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At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the famous family in Nanxi County, Sichuan Province, and the folk saying "Zeng Bao Guo Dong Huang". Among them, the Zeng family in the Xicheng of Nanxi City emerged from Jinshi, Jieyuan, Juren, tribute students, and several supervisors, ranking in the "Nanxi County Chronicles" version of the "Republic of China". Today, the remains of Zeng's "Daji" and "Jinshi" still exist. This article records the origin, family traditions, and old house ruins of the Zeng family in this branch.
plaque of the "Da Doctor" and "Jinshi No. 1" of the Zeng family in Xicheng, Nanxi (Signal)
Origin and lineage
Zeng Chengzhou (1731-1801), was born on October 19, Xinhai, the ninth year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty, in Nanxiang, Xingning County, Meizhou, Guangdong, and died on May 11, 19, 19th year of Xinyou, in Xicheng, Nanxi County, Xuzhou, Sichuan. His wife Zhang (1751-1821), born on the 26th day of the winter month of Xinwei in the 16th year of Qianlong, died in the winter of Xinsi in the first year of Daoguang, and was buried with her husband.
The husband and wife have 4 sons: Zeng Rongkai, Zeng Rongfang, Zeng Rongfu, and Zeng Ronghua (moved to Yunnan). The inheritance of the word "Cheng Rong" is inherited and will prosper forever. The country is passed down from generation to generation, and the Qing Dynasty will grow up."
In the tenth year of Qianlong (1745), the 14-year-old Zeng Chengzhou entered Sichuan from Guangdong and settled in Xicheng, Nanxi County, Xuzhou, and became the ancestor of the Zeng family in this branch. Initially, Zeng Chengzhou made a living as a hawker. By the time his eldest son Zeng Rong was in charge, the Zeng family began to make a fortune and the frosting industry he managed was sold to Zhenxiong, Yunnan.
The third generation Zeng Tingzhang and Zeng Tingyu are good at operating, and the scale of the family business has expanded to be the first in Nanxi City. Zeng Tingyu also donated his idle position in Zhili Prefecture, laying the foundation for his descendants to transform into officials. After Zeng Tingyu, the achievements of the Zeng family in the political and business circles of Nanxi County have made him one of the five major families in Nanxi City (Zeng Bao Guo Dong Huang).
Zeng Rongkai, whose courtesy name is Yizhi, was compatible with Wu, and gave birth to a son Zeng Tingzhang. He married Hu and gave birth to sons Zeng Tingshu, Zeng Tingyang and Zeng Tingbiao. The last three sons all started their careers in Zhenxiong, Yunnan.
Zeng Tingzhang, whose courtesy name is Dashi, gave birth to sons Zeng Xiling, Zeng Songling and Zeng Guiling.
Zeng Xiling, whose courtesy name is Shoushan, gave birth to sons Zeng Jiguang, Zeng Jitang and Zeng Jihui. Zeng Songling (Fanchang), whose courtesy name was Boqiao, gave birth to sons Zeng Jixun and Zeng Jipei. Zeng Guiling, whose courtesy name is Yunqiao (Yun Qiao), gave birth to sons Zeng Jilin, Zeng Jixu and Zeng Jichang.
Zeng Jiguang, whose courtesy name is Jingqiu, gave birth to a son Zeng Wanyi. Zeng Jixun, whose courtesy name is Kecheng, gave birth to sons Zeng Wanshi, Zeng Wanxuan, Zeng Wanlu and Zeng Wanli. Zeng Jilin, whose courtesy name was Deshi, gave birth to a son Zeng Wanrang (Zhi Lian).
Zeng Rongfang, whose courtesy name is Chunfu, gave birth to Zeng Tingyu, Zeng Tinglan, Zeng Tingzhong and Zeng Tingshi.
Zeng Tingyu, whose courtesy name is Wen Jia and his pseudonym Yunhui, was born on February 27th (1821) in the first year of Daoguang. He was born on October 25, 1817, Jiaqing , Dingchou (1817), and gave birth to a son Zeng Heling (Minggao).
Zeng Heling, gave birth to sons Zeng Jizu, Zeng Jiying, Zeng Fengyi and Zeng Chunyi. Zeng Fengyi gave birth to sons Zeng Mengliang (Wan Jian), Zeng Zhongliang, Zeng Shuliang and Zeng Jiliang.
