Village History of Liukeng Village

Liukeng Village has an ancient and proud history and a highly developed civilization. The village was built in the first year of Southern Tang Dynasty (937-943) in the Five Dynasties, belonging to Yongfeng County of Jizhou, and was transferred to Le 'an County of Fuzhou in the Southern Song Dynasty. It has a history of 1000 years. This village, mostly surnamed Dong, is a blood-related village with a single surname in Dongshi. Dong Shi respected Dong Zhongshu, the founder of the Western Han University, and recognized Dong Jin, the prime minister of the Tang Dynasty. According to genealogy records, during the war in the late Tang Dynasty, Dong Jin's grandson Dong Qingran moved from Anhui to Yihuang County, Fuzhou, Jiangxi Province, and his great-grandson Dong He moved to Liukeng and became the founder of Liukeng.

Song Dynasty is one of the most glorious periods in Liukeng history. The East worships Buddhism and prospers with Kodi, becoming a typical Jiangnan family. At that time, there were five scholars, four ministers in two dynasties, and two champions in both civil and military fields. If a scholar is a star, he will be known as the hometown of Ou (Ouyang Xiu) and Dong (Liu Hang Dong Shi). In the Yuan Dynasty, the soldiers were killed and the village was destroyed. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people of insight in the village followed in the footsteps of their ancestors, set up education and schools, built temples with music, and developed bamboo and wood trade, which made Liukeng Village prosperous again. From the Song Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, there were books and libraries in the village, including 26 in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and 28 in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. There are 65,438 scholars, 34 scholars and 78 people in the village. More than 100 people have entered the official career, ranging from consultants in political affairs and history to masters in books and teaching guidance.

There are only four villages in Jiangxi province with more than 30 Jinshi, and Liukeng Village is the only ancient village with such well-preserved cultural relics, which is really rare. Xu Xiake, a traveler in the Ming Dynasty, once visited Liukeng Village and praised it as a city with thousands of surnames, while Dongshi was a giant surname with five guiyan (see Xu Xiake's Travels). The five Gui Fang's mentioned here are in recognition of five people from Dong Shi who entered the school at the same time in the first year of Jingyou, Song Renzong (1034). In the past thousand years, Liukeng imperial examination has flourished, and many officials are unique in Jiangxi and rare in the whole country.

In the Ming Dynasty, Liukeng began to build ancestral temples, constantly compiled genealogy, strengthened the binding force of Confucianism on clan unity, and injected vitality into the clan by propagating the theory of mind. With "taking morality as the foundation", "making it the most important Sect first" and "infinitely taking blood Zen as the supplement", the maintenance of the family began to transcend the primitive stage and enter the rational realm. After resigning from his post and returning to his hometown, Dong You of Nanjing Criminal Police Team began to plan and rebuild the overall layout of the village. "The buildings are laid out according to the regulations of Zhou Li, and there are also geomantic considerations" (Zheng Xiaoyu). People live in different areas according to the branches of the family school and are combined with the ancestral halls of the family school.

In order to educate and restrain the people, the clan rules of Liukeng Dongshi are becoming more and more perfect. By the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Dong Xiang, the twenty-second generation of Dong Shi, was a philosopher, a juren, and a doctor of punishments. After he became an official, he transformed and managed the village, making Liukeng standardized and orderly, laying the foundation for the scale we see today. Outside the whole Liukeng village are Wujiang River and Longhu Lake, and there are village walls and gatehouses inside. Dong Gui's planning and transformation of convection pit is reasonable and scientific, and it is a valuable model for the construction of ancient villages in China.

Xu Xiake, a traveler in the Ming Dynasty, once swam to Liukeng Village and said, "Yes, Liukeng is a city of ten thousand families, and Dongshi is a giant surname with five Guifangyan." During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the imperial officials in Liukeng declined gradually, but the academic, cultural, political and industrial and commercial activities of Dong Shi in Liukeng flourished. In the Ming Dynasty, there were 38 kinds of writings by literati named Dong. Many celebrities and sages wrote, wrote poems, presented poems and inscribed tablets for Liukeng Dong Shi, such as Wang Anshi, Mei, Zhu, Wen Tianxiang, Wu Cheng, Luo Hongxian, Zeng Guofan and Zuo, all of which left ink marks for Liukeng.