Part III: The Case of Fan Zhongyan and qingyang (Part 1)

On September 22, the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1229 AD), Ding Zhi of Qingyang Zhi County asked the southern Song Dynasty central Chizhou official to ask the doctor Ding Yi to compose the "Records of the Ancestral Hall of The Duke Of Chizhou Fanwenzheng". He also told him that Fan Zhongyan studied in Changshan, Qingyang at an early age, and that his stepfather Zhu Wenhan was a native of Zhujiazhuang in Qingyang County, and that his people held a portrait of Fan Zhongyan's mother Xie and a sequel to the Zhu clan.

Ding Yi gladly composed, and as soon as this article came out, it actually triggered an ancient public case, that is, did Fan Zhongdrown read a book in Qingyang Changshan? This pen and ink lawsuit has been fought from the Southern Song Dynasty to the present, which has lasted for nearly a thousand years.

Fan Zhongyan (1 October 989 – 19 June 1052) was a famous politician, military, writer, and educator during the Northern Song Dynasty. We have all read the "Record of Yueyang Lou", especially the sentence "The world is worried and worried before the world, and the world is happy and happy", which is a classic of eternal flowing fangs. The tomb of Teng Zijing, who "Teng Zi Jing who guarded Baling County", was near the original 318 National Highway near Qingyang County, and the epitaph was also written by Fan Zhongyan. As a native of Chizhou, due to the above factors, I basically agree with the statement that Fan Zhongyun read books in Qingyang Changshan.

But as more and more information has been read, the situation is not as simple as we think, and the debate in it is very sharp, from the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty to the present.

I. Song Yuan's information about Fan Zhongyan

According to the "Biography of Fan Zhongyun of song history", "Fan Zhongyun, the character Xiwen, after the Tang Zaixiang walked on the ice. Zhongyan was two years old and lonely, and his mother was more suitable for the Changshan Zhu clan, from his surname, name said. ”

The "History of Song" was written in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, and here it is mentioned that "the mother is more suitable for the Changshan Zhu clan", and I have collected some historical materials about the "Changshan Zhu clan", and there are three main places before Fan Zhongyan's death and death, all of which are the history of faith. First, Fan Zhongyan and Teng Zijing were the same list of jinshi in the Northern Song Dynasty in 1015, and Fan Zhongyan's name was Zhu Shu at that time. Second, the Song Hui Zhi Zhi Manuscript and Ritual System records that "on April 4, 1045, the fifth year of the Qing calendar (1045), Fan Zhong, a scholar of the Senior Government Hall and Fan Zhong of Xinzhi Prefecture, said: Nian Chen was not created by the family, and was born and orphaned, but the mother's obedience was established according to it. Stepfather's ancestor Zizhou Changshan County Ling Zhu Wenhan, both to raise, to return to the education of the guide, this or forget, will be settled. Fu Yu Li into a suburban temple, Ze was covered with insect fish. Fu Wang was given the meritorious rank of honor by his subjects and gave back to his stepfather as an official. ZhaoWenhan special gift Dr. Taichang". This article points out that "Changshan ZhuShi" is "Zizhou Changshan County Ling Zhu Wenhan", and the "Song Huijiao" belongs to the nature of government archives and has a high degree of credibility. Third, after The Death of Duke Fan in the fourth year of the Emperor's reign (1052), the Shinto Inscription, written by his friend Ouyang Xiu, simply said that "Gong was born two years old and was orphaned, and his mother's wife was poor and helpless, and then suitable for the Zhu clan of Changshan." Another friend, Fu Bi, wrote the "Epitaph", saying: "Zhongdrown Zi Xiwen, unfortunately two years old and lonely, the wife returned to the north at the beginning, the deceased relatives were old, lonely and poor and helpless, and then suitable for the Changshan Zhu clan." These historical sources from 1052 and before it indicate that "Changshan ZhuShi" and "Zizhou Changshan County Ling Zhu Wenhan" do not point out whether Zhu Wenhan is a Changshan national, but point out that Changshan is Changshan County of Zizhou (southeast of present-day Zouping County, Shandong Province). Note that none of the above historical records have raised Qingyang County (Qingyang was established in the early Tang Dynasty and has been using this name ever since).

