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We Chinese people often say: wealth is only for three generations, even if a family once flourished, it often fades away in less than three generations, and eventually disappears in the long river of history.
Throughout the history of China, in China before the Sui and Tang Dynasties , due to the fact that aristocratic families controlled the absolute resources of society and formed clans, many families could continue to thrive for hundreds or even thousands of years. After the Sui and Tang Dynasties, with the disappearance of the clans and nobles, there were almost no such big families that could last hundreds of years of military, political, businessmen and celebrities.
Picture: Chinese families
Even those who were once imperial families have lost their former glory due to the change of dynasties. But even after the elimination of the long history, there are still some lucky families that have been passed down, and they are still prominent today. For example, the family we are going to talk about next, although little-known, many people in this family are famous. The
family is now hidden in an inconspicuous small county town in China. It can be called the first family in China. It has prospered for more than 1,000 years and still has not lost its talents.
Picture: Jixi County
This family is the Jixi Hu family located in , , Jixi County, Xuancheng City, Anhui Province. When it comes to the Jixi Hu family, it is impossible not to mention the small county town of Jixi.
Jixi County is a mountainous county located in southern Anhui, Anhui Province. It was originally one of the six counties of Huizhou City (now Huangshan City), and was designated as Xuancheng in 1987. Jixi is one of the birthplaces of Hui culture, Hui merchants, Hui cuisine , Huizhou architecture , etc., which are well-known in China.
Picture: Jixi County
The Jixi Hu clan has now multiplied to a population of more than 30,000, accounting for about 16% of the total population of Jixi County (about 180,000).
If the family has a large population, the Jixi Hu family will not be able to have the reputation of "the first family". What is more important is that the Jixi Hu family has produced a large number of talents in the 1000 years since the Northern Song Dynasty. It is difficult for China to find another such family.
Picture: Jixi Hu's Ancestral Hall
Let's take a look at the characters of the Jixi Hu family. For example, the famous officials in the Northern Song Dynasty, inspected the censors Hu Shunzhi, Hu Shunzhi inspected the censors, censors, Jiyingdian Xiuzhuan, the prefect of Luzhou, Guangxi Jinglue, and was later framed by treacherous officials Qin Hui He was imprisoned and died. After his death, he was named Duke of Ming.
The famous writer Hu Zai in the Southern Song Dynasty is also the Jixi Hu family, and he is also the second son of Hu Shunzhi, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty.
During the Ming Dynasty, the Jixi Hu family published two ministers, one was Hu Fu, the minister of households, and the other was more famous, the minister of war and the famous minister of anti-Japanese Hu Zongxian.
Picture: Hu Zongxian is like
The Jixi Hu family was more prosperous during the Qing Dynasty. Many people from the Hu family went out to do business. Hui merchants in this period also ushered in their heyday, such as the famous "red-top merchant"Hu Xueyan , helping Zongtang Zuo to recover Xinjiang , holds half of the wealth of the Qing Dynasty, he is from the Jixi Hu family, and started Hangzhou at the age of 13.
In addition, Mr. Hu Kaiwen , a famous Hui-ink master in the Qing Dynasty, also came from the Jixi Hu family.
Since modern times, the Jixi Hu family still has no fault , such as the famous scholar Hu Chuan (Hu Tiehua), who is also the Jixi Hu family. Compared with Hu Tiehua, his son is even more famous and occupies an important position in modern history. He is Hu Shi .
Picture: Hu Shi
In contemporary times, the Jixi Hu family has a big man, which is even more powerful, and many people must be familiar with it.
Throughout the history of China, there have been many famous people for more than 1,000 years, and the family that has been able to continue to rise to this day is the first to recommend the Jixi Hu family. These people are only the most famous in the Jixi Hu family. Not at all.
Everyone must be very interested, what is the secret of Jixi Hu's longevity? In fact, the main reason is that the family has attached great importance to education for thousands of years, and the style of writing is prevalent.
Jixi is located in the mountainous area of southern Anhui. In ancient times, the transportation was inconvenient, and there was not much land suitable for cultivation. There were only two ways for people to change their fate, one is to do business, and the other is to read. Huizhou people have believed in "excellence in education and officialdom" since ancient times, which is also the reason why the Jixi Hu family has come out of so many celebrities in the military, political and business circles for thousands of years.
Picture: Huizhou Mountains
In addition to the Jixi Hu family, there are several families in Huizhou that have prospered since ancient times. Relatively speaking, the Jixi Hu family is more outstanding. These families can maintain longevity, in the final analysis, they attach importance to education.
There are only two ways of education, one is to learn through reading; the other is to teach by words and deeds of predecessors. For example, Huizhou merchants who dominated the business world in the Ming and Qing Dynasties for 500 years attached great importance to teaching by words and deeds. It's both.
In fact, the success of the Jixi Hu family is very similar to the success of the Jewish . The two have many things in common, such as attaching importance to education, such as being good at doing business, such as actively entering official positions after success, so as to maintain the family and the group. prosperous. Especially the last point is what many Chinese lack, such as Southeast Asian Chinese, who still don't understand this truth. They only know how to make money and don't care about entering an official position. In the end, they still have no status, so they cannot guarantee the accumulation of wealth.
Here, I recommend to you a wonderful book " Talmud " that Jews must read since childhood. The reason why I recommend the Jewish Talmud to everyone is that there are many similarities between the success of the Jews and the success of the Jixi Hu family.
The Talmud is known as the second Jewish Bible . It is a book that Jews study from life to death. The content is all-encompassing and the source of Jewish wisdom. The Talmud has been in the book for thousands of years, and the content has been continuously increasing. The top Jewish people of each era will comment and enrich the content. All the wisdom in the Talmud is the condensation of the top wisdom of the Jews. The best Jewish entrepreneurs in the world all started with the Talmud.
Jews have absorbed the wisdom of their ancestors from the Talmud, which is similar to the Jixi Hu family, which has been passed down for thousands of years. Both of them attach great importance to education and inheritance. have their own unique views.
JewsEinstein once said: "If I were to live again, I must read the Talmud again." When a Jewish woman gets married, there must be a Talmud in her dowry. Said it is suitable for all classes of people.
Of course, the content of the full version of the Talmud is too huge. After reading it, it is equivalent to reading the 24 history of China. In today's fast-paced society, few people have time to digest it slowly. This book I introduce to you is a simplified version of the Talmud Wisdom Complete Works. Follow the Jews to learn how to find a way to make money, realize the freedom of wealth, and make you rich for three generations.
If we can't know how the Jixi Hu family did it, then we can look at how the Jews did it, and learn from the advantages of others to strengthen themselves. In the end, it will be difficult to fail.
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