Author: Liu Yishan
The territory of the Ming Dynasty, after leaving shanhaiguan, was Liaodong. Liaodong bordered Mongolia (Tatars), Jurchen, and Korea, and was an important border pass. After unifying the Jurchen ministries, Nurhaci established the Later Jin Kingdom, and his purpose was very clear, that is, to take down the world of Daming.
In the Ming Dynasty, there were nine border towns, namely Liaodong Town, Jizhou Town, Xuanfu Town, Datong Town, Shanxi Town, Yansui Town, Ningxia Town, Guyuan Town, and Gansu Town. The nine border towns, headed by Liaodong, are the most important. Most of the main human and financial resources of the imperial court were used for the border defense of Eastern Liaoning. Liaodong An, Imperial Court An; Liaodong Chaos, Imperial Court Chaos. The imperial court sent senior officials to Liaodong again and again, and this person was called Jingluo. Jing Slightly commanded the military and political power, as well as the Shang Fang Sword, the level is not low.
However, Ren Liaodong was very dangerous, and he lost his city and lost his land to kill his head; after winning the battle, the border was safe, and the imperial court had another official impeaching you, so he was investigated or investigated and returned home. In the Ming Dynasty, Liaodong Jingluo was killed and investigated a lot. The most outstanding and meritorious of the Liaodong Classics were Xiong Tingbi, Yuan Chonghuan, and Sun Chengzong, known as the "Three Masters of Liaodong", but the fate of these three people was tragic.
Xiong Tingbi was born on the eighth day of the first month of June in the third year of Longqing (1569 AD) of the Ming Dynasty, a native of Guojialing Village, Xiuxian Yili, Xia County, Huguangjiang. From October of the 36th year of the Wanli Calendar (1608 AD) to June of the 39th year of the Wanli Calendar (1611 AD), Xiong Tingbi went to Liaodong for the first time and served as the governor of Zhejiang Province, Liaodong. In the course of three years, he investigated the accumulated shortcomings of Liaodong and listed eight major crimes, such as inspector Zhao Kai and general Li Chengliang abandoning the land and committing crimes, and his ideas of repairing the border in the upper tun tian, consolidating the inside and the outside, and using yi to control the yi were praised by the imperial court and supported by the military and people of liaodong. From August of the 47th year of the Wanli Dynasty (1619 AD) to October of the 48th year of the Wanli Calendar (1620 AD), Xiong Tingbi II went to Liaodong and passed through Liaodong as the Right Attendant of the Army and the Left Imperial History of the Du cha yuan. In this year and two months, he cut off generals, punished corruption, meticulously trained the army, built castle fortifications, looked south and north, sounded east and west, gradually advanced, and took defense as the attack of the strategy and tactics, so that a messy Liaodong gradually consolidated, the city was strong, and a situation in which the Liaoshi could be safe from then on. However, some officials who did not understand the military and did not know the situation in Liaodong, out of selfish desires and grudges, out of red eyes, did not like Xiong Tingbi's style, and they impeached in groups, which eventually caused Xiong Tingbi to leave his post and return to his hometown. Yuan Yingtai, who succeeded Xiong Tingbi through Liaodong, was confident that he could use troops, and with the goal of reconquering Xiong Tingbi for passing through Liaodong and not returning to a city, he dispatched troops and generals, waiting for an opportunity to fight a decisive battle with Houjin, with the goal of recovering Fushun. Yuan Yingtai swore to die to repay the country, and promised him his life, but Shenyang and Liaoyang still fell, and the land east of the Liao River was returned to Houjin, and Yuan Yingtai committed suicide to apologize. This led to Xiong Tingbi's third assignment to Liaodong. The phrase "one drum, then decline, and three exhaustion" may not be appropriate to apply to Xiong Tingbi, but it is already too late, this is only the end of the hero. After three trips to Liaodong, Xiong Tingbi's life came to an end.
Xiong Tingbi's life began in Jiangxia, and he served the country and guarded the border all his life, and after a magnificent wave, he was framed and died at the hands of the traitorous party and the emperor. Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty rehabilitated him, and finally his bones were returned to his hometown and buried in the place of his birth. He is the pride of the people of Wuhan, Hubei Province, and a hero who grew up in the land of Jiangxia.
