Information about the bell and drum tower of Xishan Park in Wanzhou District.

Wanzhou Xishan Park Bell Tower was built in 1930

and completed in the following year. ***12 floors, 50.2 meters high,

majestic and spectacular, for the Wanzhou landmark and the Yangtze River

upstream of the important landscape, and Shanghai Customs Bell Tower is the same name.

The bell tower on the ground floor of the hall, there is a high about 5 meters,

four sides of the width of 1.3 meters of the huge stone monument. This stone

material from the clock tower 2 miles away from the orchard Wangma

stone, then used in the stone under the pad log sliding

method, every day 60 or 70 people dragged and pushed, but it took more than half

months to transport together.

Subsequently, Wanxian late Qing Dynasty Bugong Xie Xianzhuang (献

庄) at the invitation of the highest military and political officer in Wanxian at the time - Lu

Army 21st Army, Third Division Commander and Mayor of Wanxian City

Wang Lingji, wrote a few mottos engraved on the top of the

stele. In 1958, Premier Zhou Enlai visited the Bell Tower to read the inscription. Although the monument was destroyed in the early 1960s, some old Wanzhou people

still remember it and pass it on from mouth to mouth, using it to regulate their own behavior and educate their children, and it has been

three gorges in the heart of a humanistic monument.

After the Cultural Revolution, many people hoped to restore this

monument, and some enthusiasts also continued to do the inscription of the visit

request, collection and collation of the work, trying to find an accurate

text for the re-engraving of this monument. However, because there are no

pictures or topographies of the tablet, only a few handwritten manuscripts or oral

monumental information from the memory of the elderly can be found. The memories of the elderly are not always accurate,

and the handwritten manuscripts are not free from errors.

There are a number of small differences, and even contradictions, between the manuscripts,

which are roughly the same as each other.

"Cultural Revolution" end to date, Wanzhou literature and history, Fang

Chi workers based on the above information, one after another to organize the release of

table and published a few mottos and inscriptions, once

than once better, but there are still some differences.

Chinese **** Chongqing Municipal Committee Standing Committee, Secretary of the Wanzhou District Committee

Comrade Wu Zhengrong attaches great importance to this, asking the district

relevant departments in the spirit of history and people highly responsible

spirit, the organization of experts and scholars to carefully scrutinize the repeated

demonstrate the evidence, multiple corroboration, the formation of the **** knowledge. 2008 August

Months Since, the district CPPCC Literature Association Committee and the District Culture, Broadcasting and New Bureau,

District Literature Association has repeatedly invited experts, scholars and

relevant people to repeatedly discuss the study, word by word, set

thinking, and finally collectively proofread a recognized

for more accurate and reliable maxims of the Tablet this, and by

Municipal Party Committee Standing Committee, Secretary of the District Committee, Comrade Wu Zhengrong

Personally

Reviewed, decided to publish in the "Three Gorges Metropolis News".

This not only provides a more

accurate blueprint for the re-carving of the motto monument, but also adds a new

content to the current mass

"reading the classics" and "passing on the motto" activities.

The original motto of the monument is organized into 28 mottoes with 961

characters,

which can be used as a code of ethics and behavior for a practical life and a correct way of dealing with the world.

The mottoes have been used for many years in the past. Most of the content of the motto is obtained from the classics of the past dynasties by the author, but it is not copied from the original text, but is a second degree creation based on his own

life experience and analysis of the social situation, and the breadth of the content and the depth of the idea

has been expanded and sublimated. What is even more remarkable

is that, while the classics and famous aphorisms of the past generations had a small amount of feudal dregs mixed in with a large number of

essentials,

this monument,

which was engraved 68 years ago,

is free of feudal dregs and superstitions that discriminate against women and promote the Three Principles and the Five Virtues,

like this monument. In this point

this monument is more than many of the motto masterpieces

one step higher, enough to be among the outstanding cultural

heritage of the Chinese nation. Therefore, it is not only the

classic of Wanzhou, but also the classic of Chongqing Municipality and the whole country, and it is the spiritual wealth of the

human society***.

