Kong Ji Xiang, Ningling County, Shangqiu City, Henan Province

Kongji Township

Kongji township is located in the eastern plain of Henan Province, 15 kilometers northeast of Ningling county. It borders Xieji town in Liangyuan District in the East, Zhaocun town in the south, Liuhe Town in the West and wangzhuangzhai Township in Minquan County in the north. National Highway 310 and Longhai Railway run from east to west. Ancient Songhe River and zhuliugou pass through more than ten administrative villages of zhaizhuang, wangyuzhuang and Xinzhuang. With a total area of 55.72 square kilometers and a cultivated area of 42000 mu, the land is fertile, mostly silt soil and lotus soil, rich in wheat, cotton, pear, vegetables and other agricultural products.

Historical evolution

In the Tang Dynasty, it was a fiefdom for the honorary Marquis kongdelun. In the Ming Dynasty, four fields were built for Anning township. In 1911, it belonged to the northeast region. In 1945, he set up his hometown. In December 1949, it was divided into four districts. Kongji commune was established in 1958 and changed to township in 1983. In 1997, with an area of 52 square kilometers and a population of 28000, it has jurisdiction over 22 administrative villages including liugudui, libazhuang, Kongzhuang, Sangzhuang, Xinzhuang, dazhaizhuang, dahouzhuang, zhangpaifang, shangdikou, sanlizhuang, lvxuepan, zhangzibin, kongjidong, wangqianzhuang, kongjixi, shilaojia, yuechai, Wangqiao, Huanglou, shensongwu, Jiangtang and Youzhuang.

administrative division

The township governs 25 administrative villages and 76 natural villages. The administrative villages include Lizhuang village, yuechai village, liugudui village, zhaizhuang village, wangyuzhuang village, Youzhuang village, Jiangtang village, Houzhuang village, shilaojia village, lvxuepan village, Sangzhuang village, Shensong Wu Village, Huanglou village, zhangziying village, shangdikou village, Wangqiao village, sanlizhuang village, xiaokouji village, Kongxi village, Xinzhuang village, zhangpaifang village, Kongdong village Kongzhuang village, Songdong village and Songxi village.

Economics

Kongji is a famous collection with a long history. In recent years, under the leadership of the county Party committee and the county government, the township party committee and the government have led the cadres and the masses to hold high the great banner of Deng Xiaoping theory. Under the guidance of the "Three Represents" and the spirit of the 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the cadres and the masses of the township have united and worked hard to forge ahead. They have insisted on taking economic construction as the center, and have done a good job in the two articles of land and township enterprises The new situation of Kongji work has been created, the rural economy has been sustained, rapid and healthy development, and social undertakings have made all-round progress. Based on the field, relying on science and technology, vigorously adjust the industrial structure, vigorously promote the process of agricultural industrialization, set up a 30000 Mu vegetable development base in the village committee of the Northern Song Dynasty and the eastern Song Dynasty, and integrated with the Mengli tomato production base in Liuhe Town. Its main products are exported to Shanghai, Nanjing, Guangzhou and other provinces and cities. Suli was planted along the east of 310 National Highway and the Ancient Song River, mainly in shizhanglou, qixiaolou and Kongji East Street. Vegetable development was carried out in the west of 310 National Highway. Taking the greenhouse as the carrier, the off-season vegetable production was vigorously developed, and a new agricultural development pattern of "planting Suli in the East and planting land in the west" was initially formed. The seed cotton breeding base was established in wangyuzhuang village, and the improved wheat breeding base was established in Jiangtang village. With liuliuwan chicken breeding factory and wangyuzhuang pig breeding factory as the leaders, we vigorously develop chicken, pig and cattle breeding, actively improve local livestock varieties, and form a livestock breeding system covering the whole township. A total of 10 professional breeding villages have been established in the township.

Urban construction

Kongji commercial street with unified planning and design has many merchants, which facilitates people's life and promotes economic development.

social undertakings

There are 12 primary schools and 2 middle schools in the township. The teaching conditions and teaching level have been continuously improved. There are 1 township level health center and 29 village level health centers. The medical conditions have been continuously improved. The roads in the township have been basically hardened, and some new square parks have been built. Through efforts, people's living standards have been continuously improved, and they live and work happily.

History of Kongji

The world's longest genealogy

On October 20, 2005, Guinness World Records Limited announced that China's Confucius genealogy has been recognized as the longest in the world. Up to now, Confucius has been handed down to 82 generations. Since the Ming Dynasty, the Confucian genealogy has been overhauled once every 60 years and minor overhauled once every 30 years. Since 1999, the descendants of Confucius have launched the largest work to renew the Confucian genealogy so far. The descendants of Confucius in Ningling county have specially held a clan meeting of Ningling school to participate in the work of renewing the genealogy. At present, the descendants of Confucius are distributed in China and all over the world.

Confucius' lineage

In Ningling, as an important branch of Confucius' lineage, Ningling school has been an important, influential and numerous sect among the descendants of Confucius for more than 1300 years since Tang Dynasty. According to the records of "a study of the family system of the Kong Family", Ningling school is the thirty-five generations of virtuous empress. The descendants of Ningling sect scattered in Ningling County, kaocheng County, Lanfeng County, Yiyang County, Shangqiu County, Zhecheng County, Luoyang County, Huaiyang County, Luoning County, Fengqiu County, Anhui Taihe County, Shandong Caoxian County, Heze County, Hebei Changyuan County, Shahe County, Handan County, Longping County, Xingtai County, Yaoshan County, Yaoshan County, Jilin Jiutai county and other places. By 1937, there were 8854 males coexisting. "

Why did the descendants of Confucius form a large and influential Ningling school in Ningling? Why did Emperor Taizong Li Shimin build Confucius Temple in Kongji, Ningling county? Why did Confucius' descendants have two princes and three Marquis buried in Kongji? Why did Kongji village change its name to Kongji village? This all starts from Confucius' 33 generations of sun Bao Saint Marquis Kong Delun buried in Ningling. Kong Ji, a descendant of Confucius

On December 24, 2006, I visited the tomb site of Baosheng Marquis and the descendants of Confucius in Ningling to find out the answer. The tomb of Baosheng Marquis for a thousand years.

