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Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource A.2_Seven Buildings #2 IIIF Item Metadata Display as IIIF? Never UUID c05bf6d9-0c47-4838-afcd-3d922b1490b0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi City God Temple texts IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 61a7d42b-2f60-4bbd-b8d5-24e46299e7f3 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document C:\My Documents\JINHUA\INSCRIPT\1475 TX Song Yue govt.doc Tangxi County Gazetteer 1931 ed. 17.23a-24a Minister of Justice Lu Yu (1409-1489) Inscription for the Stele Commemorating the Virtuous Administration of Lord Song The nation creates prefectures and divides them into counties just like the arrangement of stars or chess pieces. Because at the juncture of Wu, Qu, and Chu prefectures the people were wild and cruel, rarely harmonious and compliant. The officials reported this and it was ordered to pare off the corners of four counties, Longyou in Qu, Suichang in Chu, and Jinhua and Lanxi in Wu to create a county to be named Tangxi. In this place the trees are many and the people few, there are the lairs of bandits and robbers and the dens of tigers and wolves. The Ministry of Personnel should select the person who ought to be the magistrate. Minister of Personnel Yao said: I have the right man. Song Yue from Wei was formerly a talented magistrate of Tang County, he is the only one for the job. His Lordship took his orders and came. The populace was still set in their old ways, and when summoned they did not come. His Lordship instructed them with principle, moved them by sincerity and restrained them by law. As for those who violated morals and destroyed righteousness, and those who until the last did not reform, he swiftly punished and chastised them, without mercy. Therefore people were awed by his authority and felt gratitude for his kindness, so that what he ordered was put into practice and what he forbade was stopped. His Lordship then assembled the people and made a proclamation on the matter of building the county offices. The people heard of it and gathered harmoniously. They hastened to serve and toiled hard, none daring to fall behind. His Lordship was poorly clothed and on a meager diet; he gathered workmen and assembled building materials, beginning with building the county offices and the official residence, next the school, next the altars and shrines. As for the markets and wells, the streets and roads, one after another they were opened. It was a brilliant renewal. At that all the provincial intendants were surprised and filled with praise. His Lordship also held that the populace was the basis of the state, and that if they were exhausted, then the basis was harmed, and so he memorialized requesting reduction of taxes and corvée for five years. And since food was heaven to the populace, he publicly and sincerely prayed to the drought deity and it rained in response, and the farmers had their harvest. The tigers and wolves and bandits and robbers of the past were all as if transformed; they hid away and ran off. The populace within the county borders was in a state of contented peace. He also decided matters intelligently and effectively, his courtroom had no held-over files, and the jail had no wrongly imprisoned persons. At the time auspicious millet was produced in Qinyang – there were one hundred stalks with two heads, even as many as eight or nine heads – and the next year the garden behind the city offices also produced several tens of such stalks. The elders gather to look; they thought that since this millet had been produced in the present but not in the past that it must be an auspicious sign brought about by harmonious matter-energy. Was this brought about by His wise Lordship? His Lordship humbly did not claim credit. In my view “fine crops and forked heads of wheat” were all caused by good governance and virtuous administration in antiquity. His Lordship’s virtuous administration was excellent. The growth of auspicious millet is as wondrous as “fine crops and forked heads of wheat” and will at some future date shine in history. His Lordship will also be a model of good governance for a hundred generations. Recently when I was at court, whenever I met Senior Grand Secretary Shang or Minister of Personnel Yao they told me of His Lordship’s wisdom, praising him ceaselessly. These two gentlemen neighbor Tangxi and thus know it in greatest detail. I have now retired and returned home. The populace of Tang sings odes of praise to Lord Song and wishes to engrave them on stone so that they will last into the future. Having a student-teacher relationship with the elder Mr. Meng Mengjiao he called on me to do the text for the Stele Commemorating the Virtuous Administration of Lord Song and to end it with verse: The prefecture, the county, Are