Former residence of Li Luyuan
Meng Mu Sanqian, mother-in-law tattoo... The allusions and good stories of the godsons of the ancients have been passed down to this day. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a hard-core old man who also fought hard to educate his children, and he spent nearly 30 years writing a "teaching son book" of more than 600,000 words, and issued a sincere teaching to the children of the world to "read with heart and be close to the right people". This old man is the literary scholar Li Luyuan, who wrote "The Wrong Road Lamp" is the first and only long vernacular novel with the theme of "godson" in ancient China, and Zhu Ziqing praised it as "only inferior to "Dream of the Red Chamber" and "The History of Ru Lin".
On the morning of October 25th, walking into the former residence of Li Luyuan in Songzhai Village, Caozhen Township, Zhanhe District, through time and space, let us visit this old gentleman who is enthusiastic about education and full of positive energy.
Enke Keren - the poetic life of carving time with the fragrance of books
Li Luyuan, formerly known as Li Haiguan, Zikong Tang, Green Garden is its number, also known as Bipu Old Man. In 1707, Li Luyuan was born in Baofeng Songzhai (present-day Songzhai Village, Caozhen Township, Zhanhe District).
In the first year of Qianlong (1736), the nearly 30-year-old Li Luyuan passed the examination for the Examination of Yingchen Enke. After the middle lift, Li Luyuan became one of the rural leaders and had more official and non-governmental social contacts.
At this time, nearly half a century had passed since Li Luyuan's grandfather, Li Yulin, helped the elderly and children flee from Luoyang Xin'an Mahanggou to Baofeng to settle down in Songzhai. Under the hard work of his grandfather and father for two generations, Li Luyuan's family has been quite solid, with "ten acres of vegetable garden and half acre palace".
In the thirteenth year of Qianlong, when Li Luyuan was 42 years old, his father died, and he buried his father at home and began to create "The Wrong Road Lamp". "On the one hand, some are Yu Hui, on the other hand, the name of the section is stagnant, so they send affection to the pen ... In terms of the theme of the novel and the strict and stubborn realistic attitude of Green Garden, it is also possible to write after people are middle-aged and have an in-depth experience of the world and human feelings. Mr. Luan Xing, a researcher at the Henan Academy of Social Sciences and an expert in the proofreading of "Wrong Road Lamp", wrote an article.
Li Hongliang, the ninth grandson of Li Luyuan, said that Li Luyuan specially built a study hall called "Present Youxuan" in order to facilitate the collection of books for writing and teaching. The original bookstore collapsed in 2007. In 2010, the Zhanhe District Government allocated special funds for restoration and listed it as a cultural protection unit in Zhanhe District.
There is a portrait of Li Luyuan hanging in the middle of the Xuannei, only to see him wearing a long shirt, holding a book, with his hair fluttering, and his manners are very great. Li Luyuan's life, family genealogy and research materials of "The Wrong Road Lamp" are displayed all over the house, showing the vicissitudes of the owner's life and elegant feelings.
Later generations speculated that the "South Garden" praised several times in his poems was most likely called "Green Garden", so he called himself "Green Garden". And this "South Garden" or "Green Garden" may be the prototype of the "South Garden" in the "Misguided Road Lamp" that writes that Wang Zhongzhong grows vegetables and the Tan family's study "Bicaoxuan".
"Read books inside every day, or write poems with one or two confidants, and watch the gardener Cai Xiang irrigate flowers and vegetables." This is the description in "The Wrong Road Lamp" that Tan Xiaoqian used Bicaoxuan as a study, reading books inside every day, teaching children and "friends with extremely serious studies" and "composing poems, or talking, or drinking". In present-day Youxuan, Li Luyuan also lives the same life.
Reading, writing, and carving time with the fragrance of books, Li Luyuan spent a poetic life. About the twentieth year of Qianlong (1755), Li Luyuan was about 50 years old, and the book was completed for the first eighty times. Because of a special opportunity, he quit writing and began to become an official.
Seven Pinzhi County - more than half a hundred years old "boats and cars in the sea" eunuch career
Li Luyuan went to Beijing three times to take the exam, and after failing the last exam, he taught in Beijing for three years and was deeply loved by students. On the recommendation of his students, Li Luyuan, who was half a hundred years old, was elected by the imperial court to the post of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Caoyun. Since then, he has begun the eunuch career of "boats and cars in the sea".
The Baofeng County Chronicle records that in the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong (1772), Li Luyuan went to Renzhi County, Yinjiang County (now part of Guizhou) in Sinan Province. At this time, he was 66 years old.
Yang Xiaoyu, a writer and local cultural scholar in our city, said that Li Luyuan was a clean official and a clean official, and his poetry and calligraphy were profound, and he was known as a beautiful talk in Yinjiang County because of his erudition and talent.
The Qing "Chronicle of Sinan Province" records: "(Li Luyuan) prospers and eliminates disadvantages, loves the people like a son, and thieves are like enemies." He led the people to build weirs and canals, and used his meager salary to help the poor, "both to promote and teach"... Leave behind many good stories.