"Republic of China" version of "Nanxi County Chronicles", "Imperial Examination-Fengyin" records some of the books and movies of Zeng's family
Family Style Story
"Nanxi Zeng Family Genealogy" contains "Ten Ancestral Teachings", in which "be cautious about officials" says: "Fortunate to be in the officialdom, be cautious about officials. Be clean and considerate for the people, and think deeply. Diligent and honest. , remember the four words. The righteous king is in his body, and the people are in his heart. Meng Chang returned the pearl, and Yang Zhen gave up the gold. Who should I be greedy for you? "
Zeng consciously inherited the thought of cultivating Qi and governing Confucianism in his distant ancestor Zeng Shen , and strived to promote the family tradition of loyalty, diligence, and cautious in solitaryness ("I examine myself three times a day"). If I don't be a good minister, I will be a good doctor and a good teacher, leaving behind a family tradition story of being a clean and upright official and a good person.
Zeng Heling (1839-1915), whose courtesy name is Minggao, was a juren and a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue. My father Zeng Tingyu became rich by doing business.
Zeng Heling has been very smart since childhood and studied with his uncle and tutor Xiao Ying. He studied eight-legged essays, poetry and parallel prose seriously, and learned various classics from the Zhou rituals, and his knowledge and cultivation were quite excellent. In the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, he passed the provincial examination, but failed the following year's examination, so he was donated to serve as a doctor in the Ministry of Revenue.Yan Jingming When he was the Minister of Revenue, he needed to compile a congratulatory note of the Ministry of Revenue. Zeng Heling's article was selected for words such as "Safe and not forgetting danger, and being calm outside and worrying inside", so he became an honest official in the capital for more than 10 years.
1890, Zeng Heling sighed with tears: It is a great event for raising relatives, and it is a virtual weapon for fame and status. Why do parents adopt children? How to tolerate going against your original intention? If you are the only son and unfortunately fail to support your parents, it is unforgivable.
Therefore, Zeng Heling resigned from his official position and retired. It means Di Renjie's " Baiyun's House ", and calls himself Yun Baizi. Afterwards, he served as a lecturer at Neikuefeng Academy and Longteng Academy in Nanxi County. He loved his students like his younger generations, and the scholars he trained were not only his cousin Zeng Fanchang and his cousin Zeng Jiguang, but also He Qi, Zhong Chaoxu, Gao Xi (these five people are all Juren). "The people of the old country who bathe in the teachings are mostly known at the time."
1902, Zeng Heling built a garden on the side of the main temple of Tiezhu Mountain and Sichuan in the western suburbs of the county. He wrote "Xiyuan Records" to survive. The pools, houses and bamboo and wood in the garden are all beautiful.
Zeng Heling studied Bai Juyi , and studied Xu Geng in parallel prose. He wrote two volumes of "Banxiangtang Poem Collection", and his preface says: "Although the poem is a small path, it is extremely difficult to craft the leaves... It has been accumulated for a long time, and it is as many as a thousand poems... It is mostly used to win in ancient times, and the rules are used to win with craftsmanship, and it is absolutely vivid. Although it cannot be reached, I secretly yearn for it..."
From his two poems "Longtengshan", we can see the fresh and elegant characteristics of his poem:
The good bird calls on the branches, and suddenly the dream is shocked.
The city is suspected to be close to Guo, and the river is surprised.
fishing boats and fishing, and farm calves are ploughing.
The morning cooking is not ripe, and the windows are bright under the shadow of the sun.
gradually feels the rush of the crowd, and the book lamp is clear.
There are many birds hanging in the deep trees, and the grass is dense and the insects are chirping.
month of the year is happy to pass through the clouds, and the wind and rain are suspected to be flying.
When I get tired, can I dream of Qingcheng?
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty , Zeng Heling changed to wearing Taoist robe. The wars in Sichuan continue to stop and the people suffer. As long as he talks about this with others, Zeng Heling will be sad and cry: "The politics and education are relaxed, how can he be a country?" Even though he is in seclusion at home, he still cares about the king and country, and is increasingly angry at the unbearable current situation.
In the winter of 1915, when Dian Army was fighting in the melee between Luzhou and Yibin , Zeng Heling vomited a lot of blood in his heart and died of being thin as firewood. He was 76 years old. The tomb is near the Shi Gong and Shi Mother of the Immortal Land.
His son Zeng Jizu, whose courtesy name is Shengwu, was tribute student , and was once the teacher in Shifang County.
