Cao Feng (曹鍷), courtesy name Shifan, was a Ming Dynasty native of Wuxu Village, Maoshan, a jinshi, and an official who went to Nanjing to supervise the imperial history of Guangxi. Together with Yushi Shenzhuo and Fang Feng, he was then called "Three Counselors", also known as "Three High Priests". He is good at composing poetry and is the author of "Qulin Poetry Collection".
Cao Gong and the Nanjing official Shangshu Cao Yi were the same family, and the Cao family produced a Cao Yi, and then the court was prominent, and the sons and nephews successively produced several official eunuchs and sages.
Influenced by his ancestor Cao Yi, Cao Yong was intelligent and diligent in reading since childhood, and was ranked third in the golden list of the third year of ming zhengde (1508) in the temple examination, and was given the same jinshi birth. He is an upright person, and after becoming an official, whenever he disagrees with his colleagues in political opinions, he should not give in. When serving as the inspector of imperial history, he impeached the inspector for not taking office and the auxiliary ministers for mistaking the country, and was promoted to Guangxi according to the inspection of the matter. He also vigorously opposed the Jiajing Emperor many times.
The Jiajing Emperor was emperor Of The Ming Dynasty, Zhu Houxi, the eleventh emperor of the Ming Dynasty, whose era name was Jiajing, and later known as the Jiajing Emperor. At the beginning of his reign, he was wise and strict, strict in controlling officials, lenient in governing the people, rectifying the program of the dynasty, and reducing the number of military personnel, and the government was one of the new ones. However, after that, he became increasingly corrupt, not only abusing the people's strength and building great things, but also not asking about the government and politics, superstitious alchemists, respecting Taoism, and the art of immortality, resulting in the increasingly decadent political atmosphere of the Ming Dynasty.
All this by the Jiajing Emperor aroused the dissatisfaction of Cao Jun and a group of courtiers, who decided to learn from Wei Zheng, a tang courtier, and committed a crime against Yan Zhizhi and Shown Great Feelings. In the end, led by Shen Zhuo, more than three hundred people wept at the palace gate.
However, Emperor Mingshizong Zhu Houxi was not Emperor Taizong of Tang, Li Shimin, and in a fit of rage, he handed these courtiers over to the Ministry of Ceremonies.
In the political incident initiated by Shen Zhuo, Cao Jun angered the Jiajing Emperor, and felt that the future was uncertain, he was tired of the intrigues in the official arena, and chose to retreat bravely, and resigned from the government on the same day with Shen Zhuo and Fang Feng. At that time, the prefect of Suzhou, Hu Miaozong, engraved the names of the three people on the stone wall of the White Lotus Pond of the Thousand People Seat on Tiger Hill, then called "Three Counselors", also known as "Three High Priests".
Shen Zhuo, a native of Pudong, was a three-year jinshi of Zhengde, and successively served as the inspector of Zhejiang Province, the inspector of Fujian, and the inspector of Jiangxi. Fang Feng, a native of Kunshan, was a three-year jinshi of Zhengde and successively served as a scholar of Yushi and Guangdong.
The History of Ming records that "At the beginning of Jiajing, because Emperor Shizong was diligent and sluggish, he led Tang Wei to march on the matter, and directly Chen Si gradually: ... Zhao Nai led more than 300 courtiers to weep at the palace gate, and Sejong was furious and went down to the ceremonial office. When Fujian ranked man, he was reappointed to the imperial history of Jiangxi, and in order to be tired of traveling, he was on the same day as Yushi Jurong Cao Feng and Kunshan Fang Feng. At that time, the name of the governor of Suzhou, Hu Miaozong, engraved the name of the three high priests on the stone wall of the White Lotus Pond of the Thousand People's Seat on Tiger Hill, and was then called 'Three Counselors', also known as 'Three High Priests'".
After resigning from his post, Cao Returned to Maoshan Wuxu Village (now part of the Xialin Administrative Village of the Maoshan Scenic Area Management Committee). Wuxu is not far from Maoshan Mountain, and he often visits the monuments in the Taoist Temple, gradually seeing through the red dust and choosing to return to the Chongxi Wanshou Palace.
Chongxi Wanshou Palace was called Qulin in ancient times, commonly known as the Red Temple, and was once the "Huayang Lower Pavilion" of Tao Hongjing. When Tao Hongjing lived here in seclusion, he wrote the stele of "Maoshan Qulinguan": the outer ridge of the layer ridge, the inner reflection of the palace, the bypass of the cave, and the distant mirror of the spring. Shang De Yi Ren, pray for life, and heaven and earth, if everything is holy. Lian Yong is better than Neem, and each one knows. Jagged through the guard, falling rock rhetoric. Like Qu Lin, it is good to be alone. Cover up the Tao Gong, keep the old man.
Cao Jun bought this place to build it as an ancestral hall, and Shangshu Gu Xuan (a native of Wu County) of the Nanjing Punishment Department wrote the "Record of the Ancestral Hall of Qulin".
According to the Guangxu Continued Chronicle of Jurong County, Cao Jun "resisted Xia's ambitions, and he was a royal historian, but he was led back to Guanzhong, the ruins of the museum were gathered, and the three Mao Yisheng were selected, and Cao Fengxiao and Wu Erzong lived in Qulin after the examination".
After cao jun lived in seclusion, he lived in simplicity and rarely intersected with the outside world, and in his later years he compiled his life's poems into a book, called "Qulin Poetry Collection". In the seventh year of Jiajing (1528), Cao Jun wrote the "Baiyun Chongfu Guan" for the Baiyun Temple. After his death, he was buried behind the Wuliang Hall of the Baiyun Temple, and the Ming Court built a tomb for him according to the regulations of the imperial history, with stone people and stone horses in front of the tomb, and built a archway for Cao Gong in Wuxu Village, named "Embroidery Workshop".
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There are two versions of the cao gong burial place: one is the introduction of the descendants of the Cao clan who moved to Hutang, and cao yushi was buried in the western foothills of the Maoshan Yin Palace, the location of the ancient Baiyun Temple, with stone people and stone horses. The second is that the five ruins of Cao surname believe that buried in the village a mile before the road near the old crow gang, in the past there were stone stele here, in the 1960s and 1970s, this is believed to be Cao Yushi's tomb was dug up by the Red Guards, but the bottom is only some rubble, and then did not continue to dig, just the stone stele was built as a dam canal. Wuxu Cao believes that when Cao Yushi was buried, he used rice to pave the way, and at the same time, several coffins were produced and buried in several places, so there are several theories about Cao's tomb. In fact, this legend does not make a score, which is not in line with the funeral system of that era.
The legendary Cao Yushi Tomb Mound in front of Wuxu Village is still there, and there is a large mound after it, and the first mound dug by the Red Guards was an empty tomb, and some people suspect that the next pier is the tomb of Cao Yushizhen. After observing that the two mounds are Western Zhou mound tombs, Jurong Western Zhou mound tombs have the burial custom of laying grave stones as coffin beds, which have been falsely rumored due to their age. Regarding the legend of Cao Yushi Tomb in Hutang Village, Wuxu Cao believes that when Cao Yushi was buried, he used rice to pave the way, and at the same time, several coffins were issued and buried in several places, so there are several theories about Cao Yushi's tomb. In fact, this explanation is not a genealogy, and it is not in line with the funerary system of that era. Two versions of the legend can be explained as the ancient Cao clan had two cemeteries, and it is possible that the two places buried people who had been officials of the Cao clan, which were later confused with each other.
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