93 10 1118 https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/chinalocal/original/9c8ca05d5272a2913c23785a9876b05c.jpg c783173ef66aa999657a620312fa78d0 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 Still Images: Lu Family Compound IIIF Collection Metadata UUID e015e3b9-b7f1-4863-ab9a-0d0dcd11d584 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. 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/. Description An account of the resource A table in the hall Title A name given to the resource Table in Suyong hall, middle, one step lower than the back half Relation A related resource 6 Type The nature or genre of the resource photo IIIF Item Metadata UUID 37120567-da8a-4d1b-9375-739af927e7cd lu_fam-suyong_tang 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 The Tangxi City God (Author: Li Zhongxian) In the past there were many stories about the city-gods of every place, that they were men who after death had become gods. For example, the city god of Beijing was the loyal minister at the end of Song dynasty, Wen Tianxiang who after his capture was put to death in Beijing, while the Hangzhou city-god was the former surveillance commissioner of Zhejiang, Zhou Xin, who became famous for his integrity and was wrongfully put to death. While the city gods mentioned in these tales were still alive, some made meritorious contributions to their dynasties, some showed kindness to the people, some were loyal and upright, some were capable and honest. They were revered as gods in order to commemorate them. The Tangxi city god is Song Yue, and his story is recorded in the Tangxi County Gazetteer. Inside the temple, at the side of the stage, engraved on a stone pillar as part of a couplet, there is also the phrase: “The god born in Zuocheng.”Song Yue, courtesy name Wenbo, was from Zuocheng city in Weihui prefecture (in what is now Henan), and once served as magistrate of Tang county. In the sixth year of the Chenghua reign period during the Ming dynasty (1470) when it was decided to establish Tangxi county, they appointed Song Yue as county magistrate, and he assumed the post in the sixth month of the following year. He was Tangxi’s first county magistrate. When Song Yue took up his post, because this was a recently created county, it originally lacked everything, he selected an area among motley trees and, in the forested Guan Mountain where tigers and wolves prowled, created the a county seat, the county yamen, the magistrate’s residence, the Confucian temple and county school, the temple to Guan Di and the city god temple and so on – all the facilities that a county should have, and in addition he laid out the streets and lanes and the marketplace. All this he completed in his three year term, and the building of the county seat made fast progress . Moreover, “Of things there was no rash expenditure/Of men there was no exhaustion of labor”, and so the merit he achieved was very great, and he was praised by the times. Thus, the chancellor at the time, Shang Lu, wrote a “Record of building the county seat of Tangxi”, commemorating these matters. Song Yue, because the county had been built for the first time and the county population was exhausted and he thought that “The people are the basis of the state, if the people are exhausted, then the basis is injured, so he memorialized requesting a reduction in taxes and corvée service for five years.” This reduction of money and grain tax and corvée service for five years, let the people of the county lighten their burdens and was a real benefit. This one measure, which undoubtedly augmented the group spirit of the people who originally belonged to the four counties and added to the new county cohesion with the people, was productive of a very good effect. Soon after the establishment of Tangxi, the area produced a metropolitan graduate (jinshi) (under the examination system of those days, once every three years approximately three hundred men in the entire country were selected as metropolitan graduates), so this was an excellent event. Moreover, “Auspicious millet was produced in Qinyang (modern Xilizhou), one stem two ears, even eight or nine ears – one hundred such stems! The next year the garden behind the city offices also produced several tens of stems.” This sort of phenomenon where a single stalk produces two or several ears, was always seen as a good omen in our country’s olden days, and was a seldom occurring strange phenomenon. These events all occurred during Song Yue’s administration, in which the harmonious atmosphere produced auspicious portents, which the people thought were brought forth by his virtuous administration as it had increased the marvelous atmosphere. Moreover, as an administrator he was honest and diligent , and when they were building the county seat “He wore a tattered robe and ate vegetarian food, he rose before dawn to oversee matters” and “he also decided cases intelligently, the court had no pending cases and there were no people wrongly incarcerated ”, and thus he gained the reverence and affection of the county’s people. Even during his lifetime they built a shrine to him and set up a tablet commemorating his “virtuous administration”. After his death, they also honored him as the city god, and further they set his birthday, the 16th of the fourth month as the day the city god makes his progress, and they hold the temple festival, which has carried through to the present - this is the origin of [what is today called] the “meeting for exchange” [the annual great market] on that day. To die and then become a god is of course a sort of legend. But it can be compared to today’s way of setting up bronze statues or memorial hall to great and famous men in remembrance of them, which is of course a contemporary means of showing appreciation and commemorating excellence. (The quotations used in this work derive from “Record of building the Tangxi county seat” and the Minister of the Board of Punishment Lu Yu’s “Record of the Tablet commemorating the virtuous administration of Lord Song”) 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_author_Li Zhongxian IIIF Item Metadata Display as IIIF? Never UUID 89663c32-f864-4cf5-910d-06db38932be3 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, 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 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 Texts: Qingming for Scroll IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 4032eb30-924d-4ba7-a101-221fc64daa38 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. 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 Tax Office Description An account of the resource A Tax Office located besides the entrance gate of the city. It taxes all the goods passing through the gate. <br/><br/>Merchants stand with their goods in front of an official writing at a table. They may be paying a value-added tax on the goods they are bringing into the city. 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Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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 Thatched Roof Cottages Description An account of the resource These thatched-roof cottages, unique to the rural area in the scroll, provide a distinct contrast to the titled rooftop that are seen throughout the entire painting. IIIF Item Metadata UUID 58156fe4-5e94-4e08-9974-22e76588a850 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 Texts: Qingming for Scroll IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 4032eb30-924d-4ba7-a101-221fc64daa38 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. 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