Han Yu was banished to Chaozhou in AD 8 19 for admonishing Buddhist bones. At that time, he was demoted to Chaozhou and immediately forced to set out. When he braved the heavy snow and came to Languan, not far from Xi 'an, his nephew Han Xiang came to bid farewell. Han Yu was deeply moved because he wrote a poem, "Where is home across the Qinling Mountains? The heavy snow hindered the horse's progress. I know you should be interested in coming all the way to collect my bones by the river. On the way, Han Yu died a daughter. He thought that he must be "dead" when he arrived in Chaozhou, a place where "the sea rose to the sky and poisonous fog broke out every day". "However, at the end of Chaozhou, the positive outlook on life advocated by Confucianism cheered him up again, and he was desperate to devote himself to the action of making contributions. So he drove away crocodiles, jumped, sacrificed to the lake gods, liberated slaves, and used Zhao Dejian, a scholar of Chaozhou dialect, to establish a state school, educate the people and spread orthodox Confucian culture. Finally, he finally "gave up the coastal areas" and "acquired the land of South Korea".
Han Yu said in "Chaozhou History Xie Shang Biao" that after taking office here, everything was "doing nothing and doing nothing". As a relegated official, being relegated to Chaozhou is the biggest punishment. What else can you ask for "political post"? However, due to the spiritual belief of "practicing" advocated by Confucianism and actively joining the WTO, he naturally and consciously did these Confucian moral and duty things, just as Huang Fushi, a disciple of the Han Dynasty, said in "Tombstone of the Duke of Han Dynasty": senior officials were demoted to the state and county master books and were too lazy to ask questions about the daily affairs of the state and county. But in Chaozhou, it seems that he was promoted by his achievements and qualifications, and he was conscientious and did not dare to slack off. Han Wengong's actions in Chaoshan and Chaoshan people's nostalgia and gratitude for him (Su Shi's Chaozhou Han Wengong Temple Monument) naturally influenced officials who repeatedly made mistakes and were relegated. They "take Gong (Han Wengong) as their teacher" (. In the Song Dynasty alone, six prime ministers, including Chen Yaozu, Zhao Ding, Janice, Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie, visited Chaoshan. Together with the four sets in the Tang Dynasty, it is called the "ten-phase phonograph". There used to be a ten-phase phonograph workshop in Chaozhou.
Among these ministers who were demoted, Chen Yaozuo, Lu Xiufu and Ding Yunyuan were able to "eat Korean temples" because of their contributions to state affairs. It can be seen that hipsters are indeed grateful officials who do practical things for the people, which is one of the reasons why there are so many temples in Chaoshan.
In the second year of Song Zhenzong Xianping (999), Chen Yaozuo was banished from Kaifeng and stayed in Chaozhou for less than two years. However, he publicized the Confucius Temple, built the Korean Temple and slaughtered crocodiles, all following the example of the Korean government. Later, when he became prime minister, he "never forgot the tide for a day" and wrote two famous "tide poems". One is: "The mountains and rivers in Chaoyang are strange to the southeast, and Guo Minxi is the fish market in Yancheng. At that time, it was written as a monument, and now the custom in Zou Lu is ". Another song is: "The other towns live in a barren land and get fairy branches to show off their hometown." Since then, manned, the seaside Zou Lu is Chaoyang. " As can be seen from the poem, Chaozhou was quite prosperous in the Song Dynasty, with a strong cultural atmosphere, and it was called "Zou Lu on the seashore".
Nearly 200 years after Chen Yaozu left Chaozhou, Ding Yunyuan, another Changzhou native who was demoted from Taichang Temple to Chaozhou, took office in Chaozhou. He set up a school yard, moved to the Korean temple, and built five more stone piers in the middle of Xiangzi Bridge, later called "Dinggong Bridge", so he could also "worship the Korean temple".
According to legend, the 14th generation grandchildren of Ding Yunyuan and Chen Yong who were demoted had a good relationship with Chen Tan, a native of Jinjiang, Fujian, who was then the magistrate of Haiyang County, Chaozhou. Chen Tan usually studies "Kanyu", and they use their spare time to find "Feng Shui" resorts together. Chen Tan always thought that Chaozhou's "Feng Shui" was good, and he planned to move his family from Fujian to settle down, and chose a "Feng Shui Land" named "Feng Bao (called Fenggui locally)" in Xiantian, Chaozhou. At that time, Ding Yunyuan's family stayed in Changzhou, the front line of Song and Jin Dynasties, and also intended to move to Chaozhou. So he said frankly to Chen Zhixian: "Your home is in Fujian, and there is no war disaster for the time being;" My home in Changzhou is in danger of swords and shadows sooner or later. You are good at beautiful geography, and it is not difficult to get along with the land. Can you give me this beautiful land first? " Chen Tan hesitated. Fortunately, after a while, Chen Tan chose a foundation that could be exposed and expanded year by year in Qiuxi Guantang, which is near the sea, before giving Xiantian to Shi Ding. Ding Yunyuan's family moved to Xiantian to settle down. After Chen Tan's term expired, he took his family from Fujian to live in Guantang.
