In the history of the Tang Dynasty, there are many talents, and many celebrities are still talked about today, such as Han Yu. As we all know, Han Yu was a Tang Dynasty official, writer and calligrapher, so modern experts are also very interested in Han Yu's descendants, and they have found through research that Han Yu's descendants never married a woman of the Zheng family. If you also want to know, the following Xiaobian will reveal it to you.
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According to historical records, Han Yu was a member of the Heyang (present-day Mengzhou, Henan) clan, and although he was born into a family of eunuchs, the family of Han Yu's father had already fallen. When Han Yu was three years old, both of his parents died prematurely, and he was raised by his elder brother, so he spent his childhood in misery. During the first year of Tang Zhen's reign, Han Yu unfortunately failed to take the imperial examination three times, and it was not until the fourth time that he reluctantly passed the jinshi examination, but unfortunately he failed in the official examination in the following years. It was not until the twelfth year of Zhenyuan (796) that Han Yu was recommended to serve as an observer of Xuanwu Jiedushi, and it took him 10 years of energy to enter his career, successively serving as an inspector of imperial history and a rebbe attendant.
Han Yu's career was not smooth sailing, he also suffered from depreciation, but it is precisely because of this that Han Yu has more understanding and thinking about life, and has made great contributions in the field of literature. Han Yu advocated the ancient literature movement, and was also revered as the "first of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties", leaving behind a large number of literary works and poetry and song endowments, which had a profound impact on Ancient Chinese literature, education, philosophy and politics, making his descendants proud of Han Yu.
According to historical records, Han Yu had two sons, the eldest son was named Han Chang, who was born as a jinshi and was an official to Hubu Langzhong; the second son was named Han Zhouqiu, who served as the commander of Fuping County; and he also had four daughters. Historians have been examining Han Yu's descendants for a long time, but due to the lack of historical materials in later generations, the road to research has been difficult, but according to the combing of Xiuwu's "Han Wen Gongmen Genealogy", we can find that the descendants of the family prospered and also carried out many family migrations. For example, the tenth generation of grandchildren moved to Xiaohan Village in Xiuwu County, Henan, the sixteenth generation of suns fled the war and moved to Qiangnan County, Henan, and later the twentieth generation of suns, the twenty-seventh generation of suns and the thirtieth generation of grandchildren all went to different places to multiply, but the main descendants of Han Yu lived in Tanghe, Tongbai and Biyang.
Interestingly, according to the records in the "Genealogy of the Han Dynasty", when Han Yu's descendants married their wives, they never married a woman with the surname Zheng, was it because the Han and Zheng families had a feud? Historians have examined this and developed a little-known history. As mentioned above, Han Yu was an orphan and raised by his brother-in-law, and his sister-in-law's wife was Zheng. As the saying goes, "the eldest brother is like a father", so in Han Yu's mind, his sister-in-law Zheng Shi is his mother, and Zheng Shi also takes good care of Han Yu, teaching him to read and be a man to make him a talent. Later, Han Yu remembered the kindness of the Zheng clan, so he honored the Zheng woman as his mother, and decided not to take the woman surnamed Zheng as his wife. As a result, this unwritten rule has been passed down to this day and has become the custom of the descendants of Han Yu.
However, the women of Han Yu's descendants can marry into the Zheng family, and they must also give priority to the Zheng family, also in order to report the Zheng family's kindness. For thousands of years, such regulations have been strictly observed among the descendants of Han Yu. It can be seen that Han did not marry Zheng not because of any hatred, but because of great kindness. Nowadays, among the descendants of Han Yu in Xiuwu County, Henan, the saying that "do not marry the daughter of the Zheng clan" also really exists.
It is worth mentioning that among Han Yu's descendants, there is also an alternative talent - tongue painter. In 2016, Henan boy Han Xiaoming became the focus of attention, he claimed to be a descendant of Han Yu, in order to inherit the calligraphy and painting talents of his ancestors, he began to practice calligraphy and painting from an early age, but his later exercise style became unique, he abandoned the traditional brush and used his tongue to write and paint. On the Internet, Han Xiaoming's "tongue painting" is widely circulated, but the quality of the work is very general, the only thing that people marvel at is the way he paints, so later people also had a great controversy about Han Xiaoming, some people expressed opposition, because painting with the tongue is unsightly, but some people also expressed support, because young people should innovate.
In today's society, the number of descendants of Han Yu is difficult to count, and they are contributing their own strength in all walks of life to build a beautiful new era for us. After being a celebrity, it is bound to carry the genes of a celebrity, and we also hope that they can all have greater achievements, and even appear as powerful people as the ancestor Han Yu.
Resources:
"Biography of Han Yu" by Wang Lu, Publisher: People's Communications Publishing House
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang