"The tree is a hundred feet high, and the fallen leaves return to the roots. ”
The tree grows tall, and the fallen leaves still have to return to the roots, just like our Chinese people, no matter where we are, the best harbor in our hearts is still our hometown, no matter how long we wander outside, we still hope to return to our homeland in the end.
South Korea's Yuta family, starting from their ancestors, will tell the next generation that "we are from China, we are Chinese".Although their ancestors have been living abroad for 381 years, they have always maintained the customs and habits of their hometown, and they always remember that they have the blood of the Chinese people and their roots in China.
Exile
During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty,There is a young man named Tian Haoqian in Fengzheng Village, Hebei Province, their ancestors moved here from Hongdong County, Shanxi, and many of Tian Haoqian's ancestors were high-ranking and powerful people in the Ming Dynasty, and their ancestors were officials for generations.
Lived in the eunuch's house since childhood, Tian Haoqian is not like the usual gentleman, backed by the family to spend all day drinking, he spent almost all his daily energy on reading, someone once advised Tian Haoqian, don't work so hard, your great-grandfather is the imperial history of Yunnan, and he will definitely ask for a shadow seal for you in the future.
Tian Haoqian didn't think so, in his opinion, it was precisely because his great-grandfather and father were both officials in the court that he had to study harder, participate in the imperial examination in the future, and rely on his own strength to gain fame, so as to live up to the reputation of his elders.
However, Tian Haoqian did not participate in the imperial examination in the end. In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, wars broke out frequently in various places, and the Ming Dynasty army began to recruit troops in various places.
When he informed his father of this, his father objected, and his father believed that the Tian family had been a military official for generations, and there had never been a military general, and they could not do a thing or two for him in the military camp, not to mention that the war was to put his head on the tip of the knife, and the degree of danger could be imagined.
But Tian Haoqian doesn't think so, in his opinionWhen the country is in danger, it is more meaningful to join the army by yourself than to gain fame。Seeing that he had made up his mind, his father had no choice but to go with him.
Tian Haoqian was assigned to Shunyi Island, Shandong, and as soon as he arrived at the barracks, he was called over by the generalWhen he saw the general, Tian Haoqian was stunned, and when he thought that the other party was going to retaliate against him, he didn't expect that the general took Tian Haoqian's hands and thanked him vigorously.
It turned out that when Tian Haoqian was still studying at home, he suddenly heard a sound in the house, and saw the back of Dong Shiyuan from the neighboring village going out over the wall.
Now Tian Haoqian's general turned out to be Dong Shiyuan, who stole things at the beginning, according to Dong Shiyuan's descriptionIf Tian Haoqian hadn't sent people to chase him, he wouldn't have come to Shandong to join the army, and he wouldn't have his current status. Dong Shiyuan knew Tian Haoqian's literary talent, so he kept him by his side as a military advisor, after all, he was just a big old man.
With the help of Tian Haoqian, Dong Shiyuan led the army to win several battles in a row. Once when Tian Haoqian said that it was not appropriate to send troops now, Dong Shiyuan, who had been carried away by joy, did not listen to it at all, and sure enough, he was ambushed by the enemy on the battlefield, and Dong Shiyuan died on the battlefield.
Tian Haoqian couldn't even sit still at this time, so he decided to lead the few remaining soldiers to break out of the encirclementHowever, while passing through the North Korean border, he was captured by the North Korean army.
On the way to find relatives
During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Tian Siqi, a member of the Fengzheng Murata clan, had just finished the funeral for his deceased mother, and Hu Yumei, a fellow villager who was lifted with him, rushed to him and stuffed a package into his hand, so that he must open the package with the old people in the clan to see.
When the Tian clansmen opened the package, it turned out to be a family tree and a portrait, and the old people in the clan immediately recognized that the person on the portrait was Tian Haoqian, who had disappeared that year.
When everyone finished reading one of the letters in the package, they were pleasantly surprisedThey always thought that Tian Haoqian had died on the battlefield at that time, but they didn't expect that he would not only live well, but also settle in North Korea and spread out.
It turned out that after Tian Haoqian was captured by the Korean army, the Korean king heard that Tian Haoqian was a military advisor of the Ming Dynasty armyIt is expected that he must be a very literary person, which was confirmed in the subsequent exchanges between the King of Joseon and Tian Haoqian, the king proposed to let Tian Haoqian give advice to Korea.
Tian Haoqian knows very well that he is a Chinese and will never do anything to betray the countryHowever, it didn't take long for the news that the Ming Dynasty had fallen in North Korea, and Tian Haoqian, who learned at this time, believed that the Ming Dynasty no longer existed, and everything he insisted on was meaningless, so he decided to stay in North Korea.
With his full talent, Tian Haoqian was soon promoted from an inconspicuous small civil official to a general political doctor in North KoreaOccupying a high position in North Korea, the senior executive also met a woman in North Korea and married her, and completely settled in North Korea, so there was the Tian family in South Korea in the future.
"Think of your relatives every festive season".Tian Haoqian never forgot for a moment that he was from China, so whenever a Chinese festival came, he would take his children and grandchildren to kowtow to his hometown.
Before Tian Haoqian died, he rearranged the family tree, and on the first page of the family tree, he added "I am Chinese, and I cannot forget it from generation to generation" to exhort future generations not to forget that they are Chinese.Until twenty years later, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, Tian Haoqian's second son, Tian Huiyi, sent an envoy to the Qing Dynasty as a Korean envoy. As soon as Tian Hui arrived in the capital, he began to ask everywhere if there was a ** hometown, which was from Fengzheng Village, Jize County, Hebei Province.
