In Chinese culture, there has always been a legend of the chivalrous guest who robbed the rich and helped the poor and supported justice. And do gangs that organize and call on people with lofty ideals really exist?
The turning point appeared on Chen Mou, an old farmer in Jiangxi, who implicated the hongmen, the largest mysterious gang in China and even the world, as he dug out a mysterious token from the land.
"Hongmen" originated from a secret gang organization "Tiandihui" at the end of the Ming Dynasty, which was a non-governmental organization under the banner of anti-Qing and restoration of the Ming Dynasty.
In Jin Yong's classic martial arts novel Lu Dingji, Wei Xiaobao's master Chen Jinnan is one of the most heroic figures in the book, and even has the reputation of "not seeing Chen Jinnan in his life, he is called a hero in vain".
The "Heaven and Earth Society" led by Chen Jinnan was just the name of Hongmen for a period of time. In the hands of Chen Jinnan, Hongmen was carried forward, and he was honored as the founder by Hongmen's disciples.
Folk history of Hongmen has been circulating for hundreds of years and is complex. In the torrent of the information age, those legends of the rivers and lakes have long been buried under the yellow sand of history, waiting for the excavation of people with connections.
A piece of rusty iron "token", the old farmer offered a sky-high price
In an ancient village in the remote mountains of Jiangxi. The villagers live a quaint life of working at sunrise and resting at sunset.
The ancestral house has been renovated for generations, and occasionally traces of ancient buildings can be seen in the corners of the eaves, giving the village a faint mysterious temperament.
The old farmer Chen Mou has lived on this land since he was a child like his father, and with the harvest of the solar terms, the cycle repeats, and his hair is becoming gray and thin.
Unexpectedly, in his later years, Chen dug out a "mysterious token" in the field, which actually implicated the largest mysterious organization in China and the earth-shattering secret of 500 boxes of gold and silver treasures.
On this day, Chen Mou went out with a hoe as usual, and when he was cultivating the land, he "clicked" and seemed to have touched something. Chen Mou opened it to see that it was just a rusty iron block, so he casually threw it aside, ready to take it home after sunset to sell scrap iron.
It was not until the cleaning up that Chen discovered that this scrap iron was actually a token style. Wipe away the rust on the surface, and the token is impressively engraved with the words "Heaven and Earth Society".
What exactly does the "Heaven and Earth Society" represent? What is the origin of this token? He didn't know. But there is no doubt that this is not an ordinary token, it is most likely a valuable antique, so it was quietly put away.
Chen first found a cultural relics dealer and carefully showed the token to the other party. The cultural relics dealer is just a small trader who usually sells copper coins, and has not sold real cultural relics.
But looking at the style of the iron plate and the text on it that has been somewhat blurred, the judgment should be this real thing. Although the value cannot be judged, there is still a great opportunity to make a windfall.
Under the shrewd gaze of the trafficker, Chen Mou also had his own abacus in his heart and opened a figure that was sky-high in the eyes of the other party. The traffickers flinched, and the two failed to negotiate and dispersed.
Subsequently, Chen quietly contacted a number of cultural relics dealers, but because the quotation was too high, no one dared to accept it.
The object was held in his hand for longer and longer, and Chen began to question himself. Maybe this thing was not very valuable in the first place, and I began to regret whether I was too greedy in the first place.
"Since you can't get riches through it, you can make a name for yourself." He also knew that it was wrong to hide cultural relics privately, and after thinking about it again, he gave the token to the village chief, who reported it.
Subsequently, the incident was left behind and a normal farming life was resumed.
Behind the token, China's most mysterious organization
On this day, a group of people suddenly came to the village in a big way, breaking the original calm of the village, and also indicating that they wanted to meet the people who had found the cultural relics, and Chen Mouzhan, who did not know the situation, received them with trepidation.
The other party claimed to be an expert in history and issued a reward of 500 yuan and a pennant to Chen.
That piece of scrap iron is indeed not simple, it is the token of the mysterious organization "Heaven and Earth Society" that ordered the world that year!
Experts said: "This token is very representative and is a very important cultural relic. We are here not only to give you awards, but also to do in-depth research on the discovery of tokens. ”
More and more villagers were watching, and with the deepening of exchanges, the true face of the "Heaven and Earth Society" gradually became clear in the eyes of the villagers.
"Heaven and Earth Society" is also known as "Hongmen". It is an underground secret organization in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which has a history of more than 400 years, longer than the reign of the Qing Dynasty.
The story of Hongmen should start from the Shaolin Yonghua Hall at the earliest. "The world's kung fu out of Shaolin, Shaolin Gong in Yonghua Hall", Shaolin Yonghua Hall has a very high status in all shaolin temples.
In the last years of the Ming Dynasty, Yonghuatang was surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army for supporting the Ming Dynasty. The escaped Shaolin Cai Dezhong, Fang Dahong and 5 other people secretly established an anti-Qing and Restoration Organization , the "Hongmen", at the foot of Shaomu Mountain.
From the very beginning of its founding, Hongmen established the will of the sect to oppose the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty and expel the Tartars.
Chen Jinnan in the wuxia novel "Deer Ding Ji" is not only the founder of the legendary Hongmen, but also a real character in history.
At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Chen Jinnan served as the general envoy of Dongning in the Southern Ming Dynasty, and has been engaged in anti-Qing and Restoration actions, and Hongmen has increasingly become a secret organization that caused headaches for the Qing Dynasty in his hands, the "Heaven and Earth Society".
