Chang Ge who is bold and dares to beat Xuchang Suqiao Jinshi Su Jiou? ‖ his hometown of Xuchang
Wen ‖ Lu Zhichun
Pictured‖ Zhu Fuji
On March 9th, the "Hometown Xuchang" today's headline published the American article "The Legend of Our Xuchang Suqiao" written by Mr. Liang Yaoguo, which makes people see the blood boiling! There are two paragraphs in the text:
...... After more than two hundred years, Su Ying's eighth grandson, Su Ji'ou, looked at the stone bridge in disrepair and funded its restoration, so that it has been preserved to this day.
Su Ji'ou, Zi Wenmo, No. Tuotang, 14-year-old Zhongxiucai, Ming Wanli forty-one years and the first, tired official Kao Gong Shi Langzhong, persecuted for offending the Wei Zhongxian clique, and hanged himself after returning home for fear of affecting his family. Su Ji'ou once drew up his own couplet "Seven Feet of Body Bears the Name of The Festival of Loyalty; a Piece of Heart Heaven and Earth Ghost God" to use Ming Zhi. His descendants commented on him this way: "Once he dies, he is as heavy as the Tai (Tai) Mountain, and his merits are great ("Su Shi Jia Cheng")! (If you have friends who are interested in This article of Teacher Liang, please click on the following link: The legendary story of Our Xuchang Suqiao makes people see the blood boiling!) ）
This reminds me of the legend that the villagers of Louzhang Village, seven or eight miles north of Changge City, suqiao, once beat Su Ji'ou, and the story goes like this:
Below: Louzhang Village Committee.
In Xuchang Suqiao Village, there is an official named Su Ji'ou, known as "Su Bureau". His servants went north to "do business", often cutting short roads and taking a section of field path southeast of Louzhang Village, inevitably trampling on crops. Occasionally, when the "Su Officials" passed by in a sedan car, although they instructed the servants to "be careful", those who hugged before and after still trampled on the crops, and the villagers dared to be angry and did not dare to speak.
Later, the villagers asked two people to help them take care of the matter. One day, seeing that Su Ji'ou was passing by here in a sedan car, the man ran back to the village to invite the two people who were "willing to take care of this matter" to come. The two men hung a document stamped with a large seal in the middle of the road, and Su Ji'ou got off the car to take a look at it, and quickly led his servants to kneel on the ground.
One of the two asked him, "You are Su Ji'ou, and he said that the subordinate is." The man asked him, "Are you convicted, and he says the subordinates don't know." The man said, Your people have trampled on their crops, and today there is you, and the people have sued you. Su Ji'ou said that the subordinate officials must strictly discipline the subordinates, and the subordinate officials will not trample on the crops anymore! The man said, "You are a good official, and you should be beaten with twenty boards!" Since then, Su Jiou and his servants no longer dared to take this small road, and even the common people took this small road, they only dared to walk, and the cart did not dare to push.
How did these two villagers come up with such a powerful faction that they actually beat up Jin Shi and Su Ji'ou, an official of the Imperial Bureaucracy?
It turned out that one of these two people was named Zhu Chaoqiu and the other was named Zhu Chaosheng, who was the eighth grandson of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. So, how could these two "royal relatives" be here? This must start from Zhu Yuanzhang's "feudal domain" system.
The division of feudal kings was the general system of feudal dynasties in previous dynasties, and Zhu Yuanzhang also followed this system after establishing the Ming Dynasty. His fifth prince, Zhu Xu (朱橚), was enfeoffed in Kaifeng and was the famous King ding of Zhou. Zhu Youyi, the fourteenth son of King Ding of Zhou, was given the title of King of Zhencheng Commandery (胙城郡王), and Zhu Chaoqiu and Zhu Chaosheng were the sixth grandsons of Zhu Youyi ( 朱有燆 ) , the King of Qicheng Commandery ( 胙城郡王 ) , and was enfeoffed as a general of the Auxiliary State , equivalent to the second and third pin officials.
