Gansu Province Longnan City Liangdang County Museum collection of Wang Xi family genealogy - "Wang family genealogy" began in the Zhou Dynasty, down to the Ming Dynasty, the first to forty-fifth generations of the Wang family genealogy was systematically summarized and edited, the genealogy includes the Southern Song Dynasty physicist Zhu Xi made the preface, is currently the "Wang family genealogy" all the popular editions of the most complete preserved, has a high cultural relics value.
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The Liangdang County Museum, located on the East Street of Chengguan Town, collects a set of Wang Xi's family genealogy - "Wang Family Genealogy", which witnesses the history of Wang Xi's descendants from Langya Wang for more than 200 years in Liangdang.
In front of the display case called "The Source of the Book Saint", we saw this precious set of "Wang Family Tree".
Wang's genealogy was found in 1991 in the north of Liangdang County in the Sun Township (now Jindong Township Sun Workstation) Renjiawan Village Dian Village Group Wang Wenxin's house, more than 30 years ago one day, Wang Wenxin's home unfortunately had a fire, he accidentally found Wang Xizhi's genealogy when cleaning up his belongings.
After the fire, Wang Wenxin and his family carefully checked the contents of the genealogy. Although the family tree was soaked and left water stains during the firefighting, it made the "Wang Family Tree" see the light of day again, and also revealed the mystery of Wang Wenxin's family as a descendant of Wang Xi.
At present, there are five versions of the Wang family genealogy, namely the "De'an Spade Creek Genealogy" in Jiujiang City, Jiangxi, the "Wuchang Genealogy" in Hubei, the "Maotian Genealogy" in Tongshan, as well as the "Loess Genealogy" and "Gangban Genealogy", and the genealogy found in Liangdang County is "De'an Sho Creek Genealogy", which can be called the source of the Wang family genealogy and is precious.
Liangdang "Wang Family Genealogy" a set of 14 volumes, 1 volume of the total spectrum, 13 volumes of scores, for the movable type wood printing line binding, the edition is revised and printed in the Southern Song Dynasty, by the Southern Song Dynasty Zhu Xi as a preface, the genealogy of the time limit from the Zhou Dynasty, down to the Qing Dynasty, the first to the forty-fifth Wang lineage of the lineage, branches of the systematic induction and editing, a detailed account of Wang Xi's descendants Wang Xianzhi, Wang Ningzhi and other clansmen rise and fall, the process of reproduction, is the current "Wang Family Genealogy" The most authoritative one has a very high cultural relics value, filling the historical gap of the Wang family's westward migration to Gansu.
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Liangdang's "Wang Family Genealogy" is the autumn of the 14th year of Shunzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1657), Wang Wenjun, the ninth grandson of the Maotian family in Tongshan County, Hubei Province, presided over the revision of the spectrum and published it. In the pages of the general spectrum of the "Wang Family Genealogy", the expert also found a letter. This letter can be inferred that the genealogy was sent to Liangdang by Wang Fuli, a native of Tongshan, Hubei Province, in the twenty-third year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty (1818), and the successor was Wang Fuming, and Wang Wenxin, who found this genealogy from a fire, was the sixth grandson of Wang Fuming.
The Chinese people have always believed that the family and the country are one, and the "cell analysis" of the family can make up for many shortcomings in the official revision history and the chronicles.
He said that the project of revising a genealogy is huge, and it will take at least six or seven years to complete it. In the meantime, it is not only necessary to find the family branches scattered in various places, but also to trace back to the villages where the family first lived, so that according to the historical traces such as ancestral halls and archways (buildings), the scattered veins and fragments can be restored into a "big tree".
The preciousness of Liangdang's "Wang Family Genealogy" also lies in the fact that it is like a holographic time code, from which we get closer to observe the most prominent family in the two Jin and Northern Dynasties - the Langya Wang family. At that time, the scholars were like forests, such as the Lu clan of Wujun, the Zhuge clan of Langya, the Xie clan of Chenjun, etc., all of whom were famous all over the world and produced many talents. The Lu family has Lu Xun, Lu Kang, Lu Ji, Lu Yun and other talents, the Zhuge family has Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Dan and others, and the Xie family has Xie An, Xie Xuan, Xie Daoyun, Xie Lingyun, etc. But none of these families were the most famous at the time. Stretching for hundreds of years, and reaching its peak in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there is only one unique family in the world: the Langya Wang family, even if it was the Xie family that had been called "Wang Xie", it was difficult to match it.
