Gong Hu's historical accident

According to legend, Ying Shi, the mother of Xianggong, was pregnant soon, and her husband was seriously ill and died unfortunately. Therefore, I won loneliness, poverty and lack of food and clothing. Before giving birth, I want to beg along the way and go back to my mother's house to give birth. Camp all the way until noon on August 12, when Ying Shi passed the Xiandu Mountain where immortals gathered, he felt the fetus kicking in his stomach, and Ying Shi insisted on going forward ... He felt exhausted and suddenly saw a ruined temple in front of the village, so he hurried in to rest and fell asleep. When he woke up, it was the next morning. Ying Shi immediately got up, was pregnant, endured hunger and thirst, and slowly climbed the truncated ridge to the foot of the mountain. At this time, it was nearly noon, and Ying Shi was exhausted and sat down by the rock lake. It's okay to sit down. After a while, I had a stomachache and struggled to give birth to my son with all my strength. In desperation, I had to bite the umbilical cord with my own mouth and put the child in the rock lake to wash it myself. Strangely, the water in the whole rock lake suddenly turned bright red, and then on August 13 every year, the water in the rock lake also turned red. After washing the child, Ying wrapped his son in a torn cloth, hugged him, and bowed down to rest by the roadside. At this time, a child finished grazing and rode home on a big buffalo. When he passed by, he saw that Ying's mother and son were so embarrassed and there was a pool of red water in the lake. He jumped off the cow's back and asked why. Then he gently helped the English mother and son to the cow's back and took them home. The shepherd boy's home is in Jingyue Village, less than two miles from Salt Lake and Haoxi. Although the shepherd boy's family is not rich, but the whole family is very kind, they settled the British mother and son at home to entertain them. Before you know it, it's a full moon night, and the shepherd boy and Ying's family are happily drinking "full moon wine". Thanks a thousand times, Ying looked for it three times, and Ying offered to go back to her mother's house. The shepherd boy's parents knew that she had missed her mother for a long time and could not keep her, so they had to choose an auspicious day for her mother and son, prepared enough dry food and clothes, and reluctantly sent them on their way.

Time flies. One day more than 20 years later, two official cars and several servants came to Jingyue and entered the shepherd boy's home. It turns out that Ying Shi and his son Hu Ze are sitting in this official sedan chair. At this point, Hu Ze has won the Jinshi, and they have come to thank the shepherd boy family. People in Jingyue Village have never seen such a big official. What's more, he was born in this land, especially when he was said to be an honest official and saved money and food from the local people to solve problems for the people. Therefore, many people talk about it in succession, and they want to build the Hall of Hu Xianggong, which will be dedicated forever. When Hu Xianggong knew about it, he refused. Later, people had to choose a place nearby and build a small temple called "Hu Gong Dian" as a permanent memorial. The men, women and children in Yongkang still have the tradition of walking on the rocks to worship Hu Xianggong every New Year after beginning of autumn. 1In August, 959, President Mao Zedong passed by Jinhua on his way back to Beijing after the Lushan meeting. He once said to the secretary of Yongkang County Party Committee: "Don't you have a Fangyan Mountain in Yongkang? There is an emperor Gong Hu on Fangyan Mountain. His fragrance is immortal, and he is the most famous. In fact, Gong Hu is not a Buddha or a god, but a human being. He was an honest official in the Northern Song Dynasty. He did many good things for the people, and the people just remembered him. It is very important to be an official and benefit one party! " It can be seen that President Mao Zedong spoke highly of Gong Hu.

Hu Ze, a famous Northern Song Dynasty official who was enshrined in Yongkang Fangyan and praised by Mao Zedong as "serving as an official and benefiting one party" and "being honest and clean", was from Jingyue Village, Dongfang Town, Jinyun County.

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In Xiandu, a national scenic spot, there is a towering mountain called Maanshan. On the edge of a good stream in the north of Maanshan, there is a hill that looks like a turtle, so people call it Guishan. In the northwest of Guishan Mountain, the rock tower of the mountain is recessed, surrounded by a hollow half-moon water, which is called Rock Lake, also called Moon Lake (around 1990, the rock in the northwest corner of Guishan Mountain was blown down and the Rock Lake was buried, which is really regrettable and hateful). The ground near Guishan Mountain is a place name that people revere to commemorate the birth of Hu Xianggong here-"Hu Birthday", which was later mistaken for the homonym of Jinyun dialect and became what people call "Hutadi" today.

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Coincidentally, the statement that Hu Xianggong was born in "Hu's birthplace" is not only circulated in Jinyun, but also widely circulated in Yongkang, and has been written into relevant research materials. For example, the Gong Hu Classic recited by Yongkang folk women and children begins by saying, "There is no Buddha in the south who said the Gong Hu Classic, and Gong Hu was born in Jinyun. Gong Hu and Hutadi separated and his parents went to heaven. " (Excerpted from Hu Guojun, a Yongkang scholar, "The Faith of Gong Hu the Great and the Temple Fair of Free Speech" —— An Interpretation of the Poems of Free Speech Signing Meeting published by Tianma Bookstore).

In addition, in April 1984, Zhejiang People's Publishing House published "Zhejiang History Series, Yan Fang Hu Ze's Deeds" with such a story at the beginning:

"About the birth of Hu Ze, there is a legend in Yongkang: According to the legend, Hu Ze is not Hu Shicheng's own son, but his adopted son.

