Yue Fei (1103-1142), courtesy name Pengju, was born in Tangyin, Xiangzhou (now Tangyin, Henan). A famous general who fought against the Jin Dynasty in the early Southern Song Dynasty. Taking the restoration of the Central Plains as his own responsibility, he is good at strategy and manages the army strictly. During his military career, he personally participated in commanding 126 battles without losing a single battle. He was truly a victorious general. Later, he was framed to death by the traitor Qin Hui on "unfounded" charges. In the fifth year of Chunxi's reign (1178), he was given the posthumous title Wu Mu. Ning Zongchao pursued the title of King of E. In the first year of Baoqing (1225), it was changed to Yi Zhongwu. There is a biography in "History of Song Dynasty". He is the author of "The Collected Works of King Wu Mu" (also known as "Collected Works of King Yue Zhong Wu"), and his poem "Man Jiang Hong" is an eternal masterpiece; "Civilians do not love money, military officers do not hesitate to die" is an eternal famous saying.

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Huangmei County has the "Three Treasures": Huangmei Opera, Wuzu Temple, and "Yue Fei's Tomb"

The so-called "Yue Fei's Tomb" is not the Tomb of Yue Fei on the West Lake in Hangzhou. The fate of his fourth son, Yue Zhen, and his fifth son, Yue Ting, in Huangmei County.

According to historical records, after Yue Fei was killed in Fengbo Pavilion, Yue Zhen and Yue Ting fled to Huangmei County for refuge and reproduced for generations. Live and breathe. The blood and spirit of the national hero Yue Fei are inherited and carried forward here.

Worship "Yue Fei", worship "Wumu Gufeng", practice "Yue Family Boxing", and appreciate "Yue Ti" calligraphy. Eating "fried cypress" and singing "Man Jiang Hong" have become the special "birthmarks" of more than 3,000 Yue Fei descendants in Huangmei County.

"Yue Fei" and "loyalty to the country" are spiritual symbols.

On October 22, with the autumn wind blowing, the reporter came to Niejiawan, Yangma Village, Kuzhu Township, Huangmei County, and paid a visit to the "Yue Tomb" on the slope of the old tree to pay homage to the loyal soul.

There is a statue in front of the big tomb. A stone tablet is engraved with "The tombs of Yue Zhen, the official of the Great Song Dynasty, and Yue Ting, the official of Chaosan"

Yue Hejun, secretary-general of the Huangmei Branch of the Chinese Yue Fei Thought Research Association and the 28th generation descendant of Yue Fei, said, The ancient tombstone was carried away to build a reservoir in 1958. In that special era, many people moved their ancestors' tombstones for construction. Yue Hejun once offered a reward of 1,000 yuan to find the ancient tombstone, but there has been no news yet.

The "Yue Tomb" is now a cultural relic protection unit and a patriotism education base in Huanggang City.

Yue Hejun said that a wealthy businessman descended from Yue Fei in Beijing came to inspect it many times. I want to invest huge sums of money to turn the "Yue Tomb" into a memorial place that expresses the ideological theme of "loyalty and patriotism".

Why are Yue Zhen and Yue Ting not accompanying their father in the West Lake? Huangmei County at the head of Wu and Chu?

According to historical records, in the early 12th century AD, the small court of the Southern Song Dynasty was in a corner, and the Jin soldiers marched straight in. The Dabie Mountains stretching across Hubei, Henan, and Anhui became the last line of defense north of the Yangtze River in the Southern Song Dynasty. .

Huangmei County, located at the junction of Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui provinces, has a prominent military position, and Wulangguan (today's Yangmaling) in the county is a battleground for military strategists. In 1130 AD, Yue Fei led the army. The fourth son, Yue Zhen, who was only 10 years old, led the army to guard Wulang Pass and dealt a heavy blow to the Jin soldiers.

Just as the Yue family army was singing its triumphal song, the capitulation faction headed by Qin Hui clamored for peace, and the emperor Gaozong of the Song Dynasty was defeated. After being awarded twelve gold medals, Yue Fei had to go south and was killed in Fengbo Pavilion on "unfounded" charges.

