The historical origin of the "Shao Zhang family" in the Zhoukou area
The morning wind
Huaiyang District Cai River sightseeing along the river with a small temple, is a memorial temple, named "General Temple", was built in honor of General Zhang Long.
Zhang Long was the Marquis of Fengxiang, a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty, and a native of Haozhou (濠州, in modern Fengyang, Anhui), Jiangsu and Zhejiang Provinces. According to the "Biography of Zhang Long" in the Ming Dynasty, it can be seen that Zhang Long, a native of Haozhou, followed Zhu Yuanzhang in his early years to capture Changzhou, Ningguo, Wuzhou, Jiangzhou, and Wuchang, and gave thousands of households to flower guns. After capturing Huaidong, he guarded Hai'an. Later, he engaged Zhang Shicheng in Haikou and captured Marshal Peng alive. After that, he attacked Tongzhou and was promoted to the command of WeiwuWei. After that, it entered Shandong and Henan. Hongwu transferred fengxiang to fengxiang for three years and changed his command to Fengxiang wei. He Zongzhe besieged the city and was unable to capture Fengxiang. After that, he attacked Fengzhou, followed Xu Da into Chuzhou and Xingyuan, recruited the defender Liu Sizhong, and repelled Wu Youren's attack. After that, he followed Li Wenzhong in attacking Taozhou. In November of the twelfth year of Hongwu, he was enfeoffed as the Marquis of Fengxiang and given iron coupons. After that, he followed Fu Youde to conquer Yunnan and attack Dali and Heqing. After that, he followed Feng Sheng out of Jinshan, recruited Naha out, and later joined Tang Shengzong in Pingyue, Zhenyuan, and Tuntian, Guizhou. Since then, they have all been in turmoil, and their auxiliary blue jade has been pacified. Later, after filing a complaint with an old illness, Hongwu died thirty years ago. What needs to be known is that his son Zhang Lin was made a lieutenant on March 17 of the eighteenth year of Hongwu (1385 AD), and was elected Princess Fuqing, the eighth daughter of Zhu Yuanzhang.
Judging from the historical data, Zhang Long was definitely a famous general in the early Ming Dynasty, so why did Zhang Xiaomiao in the land of Huaiyang have his memorial ancestral hall? This has to start from the "Shao Zhang family" circulating in Huaiyang.
The so-called "Shao Zhang family" means that in the Huaiyang area, the Shao surname and the Zhang surname share a common ancestor. Their famous ancestors can be traced back to Marshal Shao Rong, a famous rebel general in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. Shao Rong(?) –1362) was a famous general of the Red Turban Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, who first raised troops from Guo Zi in Haozhou. After Guo's death, he crossed the Yangtze River from Zhu Yuanzhang to establish a revolutionary base area centered on Yingtian (present-day Nanjing). In the sixteenth year of Zhengzheng (1356), Zhu Yuanzhang accepted the canonization of King Xiaoming and served as the governor of Zhongshu Province in Jiangnan and other places. In May of the nineteenth year of Zhengzheng, King Xiaoming promoted Zhu Yuanzhang to the post of Yi Tong Sansi Jiangnan and other officials in Zhongshu Province, and The post of Pingzhang was replaced by Shao Rong. Some history books also pointed out that Shao Rong was already a pingzhang before, that is, Zhu and Shao were once of equal rank. Shao Rong's meritorious service is prominent, and the Biography of Ming Shi Chang Yu Chun says, "First, the most important general appointed by Taizu, Pingzhang Shao Rong, Right Cheng Xu Da and Yu Chun were the third. But Shao Rong was not willing to be subordinate to Zhu Yuanzhang. In 1362, when he returned to Yingtian after quelling the rebellion in Chuzhou, he and another general, Zhao Jizu, launched a coup d'état to overthrow Zhu Yuanzhang. As a result, the news leaked, but was captured by Zhu Yuanzhang, and finally Shao Rong and others were killed. Six years later, in 1368, the Ming Dynasty was established.
The Shao Rong Incident in zhu Yuanzhang's Red Army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty has always been avoided by official and private records. As evidenced by the Records of Ming Taizu and the recent publication of Yu Ben's Chronicle, Shao Rong was an important figure in the Red Army in Jiangnan second only to Zhu Yuanzhang for a long time before he was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang. It can be proved by comparing the "Zhizheng Jinling New Chronicle" with the "Record of Facts" and the "Chronicle" that the failure of the two attacks of the Red Army after crossing the river and the death of the main general were actually the result of Zhu Yuanzhang conspiring with the Yuan Dynasty generals to eliminate their superiors, and Shao Rong and others inherited the remnants of the former Red Army generals, posing a threat to Zhu Yuanzhang's position. Comparing the "Deeds of the Beginning of the State" by Liu Chen, a revisionist in the "Records of the True Record", it can be proved that Zhu Yuanzhang, when the Red Army suffered heavy losses, plotted to stimulate the rebellion at all costs and eliminated the challenges from within. Eradicating the Red Army's superiors, killing Guo's descendants, and inducing the Shao Rong rebellion can be described as the precursor and source of Zhu Yuanzhang's "national policy" of slaughtering heroes and exchanging efficiency for order during the Hongwu period.
