“爱民如子,尤恤茕独”——唐贤官才子麹信陵史实钩沉

Qu Xin-ling, a small county magistrate in the Tang Dynasty, because he applied a policy of benevolence to his people, loved his people deeply and particularly sympathized with the solitary, was remembered by his people by building the mausoleum, setting up the ancestral hall and erecting the monument for him after he deceased, the moving memorial ceremony was held year after year when the old men in the villages rushed to offer wine to him, the common people there, no matter young or old, all weeped for him while burning joss sticks in a long line. This article widely searches his documents and materials, picks up the rare historical relics of him and combs his native place, scholarly honor, official career, very popular morality and achievement and people’s praising and cherishing him over a thousand years one by one, and thinks this is “a precious legacy” that is worth summarizing and inheritting, it is also greatly helpful for purifying the society of today, encouraging those who are in power working loyally for their people.