Wiping the Dust at the Five-Hundred-Stone Grotto Heaven, Vol. 5

There are too many poems, so I plan to publish a larger volume separately. The illustrations made using Western glass plates have been printed and sent to friends.

The Ministry of Works official from Taiwan, Zhongge Jin Jia, after fleeing the island in the Yiwei year 1895, now resides in Chaozhou. He has a poem titled "Five Ancient Verses on Chaozhou." The twentieth stanza details the Qiu family genealogy very thoroughly, which is a legacy of the ancient tradition of writing poems to honor ancestral virtues. The text says: "The central plains suddenly experienced the war of dragons, and our clans opened the gates of Fujian. Our Qiu family, firm from the beginning, brought the whole clan to Putian. In the Song Dynasty, the Minister of Imperial Entertainments, Fu Dian, was our ancestor. The majestic Privy Councilor moved to Chaozhou as the first of our line. Meixi Wang Shipeng inscribed the tomb, and the music mountain was covered in spring mist. He had a son who served as the Prefect of Meizhou, returning home to care for his parents. Figures like Zhao Ding and Wang Dagu also written as "Ge" offered many poems to him; one can imagine them reciting the Way together, all famous sages. Through three generations, the Judge Shao compiled the clan records by hand. With loyal blood, he died for righteousness; in the Song days, he sank into the abyss of Yu." The official's name was Bimming. He was a jinshi in the third year of Xianchun. The family genealogy preface describes the move to Chaozhou in detail. His martyrdom in Shaozhou is recorded in the Guangdong Tongzhi and Guangdong Xinyu. He was originally from Baochang but settled in Chaozhou. At that time, during the chaos, the clan dispersed throughout Fujian and Guangdong. Some registered near Baochang, others lived far away in Qiongshan. My ancestor, the younger brother of the Judge, lived in seclusion by the Yin River. His descendants grew more numerous day by day. In Jiang and Chu, there are many... descendants? who continued our clan, from the stone caves to the water, connecting Meizhou and Chaozhou.