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著名作家冯骥才在一篇文章中回忆,失去家园的胡卜人曾经找到他,请他写块碑刻在石头上,沉在水里,永志纪念。冯骥才被村里百姓的乡情所感动,特地去了一趟胡卜。
胡卜村世世代代的居民从未想过,他们的村庄有一天会从地图上消失。
这个位于新昌县新林乡七星峰下、梅溪水边的村庄,已经存续逾千年,然而由于“浙东引水工程”钦寸水库的修建,胡卜的梅溪胡氏子孙分散搬迁各地。
拿什么挽留你,胡卜?修族谱、修建一座保存古村历史文化的露天博物馆……胡卜人为挽留故土,做了诸多感人的事。不久前,笔者见到一位胡卜长者——今年74岁的胡邦城,他带领梅溪胡氏宗人修续了宗谱,卷卷诉说着乡愁。
村庄不再,乡愁何处安放
胡卜是梅溪胡氏的发源地,也是旧时新昌乡的中心,新昌县历史最悠久、人文积淀最深厚的村庄。在胡卜村,胡氏人口占三分之二。据明《成化新昌县志》记载,胡氏一族是五代时的胡璟(887—965)功成身退后,隐居在新昌胡卜七星峰下而繁衍起来的。璟公性爱清旷,喜爱吟咏歌诗,传说他在溪边植梅十里,自号“梅溪”,悠然自足,后世即以“梅溪胡氏”称之。
从始祖胡璟到第三十九世孙的胡邦城,再到最年轻的第四十二世孙,梅溪胡氏的血脉一代代延续。“忠孝江南望族,理学天下名家”,这副镌刻在胡氏大宗祠门柱上的对联,是他们世世代代奉行的家风准则。胡氏耕读传家、崇尚理学,良臣孝子辈出,硕学鸿儒代不乏人。
1942年,胡邦城出生在胡卜。他十二三岁时离开家乡,到15公里外的县城上中学。也许是太早离乡,胡邦城比同龄人更早体会到乡愁的滋味。因为想家,读书时他每个周末都会回去;即便大学毕业在县城成家后,他也尽量抽时间回去陪父母。他曾用脚步丈量从胡卜到县城最省时的路线,也曾看到晨光中最美的胡卜风景。
说起胡卜,胡邦城记忆最深的是童年的夏日之夜。他惬意地躺在四合院天井里的木板床上乘凉,听父母闲聊农事和家常,偶尔也插一两句话。“那时候农村还没通电,躺在木板床上乘凉就很满足了。不像现在条件好了,每天开空调,但心境还嫌一点热。”胡邦城话语间,充满了对乡村生活的留恋。
20世纪90年代,新建水库的消息在当地传开,胡卜全村700多户、1500多人都不忍告别家园。胡邦城听到这个消息后,久久不能平静。因为他知道,一旦水库开始修建,终有一天,胡卜和附近几个村庄都会被淹没,那时,分散去往各地安家的胡氏家族,将永远没有回到梅溪的那一天。
然而社会的发展变迁,总是伴随着逝去与新生。也许因为懂得这个道理,胡卜的村民们抓住留在故土的最后时间,思索离开之前要做些什么,才能延续宗族的脉搏、留住不舍的乡愁。
宗族的世代繁衍、迁徙足迹、民俗文化等,都记载在宗谱之中。但如今,梅溪胡氏宗谱已随着岁月散失几尽,仅存的也只有两三残本。一旦胡氏迁出胡卜,再修续宗谱只会难上加难,重修宗谱成为族人的共同心愿。
重修宗谱,寻回家园记忆
族之有谱,犹国之有史、邑之有志。
从宋代嘉熙庚子年(1240)到民国戊子年(1948),梅溪胡氏子孙完成过十二次宗谱的修续。1996年,胡邦城拿着残存的最后一版四册旧谱,踏上了寻访的漫长路途。
胡邦城为了找全这六册宗谱,十年间走访了新昌县内胡氏聚居的各个村庄,几乎挨家挨户询问,依旧杳无音信。一直到2007年,胡邦城在离胡卜村3公里的一户人家中找到了另外两册。旧谱找齐,新的修谱开始。
2007年底,胡邦城向胡氏宗亲发出《重修梅溪胡氏宗谱倡议书》,汇聚梅溪胡氏后代力量一起重修宗谱。胡邦城说,修谱不是件简单的事情。首先,要对之前的宗谱进行考证纠正,再更新1948年以后每一代世孙的信息,还需要记录宗族迁徙轨迹、重要人物、重大事件等信息。
从2008年起,编撰人员们在县内外走访宗亲、收集资料。每到一个村庄,只要说到梅溪,失去联系的宗亲们就开始畅叙同宗之情,好像从未离开过胡卜。这极大地激起修谱者们的血缘、亲情、乡谊等感情。
2011年,新《梅溪胡氏宗谱》终于完成。那年农历十一月廿三日,是始祖璟公诞辰1124周年纪念日,梅溪胡氏海内外裔孙及亲友万余人回到胡卜举行圆谱典礼,族人一齐告知始祖,血脉绵绵相传。
典礼上,族长将11卷本的宗谱递给各代子孙,象征着梅溪胡氏代代传衍,宗谱将代代修续。典礼过后,特意请来的浙江绍剧团连着三夜演出节目,整个胡卜村笼罩在欢乐团圆的氛围里。宗族历史,终于以纸质文字的形式得以传承。但若故土不再,不知这样的欢乐场景还能不能上演。
血脉相承,故土心间永存
2009年2月28日,钦寸水库工程正式动工。转眼间,水库建设到了最关键的2014年。
胡卜的梅溪胡氏该以什么样的方式,与即将离别的故土做一个庄重的告别?
这一年清明节,远近28个村里600多名梅溪胡氏宗亲,在始祖璟公墓前,举行了搬迁前最后一次祭祖典礼。绿树芳草丛中,众人整齐地排成一序列,队伍拉得很长,领队手举“梅溪胡氏宗亲诚祭始祖”长幅,走过胡卜村300米长的古街、飞黄牌坊、胡氏大宗祠,来到七星峰下的璟公墓地。
