Li Xian, the ancestor of the Northern Giants of Tianzhuang in huangling county, Shaanxi.

According to county records, in the fourth year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (164 1), thieves captured Huangling, caught Li Xian, and tortured and abused Li Xian with whips and wooden sticks. He never gave up and stared at him with wide eyes. He asked, "If you know who I am, how dare you use punishment so rudely in Li Xian? Bandit, you don't have to continue to use punishment. You can kill people at will. Then he took off his clothes and went to the thief, so he was killed.

When his son Yu Fen saw his father being brutally killed, he was very sad. He built a sacrificial shed in front of his father's grave, and he stayed in mourning for three years and didn't come home, which was told as a much-told story.

According to the county records, in the second year of Chongzhen (1629), Wang Daliang, a peasant rebel, led his troops in more than ten counties such as Hannan, Central China and Luochuan, with more and more responders, and rebels in Central China, Yan 'an and Yulin were everywhere. In the autumn of the twelfth year of Chongzhen, locusts covered the sun and Tian He was eaten up. In thirteen years, people ate in drought, and accumulated corpses blocked the road. Fourteen years, rice is expensive, three taels of silver to buy rice, and there is no goods yet. Without bark, grass roots and Guanyin soil, the people would die ten times. It was during this period that Li Zicheng, according to Guanzhong, sent Liu Zongmin to take Yulin through the central area and Luochuan, and the city fell.

At this time, Li Xian was teaching in the Confucian Temple, and Li Xian and others were arrested. Liu Zongmin and other vigilantes tortured and abused them with whips, sticks and other weapons. Li Xian was not afraid, just hold your head high and open your eyes. He shouted, Li Xian, do you know me? How dare you be so rude! You dogs, bandits, soldiers and animals are worse than you. If you want to kill them, you should catch them faster. Then he took off his clothes and went to the thief. Liu Zongmin and his accomplices cut off Li Xian's head with swords, and his head rolled on the ground. His strong body didn't stand and fall, and his tibia didn't bleed. Li Xian died, saved the people and protected the Confucian Temple. Is a hero. His deeds are immortal.

After Li Xian was killed, his children cast a golden head for him and buried it with the body in Yintai Mountain in Huangling, which was later stolen. Now the tomb doesn't exist. Li Xian's third son was very sad because his father died of a thief, and he didn't want to leave his father's ghost. He built a simple house in front of his father's grave, burned incense and paper for his father all the year round, accompanied his father's ghost for three years, and insisted on guarding the grave for three years without going home. This is rare in the world.

Yu Fen's filial piety has been recorded in the county annals so far, which has carried forward the virtues of the Chinese nation and passed down from generation to generation. Li Xian's descendants will never forget their ancestors from generation to generation. Every year during the Spring Festival, Qingming sends representatives to Yintai Mountain to worship their ancestors without interruption. The Cultural Revolution broke down and a new stove was built. Since then, no one has paid homage to their ancestors.

According to the county records, there is a "fragrant fairy sacrifice" in the compound of the Confucian Temple. Among the top ten heroes of loyalty and filial piety, Li Xian ranks first. Officials at and above the county level have attached great importance to the worship of rural sages, and Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty learned from the deputy envoys to maintain construction in the thirty-fifth year. In the thirty-fourth year of Kangxi, Hou was restored, Yongzheng was restored for six years, Hou Yinbing was restored for thirty-one years, Hou Gong was restored for forty years, Hou Xie was restored for two years, and Hou Cao was restored for victory. ..... Many dynasties and generations of county kings rebuilt and maintained the rural fairy sacrifice at all costs, which shows the great role of the rural fairy sacrifice in the development of Chinese civilization. The top ten celebrities sacrificed by the rural sages are all elites, setting an outstanding example for future generations. They are outstanding representatives of loyalty, filial piety, benevolence, love, faithfulness, righteousness, harmony and peace.

Li Xian's four brothers came to Huangling and started to do some small businesses to make a living. Later, business flourished. After Li Xian became famous, the four brothers separated, and all counties had houses, and gradually developed to the countryside, buying land and repairing houses. One settled in Lijiazhang, Longfang Town, one in Yaopo Village, Qiaoshan Town and the other in Li Jiawan Village, Gubei Town, Luochuan. They are all extended families of the local Li family.

? Li Xian became famous and got married. I have three sons, and I can't prove whether I have a daughter. The eldest son is called Oita, and the descendants are families represented by Zhegui and Feng Li. Li Xian's eldest son has a residence in the county, bought land and built a house in Zhoujiawa, and also has a ancestral grave. The younger generation also died, so it is difficult for him to live this life. The second son will be divided into two parts later. The descendants of dichotomy are now Hui Ling and Manwa as their own representatives. There are houses in the county, houses in Guowa and ancestral graves, and I am nervous after my birthday. The third son, Yu Fen, will be called after three o'clock. Two-thirds of the descendants are cultivated and passed down, and talents come forth in large numbers. Descendants include the present Jinhong family, the family represented by Xiao Dong, and the clan represented by,,, Li, and. One is a new talent, the other is a family represented by Tian Ming, and the other is one of our own represented by Wansheng and Suiwa.

Seven branches of Xinhongjia and Shuangjia. After three years of mourning, Yu Fen traveled all over huangling county and chose a place to stay. Finally, he settled in Beiju, dug a cellar, bought fields and got married. Because there was only one North Giant at that time, the land was rich and flat, and the days were very prosperous. He couldn't farm by himself, so he asked his eldest brother and second brother to farm and play cellar together, and his life was greatly improved.

Huangling county, Shaanxi Province

Author Li,

Li she

March 2022 10

in Beijing