There is an ancient tomb on Jin Yan Mountain of Jin Yan Formation in Yongfu Village of this town. According to local people, this tomb has been stolen for more than 1000 years. Now, although the tombstone is there, the ancient tomb does not exist. The handwriting on the tombstone is legible, and the inscription reads: "Ancestor Tang Gong, Song Chaochen, taboo Cheng Yu's tomb", and the inscription reads: "In the eighth year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, Chen Geng Chunyue Gu Erdan Jinyang Tang clan was close to the public". The inscription at least reveals the following information: the owner's surname is Tang, and the word is Cheng Yu. He is one of the ancestors of surnamed tang who moved to Jinyang Pool. Shang Shu, the minister of punishments in the Song Dynasty, was buried in Longmen Town after his death.
So, who is Tang You with such a prominent family background? To this end, I followed the clue of Song History and searched Song History and Notes of the Whole Song Dynasty. I searched for a long time in the vast history books of the Song Dynasty and found nothing. Not only did I find this person, but even no one with the same name, which surprised me.
According to the habit of the editors of History of Song Dynasty or the poets of Song Dynasty to record unofficial history's notes, most of them are recorded in one way or another, from the minister of slaughter to the officials of various ministries in the imperial court, such as assistant ministers, practitioners and foreign ministers. Even if there is no "biography", it will leave clues in other people's biographies or friends, entertainment and anecdotes. There are only two possibilities for officials in this important department of punishments. Tang You was either a Song Dynasty man or a minister of punishments. To find out what it is, search in the historical records of Song people, even if it is searched, it may be a dark road. It is better to trace back to the source and find it from the ancestors of surnamed tang's ancestors. Sure enough, Song history closed a door, but local chronicles opened a window for me.
The article "Xiangtan Tangjia" in the book "The Origin of Hunan Clan Migration" compiled by Hunan Library says: "The ancestors inherited it, forbearing to protect it, and Yongzhou in Tang Dynasty was a historical secretariat, giving Jingjiang Army a festival, but his father was taboo. According to Hunan, Ma Yin sent troops to attack Yong, Changtu Gong died in the battle, Cheng Yugong took refuge in Guizhou, then moved to Hengshui Bridge, and Jin Yanchong (now Zhuzhou) was not buried in Xiangtan. Zitong, Lu and Bian. Tonggong moved to Liling Orange Bridge to eleven Duke Jun Gong and Dejie Gong, and was divided into six rooms: benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, faithfulness and loyalty. She lives in Gantian ... "
Through the careful study of this record, the ins and outs of Longmen Down Family are really like opening a window and gradually becoming clear. Moreover, this recorded historical event is completely consistent with that recorded in Sima Guang's Zi Tong Zhi Jian, indicating that it is getting closer and closer to the truth.
According to this record, Tang You's father, Tang Shimin, once occupied Yongzhou independence in troubled times at the end of the Tang Dynasty. Sima Guang's Zi Tong Zhi Jian recorded in the first year of Guanghua (898): "Taking Tanzhou as the secretariat, the judge Ma Yin, a military attache in Hunan, knew that Wu 'an stayed behind. At that time, Hunan was in charge of seven states, Thief Shiyuan was in Hengzhou, Tang Shizhen was in Yongzhou, Daozhou, Chen was in Chenzhou and Lu was in Lianzhou. Yin's income is only Tan and Shao. "
According to Wu Renchen's The Ten Kingdoms in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Biography of Tang Shimin in the Qing Dynasty, "Tang Shimin was born in Lingling. Su Yong is brave, looks heroic and has eyes and teeth. Since Huang Chao, Shi Min has joined forces with rural soldiers to defend themselves. When Mu (Ma Yin) entered Tanzhou with him, he was cited as the secretariat of Yongzhou, but he refused to obey the orders of the king Yizhou. Li Tang and others attacked Yongzhou and killed its commander Zheng Feng. The stone died when the city fell. The people are quite concerned about the security of the world. They are like a sacrifice. "
The above article is quite close to the record in the Records of People in Yongzhou County (Volume 16) compiled by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty: "Tang Shimin, the word Chang Tu. The predecessor Taiyuan moved to Lingling. Su Yong is brave, looks heroic and has eyes and teeth. During the reign of Emperor Zhaozong, Huang Chao was in charge, and Shi Min joined forces with rural soldiers and security guards, which Liu Jianfeng cited as the secretariat of Yongzhou. At the beginning of Guanghua, according to Chu, Ma Yin ordered Tang to attack Yong. The world is cold, the city is dead, and the people think about it and worship it. The temple is in the east of the mountain, called' Lingxian'. And "Ji" and "Literature and Art". "
The four historical materials refer to each other, and the legendary experience of Tang You's father, Tang Shimin, is clear at a glance. From this, it can be inferred that the reason, destination, result and descendants of Tang You's departure from Yongzhou are almost close to the historical truth.