鼓乐阵阵。璟公墓前的案桌摆满了醇酒佳肴。众人心里充满了依依不舍之情。一朝离故土,何日返梅溪?
这一年10月,随着水库截流合围,胡卜村移民正式开始。
梅溪胡氏子孙背上旧农具、带上老家具,恨不能搬走一切。离开了无比眷恋的故乡,他们陆续分散到各自安置地点,老旧东西可以留下些许念想,但是他们希望有朝一日,这些东西再汇聚起来,建一座纪念性质的馆舍,用实物告诉后来的子孙,梅溪胡氏有过怎样的历史文化。
而为了保护古建筑文物,胡氏大宗祠、飞黄牌坊、新昌乡主庙则已由政府就近移址到大坪头村。
搬迁结束后,推土机开进胡卜,将村里的房子一间间推倒、铲平。这座曾经山环水抱的古村,如今已荒无人烟。不久的将来,梅溪水将会慢慢漫过原来的耕地良田、樟树桑园,直到整个村庄被淹没,沉入水底。从此,“胡卜村”这3个字,永远定格在了过往地图的文字标注里,而“梅溪胡氏”长留在卷卷宗谱中。 (本文照片由孙艺秋提供)
Clan Pedigree Memorializes Vanished Village
By Mi Ao
No one in Hupu would have thought that the millennium-old village would one day vanish. Hupu used to be a village nestled against the foot of Seven Star Peak in Xinchang County in eastern Zhejiang Province. The residents of the village have relocated, making room for a reservoir which is part of the water distribution project. Before the relocation, villagers did everything possible to save what could be salvaged.
Hu Jing (887-965) retired to the Seven Star Peak after working as the minister of public works for Wuyue Kingdom. The clan pedigree considers him as the first ancestor of the Hu clan scattered along Meixi River in Xinchang.
In order to retain the glory and ancestry of the village, Hu Bangcheng has done a great deal. Born in 1942, he is a 39th-generation descendent of Hu Jing. The current youngest male descendent of the clan is of the 42th generation. At the age of 12, he left the village to attend middle school in the county capital about 15 kilometers away. From then on, he spent much more time away from the home village.
In the 1990s, a reservoir project that would eventually submerge the village was about to start. About 700 households in Hupu Village were to relocate. After learning about the reservoir project, Hu Bangcheng was worried. He was aware that the people of the clan would scatter and there would never be a day when they and their descendents could come back to the place where their common ancestor first settled down. He decided it was high time to compile a revised edition of the clan pedigree.