After learning that the North Korean envoy turned out to be Chinese, the **** of the DPRK attached great importance to it and helped to inquire, and this year the two Xinju people were all from Jize County, and one of them happened to be Tian Siqi from Fengzheng Village.
However, Tian Siqi went back to his hometown to settle his mother's funeral, and because Tian Huiyi was about to return to North Korea, he had no choice but to hand over the token of identity to Hu Yumei.
In the genealogy of the Tian clan of Fengzheng Village, the name of Tian Haoqian was added, which confirmed that he was indeed a member of the Tian clan.
Get what you want
On May 9, 2004, Tian Lianping, Secretary of the Party Committee of Fengzheng Township, Jize County, Handan City, Hebei Province, suddenly received a letter from the Qingdao Office in ChinaFrom the moment ** was connected, the other party began to ask Tian Lianping: Is there a local Yitian family in Fengzheng Township, can you help ask if this family has any relatives who are outcast?
Tian Lianping could hear the person on the other end of the ** must be very excited, and when the other party heard Tian Lianping's answer, he said in a trembling voice: "Finally found."
Tian Lianping was shocked when he heard this, and he suddenly remembered that when he was a child, he often heard the elders in the clan and the family talk about it, saying that their Tian clan still had a lineage in North Korea, and he really hoped that he could find them one day.
When Tian Siqi's co-tenant determined that Tian Huiyi was a clansman, he hurried to the capital, but Tian Huiyi had already returned to North Korea at that time, so the two did not meet, but fortunately, with the news, they also communicated several times through confidence.
However, with the outbreak of various wars, the international situation was turbulent, and even the only correspondence between the two groups was severedBut the determination of both sides to return to their homeland has never changed.
Tian Wenjun, president of South Korea's Korea Shipping Co., Ltd., when he came to Qingdao, Shandong Province on a business trip, he inquired about Fengzheng Township in Handan, Hebei Province, which was likely to be the Tian family they had been looking for for generations.
Tian Lianping, who received Tian Wenjun**, was also equally excited, he immediately packed up his things and took the two old people in the clan to get on the train to Qingdao.
When the two groups of people met, although they hadn't spoken yet, tears flashed in each other's eyesThey were almost certain that the other party was the person their entire family was looking for.
When the two genealogies were put together, sure enough, they were on the page with Tian Haoqian's name written on themIn the genealogy of the Tian family in China, Tian Haoqian's lineage is blank, while the genealogy of the Korean Tian family starts with Tian Haoqian.
When it was determined that the two indeed belonged to the Tian family, both parties were very excited, and more than 300 years passed before they finally found each other.
On June 29, 2004, Tian Wenjun took Tian Guangxuan, the former president of Dankook University in South Korea, and other 9 people to return to Fengzheng Village to recognize their ancestors and return to their ancestors on behalf of the clansmen of the Tian clan in South Korea.
Tian Wenjun's father, Tian Minghuan, was 90 years old at this time, and he also wanted to return to the motherland to meet his clansmen, but he had the heart but was powerless. After Tian Lianping learned of this, on Tian Minghuan's 90th birthday, he came to South Korea with his family tree and Tian Haoqian's portrait.
Tian Minghuan couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw his name appear on the family tree of the Fengzheng Murata clan.
After a full 381 years, the Tian family of South Korea finally returned to their long-lost motherland, and the road home was long and difficultThe Korean Tian family, even if they have been in a foreign country for so many years, can still let future generations always remember that they are Chinese sons and daughters, and the roots of the Korean Tian family are in China.
Fallen leaves return to their roots
"The descendants of future generations, if there are those who commit dirty abuse, they shall not be released to their own families; After death, they are not allowed to be buried in the big sage. Not from my will, not from my descendants. ”This is a sentence that Bao Xiaosu used to warn future generations for Bao Zheng, if the descendants of the Bao family do something harmful to the family, they cannot be ranked. It can be seen from this that in ancient China, after a person died, if he could not enter the family tree and enter the sect, it was a very serious shame.
So why do Chinese pay attention to falling leaves from ancient times to the present?
Falling leaves return to the roots, which was originally put forward by ConfucianismIn ancient times, every family had an ancestral grave, and those who made a mistake and were expelled from their ancestral home could not be buried in the ancestral grave. Then after the death of this kind of person, it is considered by everyone to be a very desolate lonely ghost, so the ancients have been paying attention to the soil that can be buried in the components after their deaths.
China has been dominated by agriculture since ancient times, and most families have lived in the same place for generations, and they have a deep affection for the land under their feetTherefore, every time I leave my homeland, I can't help but miss my hometown, and whether I grow up and become famous or not, I will have a sense of admiration for the hometown that nurtured me.
Those who value the return of fallen leaves to their roots are almost all people who are not in their hometowns. Working alone outside, when life comes to an end, you will regret not being able to return to your hometown before you die, which is the biggest wish of many wanderers before they die.
Conclusion
The biggest difference between Chinese and foreign cultures is the unique homesickness of the Chinese nation. The Korean Tian family has been away from the motherland for more than 300 years, and they are always thinking about returning to their hometown one day.
Seeking one's roots and asking one's ancestors is the belief of every people of the Chinese nationThe two words hometown and motherland are the most important in the hearts of every Chinese. Only with the motherland can we have us, and with the strong prosperity of the motherland, we have a happy and healthy life today.