Zhang Xuan (1475-1539), the first assistant of the cabinet, was born in Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang, and was erudite and talented. In the fifteenth year of Zhengde of Ming Wuzong, Zhang Xuan should take the Ministry of Rites test. On March 14 of the following year, Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong died in the leopard room. The edict welcomed Wuzong from his younger brother Zhu Houxi to inherit the emperor's throne. On April 22, 14-year-old Zhu Houxi took the throne of the emperor in Fengtian Hall and issued an edict of amnesty to the world. On May 15, Zhang Xuan made up the palace examination in Fengtian Temple, and was a second-class jinshi, and he entered the official career at the age of 47.
Zhang Xuan was not only a politician and reformer, but also a poet who wrote a large number of poems in his lifetime. As a prime minister born in cloth, he has lived in Wenzhou for nearly half a century, founded a academy in Yaoxi, and has been to Chashan, Xianyan, Jiangxinyu and other places, and has a special affection for the people and land here, and left many hymns.
The stele pavilion was built by Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty to give the scholar Zhang Xuan the imperial stele, which was originally located in Zhang Zhang's family temple, and moved to the west side of the Miaoguo Temple at the foot of Songtai Mountain after the founding of the People's Republic of China. The building is a wooden structure, three rooms are wide, the corridor is on all sides, there are three white marble stone tablets in it, the imperial poetry tablet is engraved with the image of Zhang Xuan in the middle, the east and west tablets are the name tablets of Zhang Xuan written by the Jiajing Emperor, there are "the treasure of Guangyun" seals on each side, and the left and right imitation engrave "imperial pen", "Jiajing" two circular stamps. The east stele is engraved with the name of "Ci Yongjia Zhang Yuanfu", and the words "Fu Jing" are listed below. The west tablet is engraved with the words "Ci Yongjia Zhang Yuan auxiliary words", and the words "Mao Gong" are listed below.
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Jiang Zhongjun, a Wenzhou tourism experience engineer and a recuperation experience master of the Wenzhou Federation of Trade Unions: Painting with a pen to preserve and promote the beautiful scenery of his hometown.
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