The story of Bao Zheng Bao Qingtian is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, especially through the spread of the national essence of Beijing opera, Bao Zheng is affectionately called Bao Qingtian by the people, and is a parent official who truly thinks about the people and solves the sufferings of the people. Bao Zheng did not depend on the magnates and was bent on justice.
In Beijing opera, everyone knows that Bao Zheng has a sister-in-law, through the title of "sister-in-law", we know that Bao Zheng's sister-in-law, although her identity is a sister-in-law, but she assumes the responsibility of being a mother, she raised her little uncle Bao Zheng for him to study, so that he can achieve fame. And even when he treated the son of his sister-in-law, who raised himself and educated himself to become an adult, that is, his nephew, broke the law, he also enforced the law impartially, sentenced his nephew to death, and carried forward his style of doing things impartially to the extreme.
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However, in the real history, the prototype of Bao Zheng's sister-in-law is not actually Bao Zheng's sister-in-law, but Bao Zheng's eldest daughter-in-law Cui Shi. It was Cui who raised Bao Zheng's younger son Bao Sui for him to study, urged him to study, made him a jinshi, entered the imperial court as an official, and enabled the Bao family to have descendants in the world and pass on the excellent family style of the Bao family.
So, why did the imperial court praise Cui Shi and write her a commendation speech? Let's take a look.
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Bao Zheng, also known as Bao Longtu, was born in 999 and is a native of today's Anhui Province. He was an outstanding representative of the Qing officials of the Northern Song Dynasty, a famous courtier, who survived in the world with the image of selflessness, integrity, honesty and loyalty of patriotism and love for the people.
Bao Zheng is adhering to the principle of being the master of the people even if he loses his black hat, doing practical things for the people, punishing corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and winning the sincere love of the people.
In 1027, the 28-year-old Bao Zheng became a jinshi, and at this time his parents were also elderly and needed to be taken care of. At the beginning, Bao Zheng worked as an official in his hometown in order to facilitate the care of his parents. Later, he felt that he was still unable to serve his parents wholeheartedly for the official, and he could not stay at the front of the second old man's bed to pour tea and water, so he resolutely resigned from the official and concentrated on serving his parents.
A few years later, Bao Zheng's parents died one after another, and he built a straw house in front of his parents' graves for his parents to keep filial piety for three years, just like when their parents were alive.
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In 1037, 10 years after obtaining the meritorious name, Bao Zheng was already 38 years old, and he reluctantly bid farewell to his parents' grave and became a Zhixian.
Four years later, in 1041, Bao Zheng was promoted to prefect, actively doing practical things for the people, practicing strict economy, honesty and self-discipline, and was recognized by everyone.
Two years later, in 1043, Bao Zheng was promoted to the rank of Dianzhong (殿中丞), and a few months later, he was promoted to Inspector Of the Imperial History. It can be said that Bao Zheng's road to becoming an official is a smooth road, which is all doomed by his own work strength and upright style of doing things.
Bao Zheng never announced his private pockets, he was bent on the country and the people, he could put forward reasonable suggestions and opinions, for example, he said: "The state pays the Khitan every year, not a strategy to resist the Rong people, it should train the army, select generals, and devote themselves to enriching the border garrison." "His idea is very realistic.
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On the matter of establishing the crown prince, Bao Zheng also devoted himself to the sake of the imperial court. Know that this is a sensitive topic, and if you are not careful, you may lose your head. At that time, it was 1058, Jiayou was three years old, and Bao Zheng was Yushi Zhongcheng, who decisively played the role of Crown Prince Renzong, saying that the position of prince had been vacant for a long time. Emperor Renzong asked him who was better?
Bao Zheng replied unashamedly, saying that the emperor said this because he doubted himself. He is already a sixty-year-old man, and he has no sons, nor is he working for the welfare of future generations, but for the sake of the country.
The clever Bao Zheng said this, which immediately dispelled Renzong's doubts, and Renzong was very happy, for Bao Zheng's bold loyalty, but also for Bao Zheng's single-minded approach to the country.
In 1062, the 63-year-old Bao Zheng died of illness, and Emperor Renzong not only posthumously recognized him as rebbe Shangshu, but also personally went to the funeral for him one day. At that time, the people of the whole city cried and almost all went out to send off this Bao Qingtian together, and the heavens were moved by it.
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Bao Zheng had a wife, Li Shi, who was his original match, and died in his early years, and did not give birth to a son for Bao Zheng. Bao Zheng's step-brother Dong shi bore Bao Zheng a son and two daughters. Bao Zheng's eldest son was called Bao Zheng, born in 1033, at this time Bao Zheng was already 34 years old, which can be described as a middle-aged son, very happy.
