introduction
"Zhuangzhi is hungry for meat, laughing and thirsting for the blood of the Huns." This is a poem in the Song Dynasty's famous anti-Jin general Yue Fei's "Manjiang Hong, Fury Rushing Crown", from which yue Fei's determination to resist the Jin kingdom can be seen, but such a famous general was finally killed by qin juniper, a traitorous minister in the DPRK.
For the story of Yue Fei and Qin Juniper, everyone must be clear, the Southern Song Dynasty traitor Qin Juniper killed Yue Fei. In order to commemorate Yue Fei and express their dislike for Qin Juniper, a traitorous courtier, later generations once built more than a thousand kneeling statues of Qin Juniper, and there are still seven remaining places. Qin Juniper's descendants expressed their opinions on this, saying that the ancestors had been kneeling Yue Fei for more than 800 years, and they should have knelt long ago! Now it was time to let Qin Juniper stand up and demand that the kneeling statue be removed.
Yue Fei and Qin Ju were both southern Song courtiers, and Yue Fei was ordered to resist Jin and led the Yue family army against the Jin army against Henan Haocheng, and Yue Fei led his generals to defeat the Jin army. Subsequently, Yue Fei took advantage of the victory to pursue, and recaptured Yingchang, Caizhou and other places in one go, killing countless Jin troops. Seeing that the Southern Song Dynasty would be able to resist Jin and regain the Central Plains that had fallen for many years, Yue Fei excitedly said to the soldiers: Directly attack the Huanglong Mansion and celebrate and drink with the soldiers. The Jin army lamented that it was easy to move the mountain, and it was more difficult to attack the Yue family army than pingshan.
Qin Ju, who was the prime minister at the time, was bent on making peace with the Jin people, and seeing that Yue Fei frequently sent good news, he regarded Yue Fei as an enemy. In order not to let Yue Fei succeed, Qin Ju encouraged Emperor Gaozong of Song to negotiate peace with the Jin people and persuaded Yue Fei to withdraw his troops. Emperor Gaozong of Song also ordered Yue Fei to withdraw his troops for various reasons, and seeing that the resistance to Jin was about to be victorious, the imperial court issued twelve gold medal orders to Yue Fei in one day, ordering Yue Fei to withdraw. Yue Fei sighed that ten years of hard work had been put into practice, and the reclaimed land would be wasted overnight, and it would be impossible for Jiangshan Sheji to think about recovery.
Kneeling statues of Qin Juniper and Wang
As soon as Yue Fei returned to Lin'an, he was framed by Qin Ju and others for plotting against him, and yue Fei was imprisoned in the Dali Temple, where he supervised Yushi's personal torture and forced Yue Fei to confess. In the eleventh year of Shaoxing, in the end, Qin Ju and others really could not find evidence of Yue Fei's rebellion, so they beheaded Yue Fei first and then played it on trumped-up charges, and Yue Fei's son was also framed to death.
When the people learned that Yue Fei, who had led the army to resist Jin and regain the rivers and mountains, was killed by Qin Juniper in this way, the people were indignant, but at that time, Qin Juniper was the prime minister of the dynasty, and people could only swallow this breath in their hearts. It was not until twenty years later, when Emperor Xiaozong of Song succeeded to the throne, that Yue Fei was rehabilitated. In order to commemorate Yue Fei's expression of anger toward Qin Juniper, hundreds of kneeling statues of Qin Juniper and his wife were established throughout the country.
It is said that during the Qianlong period, there was a great scholar surnamed Qin who passed the examination for the title, and when he traveled with friends to the West Lake, he knelt down to worship when he saw the statue of Yue Fei, and after seeing the kneeling statue of Qin Juniper, he said that as a descendant of Qin Juniper of the Song Dynasty, I was ashamed of my surname Qin in front of the tomb of my ancestors.
Among the only 7 remaining Qin Juniper kneeling statues, the most famous one is the Qin Juniper kneeling statue in front of Yue Fei's tomb in The QixiaLing of West Lake in Hangzhou, and the other is the Qin Juniper kneeling statue in Jiangxi. With the development of society, some people feel that the kneeling statue of Qin Juniper should be demolished.
The tomb of Yue Fei's mother
Qin Liang, a teacher who claimed to be the thirty-second grandson of Qin Juniper, once said emotionally in front of the tomb of his mother-in-law Yao shi in Jiujiang that he had never mentioned that he was a descendant of Qin Juniper, but when Qin Juniper framed Yue Fei, Yue Fei's mother had already died, and Qin Juniper and his mother-in-law did not have a grudge, and his ancestors knelt yue Fei for eight hundred years, which is understandable, because it was indeed Qin Juniper who killed Yue Fei's generation of loyalists, but the kneeling mother-in-law could not say eight hundred years.
According to records at the end of the last century, people built a kneeling statue of Qin Juniper in front of the tomb of his mother-in-law in Jiujiang, which is now a cultural protection building that cannot be demolished, and in the face of qin juniper's request for the removal of the kneeling statue, some people responded to the disaster that Qin Juniper brought ruin to the Yue family in that year, and the kneeling statue not only expressed Qin Juniper's repentance to Yue Fei, but also has important educational significance today, educating generations of people to have patriotic spirit.
epilogue
The kneeling statue of Qin Juniper is now mainly symbolic, and it reminds us not to forget the history of that year, to remember history, but also to learn lessons from history. In life, if you want to be a loyal servant like Yue Fei who is bent on serving the country and loving the country and loving the family, you must not learn from Qin Ju to frame others and do whatever it takes to achieve your goals.