Zeng Xiling (?—1895), whose courtesy name is Shoushan, was talented and knowledgeable, and was well-versed in classics and history. He studied medicine by Hou Zhisan, so he was proficient in traditional Chinese medicine. Because his father died early, he loved his brothers and raised his younger brothers Zeng Songling and Zeng Guiling to adulthood. His son Zeng Jiguang passed the imperial examination for the Gengyin Jinshi of Guangxu and was assigned to Guangxi as the magistrate.
In order to make his son a good official, Zeng Xiling specially wrote "Official Proverbs" for him. Liang Qichao said: "The most popular three words in modern times are: Qing, cautious, and diligent." Zeng's article emphasizes the word "sincerity", which still contains the meaning of reference. The full text is as follows:
One day of official position, one day of dedication. There is no need to have many skills, and the so-called sincerity is just to encourage oneself.
loves the people as innocent as a child, and guards against clerks like ghosts. Don’t pretend to be indifferent, and don’t invite fame in the common people. Don’t take others to say good deeds and be honest, and you must seek the truth; don’t let your feelings be happy and angry, and you must get the right one. If you are aware of people outside and conserve all your hearts inside, you can be conscientious of ghosts and gods, and you can be respectful to your king and father, you will be well-versed in the face and inside, and the virtue of sincerity will be fulfilled!
Only frugality can cultivate integrity, but diligence can bring wisdom. If you are diligent, you will not be stuck in your work, and if you are honest, you will not be right. A person’s money comes from diligence and agility, and it should be a symbol of ritual and publicity.
is urgent and requires a little detail; avoid redundant words and reduce leisure. Only by working hard without being tired can you be able to take the complicated drama. Otherwise, if you are forced and have no constipation, you will have troubles. I was worried and became restless. If it hurts nature, it will definitely harm official business. I don't notice it very much!
Things are probably impermanent. Sincerity is the master, calmness is the governing, and stability is the governing. The difference between the high and the low can be weighed at any time.
law enforcement officers lose the truth. Those who are versatile are easy to flow; those who are brave will be stubborn; those who are mixed with their hearts will be mostly used by others. If you want to be independent, you must seek to learn from the ancients. Do not use your own selfishness, and you will be able to understand it.
Zeng Jiguang (1871-1941), whose courtesy name was Jingqiu, Jie Yuan, Jinshi, and magistrate.In the provincial examination of Wuzi of Guangxu (1888), he was the 91st Jinshi in the third grade (Gengyin (1890), and was appointed as the magistrate of Lingchuan County, Guangxi, and served as the police officer of Guilin Prefecture.
Lingchuan County land is barren and poor. After Zeng Jiguang took office, he encouraged himself by honest officials, did not be greedy or bribes, did not fear power, and made a decision for the people. The local merchants gave 10,000 taels of silver and returned it to the new officials as a transfer. This was a bad rule in the Qing Dynasty that publicly bribed and followed the customs. It was called "regulating silver" and was generally believed to be a source of wealth that "takes will not harm integrity", but Zeng Jiguang refused to accept it.
In order to prevent the subordinates from secretly clearing the joints, Zeng Jiguang personally took care of everything and carried the official seal with him. After a robbery case, his father said to him, "You can make a good decision in this case!" He suddenly suspected that his father had received bribes and retried the case and sentenced it to another sentence.
During Zeng Jiguang's tenure, both of his parents died in Guangxi. Zeng Jiguang was poor and had to embezzle a few treasury silver to transport the coffin back to Nanxi. Later, he was unable to repay it. Finally, he was helped by his uncle Zeng Heling to compensate, and then he finished it.
Lingchuan Local gentry are rampant in the village, especially the Cen family is the most arrogant, and the whole province is looking at it. One day, Cen's son ran on a horse on the long street and crossed the hawker stall. He didn't look back and left. The victims went to the police station to complain about his injustice. Zeng Jiguang paid out of his own pocket to subsidize the losses of the merchants and the public. Soon, Cenzi ran away and injured people and kicked the stall. Zeng Jiguang immediately killed the police officer. The people were very happy, but Cenzi held a grudge.
