Tang Boyuan Memorial

Tang Boyuan Memorial

Tang Boyuan memorial hall is located in the southwest of Xianmen village, Xinan town, Chenghai District, Shantou City. With the theme of commemorating Tang Boyuan, a doctor of Ming history department, "Li Xue Ming Qing" and Chaozhou sage, the hall collects Tang Boyuan's memorials, steles, calligraphy and murals.

Introduction to the memorial

Tang Boyuan memorial hall is located in the southwest of Xianmen village, Xinan town, Chenghai District, Shantou City. It is about 25 kilometers away from Shantou City and 10 kilometers away from Chenghai District. There are lots of fruit trees in the garden, the "Great Wall" meandering, winding paths, pavilions standing around, fountains soaring into the sky. You can take a close look at the lotus peak to welcome the sun and the South China Sea to meet the sky. There are animal viewing area, children's recreation area, barbecue tea, farm food, you can choose, it is a good place for leisure and recreation. The Tang Boyuan memorial hall is located in the center of the park, with the theme of commemorating Tang Boyuan, a doctor of the Ming history department, "Li Xue Ming Qing" and the Chaozhou sage. It collects Tang Boyuan's memorials, poems, steles, calligraphy, murals, diligent administration and loving the people, honesty and uprightness, and traditional virtues. Xiehe ecological park is a new comprehensive scenic spot, integrating history and culture, natural ecology, leisure and entertainment, and special catering.

Tang Boyuan's life

Tang Boyuan (1540-1597) was named Renqing and Shutai. Chenghai County Suwan all Xianmen Li (now Xinan town Xianmen Village) people. He was elected in 1561, the 40th year of Jiajing reign of Ming Dynasty. He got acquainted with Zhou Guanghao of Chaoyang, and became a close friend. In the second year of Longqing, they went to Yongfeng, Jiangxi Province to worship LV Huai as their teacher and study the original meaning of the three books, which laid the foundation for his Confucian thoughts of self-cultivation, regulating the family, governing the country and pacifying the world. In the second year of Wanli (1574), he became a Jinshi. He served as the magistrate of Wannian county and Taihe County in Jiangxi Province. During his tenure, he had Huizheng. Local people built ancestral temples to commemorate him. In the 8th year of Wanli, he was the head of Nanjing household department. In the 12th year of Wanli, in order to maintain the feudal law, Boyuan published the book "struggle for worship" and opposed Wang Shouren's worship of Confucius Temple. Therefore, Zhong Yuchun refuted the case in Nanjing and was demoted to judge Haizhou (today's Lianyungang, Jiangsu Province) for "destroying the sages". Later, he was appointed as the official of Baoding and the principal of the Ministry of rites. Wanli 19 years Dianshi Huguang, Qiuwei examiner. Then he was promoted to Shang Baocheng, who was in charge of the emperor's seal, Fupai and seal. In the following year, his mother died, and he returned to Beijing after three years. He served as a doctor in the Ministry of official affairs. He was awarded the title of "Quanheng" by the emperor for presenting "Jin Shi Jing Da Xue Shu" and "Lun Xuan Gong Ren Shu", and was in charge of the Ministry of official affairs. After Bo Yuan took office, he abided by the law and made his work orderly. Just before the buquan memorials have not been issued to the Ministry of officials. Therefore, Bo Yuan Shangshu said: "the wise and the foolish are stagnant together, the government and the opposition are in trouble, which is caused by the improper proposal of the officials, and they beg for gifts and reprimand.". The emperor was not satisfied and allowed him to resign and return home. Two years later, when the emperor screened the Ministry of officials, he wanted to use Boyuan again and issue an imperial edict again. But he died at the age of 58. In 1625, Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty granted him the title of Shaoqing of Taichang and awarded him the banner of "Mingqing of Lixue". His best friend, Zhou Guanghao, said in his "Weeping dead friend Tang Xuanbu Renqing" that "the cloud of man is a national treasure, and the sky is a star.".