It was a daring idea and would be a tremendous challenge. From 1240 to 1948, the descendents of Hu Jing revised the clan books twelve times. These updated editions act as who’s who dictionaries and keep the track of every male descendent of the clan. The edition of 1948 had 6 volumes. In 1996, Hu Bangcheng managed to get four of them. He tried to put his hands on the remaining two. But he didn’t know whether they still existed or where they were if they existed. He traveled across Xincheng County in search of the lost two. For about ten years, he visited villages where people surnamed Hu live. He went from door to door in villages. In 2007, he found the other two volumes from a family only three kilometers away from Hupu.
Toward the end of 2007, he proposed to have the clan pedigree updated. It would be a painstaking dedication. The clan agreed and a committee formed. He and colleagues began to trace information about every male descendent not recorded in the 1948 edition. The information would detail important events and key people and where individuals and families had evolved and moved over the past decades. The committee members visited villages and talked with people surnamed Hu. They found a lot of relatives and caught up on the lost years. The update edition project ran against time. Since the construction of the reservoir started on February 28, 2009, the village did not have much time to exist where it had been for a thousand years.
In 2011, the latest update was completed. On the 23rd day of the 11th month on the lunar calendar, which happened to be the 1124th anniversary of the birthday of Hu Jing, about 10,000 descendents and relatives came from all over the world to meet at Hupu. The printed copies of the 11-volumed latest edition were handed out to the descendents from around the world. After the celebration ceremony, Zhejiang Shaoju Opera Troupe staged a three-night gala show to celebrate the reunion and the completion of the latest clan record book.
The reservoir was scheduled to start reserving water as the dam was set to close in October 2014. On the Qingming Festival in early April that year, about 600 descendents of the clan from 28 villages along Meixi River gathered in Hupu and held the last sacrificial ceremony in their home village. With government funds, the Hu Clan Memorial Temple, the Feihuang Memorial Archway, and Xinchang Township God Temple had been all relocated to Dapingtou, a village in neighborhood.
