The story of Song Xiang, Song Xiang s former residence of Song Xiang

Song Xiang's "Forty Rhymes of Miscellaneous Memories of the Homeland" depicts the family background and hometown scenery:

Born in Meizhou Gu, the state name is in front of Baidu. Hengmen is a water curve, and the old house is on the top of the cliff. "The scales are next to each other, and the melons are stretched.

The world is over twenty, and the people are about three thousand. "There are potatoes and chickens and dogs in every family, mulberry and hemp are connected everywhere, the first domain is cultivated and co-herded, and the old Ze recites and strings. "It's a row of bamboos on the shore, and there are kapok on the bridge.

The building is thick with red apricot rain, and the stream is pale with green poplar smoke. ”

Song Xiang's former residence Jingzhaotang, was built in the Ming Jiajing (1522-1566) period, the past dynasties have been repaired repeatedly, sitting in the east and facing west, backed by a low mountain, low in front and high in the back, covering an area of 2400 square meters. The main building is a hanging mountain style hall house, with three halls and four horizontal, symmetrical central axis, rammed walls and beams, civil and stone structures, and white walls and gray tiles. There are north and south horizontal houses outside the former residence, there are three halls, four corridors and two wells in the inner house, there are 14 rooms in the north horizontal house, there are 13 rooms in the south horizontal house, there are 28 rooms in the inner hall house, there is a wall in front of it, and there is a dou gate tower outside.

The gatehouse sits south to north, the gatehouse is set up on the left and right of the "stone drum household pair", the door is in regular script "Taishidi", and the door is connected with "Fu Mei Shidi, the bamboo Yuan family", which highlights the owner of the house and the first, the official to the editor. Across the gatehouse, into the courtyard, is a wide door, built with a wall enclosure, the main gate is signed "Xie Yuan", the door is "like Xian Yanqing, Chongde Liuhui"; Enter the gate and see the "Jinshi" plaque hanging on the back door of the gate. In the lower hall, you can see the inside and outside of the hall of the former residence, with very little carving, simple and unpretentious, and not much different from the Hakka houses.

It is said that Song Xiang is a well-known Qing official in history, although he is in a high position and has a good salary, he is "thin with the people", and most of his money is donated for the benefit of the people.

There are many couplets in the hall of the hall, which are rich in poetry and elegance. On both sides of the main wall of the middle hall, there is a couplet with the inscription of Song Xiang and the book "three generations of Lile Nongsang today, and the ancient book of pro-Kangle". On the right wall of the middle hall is hung with the mountain-shaped poem inscribed by Song Xiang in his hometown Anfeng Temple when he was young.

This poem looks like a tower at first glance, but when you look closely, it looks like a mountain, and there are eight "mountain" characters inlaid on it. According to the introduction of Song Huaguang, an old man in the village, this is Song Xiang's original mountain-shaped poetry. The whole poem is eight sentences and fifty-six words:

Outside the mountain, the green mountain road is crooked, and the mountain water is murmuring. The sound of hundreds of birds in the deep mountains is difficult, and it is difficult for pedestrians on the road. Persuade you not to be a guest in the rivers and lakes, hungry and cold in the mountains every night.

Everyone said that the East Mountain was far away, and I went to several sections of the East Mountain and eight mountains. "Reading it carefully, I found that it was comparable to the ring and back shape of Chinese poetry. Singing in a low voice, imitating the deep mountains and dense forests, walking the forest paths, the scenery is beautiful and the water is beautiful, the road is difficult and difficult, and you forget to return.

We then moved to the upper hall, where there is a concave shrine screen, the upper end of the regular script "Jingzhaotang", the left and right dragon pillars each have a long couplet. According to reports, Song Xiang died at the age of 71 in Wuhan Hubei Observation Bureau. The time of his birth and death is also on the 25th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is a very coincidental and miraculous event.

Song Xiang (1757-1826) was a native of Jiaying Prefecture, Guangdong Province (now Meixian District, Meizhou City, Guangdong). In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, he was a famous poet, calligrapher, educator, and a clean official with an honest political reputation. He came from a poor background, was influenced by his family to study diligently, and when he was young, he showed his prominence in the creation of poems and couplets, and was known as "the first genius of Lingnan".

Qing Historical Manuscript· In the biography, it is said that "Cantonese poetry is only Hunan as a giant".