During the Qianlong period, The Heaven and Earth Council was listed as an anti-Qing organization and strictly prohibited. The sensational "Heaven and Earth Society" seems to have disappeared overnight.
Hidden mystery, where to find more than 500 chests of gold traces?
The truth of the story of the Heaven and Earth Society is now unknown.
But a hundred years later, the token that Chen picked up confirmed the traces of the activities of the Heaven and Earth Society after it retreated.
With the deepening of the investigation work and subsequent research, experts speculated that after the Qing Dynasty launched a siege and suppression of the Tiandihui organization, many people could only hide their names and scatter them all over the rivers and lakes.
The simplicity of this small village, coupled with its remote and isolated location, has become an important foothold of the Heaven and Earth Society.
With the help of the villagers, the researchers soon discovered something unusual about the village. It turned out that from above, overlooking this small mountain village, there was actually a large-scale ship-shaped building.
The hull sits west and faces east, in line with the direction of the valley. The building was long empty and looked somewhat dilapidated. However, the magnificent appearance still silently shows the "master's" wealth.
What does this building have to do with Hongmen?
After careful investigation, in the hall at the stern of the ship, the crowd found a rudder-shaped door and window, which seemed to metaphorically mean that this was where the general rudder of the Heaven and Earth Society was located.
As the investigation deepened, experts found clues from a "Huang Family Tree".
According to the data, these houses were built by a wealthy merchant surnamed Huang in the Qing Dynasty, and a total of 108 houses were built.
But the villagers who live here all year round can only have 107 bookcases, and the one that can't be found is very likely to hide the huge wealth of the Heaven and Earth Society- 500 boxes of gold and silver jewelry. If it can be found, it will be a discovery that shocks the world!
After expending a lot of manpower and material resources, the rumored 108th Chamber of Secrets has never been clueless. The Panel of Experts could only return in vain.
As for whether the magical 108th chamber really contained 500 boxes of gold and silver jewelry, we have no way of knowing.
In the future, we need to continue to explore.
Jianghu mythology, the follow-up development of the Hong Gang
In fact, the inheritance of Hongmen was not interrupted during the "Heaven and Earth Society" period.
Although the purpose of the "anti-Qing and restoration" sect is impossible to achieve. But Hongmen always has the great righteousness of the Chinese nation in mind
。 In China's modern history, from the Taiping Rebellion, the Boxer Rebellion to the Xinhai Revolution, almost all important revolutionary activities can be found behind the Hongmen pushing the waves.
With the evolution of current events, Hongmen's children have long been all over the world.
It is worth mentioning that among overseas Chinese, there are often more Hongmen disciples. In 1841, singapore's Hongmen had about 10,000 members, and ten years later it grew to 20,000, while the total number of overseas Chinese in Singapore at that time was only 27,000.
In the middle of the 19th century, a large number of Chinese people fled to the United States for various reasons, and the Hongmen Organization also opened a church in the United States.
The Hongmen Organization in San Francisco belonged to the Hongmen Branch Three Points Association, which was later renamed Zhigongtang and is the predecessor of the current Democratic Party of China, the "China Zhigong Party."
Dr. Sun Yat-sen joined the Hongmen ZhigongTang in Honolulu in 1904, becoming the third chair in the Hongmen, serving as a senior military officer in charge of discipline, and the disciples of the Hong Gang at that time called him Brother Sun.
Later, he also went to the United States as Hongmen to carry out revolutionary activities.
Sun Yat-sen and Hongmen
In addition to the Zhigongtang, Hongmen also has another important tangkou in the Americas, "Anliangtang", and the founder is the famous Old Mr. Situ Meitang.
From the September 18 Incident to the outbreak of the All-out War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, many overseas Chinese launched a series of anti-Japanese national salvation movements under the leadership of Situ Meitang.
The "New York Overseas Chinese Anti-Japanese National Salvation Fund-raising Association" established by Situ Meitang has donated a total of 3.3 million yuan to China's anti-Japanese cause in 8 years, which is the most donated non-governmental organization at that time.
Overseas Chinese raise funds to save the country
Chiang Kai-shek and his wife had great respect for Situ Meitang and invited him to serve as an important member of the State Council.
However, after witnessing the corruption within the Kuomintang and the hardships of the people in the rear areas, Situ Meitang was deeply disappointed and declined Chiang Kai-shek's invitation.
Around 1948, Situ Meitang publicly issued a statement: Supporting the Chinese Communist Party in forming a people's democratic government. When he returned to his homeland, he was warmly received by Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai.
On October 1 of the following year, the 81-year-old Situ Meitang participated in the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China as a member of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, a member of the Central People's Government and a member of the Central Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee, witnessing the formal establishment of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China.
Second from the right: Situ Meitang
Hongmen still exists in China today
On July 22, 2019, an impassioned article denouncing Hong Kong independence elements aroused widespread concern among netizens.
The media confirmed that this article was published by the China Zhi Gong Party.
The Zhi Gong Dang said on its official website: Adhering to the one-China stand will also use the strength of the whole party to bet on the work of national reunification and rejuvenation.
Tracing back to the past, Hongmen's patriotic feelings and chivalrous responsibilities have never changed.
epilogue:
No matter where the wheels of history go. The existence of "Hongmen" can reflect a real social situation: the common people support each other, resist class oppression, and shoulder the Chinese national spirit of national independence and the rise and fall of the country. Such a spiritual core is of great significance to the study of the history of the Chinese nation.
Therefore, the in-depth study of the history of Hongmen is of great significance, and the emergence of the mysterious token undoubtedly promotes us to further understand the true existence of the Heaven and Earth Society.