After the relocation of the village, bulldozers came in. The village was dismantled and is now no man’s land, waiting for water to come up and submerge the village forever. Life goes on with the clan while Hupu is no more.
胡卜村世世代代的居民从未想过,他们的村庄有一天会从地图上消失。
这个位于新昌县新林乡七星峰下、梅溪水边的村庄,已经存续逾千年,然而由于“浙东引水工程”钦寸水库的修建,胡卜的梅溪胡氏子孙分散搬迁各地。
拿什么挽留你,胡卜?修族谱、修建一座保存古村历史文化的露天博物馆……胡卜人为挽留故土,做了诸多感人的事。不久前,笔者见到一位胡卜长者——今年74岁的胡邦城,他带领梅溪胡氏宗人修续了宗谱,卷卷诉说着乡愁。
村庄不再,乡愁何处安放
胡卜是梅溪胡氏的发源地,也是旧时新昌乡的中心,新昌县历史最悠久、人文积淀最深厚的村庄。在胡卜村,胡氏人口占三分之二。据明《成化新昌县志》记载,胡氏一族是五代时的胡璟(887—965)功成身退后,隐居在新昌胡卜七星峰下而繁衍起来的。璟公性爱清旷,喜爱吟咏歌诗,传说他在溪边植梅十里,自号“梅溪”,悠然自足,后世即以“梅溪胡氏”称之。
从始祖胡璟到第三十九世孙的胡邦城,再到最年轻的第四十二世孙,梅溪胡氏的血脉一代代延续。“忠孝江南望族,理学天下名家”,这副镌刻在胡氏大宗祠门柱上的对联,是他们世世代代奉行的家风准则。胡氏耕读传家、崇尚理学,良臣孝子辈出,硕学鸿儒代不乏人。
1942年,胡邦城出生在胡卜。他十二三岁时离开家乡,到15公里外的县城上中学。也许是太早离乡,胡邦城比同龄人更早体会到乡愁的滋味。因为想家,读书时他每个周末都会回去;即便大学毕业在县城成家后,他也尽量抽时间回去陪父母。他曾用脚步丈量从胡卜到县城最省时的路线,也曾看到晨光中最美的胡卜风景。
说起胡卜,胡邦城记忆最深的是童年的夏日之夜。他惬意地躺在四合院天井里的木板床上乘凉,听父母闲聊农事和家常,偶尔也插一两句话。“那时候农村还没通电,躺在木板床上乘凉就很满足了。不像现在条件好了,每天开空调,但心境还嫌一点热。”胡邦城话语间,充满了对乡村生活的留恋。
20世纪90年代,新建水库的消息在当地传开,胡卜全村700多户、1500多人都不忍告别家园。胡邦城听到这个消息后,久久不能平静。因为他知道,一旦水库开始修建,终有一天,胡卜和附近几个村庄都会被淹没,那时,分散去往各地安家的胡氏家族,将永远没有回到梅溪的那一天。
然而社会的发展变迁,总是伴随着逝去与新生。也许因为懂得这个道理,胡卜的村民们抓住留在故土的最后时间,思索离开之前要做些什么,才能延续宗族的脉搏、留住不舍的乡愁。
宗族的世代繁衍、迁徙足迹、民俗文化等,都记载在宗谱之中。但如今,梅溪胡氏宗谱已随着岁月散失几尽,仅存的也只有两三残本。一旦胡氏迁出胡卜,再修续宗谱只会难上加难,重修宗谱成为族人的共同心愿。
重修宗谱,寻回家园记忆
族之有谱,犹国之有史、邑之有志。
从宋代嘉熙庚子年(1240)到民国戊子年(1948),梅溪胡氏子孙完成过十二次宗谱的修续。1996年,胡邦城拿着残存的最后一版四册旧谱,踏上了寻访的漫长路途。
胡邦城为了找全这六册宗谱,十年间走访了新昌县内胡氏聚居的各个村庄,几乎挨家挨户询问,依旧杳无音信。一直到2007年,胡邦城在离胡卜村3公里的一户人家中找到了另外两册。旧谱找齐,新的修谱开始。
2007年底,胡邦城向胡氏宗亲发出《重修梅溪胡氏宗谱倡议书》,汇聚梅溪胡氏后代力量一起重修宗谱。胡邦城说,修谱不是件简单的事情。首先,要对之前的宗谱进行考证纠正,再更新1948年以后每一代世孙的信息,还需要记录宗族迁徙轨迹、重要人物、重大事件等信息。
从2008年起,编撰人员们在县内外走访宗亲、收集资料。每到一个村庄,只要说到梅溪,失去联系的宗亲们就开始畅叙同宗之情,好像从未离开过胡卜。这极大地激起修谱者们的血缘、亲情、乡谊等感情。
2011年,新《梅溪胡氏宗谱》终于完成。那年农历十一月廿三日,是始祖璟公诞辰1124周年纪念日,梅溪胡氏海内外裔孙及亲友万余人回到胡卜举行圆谱典礼,族人一齐告知始祖,血脉绵绵相传。
典礼上,族长将11卷本的宗谱递给各代子孙,象征着梅溪胡氏代代传衍,宗谱将代代修续。典礼过后,特意请来的浙江绍剧团连着三夜演出节目,整个胡卜村笼罩在欢乐团圆的氛围里。宗族历史,终于以纸质文字的形式得以传承。但若故土不再,不知这样的欢乐场景还能不能上演。
血脉相承,故土心间永存
2009年2月28日,钦寸水库工程正式动工。转眼间,水库建设到了最关键的2014年。
胡卜的梅溪胡氏该以什么样的方式,与即将离别的故土做一个庄重的告别?
这一年清明节,远近28个村里600多名梅溪胡氏宗亲,在始祖璟公墓前,举行了搬迁前最后一次祭祖典礼。绿树芳草丛中,众人整齐地排成一序列,队伍拉得很长,领队手举“梅溪胡氏宗亲诚祭始祖”长幅,走过胡卜村300米长的古街、飞黄牌坊、胡氏大宗祠,来到七星峰下的璟公墓地。
鼓乐阵阵。璟公墓前的案桌摆满了醇酒佳肴。众人心里充满了依依不舍之情。一朝离故土,何日返梅溪?
