Village name
Longmei Village is so famous because there was a Wang Honghui more than 400 years ago.
Wang Honghui, whose real name is Zhong Ming, is Shaochuan. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1565), he was a scholar.
Wang Honghui is famous from ancient times to modern times, not because he is a scholar. In Hainan Island, there were 62 scholars in the Ming Dynasty. This is not because he is a court official. Although he is a second-class official, his position is not very prominent. He used to be editor and editor of Hanlin Academy, and imperial academy drank. His highest administrative post was History of the Book of Rites in Nanjing, so he was named "Nanjing" before the History of the Book of Rites because the Ming Dynasty had moved its capital to Beijing. Nanjing is a court institution, not a real power institution. To borrow today's words, it is a "left-behind" institution.
Wang Honghui is famous in ancient and modern times, not only because of his talent. Yes, he was praised by Emperor Wanli as "a great scholar, a great master of three dynasties and a great man of one generation". His works have been handed down from generation to generation, such as Manuscript of Shangyoutang, Tianchi Grass, Xuan Collection of Laihe River, Seven Classic Collections of Nan 'e, Yuan Tan of Wen Zi, etc., but they are not prominent in the literary world of Ming Dynasty.
Wang Honghui's reputation is far-reaching, because he is brave and upright, and he is not easy to get inflamed. Hai Rui, a native of Hainan, was hired as the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and was jailed and severely punished for offending Emperor Jiajing. At present, many officials are afraid to avoid it, but he is not afraid of being dragged into the water. He has been here many times, given medicine and even served in prison, so Harry is not dead. His actions can be described as extremely bold, reflecting the integrity and integrity of Qiongzhou people. In addition, he also remonstrated many times, pained the disadvantages of Chen Dynasty, and dared to write poems to satirize Zhang, who was in power for a while.
Wang Honghui's reputation is far-reaching, because he wrote a brilliant stroke in the history of education in Qiongzhou-"Returning to Joan after Exam". At that time, there was no examination room in Qiongzhou, and Qiongzhou students had to cross the ocean to go to Leizhou, Guangdong Province, or encounter violent winds and waves, or encounter robbers and wolves on the way. Many students were ordered to die before they arrived at the test center. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Hong gave a lecture and played it again, and wrote to the court, "Playing and changing Hainan's art of war and improving the learning method", which was finally approved by the emperor. Since then, Hainan has its own examination room, and the provincial examination is free from cross-sea risks. This is what Hainan people have always remembered, "Play back to Joan." This has greatly promoted the development of education in Hainan. After retiring to his hometown in his later years, he founded Shang You Academy and set up Xuetian to support the Academy. Among the pillars erected in Beimen Street of Hainan University to commemorate historical celebrities who have contributed to Hainan, Wang Honghui ranks third (Deng Xiaoping is the first, and Sun Yat-sen is the second).
Wang Dazhao, an elder in the village, said that after Wang Honghui's success in "returning to Joan for the opera test", he didn't make public. I didn't know it until Chen Zhiping, a later scholar, came across his sparse draft in old books. Out of gratitude, many Confucian scholars in Qiongzhou raised funds to build a ancestral temple in Ding 'an County in the 31st year of Wanli (AD 1603) to commemorate Wang Honghui, when Wang Honghui was 62 years old. Because Wang Honghui is still alive, it is called "Shengci". Needless to say, Qiongzhou is rare in the whole country, and only one person in Guangdong is Wang Honghui.