According to records in the "Huangmei County Chronicles" and "Yue Family Genealogy" of the Qing Dynasty, after Yue Fei's death, Qin Hui secretly ordered to hunt down the Yue Fei family. In order to avoid the disaster of annihilation, Yue Ting and Yue Zhen fled to Niejiawan under Wulangguan, where they thrived and passed down from generation to generation.

Nie, the 71-year-old village party secretary of Yangma Village. He Fa took reporters to search for the remains of Yue Zhen and Yue Ting. Despite more than 800 years of vicissitudes, the ruins of the Yue Family House, the Yue Family Garden, the Yue Family Academy, the martial arts field for teaching boxing and martial arts, the Yangma Ridge, and the Fuman Trough for training soldiers and horses are still vivid in Niejiawan.

"Yue Jia Quan" and "Wu Mu's Suicide Note" shocked the world

Yue Jia Quan is famous for its short, concise, unpretentious and strong practicality.

Huangmei is the "Hometown of Martial Arts" named by the country. This honor is due to the Yuejia Quan. At that time, Jin Bing was so frightened by the Yue family's punches that he had to sigh, "It is easy to shake a mountain, but it is difficult to shake the Yue family's army."

Yue Fei wrote two literary and military works in his life, but the world only saw his impassioned poems, songs, and prose (i.e., the "Yue Wu Mu Yiwen" compiled after his death), but not his incomparable power. The Yue Family Boxing Manual (which was later compiled into "Wu Mu's Suicide Notes").

In Jin Yong's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", many knights fight for the "Wu Mu's Suicide Note" and fight to death. However, Zhou Zhuojie, a famous writer and "Huangmeitong", concluded through textual research that "Wu Mu's Suicide Notes" are in Huangmei.

According to research, before his death, Yue Fei passed on his boxing manual to Yue Zhen and Yue Ting. The two lived in seclusion in Niejiawan, Huangmei, and compiled the "Wu Mu's Suicide Notes", which they kept secret and practiced day and night.

In Xiaochi Town, Huangmei County, the reporter met Yue Jin, the 27th generation descendant of Yue Fei. He is the descendant of the famous Yue Family Boxing in Hubei, Jiangxi and Anhui. In 1986, he participated in the National Folk Martial Arts Performance Conference, and his Yuejia Boxing skills surpassed the others and won the gold medal. The "Yue Jia Quan" and "Wu Mu's Suicide Notes" that were hidden deep among the people resurfaced 800 years later.

After becoming a loyal martyr, Yue Jin understood the righteousness and donated the ancient manuscript "Wu Mu's Suicide Note" to the country in 1987, and received a 300 yuan bonus.

However, what troubles Yue Jin is that none of his children want to learn Yue Family Boxing. His daughter studied Taekwondo, but she thought Yuejiaquan was not "pretty" enough. Her father told her that Yuejiaquan was not about fancy tricks, but about actual combat. His son is tall and powerful, but he is afraid of the hardships of practicing boxing. Yue Jin claims that he urinated blood while practicing Yuejia Boxing.

After researching the "Huangmei County Chronicles" of the Qing Dynasty, the famous writer Zhou Zhuojie found that in the more than 600 years from the Southern Song Dynasty to the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 300 Wuju people and Wujinshis in Huangmei County who were listed in the county chronicles. many.

In Huangmei today, there are countless boxers who practice "Yue Jia Quan". Martial arts master Lei Jie has won the gold medal in the National Wushu Hometown Wushu Competition with the glory of "Yue Jia Quan".

The five knife marks of "Wumu Ancient Feng" bear witness to history

Yuejiawan Village, Huangmei Town, Huangmei County is a settlement place for the descendants of the Yue family.

600 years ago, a branch of Yue Fei's descendants moved here from Niejiawan. In order to commemorate their two ancestors, Yue Zhen and Yue Ting, they planted a maple tree with two branches at the head of the village. Today, "Wumu Ancient Maple" has grown into a towering tree.

The reporter found that there were five obvious knife marks on the big maple tree. Yue Xumei, the 78-year-old village director and the 28th generation descendant of Yue Fei, told the reporter about a piece of history he had personally experienced.