established for the people. The prefect, the magistrate, Are teachers and leader of the people. In the case of Tangxi, Remote and desolate. To create a county here, An uncommon achievement. There was the magistrate Song, Sent by the Son of Heaven. Working all day, thinking all night, He devoted himself to the work of the dynasty. The buildings rose up, The people were glad to help. He was not satisfying his own desires, He was being a model for all the county. People pitied his labors, His Lordship did not quit. He said instead: In accomplishing something, What matters is a good start. Heaven observed this sincerity, And nature responded. What is to be feared is not doing good, When done it will be noticed. It is this hard stone that Expresses the people’s reward for his virtue. The shining light of virtuous administration, Will not cease for a thousand years. Trans. P. K. Bol April 2003 Shang Lu Yao Gui 1414-73 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi county gazetteer3 IIIF Item Metadata UUID 50358470-2b73-427c-a5c3-42efbf93ccb3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi City God Temple texts IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 61a7d42b-2f60-4bbd-b8d5-24e46299e7f3 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Tangxi county gazetteer, 1604 edition 2.?? Entry on the City God Temple At the beginning of the Hongwu reign period (1368-1398) the county City Gods were enfeoffed with the rank of Earl. Later this was dropped and the reference was only made to the god of this county’s walls and moats. There was no special sacrifice for him; he was included in the official sacrifices to the mountains and rivers. When the sacrifice to malicious spirits was performed, [City Gods] were treated as the main object of worship. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi county gazetteer2 IIIF Item Metadata UUID fe91fbc9-bf2f-469f-bc12-28629608b34c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi City God Temple texts IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 61a7d42b-2f60-4bbd-b8d5-24e46299e7f3 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Tangxi county gazetteer, 1604 edition 2.8b-9a There are offerings to spirits, as in Buddhist and Daoist temples, whose magnificence parallel to the temples to the uncrowned king Confucius and which for generations have been offering vegetarian sacrifices rather than blood sacrifices. As for the multitude of shrines and informal temples, many of them mystify the stories about them in order to delude the foolish common people, so that they all rush to seek the assistance of the spirit-power. How could it be thus? In addition the people of Tangxi frequent the City God Temple. Every year before the 15th day of the 4th month, those in charge collect crowds, some put on operas and create a clamor, some decorate frames with festoons as lofty artificial mountain to the point that the sound of flute and drum reaches into the suburbs. This goes on for several days without stop. They collect precious objects to put on display in the main hall, some of which are worth hundreds, to say nothing of the glut of other offerings, such as sacrifices of millet and ham hocks. Could it be the spirit-power of the god that causes this, or is it in fact a local custom that has continued, a precedent that has been honored, and which no one has abolished. Alas. Certainly a god with spirit-power could not bear that our people should be so wasteful. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi county gazetteer1 IIIF Item Metadata UUID cffa1ebb-eaf4-4713-90a4-995260354173 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Tangxi City God Temple texts IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 61a7d42b-2f60-4bbd-b8d5-24e46299e7f3 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Text Any textual data included in the document Tangxi County Gazetteer 1931 ed. 17.167a-168a by Zhang Ouxian from 1925-27 Record of the Rebuilding of the Tangxi County City God Temple Beginning in the xinyou year of the Xianfeng era [1861] Hong Xiuchuan and Yang Xiucheng rebelled. Calamity afflicted living beings through almost all the country. The southeast in particular was badly hit. They entered Zhejiang Province from Anhui Province, arriving in Jinhua Prefecture and Lanxi County first. Jinhua Prefecture was occupied by a false king [of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom]. Tangxi being a strategic juncture of Jinhua and Qu prefectures and Longyou and Lanxi counties, it was held by the Assisting Celestial Righteousness [an official title in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom]. They took down the monasteries, temples and mansions in the four districts [of Tangxi] to build the false king’s palace. They slaughtered the people; there was no evil they did not do, and the entire populace fled. This was in 