"Mencius Li Lou Shang" has a saying: "No filial piety has three, no queen is greater", and feudal society ruled the world with "filial piety", so people in the old days pursued "many children and many blessings", regarded the absence of offspring as an act of "great filial piety", and even rose to "shame on the ancestors". It is worth mentioning that the "descendants" of feudal society refer specifically to men, and there are no boys but only girls in the descendants, which is also considered to be a "queen"!
This kind of "son preference" has continued to modern times, although after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the social atmosphere has gradually opened up, people's ideological concepts have been reversed, that boys and girls are the same, but in some remote and backward places, the phenomenon of "son preference" still exists!
If it is according to the standard of "no queen" in feudal society, then "Bao Qingtian" Bao Daren is almost "no queen"
Bao Zheng was a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, Tiansheng five years to jinshi and the first, successively served as the judge of the three divisions and the envoy of Jingdong, Shaanxi, Hebei Road, after entering the dynasty, the power of the power to know the Kaifeng Province, quan yushi Zhongcheng, the three divisions of the envoys and other positions, according to the "History of Song" recorded: Bao Zheng during his tenure of honesty and honesty, the establishment of the dynasty is resolute, not attached to the magnate, iron-faced selfless, and wise and decisive, dare to defend the people, so there are "Bao Qingtian" and "Bao Gong" names!
In the seventh year of Jiayou, Bao Zheng died at the age of sixty-four, posthumously presented the Rebbe Shangshu, the nickname "Xiao Su", after the death of Bao Gong, his life experience was adapted into a literary work, widely circulated in the folk, "Yuan Miscellaneous Drama" is to shape Bao Zheng into an omnipotent world and earth, "half-human and half-god" image.
To this day, the name of "Bao Qingtian" has long become synonymous with Gangzheng Bu'a, and film and television dramas about him have emerged in an endless stream, just as the so-called "Although Bao Gong has passed away, his name will remain forever"!
However, Bao Zheng, who was almost "sealed the gods", almost "died", what was going on?
Although Bao Zheng was in a high position, he only had "two wives and one concubine", and only after thirty years of age did he give birth to the eldest son Bao Sui with his wife Dong Shi, Bao Qi was intelligent from an early age, quite his father's demeanor, when he was nineteen years old, he married the Cui clan of Huaiyang and gave birth to a son Bao Wenfu, who was later appreciated by Zhao Zhen of Emperor Renzong of Song and was given the title of Taizhu of Taichang Temple.
However, Bao Qi's "blessings are shallow", he has died of illness before he took office, and after a few years, Bao Qi's son, Bao Wenfu, who was only five years old, also unfortunately died, and even lost his eldest son and eldest grandson, Bao Zheng and his wife were in pain, and they almost wanted to go with them!
After the deaths of Bao Qi and Bao Wenfu, although the Bao family still had two daughters, by the standards of feudal society, women could not be counted as "descendants", so Bao Zheng was already "a queen"!
A generation of famous courtiers, surprisingly "no queen", this is a "great filial piety" behavior, even if it is Bao Zheng, he is also grumpy about it! When Bao Zheng celebrated his sixtieth birthday, in the face of the guests who came to celebrate the joy, he couldn't help but feel sad from the heart, lamenting that he had been clean all his life, but he fell into a fate that had no future, and when he heard Bao Gong's words, everyone present had sorrow!
When the hall was silent, Bao Zheng's daughter-in-law Cui Shi, the wife of the late Bao Qi, suddenly knelt down, "You actually have a son!"! Hearing this, the whole hall was shocked, and even Bao Zheng was "the second monk, I can't feel my head."
Where did a son "emerge" from?
As we have mentioned before, Bao Zheng's second wife and one concubine in his lifetime, and his concubine Sun Shi was originally the bao family's envoy, and it was only under the arrangement of Bao Zheng's wife Dong shi that he married into the Bao family.
However, soon after the marriage of the two, the Sun clan was sent back to her mother's house for angering Bao Zheng, when the Sun clan was pregnant, and the only person who knew about it was Bao Zhi's wife Cui Shi, so cui often concealed Bao Zheng and his wife to help the Sun clan.
Sun Shi was pregnant in October and gave birth to a son, Cui Shi put him into the palace, carefully raised, but did not know the meaning of Bao Zheng, so he did not dare to tell the truth to Bao Zheng, until Bao Zheng's sixtieth birthday, for the "absolute queen" thing is difficult to let go, Sun Shi took the opportunity to say that Bao Zheng still has a son alive, hearing about this, Bao Zheng and his wife can not help but be overjoyed, busy cui clan to bring the young son, named bao Zhen!
In the seventh year of Jiayou, Bao Gong died, song Renzong personally went to the Lingtang to mourn, saw Bao Qi, who was only five years old, kneeling on the ground, coarse cloth and linen clothes, and then saw that Bao Gong's home was extremely simple, which was extremely inconsistent with his identity, and he could not help but be sad from his heart, rewarding a large amount of gold and silver treasures, and sealing Bao Qi as Taizhu of Taichang Temple.
When Bao Shou was a little older, Cui Shi gave him the scientific name Bao Shou, visited famous teachers to teach him to read and hyphenate, under cui's education, Bao Shou aspired to become a "peerless Qing official" like Bao Zheng from a young age, vowing to "stay innocent in the world", and when he grew up, Bao Shou really lived up to expectations, and successively served as the judge of the Haozhou Regiment, the Seven Pin Xuanyi Lang and other positions.
During his term of office, he worked diligently, was just and honest, asked for the people's lives, was known as a virtuous name, Chongning for four years, Bao Shou was transferred to Tanzhou Tongju, on the way to the post, he was seriously ill and unfortunately died, only forty-seven years old, when his family sorted out his relics, he found that there was only the official seal in his package, and there was no property at all, and it was rare to be honest to this point!
brief summary:
Bao Gong was able to leave a descendant, daughter-in-law Cui Shi was indispensable, Bao Qi and Cui Shi died tragically in the second year after marriage, leaving the young Cui Clan, Bao Gong and his wife have always been enlightened, and strongly advocated cui to remarry, but Cui Shi insisted on refusing, kneeling and crying bitterly: "Father-in-law is a person who is admired by the world, I can serve Weng Gu on behalf of her husband, and my heart is satisfied."
Later, Cui Shi did not marry for the rest of his life, carefully served his in-laws, and even kept Bao Gong's only young son, so that Bao Gong did not become a "queen" of great filial piety!
After Bao Gong's death, his wife Dong Shi was old, and it was Cui Who raised Bao Shou, who was only five years old, to teach him to read and hyphenate, and to teach him the principle of being a man, making Bao Shou a clean official like his father!
The Cui clan was the Bao family for twenty years, can be called the Bao family's "great hero", during the reign of Emperor Zhezong, the imperial court decreed that the Cui clan be crowned yongjia junjun, and the edict of commendation was personally written by Su Dongpo, the great scholar at that time, and was included in the "Complete Works of Dongpo, so the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, Bao Zhengnan's wife Cui Clan, sealed the Yongjia County Monarchy".
References: Mencius Li Lou Shang, History of the Song Dynasty
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