Thirteen years after Fan Zhongyan's death, in the second year of Zhiping (1065 AD), Changshan County ordered Han Ze to repair the Fan Gong Ancestral Hall and write the "New Fan Gong Ancestral Hall". Historical data can be seen from here that any historical data does not mention Fan Zhongyan's childhood Qingyang reading, indicating that Fan Zhongyan's relationship with the Zhu clan in Changshan, Shandong, does not need to be debated.

The Annals of Fan Wenzheng written by Lou Key of the Southern Song Dynasty (1137-1213) were written about 150 years after Fan Zhongyan's death, and Fan Zhongyan's lack of between the ages of two and twenty was absent for the middle of eighteen years, which laid the space for imagination for the controversy of the Qingyang Gong case. However, Lou Key explains in the preface that Changshan is Changshan County, Zizhou.

At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, a Chizhou native Ding Yi's "Records of Fan Wenzheng Ancestral Hall" first mentioned Fan Zhongyan's childhood Qingyang reading. It had been ten hundred and seventy-seven years since Fan Zhongyan's death, and this statement was originally doubtful. It was fan's descendants who stirred up this basin of water. Published in the Yuan Dynasty and reprinted in the Ming Dynasty, the very precious "Fan WenZheng Gongji" was "co-schooled" by Fan Qiqi, the fifteenth grandson of Fan Shi, and the same as the sixteenth Sun Fan Weiyuan. The descendants of Fan in the Yuan Dynasty believed that Ding Yi's "Ancestral Hall Record" was well written, rich in information, and highly credible, and included it in the "Fan Wenzheng Gongji And Appendix". The book was photocopied and published in the "Four Series" in 1926 and recognized as a "rare book". Now it is included in the punctuation book of "Fan WenZheng's Complete Works", which has a greater impact.

In response to the doubts about Fan Zhongyan's childhood since the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Konghuai of the Qing Dynasty wrote the "Examination of the Deeds of Song Fan Wenzheng Gongliu Yu Changshan", prefaced by Sun Tingquan, Gao Heng, Nan Zhijie, and Wang Zhen, which was published in Kangxi (1673). The author of the book, Liu Konghuai, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, a native of Changshan, was a tribute to the 11th year of Shunzhi (1654), a reclusive lover of learning, proficient in examination and exhortation, and the eight characters of "seeking truth from facts, learning is true" are taken as rules. "Liu Yu Kao" is a monograph examining Fan Zhongyan's life experience, and its credibility is very high.

In the Kangxi DingHai year of the Qing Dynasty (1707 AD), Fan Nengjun, the main devotee of the 19th Sun Ancestral Hall of the Fan Dynasty, edited the Fan Wen Zheng Ji (Shi Han Tang Ben), which added the five pages of the Supplement, which was later included in the "Four Libraries Complete Book". Volume II of the Supplement to the Fan WenZheng Collection of the Compilation of Fan Wenzheng deleted the old "Collection" advocating changshan Zizhou, and there was a "Song Taishi Zhongshu Ling and Shang Shu Ling Wei Guo Gong Wen Zheng Biography" (which is customarily referred to as "Family Biography" in academic circles), which is not available in other versions, and first copied a paragraph of the original text as follows: "The world is a native of Suzhou County, Yu Zu Mengling, Zu Zanshi, Father Yong, Ju Shi Yue, The Stepfather returned to the Song with Qian Qi, and finally Xuzhou Jiedu was in charge of the secretary." Duan Gong was ugly in the second year, two years old and lonely, and his mother Lady Xie was poor and helpless, and he was more suitable for the Chu clan of Chi Prefecture. Fan Nengjun filled in the "note": "Zhou Guo (Fan Yong, Fan Zhongyan's biological father) returned from the Qian clan for more than ten years, from Ji to Shu and Xu, creeping to WeiLu, once donated to the museum, went to the countryside for thousands of miles, three young and weak, so this lady was poor and helpless. After the second brother returned to Wu, Wen Zheng did not leave the swaddling, so he was born with the Zhu clan. That is to say, Fan Zhongyan was less than one year old and followed his mother to Qingyang Changshan in Chizhou: when Fan Zhongyan's biological father died, Fan Zhongyan did not leave his swaddling, less than one year old, and followed his mother to "raise in the Zhu family". Further confirmed Fan Zhongyan's childhood Qingyang reading said.