In 1931, after Japanese imperialism launched the "918 Incident" and invaded North China, national heroes were called out throughout the country. In 1945, when Japanese imperialism surrendered unconditionally, the people of Wuhan, Hubei Province, celebrated the victory of the War of Resistance and named a road from Wuchang Racecourse to Dadongmen as Xiong Tingbi Road in honor of the hero of his hometown.
Xiong Tingbi's birthplace is now Guoling Village, Paper Fang Street, Jiangxia District, Wuhan, Hubei Province, and my birthplace is also Jiangxia, Wuhan, Hubei Province. In Jiangxia District, there is Xiong Tingbi Park in 1986. Xiong Tingbi Park has a solemn park high gate archway, green tile eaves, carved beams and foreheads, and on the horizontal stone plaque under the door is the inscription of "Xiong Tingbi Park" by General Zhang Aiping, former minister of national defense. One is the Ming Dynasty Bingbu Shangshu, and the other is the Minister of Defense of the Republic, both of whom are the leaders of the troops, and the hearts of the people who lead the troops are connected.
There is a large bronze sculpture mural in Xiong Tingbi Park, the mural is vivid, telling several important stories in Xiong Tingbi's life, and visitors can see the highlights of Xiong Tingbi's life as soon as they enter the park.
Moving forward from the southeast direction of the mural, there is a bronze statue of Xiong Tingbi. Xiong Tingbi stood tall and mighty, dressed in a military uniform, wearing a long sword at his waist, and his heroism was compelling. There is a tomb of Xiong Tingbi on the side of the bronze statue, and the middle of the tombstone is engraved with "The Tomb of the Bingbu Shangshu Liaodong Jing Xiang Xiang Gong Tingbi", the upper right paragraph of the stele is "The Winter Day of the Sixth Year of the Great Qing Dynasty Xianfeng", and the lower left paragraph of the stele is "Zhiwuchang Fu Shu Shu Ren Yan Shu Sen Shu Shu Along the upper line of the tomb there is the Xiong Gong Ancestral Hall, and in front of it is the Feibai Pavilion, named after the Xiong Tingbi character Feibai. There is a standing stone stele in the center of Feibaiting, and the inscriptions are engraved on both sides, one side is engraved with "On Xiong Tingbi" written by the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and on the other side is engraved with the "Biography of Xiong Tingbi of the Ming Bingbu Shangshu Xiong Tingbi" written by the Jiangxia District Government.
Hubei people remember him, Wuhan people remember him, and Jiangxia people remember him.
The Cultural and Historical Committee of the Wuhan Jiangxia District CPPCC Committee and the Jiangxia District Traditional Culture Research Association approached me and asked me to write a book about Xiong Tingbi for their "Xiong Tingbi Cultural Research Series". As a son born on the land of Jiangxia, it is my duty to write a book for the heroes who came out of Jiangxia.
Jiangxia has many folk legends about Xiong Tingbi, these legends are the story of how he studied couplets assiduously when he was a teenager, and the highlight of Xiong Tingbi's life was that after he became a scholar, he served as a Baoding official, Studied Politics in Jiangnan, and went to Liaodong three times, and his pro-people, patriotic, professionalism and upright character personality.
To be honest, in the past, I only read stories, remembered people, and recorded dynasties, and did not study history. After taking on this task, I bought dozens of books related to the history of the Ming Dynasty and a set of Xiong Tingbi's anthology, consulted the only book on Xiong Tingbi in the collection of the Provincial Library, which was not borrowed, and also bought a copy of a pamphlet published during the Republic of China at a great price from the Internet.
I began to study the historical materials, read them slowly, and got all the materials related to Xiong Tingbi from the Internet and friends, I read these books and materials, carefully made some cards and records, and slowly felt that there was a lot of fun in it.
