The birthplace of the Langya Song family - Hangtou

Hangtou Village - located in the northwest of the Southeast Shandong Plain and the southwest end of the Mengshan Mountains, is now just an ordinary small village. It is north of Xiangcheng Town, Cangshan County, Shandong Province, in the ancient country. Only less than 3 kilometers long, the three national trunk roads of Linzao, Cangfei and Weixu intersect here like a picturesque belt. To the north is the Mengshan Mountains that stretch for hundreds of miles, and to the south is the endless Lusu Plain. However, who It would come to mind that this seemingly ordinary and relatively backward small place has grown from an ordinary immigrant family to a population of 100,000 with descendants all over the world in just over 650 years since the early Ming Dynasty. A huge family.

Two kilometers west of here is the place where Hai Shougong, the founder of the Langya Song family, first lived and lived in seclusion - Shilong Mountain. Hai Shougong settled a house here to cultivate wasteland. He didn't marry and have children until he was in his forties. However, due to poverty in the mountains, he died before the son could be named. It was not until the third generation of Ying Gong that life improved slightly. By the fourth generation of Ao Gong, the fields had spread to many places and had reached a considerable scale. By the fifth generation of Jing, Yi, Wei and Shen, it was even more prosperous. In particular, Wei Gong not only studied in the village school, was successful in his studies, and was appointed by the Yizhou government to collect taxes in the local market, but also moved the Yan family from Shilong Mountain to Hangtou Village, where he built a house, started a business, and planned forest land. 15 acres, planted with more than 1,000 pines, cypresses and other trees. In the 1950s and 1960s, the forest was already full of two people, with horned dragons entwining their roots and random branches piercing the clouds. Coupled with row upon row of majestic palaces, tall and solemn tombs and scattered inscriptions, All show the prosperity and prosperity of a family. It is not inferior to the grandeur of the Confucius Forest in Qufu, and is not inferior to the ancient trees in the tombs of the ancient Song Dynasty kings in Shangqiu. Elderly people (referring to those over sixty or seventy years old) in a hundred miles around all still remember its magnificence and splendor: it is just a pity that the unprecedented "frenzy" in the 1950s and 1960s , it was destroyed in the hands of those scum and sinners of the Chinese nation. Otherwise, it must be a beautiful sight for modern people to visit and travel, and it is another unique landscape of Qilu.

According to people who study geography and Feng Shui: Shilong Mountain in the northwest of Xiangcheng (referring to Hangtou Village) is a dragon flag in this area, and it is only four or five kilometers away from Yinwang Mountain in the northeast. Due to the coincidence of the mountain shape and multiple streams surrounding each other, the shape is like a "golden turtle lying in purple mud". In addition, since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Ying Gong, a high official in the imperial court, led his people to plant nearly 10,000 pines, cypresses, neem and other trees (so it was once called "Wansong Mountain"), which inadvertently created a grand scene. At the entrance of the village, there is a large spring with a thousand-year history, which sets off the nine bends and eighteen bays of the Yangming River. It passes through the town, carrying the Jishui River to the south, and enters the Wutian. It is truly a rare Feng Shui treasure land.

Hangtou Village was passed down from Haishou to the sixth generation of Ge Gong, so Yixiang was selected as a Confucian official in the Ministry of Rites. In the seventh generation, he was promoted from Ju Renguan to the royal palace official; At the age of 18, Gongsheng became an official and moved to Pingliang Prefecture to serve as the governor of Shaanxi Province. The eighth generation was named Wu Gong, and he held the title of Jinshi to the third rank right deputy censor of the capital. The ninth generation Pugong successively served as the second rank Minister of Household Affairs and the first rank cabinet assistant minister of the "supervision country" regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty.

After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, some figures from the Song family in Hangtou served in the Ministry of Punishment and the Ministry of Personnel. During the Qian and Jia years, there were also two Hanlin schools, Duke Shu and Duke Huang. As for the magistrates, magistrates, and county magistrates, it is even more difficult to list them all, and there are some talented women, such as Mrs. Wang of Qixue Gong, who wrote "Green Window Poems and Grass", and some of her works were included in "Fei County Chronicles. Art and Literature". There is also Song Lanhua, the daughter of Duke Huang and a famous female poet in Yizhou during the Daoguang period ("Linyi County Chronicles. Women's Biography" also records that she was "good at reading and talented in poetry, including "Yonglanxuan Poems"), etc.

In front of Hangtou Village, there is still an ancestral hall built by Emperor Chongzhen to commemorate the imperial censor at that time. The plaque of "Qing Xiujie Festival" written by myself (destroyed in the "catastrophe" of ten years), there were original stone lions in front of the door, two dragons playing with spiders were carved on the screen wall in front of the door, and there was also a "drink gift" specially for Emperor Chongzhen in front of the screen wall. In the square set up for the "Imperial Sacrifice Altar", the carved couplets on both sides of the pavilion are: "The reputation of the Hanyuan family has been passed down for hundreds of generations, and the Zhongcheng Dynasty has inspired thousands of generations." The banner reads "Donglin Family Tradition".

In In the ancestral tombs at that time, not only were many famous figures of the Langya Song family buried, such as Wei Gong, Ti Gong, etc., but also many famous poets wrote inscriptions and couplets for them. Among them, Ti Gong's inscription It was written by Gong Ding, the Minister of Rites at the beginning of tomorrow and the famous writer; the inscriptions of Rijugong and Rizhengong were written by Wang Yongfan, the deputy minister of Gongsheng in Wanli Dynasty, Sun Chongzhen Jimao (1639) of Sichuan Inspector Wang Shouzheng. The inscription on a tombstone further enlightened me about Mr. Luo, who was a disciple of the Song Dynasty culture in Hangtou (according to the data, he was a sage from Wumen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, who came to Hangtou from afar and never returned until his death). It was carved by Zhongxi, a tribute student in the late Qing Dynasty, and it is still there today.

Hangtou Village now has a population of more than 1,100 people and a land area of ??1,528 acres. The main income comes from the cultivation of food crops and vegetables. Vegetable cultivation accounts for 80% of the total per capita income. In addition, some migrant workers have been away from home all year round, and the per capita income of the village has increased steadily year by year. In 2007, it reached more than 6,000 yuan, making the village well-off ahead of schedule. < /p>

Although the tomb site is still there today, all the old traces are gone. Except for the school built on the old site of the forest, there is only one dry old cypress tree left, telling the story of those ancient and vicissitudes of life. history.