Where is Ma Yun from?

There is a saying: "One side of the earth and water will nourish the other side." As a world-famous Zhejiang businessman, Ma Yun was always thought to be from Hangzhou. In fact, he was born in Hangzhou. His hometown is Gulai Town, Shengzhou City, Zhejiang Province. This town is located in a mountainous area, and the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty has also been there.

Gulai Town is located in the northwest of Shengzhou City, the hometown of Shaoxing Opera, with Chongren Town in the east, Keqiao District of Shaoxing (formerly Shaoxing County) in the north and Zhuji City in the west, about 21km away from Shengzhou City. It has a community and 2 administrative villages under its jurisdiction, and is a mountainous town with beautiful ecological environment. According to Song Jiatai's Records of the Meeting and the Ten Records of Liang Zaiyan in the Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that "it is suitable to plow here, and the sky descends to Jiagu", hence the name "Gulai". In the first year of the Republic of China (1912), it belonged to the first township of Shun 'an, and was later called Gulai Town.

Gulai Town has a long history and outstanding people. According to legend, the well-off king of the Southern Song Dynasty (namely Zhao Gou, Song Gaozong) was chased by Jin Bing to Zhitouling, Gulai Town, and hid in the temple to have a rest. When Jin Bing chased him to the door of the temple, he saw a spider web and closed the door. Jin Bing thought that no one had entered the temple and left, so the well-off king escaped from danger. Later generations renamed it Huguoling to protect the monarch.

Street Scenery in Gulai Town

The influential figures in Gulai Town in modern times include Ma Laifa, the father of Ma Wang Yun, Ma Chuanjin, who invented the tea-fixing machine and the bamboo tea-frying machine, and Jiang Weizhuang, a professor, doctoral supervisor and expert in orthopedics. Therefore, Ma Yun's father once taught his son to be a man who will win glory for his hometown in the future.

Ma Yun's real ancestral home is Maxi Village in the north of Gulai Town, because after Ma Yun was born here, it became the most famous village among the 2 administrative villages in Gulai Town. The village is adjacent to Keqiao District, Shaoxing City. There are more than 39 families and more than 1,18 people in the village. 95% of the villagers in the village are surnamed Ma, and they all belong to an ancestor named Ma Min, so they and Ma Yun are family members who are related by relatives and friends.

It is said that the surname Ma in Maxi Village first moved from Fufeng County, Shaanxi Province, and its ancestor was a general named Zhao She during the Warring States Period. In 27 BC, Zhao She led the army to win Qin Jun, so King Zhao Huiwen gave Ma Fu (north of Handan City, Hebei Province) to Zhao She and named him "Ma Fu Jun". Zhao She's descendants were all named after Ma Fu. Later, the younger generation found this double surname inconvenient and unpleasant, so they deleted the word "Fu" and changed it to a single surname "Ma".

In the Western Han Dynasty, the descendants of the Ma family moved to Maoling in Youfufeng (northeast of Xingping, Shaanxi) for many years. In the Northern Song Dynasty, there was Ma Juanzhe in Fufeng County, whose name was Shou Cheng, who served as a doctor of remonstrance in the Song Dynasty, accompanied his wife Zhao, married Dow, and gave birth to two sons, Ma Zheng and Ma Min. When Zhao Gou, the emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, heard that the Jin people were coming in, he led his troops to flee south. At that time, Ma Min was an official in Jiangsu, and fled south with the emperor, so he fled to a small mountain village in Gulai Town, Shengzhou. At first, the ancestors of the Majia family lived in the ravine to avoid the war, and later they moved to the village below the mountain to live, which is now Maxi Village.

Ma Yun's hometown Maxi Village scenery

Ma Kanghua and Ma Yunjia, who are in charge of the district work in Gulai Town, are the closest in blood relationship. They have been the same squire for more than six generations. His father-in-law's family also keeps a copy of Ma's Genealogy. From this genealogy, it can be found that Ma Yun's great-grandfather is a filial generation, his grandfather is a filial generation, and Ma Yun's father's generation is a loyal generation, with their names on it. In Ma's Genealogy, the grandfather of Ma Yun is recorded as follows: "The name is Cai, whose surname is Uncle Zhou, and he lives in Kuobanqiao, Hangzhou (now in Changhe Town, Binjiang District, Hangzhou, this bridge was built in the thirty-second year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, and was built by Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites and a cabinet university student to Zongdao. Single pier double-hole stone bridge. The pier was made of eight stone slabs, which was considered a wide bridge at that time, and the place around the bridge was called a wide slab bridge. Born in the Jiawu year of Guangxu, it was accompanied by the daughter of Zhang A Quan Gong in Hangzhou. Give birth to a son, loyal. " The "loyalty" in this article refers to the original name of Ma Yun's father, Ma Laifa. It is said that when Ma Yun's father was seven years old, he went to live with Ma Yun's grandfather, Ma Miancai, in Kuobanqiao, Hangzhou (Ma Yun's grandfather used to work in a lime factory), and the genealogy of Ma Yun's generation was not repaired, so there was naturally no record of Ma Yun on this genealogy repaired in 1936.

Ma Yun and his father Ma Laifa

People in Maxi Village are surnamed Ma, and they are very fond of Ma Ziran. When they used to build houses, they used to make horses with stones on the ground. This stream near Maxi Village was originally called Shunxi, but later the Ma family changed it to Maxi. In their eyes, this slightly curved stream looks like a whip.

Family instructions are written on Ma's ancestral hall

Ma's ancestral hall, which is regarded as "Great Hall of the People" by people in Maxi village, is near the office building of the village committee, so it is an old building that has been through for more than a hundred years. A line of family instructions is written on the roof beam, but it seems that "education is important in virtue ..." There is a stage in the middle of the ancestral hall yard in the "hometown of Yue Opera". Now there are more than ten tables in it, which are mainly used for villagers to do weddings and funerals.

A residential building was built on the foundation of the old house where Ma Yun's grandfather lived.

Opposite the village committee building of Maxi Village was the old house where Ma Yunjia's ancestors lived. It is said that after liberation, Ma Yun's grandfather came back and lived here for one night. Due to disrepair, his old house is gone. Some villagers built a small residential building on the foundation of the old house in Ma Yunjia.

Ma Yun's ancestral grave stone tablet

In addition, Ma Yun's ancestral grave is also buried on the highest mountain in Maxi Village. There is a stone tablet on the grave, and the handwriting is still very clear. There is a green tea garden in front of the grave, and the environment is good. The cadres and the masses in Maxi Village are very enthusiastic about protecting this land of geomantic omen. They are looking forward to Ma Yun's return to his hometown at his convenience.

Ma Yun's current home

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