Although Bao Qi was born in a loyal family and was also the pearl in the palm of his parents, he was very contentious, studied hard, achieved meritorious fame, and became an official to achieve Taichang Temple Taizhu and judge Tanzhou.
At the age of 19, Bao Qi married Cui Shi, but only a year later, Bao Qi died of illness. Poor Cui Shi looked at his son Bao Wenfu, who was waiting to be fed, and was grieved. She concentrated on raising her son, honoring her in-laws, and never remarried.
However, the misfortune was not alone, Bao Wenfu died at the age of 5. Cui Shi really called the heavens and the earth ungodly. Bao Zheng was even more heartbroken, the eldest son and eldest grandson had died, and he had tasted the pain of losing his son in old age and losing his grandson.
And the Cui family is guarding the Bao family, and one guard is 20 years. Although Bao Zheng has always advised Cui to remarry, Cui said, "The father-in-law is a person who is admired by the whole world, and I can serve and raise Weng Gu on behalf of her husband, and I am satisfied." ”
Because of Cui's filial piety, she was praised by the imperial court and given the title of "Yongjia Junjun." ”
After the death of Bao Zheng's eldest son and eldest grandson, his wife Dong Shi was old, and in order to prevent the Bao family from becoming extinct, Dong Shi took it upon himself to let her maid Sun Shi serve Bao Zheng.
However, after Sun Shi made Bao Zheng's concubine, some people did not know who they were and began to be arrogant. Bao Zheng was angry and sent her back to her mother's house.
At this time, Sun Shi was pregnant, and Bao Zheng and his wife did not know it, but Bao Zheng's eldest daughter-in-law Cui Shi knew the truth. After Sun returned to his mother's house, Cui took care of it and constantly provided help, and money and things were often sent there.
Later, the Sun clan gave birth to Bao Zheng's youngest son, Bao Shou. Soon after, Bao Shou was carried back home by Cui Shi and named as an adopted son, but was actually a little uncle.
At Bao Zheng's sixtieth birthday feast, Cui explained the matter: "This is your two-year-old son." Bao Zheng and Dong Shi are a couple of feelings, grateful for the sky and eyes, and more grateful for Cui's dedication and kindness.
When Bao Zheng died, Bao Shou was only five years old. After Bao Shou grew up, he became a dynasty fenglang and sentenced to Tanzhou. Cui not only gave Bao Shou the opportunity to receive an education, but also educated him to become an adult, adhering to the family style of loyalty and inheritance, allowing him to self-discipline and self-improvement, so that the Family Style of the Bao Family will be passed down from generation to generation.
The Cui clan married Bao Shou as a wife, and zhang shi had a thin life, and after his death, cui married Bao Shou's daughter Wen shi as his wife. Later, bao Shou also welcomed back his birth mother Sun Shi and sent sun family pension to the end.
Cui was 62 years old when she died, and Bao Shou has always honored her like her own mother. After Cui's death, Bao Shou also sent his sister-in-law Cui Shouxiao to the end with the etiquette of treating his biological mother.
Cui Shi died, and the imperial court wrote a commendation to Cui Shi, engraved on her tombstone, and became her epitaph, which reads as follows:
"After making me a famous courtier, I will have the merit of standing in the world."
The meaning of the commendation letter given by the imperial court to the Cui family is that she let the famous minister of the imperial court, Bao Zheng, have a descendant, and let him stand in the world and inherit the excellent family style of the Bao family, which is the credit of the Cui family.
What is rare is that Cui's approach is completely by nature, voluntary, and bent on the sake of the family. In his early years, Bao Zheng resigned from the government to serve his parents in order to fulfill his filial piety, and the practice of distinguishing between public and private and adhering to principles was the excellent family style of the Bao family. And Cui Shi set an example by example, not only interpreting filial piety, but also adding responsibility to himself, preserving the blood of the Bao family and allowing the Bao family's excellent family style to continue to be inherited.
After Bao Shou became an adult, he really demanded himself as strictly as his father Bao Zheng, single-mindedly serving the country and adhering to filial piety. In that era of "no filial piety has three, no queen is greater", in order to raise his sister-in-law Cui Shi, he inherited a child of the Bao family and made a son for Cui Shi, so that Cui Shi could have children and grandchildren to inherit the knees. After the establishment of the Cui family, this is one of the manifestations of Bao Shuo's filial piety to the Cui family.
Bao Shou died at the age of 48, with four sons and three daughters, and since then, the descendants of the Bao family have been passed down from generation to generation.
Bao Yugang, the world ship king and known as the "King of the Sea", is the 29th generation grandson of Bao Zheng. Because he saw the context information of his family from the "Bao Family Tree", Bao Yugang was very fortunate that he was a descendant of Bao Qingtian.