Shandong is a province with a large population, with 37.78 million people in Guangxu in 24 years. Interestingly, there was a Qing dynasty, from 1646 (the third year of Shunzhi) to open the branch to 1905 (Guangxu thirty-one years) the last examination,
In 259 years, Shandong has only produced six champions in three regions
, pitifully little.
The six people are:
Liaocheng: Fu Yixian and Deng Zhongyue; Jining: Sun Rujin, Sun Yugui; Weixian: Cao Hongxun, Wang Shoupeng.
Among them, Fu Yizhi was the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Wang Shoupeng was the last champion in Shandong in 1903 (the twenty-ninth year of Guangxu).
Wang Shoupeng (1873–1929), courtesy name Jiān, was a native of Weixian County (present-day Weifang), Shandong. His name is imposing—
"Shou Peng" means Shou Qi Peng Zu; "篯" is Peng Zu's surname, "Sub-Peng", that is, second only to Peng Zu.
In the end, I want to live as long as the eight-hundred-year-old Pengzu. Let's take a look at the life of this yuan who wants to live longer than Pengzu.
First, a good stroke of writing must be lifted
Like many students from the cold door, Wang Shoupeng's family was poor when he was young, and he could not mix in his hometown, so he ran to Jinan to beg for a living. There happens to be a call
Zhu Meng
The alternate prefect of Henan wanted to ask Mr. Shushu, and Wang Shoupeng applied for the job. In addition to teaching, I will review and prepare for the exam, and at the same time, I will try to practice the Taige script for the exam.
Pavilion body
It is a kind of book style popular in the official field in the Ming Dynasty, which is smooth, square, and consistent in size. Because Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Chengzu Zhu Di liked this font, when the early Ming Dynasty opened the branch to take scholars, the disciples all used this kind of letter to answer the questionnaire. If the writing is not good, even if it is really learned, it may be lost to Sun Shan.
In 1902, Wang Shoupeng took the township examination with great enthusiasm. examiner
Xu Jichun
When I read Wang Shoupeng's scroll, I found that it was commonplace, and I didn't want to recommend it to the main and deputy main examinations, but I found that he wrote really well, so I hesitated.
The examiner who read the papers together looked at the papers and suggested to Xu Jichun: "Although this person's article is ordinary, it has a good handwriting, which is the most suitable for the imperial examination of the temple examination, and if he passes the township examination, there will definitely be hope for entering Hanlin." Dude might as well fulfill him, and will also be one of your protégés in the future, right? Hearing this, Xu Jichun no longer hesitated, and pushed Wang Shoupeng's scroll up, and Wang Shoupeng won the 35th place.
Second, a good name to help the middle of the yuan
The second year (1903) was the year of the Guangxu Emperor, coinciding with the 30th birthday of the Guangxu Emperor, and the imperial court opened the Enke, plus the examination that should be held, and the two sections were carried out at the same time. There were 306 people who participated in this examination, and Wang Shoupeng was the 37th gongshi.
An interesting thing happened after the test.
There is a Hubei examinee who is in the same subject as Wang Shoupeng, called
Wang Baoqing
。 He only won the 239th Gongshi in this test, which was much worse than Wang Shoupeng. One day, Wang Baoqing faintly heard in his sleep that the temple had opened the list, and he also heard the sound of gongs and drums in the distance. He looked up and saw that there were three words written on the hat, the first word was "King", the third word was "Shou", and the middle one was not clear.
After waking up, the more Wang Baoqing thought about it, the stranger it became, and in order to fulfill it, he requested to change his name to "" before the exam.
Wang Shou
“。
On May 24, 1903, the temple examination was carried out as scheduled. We don't know how Wang Shoupeng's volume was written, but his name made the reader's eyes light up. Because in another year it will be the seventieth birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi, if you name a gongshi with Fulu Shouxi as the champion, the empress dowager will definitely be happy. And this Wang Shoupeng's name implies auspiciousness and implies the meaning of the Son of Heaven for ten thousand years, is this not exactly what it means?
For the admission of Wang Shoupeng, Guangxu naturally did not oppose it.
Sure enough, as soon as he saw the three words "Wang Shoupeng", Cixi Longyan was overjoyed, and with a wave of his big hand, he was named a champion. So, this poor scholar was lucky because of his name and became a champion.
On the day of the list, Wang Baoqing was also eager to know the result. When he saw that the first place in the first division was Wang Shoupeng, he was very surprised - only a word difference! How can there be such a coincidence? Probably the name change really played a role, although it was not in the middle, Wang Baoqing was also ranked second, not bad.
3. From Hubei to secretary of the Presidential Office
In 1910 (the second year of Xuan reunification), Wang Shoupeng was actually awarded the post of Hubei Tixue Envoy. The envoy is equivalent to the director of the Department of Education, and is the title of the third grade. Before going to Hubei to take office, he returned to his hometown and visited guests everywhere. When passing through Jinan, Zhu Meng, the alternate prefect who had originally asked him to teach, took his son to meet him and took Wang Shoupeng to his home for many days.
