![]() ![]() Generation followed generation for five centuries until the seventeenth generation produced a son, a well-known scholar of the Confucian classics, whose name was Li Zulie (literary name, Master Xugu), Zulie first married the granddaughter of Xu Jixi, the head of Wanghai County. Li Boyu was invited to come to Zhejiang and settled down in Xiashi. He “studied and discussed scholarship with no interest in holding office and declined all recommendations to be the master of a school.”1 In the early Yuan dynasty, his son Li Kan, who was able, virtuous and upright, was granted the position of Deputy Administrator of Jiaxing Prefecture. They traced their ancestry back to Li Boyu from Bianliang (the present Kaifeng, Henan), the capital of the last years of the Northern Song dynasty. ![]() ![]() A scholarly aristocratic family named Li lived at the foot of the Eastern Mountain. Many talented people come from this area. In Xiashi Township in the northeast of the county along the banks of the river are Shen and Ziwei Mountains which the local people call the Eastern and Western Mountain. It’s beautiful land of plenty, with a mild climate, fertile land, abundant rainfall, and rich production. Haining County, Zhejiang Province, is located at the mouth of the Qiantang River on the northern coast of Hangzhou Bay. ![]()
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