He Jingming, the former leader of the Ming Dynasty, made two trips to Yueyang...

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□ Jiang Liangfa

He Jingming (1483-1521), also known as Zhongmo, Baipo, dafushanren, henan, was one of the seven sons of the leaders of the literary world in the middle of the Ming Dynasty. He Jingming was intelligent and talented since childhood, and was called a "prodigy" at the time. In the autumn of the eleventh year of Hongzhi (1498), the fifteen-year-old He Jingming stood out in the township examination and won the Zhongjing Kui with an article entitled "Qi Xian Can Inherit the Way of Honoring Yu". In the spring of the twelfth year of Hongzhi (1499), He Jingming went to Beijing to participate in the examination of the Ceremonial Department, but because of the many strange characters in the volume, he was rejected by the chief examiner, and the result was sun mountain.

It was precisely because of the failure of the test that He Jingming opened the first trip to Yueyang. In the spring of the thirteenth year of Hongzhi (1500), the eldest brother He Jingshao was appointed to Balingzhi County, and He Jingming accompanied his eldest brother to Baling to take up his post. He plans to continue his studies with the help of his eldest brother and is scheduled to take the ceremonial examination again. He Jingming came to Yueyang and was invited by Sun Rong (1461-1529), a friend of Huarong and then directly subordinate to Zhao Prefecture Zhizhou, and then to Huarong. At that time, Sun Rong had built a villa under the Shiji Mountain in the north of Huarong County, named "Tuoxi Beiye", and his descendants Jifang (1483-1541), who were the same age as He Jingming, also studied at home to pursue the sub-industry. Because He Jingming already had a meritorious name, Sun Jifang was only a county scholar, and his meritorious name was one notch higher than Sun Jifang. Sun Rong immediately asked his son to worship He Jingming as his teacher. Sun Jifang also invited his fellow scholar Zhou Tingyong (1482-1534) to worship He Jingming as a teacher. He Jingming lived in Tuoxi Beiye, and while studying on his own, he tutored Sun Jifang and Zhou Ting to attack the sub-industry. In addition to completing the necessary studies, they often travel together to visit the lakes and mountains of Huarong, places of interest, poetry, and articles. In Huarong County, He Jingming wrote "Shiji Fu", which described the lake and mountain color of Huarong and the scenery around Shiji Mountain very beautifully and fascinatingly: Huarong has mountains, and there are Rocky Mountains under the mountains. Its mountains are built with Great Wei Wei, Cui Yu Qi, Shu Su Gong Yue, and Beifu Bian Cen . Bin in Hantuo, bounded in Jiangtan. Lay the foundation of the wilderness of the cave garden, and the forest of cloud dreams. Baiding is like its yang, the Yellow Lake is its yin; Longfeng is north of it, and Fengshan is in the south.

In the spring of the fifteenth year of Hongzhi (1502), He Jingming went to The Capital again to take the examination, won the Zhonggong Shi, and then participated in the temple examination, and was appointed by the imperial court as a Zhongshu Sheren, responsible for drafting the edict documents.

In the eighteenth year of Hongzhi, He Jingming realized his second trip to Yueyang after a gap of six years. On the seventh day of May of that year, Emperor Hongzhi died and the Zhengde Emperor succeeded to the throne. In order to convey the news of the new emperor of the Ming Dynasty taking office, and at the same time to appease the vassal states, the imperial court "issued a mourning edict to the world, and nine envoys came out together." He Jingming sent an envoy to Yunnan as a minister of Qincha. He Jingming departed from the capital in early June and arrived in Yueyang in early July. He Jingming all the way to the official road station, che ma lawton. When he arrived at Linxiang Chang'an Yi under the jurisdiction of Yuezhou Prefecture, he wrote the poem "Chang'an Yi": Twilight rain Xiao Xiaoyun was gloomy, and several mountains were cooking smoke. The window smells early and the goose is more thoughtful, and the door is sleepless against the cold current. The far envoy is holding the Three Chu Festival, and the old tour once buckled the Jiujiang boat. The stagecoach goes south to Infinity Road, and the wind and dust read the years.

On the seventh day of the first month of July, He Jingming officially arrived in Yueyang to meet his eldest brother He Jingshao. Brothers were overjoyed to see each other. The officials of Baling County all came forward to greet them. On this day, it was Qixi, and the baling folk had the custom of "Begging Festival", and on this night, He Jingshao accompanied his brother to watch the Yueyang folk folk customs exhibition. He Jingming gave "Beggar Qiao Xing" to remember its events.

This time, He Jingming came to Huarong and still lived in Tuoxi Beiye. At that time, Sun Rong had already left any parent official in Jingming's hometown, Xinyang Prefecture Zhizhou, and happened to be on vacation at home. And the imperial court's important ministers Shangshu Liu Daxia and Hubu Shilang Wang Yu happened to be idle at home, and He Jingming wanted to visit these two predecessors tomorrow morning. Therefore, Sun Rong and Sun Jifang's father and son immediately began to invite Liu Daxia and Wang Yu to come to Tuoxi Beiye for a party. One day in the middle of July, when the heat was temporarily cool and the weather was cool, Liu Daxia came on a donkey, and Wang Yu came on a white horse. Friends meet, the atmosphere is friendly and warm. He Jingming was very excited and proposed to sing and sing. He Jingming took the lead in giving a poem of the Five Laws, congratulating Sun Rong on his appointment as the Zhizhou of Xinyang and congratulating him on this grand event in Tuoxi Province. The poem "Tuoxi Beiye": Make the junfang embrace the county, and the other industry pillow Tuoxi. The city leans on the Zhanghua Hall, and the Mountain Treasure Dayu Ancestral Hall. Gamble pity Xie Fu, look at the painting to remember Wang Wei. It is not a hanging car day, and the smoke clouds are in the dream.

However, although Liu Daxia agreed to use the title of "Tuoxi Beiye", he proposed to give the Seven Laws poems, because Liu Daxia was good at the Seven Laws. Liu Daxia is worthy of the veteran of the literary world, while singing loudly, while holding the pipe and waving, he wrote a poem: Lintuo Xinjie Chuanzhuang, Qiao Mu Luo Luo CaoTang. The mountain is far away from the clouds in the east, and the water source goes west to the length of the Han River. Xiu Zhong character Pity III, clear the door railing is good at one side. Junshi came to join the society, and Huang hua wandered drunk day by day.

He Jingming stayed in Huarong for a few days and continued to travel west by envoy car to Yunnan via Wuling. When leaving Huarong, Sun Jifang sent them all the way to Wuling to make a difference.

He Jingming's two visits to Yueyang have left a heavy page for the history and culture of Yueyang. He not only left many masterpieces of poetry, but also trained two jinshi, Sun Jifang and Zhou Tingyong were both admitted to the jinshi during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, Sun Jifang was sent to Yunnan to study vice history, and Zhou Ting used officials to Jiangxi to be envoys.