Huang Xiang and Wen Qiang were born in Yunmeng Anlu in the Eastern Han Dynasty and lived in the official residence. At the age of nine, he lost his mother and was especially filial to his father. In summer, he fanned the pillow of the bed and warmed the bedding with his body in winter, so that his father could sleep peacefully. In the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Shouzheng chose 24 dutiful sons in history. Into a book "Twenty-four Filial Pieties". Huang Xiang is one of them, so Huang Xiang has been respected by people since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. After the Yellow turban insurrectionary uprising, Huang Xiang led his family to take refuge, died in the army, and moved his family to Meili to settle down. Later generations buried Huang Xiang's clothes and built a tomb as a memorial.
Huang Xiang's Tomb is located on the bridge at the dragon's tail tip of Mei, Sanliwei and Bailongtan Waterfalls. Since the Qing Dynasty, it has been listed as one of the eighteen scenic spots of Mei Li, which is admired by the world. Unfortunately, this tomb has been destroyed now. The ten stone tablets that the old man saw when he was young are also gone, which is heartbreaking! Fortunately, Mei Xiaozhi, an ancient book in Changshu Library, contains an inscription of nearly 800 words in classical Chinese, which tells the historical fact that Lao Bida, the county magistrate, was the first scholar to research and repair Huang Xiang's tomb.
In the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726), the Qing court divided the land and set Zhao Wenjun in the east of Changshu, and Lao Bida was appointed as the first magistrate. As a result of searching old records, not only mountains and rivers, cities, communities, towns and accounts are well known, but also famous mountains and rivers, temples and hills are also in sight. To his surprise, there is a beautiful town outside the east gate of Zhaowen County, and there is a tomb of Huang Xiang in the south of the town. Laozhi County was born in Huang Xiang's hometown. He respected Huang Xiaozi and was homesick. At home, he went to Yunmeng Anlu Huang Xiang's hometown many times, hoping to pay homage to the cemetery of the sages, but he had never seen Huang Xiang's tomb, and it was not recorded in local chronicles. I'm really sorry. Mei Li's Huang Xiang Tomb has been recorded in history by several generations of celebrities, such as Lumu Town in Yuan Dynasty, Wu Dingkuan and Deng Xiaolian in Ming Dynasty. The book says: At the beginning of the Song Dynasty Avenue, when Su Meili asked Mr. Feng Shui to find a cemetery, he found an ancient tomb. There was a stone tablet in front of the tomb, engraved with the words "Yanling was a good burial winner, Meng Guangzhen was a wise teacher Wu", and the words "a captain of Huijidong County" and the inscription of Xue Zong's sacrifice to the sun were engraved on the back. This grave is actually Huang Xiang's grave. Sue's family brought the tablet back, but something unusual often happened at night, so Sue abandoned the tablet in Kuncheng Lake. Laozhi County is glad that Huang Xiang's tomb is under his jurisdiction, but unfortunately, no ancestral temple and tombstone have been lost.
In the spring of Bingwu, the descendant Huang Yunzhang sued the county government because someone stole Huang Xiang's tomb, and the old county magistrate was furious. At the same time, another squire, Huang Yong, sued Suzhou, and the Suzhou magistrate ordered Zhaowen County to investigate the matter. So Lao Bida led a group of people to visit the Huang Xiang Cemetery. He saw that the tomb of the dutiful son was tall and magnificent, which was really a good place for the sages to rest in peace, and the excavated place had been restored by the descendants of Huang Xiang. Laozhi County worshiped the tomb first, and then immediately decided that the cultivated land next to the tomb 18 mu was tax-free and grain-free, and its output was used to maintain the tomb of filial piety. And strictly enforce the official ban, if there are any more tomb destroyers, they will be investigated. Afterwards, the old magistrate thought that someone had invaded the tomb of filial piety before, because the tombstone was abandoned and there was no obvious sign. In order to permanently preserve the tombs of sages and let future generations carry forward filial piety, Laozhi County donated money to erect a monument to Huang Xiang's tomb. On the front, there is the big word "Tomb of Huang Gong, son of Han Shangshu", and on the back, there is an article inscribed by Tan, a famous person in Changshu at that time, which was engraved by Zou Cheng, an ancient stonemason, and stood in the square in front of the tomb. Ten years later, Han Tong, the second magistrate of Zhao Wen, rebuilt Huang Xiang's tomb in the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), built the stone workshop of "Han Xiaozi's Tomb" and inscribed "Rebuilding the Tombstone of Han Shangshu's filial son". In Zhaowen County, there are two people who personally wrote inscriptions to erect a monument to the tomb of the dutiful son and praise filial piety. Huang Xiang's tomb is unprecedented in scale and has become a beautiful landscape.
At present, only this ancient writing has been found in the literature of Huang Xiang's tomb. Therefore, Lao Bida's article in Mei Xiaozhi should be a very precious historical material for my study of Mei Xiang's tomb today.