Tian Chou plowed the land for administration, and issued decrees every month, making the father and son Zou Lu.
The translation of Paizi; Li Si (284 BC to 208 BC) had a character from ancient times. A native of Shangcai, Chu (now southwest of Shangcai, Henan). Xiang Qin destroyed the six kingdoms, and was later captured by Zhao Gao, cutting Xianyang City in half. The large seal script was refined, the redundancy was eliminated, and the rationality was adopted, creating the "small seal script". Later generations called him the "ancestor of Xiaozhuan". Farming in the fields, serving the government for months, and issuing decrees, so that father and son are called Zou Lu. Zou Lu is a place name in the Song Dynasty.
People in Xiji proudly call their hometown "the city with many small scholars." "Southeast Zou Lu" (meaning that although Jixi is a small place, it is a place where cultural celebrities were born. Just like the southeast [which should refer to the Chaozhou people in the coastal city] is a metaphor for the place where saints like Confucius and Mencius were born [Lu Guo, Zou Lu] Country]
In fact, some people before Jixi called their hometown "Binhai Zou Lu". The word "Zou Lu" is an allusion among allusions. During the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty, Chen Yaozuo, a Sichuan native who was an official in the imperial court, was demoted to Chaozhou as a general judge. Although he stayed in Chaozhou, Guangdong for less than two years, he developed a deep relationship with the people of Chaozhou and the landscape of Chaozhou. He later returned to the imperial court and reached the level of prime minister, but he "never forgot the trend for a day." After he returned to Kaifeng, the capital, there was a Chaozhou king who took the exam in Beijing and got on the list. Chen Yaozuo was very happy and wrote a poem "Send Wang Shengji back to Chaoyang" as a gift to him: "I have lived in the wilderness of the city, and I have achieved immortality." Zhiyao's hometown. From then on, Zou Lu on the seaside was Chaoyang. "Chaoyang" in the poem refers to the Chaozhou area. The main idea of ??the whole poem is: Don't underestimate Chaozhou, a wild land in the "corner of the country". Those who came from this place returned to their hometowns with honors on the gold medal list; Chaozhou has produced sages in large numbers and has been recorded in history; although Chaozhou is located on the seaside, But like Confucius's hometown (Lu State) and Mencius's hometown (Zou State), it is an area with prosperous civilization. The word "Zou Lu" also appears in another poem by Chen Yaozuo: "The mountains and rivers of Chaoyang are wonderful in the southeast, and the fish and salt city are full of people and people. At that time, it was the Xuansheng stele that was written. Now the custom is Zou Lu." ("Farewell to Li Zi, Chaoyang") )
The State of Lu, the hometown of Confucius during the Spring and Autumn Period; the State of Zou, the hometown of Meng Ke during the Warring States Period. Chen Yaozuo used the abbreviation of the two saints' homeland as the pronoun of "civilization". Therefore, cultural people in Chaoshan, Guangdong also like to use "Seashore Zoulu" as the synonym for Chaoshan area.
I think that although this bronze medal is small, it not only has good research value for studying the history, region, culture, and system of the Song Dynasty at that time, but also the small seal calligraphy in it is round and round. Full and smooth. It also has certain value for the study of Chinese calligraphy. It’s just my humble opinion. Please comment on it from the netizens and teachers of China Antiques Network and study and discuss it together.