Resume family background
Influenced by the big family culture and turbulent political transformation, his integrity and skillful political ability have been forged. 65,438+08 years old, as the editor-in-chief of his hometown Qixian, has been in * * *. At the age of 40, he was recommended by the county magistrate to go to Beijing, and he made supervision suggestions. His duty is to inspect officials, patrol counties, correct prisons and clean up courtiers. Its duties are not only like today's discipline inspection and supervision cadres, but also the responsibility of judicial supervision and rectification of the court atmosphere. Although the official product is not high, it is powerful. Later, he moved to Changge County, Henan Province. In the assessment of state officials, he was rated as the first in the world because of his honesty and integrity, and was promoted to Sima Jun (the second-in-command of state and county military attache).
Resignation and promotion
According to historical records, when he left his post and was promoted, the local people stopped him and erected a monument to praise him. In the ninth year of the great cause of the Sui Dynasty (6 13), he went to Liaodong with the emperor and worked as a supervisor of Fuyu Road (now Northeast China) for a period of time. Later, because he was too honest and frank, he offended powerful people and was transferred to Jingyang county magistrate. He died of illness at the age of 69. Fang is an honest official, and most of his salary goes to his colleagues and relatives, so history books call him a family without money. He once said to his son Fang: everyone is rich because of Lu, I am poor because of the official, and my descendants are innocent. His moral integrity benefits from his life experience. Although he was born into a noble family, his biological father died when he was young, and he was adopted by his uncle at the age of 15. When his stepmother died, he fasted for five days to show filial piety. At home, whenever his parents sometimes don't eat fresh fruits and vegetables, he never tastes them first. His filial piety is famous in the village. At the same time, he is also very eager to learn and make progress. At the age of seven, he read Yan Hong. He is good at calligraphy when he grows up. It can be said that China's traditional culture has deeply influenced him, so he can also cultivate a generation of celebrities like Fang, an important minister in the Tang Dynasty.
Imperial posthumous gift
In 63 1 year, with the approval of Emperor Taizong, Fang's coffin was moved back to his ancestral grave in Licheng by his son. The court posthumously awarded him as the governor of Xuzhou and the duke of Linzi County, and sent an official drum music guard of honor from Luoyang to Licheng. The county where the coffin passed was funded by the local government, and at the same time, the state also used more than a thousand soldiers. This relocation and burial can be said to be a major event in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, which caused a sensation throughout the country. The square tomb is located in Zhaoshan Zhiyang, Licheng District, Jinan City. There are tombs, tombstones and some stone animals in the tomb. The tombstone was written by historian Li Baiyao and calligrapher Ou Yangxun at that time. 1977 Tomb was announced as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in Shandong Province. Li Baiyao is the author of Twenty-four History of Northern Qi Dynasty. When Li Baiyao wrote the inscription, he was the right bastard of the prince, aged 66.
Four great masters in early Tang dynasty
Ou Yangxun was a famous calligrapher in Sui and Tang Dynasties, and his calligraphy style was called European style. He, together with Yu Shinan, Chu Suiliang and Xue Ji at that time, was called the four great calligraphers in the early Tang Dynasty. Ou Yangxun was 74 years old when he wrote the inscription. Two well-dressed people were invited to write a book for Fang's father, which showed the solemnity of Fang's coffin's relocation and burial from another angle.
Graves and tombstones
The square tomb is located in Zhiyang, Zhaoshan, north of Caishi Village and south of the road in the west of the town. The tomb is 5m high and 17m in diameter. Fang was the father of Fang, the prime minister in Zhenguan period of Tang Dynasty. He was born in 547 AD and died in 6 15 AD. His ancestral home is Qinghe, Hebei, and his seventh-generation ancestral home is Linzi. He is proficient in Confucian classics and good at official management. He is the main book of Beiqi and qi zhou. During the reign of Emperor Kai of Sui Dynasty, he served as the censor, the governor of Changgeling, and the super-authorized Sima of Duzhou. Emperor Yang Di ascended the throne and went to official seclusion. Later, he was awarded the post of secretary and secretariat as the Jingyang order.
It is said that the funeral was very grand at that time, and officials from Taiwan Province and Kyushu came from thousands of miles away to express their condolences. The crowns were connected, colorful flags covered the sky, chariots and horses blocked the road, colored stones were everywhere, the well water was exhausted, and there was no grass in the wild. The original stone carvings of Kirin and Weng Zhong in front of the tomb have been arranged in perfect order, and now only the stone sheep and the stone horse are left. The memorial tablet of Xuzhou in the late Tang Dynasty in front of the tomb was written by Li Baiyao, a famous scholar and calligrapher in the early Tang Dynasty. Elegant and magnificent (this article is now in Shandong Provincial Library). The inscription was written by Ou Yangxun, a famous calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty. Inscription for Lu Feng Lishu, sharp shape, vigorous brushwork, is the only early Tang Dynasty calligraphy and stone carving treasures in the province. 1980 A brick monument was built to protect the monument. The tomb was announced as a provincial key cultural relics protection unit in 1977 and 65438+February.
The existing part of the square tombstone is 300 cm above the ground, with a width of 130 cm and a thickness of 40 cm. It consists of a tombstone, a tombstone and a tombstone. The headstone and headstone are complete boulders, and the headstone is a seal script, with 3 lines and 9 characters: Gong Fang Monument, Governor of Xuzhou in Tang Dynasty, with 36 lines and more than 2,000 words on the front. The main content is to praise Fang's family background and history. Because Li Baiyao's father and son and Fang Fang were officials in North Korea at the same time, they knew each other's history and achievements like the palm of their hand. Coupled with the factors of Fang, it is inevitable that the inscription has praise. Therefore, in the last part of the inscription, Li Baiyao praised Fang Yan Qian in four words. The inscription mainly describes the situation of relocation and burial and the attention and support of the Tang Dynasty to the relocation and burial activities, so as to show Fang's identity and status. The inscription on the side of a monument like this provides important physical evidence for us to understand the writing format, grammar and engraving form of the inscription in the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, this article was also included in Quantang Wen by later generations.