In 1905, Wang Shoupeng went to Japan for an inspection and wrote according to what he had seen and heard
"Investigation Record"
It records the current state of politics, industry, and education in Japan. He also founded
Two Lakes Normal School
Vigorously cultivate educational talents. During the period when he was concurrently in charge of the Hubei Chengcheng Political Envoy Department (equivalent to the chief executive of Hubei Province), Wang Shoupeng created a budget system that allowed education funds to be earmarked, which was the first of its kind in the country.
During Yuan Shikai's reign, he heard that Wang Shoupeng was a former Qing Dynasty official, so he was transferred to serve as the secretary of the Presidential Office. Later, the president of the Republic of China changed frequently, and he remained in the position of secretary for many years.
4. Served as the president of Shandong University
Having been a secretary for many years without any trouble, Wang Shoupeng was very distressed and felt that in the new government, he would never have a head start again. But the identity of the champion once again helped him.
In 1925,
Zhang Zongchang
As the chairman of Shandong Province, he wanted to find someone to serve as the director of the Department of Education, but he could not find a suitable one, which made this "dog meat general" very angry. Left and right suggested that in addition to the Qufu Kong Sage Family, the only one who could do it was Wang Zhuangyuan of Weixian County. Zhang Zongchang heard the great joy and immediately sent someone to invite Wang Shoupeng to serve as the director of the Department of Education.
In 1926, Zhang Zongchang established Shandong University and hired Wang Shoupeng as its first president.
However, the former director of the Department of Education had too old and conservative concept of education, he did not understand new learning, and asked all the teachers and students of the school to wear robes and horses gowns at the opening ceremony and Confucius's birthday, and bow down to the throne of Confucius; he also invited the former Qing Dynasty's juren and Hanlin as teachers. Similar conservative measures have caused teachers and students to complain, and they have jointly petitioned the principal to resign. In desperation, in June 1927, Wang Shou was forced to submit his resignation.
Although pedantic, Wang Shoupeng in his life is an approachable elder, who once wrote a couplet in his own handwriting, gave it to Ji Xianlin, a high school student who won the first place in the shandong university attached high school examination, and also inscribed a fan for him, recording the poems of the Qing Dynasty poet Li Yan on it:
"At the beginning of the month, the host was like a monk to the guest. Spring is expected to be a flower date, and it is advisable to ask for a tree book when poor. “
At the end of the fan, Wang Shoupeng drops the following:
"Old Brother Xianlin, Wang Shoupeng."
Mr. Ji Xianlin
At that time, Ji Xianlin was only 16 years old, and Wang Shoupeng, as the director of the Department of Education and the president of the university, was so humble to his juniors that you can imagine how much he touched Xiao Ji Xianlin. Soon, Ji Xianlin began to publish literary works in newspapers, embarked on the road of literature and art, and eventually became a generation of masters.
Fifth, exiled to a foreign land, the end is bleak
In April 1928, the Northern Expeditionary Army captured Jinan, drove away Zhang Zongchang, and ordered the arrest of the remaining evildoers, with Wang Shoupeng impressively listed. Wang Shoupeng and his family fled to Dalian in a hurry. Fortunately, when He was the director of the department, Wang Shoupeng still had seven or eight thousand yuan in savings, and he deposited the money in the Japan Zhengjin Bank, took interest regularly, and barely survived.
In the summer of 1929, Wang Shoupeng was preparing to move his family to Tianjin, and when he went to the bank to withdraw money, the bank gave him a military ticket issued by Zhang Zongchang in Shandong! Obviously, military tickets at this time have become waste paper.
Wang Shoupeng was very angry. After returning home, the more he thought about it, the more sad he became, and he was about to hang himself when he unbuckled his belt, but fortunately he was found and saved by his family in time. The family went to the bank many times to negotiate, and the bank was afraid of losing his life, so he even said that it was a misunderstanding, and returned the deposit to the Wang family.
On the twenty-third day of the 23rd lunar month of that year, on the day of the northern folk sacrifice stove, Wang Shoupeng had a heart attack and died at the age of 56.
6. Summary
If you want to live with Peng Zu's last generation, you will not give a year off. He was well cared for by God all his life, but in his later years he seemed to have been forgotten, and he no longer had the style of the past.
After Wang Shoupeng's death, Wang Baoqing, who changed his name to Wang Shou, was very sad and sent a deputy lian, which was a summary of Wang Shoupeng's life:
Dream of the world He Yin, Dengke brocade, famous puppets from the same, so far spread throughout Chang'an, alone with a small crown Qi Du Ye;
Floating raw original if sent, to be in the final decoration, Jun turned first, if the inscription has a way, the sky left a straight pen lin zong.
Wang Shoupeng calligraphy
Although Wang Shoupeng was not a great man, he had also been a high-ranking official and had accomplished some things. From ancient times to the present, like him who has been lucky by name for a lifetime, it seems that there are not many in detail. As for his bumpy old age, it was caused by his own conformism and inability to change.
Lü Mengzheng, the chancellor and chancellor of the Northern Song Dynasty, once sighed:
"Humanity is precious to me, not my ability, but also time, luck, and fate."
For Wang Shoupeng, it is
"Shi also, name also, luck also."
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Wang Shoupeng is not very famous, but the calligraphy is quite famous, and people often take pride in his ink treasure, and the first plaque of Shandong University was written by him, but it can no longer be found.
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