My Taigong is called Daoguan (in order to avoid the obscenity of Emperor Xuanzong "Daoguang" of the Qing Dynasty, renamed Daguan), born in the late Qing Dynasty, he participated in the compilation of "Wenshan County Chronicles", he has been engaged in education all his life, and has made this a career ("Zhang Daoguan Biography": "A lifetime from Confucianism, Confucianism as a profession"). The original wife of the Taoist temple Taigong had four sons (Shenghuai, Shenggui, Shengyue, and Shengqiao), and the wife of the concubine had two sons (Shengbin, Shengxia).

Zhang Shengyue is my grandfather. He had two sons and a daughter. His grandfather, Shengyue, inherited his father's ambition and took teaching private school as a profession to support his family. My grandfather was a big smoker, and the family property was exhausted, and by my father's time, the family was in decline. My father had three brothers and sisters, the eldest brother Zhang Jixin, who died young, gave birth to a daughter, named Zhang Menlin, and later her mother also died and became an orphan, raised by my father, and married Xiao Zuopei of the village back team in Geshui Township. My father is the second, his scientific name is Zhang Chengcheng, also known as Zhang Peikun, and his name is Wuyi. The third aunt, Zhang Guomin, married Xiao Moumou in Yangjiazhuang (later changed to Yunjiazhuang) in Huangqiao Township.

His father did not read much, at first he was a private acquaintance in the countryside, earning some millet to support his family, he wrote a very good brush in small block letters, knew the four books and five classics, and was a famous teacher. He has a straightforward personality, an irritable temper, speaks and does things in a hurry, is diligent and thrifty, advocates Confucianism, is strict with his children, and is already a man. In 1943, he was pricked in his toe with a hoe while planting vegetables, contracted tetanus, and died at the age of 58. After his death, he did not receive a pension, but instead missed work due to illness and deducted his salary. When my father died, the family was so poor that there was no money to bury it, and the house was placed in the mountain behind Longhua Temple for more than a year, and then the brothers-in-law paid for it hastily into the soil. After the liberation, fruit trees were planted in the hill area of Longhua Temple, and at the end of the seventies, my father's grave was destroyed by a private house, and my father's grave has not existed since then.

The father was very strict with his family and never let his son go. When I was young, I was frail and sickly, and I often had little energy to study, but my father assigned me no less homework tasks. The homework assigned by my father is mainly to memorize and learn characters. The book is a long ancient text, and I am often beaten if I can't memorize it, and there are always a few meat bunks on my head every day, and sometimes I pull my ears, punish me for kneeling on the altar, and don't give me food, and my mother doesn't dare to dissuade me. Of my brothers, I'm one of the lucky ones. The eldest brother and the third brother (the second brother died of smallpox) were beaten the most.

The eldest brother is the first boy (he has three sisters in front of him), because he is too naughty, he has been beaten the most times since he was a child, when his father was young and vigorous, he beat me with sticks, sticks, and bamboo chips at every turn, and my mother was distressed, and my mother-in-law was even more heartbroken (the first grandson, he regarded himself as very expensive), and inevitably quarreled with his son, and finally his father gave in and calmed down. The old father followed the ancient precept of "showing talent under the stick" and "not raising the fault of the godfather". The eldest brother and teenager spent their time under the "stick".

The eldest brother is gifted and intelligent, has the ability to "never forget", is eager to learn and self-motivated, and excels in learning, he can memorize a "English-Chinese Dictionary" in middle school, plus "industry is good at diligence", and he will become a leader in the future. This may be a "talent forced out from under the stick". Several younger brothers, under his influence, were able to improve themselves and self-motivated, eliminating the taste of "sticks".

Mother was born in a peasant family in Tangtou Group, Wenshan Village, in the northern suburbs of the county, named Sanying, and her mother gave birth to five daughters and six boys in her life, and suffered a lot. The eldest is married to the Liu family in Chatan, Moqiao Township; the second, married to the maple row Lou family of the Jincheng Brigade in Qiupi Township; The third child, married to the Liu family in Xikeng Village, Liqiao Township. The three of them are illiterate, and the little three-inch golden lotus has suffered all their lives in the countryside. The eldest sister and the second sister did not die well, but the third sister was full of children and grandchildren, and died at the age of 99 in 2014.

After the three elder sisters, they gave birth to three boys in a row, the fourth (eldest brother) Zhang Xueyou, the fifth (second brother) Xueyou (died of smallpox at the age of 18), the sixth (third brother) Xuexi, and the seventh sister, she is the only woman who has studied middle school. The eighth is me, Xuexun, the ninth brother, the nineteenth child (he was very handsome and quick-witted, but unfortunately he died of smallpox when he was eight years old.) His early death caused a great blow to my father's psyche), the eleventh, who was given away for support, also died at the age of one.