Li Luyuan just took office, coinciding with the Yinjiang County examination, he personally propositioned: "Learning and Learning". The candidates joked that adults didn't seem to have read much. The second and third exams were still on this subject, and the candidates even suspected that his officials had paid for it. Yang Xiaoyu said that at the end of the examination, there were very few respondents. Li Luyuan retained the depressed candidates, and passed on several articles he wrote to everyone to read, and everyone was impressed by his literary style.
According to Li Hongliang, the year after Li Luyuan took office, the governor of Yungui and the inspector of Guizhou repaired the Yinjiang Tianye Temple. When the book was written, no one dared to write, Li Luyuan was a Qipin County Order, humble and humble, but not humble, and wrote down the four big characters of "Red Cloud one flower" with a stroke of the pen. The font is vigorous, the wind and bones are both strong, and the cloth is properly white, which has won the praise of everyone. "A red cloud" comes from Su Shi's poem "The light moon and the stars surround the jianzhang, and the fairy wind blows down the incense of the imperial furnace." Waiting for the courtiers to stand in the Tongming Hall, a red cloud held the Jade Emperor. The "Red Cloud" plaque hangs in the Tianye Temple, which is more appropriate. When the prefect heard about it, he invited Li Luyuan to talk about learning. Li Luyuan talks about poetry papers and is knowledgeable. The prefect was greatly appreciative and said on the spot: "Big materials are small, big materials are small!" Coupled with Li Luyuan's outstanding internal affairs, he was soon promoted to acting prefect of Sinan Province in Guizhou.
"During his tenure in Sinan Province, the Green Garden Public had a place to play. He was diligent in political affairs, diligent in his studies, and recorded what he saw and heard at any time, vividly reproducing the local customs and customs. Li Hongliang said with admiration for his ancestors.
In the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), the 68-year-old Li Luyuan was tired of old age and returned home with a feeling of ladylike that he could not give up. He sat quietly in Dongxuan and began to write "The Wrong Road Lamp" with a serious attitude of "carrying the road".
Novel everyone - teach children to read and be good
Not long after returning home, the People of Luoyang Xin'an Mahanggou invited Li Luyuan to teach the children of the family. In addition to teaching, he compiled the "Green Garden Poetry Banknote", continued to write "Misguided Road Lamp", and also wrote "Family Training" (also known as "Green Garden Family Training"). From time to time, he drank and talked with his old friends and local poet friends.
Li Hongliang said: In the prosperous world, Li Luyuan was keenly aware of the undercurrents of society and the decline of the people's customs. His third son, Li Fan, also fell into the habit of gambling. Based on the concern that the family business is unsustainable, and the sadness of the corruption of the government, the darkness of the officialdom, and the moral degeneration, he is determined to write a book that both men, women and children like to read, in order to "send people's kindness".
"The Wrong Road Lamp" tells the story of how Tan Shaowen, a son of a rich family, fell into a loser, and how he repented and rehabilitated himself, and is the only long vernacular novel in the history of Chinese novels with the theme of "the prodigal son returns". He exhorted the world with a book: Godchildren should be strict, teachers should be correct, and friends should be cautious.
"Reading with heart and being close to the right people" is not only the core of Li Luyuan's masterpieces "Misguided Street Lamp" and "Family Training", but also the spiritual foundation of the Li family in Songzhai Village. Li Hongliang said that as long as the children in the family go to school, the elders will write these 8 big characters on the title page of the book as a teaching.
Li Luyuan's novels were originally hand-copied among his students, and local teenagers were taught. Li Luyuan's 4 sons were also not shallow in learning, and the second son, Li Lu, was awarded the equivalent of the current ministerial high-ranking official, and there were also many Gongsheng, Bagong, and Tai students among the descendants.
In the "Green Garden Family Training", Li Luyuan advocates that reading is not "the tool for making articles and taking the name of the subject", and reading is to teach people to know this principle and "do what they do". Young people should also love labor when they want to read, "farmers, the great source of food and clothing, the great destiny of life", "in addition to reading, the fruit can be cultivated by themselves, in order to give food expenses, although labor is also happy.".
In the fifty-fifth year of Qianlong (1790), Li Luyuan died at the age of 84, leaving behind the manuscript of the "Wrong Road Lamp" that has not yet been printed. Until 1981, after being researched, sorted and published by Luan Xing, "The Wrong Road Lamp" shined brightly. Nowadays, "Misguided Street Lamp" is well-known, not only experts and scholars have studied it, but also college students have become the backbone of the study of "Misguided Street Lamp".
In 2017, the "Green Garden Family Training" declared by the Zhanhe District Discipline Inspection Commission, together with 7 traditional family trainings in our province, such as the Xinzheng Ouyang XiuJia Training, jiaozuo Hanyu Family Training, and anyang Yue Fei Family Training, were recorded and compiled into the "Family Rules in Chinese Tradition" column by the website of the Supervision Department of the Central Discipline Inspection Commission, which aroused the attention of many parties in society.
Yang Xiaoyu said that how to educate the next generation is related to the future of the family, society and the country. "The novel 'The Lamp of the Wrong Way' has profound practical significance and educational significance."
The era in which Li Luyuan lived has long gone, but the educational concept of "for rigorous learning, for officials to be honest" and "to read with heart and be close to upright people" put forward by Li Luyuan is like a guiding light that will never be extinguished, which will illuminate the road of life for generations of people!
Source: Pingguan News
Editor: Liu Xiaomin