Especially in the feudal period, special attention was paid to family inheritance, and a family needed strict rules and regulations if it wanted to develop and grow.
In the history of China, more than 3,000 members of the Chen family in Yimen abide by the family rules of "honoring their parents, managing the family diligently, and being loyal to the heretics", thus achieving the reputation of "the best in the world".
Moreover, the Chen family has passed on 15 generations for 300 years, creating a miracle of Guinness World Records.
It is said that in 73 1 year, Wang Chen's younger brother Michael Chen was appointed as the county magistrate of Xunyang County, Jiangxi Province. Wang Chen went to work with his brother and lived in Yongqing Village, Li Changle, Taiping Township, Xunyang County.
Wang Chen is the ancestor of the Chen family. Later, Chen in Yongqing Village had the largest population and was adjacent to Jiangzhou, so it was also called "Jiangzhou Chen".
Chen Jiamin has a simple style, gets along with filial piety and has a harmonious neighborhood.
Until 883 AD, the Chen family had a large population 100 years. Thinking of Chen's filial piety, Yu Biqin called him "Yimen Chen". In order to show the majesty of the emperor, the founder Chen changed Yongqing Village to Yimen Village.
Righteousness is not brotherhood, but filial piety. It is inevitable that the family will get along for a long time. I really don't want to live together, and it's also a good idea to separate.
The Chen family's centuries-old inheritance shows that its "righteousness" is far stronger than other families. Yimen Chen is not only Tang Xizong's return to this family, but also the return to filial piety in the world.
With the increasing population of Chen, the property in the field is slowly accumulating, and its industry is widely distributed in dozens of surrounding counties.
After the establishment of the Song Dynasty, I heard about Chen's filial piety, praised "the filial piety of Chen's family", and personally wrote the plaque of "Yi Ju Ren" and gave it to Chen.
Chen's development is closely related to the preferential treatment and support of the rulers.
Chen enjoys the preferential treatment of exemption from labor, and can also accept the help of the government. Chen has been passed down for more than 300 years, 15 generations, with a population of more than 3,900 at its peak. Song Zhenzong presented couplets with "One or three thousand people in the world, a 400-year banquet for a westward journey".
During the Chunhua period of the Northern Song Dynasty, the Chen clan, old and young, accounted for two-thirds of the total population, and each household had little labor, so they could only drink clear soup to fill their stomachs.
The emperor ordered that they should be given 3,000 stones of grain every year. When their situation improved, they wrote to ask the emperor to send only 1500 stones a year. At that time, the country's harvest was not good, and someone advised Chen to sell the surplus grain at a high price and made a windfall.
Of course, the patriarch disagreed. More than 3,000 clans can tide over the difficulties only by the emperor's relief. Now the grain situation in the country is not optimistic. How can he do a cynical thing?
The ruler helped the Chen family for one reason. Chen's "righteousness" is a moral model worth learning in feudal society.
Chen's reputation in Yimen spread throughout the ruling and opposition parties, which played a positive role in educating the people and spreading the ethics of loyalty and filial piety. Every family and every nation can achieve "righteousness", which is exactly what the rulers want.
Fiona Fang cannot be achieved without rules. The Chen family manages clan affairs in strict accordance with the order of etiquette and family law, regardless of distance. As the saying goes, they will not suffer inequality because of their widowhood. In order to ensure absolute fairness, they have wealth, eat together, and everything at home belongs to the family property.
There are public schools, baiyingtang and nursing homes. With people taking care of babies and the elderly, young people have no worries, the people's happiness index is very high, and it is understandable not to leave home.
Calligraphers in the Northern Song Dynasty wrote an inscription for Chen as "the first in the world", which was later called the first in the world.
A miracle created by Chen in Yimen was recorded in the Guinness Book of World Records, that is, "a hundred dogs share the same slot". There are 100 dogs in the clan. These dogs are not called dogs, they are called "righteous dogs".
They are deeply influenced by their masters and practice filial piety. When I was in the nursing home, a dog barked, and then I could hear the dog barking. These dogs eat together every day and can't eat until all the dogs arrive.
Rumor has it that visiting the Chen family is just the time for volunteers to have dinner. I saw them standing quietly in front of the dog's manger, not eating.
The remaining dogs didn't start until an old dog with poor legs and feet trembled towards the trough. Song Taizong felt the "righteousness" of a righteous dog and wrote the title "Dogs will go on the rampage if they don't eat until they reach their destination".
The family has a large population. If all of them are illiterate and unreasonable, this family will decline sooner or later. At that time, scholars were in a superior position in society. In order to educate children to understand knowledge, reason and boost morale, primary bookstores and advanced academies have been built.
The advanced college is called Dongjia College (equivalent to a modern university), which is the earliest private university in the history of China. There are thousands of books in the academy for everyone to read. Teaching funds come from families, and every child has the opportunity to enter school.
Because of the large number of students, naturally many people take part in scientific research. It is said that as many as 430 people take part in scientific research in a year.
Until 1062, the number of officials in the past dynasties was about ***400, about 42 were awarded by the court, and more than 30 were senior officials in Beijing. It was a great honor for Chen Lai, but it was not a good phenomenon for the emperor.
Can a king's pillow make others sleep soundly? The Chen family is too big and has many officials. If Chen's ideas are different, it will shake the foundation of the country.
Chen outshines others and is feared by the rulers. Bao Zheng and other ministers suggested that Chen split up, and they were deeply impressed. He forcibly separated Chen Xiaoxin on the grounds that he was too strong and wanted to be a model of loyalty and filial piety in various places and educate the people.
In order to appease the Chen people and supervise them, special personnel were sent to help them separate.
The news of the separation caused an uproar in the Chen family, and the separation was a foregone conclusion, but there was no specific articles of association on how to separate.
Rumor has it that the way of separation is that the group leader ordered all the pots in the clan to be hung up and smashed as much as possible. As a result, it was divided into 2,965,438+0 blocks, and then it was divided into 2,965,438+0 villages, which were distributed all over the country and separated for only 9 months.
Even if they are separated, future generations will hang the plaque of "Yimen Chen", indicating that they will not forget their ancestral teachings and inherit filial piety.
At present, 70% of the people surnamed Chen in our country are Yimen Chen, so there is a saying that "Chen in the world is a righteous family". Now there are about 90 million people surnamed Chen at home and abroad.
Yimen Chen has a great influence in the history of China, with a cultural heritage of more than 300 years. Its filial piety is worthy of inheritance and development in modern society, and it is believed that building a "big world" is just around the corner.