这一年10月,随着水库截流合围,胡卜村移民正式开始。
梅溪胡氏子孙背上旧农具、带上老家具,恨不能搬走一切。离开了无比眷恋的故乡,他们陆续分散到各自安置地点,老旧东西可以留下些许念想,但是他们希望有朝一日,这些东西再汇聚起来,建一座纪念性质的馆舍,用实物告诉后来的子孙,梅溪胡氏有过怎样的历史文化。
而为了保护古建筑文物,胡氏大宗祠、飞黄牌坊、新昌乡主庙则已由政府就近移址到大坪头村。
搬迁结束后,推土机开进胡卜,将村里的房子一间间推倒、铲平。这座曾经山环水抱的古村,如今已荒无人烟。不久的将来,梅溪水将会慢慢漫过原来的耕地良田、樟树桑园,直到整个村庄被淹没,沉入水底。从此,“胡卜村”这3个字,永远定格在了过往地图的文字标注里,而“梅溪胡氏”长留在卷卷宗谱中。 (本文照片由孙艺秋提供)
Clan Pedigree Memorializes Vanished Village
By Mi Ao
No one in Hupu would have thought that the millennium-old village would one day vanish. Hupu used to be a village nestled against the foot of Seven Star Peak in Xinchang County in eastern Zhejiang Province. The residents of the village have relocated, making room for a reservoir which is part of the water distribution project. Before the relocation, villagers did everything possible to save what could be salvaged.
Hu Jing (887-965) retired to the Seven Star Peak after working as the minister of public works for Wuyue Kingdom. The clan pedigree considers him as the first ancestor of the Hu clan scattered along Meixi River in Xinchang.
In order to retain the glory and ancestry of the village, Hu Bangcheng has done a great deal. Born in 1942, he is a 39th-generation descendent of Hu Jing. The current youngest male descendent of the clan is of the 42th generation. At the age of 12, he left the village to attend middle school in the county capital about 15 kilometers away. From then on, he spent much more time away from the home village.
In the 1990s, a reservoir project that would eventually submerge the village was about to start. About 700 households in Hupu Village were to relocate. After learning about the reservoir project, Hu Bangcheng was worried. He was aware that the people of the clan would scatter and there would never be a day when they and their descendents could come back to the place where their common ancestor first settled down. He decided it was high time to compile a revised edition of the clan pedigree.
It was a daring idea and would be a tremendous challenge. From 1240 to 1948, the descendents of Hu Jing revised the clan books twelve times. These updated editions act as who’s who dictionaries and keep the track of every male descendent of the clan. The edition of 1948 had 6 volumes. In 1996, Hu Bangcheng managed to get four of them. He tried to put his hands on the remaining two. But he didn’t know whether they still existed or where they were if they existed. He traveled across Xincheng County in search of the lost two. For about ten years, he visited villages where people surnamed Hu live. He went from door to door in villages. In 2007, he found the other two volumes from a family only three kilometers away from Hupu.
Toward the end of 2007, he proposed to have the clan pedigree updated. It would be a painstaking dedication. The clan agreed and a committee formed. He and colleagues began to trace information about every male descendent not recorded in the 1948 edition. The information would detail important events and key people and where individuals and families had evolved and moved over the past decades. The committee members visited villages and talked with people surnamed Hu. They found a lot of relatives and caught up on the lost years. The update edition project ran against time. Since the construction of the reservoir started on February 28, 2009, the village did not have much time to exist where it had been for a thousand years.
In 2011, the latest update was completed. On the 23rd day of the 11th month on the lunar calendar, which happened to be the 1124th anniversary of the birthday of Hu Jing, about 10,000 descendents and relatives came from all over the world to meet at Hupu. The printed copies of the 11-volumed latest edition were handed out to the descendents from around the world. After the celebration ceremony, Zhejiang Shaoju Opera Troupe staged a three-night gala show to celebrate the reunion and the completion of the latest clan record book.
The reservoir was scheduled to start reserving water as the dam was set to close in October 2014. On the Qingming Festival in early April that year, about 600 descendents of the clan from 28 villages along Meixi River gathered in Hupu and held the last sacrificial ceremony in their home village. With government funds, the Hu Clan Memorial Temple, the Feihuang Memorial Archway, and Xinchang Township God Temple had been all relocated to Dapingtou, a village in neighborhood.
After the relocation of the village, bulldozers came in. The village was dismantled and is now no man’s land, waiting for water to come up and submerge the village forever. Life goes on with the clan while Hupu is no more.