Wang Jingwei was born into a typical Shaoxing master family, starting with his great-grandfather Wang Shu, most of the family members worked as a master in the Guangdong area. The ancestors of the Wang family moved from Wuyuan, Jiangxi to Shanyin, Zhejiang in the last year of the Yuan Dynasty, and have been thriving in Shaoxing for five or six hundred years. Wang Jingwei's eldest brother Wang Zhaoyong once compiled a "Genealogy of the Wang Clan in Shanyin", which has a detailed record of the origin of the Wang clan in Shaoxing.
Portrait of Wang Jingwei
Wang's eldest son, Wang Yun, was Wang Jingwei's grandfather, a prominent figure during the Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty, who had been working in education in Zhejiang. It is said that the plaque held up by Wang Yunzhong was hung until the Republic of China period in the Wang family ancestral temple, the Zhongyan Temple outside the remote gate of Shaoxing City, and the Wang family's ancestral house was in the nearby Kuaige area.
Shaoxing Partial Gate Zhongyan Temple
Wang Yunsheng had four sons, the youngest son Wang Ju was Wang Jingwei's father, a native of Shaoxing. In 1846, the 23-year-old Wang Ju moved from Shaoxing to Panyu, Guangdong Province, to engage in the family's traditional occupation, Shaoxing Master, due to the failure of the imperial examination, and never returned to his hometown.
Genealogy of the Wang Clan of Shanyin compiled by Wang Zhaoyong
In 1883, Wang Jingwei was born in Sanshui, Guangdong. In the year that Wang Jingwei was born, Wang Jingwei was already over the age of Hua Jia, Wang Jingwei was an old man, and he was also his 10th child. Due to the large number of children, Wang Ju's family was not rich, and at the age of seventy, she was still trying to earn money to support her family.
Wang Jingwei in a military uniform
As a Shaoxing person for generations, the ancestral graves of the Wang family are of course all in Shaoxing, and there are three well-documented ones: one is located in Fuquan Miaowu Village, where Wang Jingwei's mother is said to be buried (it has been destroyed); the other is located near Zhongyan outside the side gate of Shaoxing, which is the tomb of Wang Jingwei's great-grandfather Wang Qi and grandfather Wang Yun, which is a joint tomb of TianXue (which was destroyed during the Cultural Revolution); the relatively complete family ancestral tomb is currently preserved in Caijia'ao Natural Village in Sifeng Village, Pingshui Town.
Cai Jia Ao Natural Village Wang Jia Ancestral Tomb
Wang Jiazu's tomb is on a hill at the mouth of Cai Jia'ao Village, and it is difficult to find it if no one points out. Originally called Yanzi Mountain, this hill was renamed "Wang Jia Shan" during the Wang Jingwei regime in the last century. The ancestral tombs of the Wang family are lined up, and there are three tombstones in total, because they have been abandoned for many years, the top of the tomb has been basically flattened, and the words on the tombstones are clearly visible.
Mingwang Dezhai Cemetery
According to the written records on the tombstone, the owners of the tomb are MingWang Dezhai Gong, Ming Wang YunZhuang Gong, ming Wang Qinghu Gong, all of whom are the ancestors of Wang Jingwei in the Ming Dynasty, and are three generations of grandchildren. Among them, Wang Qinghu was the famous scholar Wang Yingyun (1490-1547) during the Zhengde and Jiajing years of the Ming Dynasty, who wrote the "Qinghu Anthology", with Wang Dezhai as his son and Wang Yunzhuang as his father.
The Shaoxing County Government of the Republic of China announced the stone stele
The tombstones are engraved with words such as "A Pentium Midsummer Reconstruction", and the person who erected the stele is "The Grandson of the Wang Family". There is also a stone stele of "Shaoxing County Government Notice" on the side of Wang Yingyi's tomb, which is engraved with dense words. It is roughly to praise the "great achievements" of the Wang family, sprinkled with a large piece, because of the serious weathering of the handwriting has been difficult to recognize, the end of the four words "cut this cloth", the monument was erected in August of the twentieth year of the Republic of China, but also engraved with the name of Zheng Ning, the governor of Shaoxing County at that time.
It is said that in the past, feng shui masters from all over the world often visited the mountain, surveyed and studied. According to the identification of the feng shui master: Wang Jiazu's tomb sits at 58.4-59 degrees for Yinshan Shen, the left water is poured to the right, the C side of the Xun Wei side comes to the water, out of the Xin Peng fang, the jade belt water bypasses the mountain, the dragon from the east sends its veins to the head, surrounded by mountains, there is no lack of Xiu peaks, of which Gong, A, B, Chen, C peaks are slightly higher, and the Ying Peak is beautiful, called Qinhuang Mountain. According to the Yin House Feng Shui, the location of the Wang family's ancestral tomb is not bad.
Mingwang Qinghu Cemetery
In 1920, Wang Jingwei's eldest brother Wang Zhaoyong made a special trip back to his ancestral hometown of Shaoxing from Guangdong to worship his ancestors and search for relatives, and repaired the tombs of the Wang family's ancestors. According to records, around the Qingming Festival in 1943, Chen Bijun, the wife of Wang Jingwei, came to Shaoxing to visit the tombs and worship the ancestors in the name of inspecting Qingxiang under the instruction of Wang Jingwei, and the scene was very lively.
Wang Jingwei and Chen Bijun
According to an old man in the village, when he was a child, he did see a big man driving a motorboat to the village to visit the grave, and he also brought many soldiers with live ammunition, and the other party quickly left. (Text/Chen Yongxin)
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