The name of our village is Shijiazui, which is the origin of the famous Tongchuan sweet peach and Mengjiangyuan sweet persimmon in China. The apples produced are also delicious. It belongs to Group 6, Mengjiangyuan Village, Huangbao Town, Wangyi District, commonly known as Zuizi. There are thirty or forty families, most of whom are surnamed Shi, and only two families are surnamed Wang and Shi. The village is high in the north, low in the south and low in the west, forming a strange "dustpan" terrain. From the air, it looks like a peach. It is surrounded by Xicui Licun and Ancun Plateau in the east, and the other three sides are surrounded by ditches. The ditch in the north is Maxia Village, and the ditch in the south is Liangjiazhuang Village in the civilized tableland. The place that extends all the way to the west is called the outpost, just like the bow of an aircraft carrier. Surrounded by a semicircle cliff as high as1200m, contrary to legend. The whole village is divided into Shangcun Village, Lizhongcun Village and Xia Di Village from high to low. Every household belongs to several big families. According to the topography of the cave, it is called ditch, ditch, slope, field and south road respectively.
There used to be a primary school in the village, which taught students in Grade One and Grade Two. Opposite the ditch in the south of the village is Guo Huashan, which can be called our childhood paradise. Pine and cypress are evergreen all year round. In spring, rape blossoms, pear blossoms, apricot blossoms and apple blossoms are in full bloom and are very beautiful. The villagers mainly plant wheat, corn, peach trees, persimmon trees and a few apple trees. The plots are distributed in Yuan Shang, Dangyuan, Bei 'an, Wali, Menxia and Nanjian. Xia Shang Village and Xia Shang Village have one or two large flat lands, which are used to grind wheat and dry in summer. This is also the place where children play with bulls and learn to ride bicycles. From the ditch side of the lowest outpost, along the old road from the village to the ditch, you can walk from Shangyuan alley to the opposite Mengjiangyuan Group 3 and Liangjiazhuang, or walk west along the ditch to Hedong ditch in Huangbao Town. This is also a fixed route for me to walk to No.4 Middle School with friends such as Yong, Xiaojun, Yan Long and Xin Junshu in junior high school. In the 1970s and 1980s, a dam was built in the ditch as a way to enter the village. Because of its shape, the villagers called it a chicken rack.
The name of Shi in Shangcun is Hu Li. Their ancestors came from Liangjiazhuang, a civilized tableland opposite the village. At first, they dug a cave in a big dirt ditch to live in. Their family is simple and hardworking, and many people work outside the home. The seventh master with the highest qualifications, Shi Degui, is over eighty years old and highly respected. He was a captain for many years. Teacher Shi Yong gave me a Chinese lesson. With his passion for gardening, he led everyone to the road of planting peach trees to get rich and run towards a well-off society. My uncle's family is a branch of the Li Hao family. My good friend Xiao Bing's house is in the moat. In primary school, we played and read books at his house after school. The surname of Shi in Shangcun has always been higher than that in Xiacun. Now go back to see the young people in the village, and they should be called uncles according to their seniority.
Nakamura, known as Li Po, is a famous stone family, which is related to the same clan in the village below. Four of the six old relatives and brothers work outside the home, and the family has lived together for decades. * * * has been supporting my old mother (my great-grandmother is amiable according to seniority), and dozens of children work in various units in the city. They often go home for reunion on holidays, and Qi Xin works together to support his family during the summer harvest. This family respects the old and loves the young, lives in harmony with the countryside, is honest, kind and helpful. Several uncles and aunts are my youngest children, and the representatives are Shi (I call him Sixth Master), Zheng Hu, Yan Hu, Donghu and Tongchuan's famous uncle surgeons.
In the ditch, my eighth grandfather, Shi Zhizhen, likes theatrical performances. Uncle Wan Hu joined the army and returned to the village. In his early years, he managed transportation and founded a family business. Dinghusha is steady and diligent, and supports a large family. There are two old brothers in the field. Uncle Wan Long is planting fruit trees at home, and Uncle Wan Hong is the captain, leading the masses to build a modern new village. On the south road, I led my grandfather to be a soldier and fought bravely all my life. Yan Jia is very competitive, and now Hanzhong runs Grandma Impression Hotel.
