Loyalty and filial piety last a long time, or loyalty and filial piety last a long time: Loyalty and filial piety last a long time, and reading lasts a long time.

Meaning: With the character of loyalty and kindness, the family can endure for a long time, just like poems and books can be circulated in the world for so long.

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Loyalty and filial piety are passed down from far away families and poems and books will last forever

Author: Fang Yanshou

In many local chronicles in Fujian It records the story of "raining money to help with burial". It is said that during the Qianning period of Emperor Zhaozong of the Tang Dynasty (894-897), Xiong Gun, the second ancestor of the Xiong family in Jianyang, also had the courtesy name Buzhi and Feishan. At that time, he was the Minister of the Ministry of War and the imperial censor. "By nature, one should be extremely filial, and when there is chaos, there will be no salary, but there will be rewards when one performs meritorious service." During the funeral, we cried day and night, and it rained suddenly for three days before the funeral was completed." Later generations called him "Loyalty, Filial Piety and Rain Money Gong". This matter was recorded in the "Book of Fujian" written by He Qiaoyuan in the Ming Dynasty, the "Jianning Prefecture Chronicles" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and the "Jianyang County Chronicles" in the past dynasties. The "Genealogy of the Xiong Family in Damyang" collected by the Fujian Provincial Library contains the same life story of Xiong Gun.

Some people think that such a "beautiful legend" is not very credible. There are two main doubts: First, how can a high-ranking official who is the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Imperial Censor be so poor? The truth is that in the late Tang Dynasty, the society was in turmoil, the national power was declining, and people's livelihood was in decline. The imperial court's "no salary" incident did not happen.

The second is to move the heaven and the earth, rain is money, is it credible? This is actually a beautiful misunderstanding that has been circulating for thousands of years. In fact, the situation may be that the villagers were moved by his filial piety and threw money into his yard on a rainy night; and then told him that it rained last night and every household had money to pave the floor. However, except for the Xiong family, no one else Home is not available. To people who don’t know the details, it really feels like a special blessing from God!

Despite this, as a descendant of the Xiong family, I firmly believe in this legend. In addition to many records in the genealogy, there are still plaques such as "Yu Qian Family" and "Yu Qian Hall" in the ancestral halls of the descendants of the Xiong family.

In the works of his descendant Neo-Confucianist Xiong He, such as "Republication of the Collected Works of Mr. Xiong Wuxuan", it is also recorded that Xiong Gun wrote ten volumes of "Yu Qian Collection"; after his death, the imperial court granted him a posthumous title It's called "loyalty and filial piety".

In the Jianyang Bookshop of the Ming Dynasty, there were book-engraving workshops named "Yu Qian Family", "Yu Qian Hall", "Yu Qian Hall", etc., which published many classics. To this day, in the National Museum of China, there is still a rare collection of ancient books published by the "Shu Lin Yu Qian Family" in the Ming Dynasty.

It can be seen that the inheritance of loyalty and filial piety has become a belief passed down from generation to generation by the descendants of "Loyalty, Filial Piety and Rain Qian Gong". Among these descendants, the main representatives include the historian Xiong Ke and the late scholar Xiong Gangda in the Song Dynasty, the Neo-Confucian scholar and educator Xiong He in the Yuan Dynasty, and the novelist Xiong Damu in the Ming Dynasty.

Xiong Ke (1132-1204), named Zifu, was born in Jianyang and was a Jinshi in the 21st year of Shaoxing (1151) in the Southern Song Dynasty. He has successively served as chief secretary, professor of Zhenjiang Fuxue, magistrate of Zhuji County, living minister and direct bachelor of the academy, etc.

Xiong Ke's main achievement is in history, and his works include "Zhongxing Xiaoli", "Nine Dynasties General Strategy", "Essence of Zhuzi", etc. "Zhongxing Xiaoli" records events from May of the first year of Jianyan (1127) to December of the 20th year of Shaoxing (1150).

Through issues such as the war between the Song and Jin Dynasties and the internal affairs of the Southern Song Dynasty during this period, the author expresses the author's patriotic thought of hoping for the "revival" of the Southern Song Dynasty. In order to carry forward the Confucian idea of ??filial piety, Xiong Ke carried forward the woodblock printing skills in his hometown of Jianyang and published "Annotations on the Classic of Filial Piety" by Zheng Kangcheng of the Han Dynasty at the Academy in Jingkou (now Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province). The original version was obtained from Yuan Shu, a historian in Jian'an.

Chen Zhensun's "Explanation of Zhizhai Shulu" records: "The original version is rarely found in the world. In Qiandao, Xiong Kezi obtained it from Yuan Shuzhongji and engraved it in Jingkou Academy."

Xiong Jie, courtesy name Duancao, was born in Jianyang and a disciple of Zhu Zi. He loved to read "Yi" when he was ten years old. In the fifth year of Qingyuan (1199), he went to the imperial court, which was the time of the so-called "ban on false learning". Xiong Jie was still able to stick to his position as a teacher and did not cater to the changing times. Later Li Guan Tongzhilang learned about Minqing County in Fuzhou.

Xiong Jie's writings are rich, including the twenty-three volumes of Xingli Qun Shu Ju Jie, which he co-edited with Xiong Gangda. This book collects extensively the remains of Confucian scholars from the two Song Dynasties, and organizes them into categories such as training, precepts, admonitions, regulations, inscriptions, poems, rhymes, prefaces, notes, explanations, recordings, and interpretations.

