit the wives, Mrs. Zhiye. Side by side, the subordinate officials, that is, those who greet each other with the screen joint do not accept it, and donate the original Tuzhu Lingtian Mu to the Ben Yi Binxing Fee."
It can be seen that Song's teachings for his children are not limited to books, but are deeply rooted in the true ignorance of Confucian "benevolence".
To learn more about the historical women's story of Xiangtan, please pay attention to the WeChat public account of the Xiangtan Women's Federation "Lotus City Lotus".
EDIT: Yiyi