In the TV series "Mufu Storm", the life experience of the male protagonist Mu Zeng can be described as dangerous, ups and downs, love and hate, great compassion and great joy, then, in the real history, what kind of person is Mu Zeng? What kind of life path did he go through?
Before getting into the main topic, let's talk about the origin of Mufu, which is an interesting little story.
Mufu (木府) is the common name of Lijiang's Mushi Tusi Yamen , roughly equivalent to the current autonomous prefecture government. The Hereditary Lijiang Toast of the Mu family began during the Yuan Dynasty, but at that time they did not use Mu as a surname, but practiced the traditional Father-Son joint name system of the Naxi people.
After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, Lijiang Naxi Tusi Ajia Ade, inspired by the spirit of "knowing the times as Junjie", "led the surrender" in 1382 AD, and Lijiang finally returned to the embrace of the central government. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, and removed his "Zhu" surname into the word "Mu", taking it as a surname, and from then on, the first family of the Naxi clan was surnamed Mu, so the name "Mufu" was born.
After Mufu obtained the Han surname given by the emperor, successive generations of toastmasters have greatly admired the Confucian culture of the Han people, and worked hard to learn and learn from it, more than a hundred years later, Lijiang Mufu has become a poetry heirloom, a noble family with profound cultural heritage, and there is such a record in the "History of Ming": "Yunnan Tuju officials know the history of the book, good etiquette and righteousness, headed by the Lijiang Mu clan.
Mu Zeng's father, Mu Qing, was as obsessed with Han culture as his predecessors, and could not only fill in the words with poems, but also write well. But unfortunately, his favorite is not the Active Confucian culture, but the passive Taoist culture, the hermit Mu Qing finally saw through the red dust, in 1587 AD, when he was twenty-nine years old, he drifted into the majestic and mysterious, snow-capped Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. Soon after, Mu Qing died in the mountains, leaving the heavy responsibility of Lijiang Toast to his eleven-year-old son Mu Zeng.
When the house leaked overnight and Mufu was in a state of sorrow, the indigenous people of Jiangbei Township took the opportunity to rebel and threatened to march to Lijiang. When the news reached Mufu, the Mu family was not frightened by the sudden change, they turned their grief into strength, and were determined to fight to the death for the peace of Lijiang and the foundation of the Mu clan.
Although Mu Zeng was only eleven years old at the time, he was full of courage and wisdom, and with the encouragement of his relatives, he led his soldiers to cross the Jinsha River and rush to the battlefield of counter-rebellion.
On the battlefield, Mu Zeng was full of energy and heroism, "the husband is not a young man", and when the battle began, he personally beat the drum to cheer and boost morale. When the generals saw that the young lord was so brave and fearless, they were deeply encouraged, and their blood boiled, and one by one they shouted loudly, fought bravely to kill the enemy, and drove the rebels from the present Sichuan to the southeast corner of Tibet with one blow, and the rebels never recovered from then on, and they could no longer set off any storms.
The suppression of rebellion in the township not only eliminated the hidden dangers of peace in Lijiang Mufu, but also expanded the scope of Mufu's rule, and also consolidated the position of the young lord Mu Zeng's toast, paving a smooth and smooth road for him to single-mindedly govern Lijiang and develop Lijiang in the future.
Mu Zeng was a talented child from an early age, under the influence of the family environment advocating Han culture, he was familiar with the Four Books and Five Classics at a young age, a subset of history, seven or eight years old can already chant poems, splash ink, and he has high ambitions, has always been to revitalize Lijiang, for the benefit of the people as their responsibility.
After becoming an adult, Mu Zeng, probably at the beginning of "Mufu Fengyun", vigorously developed the economic undertakings of Lijiang and its territories, and developed silver mines, copper mines, gold mines, iron mines, salt mines, etc. in Nanping, Zhongdian, Weixi, Ninglang and Muli, Sichuan in northwest yunnan, yanjing in Tibet, etc. The plot of Mufu gold mines in "Mufu Fengyun" probably originates from this. Mu Zeng also built water conservancy, introduced rice, so that the people could have enough food and clothing, and he also donated money to build roads and bridges to benefit future generations and create better living conditions for the people.
While developing the economy, Mu Zeng also turned his attention to the cultural vision, he hired literati from culturally developed areas to Lijiang to teach The Han culture based on Confucianism, and also sent the wise and wise Naxi disciples to study in the interior to broaden their horizons, in order to accept the Han culture more extensively and deeply, Mu Zeng built the "Yusong Academy" and the "Ten Thousand Scrolls Building", sparing no expense to collect and collect all kinds of cultural classics, and Lijiang City became the cultural center of the vast southwest region for a while.
Mu Zeng himself had a wide range of friends, and had correspondence with many literary and artistic and scientific and technological celebrities at that time (late Ming Dynasty), such as the geographer Xu Xiake, the great painter Bada Shanren, and the calligrapher Dong Qichang. When Xu Xiake was inspecting and touring Lijiang, Mu Zeng specially invited him to his home to guide his son Mu Yi to learn culture in order to "peek at the original text of The Chinese Text". It should be noted that Xu Xiake and Mu Zeng were both born in 1587 AD and are of the same age, not a dying old man and a young man like the performance of "Mu Fu Fengyun".
Like his father Mu Qing, Mu Zeng also had a heartfelt yearning for the Taoist hermit life in his heart, when he saw that Lijiang was economically prosperous, the people were happy, the culture was prosperous, and his son Mu Yi had grown up, he resolutely chose to retire from merit and decisively, passed the position of toast to his son Mu Yi, and followed his father's footsteps to nanzhi Mountain, a branch of the Jade Dragon Snow Mountain, to live in seclusion, and began to "see the flowers blossom and fall before the court, looking at the clouds outside the sky", indifferent and quiet, and studying for the second half of his life.
In his lifetime, Mu Zeng wrote seven collections of poems, including "Yunji", "Empty Cuijulu", and "Yunwei Light Ink", with more than 1,000 poems, and was the most accomplished literary scholar in the history of the Naxi people.
As the saying goes, there must be a great woman behind a successful man, and MuZeng's wife, Aleqiu, is such a woman.
Unlike what is written in "Mufu Fengyun", Aleqiu was Mu Zeng's wife at the beginning, but her origin was indeed relatively humble. It is said that Aleqiu was originally a naturally beautiful pig herding girl in the outskirts of Lijiang, and fell in love with Mu Zeng, who traveled far away from weifu, but because this pair of lovers was not right, Mu Zeng overcame many difficulties to successfully marry Aleqiu into Mufu.
Aleqiu is not only diligent and capable, but also respects the elderly and loves the young, helps the poor and the weak, and the whole family is old and young, and no one in the mansion does not praise and love her. Over time, the whole of Lijiang knew that mufu had a smart, kind, hardworking, virtuous, beautiful, and noble Lady Aleqiu, and her reputation spread throughout every mountain, river, and village of the Naxi people.
With the passage of time, people gradually forgot the special identity of Aleqiu, and the name Aleqiu slowly became synonymous with the most beautiful women of the Naxi people, and became the most noble goddess in the hearts of The Naxi women.
It can be said that Aleqiu achieved Mu Zeng, and Mu Zeng also achieved Aleqiu.
Special Writer of "Night Wolf Literature and History Studio": Yi Jiangnan