That winter, the weather was particularly cold and there were several heavy snows in succession. One day, a beggar-like middle-aged woman was limping in the ice and snow with a little boy of three or four years old on her back, a cloth bag on her shoulder and a dog stick in her hand. It has been ten days since they went out to beg from Huda, Jinyun County. The night before, two girls came to Huku village near Fangyan. No sooner had they settled down in the land temple at the head of the village than a snowstorm came. She held the child tightly in her arms and didn't sleep a wink all night. Until dawn, the child was still clamoring for food, so she had to grit her teeth to support her sleepy body and walk out of the temple.

It's almost noon and the village is still very quiet. Every family is closed and there are no pedestrians on the road. They begged along the street. Jiping visited Huku Village with only dozens of families, but the broken sea bowl still didn't touch a grain of rice. She felt a burst of blackness in front of her eyes, so she quickly reached out and propped up on a courtyard wall. When she recovered her breath, she shouted, "God, have pity on our orphans and widows!

The heartbreaking cry reached the closed yard. A young man in his twenties opened the door and greeted them warmly: "Oh, come in and get warm."

This year's youth is Hu Shicheng. Although her family is not rich, she is always charitable. His wife Ying Shi quickly prepared a big plate of rice candy for the New Year. The beggar woman was overjoyed, picked up a piece and handed it to the child on her back, poured the rest into the bag and then retreated to the door. "It's snowing heavily," said the teacher. "The rice for lunch is in the pot. Eat before you go. " At this time, the child has finished eating the candy and is reaching into the bag to find it. Ying Shi hurriedly brought another plate. After the child is full, his eyes become bright and his cheeks glow faintly. He was so happy that he climbed all the way to the ground, ran around the post along the steps and giggled from time to time. This scene suddenly reminds Ying Shi of the dream of the blue dragon circling the column last night. She thought, could it be that Blue Dragon should be on this child? So she quietly pulled the teacher into the room and described her dream. Hearing this, the teacher couldn't help beaming. After obtaining his father's consent, he discussed with the begging woman and expressed his willingness to adopt her child, and the woman agreed. From then on, this child became Hu Shicheng's eldest son, and he was Hu Ze. "

Then Fang Yan Folk Tales also collected a story very similar to the above legend in Jinyun. It is said that on August 13th, 963, the fourth year of Stegosaurus in the early Song Dynasty, Hu Ze's mother Ying Shi set out from Jinyun Rock Pit and passed Dinghu Peak. When she arrived in Hutadi, Jingyue, she felt a stomachache and the child fell to the ground with a "croak". Ying Shi bit off the umbilical cord himself and took the children to the Rock Lake to take a bath. The water in the pool turned into red soup. It is said that this small pond in Shihu Lake is still half red and half clear.

According to Hu's genealogy in Yankeng Village, Rongjiang Township, it is clearly recorded that Hu's father is a teacher, and his wife should be named as Yongkang (the names of Hu's parents in the Hu's genealogy of Yongkang Huku are the same). Ying Shi is pregnant and going to have a baby. On August 13, she went to Yongkang's mother's house to give birth early. "Once I accidentally went to Huta, Jingyue, and gave birth to a son, I washed two ponds and brought them to my mother's house." This son is Hu Ze.

For my father Hu, there is such a record in Records of Mountains and Lakes in Jinyun County in the 23rd year of Kangxi: "Dasheng, 75 miles southeast of the county seat, where my father studied and was dismembered, and the ancient pool was named Dasheng Cloud." My father, Hu, practiced in Dashengtan, seventy-five miles southeast of Jinyun County, where his body was decomposed into immortals. It can be seen that Hu Ze is a legend of Jinyun people, and it should be groundless.

Fan Zhongyan, a famous minister in the Northern Song Dynasty, was an official and had a deep personal relationship with him. After his death, he wrote an epitaph for him. According to the epitaph included in Hu's genealogy in Yankeng, Jinyun, entitled "The public was given a purple fish bag by the founder, and it was given to the epitaph of Hu, the former assistant minister of the Ministry of Military Affairs", which wrote: "The public is taboo, the words are correct and beneficial, and Jinyun is also human." The epitaph included in Yongkang County Records is called "Epitaph of Gong Hu, Assistant Minister of the Ministry of War", which records "Right and Wrong? I don't know. In any case, Jinyun people believe that Hu Xianggong's roots are in Jinyun, where he was born. But he grew up in Yongkang, and later he was admitted to the Jinshi in the name of Yongkang students, so he became famous-Hu Xianggong was from Yongkang. Because of this, there is also a folk proverb circulating in Jingyue, Jinyun, that is, "Osmanthus fragrans is fragrant in the distance, and Hu Xianggong shows a foreign country". However, although "Hu Xianggong made a splash in foreign countries", the villagers in Jinyun never forgot that Hu Xianggong was a native of Jinyun. Today, men, women and children in nearby villages still worship at the Hu Xianggong Temple, the birthplace of Hu, every autumn, walking on the rocks above to worship Hu Xianggong (going for three years once), and there are more than 20 people nearby.

Postscript: The author's hometown is Jingyue Village, Dongfang Town, and he has been playing or working in Huda since he was a child. The lush turtle mountain, the clear stone lake and the beautiful legend of Hu Xianggong's birth have all been heard, seen and vividly remembered, so I wrote this article to save it.

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