There is a family in China whose title has been inherited for 880 years, and they have used each other with the imperial court to become a special duke who has endured for a long time in the history of our country, has flourished for generations, and has a prominent status, and has achieved the reputation of "the first family in the world". This title is the hereditary "Yan Sheng Gong" of the Kong clan of Qufu.
In the twelfth year of Han Gaozu, the emperor crowned Kong Teng, the 8th grandson of Confucius, as a consecrated monarch. Since then, the descendants of Confucius have had hereditary titles, and the Kong clan has been honored for their ancestors. In the following thousand years, the title of the Kong clan changed repeatedly, until the song solstice and the second year. In 1055, Emperor Renzong of Song changed Kong's title to "Yan Sheng Gong", which was of high rank but contained sufficient gold. Compared with the previous titles of Praise, Praise, Sect, and Fengsheng, "Yan" means "the continuous reproduction of the holy lineage, the reproduction of generations, and the endless", representing the highest realm of the feudal monarch's respect for Kong.
After the title of "Yan Sheng Gong" came out, the Jurchens and Mongols competed to steal it and borrow it to win people's hearts. At the end of the 12th century, the Song, Jin, and Yuan regimes all had "YanshengGong", each in Quzhou, Kaifeng, and Qufu. In the 13th century, after the Yuan Dynasty unified the territory of China, the Mongol rulers tried to bribe Kong Su, the Shenggong of Song Yan, but Kong Su used Confucian wisdom to refuse. At the beginning of the 14th century, Emperor Yuanrenzong restored the title of "Duke of Yansheng" by the eldest grandson of the Confucius clan of Qufu, stipulating that only descendants of Confucius's concubines could have this title. The Ming and Qing dynasties still used this title.
Successive kings have respected the "Holy Fathers" and given them privileges. The Song Dynasty was equivalent to the Eight Pin Officials, the Yuan Dynasty was promoted to the Rank of Three Pins, the Early Ming Dynasty was a One Pin Civilian Official, and later "the first of the class civil officials". In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor even authorized the "Yan Sheng Gong" to ride horses in the Forbidden City and walk on the imperial road. You know, at that time, except for the emperor, empress, empress dowager, and emperor Taishang, when they arrived at the Forbidden City, they did not have to get off their horses and get off the car, and they could take the royal road. The others all dismounted and were not allowed to take the imperial road, which was enough to show the importance the emperor attached to them. In addition, the Yansheng Gongfu where he lived was the largest mansion in the country after the Ming and Qing Imperial Palaces.
Why was it that the "Yan Sheng Gong" was later nailed to the pillar of shame of history, the glory was no longer there, and this title was revoked in the twenty-fourth year of the Republic of China? Everything is the fault of the Kong clan people in the last century.
In 1935, Tokyo set off a "zun kong" wind, and activities such as Confucian congresses, tributes to Confucius, and confucius temples were in full swing. Japan even issued an invitation to Kong Decheng, the last Yan Shenggong in Qufu, hoping that he would come to Japan to participate in the inauguration ceremony of the Confucius Temple, and also sent Toihara to pick him up personally. Kong Decheng was unable to go due to illness, but wrote a poem: "Yu Illness failed to extend the state guest, and the clouds gathered in the wind and the wind." The rivers and rivers and rivers are flowing together, and the situation is that the same continent is different", which means that China and Japan have the same language and the same species, which is a typical "pro-Japanese behavior." ”
In addition, on the eve of the fall of Qufu, Kong Decheng was sent to Wuhan, and Kong Lingyu remained in Qufu. However, after the fall of Qufu, Kong Lingyu immediately invited the leaders of the Japanese invasion of China, Suchaku, Kubo, Okita, and others to strengthen "Sino-Japanese friendship." When commemorating the birth of Confucius, he also issued "Reviving Oriental Culture to Destroy Old Enemies Britain and the United States to Complete the Great East Asian Holy War", plus the third anniversary of the establishment of the Wang puppet regime, he specially congratulated, these acts are challenging the bottom line of the Chinese, so how can the Chinese people not hate?
Seventy-six generations of domestic slaves, twenty-five dynasty courtiers, this is the netizen's evaluation of the "derivative gong". In fact, in the years since the existence of the "derivative gong", it has not made any contribution to historical progress, but has been full of evil deeds. After hundreds of years of operation, Confucius has millions of land spanning five provinces. In order to preserve these family properties, the Confucius family chose to surrender to every person or force that might become the new ruler. This is also the most fundamental reason why they chose "pro-Japan" when the country was in trouble.