The mother is like a fertility machine, giving birth to eleven children in a row, raising children and taking care of housework exhausted all her efforts, her father died early, a big family's food, clothing, housing and transportation, studying, marrying, and arriving at the door are all controlled by her mother, and the burden of a thousand pounds is pressed on her thin shoulders, how painful it is! The burden of her family broke her straight spine, and she aged prematurely. My mother married into my family at the age of sixteen and brought a few acres of thin land as a dowry, and later my father got sick and sold some more, only taking more than two acres to support the family by collecting some rent.

When my grandfather was there, the family had a few acres of land, which was said to be the dowry brought by my mother-in-law, but later my grandfather smoked a lot of cigarettes and sold them out, leaving only three dilapidated houses, a house and a few acres of land brought by my mother.

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The eldest brother studied in Hongdu No. 2 Middle School in his youth, and was admitted to the Department of Foreign Languages of Ba County University in 1940. In order to let the eldest brother go to school, the family tried their best, but it was difficult to make up enough money for the trip, but fortunately, Da Yao's brother-in-law borrowed more than a dozen loads of millet, and Qiu Pi's second brother-in-law also supported a little, plus the eldest brother's friends Qingyun and Mou You each helped a few silver dollars, so they set off smoothly.

Mother and a few sisters helped to pack some luggage, and stuffed the clothes and mosquito nets worn in spring, summer, autumn and winter into the small suitcase, but they still couldn't fit it, so they streamlined it again, and the mother was worried that in that distant place, there were no relatives, no money and no clothes, cold and starving, and always wanted to bring more, the father saw it, and killed the mother, and the mother was sad to wipe her tears.

This is her first son to go far away, and her mother is worried! The father told the eldest brother and admonished, encouraged and encouraged.

On the last night before departure, the family sat in the dilapidated half-side hall, chattering and chattering endlessly, and when we fell asleep, we saw our parents whispering to the eldest brother, and the rooster had crowed three times.

In the spring of 1941, the eldest brother set off. The mother thought that her son would go thousands of miles away, and she didn't know when she would be able to see each other, and her tears fell down like beads that had fallen off the thread, and several sisters also accompanied her mother to cry. I was still young at that time, and I didn't have the sadness of my relatives to say goodbye, and I was very envious of my eldest brother being able to fly away. Tianfuba County, for us Wenshan people, is a faraway and desolate, but very mysterious place.

In the light of the day, in the lively sound of firecrackers, an ancient wheelbarrow, while loading luggage, can sit on the other, launched the gate of Zhang's house. The eldest brother will first go to Jintan to take a steamer (we call it a foreign boat), and then take a bus to Ba County through Xiang Province and Puyang Province after arriving in Tianyuan.

Everyone sent one trip after another, straight to the Guanyin Pavilion, my mother and we had to send it, but we were scolded loudly by our father before stopping. When the eldest brother got on the wheelbarrow, he turned around and knelt down to his parents, bowed, stood up and hugged his mother and cried, and we were all infected and shed sad tears.

The mother said hoarsely: "Cub, pay more attention to your body, cub, you have time to come back for the New Year, cub ......"

The call of cubs and cubs shows how much affection a loving mother has. Afraid of getting on the boat by mistake, my father urged him to hurry up and get on the road, and as the wheelbarrow made a "babbling, babbling" sound, the eldest brother gradually drifted away, and my father couldn't help but say loudly: "I'll write when I get there!" "My sisters and I waved our little hands and cried until the car disappeared from sight and we didn't return.

Every week or so, the eldest brother will arrive at the place and what he saw and heard on the road, send it back with a postcard, whenever he receives a letter, his father quickly put on his glasses, read it over and over again, we also listen attentively, share the happiness of the eldest brother's journey, when he heard that the eldest brother arrived in Ba County safely, and his health is very good, his parents' hanging heart finally let go, and there are words in his mouth: "Thanks to the blessing of the ancestors, bless the son." ”

This time, the eldest brother never came back. The eldest brother studied hard alone for five years, and his family did not have a penny to send, and later he himself said: "Sometimes I don't even have the money to buy a small bag of peanuts, so I can only write articles and exchange some manuscript fees." ”

Later, Japan's iron hooves trampled on most of the country's territory, and many southern provinces fell one after another, and we lost contact with our eldest brother ever since. The old father and mother are worried and tired, and they can imagine the tiredness of thinking about it.

In 1943, my father died, and my eldest brother never came back to see him. In August 1945, the Anti-Japanese War was won, but the eldest brother still had no news, and he really thought ...... the family.

More than 10 years have passed, earth-shaking changes have taken place, at the end of the 50s, my mother suddenly received a letter from my eldest son from Xiangcheng, so there was a contact, in 1957 my mother asked to go to the island province, the eldest brother learned that soon after sending a letter, I came back from Nanzhao Province to visit my mother and helped my mother to go to Xiangcheng procedures, I was in a hurry to rush back to Nanzhao Province. In August 1957, the elder brother escorted his mother to Xiangcheng to leave the country, and the eldest brother greeted him on the south bank of the border bridge, completing the historic mother-son reunion. The lovely and poor mother can finally think about Qingfu!

Who knew that our dear mother never returned to her hometown, and died in the north of the island in 1977 at the age of 82.