The author was able to create such a superb motto,

both as a Bugong, learned, more with

its acceptance of the "May 4" new cultural movement baptism has

related. The author's name is Xie Shubi, his name is Xianzhuang (献庄),

born in Sanzheng Township, Wanxian County, in the early years of the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty. The family

was a scholarly family, and I was drawn in the 23rd year of Guangxu (Ding

You). After he entered the Imperial College, he was admitted to the first

waiting for the examination, that is, in Beijing, the Ministry of Households as a minor official of the seventh grade, and was soon promoted to

Duzhi Department, the master of the salt affairs. Since then many years in Beijing,

by the "May 4" new cultural movement, with the times

advancement, and gradually with the opposition to feudalism, advocate science

studies, democracy and new ideas. Therefore, he created the Western

Shan motto, can be free of feudalism, superstition dregs.

Later, disgusted with the warlords, he resigned from his post and returned to his hometown to participate in the compilation of

(Republic of China) "Wanxian County Records". In order to express the block in his heart, he wrote "Butterfly Pavilion Poetry" in 87 volumes, and let his four

sons go to study translation, surveying and mapping, post and telecommunication and political science and law respectively, which were all related to his admiration for science and democracy.

The classics are the treasure of the national spirit. Like other classics, the Sesan Grammar has a permanent charm that transcends time and space,

and inspires people to move forward by always reading it.

Today's society, in some people have

decreased in traditional morality, the lack of time, publicity, learning Xishan

motto, for the police and integrity, persuade the good in addition to the evil, enhance

citizen morality, improve interpersonal relations, and promote social harmony

harmony, will play a positive role.

The motto of the whole tablet is written in the form of a simple literary prose,

which is accompanied by a large number of parallel sentences,

and the expression of self

naturally, but also concise, neat. Not only is the intention far-reaching, words

simple and concise, but also catchy, easy to read and remember. The motto

focuses on personal cultivation, extending

from "cultivating oneself" to "keeping the family together" and "governing the country", and correctly dealing with interpersonal and public-private relations, in order to realize the ideals of building a harmonious

preferred world.

In personal cultivation, the motto emphasizes hard work and endurance

labor, cherish time as gold; ambition to be lofty, the world to be

peaceful; people should be modest and prudent, honest, know

benefit must be repaid; no matter whether to do good to go to the evil, to correct the error,

or practice thrift and honesty, we must start from the smallest thing, say

dry to do it, can not be delayed, and self-deception, and the world of work.

To be strict with oneself and lenient with others; to enjoy life

on, to be thin and thick; to be self-reliant, self-improvement, contentment

always happy. Make friends, to be able to identify "good friends" and

"bad friends", do others "good friends"; to listen to

into the ear of the advice, the slander as a mentor, through

to self-police, self-reflection at any time, will be able to make fewer mistakes

mistakes. Don't hurt people with bad words and sneer at them behind their backs;

joking and poking at people's pain is the most likely cause of trouble, especially

desirable to be avoided.

In the study, reminding young people, "ambition

interests are noble high, but the heart convergence of the gas to be calm, dedicated to

learning the road to go, it is a far-reaching tool, if the one

madness and impatience, will not be able to achieve."

In terms of family relations, the motto emphasizes that brothers

sisters and sisters to get along with each other, not to "rivalry

provocations, as if colliding"; as a child is required to be "able to

parents love me" to treat their parents, or "to

their own love for their children's hearts" to treat their parents to fulfill the

filial piety. The first responsibility of parents is "to teach their children to be righteous, and if they are not righteous, they will be a bad person in the world

; and to make them learn a profession, and if they are idle, they will be a wanderer in the world". Don't

just save up money to bequeath to your descendants, because,

"If your descendants are virtuous, more money will hurt their ambition; if they are not

virtuous, more money will benefit their evil." It is worthwhile for parents to think about this.

In the tablet, "Being an official is a bitter thing, not a happy thing; it is a

profitable thing, not a convenient thing; it is a name-making thing, not a

profit-seeking thing. To understand this truth before being allowed to do the official",

is every official should understand the truth and should

abide by the aphorism, it is the most simple and straightforward to say clearly

what is the real "wholeheartedly for the people's service

service". The motto concludes with the example of "official things are perishable, and official use

is costly", showing that many ills are born from the word

"private", and signaling that the relationship between public and private should be handled correctly, and that one must not jeopardize the public interest for the sake of private interests."

To get rid of the word "private", there will be a good world!"

The author's vision of the future world is shown.

Full of wisdom and philosophy, Xishan's motto will

be with us warmly, become our mentor

friends, standardize our words and deeds, and be our life's journey

on the compass forever!