Tang Boyuan was diligent and studious when he was young, and he was upright. He was honest and upright, and dared to make Yan's admonition. "He was quick to open up a new deal, to fight for and to worship, and to respect Cheng and Zhu's Neo Confucianism and to be close to the people. In his whole life, he has been honest and practical, and is well-known in both the government and the public. According to the biography of scholars in the history of the Ming Dynasty, Bo Yuan was a scholar official of Linghai, who was honest and indifferent, unbearable and comfortable Boyuan was fond of learning and wrote a lot. There are six volumes of Zui Jing Lou Ji, 28 volumes of Li Bian, I Ching, Changli Wen Bian, Ercheng Lei Yu, etc.

The reason of building the Museum

In recent years, Mr. Tang Liangsong has invested in the construction of the Tang Boyuan Memorial Hall in memory of this Chaoshan "Li Xue Ming Qing". The museum is located in Taoyuan Xiehe ecological park, Boyuan's former residence in Xinan town, 10km north of Chengcheng city. The park covers an area of more than 100 mu, with a building area of more than 2600 square meters. The pavilions and gardens are quiet and unique. Xiehe ecological park was built and opened in the autumn of 2005.

Scenery introduction

Tang Boyuan memorial hall is built on the mountain and faces southeast. It adopts Chaoshan style Ming style hard peak courtyard building form, and gathers Chaoshan traditional wood carving, stone carving, inlay porcelain, mural and other decorative arts. The plaque of the ancestral hall "Tang Boyuan Memorial Hall" was written by Wu Nanshan, former chairman of the provincial CPPCC, and Huang zanfa, former Secretary of the Party committee of Shantou University, wrote the inscription for the memorial hall. In the middle of the main hall is a sitting statue of Tang Boyuan. He is wearing official hat, court clothes and black boots. Above the main hall hung a horizontal plaque entitled "Li Xue Ming Qing" bestowed by Emperor Xizong of Ming Dynasty, and a couplet on both sides was: "righteousness, one cavity, evaluation of officials' achievements, and two memorials of pure Confucianism." The two corridors are hung with some biographical materials and poems of Bo Yuan. The museum is a collection of outstanding Calligraphers' poems and couplets. There are also "zuijinglou" and "Diaoyutai" scenic spots in the park. It is a comprehensive scenic spot integrating history and culture, garden landscape, leisure and entertainment, adding a scenic spot with beautiful environment and pleasant scenery to Chenghai.

Main attractions

After years of vicissitudes, Tang Boyuan's home in this village is still seen in the broken walls. There is a jackfruit in the former residence, and a well in ancient well. Its hometown "Tang family temple" and "loyalty filial piety" plaque, Tang Boyuan tombstone and other cultural relics are well preserved and have certain tourism development value.

Tang Boyuan's jackfruit

In the fairy garden of Tang Boyuan's former residence in fairy Gate Village, a vigorous old tree jackfruit is standing tall and upright. The tree has undergone four generations of alternation. The parent plant only has a base. The height of the mother plant is about 8 meters, the girth width of the trunk is about 2 meters, and the crown covers several square feet. Fruit trees bloom and bear fruit every year, with 30 to 40 fruits per year. Every hundred years, new trees grow from the roots of the mother tree, forming a spectacle that mother and son meet and gradually embrace each other in the process of growth. Now, three or four small trees sprout from the roots. According to the investigation, when Tang Boyuan returned to his hometown in Wanli for sixteen years, a distant friend gave him this Siamese jackfruit seedling. He brought home and planted it himself. It's amazing that this tree has lived for more than 400 years, but it still has a lot of branches and leaves.

