Introduction to Pan's Ancestral Hall: Pan's Ancestral Hall was built in the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty. Fujian Provincial Information records: "Pan Gang, the founder of the Sanxi Pan surname, moved here. In the Song Dynasty, the economy and culture here were quite developed. During the Chunxi period of the Southern Song Dynasty (1174-1189), the number one scholar and prime minister of the Song Dynasty, Zheng Xingzhi, Gao Yingsong, the censor Pan Wenqing, the prefect Pan Bin, and the Neo-Confucian master Zhu Xi, etc. Pan's children were taught by Zhu Xi, and under his influence, 10 of them became Jinshis. As early as the first year of Xiangfu in the Northern Song Dynasty (1008), brothers Pan Xun and Pan Qu became Jinshis together, from the fourth to the seventh generation. , there were 5 middle-ranking ministers, so it was known as "the second most difficult Jinshi, the fourth-leaf middle-ranking scholar". In the Song Dynasty, 59 people from the Pan family alone passed the imperial examination."

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