A Record of Exploring Flowers in Cangnan County Records

According to the local records of Cangnan County, there are 277 people, including the champion. Wu Yu,

It is estimated that the Yu family moved from other places, and when they were in other places, they explored flowers in the imperial examination. In the remote areas of Zhejiang, Fujian, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, since the late Tang and Five Dynasties, the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, there have been a large number of Plutocratic family immigrants from the Central Plains and prosperous areas. The Yu family should move to Cangnan to escape the war. There are many records about this matter in the county annals of these provinces.

In history, there were 8 champions in Cangnan, 3 champions and no Yu family.

Historically, there were four people who explored flowers in Cangnan. Their names, places of origin and positions are as follows:

Chen Jue, a native of Xiamen (now Pucheng, mazhan town), was the third in the Northern Song Dynasty (112). He is Wen, who has successively served as Fujian Road Transport Assistant, Taichang, Assistant Minister of Ritual (same as Sanfu), Xiangyang Magistrate and Guangzhou Magistrate. According to the Ming Wanli "Wenzhou Prefecture Records and People's Records" and the Republic of China "Pingyang County Records and People's Records"

Huang Zhong, a native of Songshan (now Qiaodun Town), lived in Shao Xi for four years in the Southern Song Dynasty (1 193). He is the third one to explore flowers, and he is known as the head of the household and Yuanzhou. According to the Ming Wanli's Records of Wenzhou Prefecture and the Republic of China's Records of Pingyang County, Records of People and Huang Zhongchuan

Chen (now Longgang Town Village), an ancient waterlogger in the south of the Yangtze River, explored flowers in the second year of the Southern Song Dynasty (1238) and learned about Leizhou. According to 1998 edition of Wenzhou annals

Kong Yuangui was born in Pingyang (now Cangnan County) in the first year of Chunyou in the Southern Song Dynasty (124 1). He is the third. He explores flowers. He used to be the magistrate of Zhaoqing and the appeasement ambassador of Qiongyou. According to Qing Qianlong's Pingyang County Records Selected Records and the Republic of China's Pingyang County Records Selected Records

There are 277 scholars, including the champion and the second champion.