30 years ago, on Huiji Mountain in Zhejiang, in the late spring of the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (353 AD), Wang Xizhi of the Langya Wang clan led famous relatives, friends and brothers to hold the Lanting Elegant Gathering for the first time in the Lanting of Huiji Shanyin.
This grand event will forever be recorded in history because of Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface": "The sky is clear, and the wind is smooth." Looking up at the vastness of the universe and looking down at the prosperity of the category, it is enough to swim in the eyes, and the entertainment of the audio-visual is also believed in Cola. ”
This rare gathering in history was led by the Langya Wang clan, who once ruled the world together with the Sima family and were known as the first scholar clan in the world. However, there are also young people in this gathering who will have a profound impact on history thirty years from now.
For example, Xie An, who will save the Eastern Jin Dynasty and defend Chinese civilization in the Battle of Weishui. The Chenjun Xie clan, a scholar clan that rose after the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was not taken seriously in the early days.
However, their rise is inseparable from Xie An's rise. In the Battle of Weishui, the highlight moment of the Xie family of Chenjun is approaching, and their nephews Xie Xuan and Xie An will lead the Beifu soldiers to defeat the Former Qin army and save the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
Although Xie Xuan and Xie An were calm and calm in the face of the southward advance of the Former Qin army, they were undoubtedly ecstatic when they learned the news of the great victory at the front. Xie An even returned home, because he was too excited, he stepped over the threshold and broke the teeth of the clogs, but he himself didn't notice it at all.
This is Xie An, a person who is so pretentious.
In 383 A.D., the battle of Weishui pierced the night sky of the Eastern Jin Dynasty like a bright meteor, illuminating the glory of the Xie family of Chenjun. After World War I, four members of the Xie An family were named dukes, becoming the most dazzling family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
However, their glory did not last long, and with the change of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties and the ups and downs of the family, the Chenjun Xie clan faced numerous challenges and pressures.
In this process, they not only have to compete with the Langya Wang clan, the Qian Guohuan clan and other powerful clans, but also face the pressure of imperial power from the Sima family. Despite this, they remained true to their beliefs and ideals and worked hard to maintain their family's status and power.
However, instead of being duly rewarded, their efforts were met with more suspicion and ostracism. Eventually, under the pressure of imperial power, they had to choose to surrender power and withdraw from the political arena, and their glory faded with it.
Although their family status has plummeted, their hearts are still filled with strong faith and endless glory.
The Chenjun Xie clan, a scholar family from the Eastern Jin Dynasty to the Southern Dynasties in China, is also a famous family in Chinese history. After the Battle of Weishui, as the ancient Chen County that started in the Huaiyang area of Henan, and made contributions to Jiankang (Nanjing), but finally the ancestors were forced to move to Zhejiang Huiji (Shaoxing) and other places to "avoid the rebellion on the side of the monarch, and the abolition of Xing was hidden" Xie Lingyun, a descendant of the Xie family of Chen County, who established an immortal cause in the Battle of Weishui and had been "highly meritorious", had to choose to move away to avoid disasters in order to protect the clan.
Although the family's power fell from the peak, Xie An, who retreated bravely, also did his best to protect the Xie family and set an example. As for why the medieval families such as the Langya Wang family and the Chenjun Xie family can continue to prosper for hundreds of years, the modern and contemporary historian Qian Mu once concluded: "A gate is by no means dependent on external power and financial resources, but can maintain a profit for hundreds of years; It is not pure and luxurious, which can make the boudoir harmonious, and the children are cautious and maintain this portal in the future.
At that time, the family education style was extremely important, and the filial piety and women's virtues were all transmitted from the Confucianism of the two Han Dynasty. ”
During the reign of Liu Yu's father and son, while using the Xie family, they were also worried about their interference in the political situation. Before he died, Xie Zhan warned his younger brother Xie Hui to retreat bravely to protect himself. However, the Xie family still pursued fame, and Xie Hui was eventually killed, and the rest of the family members were also slaughtered.
When Xie Shiji was about to be sentenced, he sighed that the family was no longer able to cover the sky with one hand, and in the face of the rise of the Hanmen Shu clan and the growing strength of the imperial power, they were powerless to fight and gradually declined.
Xie Lingyun was also eight buckets higher than his talents, and was finally killed by Liu Yilong, Emperor Wen of the Song Dynasty, on charges of treason. The children of the Xie family should understand that the era of the family is declining, and if they don't recognize the situation, there is only a dead end.
Xie Lingyun once boasted: "There is only one stone in the world, Cao Zijian has eight buckets, I have one bucket, and I have shared one bucket since ancient times and today." Xie Hao was called "Big and Little Xie" together with him, and later died in prison at the age of 36 because he was framed.
The Chenjun Xie clan declined at the end of the Southern Dynasties, and the family almost disappeared in the Hou Jing Rebellion, and no one even dared to speak out. Liu Yuxi remembered the two great families of Wang Xie who had fallen in "Wuyi Lane", a big family, a hundred years of romance, and finally returned to Huangchen.