In the year of severe drought in Lingchuan, hungry people were in groups and requesting relief. Zeng Jiguang, based on the people-oriented approach, had no time to report the memorial and opened the granary to release grain to provide relief, so the people's sentiment was calmed down. Cen reported to the court because of his old grudge, saying that Zeng Jiguang opened the granary without authorization to buy the hearts of the people and tried to gain benefits from it. The court actually dismissed Zeng Jiguang from office and confiscated his home to recover the stolen goods. When the house was searched, Zeng Jiguang's "Jinshi House" in Caoshi Street, Nanxi had no other things except books, which proved that the use of corruption to provide relief was actually a slander from the enemy.
After being dismissed from office and returned to Nanxi, Zeng Jiguang did not interfere in local affairs for profit. He regarded himself as the old and famous scholars of the Qing court. He kept his long hair and called him Tuofa Zhouzi. His words and deeds were strange, and his family became increasingly poor. He talked about himself with poetry and prose. He was respected by the people as Duke Jieyuan, and also nicknamed Zeng Crazy.
Yuan Shikai became emperor , Beiyang Army entered Sichuan, but was eventually defeated and robbed everywhere when retreating. Zeng Jiguang wrote a couplet for this: "After the army passed, the calf died, and the country was destroyed, and the mountains and rivers were also monsters."
Zeng Jiguang devoted himself to classics and history in his early years, and had a deep foundation in ancient poetry and prose. "Southern Sichuan literary master" Zhong Zhihe sighed that he was not as good as him. His poem "Steping at Night in Liaojiazhuang" says: "I have not stopped until I enter the sun, and I am walking in the gentleman's hometown. I am shocked by the mountains and trees, and there is the fragrance of wild plum blossoms. The fire is far away and the road is the dangerous bridge is frost at night. Thirty miles a moment, the dog barks to recognize the village." His many poems and works that he usually vents his anger are spread among the people.
1901, the governor of Nanxi invited Zeng Jiguang to be the lecturer of Longteng Academy. In 1941, Zeng Jiguang passed away. The Nanxi Gentleman held a memorial service for him. Yibin specialist Leng Xunnan sent a couplet to express his grief.
The handwriting of the juren Zeng Fanchang
Zeng Fanchang (1851-1923), whose genealogy name is Zeng Songling, and his courtesy name is Boqiao. He was orphan at the age of 7 and was nurtured by his brother Zeng Xiling. He is honest and pure, knowledgeable and knowledgeable, and has a deep effort in studying ancient Chinese. I have copied 30 books, but the ink is not sloppy. Although he was a juren of Guisi (1893), he "retired from Guilin to his brother and sister-in-law and became indifferent to official positions in 1895." Later, he served as a teacher at the county higher primary school for more than 10 years and was a famous teaching teacher. After his death, the county man was buried. The tomb is located in Kuoziwan 15 miles west of the city.
His son Zeng Jixun is known for his literature and has written "Biography of Yunbaizi" forever. Be straightforward and do not follow the customs. He studied under his uncle Zeng Heling at Longteng Academy. All three provincial examinations failed. After the imperial examination was abolished, he studied "Zuo Zhuan", " Mandarin ", "Records of the Grand Historian", " Han Shu " day and night, and was not close to the common things. His article "carved the truth of things and principles as if he were to learn from the form" and was also very humble. If his article was corrected by others, he would be very happy to thank him. 20 articles were finalized in his later years. Please send a copy of his fellow villager Sun Bingwen (revolutionary martyr) to print it. However, when Sun traveled to Europe, Zeng Jixun died of illness soon after.
Zeng Yunqiao (1855-1933), whose genealogy name is Zeng Guiling, whose courtesy name is Yunqiao, is a famous Chinese medicine practitioner and a scholar. He practiced medicine throughout his life, was sweet and light, and relied on his own, and opened a Shoukang Medicine Number. His son Zeng Deshi inherited his medical skills and was known as Teacher Zeng Ba.
When Zeng Yunqiao was young, his father Zeng Dashi often fell ill, and his mother passed away three days after giving birth to Zeng Yunqiao. Later, Zeng Yunqiao went to the provincial capital for the exam twice, but was sick before the exam and did not enter the examination room. So, Zeng Yunqiao gave up his fame and learned from Hou Zhisan to specialize in medical skills.
Zeng Yunqiao practices medicine and emphasizes medical ethics. In combination with the cases in the hospital, he warns the pharmacy colleagues that when prescriptions and medications are used, they must not only treat their current diseases, but also consider their future evolution; they only know how to pursue quick results and use drugs that disperse the exterior evil to treat their current diseases. Although the disease is cured, excessive damage to the vitality, it will inevitably lead to the qi and blood weakness of the sick person in the future.