Wang Honghui not only made epoch-making contributions to Hainan's education, but also made immortal contributions to the early cultural exchanges between China and the West. The most representative is his attention and introduction to Matteo Ricci. Matteo Ricci, an Italian, was sent to China to preach. He brought not only the chime, the octave organ, the telescope, the planetarium, the globe and other advanced western scientific objects, but also many western scientific works such as Euclid's Elements of Geometry and Christopher Clavio's Universe and Earth. According to Matteo Ricci's notes in China, Wang Honghui became Matteo Ricci's patron saint in China after meeting Matteo Ricci. In the 24th year of Wanli, Wang Honghui took Matteo Ricci to Beijing to see Emperor Zongshen and wanted Matteo Ricci to correct the mistakes in Ming Li at that time. This shows Wang Honghui's valuable open-minded attitude of actively exploring new knowledge. Although the audience with Emperor Zongshen failed, Matteo Ricci met the upper class and the imperial court in Beijing. Later, under the introduction of Wang Honghui, he met senior officials and celebrities in Nanjing. And managed to stay. Many western scientific works, such as Elements of Geometry, were translated and introduced to China. Under the influence and suggestion of Wang Honghui, Matteo Ricci translated the Four Books and other works, and it was at this time that Confucianism clearly spread to the West. Contemporary historians highly value the role of communication and friendship with Matteo Ricci in cultural exchanges between China and the West.
Monument huiwei
The name of the village "Long Mei" is a large sum of money from the ancestors who went to the village to meet Yungong. He lives here from Lingaobu. At that time, I saw that the terrain of this village was like a dragon, so I chose the name "Long Mei" in the book "Men of the Ming and Qing Dynasties", hoping that future generations would study hard. After more than 600 years of reproduction and development, the population has reached 5,000 (including four sub-villages of Meizhong, Xinloupo, Lingqian and Yuntou, which moved out).
Well, Hong Hui is the sixth grandson of Wang Caiyun, the ancestor of Longmei Village.
On the hillside in Erli, southwest of Longmei Village, the pine saplings that Wang Honghui brought back from the Nanjing court in those days have turned into forests. Despite several wars and disasters in the extreme left era, with the careful care of several generations of villagers, the breeding area has reached about 40 mu. Locals call it "Songshan" and "Honghuilin".
The village is north-south, and the villagers' houses sit in two rows along the terrain, with the word "fee" lined up and a big village road in the middle.
He took the lead in presiding over the establishment of the Wang Ancestral Hall to commemorate the ancestors who entered the village to worship their ancestors. It is located in the middle and west of the village. It consists of a mountain gate, an octagonal hall, a main hall and two side corridors. The corridor has been destroyed, and the octagonal hall was destroyed by fire in the late Ming Dynasty. It was rebuilt during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty and entered the main hall as a roof leaning against the mountain. It looks solemn. There are many Qing dynasty plaques and modern celebrity inscriptions in the temple, and 1994 is listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit.
There is a Taishi Square about 50 or 60 meters south of the ancestral hall, which was built in the second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1574). Taishifang is a stone archway with four columns and three floors, with a total height of 5. 1 m and a total width of 7.3 m. The archway has a corrugated top cover and its shape is simple and magnificent. The forehead of the front square is engraved with the three characters "Taishifang"; On both sides of the square column are Dong Qichang Tsinghua, a famous calligrapher and a student of Wang Honghui in Ming Dynasty. Note: Dong Qichang (1555- 1636) was a famous painter and calligrapher in Ming dynasty. Han nationality, Huating (now Songjiang, Shanghai) people, South Zhili Songjiang people. In the seventeenth year of Wanli, he was a scholar and an official of Nanjing Ritual Department. The opening couplet in the book is "the beauty of stone pillars is in the sky, the south is full of five fingers, and the Yaotai should be in the North Pole". This Taishi Pavilion was built in the second year of Meng Chun Wanli (1574). This is a monument to Wang Honghui, a national historian, which was jointly built by Vice Premier Yin Zhengmao and Guangdong Governor Zhang Shou. Because of Wang Honghui's "Xie Yuan" in the provincial examination (Jiajing Xinyouke won the first place in Guangdong after the provincial examination), the archway was also named "Jieyuan Square".
In front of the archway, the Long Mei aqueduct of Fu Nan Reservoir looks like a dragon. One or two hundred meters southwest of the archway, there are two ponds: Shangshutang and Li Antang. It is full of weeds.