When I first came to Kongji, I didn't know where the descendants of Confucius lived. So he went to Kongji township government and asked the people on the street. They told me that there are many people in Kongji! From the 310 National Road to the north and the township government to the East, the whole Kongji East Village is full of Kongjia people. According to their instructions, in the East Village of Kongji, the author found konglingzhi, the 76th generation of Confucius.

Kong Lingzhi, 65, is a member of the village committee of Kongji village. It seems like a very ordinary person, but it is a very careful person. In his home, the author actually saw his long-standing collection of Kong's genealogy in the period of the Republic of China, a total of 8 volumes. After learning what he came for, he went into the inner room, took out a neat package wrapped in hard kraft paper, and opened it carefully. The paper was slightly yellow, slightly worn, and a slightly incomplete family tree of Kong came into view. Confucius' 76th generation grandson Kong Ji Kong Lingzhi explains the origin of the Ningling School of Confucius

According to Kong Lingzhi, this is one of the few Kong genealogies in the Republic of China. Since 1999, the most recent revision of Kong's genealogy, Qufu, Shandong Province, has come to inquire and copy this genealogy for many times.

Starting from this set of genealogy, Kong Lingzhi opened the inside page to find the relevant content and began to tell the origin and development of the descendants of Kong in Ningling. He said that in the past, there were tombs and Confucian temples in kongdelun, the 33 generations of sun Bao of Confucius. The opening of Kong's Ningling school is related to the fact that Bao Sheng Hou's tomb was built in Ningling; the Confucius Temple was built by Emperor Li Shimin of Tang Dynasty.

Guo Wende said that the tomb of Bao Sheng marquis in today's Kongji health center.

Tomb of Bao Sheng Marquis

According to the records of Ningling county annals in the third year of Xuantong reign of the Qing Dynasty, the tomb of Baosheng marquis is the tomb of Kong Delun, the descendant of Confucius 33. Kong Delun, whose name is Dajing, was a hereditary marquis. In 637, he moved to chugu Village (now Kongji Village), Ningling county. He died in 691. He was 71 years old and was buried here. According to records, Bao Sheng Hou's tomb is 3 meters high, surrounded by 40 meters and covered with bricks. There are stone tables and benches in front of the tomb. On both sides of Shinto, there are stone man, stone horse, stone lion, stone monkey and paraffin platform, which are exquisite and lifelike. There is a stone archway at the main gate. The tomb area covers an area of five hectares and four ancient cypresses are towering and solemn. Every year on August 27 of the lunar calendar (Confucius' birthday), people from all corners of the country come here to worship, with incense. In the north of the tomb, there is a Confucian temple, three main halls, East and West corridors, five spines and six beasts, which is simple and magnificent. ② Today, only the ancient bricks removed from the temple can be seen at the site of Kongsheng temple.

Why did Emperor Taizong Li Shimin move kongdelun to Kongji village in Ningling county? When the author raised this question, Kong Lingzhi invited Guo Wende, the chief editor of Ningling volume of Kong family tree and the retired principal of Kongji Township, to introduce him. Guo Wende also lived in kongjiji. Because of his profound knowledge, he was also the nephew of Kongjia. He participated in collecting and sorting out the relevant information of Kongjia's Ningling school for many times, and published many articles. He also presided over the meeting of Kongjia's clansmen in Ningling, and started the work of renewing the Ningling volume of Kongjia's genealogy. Guo Wende, who is familiar with the historical origin of the Ningling School of the Kong family and the historical allusions of the Kong family, tells the author:

The Sui Dynasty was destroyed and the Tang Dynasty was prosperous. At that time, Kong Delun was still a hereditary Shaosheng Marquis of the Sui Dynasty. In the ninth year of Wude (AD 626), Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, he was renamed Baosheng marquis. Yu Shinan, a famous calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty who is also known as Ouyang Xun, Chu suiliang and Xue Ji, wrote a book named Confucius Temple stele, which records that Gao Zuli established Kong Delun as a saint and built a new Confucius Temple. Carved in the ninth year of Wude in Tang Dynasty, Confucius Temple stele is an outstanding work in the early Tang Dynasty. It is also recognized as a masterpiece of Yu Shu by ancient epigraphists and calligraphers.

Inscription on the tomb of Bao Sheng Hou

Attachment: inscription on the tomb of Bao Sheng Hou in Tang Dynasty

Bao Sheng Hou, surnamed Kong and named Delun, was a thirty-three generation grandson of Confucius. In the 11th year of Zhenguan reign of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Hou Dang changed his title to Baosheng. The pilgrimage meeting was the same as Sanpin, and he ate thousands of households. On October 20 of the second year of Empress Wu's reign, he was granted a letter to the Marquis to serve him in time. He died at the age of 71. He lived in an official residence and was buried in chugu village, Ningling county. Since the Tang Dynasty, the Five Dynasties, the Song Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty, Qiu long has been a member of the family as before. In the early Yuan Dynasty, the Yellow river overflowed. Zhuo tombs of the two Marquis are flooded, and their traces can be seen for a long time, but Qiu Mu still exists. Sun Xizhen, at the age of 40, was worshipped by the public. He was always sorrowful and wanted to build it

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