Zeng Mengliang (1898-1952), whose genealogy name is Zeng Wanjian, graduated from Sichuan Law and Political School. In the summer of 1923 and in the summer of 1925, he served as the principal of Nanxi County High School. He hired outstanding teachers such as Dong Suizheng, Wang Yucun, Wan Zixian, Gao Dixian, Bao Boshen, Chen Runyu, etc. to improve teaching methods and various management systems, pay attention to vocational education, and add labor and technical courses .
The school originally only recruited boys. Zeng Mengliang believed that girls should also be educated and took the initiative to mobilize relatives and friends. For example, girls such as Zeng Wanxiang, Zeng Wanqiang, Gao Xiuyun and other girls signed up for school. The school's women's class was finally started, and his daughter Zeng Shixin was a student in the female class 7.
During this period, many graduates were able to be promoted to Jiang'an No. 3 Middle School and Yibin's Yulian League. In the spring of 1926, Nanxi County Junior High School was established. Zeng Mengliang was appointed as the affairs director, responsible for school building renovation, food and accommodation for teachers and students, teaching aids and library equipment, etc. In 1927, he also served as a civic class in the simple teacher class. The task was very heavy and he made contributions to the establishment and development of the school. Wu Jichang (from Suining), who was the director of academic affairs at the time, once praised him in public as a capable person with great talent.
In the summer of 1927, Hu Mingxin, Liao Shimian, Wu Danzhai and others who returned to the county from Chongqing Sino-French University established an academic research association in the county junior high school to promote Marxism-Leninism . Most of the members are progressive students in junior high school and normal classes. At the meeting, school leaders Wu Xiaopo, Ye Youpei and Zeng Mengliang all spoke. The following year, some members participated in the Nanxi Peasant Riot, but the matter failed and Wu and Ye were forced to leave the county. Zeng Mengliang was suspected of being blacklisted, and was arrested, and ran away from his in-law Xiao Duqing's house late at night. Later, he recorded this with poems, including two sentences: "Let him flatter Dan Tai, but who knows how to plant a disaster."
1929-1931, Zeng Mengliang became the director of the Nanxi County Education Bureau, and eliminated many bad habits in the Nanxi education community, such as publicizing the money, grain and expenses handled by the Education Bureau in the newly established education publication; given that the primary schools were concentrated in the county town and town at that time, it was extremely inconvenient for rural students to go to school, and the teaching content of private schools was outdated, so three primary schools were opened in Shie Temple, Guixi Temple, and Denggaoping, and parents applauded.
During the period when Zeng Mengliang was in charge of the education administration, he received funds from his predecessor Wen Ruhang to purchase one set of "Wanyou Library" and "Sibu Congqian" from Shanghai Bookstore. Zou Shaoqian, Gao Wangheng and others included a list of books and cabinets, and arranged them into a temporary book and newspaper reading room. From then on, readers came to visit every day, which is another good thing that is popular among the county people.
The current status of the old house of Zeng's "Jinshi" in Xicheng, Nanxi (partial)
The ruins of the old house
zeng Heling entered Beijing as a doctor of the Ministry of Revenue after the second year of Guangxu. His ancestor Zeng Rongfang, his father Zeng Tingyu, his uncle Zeng Tinglan, Zeng Tingzhong and Zeng Tingshi were all named Zhongxian Doctor (a fourth-rank civil servant rank) because of his noble status, so he hanged a plaque of "Dawu" in Guangfu Street, the county town.
Zeng Heling's nephew Zeng Jiguang passed the imperial examination in the 16th year of Guangxu. His clan members hanged the plaque "Jinshi" in their residences in Caoshi Street, county town.
The two palaces are located in the same location. The main building of the old house "Jinshi" is a traditional wooden courtyard with a quadrangle structure facing south and north, with gray bricks and green tiles on the top of the mountain, left and right wing rooms, middle courtyard, five rooms in front and back rows, nine columns are deep, the front row opens the right door, the column foundation stone carvings and the rear stairs are mostly auspicious patterns such as pine and crane prolonging life, good fortune and longevity, wealth and peace. The moon beam, support arch, and door carvings are still there, and are decorated with peony, sunflower, cloud patterns and other carvings to show the ancient and elegant charm and have certain cultural and historical value.
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