Ma Shengke/Text
From the Changjuan satellite map, Changjuan can be considered a mountain, but it is not included in the mountains; Changjuan is only connected with the huge Xuefeng Mountain in the west. The connection is as close as the separation. In a location like Changjuan, when faced with more advanced civilizations in the east or north, it would be impossible to get out without getting entangled in the huge Xuefeng mountain system.
In some respects, such a position can be used to attack and retreat to defend. Advance: You can go east to the more prosperous Baoqing, or even Changsha in the northeast to acquire more advanced civilization (the genealogy records that during the Qianlong period, the ancestor Rong Maogong[1] went to Changsha to participate in the provincial examination); Exit: Relying on the protection of the relatively closed mountains and the relatively stable and abundant products, the Changjuanma family can thrive here stably for a long time.
In ancient times, people walked eastward from Changjuan. After walking through the relatively short mountain road, the terrain became relatively flat and walking was relatively easier. You could reach Baoqing, which has a flatter terrain, and even Baoqing, which has a flatter terrain. Go to Changsha in the northeast.
Changjuan is surrounded by mountains on three sides, with rich vegetation and relatively high terrain. It is difficult to survive a severe drought, and a severe flood will not cause a devastating blow.
There are bamboos all over the mountains and plains in Changjuan, which are the best raw materials for papermaking. I learned from Grandpa Yiying’s article that there were many papermaking workshops in Changjuan in ancient times, and the papermaking industry was once one of Changjuan’s important economic pillars; Changjuan’s “paper” was circulated around as a commodity, which also increased the number of Changjuan people. Opportunities to communicate with the outside world.
With an economic foundation, it is possible to support more scholars and allow future generations to go to farther and better places. A few decades ago, there were still people from Changjuan carrying paper to sell in Guizhou (of course, Guizhou is to the west of Changjuan).
The relatively stable and abundant products have allowed the Ma family of Changjuan to live here relatively stably for hundreds of years; at the same time, the relatively closed geographical environment has also slowed down the dilution of Changjuan by foreign surnames in the past 700 years. This process has led to the fact that most people in Changzhou still have the surname Ma (where the population mobility is greater, the surnames will become more mixed in the long run).
So, we are grateful and grateful to Jackie Chan for creating this spiritual treasure land for our descendants. The image of Duke Jackie Chan is now very vague in the minds of our descendants; however, I think he must be a tall and intelligent Shandong man with a strategic vision. Maybe Jackie Chan was very happy when he saw the treasure land of Changjuan, and then went through life and death, laying a pattern for future generations that affects the present.
Evaluation
The barren mountains and ridges carry the fire, and the orchids in the empty valleys breed talented people. Shaoyi Changjuan can be attacked, retreated or defended, making it a geomantic treasure. No wonder that centuries-old famous families such as the Ma family, the Ouyang family, and the Tan family originated from this place and spread far and wide.
——Tan Riping
The Ma family ancestral hall was founded in the 53rd year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1714); it was repaired in 1935 by Yu Youren [2]. Taken in the 1980s.
Supplementary information
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Ma Rongmao: Ma Zaiyi’s eldest grandson and Ma Muliang’s eldest son. The word Huiyang. Born in the 44th year of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1705). Chinese students. In August of the sixth year of Qianlong's reign (1741), he took the Xinyouke Township Examination in Changsha. (Supplement: 1. Ma Rongmao belongs to Jin Gongfang. Starting from his great-grandfather Ma Gaoyuan, he has been a Confucian scholar and scholar for twelve consecutive generations; there are twenty people who have achieved honors, and four of them were gifted by Guangdong to become third-rank officials. 2. The provincial examination is the largest and most competitive first-level examination among the imperial examinations. After the "division of the two lakes" in the first year of Yongzheng's reign, Hunan began to hold independent provincial examinations; the examination venue was Hunan Gongyuan, and the examination questions mainly came from "The Analects of Confucius", "Mencius" and "The Doctrine of the Mean"; "The Dividing of the Two Lakes" is a milestone in the history of Hunan's imperial examinations, which greatly promoted the development of Hunan's education and had an important impact on the rise of Hunan's talent group. 3. The first place in the Hunan Provincial Examination in the sixth year of Qianlong's reign was Ouyang Zheng. Huan; he passed the provincial examination at the age of 32, passed the imperial examination at the age of 36, and was awarded the title of editor of the Hanlin Academy; later he served as examiner of the rural examination, supervisory censor, mountain director of Yuelu Academy, etc.)
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p>Yu Youren: Born in Sanyuan, Shaanxi in the fifth year of Guangxu's reign in the Qing Dynasty (1879). Modern politician, educator and calligrapher. The founding father of the Republic of China, a backbone of the Tongmenghui, and an important member of Nanshe. He served as the President of the Supervisory Yuan of the Nanjing National Government for 34 years; at the same time, he was also one of the founders of Fudan University and Shanghai University, and served as a trustee of Fudan University.