Looking at the historical data, it can be known that the "Shao Zhang family" came to the ancestor Shao Rong's son, Shao Rong's adults, had eight sons, and the youngest son, Shao Zuo, was only twelve years old when Shao Rong was killed. After Shao Rong's death, three of his sons escaped from Jinling (present-day Nanjing) under the protection of Lord Zhang, and after thirteen years in Hongwu, fled to Chen Prefecture in the Central Plains, in present-day Huaiyang, Henan. During the escape, one son died of deer touching the deer, and the other son returned to his hometown in Nanjing to visit and did not return, leaving only Shao Si to settle in Chenzhou. Because of the imperial court's order, the fields in Henan, Shandong, the people could reclaim at will, so when Shao Si arrived in Chenzhou, he "lived in Zhang Xiaomiao" and was buried in Zhang Xiaomiao on the west bank of the Cai River today. This historical record is recorded in huaiyang's 1986 revision of the "(Shao) Zhang Family Genealogy", which is recorded in the five years of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty and the family tree in the second year of Xuan unification.
Shao Si later had two sons, divided into Shao and Zhang Ermen, because of the gratitude for lord Zhang's life-saving grace, one door changed its surname to Zhang, this branch of the Zhangmen family was called "Shao Zhang", to show that the ancestral origin is different from other Zhang clans, Shaomen later moved to Zhoukou North Shaozhai "residence" to this day, is for the old second gate. Later, Shao and Zhang began to multiply and live in the local Xiangcheng, Yancheng, Huaiyang, Xihua, Zhoukou and other places, and there are records of moving to the branches of Qishan in this province, which is the basic origin of the historical origin of the "Shao Zhang family" in Huaiyang. And the "Lord Zhang" mentioned repeatedly above is Zhang Long, the Marquis of Fengxiang.
Zhang Xiaomiao's "General Temple" was built by Shao Si in honor of the life-saving benefactor Zhang Long, and the village was originally called "General Temple", because it was adjacent to the Taihao Tomb, which is of course a "big temple" in the folk, in order to distinguish, the folk called the "General Temple" "Zhang Xiaomiao", which is also the origin of the name of today's "Zhang Xiaomiao" village.
The General Temple and the Tomb of Shao Si are both the original cultural attractions of the Cai River Sightseeing Scenic Belt, but they have been ignored because of the rich cultural resources of Huaiyang, and the currently known along the Cai River lacks the layout of humanistic points. The General Temple and Shao Si Tomb can be slightly transformed into cultural points in the landscape belt. For example, the ancestral hall of the "Shao Zhang family" can be established to display the genealogy and historical evolution process, so as to attract shao Zhang's descendants to come to sacrifice regularly; the "general temple" commemorating General Zhang Long can be rebuilt to publicize the "loyalty and filial piety" and "gratitude" culture; the tomb of Shao Si, which has a history of more than 600 years, can be renovated to study the surname culture of the "Shao Zhang family" as part of the study of the surname culture in Huaiyang. Of course, if you hire a professional planner, there will be more humanistic point layout.
The idea of the General Temple and the Tomb of Shao Si as a sightseeing scenic belt for the Cai River is well founded. In Zhoukou Yinghe Park, there is a tomb of Chen Biao, which was a desolate grave before it was developed, and now it has become the only bright spot with cultural elements and garden value in Wanmu Yinghe Park. Huaiyang's General Temple and Shao Si Tomb are also in the scenic planning area, it is suggested that the government can learn from the construction mode of Chen Biao's tomb in Yinghe Park, retain and improve the General Temple and Shao Si Tomb, and also add new cultural landscapes to our Huaiyang scenic spot.
Huaiyang is the birthplace of Chinese surname culture and an important tourist destination for Chinese surname root-seeking culture. Over the years, governments at all levels and all sectors of society have done a lot of work, such as successfully holding the Chinese surname cultural festival and investing heavily in the construction of the Chen Hu Gong Cemetery, the ancestor of the Chen surname. However, Huaiyang District's tourism resources on surname culture are still slightly thin. It was also learned that recently, Shao Bo, a scholar of Shao Zhang surname culture, clarified the origin of general Zhang Long's temple and Shao Si's tomb from a vast sea of historical materials. And through tens of thousands of miles of pursuit, based on historical materials, the story of the loyalty of the Shao and Zhang families in the early Ming Dynasty was presented to future generations. Shao Si inherited the heir of General Zhang Long as the eldest son, and the second son inherited the Shao incense. The historical story of Shao Zhang's two surnames and the inheritance of loyalty and righteousness has been passed down to this day, which is of great educational significance.
It should be noted that Shao Si was Shao Rong's eldest son and a general. When he was young, he accompanied his father to conquest for many years, died nine times, and in the eighteenth year of Ke Yixing, at the beginning of the nineteenth year, he broke Zhang Shicheng and fought in Yuhang. In the twenty-second year, the rebellion of the Miao army in Quding Prefecture was greatly defeated. After Shao Rong was martyred, the family was convicted, and Because Shao Si was an adult, he was transferred to Zhang Long' men, who had been a former personal guard of Zhu Yuanzhang's account, to fight everywhere, and Zhang Long's general was Shao Rong's former friend. In the thirteenth year of Hongwu, the imperial court was in chaos and the people were panicked, and Zhang Long protected the three brothers of Shao Si from Jinling Yingtianfu to flee into the Central Plains.
Today, the Shao and Zhang clans have been branching and scattering in the Huaiyang region for more than 600 years, and their descendants have spread all over the country, and according to preliminary statistics, the clan has reached hundreds of thousands of people. In the construction of the Cai River Theme Park, if the General Temple and the Tomb of Shao Si can be repaired and protected, it will be the highlight of Huaiyang's excavation of surname culture and protection of historical sites. At the same time, it also leaves a good place for future generations to mourn the deceased and remember the ancestors.