The scourge of the enemy has existed since the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, especially in Jiajing period. At that time, the southeast coast, frequent alarms, thousands of miles of coastal defense, everywhere in a hurry. The brutal Japanese armed pirate groups have burned, killed and plundered many villages along the coast of China, causing great havoc, especially in ancient Tongan, which is located on the seashore.
Hong Chao-xuan, assistant minister of punishments in Ming Dynasty, wrote on the tablet of Tan Hou Ping Kou on the Bottle Terrace that the Japanese pirates were "smoke-free for thousands of miles, with a beautiful sight" after the robbery. Lin Xiyuan, on the other hand, has a poem "Killing chickens and dogs, and Kawahara is dirty and bloody", describing the cruelty of the Japanese pirates in killing people like hemp. Up to now, the "Thousand People Cave" in Hung-chien Mountain, the Dongjie Cave in Xiaodeng and the Yijing in Dadeng all tell the story that Tongan people would rather die than surrender to the Japanese.
according to Tongan county annals and the genealogy of the Zhang family in dongyuan, the origin of the filial piety burial is really touching: Zhang Tian (1477-1558), the eighth Zhang family in dongyuan, was known as Dr. dongyuan, and he was very talented, good at poetry and geography. His mother, Chen (1453-1527), was from Jinzhaidou, and the original Lin was the daughter of Lin Xun, who was born in the seventeenth year of Jiajing and trained by Guangdong Haifeng. On February 21, the ninth year of Ming Zhengde (1514), the Japanese invaders invaded the East Garden, and the whole village people fled. At this time, Zhang Tian was out on a study tour, and his mother Chen happened to be ill in bed. Only his wife Lin was at home nursing her mother-in-law. The enemy broke into the house and slashed at the old man with a knife. Lin hurriedly used his body to protect his mother-in-law. He even stabbed several times and fell in a pool of blood, dying. Before he died, he cried and begged the enemy not to kill her mother-in-law. When the ruthless enemy saw it, he was moved by compassion and did not continue to commit violence. Afterwards, the surviving mother-in-law Chen felt sorry for her daughter-in-law's filial piety and parked her coffin in her own hall. It was not until the old man died on December 12, the sixth year of Jiajing (1527) that the family members asked their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law to be buried together in the north of dongyuan village. The cave name was "the magpie holds firewood", which was called the filial piety burial. From then on, dongyuan village handed down this touching story from generation to generation, and all the listeners were moved.