The rise of the Langya Wang clan has its profound historical reasons.
After the "Rebellion of the Eight Kings" and the "Yongjia Rebellion" of the Western Jin Dynasty, the national strength was greatly damaged, and the north was occupied by the nomads who moved inward. In desperation, the imperial court, the northern wealthy families, and the common people all moved their families to the south to seek a place to settle down, which was known as "the southern crossing of clothes".
In this great migration, the Langya Wang clan came at the right time. Wang Dun and Wang Dao brothers of the Wang family were the henchmen and thinkers of Sima Rui, the king of Langya in the Western Jin Dynasty, who saw that the situation in the north was getting worse, so they suggested that Sima Rui move the feudal state to Jiankang (now Nanjing), and vigorously encircled the Jiangnan Shi clan for Sima Rui. The various clans in the south of the Yangtze River, such as the Lu family, the Gu family, and the Zhang family, who were originally resentful of the Jin Dynasty because of the battle between the Jin and Wu dynasties, gradually fell to Sima Rui under the guidance of the Wang Dao brothers, which made him lay a foundation in the south of the Yangtze River. After the Western Jin Dynasty was destroyed by foreign races, a large number of families moved to the south, and Wang Dao took the opportunity to gather a large number of scholars and talents for Sima Rui, and recommended Sima Rui to the throne as the emperor, single-handedly establishing the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
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By the time the turmoil settled and the Eastern Jin Dynasty was established, the status of the Wang brothers who single-handedly directed this drama was already unshakable. More than seventy percent of the ** in the court are the clansmen and allies of the Wang family, and the Wang family is in power at this time, and there is no one else for a while. At that time, the folk song sang directly: "The king and the horse, share the world", and the Wang family even ranked before the Sima family.
There is such a story in "Shishuo Xinyu": When Emperor Jin Yuan met with the minister, the prime minister Wang Dao came, and Emperor Jin Yuan even asked Wang Dao to sit on the dragon chair with him, and the two argued for a long time. By the time of Emperor Jin Cheng, the power of the Wang family was even greater, and Emperor Jin Cheng gave the edict to Wang Dao, using honorifics such as "panic words", "pause" and "respect for white", and the "Ninth Five-Year Honor" used such honorifics for his ministers, which is unique in Chinese history.
Although the Langya Wang clan is huge, the various branches rise and fall differently, sometimes this branch is noble, sometimes the other branch is Rongda, showing an intricate and long-lasting family pomp. According to the "Twenty-four History", from the Eastern Han Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties for more than 1,700 years, the Langya Wang family cultivated a total of 35 prime ministers, 36 queens, 36 concubines and 186 literati and celebrities represented by Wang Ji, Wang Dao, Wang Xizhi, Wang Yuanji and others.
Although the Wang family is full of flowers and cooking oil, the Wang family knows that no matter how prominent the power is, it cannot last long, and no matter how rich the wealth of the country is, it is ultimately the past, and only the cultural factors fused in the blood are the foundation to ensure the eternal prosperity of the family. So the Wang family to poetry and books, the Han Dynasty had a famous master, with the accumulation of generations, naturally formed a perfect clan education system, Wang's children are all proficient in the six classics, extraordinary talents.
When Wang Xizhi was alive, his calligraphy was already recognized as the best in the world. Several of his sons inherited his calligraphy art, "Wang's four sons' calligraphy, namely Ningzhi, Caozhi, Huizhi, and Zhuozhi, have been passed down together with Zijingshu, all of whom have a family model and have different styles." Condense it to get its rhyme, manipulate it to get its body, emblem to get its potential, to get its appearance, to dedicate it to its source. In particular, the youngest son Wang Xianzhi, on the basis of inheriting his father, continued to carry forward, his cursive script is incomparable, and his father is called "two kings". After the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the calligraphy of their father and son was revered as a god, and in the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin, as a die-hard fan of Wang Xizhi, single-handedly pushed Wang Xizhi to the status of "book saint", and since then has become the idol of people who learn books in the world.
With Wang Xizhi as the symbol, for more than 300 years, Langya Wang's calligraphy has been inherited, and talents have come out in large numbers, making it a spectacular cultural scene. Shen Yue, who lives in Qiliang, once praised: "I am a hundred good words, as the history of four generations." Since its opening, there has been no title re-elected, and literary talents have been as prosperous as the Wang family. It is in this unique family that the unique character of Wang Xizhi appeared.
Text丨Rushing News reporter Liu Xiaolei.