After a long time, the teacher said to his parents, "This child is very clever and will surpass ordinary people one day. I am not fit to be his teacher. " So leave away, Xu Heng's parents tried to retain but failed to retain. All three teachers have changed to this. When he grew up, Xu Heng was hungry for reading, but at that time, the world was in chaos, his family was poor and there were no books. Later, he fled to Culai Mountain and began to get Wang Fuzhi's explanation of Yi. At that time, he was at war. Xu Heng thought at night, read aloud during the day, experienced it personally and practiced hard. Everything he says and behaves should be inferred before being implemented.
I once passed by Heyang on a hot summer day, and I was very thirsty. There is a pear tree by the roadside, and everyone is scrambling to pick pears to eat. Xu Heng was the only one sitting under the tree, looking calm. Someone asked him why he didn't pick pears to eat, and he replied, "You can't eat pears unless you own them." The humanitarian said, "The world is in chaos, and this tree has no owner." Xu Heng replied, "The pear tree has no owner. Is there no master in my heart? "
(After) Xu Heng requested to return to his hometown in Huaizhou due to illness. In the eighteenth year (Zhiyuan), Xu Heng was seriously ill. He died soon at the age of 73. People in Huaizhou, rich and poor, old and young, cried and worshipped Xu Hengling. Scholars from all over the world gathered together to hear the news of Xu Heng's death, and could not help but burst into tears. Some people traveled thousands of miles to Xu Heng's grave to cry and worship.
Original text:
Xu Heng, named Zhong Ping, was born in Hanoi and lived as a farmer. Children are heterogeneous. When they entered school at the age of seven, the school gave them some chapters and sentences and asked their teacher, "What is reading?" The teacher said, "Take Cody!" Say, "That's it?" Normal university is very strange. Every time you give a book, you can ask its meaning. After a long time, the teacher said to his parents, "My son is very clever and open-minded, and he will be great in the future." I am not his teacher. "
When I resigned, my parents were very strong and didn't stop me. If so, you are the third division. A little longer, hungrily addicted to learning, but troubled by the secular, poor without books. Since I fled to Culai Mountain, Wang Fuzhi, author of Yi, said. When the war is in turmoil, I think about it at night and recite it at day, but I will do what I say and do. Having tasted the summer heat and crossed the river, I was very thirsty. There are pears on the road, and everyone wants to spit them out, so I sit under the tree calmly. Or ask it and say, "You can't take it without it." People say, "The world is in chaos, and there is no owner here." Yue: "Pears have no owners, but hearts have no owners?"
Please get pregnant with illness. Eighteen years, the disease changed. He was 73 years old. Pregnant people, regardless of rank or seniority, are crying at the door. After hearing the obituary, all four scholars gathered together and cried. There are also people crying under the tomb of a thousand miles.
This article is excerpted from The History of Yuan Dynasty written by Song Lian in Ming Dynasty.
Introduction to Extended Data Content:
Among the biographies of Yuan history, Biography of Saizu, which records Kublai Khan's deeds, is the most detailed, with a volume of 14, accounting for one-third of the biographies. Followed by "Shun Di Ji", there are as many as ten volumes.
This is because Yuan Shizu and Yuan Shundi have been in office for more than 30 years, and the original historical materials are rich, so they are described in more detail. This reflects the spirit of seeking truth from facts in the compilation of Yuan history, that is, compiling more materials and less materials.
Records of the History of the Yuan Dynasty recorded the laws and regulations of the Yuan Dynasty in detail, and preserved a large number of precious historical materials. Among them, astronomical, local and Hequ historical materials are the most precious.
Tian Wenzhi absorbed the research results of Guo Shoujing, an outstanding scientist in Yuan Dynasty. Li Zhi was compiled according to Li Xi's Li Yi and Guo Shoujing's Jing Jing. Geographical records are based on the unified records of Dayuan, while river records are compiled according to books such as Shipping Ji Yuan and River Defense General Theory.
Nowadays, books such as Da Tong Yuan Zhi have been lost, and the contents of these books have been preserved in the History of Yuan Dynasty, and the historical materials are even more valuable.
There are fourteen biographies of the History of Yuan Dynasty, most of which follow the history books of the previous generation, and only the biography of Shi Lao is an innovation of the History of Yuan Dynasty. Shi Lao is a biographical record of religion, from which we can understand the position and development of religion in Yuan Dynasty. Confucianism, Lienv, Filial Piety, Loyalty and Righteousness are the four biographies with the largest number of characters, indicating that the feudal ideological rule has been gradually strengthened since the Song Dynasty. Another feature of Biography of the History of the Yuan Dynasty is that all the events described are recorded in detail by year, month and day, which further increases the reference value.
Writing background:
Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor, attached great importance to compiling history. When he ascended the throne, that is, the year when the Yuan Dynasty returned to the Mongolian Plateau, 1368, he wrote a letter compiling the history of the Yuan Dynasty.
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Bing Yin (the first day) officially started compiling in Tianjie Temple in Nanjing (now Chaotian Palace East in Nanjing), with Li Shanchang as the supervisor, Song Lian as the president, and sixteen people, such as Wang Kekuan, Hu Han and others, who lived in seclusion in the mountains, were recruited to participate in compiling.
Song Lian, a famous writer in the early Ming Dynasty, was the main person in charge. This compilation took only 188 days and ended in Gui You on August 11th. Later, except for Yuan Shundi, it was compiled into 37 volumes, 53 volumes of chronicles, 6 volumes of tables, 63 volumes of biographies and 159 volumes. This revision of history is based on the Records of the 13th Dynasty of the Yuan Dynasty and the Revision of the History of Laws and Regulations of the Yuan Dynasty, Shi Jing Grand Ceremony, which was seized by General Xu Da from the capital of the Yuan Dynasty. Because the compilation time was too hasty, the book could not be completed due to the lack of information about Shun Di's period, so Ouyang You and others were sent to all parts of the country to collect information about Shun Di's period.
Yu Hongwu reopened the History Museum on February 6, 2003, and still appointed Song Lian and Wang Yi as presidents, leading Zhao Biao, You Zhu, Beiqiong and others 15 to continue compiling. After 65,438+043 days, it was written in early July, adding 65,438+00 volumes of Shun Di Ji, and after the Yuan Dynasty, Five Elements and Northern Qiong were added. Then put the two books together, and according to biographies, records, tables and biographies, * * * became 2 10 volume, which is the current volume. The two edits only lasted 33 1 day.