Bairen Hall

Bairen Hall

Bairen hall, Zhang's surname is Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, it was said that Zhang Gongyi lived together for nine generations in Yunzhou at that time, but he lived in peace. Tang Gaozong was very curious, so he asked why. Zhang Gong took out a piece of paper and wrote a hundred words of tolerance. Tang Gaozong praised Zhang Gongyi very much and wrote four big words of "Bainian Yimen". From then on, most of Zhang's surnames took "Bainian" as their name and juxtaposed it as their ancestral precepts. The later generations took this as their reputation.

Brief introduction to Zhang

The descendants of the surname Zhang are mainly distributed in Shandong, Henan, Hebei and other provinces.

At present, the site of bainentang is located in qiaobeizhang village, Taiqian County, Puyang City, Henan Province. The tomb of Zhang Gongyi is located about 200 meters south of qiaobeizhang village, Taiqian County. It faces south. There are 12 tombs. The main tomb is the father of Zhang Gongyi, the left is the father of Zhang Gongyi, and the front is his ten brothers. They are divided into East and West lines. Zhang Gongyi tomb is the third in the West. Once upon a time, the spring and Autumn Festival was held here by the government every year, so it was called "imperial sacrifice forest". The local chronicle of the cemetery records the epitaph of the 23rd mausoleum in the volume of Yanzhou official records: "the tomb of Zhang Gongyi in Shouzhang county is ten miles south of the county city. In the sixth year of Zhengde, he participated in politics and established a historical record." There are three stone squares in the cemetery, with towering steles, stone horses, stone sheep, etc. and towering pines and cypresses. Because it was close to the Yellow River, the Dyke Burst repeatedly, which brought a lot of sediment each time, gradually silted up and buried deeply in the ground, and later generations rebuilt the tomb. Build about one meter high, two meters in diameter, conical brick tombs.

The village originally belonged to Shouzhang County, Shandong Province. In 1956, Shandong Province declared the tomb as a key cultural relic protection unit at the provincial level. Shouzhang county was abolished on April 4, 1964, and part of the county was assigned to Henan Province. The tomb was designated as a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level by Henan Province. Taiqian County was established on December 28, 1978. In April 1982, the people's Government of Taiqian County set up a stone carving mark in front of the tomb of Zhang Gongyi, a key cultural relics protection unit at the provincial level.

Among them, there are many branches

1. There is a branch in Yantai and other places in southern Shandong and Northern Jiangsu, which is Mashan Zhang. The order of its generation is as follows: "if you are good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be good, you will be

2. The lineage of the Beizhang (zhanggongyi) site in taiqianqiao, Henan Province, is ranked as follows: "Xingyu is passed on widely, Zhaoxian is qingfanxiang, lanxiugui is Rongmao, Fengchun is virtuous, loyal and filial, Zhengdao is zhenjiabang, Hongfu is Zhaoyao for a long time, doing good and cultivating morality."

3. It is distributed in Lanzhou area, about 200000, with many branches.

4. In Suqian City, Jiangsu Province, there is a surname Zhang of bainentang, who was moved from Zhangqiu, Shandong Province in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty (Zhang Rong). The characters used are: Yi, Zi, Jia, Shi, yuan, Ji, Miao, Yi, Yong, Cheng, Xian, ye, Yu, wo, Hou and Kun.

In Daxing Town (Xianjin Village), Suyu District, Jiangsu Province, there is also a branch of the surname Zhang of bainentang, who moved from Shandong Province. According to the information of the elders and genealogy, the ranks are: Hong, Wei, Ke, Shao, Shi (Sheng) and Xue.

Nine lives together

Save Li Shimin, king of Tang Dynasty

According to the records in the old book of Tang Dynasty, Zhang Gongyi (577-676 A.D.) of Zhangjiazhuang village in Shouzhang county (now Taiqian County, Puyang City) managed his family with "forbearance and filial piety", lived together for nine generations and lived in harmony.

At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Li Shimin went to the army of Xu Yuanlang, who occupied Rencheng (now Jining, Shandong Province), to spy on the military situation. Unfortunately, Xu Yuanlang's people recognized him and besieged him. Li Shimin opened a bloody road to escape to the northwest. When he came to Zhangjiazhuang, Shouzhang County, a river blocked his way. There is a single wooden bridge on the river. Li Shimin was seriously injured. He was tired and fell into the water. At this time, Zhang Gongyi led several young people to practice martial arts on the Bank of the river. He saw a strong man fall into the water and asked someone to rescue him. He helped him to his home to cure his illness and recuperate him. He used the ancestral hundred year hall donkey hide gelatin to recuperate him. In a few days, Li Shimin recovered. At that time, it was not easy for Li Shimin to explain his identity and set out. When Li Shimin ascended the throne, he never forgot Zhang Gongyi's help. Therefore, in the ninth year of Zhenguan, the envoys of the golden plaque group, who specially gave letters to their relatives, went to honor them.

When the envoys came to Zhangjiazhuang, Zhang Gongyi was gathering people to build a big stone bridge where Li Shimin crossed the river. When the envoys returned to Beijing and reported to the king of Tang, the king of Tang approved the construction and sent Yuchi Jingde to supervise the construction. The grand stone bridge is about 60 meters long, 6 meters wide and 7 meters high. It was first built in the ninth year of Zhenguan of Tang Dynasty, more than 1300 years ago. Later, the bridge was called "visiting Xianqiao" and "guxianqiao", and Zhangjiazhuang was renamed guxianzhuang.