1862, for these events see Zeng Guofan’s Record of Major Events. At this time there were rebels everywhere in the prefectures and counties of Jiangxi and Zhejiang provinces. Only Qu prefecture, with its high walls and deep moats, had not yet been lost. Zuo Zongtang was Pacification Commissioner for Zhejiang, Jiang Guomin was General Protector, headquartered at Kecheng. They led the subordinate commanders, Generals Bao Chao, etc., assembling in a great camp at Luo and Yang river markets to march on Tangxi city. They secretly cut a way through while openly let loose fire arrows. It was some months before they subdued [Tangxi]. The two offices of the human world and the underworld, the Confucian Temple and academy together with the false king’s palace had all been put to the torch and had become scorched earth. The only thing that survived was the western quarter of the city where life resumed. Once Tangxi city had fallen then everything else was easy. Quzhou broke the siege, in Jinhua prefecture [the rebels] escaped. The hinterland of Longyou and Lanxi, Eastern and western Zhejiang, the whole province was cleansed. The Rites of Zhou says: After a great battle there will be a great pestilence, and after a great pestilence there will be a great sickness. The loss of population was such that only twenty or thirty percent remained. By 1866-67 the villages were secure. Officials and gentry worked together and the old examination hall was converted to government offices. The public recommended the gentry Wang Baoying and gentry from the four districts to rebuild the Confucian temple and the county [City God] temple. The reconstructions were of large plan. But [despite the fact that] the beams and columns of the county temple were the largest in the eight counties of Jinhua, the had used the maple, the wrong kind of wood for this purpose. Maple grows quickly and is easy to cut down, but with time it had been infested by insects. They came out from inside the wood, leaving holes as packed together as stars in the sky. It was rotten and could not take the weight and was urgently in need of repair. From the Tongzhi period to today is already over sixty years. If it should collapse then even the roof tiles would not survive. So during the spring and summer of 1925 the county assembly gave serious thought to this matter and stated it clearly to the government. The held several meetings and recommended that I be the manager and the gentry Zong Mingqian be the vice-manager. Housing the god is something I was happy to do. We then had a gathering of officials and gentry at the county temple. We first did fund raising, then we gave people tasks. From now on we should sweep clean the accumulated problems of the past and always take the words “Fulfill One’s Duty” as our guide. There was to be no excess expenses and no over-requisitioning of labor. Raising money was not easy; material resources were a problem. For the columns and beams we had to use camphor, cryptomeria, and catalpa trunks. For the main gate and the eaves of the verandas and pavilion we had to use stone columns to support the load. Since we have made a great effort to do it well, we will never have to do it again. It is ten times more impressive than before. With gold accents and vermilion lacquer, it is bright and fresh. Although we say it is “renovated” in fact it is the same as a new construction. Although during the struggle between northern and southern armies in the twelfth month last year there were battles in the city and districts, there was not the slightest damage to the county city god temple. There was a deity providing hidden protection. Truly this is what is called “there is a ruler in the realm of the unseen.” The work began in the middle of winter in 1925 and was complete at the end of winter in 1927. In total it cost slightly over 14,000 silver dollars and in total we had collected slightly over 14,000 silver dollars. Popular sentiment was enthusiastic in support of this project. [Its success] completely depended on getting the right people. The gentry Zong Mingqian was vice-manager and concurrently chief accountant. He oversaw all crucial matters and was good at economizing. The gentry Wang Ding was the day to day manager; he gave it all his strength and thought and was never afraid of hardship. Mr. Zhu Pangui and Mr. Ying Jinhe managed the wood; they are elderly yet vigorous. Others, including the gentry Liu Buqing and Gong Futong assisted with diligence; they were of the greatest help. For something to be accomplished does not depend on there being a lot of people. I have written it all down so that it will not be forgotten. This is my record. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Record of the Rebuilding of the Tangxi County City God Temple (1927) IIIF Item Metadata Display as IIIF? Never UUID 925bd176-374e-41a9-916c-43795b2d50a4