The Legend of Qian Liu: the Thousand-Year Passage of the Qian Family of Wuyue Begins

This is not only a story about "king", but also a miracle about "home". If you look at the history of science, literature, and education in modern China, you will be surprised to find that one surname appears with an unusually high frequency - Qian. People can't help but ask: What "hook" did this family have? The answer lies on that humid rainy night more than 1,100 years ago. In 852 AD, by a dry well in Lin'an, an abandoned child who was almost drowned by his father saved his life in the arms of his grandmother. It was the eve of the collapse of the Tang Empire, and it was the troubled times of the Five Dynasties when human lives were like nothing. Zhu Wen is killing people, Li Keyong is burning the city, and all the careerists are busy pushing the world into ruins. But Qian Liu, the former salt lord, put down his butcher knife and picked up a hoe in the southeastern corner of the bloody sky. He built a stone pond to protect the sea tide, dredged the West Lake, which is the most beautiful in the world, and left a text called "Qian Family Instructions" to his descendants before his death. He told his descendants: "You must know how to bow your head, and you must also know how to love the people." He exchanged a lifetime of concessions for a century of prosperity in Jiangsu and Zhejiang; he exchanged the obedience of a family (returning to the Song Dynasty) for the incense of Chinese civilization. If you understand Qian Liu, you will also understand the mist of Suzhou and Hangzhou, and the ultimate logic of the everlasting prosperity of Chinese families.