The Ming Dynasty's feudal system was generally as follows: the crown prince inherited the throne, and the other sons of the emperor were crowned princes; the eldest son of the prince was crowned prince, and the other sons were all county kings; the eldest son of the county king was crowned the county king, and the other sons were sealed as zhenguo generals. Further down, the sons of the Zhenguo generals, the eldest son, the original lord, and the other generals of the Fengfu state. And so on, until the Fengguo General, Zhenguo Lieutenant, Auxiliary Lieutenant, Fengguo Lieutenant. Further down, he was made a lieutenant of Fengguo. In such a generational inheritance, the descendants of the clan who depend on the state treasury can be said to have increased geometrically.
In terms of financial expenditure, the prince's fixed "salary", that is, Lu rice, has 10,000 stones per year, the king of the county is 2,000 stones, the general of the zhenguo is 1,000 stones, and the general of the auxiliary country is 800 stones. All other types of knighthoods have quotas, and there are also one hundred stones to the lieutenant of Fengguo! Cumulatively, it is an astronomical number in itself. In addition, there are various rewards that are not fixed every year, sometimes even more than the fixed "salary".
During the Jiajing period, the world supplied the grain to the capital of four million stones per year, but the royal palaces consumed the country's "Lu rice" and needed eight million stones per year. The total tax and grain of the whole country also filled the mouths of the king of the clan and his descendants.
Only the Zhou Ding king of Kaifeng was of the first lineage, "from the king below, where thirty-two thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven sects." In Henan, half of the fields were owned by the Zhou clan, the people were miserable, and the state finances were on the verge of collapse. In the late Jiajing period, the imperial court was really overwhelmed, so in the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), the "Regulations of the Clan Domain" were promulgated, and the policy of "those who voluntarily leave the palace are funded by the imperial court to build a palace, give land, and retain the title (no Zonglu)", allowing the clan to participate in scientific expeditions and engage in shi, agriculture, industry, and commerce, which can be "the business of the four people".
Zhu Qinyi, the fourteenth son of King Ding of Zhou and the fifth grandson of Zhu Youxi, the King of Zhencheng Commandery, attacked the general of Fengzhenguo. One of his wives and concubines, because she disdained the competition for favors and profits among his wives and concubines in the palace, resolutely proposed to implement the "Ordinance of the Clan Domain", and after being approved, she came to Changge with her four sons (the Chaozi generation) and the "GuanFang" issued by the imperial court, which is now called the "Red Head Document", and "built the house" in the two villages of Wang Mai and Louzhang respectively. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the "Second Grandfather" branch moved from the current king to Maiqiao Village.
Below: The carved arch of one of the three existing Chu courtyards.
Coming to the present building are the "Three Grandfathers" and the "Four Grandfathers". According to the Ming system, the village where the Ming Emperor Zhu clan lived was called Fu, and in Changge there are now four villages of Lanchuan Province, Xiaolian Province, Sisan Province, and Kui Province, which are descendants of the Zhou Dynasty, and the three villages of "Qicheng Province" that were once called Yingchuan Province, Qiude Province, and the present-day Louzhang Village. At that time, the "Qicheng Prefecture" changed the name of the village when Li Zicheng wantonly killed the descendants of Zhu Ming's royal family at the end of the Ming Dynasty.
According to the information we have seen now, the Zhou Clan successively had a total of 216 rooms "ordered by the King of Zhou" and were "guarded" by the Imperial Court and moved to various parts of Henan.
According to legend, those who beat Su Ji'ou were Zhu Chaoqiu and Zhu Chaosheng. The two of them led their families and showed the "red-headed document" issued by the imperial court, which calmed Su Ji'ou. According to the Ming system, although Zhu Chaoqiu and Zhu Chaosheng moved to the countryside and no longer ate "Lu rice", they still had titles and their status was far above that of Su Ji'ou, the five-pin official. Since these two royal relatives revealed their identities, Su Ji'ou was of course sincerely afraid. However, the legend that playing the "twenty big boards" is obviously adding oil and vinegar!