The Shi family is my big playmate's uncle's house, and moved here from the previous eight groups. The Wang family is my brother's house.
In my hometown, Fang Yin and Fang Rong's uncle, Zeng Hu and Chen Hu's uncle and Peng Shu, my uncle and Hu Si, Beihu's uncle, Qiang Ge, Mai She and Haifeng all earned their wealth and won our respect.
Third Master said that the ancestors of our village stone were an old man and two sons. They probably moved here from the 3rd Regiment of Meng Jiangyuan in order to avoid bandits around the war-torn AD 1840. They settled down in two caves in low-lying villages, built dirt roads, cultivated fields, married daughters, and carried on the family line until my son's generation. Scattered families dig caves in ditches and slopes and on the edge of stadiums. It is said that the graves of those ancestors are in the outpost below the village, and several big families in the village come here to worship their ancestors every year.
I am no stranger to the two ancient caves dug by our ancestors. One of the caves was a feeding room in the village in the 1970s and 1980s. After joining the army and being demobilized, grandpa was a village breeder, responsible for feeding animals, and lived in that cave for a long time. When I was a child, I played in the village below with Shi Junshu, Haifeng and Maishe brothers, and often went to see my grandfather. The cave is very big, with many thick logs supported on the top. In front of it is a fire kang, followed by a row of stone troughs, feeding seven or eight animals. Grandpa feeds the animals, feeds them with a horse spoon, and digs a circle to change dry soil for them. At that time, the villagers mowed the grass and gave grandpa work points. Grandpa and another old man collected the registration together, cut the grass with a big hay cutter and piled it neatly on one side. In the cave, there is always a mixed smell of animal feces and urine, the smell of grass and the smoke produced by burning kang. Grandpa spent unforgettable years in such an environment.
Further on, the surname of Meng Jiangyuan's third group is from Shiren Village, Yaozhou District. This village has a warm name, and "benevolence" means "benevolence", ranking first among the five permanent members of Confucianism: "benevolence, courtesy, wisdom and faith". It is conceivable that the Stone Family once put benevolence first and thrived in this village for hundreds of years. When my grandfather was young, he followed his great-grandfather to the Shiren Village to worship his ancestors. There is a big ancestor's cemetery called Stone, which is surrounded by lush trees. Later, it was razed to the ground, and the family went less. Shiren Village, which once passed by, belongs to the jurisdiction of Xianfeng Road Street in the new district. There seems to be no surname, only a place name. Coincidentally, when I was a child, my father named me Shi. Is it an echo of my ancestors' hometown?
I was born in Tongchuan Mengjiangyuan, which is my hometown, but for my child born in Xi 'an, it has become his ancestral home. Every time I go back to my hometown, I hear that my grandparents I was familiar with when I was a child are gone. It's sad to see my kind parents gradually become old people. Tracing back to the source, where is my ancestor's ancestral home?
Talking with the old people and checking the literature and history of Shaanxi Province, it is possible that the surname of Yaozhou District migrated from the locust tree in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province around the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty 1368, took root in Shiren Village, and then moved to Mengjiangyuan, Wenming Garden and Dongcun. When I was in Dongcun Middle School, there were many stone families in several local villages, and several of my friends were also surnamed Shi. Hundreds of years ago, they were all family.
I went to Taiyuan, Shanxi on business many years ago, and went to Jinci on weekends. I saw the Origin of Historical Surname, which mentioned that a big immigrant in Hongdong County, Shanxi Province may move to Shaanxi. Are they the ancestors of our family who finally settled in Shiren Village, Yaozhou District? It remains to be verified.
Shijiazui village is remote and connected by ravines. Country roads are either uphill or downhill. The ancestors planted crops in spring and harvested crops in summer. It was hard work. Villagers go out to work in the slack season, get out of the coal mine and try their best to support their children to leave the village and work outside. Grandpa said that when my great-grandfather was in high school in Tongguan County, he had many friends. He once walked in Yaoxian for a long time, bringing Zhang Bangying and Feng Yongshi, underground party member, who helped the poor turn over and make revolution, to the village. After liberation, many people in the village joined the army and went to the city to recruit workers. In such a small village, more than 100 people have been admitted to various institutions, worked all over the country, and even studied abroad.
