A person's pattern should not be confined to one or several things, and being loyal to one's own beliefs is the biggest pattern.
From ancient times to the present, everyone is looking for something they believe in.
Beliefs can be illusory or real. At different times, under the influence of different ideas and social conditions, different people have different beliefs.
The ancients knew very little about nature, so they achieved inner peace by inventing gods.
Some modern people have extremely high spiritual pursuits, and some choose to compromise in a materialistic world. Everyone is working on what they believe in in order to meet the most ideal standards.
For the things they believe in, everyone is willing to spend their life trying to be the ultimate and perfect.
Zhang Yu, who was born in Ninghai, Zhejiang Province, is such a person who is loyal to his faith, and his belief is the Qing Dynasty.
Zhang Yu dedicated his life to the Qing Dynasty, and he used his life's talent to build and perfect the imperial court he worshipped.
However, at that time, in the face of the dark and chaotic imperial court and the turbulent situation, Zhang Yu exhausted all his efforts and failed to save the Qing Dynasty that he most respected and admired, which also doomed Zhang Hao to the last, regrettable and sad ending.
Talented, learned educator
Zhang Is a famous scholar, educator and calligrapher in China. As a famous teacher of the late Qing Dynasty, he was a household name at that time.
From an early age, he learned the importance of reading under the guidance of his father, and his mother was a gentle and knowledgeable lady.
Under the education of his parents from childhood, Zhang Xi entered the private school early at the age of 6, studied eight shares at the age of 9, and from an early age, he was diligent and studious with his classmates who were older than himself, and he did not feel any pressure at all, coupled with his own talent, his literary attainments continued to appear.
At the age of 18, Zhang Yu won the xiucai exam in one fell swoop, and soon after, he received help from a nobleman and ascended to the rank of jinshi.
Little did he know at the time that this would determine his fate in the future.
In the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu, he proposed that knowledge was the most important skill, and he donated 18 ancestral old houses and several acres of thin fields as school property.
During the period of changing the law to save the country, Zhang Yu also tried many ways to awaken the people and save the Qing Dynasty.
So under his leadership, he has held other very important positions such as principal in many prestigious schools.
Zhang Yu is not only famous in education, he also occupies a place in the field of calligraphy, and some people have commented that Zhang Yi's calligraphy is a peak in the field of modern cursive. Mr. Sha Menghai called him "the first person to learn calligraphy and genealogy for more than a thousand years since the Tang Dynasty".
His calligraphy, in the modern calligraphy world, has also been widely praised and imitated, and the praise has never been extinguished.
However, Zhang Zhi, who was famous and admired by many people at that time, because he had always adhered to his unrealistic ideal dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, the Confucian thought that had been deeply rooted in his heart, and the eight strands of the Qing Dynasty... In the end, he was separated from his own flesh and blood, his feelings were estranged, and his later life and mental state were not very good, and he spent his old age alone and miserable.
The glorious family is divided from itself by its old-fashioned thinking
In fact, in the Zhang family, he is not the only one who has achieved something in history, and his descendants have pushed the Zhang family to a new height.
Zhang's son Zhang Yiwu inherited his ingenuity and was admitted to the Nankai School in Tianjin at the age of 16.
Subsequently, Zhang Yiwu did not choose to rely on the family, he relied on his own ability to mix into the celebrity circle of the financial and economic circles of the Republic of China.
When he was 17 years old, he fell in love with Zhu Qijun, the daughter of Zhu Qijun, and the two were married soon after.
Soon after, the two gave birth to their first son, Zhang Hongdao, a famous diplomat who later served as vice foreign minister of the People's Republic of China.
Through his hard work since childhood, coupled with his excellent talent of inheriting his father, Zhang Wenjin was favored by Premier Zhou Enlai and single-handedly cultivated as a famous diplomat in New China, becoming a pivotal figure in the history of modern diplomacy, and his reputation at home and abroad.
In this glorious family, Zhang Yiwu's daughter, Zhang Yibao, was also an important revolutionary figure during the Republic of China period, and his son-in-law held an important position in the Beiyang government and was a diplomatic adviser to the Beiyang government of the Republic of China.
And such a large family that should have endured and was admired by everyone, but because Zhang Yu's youngest son died of illness, he himself was also greatly hit, resulting in his own body falling down every day, but the disease of the body could not be cured.
At that time, his own descendants, because of their own position and belief, had always maintained a safe relationship with Zhang Pu, and from time to time denied Zhang Pu's thoughts and actions in person.
The difference between old and new concepts creates contradictions within the family. This series of changes made this old man who was originally in a storm and falter physically and mentally exhausted, but even so, he still loyally loyal to the Qing Dynasty he believed in.
Kill your relatives for the righteousness of your faith, and cast a remorseful look in old age
In the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Yibao joined the League under the influence and education of new cultural ideas. During the Xinhai Revolutionary Uprising, Zhang Yibao also actively participated in the reform.
When Zhang Yu knew that his daughter was constantly participating in the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty that he believed in, he did not know what to say for a while. On the one hand, he believed in the imperial court for a lifetime, and on the other hand, his own flesh and blood, Zhang Yu made a jaw-dropping choice.
He went to the police department with a picture of his daughter, told the police officer that she had committed the felony of reactionary rebellion, and demanded that the police officer immediately arrest the "fugitive criminal" and immediately prepare to be beheaded for public display!
Zhang's move is called "killing chickens to show monkeys", but what is shocking is that the chicken that Zhang Yu wants to kill is actually his own flesh and bones.
Fortunately, the police officer who received Zhang's report that day happened to be a member of the Communist Youth Revolution, so in the face of Zhang's lies, the police officer immediately recognized it and told the "wanted criminal" Zhang Yibao of the incident.
In the end, this matter was well solved by Zhang Yibao, who chose to let go of her father, and for this "old stubborn" Zhang Yibao said that she could understand her father's approach.
The imperial court, which has been enshrined for a lifetime, is not something they can change with one or two sentences.
In 1949, when China truly stood up in the world, his grandson Zhang Wenjin took his granddaughter-in-law and wore a People's Liberation Army uniform to visit Zhang.
At that time, Zhang Tuo, who was already frosted, had no energy to fight with his descendants with different opinions, and Zhang Tuo's eyes were full of remorse and regret at that time.
But we don't know whether he regretted that he did not obey his children's ideas at that time, or whether he regretted that he did not properly protect the Qing Dynasty of his faith.
Even if the children and descendants take good care of Zhang, Zhang Yu finally did not let go of his heart knot, and finally he was depressed.
epilogue
Zhang Yu dedicated his life to the Qing Dynasty.
Time is constantly moving forward, but he has never moved forward, "one son of heaven and one courtier", which is probably difficult for him to understand all his life.
In the change of old and new ideas, Zhang Xi still chose what he thought was "great righteousness" in his heart, and he was both respectable and sad.