In old years, there was a large tomb plate between Qianjian Middle Road and Houjian Middle Road in the west of Nanyin Village, with towering pines and cypresses and numerous stone tablets. What's special is that there are stone statues here, which are rare in neighboring villages

——Who cut off the head of the stone man?

Author: Li Jingshu

In the old years, there was a large tomb plate between Qianjian Middle Road and Houjian Middle Road in the west of Nanyin Village, with towering pines and cypresses and numerous stone steles. What's special is that there are stone statues here, which are rare in neighboring villages. The villagers used to call this place "Shiren Tomb", and I once mistakenly thought it was "Shili Tomb".

When I was five or six years old, I went here to play once and saw two stone men, one headless and one with a head. The one with the head had big, dull eyes, grinning teeth, and a ferocious face. He listened to the leaves rustling in the wind, and suddenly felt the Yin Qi pressing down. His hair stood on end, and his legs trembled. He was so frightened that he ran away, ran. We have traveled so far and still don’t dare to look back.

Who cut off the head of the stone man? Gao Jiezi, 87, of Nanyin Second Street, told a story passed down by the elders.

In normal years, there was a tofu seller in Jianzhong Village. He often came to Nanyin and walked around the streets selling tofu.

Once, there was a woman near the Shiren Tomb, carrying a shell, ① bought him several kilograms of tofu, and gave him as much as she needed. When I got home, I took out my money bag and counted the money. I found that there was not enough money, but there were a few extra pieces of paper money to burn for the dead. How is this going?

He couldn't understand. Later, this happened several more times, and he told his neighbors about this strange thing. A neighbor said, "What's wrong is that the stone man bought you tofu and gave you paper money. You couldn't tell it at the time, but when you got home, the paper money showed its original shape."

Someone else gave him an idea, saying that if you meet her again and buy your tofu, you should secretly tie a red string to her body while she is not paying attention, and then follow the red string to her home.

The tofu seller followed his advice and followed the red rope to the cemetery. He saw that the red rope was hanging on a stone man with a woman's hair style.

The tofu seller was very angry and said in his heart that you have cheated me twice, and I will never let you off this time. He took a wooden stick and hit the stone man's head hard, and the head was knocked off in one fell swoop.

Gao Jiezi also said that the first generation ancestor of this cemetery was the land owner of Nanyin Second Street, named Gao Yufan.

He had five sons, who later became Lao Wuguer. One of the descendants, 76-year-old Gao Shengjiao, said that when he went to visit graves in the 1960s and 1970s, he had to prepare 13 pieces of burning paper, one for each grave. The specific generation of ancestors and their names are unclear. .

Later, the land was contracted to each household, and the descendants of each group built new graves in their own contracted land. No one used the old graveyard anymore. Another practical situation of

is that the old graveyard has reached its end and there is no more land left.

According to the records of Zhitong Zhizhi of Yuanshi County: Gao Yufan was a Chinese student and a native of Nanyin Village. In the fifth year of Qianlong's reign, ② he donated his house and land to pay for the tuition of volunteer school , and provided food and clothing for the poor. The donation amounted to three thousand gold. Therefore, he invites private tutors and distributes them to orphans and poor people, so that they can live forever. Moreover, according to the student's submission, the house and acres of land donated were actually used to help with education because the family had enough money, and he had no ambition to seek glory. When he was awarded the plaque "Good Practice and Virtue" by Du Xian. Alas! He can be said to be a righteous man who not only practices his virtue but also refuses his name.

According to the Yuanshi County Emperor Qianlong Zhiyi academic article, there is a free school in Nanyin Village. In the fourth year of Qianlong's reign, the supervisor Gao Yufan donated it. The houses and acres are listed on the left: three tile-roofed houses facing the street and three tile-roofed houses in the north wing. There are three main rooms with tiled roofs, three main brick bungalows behind the building, and three brick side bungalows. Zhuangdi six points.

There are seventeen sections in the west of Nanyin Village, totaling two hectares, nine minutes and nine cents.

Before the founding of the Constitution, Sun Gong Jiagan gave him a plaque saying "Be good at practicing virtue".

Note ①: Kekeer: a utensil woven from sorghum straw, which can be used to hold food.

Note ②: The fourth year of Qianlong: 1741 AD.