Tang Wang's visit to the virtuous

Zhang Gongyi lived in the same family for nine generations. His descendants were numerous, and his people and wealth were prosperous. He praised the big family and the neighbors around him. Some people say that the family is fair and well managed, while others say that the family is united and noble. Gradually spread far and wide. At this time, it was Li Zhi, Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, who was in power. He kept hearing the news, but he thought all the time: there are laws and regulations strictly prohibited by the state, and people's violation of the law can't be restrained. How can a family with so many people live together so well? Let's say he is the emperor's family. He doesn't have to worry about food and clothing. He has read four books and five classics. He talks about benevolence, righteousness and morality all the time. He is generally reasonable, but his family can't get together!

Li Shimin, his elder brother Jiancheng and his younger brother Yuanji, framed each other in order to fight for the throne, and finally killed the two brothers in Xuanwu Gate. He thought of himself again. Empress Wu Zetian turned out to be his father's concubine. After he ascended the throne, he married her and became his own wife. How can the common people be so harmonious when our royal family is still like this? However, before he succeeded to the throne, including his Lao Tzu Li Shimin, he knew that Zhang Gongyi had been praised by all generations. Therefore, to attract his attention, he decided that he had to inspect. At this time, he and Empress Wu Zetian were going to Mount Tai for Zen, so they made a detour to visit Zhang Gongyi's office in Shouzhang County of Yunzhou.

In May of the second year of yulinde (665 A.D.), Li Ji, the British Duke of Sikong, was sent to take charge of Xu Jingzong, the Duke of Gaoyang County. Lu dunxin, the right Prime Minister of Jiaxing County, and Dou dexuan, the male Prime Minister of Julu County, were sent to make preparations for the inspection of Fengchan envoys. In October, Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian set out from Luoyang, the eastern capital. In November, I arrived at Shouzhang ground, two villages, Fujia intersection and Chenggang, which are away from zhanggongyi Sili road. Empress Wu of Gaozong was stationed at the intersection of FUJIA, and the troops were arranged in Chenggang village. From then on, the name of fujialu was changed to Dongying (the saying of the king of Tang Dynasty and the soldier of Xiying). He led his entourage officials to visit Guxian village of Zhang Gongyi.

Zhang Gongyi was very frightened. Tang Gaozong explained to him what he had come for, and then accompanied him to watch the whole environment of their family. They live in 400 living quarters. The land and some of their property are owned by the collective. Men's and women's clothes are made in a unified way. They can choose according to their personal style. Women who visit relatives, no matter whose children they are, don't talk about feeding and estrangement, but take them with them as long as they are close to them, showing a good family tradition of unity and loyalty. At the same time, Zhang Gongyi also introduced some other situations to Tang Gaozong. Zhang Gongyi said: "we live together for nine generations, and the whole family has more than 900 people to share food and drink. Every meal time, we use drumming as an order, and we sit in the dining room in groups. Men and women are allowed to sit in the dining room separately. The elderly are in the upper class, the younger generation are in the lower class, and children are provided with tables and stools. We are courteous, benevolent and gentle.

Tang Gaozong wanted to test Zhang Gongyi's ability of running a family, so he took two pears to see how Zhang Gongyi dealt with them. Zhang Gongyi took it over, so he asked his family to smash it with a stone mortar, pour water into a jar, and sing a drum to gather the whole family. Each of them took a sip of juice with a small spoon. Only in this way can the whole family taste these records, which are still painted on the walls of Bainen hall.

This big family is not only loyal to people, but also different from other animals. Raising a hundred dogs is also in accordance with the family tradition, and there is no need to eat. It is said that Tang Gaozong also saw the feeding of dogs. Up to now, there is still a saying that Zhang Gongyi's dog is short of food. In order to express the loyalty of hundred dogs, Zhang Jia later set up "jiaxulin", also known as "goufenzi".

After all aspects of observation, Tang Gaozong was very admired and realized that Zhang Gongyi's ninth cohabitation was really a united and harmonious family. When Gaozong asked Zhang Gongyi how to run his family, he wrote a hundred words of "forbearance" and explained in detail the specific contents of "forbearance": father and son can't bear to lose kindness and filial piety, brother can't bear to be bullied by outsiders, sister-in-law can't bear to live apart, mother-in-law and daughter-in-law can't bear to lose filial piety

Zhang Gongyi said that the nine generations lived together with a large number of people, and their daily affairs were frequent, which inevitably led to their mistakes. However, they were able to understand each other, seek common ground, have small differences, have the heart of the whole family, the heart of the same person, the heart of one person, and be the heart of the whole family. They did not care about personal gains and losses in fame and wealth, and were modest to each other, showing noble moral character and good style of amity in all aspects, The word "Bainian" is to unite in the family, representing that everyone has the meaning of self-restraint (the name of Bainian Hall of the Zhang family is called for this). Emperor Gaozong of Tang Dynasty was deeply moved and wept, so he rewarded him with a lot of silk and exempted him from corvee. After hearing this, Gao Zong was deeply moved. He immediately named Zhang Gongyi as the Marquis of drunken hometown, and Zhang Xida, the eldest son of Zhang Gongyi, as the master of ceremonies. He personally wrote the four characters of "Bairen Yimen" and ordered the repair of Bairen Yimen.

It took six months for Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty to confer Zen on Mount Tai, and he returned to Chang'an at the end of April in the first year of Qianfeng (666 AD). And imperial edict out of silver, the Royal Book South lawsuit to Zhang Gong

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