Where is the hometown of Mozi?

The hometown of Mozi is still a mystery. There are two relatively reliable theories. One is Tengzhou City, Shandong Province, and the other is Lushan County in Pingdingshan City, Henan Province.

'Mozi Memorial Hall (Mozi International Research Center) in Tengzhou, Shandong Province is located on the west bank of the beautiful Jinghe River in the east of Tengzhou City, Shandong Province. There is the towering Longquan Tower in the front and the solemn and simple Wang Xuezhong Art Museum in the back. , facing Fuqian Road in the south and Tasi Street in the west, with beautiful environment and convenient transportation, covering an area of ??10,200 square meters, including a construction area of ??4,100 square meters. The main buildings include exhibition rooms: Mozi's Holy Relics Hall, Motang Hall, Science and Technology Hall, and Huiwen Hall. In the east courtyard, there are stone busts of Mozi giving lectures, stone carvings of "Mozi", and inscriptions of celebrities. In addition, there are turrets, cloisters, Muyi Pavilion and other landscapes. The entire building has flat ridges and raised corners, square kissing eaves, a towering roof, green tiles and pink walls, and a black marble platform. It is solemn and simple; the doors are wide and the windows are high, inlaid with sapphire glass, which is magnificent; the halls are connected by corridors and surrounded by winding paths. Famous flowers and plants, lined with green trees, it is a garden architectural group that combines modernization with ethnic forms. It embodies the three major functions of academic seminars, book collections, and sightseeing. It is not only a cultural landscape for tourism, but also a symbol of Tengzhou City’s opening to the outside world. An important window.

Most of those who support Lushan County in Henan Province are some researchers. At present, there are 21 domestic works discussing that Mo Zili was born in Lushan County, Henan Province. These 21 treatises confirm from four aspects that Mo Zili was born in Lushan County, Henan Province.

First, experts and scholars go to the field to conduct field visits and enumerate actual evidence. More than 20 famous experts and scholars, including Feng Chengrong, Gao Tiansheng, Xu Xiyan, Shi Dangshe, Xiao Luyang, Pan Minzhong, Yang Xiaoyu, and Chen Jinzhan, visited Lushan County and found that there are a large number of Mozi relics and ruins here, such as Mozi Temple, Mozi Store, Mozi Cave and the Monument of Mozi's Hometown, etc. There is also a small mountain village near Heiyin Temple in Lushan County where the Hei surname is concentrated. The people in this village are all Hei and claim to be descendants of Mozi. In addition, there are many legends about Mozi among the people in Lushan County, such as Mozi Shabushi, Sutra Cave, and the successor of Mohism.

Second, during field visits, experts and scholars verified the dialects in the book "Mozi" with the current dialects in Lushan County, and the results were exactly the same. Such as "Dangkou" (meaning to speak insincerely, nagging endlessly, and boastful), "Longhuo" (meaning to make a fire, light a fire), "Ansheng" (meaning to be quiet, tranquil, stable, calm), "中不中" (meaning "中不中") (meaning to be incompetent), "Qiangliang" (meaning arrogant), "hospitality" (meaning to treat guests, banquet), "bucai" (meaning incompetent and unpromising), "hung" (meaning hunger), "Binfu" (meaning to be convinced, obey), etc. Dr. Xu Xiyan said: "Language is a living fossil. Only Mozi lived in Lushan since he was a child, and his books would have this kind of language."

Third, experts have consulted a large number of historical books and listed Mozi's experiences in Lushan. Evidence of activities in Shan County. Gao You, a scholar of the Eastern Han Dynasty, made an annotation for "Lu Shi Chun Qiu" and said in "Shen Da Lan": "Mozi's name was Zhai, and he was from Lu." : "Lu is Luyang (that is, Lushan County), and the Spring and Autumn Period belongs to Chu."

Fourthly, many chronicles in the past dynasties have recorded the activities of Mozi and Luyang, Mozi and Luyang Gong, and Mozi’s activities in Lushan County.

It can be seen from this that the country of the Central Plains, the country of Mozi's parents, should be within the territory of Henan.