Our third grandfather, Shi Zhibin, was admitted to Shaanxi Normal University at the beginning of liberation. After graduation, he was assigned to Yan 'an Normal University to engage in teacher correspondence education. He was rated as a model worker in Shaanxi Province and a national advanced worker. He attended the National Conference on Cultural and Educational Talents held in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. After retirement, he lived in his hometown, driving the younger generation to study hard. More than 0/0 people from his family/KLOC were admitted to various schools. There are three uncles working outside: Shi and Shu, Shu Jun, Shu Dong Yin, Shu Wan Xuan and Shu Shi Weibo. Looking back on the family history, my brother and sister and I stood on the shoulders of our parents and changed our fate. In fact, our ancestors have experienced it for generations.
In recent years, due to the unique terrain and special climate, with the support of the government and the efforts of village cadres and villagers, the fresh peaches planted in Shijiazui Village have gained a good reputation. Students from Shaanxi Radio Station and Shaanxi TV Station were also invited to report in the village. The Peach Blossom Festival in Mengjiangyuan is held every year. Every family has built comfortable bungalows and bought three-wheeled motorcycles. Many of them have vans and cars, and everyone has a mobile phone. Life is more and more prosperous. Great changes have taken place in this village. The dirt road into the village was replaced by cement road, a beautiful peach blossom pavilion was built, and there were several fitness squares. This village used to dig water cellars, but now it has running water. The villagers are simple, and the village style is simple. The most commendable phenomenon is that whenever it snows in winter, everyone always spontaneously picks up a broom and sweeps the road up the mountain into the villages in the north together, so that visiting relatives and friends and children can be safe and secure. When I go to the surrounding gardens, I can always hear the praise of the villagers. The beautiful hometown attracts us vagrants who work outside the home to go back often, not only to visit our parents and relatives, but also to soothe our hearts.
According to online reports, the 86-year-old librarian of Jiangsu Literature and History Research Institute, a calligrapher and seal engraver, collected the Genealogy of Li Cheng in Wuwei Shishi, which spanned more than 2,700 years from the time when Shijie was recorded in the Spring and Autumn Period to the time when Shijie's great-grandfather Shi Ruijin was recorded in Guangxu period, more than 200 years earlier than Confucius. According to this spectrum, Shi was originally from Wuwei, Gansu, and later one of his branches moved to Licheng (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi). During the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the 83rd generation grandson of Shijie came to Nanjing to do timber business.
Where does the blood of the family continue, and where is the era that has passed before me? Behind me, where is the next generation? I can't see the beginning or the future. Even Qin, the first feudal dynasty in China, was destroyed by its descendants who acquired the royal family name. Qin people are a branch of the Huaxia nationality who moved westward, and their monarch is Yan. In 207 BC, Qin was destroyed in the peasant war at the end of Qin dynasty, and the fate of the royal family can be imagined. I once made a field trip in Qinling Mountains in southern Shaanxi and met several simple villagers. For generations, they lived by hunting. An old man told me that his ancestors had been officials in Sichuan for generations, and they led their families into seclusion in the mountains because of unexpected events. Imagine that the Chinese nation has been up and down for five thousand years, and the land of China is endless. Where is not our hometown? How many family branches have taken root and sprouted from different regions, blossoming and bearing fruit? Because of survival, because of business, because of politics, and even to avoid war, they have been constantly migrating, from rural areas to cities, or back to the countryside, they gradually lost their way of coming, and they can't tell where they came from.
The significance of tracing back to the source lies in "pursuing filial piety and placing high hopes on people's morality" Pursuing filial piety is to remember parents, and following filial piety is to carry forward filial piety, learn from ancestors and understand the significance of blood inheritance. Each of us is the inheritor of kinship and consanguinity, bearing not only the blood relationship, but also the feelings of home and country. Family luck can reflect the historical changes of national and national luck.
My lovely hometown Shijiazui, like countless villages in China, is the cradle of the nation. It has not only nurtured several generations of our family for hundreds of years, but also bred one of the best "Mengjianghong" sweet peaches in China today. The bright peach blossoms are extremely fragrant, and the village has become a particularly dazzling pearl in beautiful countryside, Tongchuan City.
The following stone surname information comes from Baidu: