The legend of Feng Weimin is a folk oral literature that originated in the Ming and Qing dynasties and circulated in the Linqu area of Shandong.
Feng Weimin (1511-1578), whose ancestral home is Yeyuan Village, Linqu County, since his father Feng Yu, his family grandchildren have been extended, the family style has inherited, within 200 years, 10 people have been admitted to the jinshi, 31 people, Gongsheng, Jiansheng, Kusheng 343 people. Dozens of imperial court officials were ordered from the prime minister down to the county order. It is a family that influenced the Ming and Qing dynasties and was prominent in the folk.
Seven generations before and after Feng Weimin have been handed down by cultural celebrities. There are more than 30 authors, more than 10 outstanding literary achievements, and 5 poetry collections included in the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book". Representative figures are: Feng Yu, Feng Weijian, Feng Weizhong, Feng Weimin, Feng Weina, Feng Zixian, Feng Zhen, Feng Qi, Feng Shibiao, Feng Pu, Feng Xieyi, etc. Among them, Feng Weimin ranked among the celebrities in the history of Chinese literature and was known as "the first major composer of scattered songs in the Ming Dynasty", which is unique in the history of Chinese literature. He is also a famous literary scholar of the Ming and Qing dynasties, and is known as the literary family of Feng Weimin.
Feng Weimin, intelligent since childhood, is studious and good at writing, has a straight nature, and has a clear love and hatred. Emphasis on education, loyalty and filial piety. In the Linqu area, there are a large number of anecdotes and stories and legends related to his family style, study style, and literary style, covering traditional ethical virtues such as his family characters who are eager to learn, honest and honest, advocate justice, punish evil and promote good, pass on virtue to the family, and inherit poetry and books. The legend and story have distinct personalities, touching plots, close to life, reflect public opinion, novel themes, easy to remember and pass on, and set interesting, educational, literary, entertaining, folk as a whole, with Feng Weimin's official prestige and literary achievements, it can be spread in the folk.
"The Legend of Feng Weimin" is a folk oral literature with a long history and profound influence, which has been circulating in the Linqu area for a long time, has had a wide impact on the folk culture of Linqu, played an indoctrinating role in disseminating ethical virtues, enlightening people's minds, and cultivating family-type talents, and is also an oral literature that is very popular among the folk masses.
In recent years, due to the impact of the economic tide and the impact of commodity concepts, coupled with the flood of modern cultural methods, Feng Weimin's legends have gradually aged and decreased, and folk circulation has gradually become intermittent, facing the dilemma of losing their generations. If measures can be taken to excavate and protect it in a timely manner and make it inherited continuously, it is of great value or significance for saving and protecting this folk intangible cultural heritage, activating folk literature resources, and studying and promoting the inheritance and development of Shandong folk literature.
Feng Weimin : Ming Dynasty composer. The word Ruxing, the number of the sea float, and the number of the stone gate. Shandong Linqu people. Since childhood, he has traveled with his father to Nanjing, Pingliang, Shiquan and other places. Intelligent and studious, talented and talented, together with his brother Wei Jian, Wei Zhong and brother Wei Ne, he enjoyed the name of Qilujian with poetry, and was then called "Linqu Sifeng". Sejong Jiajing sixteen years (1537) Zhongxiang examination, tired of the jinshi is not the first, stay at home for 25 years. He had offended the Inspector of Shandong and was arrested and punished according to Duan Gu's words. Later, he served as Laishuizhi County. He was also inadmissible to the powerful clan for punishing the "Haomin", and slandered him everywhere, who was a professor of Jiangfu Studies in Zhenzhen, and then moved to Baoding Province for general judgment, and at the end of 1571 (the fifth year of Longqing), he was reappointed to the Trial of the Lu Wangfu and resigned from his post.
In the spring of the following year, he abandoned his official and returned to Linqu and built a "that is, Jiangnan" pavilion on the shore of Laolongwan under Haifu Mountain, because he was called a Haifushan person, and he sang with his peers on the day, devoting himself to creation and raising him to the end. His works include "HaifushanTang Manuscript", "Shimen Collection", the main editor Jiajing's "Linqu County Chronicle", Wanli's "Baoding Tongzhi", etc., among which there are many excellent works that uphold justice and respect historical facts. The collected poems "HaifushanTang Lyrics" that had a greater influence on later generations, among which "Peasant Suffering", "Sorrowful Rain", "Wheat With Feeling", etc., reflected his sympathy for the suffering of the peasants. Other works, either satirizing greed, or stabbing, or poking at evil, or exposing evil, are works of caution and awakening. Therefore, Wang Shizhen commented on his song "Unique as Outstanding". His miscellaneous drama "Monks and Nuns Accomplices", through the story of monks and nuns having adultery, and later judging them as husband and wife by the government, pointed out that "men and women live in the room, the great lun of man", "heirs who have been passed down to the present day", which is a matter of natural righteousness. In this way, he openly declared war on false Taoism. He was born in the eunuch gate, and the habits of aristocratic princes are difficult to get rid of, and in his writings, there are also some works such as wind and snow.
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