He said that five knife marks mean five disasters.

In 1931, the Japanese invaders were building a bunker to cut down maple trees, and were surrounded by descendants of the Yue family in the whole village. The Japanese cut off the arm of Ichigo's boxer but failed to cut it into a big maple tree.

Since then, the big maple tree has experienced tree-cutting incidents by the traitor security group and the Kuomintang army respectively, but both were blocked by the descendants of the Yue family.

In 1958, the local "tree-cutting team" wanted to cut down large maple trees for the large-scale steel smelting. In 1959, the commune set up a large-scale enterprise and also wanted to cut down trees to make press tubes, but they were stopped.

Mr. Yue Fei said: "If a person survives a disaster, he must be valuable; if a tree survives a disaster, he must survive." Therefore, Yue Fei's descendants voluntarily donated money to build "Wumu Ancient Feng" as a place to worship their ancestors. , a place to promote the spirit of patriotism.

Out of excitement, Mr. Yue sang "The River is Red" for us: "I am so angry that I lean on the railing, and the misty rain stops. I look up, look up to the sky and roar, my heart is strong..."

"Serving the country with loyalty and loyalty" is the soul of the national hero Yue Fei, and his Huangmei descendants have inherited this spiritual trait.

The famous writer Zhou Zhuojie told reporters that his investigation and research found that during the Anti-Japanese War, more than 80 people, including descendants of Yue Fei and "Yue Jia Quan" boxers in Huangmei County, established a "Martial Arts Anti-Japanese Anti-Japanese Anti-Japanese Rape Team." During the day, they were law-abiding "good people"; at night, they were elusive martial arts masters who often attacked Japanese soldiers and traitors, making them restless and helpless.

"Fried cypress" special folk custom will never be forgotten

Yue Hejun, secretary-general of the Huangmei Yue Fei Thought Research Association, told reporters that to identify whether he is a descendant of Yue Fei, you only need to look at his family hall Whether there is a statue of Yue Fei, or a banner with the words "Give me back my rivers and mountains", whether they can practice "Yue Family Boxing", and whether they sing "Man Jiang Hong", these are the special "birthmarks" of the 3,000 Yue Fei descendants in Huangmei.

In fact, the descendants of Yue Fei in Huangmei still have many unique customs.

The day when Yue Fei was killed was the day before New Year's Eve, so on the anniversary of Yue Fei's death, his Huangmei descendants must eat vegetarian food to express their condolences.

Descendants of Yue Fei in Huangmei love to eat fried dough sticks, and they call them "fried cypress" instead of "fried dough sticks" to express their hatred for the traitor Qin Hui.

Yue Hejun said that the descendants of Yue Fei in Huangmei have not brought shame to their ancestors. During the Japanese occupation, there were no traitors in the Yue family. In the half century after liberation, no one in the Yue family has been in prison.

Yue Fei was a military general, so it was natural for his descendants to practice martial arts. Even their writing skills inherited the aura of their ancestors.

If you walk around Huangmei County, you will find that the signboards of party and government agencies, enterprises and institutions are almost in the same font, which are thick, simple, vigorous and powerful. After asking, I found out that the "Yue Style" calligraphy was originally created by Yue Shijie, the 27th generation descendant of Yue Fei.

Huangmei is a famous "hometown of couplets". People love to post couplets and are proud of Yue Shijie's "Yue Ti" couplets. During the Spring Festival, Yue Shijie spends seventeen or eight hours at his desk writing Spring Festival couplets every day.

According to reports, Mr. Yue's favorite things to write during his lifetime were "Serving the Country with Loyalty" and "Returning My Country".

Among the descendants of Yue Fei in Huangmei, there are many literary and military generals. In the tide of commodity economy, big bosses of the Yue family are also emerging one after another. Among them, Yue Xiang, the president of the Yue Fei Thought Research Association in Huangmei County, and Yue Xuehong, the vice president He is a prestigious local billionaire. They said that when talking about "serving the country with loyalty" in a commodity society, running a business is the most direct way. (Reporter Hu Cheng, Correspondents Wang Zheng and Sun Zhongshu)