Luo Qinghui's life

When I was a child, my family was poor, and I studied hard. And dragon, go to Henan and other places to do business with relatives and friends. In the meantime, a person who knows the astronomical phenomena is endowed with the skills of astronomy, astrology, planning, good and bad luck of the six kings, and good and bad luck prediction. After entering Beijing, he calculated the calendar in Qin and studied Chinese and foreign astronomical works. After finishing his studies, he went back to his hometown in Xingning to compile a general book, which was named "Luo Jia Zhu Shu General Book in Xingning County, Guangdong Province" (hereinafter referred to as "Luo Shu"). In the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), on July 12, the imperial edict of Qin allowed Roche to compile Tongzhi as a folk book. Limited by the times, Luo Shu has a little feudal superstition, but it is full of scientific truth. It calculates the eclipse of the sun and the moon, the size of the month and the change of solar terms very accurately, and also expresses the monsoon and its flow direction, thus guiding people to pay attention to the safety of navigation, the orientation of buildings and the arrangement of agricultural work. And it is very useful. This book has been popular for hundreds of years, and its sales volume is increasing day by day, with the highest annual sales volume reaching hundreds of thousands. Only sold to the whole country, but also exported to Southeast Asia, Europe and America. In these countries, where there are China people, there are Luo's books.

Qing Huigong is the thirteenth ancestor of the sixth family of Roche in Xingning. He was born in Xixingxu, Aigang (now the ancestral home of Luo Lao in Shu Tong, Fuxing Jinhua). Qing Gong Hui was smart and studious since he was a child. During the reign of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty, he went to Liulichang of Qin Tian Prison in Beijing to study astronomical calendar, especially in the choice of five elements, which was very talented and insightful. The almanac deduced by him is accurate in the time of solar terms handover and lunar eclipse, and is often adopted by the imperial calendar one by one. By the fifth year of Yongzheng, he was authorized to edit and publish the annual general book, which was called Luo Shu in history. The contents of Luo Shu are strictly interpreted and the footnotes are accurate and meticulous, which greatly facilitated people's production and life activities at that time. Choose the day and reason, keep the right and correct the deviation, and follow the royal purpose of "taking the past as the stem, taking law as the root, taking things as the foundation and taking reason as the lesson"; After collecting opinions, it was said that "the ancient law is innovative, and the new law gives the old meaning", and it became a family of its own, benefiting the quasi-inspection, making it famous at home and abroad, and Luo Shu became popular all over the world. Established the cultural position and market position of "the first book of China folk calendar". The Palace Museum in Beijing also has Biography of Gong Hui of Qing Dynasty, which is recorded in detail in local chronicles. In 20 10, Meizhou City approved the Luojia Bronze Book as an intangible cultural heritage and submitted it to the provincial "World Heritage Application". Qing Huigong left us not only the glorious historical aura of his nation, but also the wealth of history and culture. He is not only the pride of my Luo family, but also the pride of the Hakka people of the Chinese nation. Luo Shu is the most important historical and cultural card in Xingning, Guangdong.

After Luo Qinghui wrote Luo Jiahui's biography of Shu Tong, Luo Qinghui's descendant Bochang kept improving and innovating in the production of compass. More than 300 years ago, Rogaji Tang Fu Compass sold well at home and abroad, and its accuracy and quality won the appreciation of our compatriots.