According to the above historical data, Tang Shimin's ancestral home was Taiyuan (which is also the reason why Jinyang Tangjia pursued Tang You), and later his family moved to Yongzhou. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was chaos in Huang Chao, and separatist forces mushroomed everywhere. In the first year of Ganning (894), after the warlord Liu Jianfeng (later appointed by Tang Zhaozong as our ambassador to Wu 'an Army) occupied Tanzhou, Tang Shimin was appointed as the secretariat of Yongzhou. Since then, Tang Shimin and his son, Tang You, have run Yongzhou together, trained rural soldiers in groups and set up their own businesses, just like a state outside China. Tang You is also known as Yongzhou Secretariat. After Liu Jianfeng's death, the Ministry will elect Ma Yin as commander in chief (later named King Chu by Zhu Wen). Because Tang Shimin was out of control and sent Li Tang to attack Yongzhou, Tang Shimin was trapped and died. Tang Shimin's previous contribution to protecting the environment and loving the people moved the local people. The statue was built in Dongshan, Yongzhou City, and incense sacrifices continued.
After the defeat of Yongzhou City, Tang You's family first took refuge in Guizhou (now Guilin, Guangxi), then moved to Tanshui Bridge in Hengzhou (now Hengyang, Hunan), and finally settled in Jinyanchong, Gantian, Xiangtan, which is the Jin Yan Formation in Yongfu Village, Longmen Town today. They enjoyed their old age in this remote place and were buried in Jin Yan Mountain after their death. Tang You became the ancestor of Longmen Town and its surrounding surnamed tang for roughly the same reason.
Tang You's three sons are Tang Tong, Tang Ling and Tang Bian. From the origin of clan migration in Hunan, the descendants of Tang Dynasty moved to Liling, the descendants of Tang Dynasty moved to Youxian, and Tang Lingyi spent the rest of his life in Gantian (Longmen). On the left side of Kaili Temple in Gantian, there used to be an ancestral temple. Among the descendants of the imperial clan, Tang was promoted to Jinshi in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, to Jinshi in the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and to Jinshi in the Qianlong period. Tang Hengmo, a former secretary-general of the Ministry of Finance of the National Government, was a former member of the Thick Ministry of Parliament. It can be said that there are many talents, and Yushu is full of ranks.
There was also a philanthropist named Li Tang in Ming Dynasty, named Zhong He, the 14th generation grandson of Tang You, and Gong Shi in Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, who was the master book of Jishui County, Jiangxi Province. In the second year of Yongle (1404), a drought occurred in Hunan. Li Tang led 1000 people and donated grain 10000 tons to help the victims in Tan, Heng, You and Cun counties. Judy of Ming Taizu specially inscribed the word "Tang Yimen" in recognition of Tang Li's disaster relief, and ordered Xiangtan magistrate to carve a stone and set up a workshop in Taihu Village to show his recognition. Today, there is another place called "Yimenping", which comes from this.
The Tang family lived forever and prospered, and also moved to the surrounding towns and villages on the other side of the Xiangjiang River. The descendants of the Tang family in Longchuan Town and Yue Feng Ancient Town have a song they are familiar with, which reads: "The purple flowers spread incense and show ancestors, and the rise is followed by cultural revival, which is nurtured by good trees and inherited by Bu Yongchang."
Is Tang You from the Tang Dynasty or the Song Dynasty? It is very accurate to say that he is from the Tang Dynasty, and there are records to test him. It is said that he was born in the Song Dynasty, depending on his life span. To be sure, it is unlikely that he died in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties after the establishment of the Song Dynasty in Song Taizu in 960. As for him, he was the Minister of Punishment in the Song Dynasty, because it lasted 72 years from 898 to 960, and Tang You's age at that time, plus 72 years, was his age after entering the Song Dynasty, and he was probably over 90 years old. Even if he really had this long life and became a Song Dynasty man, he retired at the age of 70 in the Song Dynasty. Shi Zhi: A civil and military official who is over 70 years old came to be an official uninvited, so it is very difficult for him to be an official after he entered the Song Dynasty. Therefore, Tang You's Shangshu of the Song Dynasty Criminal Department may be a mistake to a great extent.