"Mencius Gongsun Ugly": "There are three Dazun in the world: Jueyi, Tooth 1, and Deyi." The imperial court is like a lord, the township party is like a tooth, and the auxiliary people are like a leader. The so-called "knight one, tooth one, virtue one" refers to the title, advanced age, virtue. In the famous "Qilu First Jinshi Family" of the Wang family of Shandong Xincheng, there is also an old man of "Dazun", who not only has a high life expectancy, spans the Ming and Qing dynasties, saves the family from the imminent fall, and makes great achievements, but also has the ambition to save the world, cares about the national economy and the people's livelihood, and leaves an immortal work.
He was Wang Xiangjin, the grandfather of Wang Shichen, the leader of the literary circles in the early Qing Dynasty.
Wang Xiangjin (1561-1653), zijin, number Kangyu. A native of Xincheng, Shandong (present-day Huantai County), he entered the priesthood in the thirty-second year of the Wanli Dynasty (1604), was awarded the title of Zhongshu Sheren (中書舍人), and was later appointed as a political envoy to Zhejiang. For the official is clean and honest, just and upright, he has made political achievements everywhere he serves. Seventy Zhi Shi GuiLi, Xie Guan's home, self-proclaimed Ming Nong hermit, teaching children and grandchildren, writing books behind closed doors. He has a wide range of knowledge, and has dabbled in and achieved achievements in agriculture, medicine, literature and other aspects, and has written a lot in his lifetime, including "Qunfang Spectrum", "Saving the Waste into the Law", "Three Supplements and Simple Examination Prescriptions of the BaoanTang", "Collection of Gifts and Leisure Halls", "Qingyu ZhaiXin Appreciation Compilation", "Scissors carrying pens" and so on.
Coming from a cultural family, Wang Xiangjin received a good tutor, was not insulted, and lived in peace.
Turning over the scrolls of history, we can see that when Wang Xiangjin became an official, the Ming Dynasty was already in decline, the number of qi was about to run out, the wind and rain were fluctuating, the imperial court was in turmoil, the border tribes were disturbed, and under the internal and external troubles, Wang Xiangjin suffered twists and turns, and his career was not satisfactory. However, he held on to his integrity and vigilance, did not climb high and knotted the nobility, judged the hour and sized up the situation in the face of major issues of right and wrong, and although he was in danger many times, he was able to turn the crisis into safety. For example, in the forty-second year of the Wanli Calendar (1614), Qi Dang Qi Shijiao, Han Jun, and others wanted to use the position of Shandong Quansi to win wang Xiangjin over, but he thanked the Qi Party on the grounds that "He has a brother in the soldiers, and the brother is a Quan Cao", and cannot be used for his own use, so the Qi Party "decided to cut the hoe", with "his party (Qi Dang) a certain imperial history as the first to attack, and the people in the residence of Wang Xiangjin for several months" (Ming Wang Xiangjin: "The Collection of Gifts to The Hall", Shandong Literature Integration, Vol. 24, Jinan: Shandong University Press, 2011 Edition, p. 714). The situation was critical, and Wang Xiangjin's confidants feared that Qi Dang would hurt his life, but Wang "did not realize it and did not regret it" and dealt with it calmly. Read behind closed doors and be fearless. Later, the matter was over, and it was considered to be a surprise. Kangxi's "Chronicle of Xincheng County" has a record that "Xiangjin was generous to people, and saw righteousness and courage, and did not choose the interests and harms to avoid".
Wang Xiangjin inherited his father's discipline at an early age, strictly abided by the family style of diligence and frugality, and spent his life in purity, being diligent and thrifty, being kind and charitable, and being open-minded. He believes that "born a talent, the original is to benefit the world." In order to "benefit the world", he wrote the "Qunfang Genealogy", which took more than 10 years to compile, counting more than 400,000 words in 28 volumes, and recording more than 400 species of plants, of which the best soil, management methods, and precautions for planting sweet potatoes introduced to Fujian, China, in the north during the Ming Dynasty, as well as seed retention, seedlings, propagation techniques, and precautions for storage, were recorded in detail. The book has the reputation of "an encyclopedia in the early seventeenth century" and has high agronomic value. In the forty-seventh year of the Qing Dynasty (1708), the Kangxi Emperor ordered people to add one hundred volumes to the "Peiwen Zhai Guangqun Fang Spectrum" on the basis of the "Qunfang Spectrum", and personally wrote the preface and published it nationwide. In the 1980s, the China Agricultural Publishing House sorted out and published it and listed it as one of the "China Agricultural Series". Wang Xiangjin, the "Hermit of Mingnong", actually planted an agronomic "encyclopedia" in the field, which is indeed admirable! In addition, he also combined his more than 30 years of experience in practicing medicine and medicine, and wrote the medical book "Baoantang Three Supplements simple prescription". This book is a clinical monograph with a complete range of theories and prescriptions, with a total of more than 800 prescriptions in 30 courses, including prescriptions, prescriptions, unilateral prescriptions, etc., and the scope of treatment includes internal, external, gynecological and pediatric departments. When Wang Xiangjin was 84 years old when the book was written, at a time of turmoil, displacement of the people, poverty and illness, the publication of this book undoubtedly played an important role, as it said in its preface: "... Save everything from the mud. Make the sea bustling, get rid of troubles and ascend to life". From this, we can also glimpse Wang Xiangjin's benevolent heart and the feelings of a celebrity who also helps the world, as well as the elderly demeanor of worrying about the country and the people, anxious for justice and righteousness, and caring for the national economy and people's livelihood. In the "Shandong Tongzhi", there is also a record of Wang Xiangjin that "the benefits of the people are often afraid of".
Not only that, Wang Xiangjin made great contributions to the overthrow of the family and the revitalization of the family's voice at the time of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. As mentioned above, after the turmoil in the late Ming Dynasty and several ups and downs and setbacks, Wang Xiangjin finally judged the situation and resolutely resigned from his post as an envoy to Zhejiang. At that time, the Wang family of Xincheng, which was known as the "First Jinshi Family", had obviously declined, how to revitalize the family voice at the "time of ashes"? In order to fulfill the responsibilities of his parents, Wang Xiangjin closed the door all day long to thank guests, and devoted himself to poetry and teaching his grandchildren, "closing the door to thank guests, personally teaching the grandchildren" and "often citing Tang Liu's words, admonishing his descendants to have no door, and doing good work." He personally urged his grandsons to read, requiring them to "read until midnight, and the articles they write must satisfy them." In order to encourage his children and grandchildren to study and advance, he took out the treasured works of the Linyi calligrapher Xing Tong, "Orchid Pavilion Preface" and "White Parrot Endowment", promising that the grandchildren would win the examination first, and later these two "prizes" were successively collected by Wang Shilu and Wang Shichen brothers, and Wang Shichen later became the "leader of the literary world" in the early Qing Dynasty, with the reputation of "a generation of authenticity", which was closely related to Wang Xiangjin's earnest teachings.
Whether in society or family, Wang Xiangjin can be regarded as responsible, responsible, and worthy of his mission. Such a life can be described as complete. Perhaps because of this, the old man issued a sigh in the self-sacrifice text: "For ninety years, I have no shame in my heart, I can travel with everyone, and I can die with a smile." (Bao Quanmin)
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