In order to commemorate this event, Chen Tan specially sent a grandson to live with the Ding family in Xiantian, and made an agreement with Ding Yunyuan that the Ding family would not bully the Chen family who stayed in the future. The descendants of the Ding family followed their ancestors' instructions and treated the Chen family well. Although there are not many households in the Chen family for more than 800 years, they have never been cut off. Today, Chencuo Lane has been formed, living in harmony with Ding Yunyuan's descendants who have bred tens of thousands of people.
Lu Xiufu, one of the "Lonely Three Heroes" in the Southern Song Dynasty, was born in Yancheng, Chuzhou, Jiangsu. Due to disagreement with Prime Minister Chen in the court, he was demoted to Chaozhou Gong. He took his family all the way to Wangbi Port (now Chenghai City) in Chaozhou, where he was warmly received by Sun Caigui, a great calligrapher of the Song Dynasty and the magistrate of Chaozhou. Cai Guifu not only made room for Lu Xiufu's family to live, but also slept with him, drank tea and talked, and sometimes accompanied him to win the election, living in Nanzhishan and Chengyanggang Fengling.
The beauty of Chaoshan and the sincere feelings of friends gradually restored Lu Xiufu's calm, and he even regarded Chaozhou as his "home country". He described this experience in a poem expressing his ambition: "Go to the mountains with his family, wander around and hope to be stable and beautiful, and be a writer of mulberry chickens and dogs."
But Lu Xiufu himself did not have such a "blessing". Two years later, the stormy court of the Southern Song Dynasty recalled him and sealed him as Prime Minister Zuo, so Lu Xiufu left Lu Yao, the eldest son who was driven to the island to hunt and fish, and two other sons in Chaoshan. In two years, Song Jun defeated the cliff mountain in Xinhui, and Lu Xiufu boarded the imperial ship, his wife and children, and took the lead in the sword and threw himself into the sea. Lu Xiufu's descendants thus multiplied in Chaoshan, and the place where they lived together was later called "Liucuowei", a name that has continued to this day. From "Lu CuO Wai", descendants of Lu gradually spread to all parts of Chaoshan.
Ouyang Xiu, a scholar and writer in the Song Dynasty, wrote in the History of the New Five Dynasties: "The famous ministers who died in the south of the Tang Dynasty often had descendants, or those who could not be returned to the official at that time were all guests." He probably wouldn't have thought that his cousin Peng Yannian, a native of Luling, Jiangxi, knew Chaozhou because he didn't agree with Wang Anshi's young crops method, and was planning to live in seclusion in Chaozhou! Peng Yannian's demotion coincided with the Yamaguchi Uprising. He led the soldiers and civilians in Chaozhou, winning four battles and repelling the siege of Chaozhou by Yamaguchi. Later, he was promoted to Zhengqing of Dali Temple. On the day of Peng Yannian's appointment, the flood of people, old and young, covered his eyes and made him unable to get away, so he had to leave his family behind. Later, because he was tired of the official struggle, he resigned from the emperor and lived in Houyang Village, Meiyun, Jieyang.
Houyang Village is located in Pukou, surrounded by Meixi, facing Qiufushan in the shape of a precious duck, which is a victory of a square. With the gold and silk given by the emperor, Gong Peng built the Wang Si Tower and the Lian Bi Pavilion here, and created Peng Garden with Medicine Garden, East Tangxuan, Zuo Songyou Bamboo and Negative Hill. It is said that in order to build this garden, he specially invited the famous craftsmen in his hometown of Luling, Jiangxi Province to take charge of the construction (just as the masters of modern Chaoshan are often invited abroad, this is the earliest example of the popularity of Chaoshan architectural culture in the mainland). After the park was completed, a special envoy of the imperial court named Deng visited Pengyuan and said, "Fuyuan and Dongyuan in Luoyang have no characteristics of Pengyuan."
Peng boarded the building on a sunny day and saw thousands of hectares of rice fields, several farmhouses and a beautiful pastoral scenery under his feet. He went on to write five songs, the fourth of which was: "Pukou Village has a good life, and it is easy to make a salary." Su Fei is really a treasure of water, and the mud is slippery and slippery. " Shrimp sleepy in the afternoon is terrible, and it can wake up in the morning. There is no charge all the year round, and the poor live in it. The plain statement revealed that Gong Peng attached importance to the secluded place of hipsters, who could be "free all year round". Even so, the attraction to people in Qi Min and Jiangxi, which are sparsely populated, is self-evident. Especially, Heluo people who have lived in Fujian for hundreds of years began to migrate on a large scale, so the ethnic migration scene mentioned at the beginning appeared.
It can be seen that with the immigrants of "He Lao" and "Fu Lao" and the education of relegated officials, the Central Plains culture gradually became the dominant culture in Chaoshan, and finally Chaoshan became a veritable "wind, clothes and habits, so it gradually changed its habits and became a vulgar state" (Guangdong Tongzhi, Volume 92).