In April 2019, the Jiangxia District CPPCC Committee organized the personnel involved in the compilation of the "Xiong Tingbi Cultural Research Series" to visit the place where Xiong Tingbi was touring Liaoning and passed through Liaodong. We visited the border walls, watchtowers, beacon towers, and went to Liaoyang, Guangning, Qinghe, and other places where Xiong Tingbi fought and defended in the past, and a distant and desolate cloud of historical smoke slowly drifted past in front of us. 400 years ago, the strong and upright man from Jiangxia went out to guard Liaodong three times, and in this far place, he was exhausted, and he sacrificed his life and forgot his death. Xiong Tingbi was there, Liaodong was there, Xiong Tingbi was listened to, and Liaodong lost its city and lost its land. According to Xiong Tingbi's strategic office, Liaodong Bao, not according to Xiong Tingbi's strategy, Liaodong lost.
Xiong Tingbi was loyal to the country, a heroic blood, did not spill on the border pass, but was falsely accused of being a dynasty, wrongfully killed the Beijing division, beheaded xishi, and passed on the head of the nine sides. After Xiong Tingbi was killed, Yuan Chonghuan wrote two memorial poems of "Crying Xiong Tingbi":
(i)
Remember to meet and smile,
Personally instructed the night talk soldiers.
Talent and martial arts without a son,
Meritorious deeds are crimes.
Generous cracks must be moved,
Blurred hot blood face like life.
The back pain is extremely private,
Shed tears and cried late at night.
(ii)
TaiShi bow hides the dog and cooks,
The death of the fox and the rabbit is the most important thing.
The family is poor and cannot be redeemed,
Bribes are public to kill famous people.
Detachment of anger deep sandalwood Daoji,
Wei Shu and Wei Yuancheng.
What is the reason for the misery,
I want to make good use of soldiers for debut.
Since entering the reading of relevant historical materials, for more than a year, Xiong Tingbi has been connected with my daily life, thinking about this villager 400 years ago every day, constantly thinking about this important minister of the Ming Dynasty, why is it a tragedy?
In the early spring of 2020, when the epidemic struck and Wuhan was the first to lock down the city, I lived in my home in Donghu and officially began the writing of "Daming Jing Slightly Xiong Tingbi".
Due to the grasp of historical materials and the investigation of the scene in Liaodong, I am very handy with the structure of the whole book, the design of the story, the character shaping of the characters, and the use of language. Historical materials, sense of the scene and the emotions of writers are the basic requirements for writing historical literary texts, and I think there is another principle of writing historical literature texts that is that big things are not vain, and small things are not informal. I integrated emotions into this book, coupled with historical materials and a sense of scene support, and completed the manuscript in one go. When Wuhan was unsealed and the city was restarted, my "Daming Jing Slightly Xiong Tingbi" was also completed.
Xiong Tingbi Park
Liu Yishan, whose ancestral home is Ezhou, Hubei Province, was born in Jiangxia, Wuhan, a member of the Chinese Writers Association, a member of the Hubei Calligraphers Association, a vice chairman of the Hubei Writers Association, the president, editor-in-chief and editor of The Yangtze River Literature and Art Magazine, and an expert with outstanding contributions in Hubei Province. He is currently the honorary president of Hubei Reportage Literature Society and the writer-in-residence of Wuhan East Lake University. He has published more than 6 million words of novels, essays and poems, and more than 30 works of poetry, novels, prose reportage. The group poem "The Mountain Village I Remember" won the "Poetry Journal" 1981-1982 Excellent Work Award, the group poem "Wen Yi Duo Song" won the Poet of the Year Award of the "Poetry Selection Journal", the documentary literature "Kiln Worker Tiger General" won the National Youth Reading Award, the novella "Xiangyang Lake" won the Hubei Literature Award and the Chinese Female Jury Award, the short story "A Cloud in the East Sky" won the Hubei Literature Award, the essay "White Hair Fluttering on the Field" won the National Drifting Mother Cup Prose Award, the prose collection "Chronicle of Folk Collection" won the 8th Bingxin Prose Award, and the long poem "The Story of a Veteran in China" won the Hubei Literature Award, the essay "White Hair Fluttering on the Field" won the National Drifting Mother Cup Prose Award, the essay collection "Chronicle of Folk Collection" won the 8th Bingxin Prose Award, and the long poem "The Story of a Veteran in China" He won the first Fang Zhimin Literature Award in the poetry category. There are poems translated overseas and selected for primary and secondary school textbooks.
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