Gujing

There is still an ancient well in the north of Tang Boyuan's former residence, which is about 4 meters deep and narrow in the top and wide in the bottom. Only one stone ring is used as the skirt of the well. The stone ring is built on the edge of the well head. The height of the ring is 13 cm, the thickness is 14 cm, and the width of the well head is 38 cm. It is said that when Tang Boyuan was born, the water from the well was boiling, gushing out of the well and flowing everywhere. The villagers thought it was a good omen. The ancient well has a history of more than 400 years. The well water is mellow and sweet, and the residents nearby often eat it. What's more strange is that although the height of the shaft skirt from the ground is less than 15 cm, the ancient well has no well protection fence, and the surrounding area is open, but there has never been the phenomenon that people and animals accidentally fall into the well.

Plaque of "loyalty and filial piety"

The "Tang family temple" in Xianmen village was built in the 16th year of Wanli. It was initiated by Tang Boyuan. On the back of the plaque on the gate of the ancestral hall, there is a stone plaque, 162 cm long and 58 cm wide. On the board, four characters of "loyalty, filial piety and flowing fragrance" are engraved in the inscriptions, which are vigorous and ancient. On the top right corner of the board, there is "Wanli Renchen", and on the bottom left corner, the inscription is "Tian Shengjin's gift". According to textual research, Tian Shengjin, the person who presented the plaque, was the Cheng of Taipusi in the current Dynasty, and called Tang Boyuan as his mentor. It turns out that after Tang Boyuan was appointed magistrate of Taihe County in the fourth year of Wanli, he had the courage to vindicate the unjust case of Tian Sheng, a Confucian student who was jailed with injustice. After his release from prison, Tian Shengjin went to Beijing for an examination in the 10th year of Wanli. He was elected to the Hanlin academy and later promoted to Taipusi Cheng. He has always been in line with Tang Boyuan as a teacher and student. The ancestral hall was built in Xianmen village. Tian Shengjin wrote a horizontal plaque of "loyalty, filial piety and flowing fragrance" and ordered people to worship Tang Boyuan, praising his teacher's loyalty, filial piety and flowing fragrance through the ages.

Tombstone of Tang Boyuan

At the foot of Houtou mountain behind Xianmen village is a Tang Boyuan tomb, which was rebuilt in May 1998. Although the tomb was rebuilt in another place, the tombstone is the original tombstone, 88 cm high and 63 cm wide. The inscription of the tombstone is: Tang cemetery of Shang Bao Si Cheng, Ming xianshutai, in front of Wen Xuan Si Lang, the official of the Ministry of official affairs of the Ming Dynasty. Tang Boyuan died in Chaozhou in the 25th year of Wanli. He was buried on the mountain of Jiukeng Township, xiaoliuhuang Town, Fengshun, far away from the village well. The tomb was stolen and destroyed several times, and the tombstone was lost. In the summer of the year of Wuyin, Xianda, the descendant of Tang Boyuan, went through many twists and turns and made many visits. Fortunately, the original monument was kept by a mountain keeper of the Tang family. So he asked him to return to his hometown and rebuild the tomb on an auspicious day.

Tourism characteristics

Tang Boyuan memorial hall was built by Tang Liangsong, the descendant of Tang Boyuan, at a cost of more than 3 million yuan. It covers an area of more than 100 mu. It is magnificent and simple, elegant and quiet. In addition to the traditional Chao style main building, it also has stele corridor, Xiaoxiang winding path, zuijing tower, Diaoyutai and other ancillary buildings. It not only adds a historical and cultural landscape to Chenghai, but also enlights future generations. Tang Boyuan memorial hall is a Xinguang comprehensive tourist attraction integrating human landscape, history and culture, natural ecology, and special catering.

There are historical celebrity Tang Boyuan memorial hall, calligraphy and painting appreciation area, Taoyuan Great Wall, animal viewing area, children's recreation area, barbecue area, leisure tea house, yacht and other entertainment projects in the scenic area.

Traffic routes

Shantou bus 102 to Shuinan intersection

Route of bus line 102:

Jinyuan Industrial City - Jinhuan West Road - Jinyuan Zhonghang - Zhongqi - Xiaqi - Agricultural Science Park - TV Tower - Chaoshan road passenger station - Shantou Bus Terminal - Jinsha West Road

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