The first list includes the portraits of the seven sages Zhou Dunyi, Cheng Hao, Cheng Yi, Zhang Zai, Shao Yong, Sima Guang and Zhu Xi, as well as the preaching tribes. At the end, there are parallel facts about the seven sages.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, many books named after "Xingli" emerged, and this book actually originated from this book. Therefore, the significance of this book in the history of the spread of Neo-Confucianism in the Song and Ming Dynasties was described by the officials of the Fourth Library of the Qing Dynasty as "a man who makes music" The reed is the vertebra wheel of the chariot builder."

Xiong Gangda, a scholar in Jianyang (years of birth and death unknown), named Guxi, was a Jinshi in the seventh year of Jiading (1214). He studied under Cai Yuan and Huang Qian, disciples of Zhu Xi, and served in Jian'an (now Jian'an). Ou) County professor. In the 14th year of Chunxi in the Southern Song Dynasty (1187), Zhu Xi compiled "Primary School" in Wuyi Jingshe, which is the earliest existing primary school textbook in my country.

Since the publication of this book, it has been vigorously popularized and promoted in various places, and has played an important role in explaining ethics, promoting filial piety, and promoting social education. In order to promote the traditional idea of ??filial piety, Xiong Gang wrote "Ji Jie of Primary School". In terms of chronology, this book is the earliest interpretation of Zhu Xi's "Primary School".

After that, Xiong He of Jianyang in the early Yuan Dynasty wrote "Explanation of Sentences in Elementary School". The "General Catalog of Sikuquanshu" records that Xiong He's "Wuxuan Collection" quoted Yuan Xu Heng's preface, saying that "the Titles of the Four Books, the Lectures on the Book of Changes, the Authentic Selections of Poems, and the Interpretations of Elementary School Sentences have been handed down to the world."

Xiong He (1247-1312), whose courtesy name was Qufei and whose nickname was Wuxuan, changed his name to Tuizhai after entering the Yuan Dynasty. He was an important representative of Zhu Xixue in Fujian during the Yuan Dynasty and spared no effort to promote and spread Zhu Xixue. Jianyang is known as the "hometown of the seven sages" in history, and Xiong He is one of the seven sages.

In the first year of Jingyan of the Southern Song Dynasty (1276), Xiong He was 30 years old, only two years away from becoming a Jinshi. In this year, Xiong He changed his name to "Tuizhai" to express his intention to retire from the mountains and forests and vow not to serve as an official.

In the Yuan Dynasty (1279-1294), the Yuan Dynasty authorities heard of Xiong He's name and ordered him to serve in the state capital many times. Xiong He refused to recruit him on the grounds of physical discomfort. During the next 35 years of living in the Yuan Dynasty, Xiong He always criticized the Yuan and praised the Song Dynasty, calling himself "a righteous man of the Song Dynasty and a stubborn citizen of the Yuan Dynasty", which reflected his noble national integrity.

In the 22nd year of the Yuan Dynasty (1285), after Xie Fangde (1226-1289) was defeated in the war against the Yuan Dynasty, he fled from Jiangxi to Fujian and took refuge in Jianyang, where he heard about Xiong Hezhi. I made a special trip to visit Xionghe Wuyi Hongyuan Library. The two met late and resented each other, and "the emperor complained about his hatred for the death of the Song Dynasty". They share the same moral principles and discuss Zhu Xi's theory of human nature.

The two got together for several months and couldn't bear to say goodbye. Xie Fangde, who was already in his sixties, became close friends with Xiong He, who was only 38 years old.

In the ninth year of Dade in the Yuan Dynasty (1305), Xiong He returned to his hometown of Jianyang from Wuyi Mountain, rebuilt the Aofeng Academy left by his ancestors in the Tang Dynasty, and gave lectures here. In order to express respect for Zhu Xi, the door direction was changed to face Yungu.

"We advocated the elegance of literature, looked at Zili, and renovated it. We also added the Yanju Hall in the front and the Daoyuan Hall in the back. On the left, we built a shrine for Wen Gong's teachers and friends, and on the right, we built a Xiong Temple. The temple of the Zhongxiao family faces Yungu, so it was renamed "Yungu Academy" due to the inheritance of Wen Gong's Taoism." Fuzhen was named Zhonggu, also known as Aofeng, Aofeng Descendants, etc. Damu was his name. A native of Chonghua Bookstore in Jianyang, he is the great-grandson of Xiong Zongli, a famous calligrapher in the Zhengtong period of the Ming Dynasty (1436-1449), and a descendant of Xiong He, an acting scholar of the Yuan Dynasty.

Xiong Damu inherited the book engraving business from his ancestors and also engraved many books under the name of Xiong's "Zhongzhengtang". At the same time, he also wrote many popular novels himself. He was the earliest writer to compile historical romances and heroic romance novels in the history of Chinese novels after "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" and "Water Margin".

"Zhizhuan of the Northern Song Dynasty" is Xiong Damu's representative work. It is published together with another historical novel "Zhuan of the Southern Song Dynasty", commonly known as "Zhuan of the Northern and Southern Song Dynasties", each with ten volumes and fifty chapters. "Zhizhuan of the Northern Song Dynasty" is compiled by the author based on an extensive collection of folk stories of the Yang family during the Song and Yuan Dynasties, scripts of the Song and Yuan Dynasties and relevant plays in Yuan dramas.

In addition to this book, Xiong Damu also compiled and published "The Popular Romance of Zhongxing in the Song Dynasty", which is the earliest novel describing Yue Fei's anti-gold deeds.

The deeds of Xiong's "loyalty and filial piety to Yu Qian Gong" and his descendants can't help but recall the widely circulated couplet among the people: "Loyalty and filial piety spread far from home, and poems and books will last forever." (Fang Yanshou) )