The legend of beating Su Ji'ou has been around for more than four hundred years, and although it cannot be confirmed that it is true, it is true that the villagers of Louzhang can pass down the "name" of "Su Officials" by word of mouth from generation to generation.
Below: A partial carving of one of the three existing Chu courtyards.
The ancestors of the Zhou Ding wang lineage are as follows: There are sons and an MuQin Dynasty in Sugong Shaolun Shi Hui run Zhao Ke Guangdeng Yong, the generations of the Zhu clan who moved to Louzhang are consistent with this, and the generations have not been chaotic so far, including the generations of several descendants of the Zhou kings in Changge. At present, among the descendants of the King of Changge Zhou, the Guangzi generation, the Dengzi generation and the Yongzi generation are the most, and the three generations of the Zhu clan that I know are less than a dozen or twenty.
Regarding "LingchengFu", when we "discussed" with several elderly people in Tonglouzhang Village and the village director Zhu Wuzhou (Dengzi generation), several elderly people said that they had seen the words "Zhenchengfu" on the stone stele in front of the Guandi Temple in the village in the early liberation period, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the village also produced liquor with the brand of "Lingcheng". The elderly Zhu Genchang (Ke Zi Generation), who participated in the "symposium", worked in the distillery that year, and even the younger village director said that his family had framed the wall with the trademark of Lingcheng Baijiu.
Picture below: The patterns of the sacred deer containing grass (harmonic "Lu") and the double monkey offering peach (harmonic "Hou") on the gable of the old building in Louzhang Village, taking its meaning of "receiving Lu as heaven" and "hanging seal and sealing Hou".
So why is this village called Lou Zhang? In the Qing Dynasty, this village had a family with a surname, and built a three-story building that was rare at that time, and gradually called the village "Lou Zhang".
Below: A three-story old brick building named after Louzhang Village.
In Louzhang, when the Cultural Revolution leveled the tomb, one of the two old tombs of the "Three Grandfathers" and the "Four Grandfathers" was preserved and placed next to a dry well, until a few years ago, the dry well collapsed, and the tombstone fell into the well, because the tombstone was too heavy, and it was not salvaged, and it has now been filled in. But many old people in Lou Zhang remember this place and also write down the names on the tombstones, including the names of "Three Grandfathers" and "Four Grandfathers".
The elderly Zhu Guangqing of Louzhang Village, who had been the director of teaching at Changge YiZhong, once copied the inscription, but during the Cultural Revolution, he burned it for fear of being implicated, but he clearly remembered the inscriptions zhu Chaoqiu and Zhu Chaosheng on the tombstone and the general process of moving there.
Zhu Decang (Cantonese generation) and Zhu Fuji (Cantonese generation) bought by the king of the village where the "Great Grandfather" lived also provide evidence of the inscriptions of the fire temple in the village and quite rich legends (separately mentioned).
People of the oldest age of the Lou Zhang Zhu clan remember that in front of the ancestral grave, there is also Shinto, and there is a dragon carved above the tombstone. Shinto can only walk, not bury people. Later, the cemetery was full and buried separately, known as the East Tomb, the West Tomb and the South Tomb.
The three villages where the four brothers who moved to Changge with the "Grandmother Tai Lao" now have more than 2,000 mouths, and Lou Zhang occupies half of them.
(Those who participated in this survey and "discussion" were Zhu Rongkai, Zhu Dengping, Zhu Decang, and Zhu Fuji.) Previously, Zhu Dengping had gone to Louzhang many times to investigate. This article has been checked by several people. Zhu Rongkai: A native of Lanchuan Province, Dazhou Town, Changge City, and vice president of the Henan Clan Association of descendants of Zhu Xu of The Ming Zhou Clan; Zhu Dengping: A native of Lanchuan Province, Dazhou Town, Changge City, and deputy secretary general of the Henan Clan Association of the descendants of The Ming Zhou Clan; Zhu Decang: a member of the Standing Committee of the Changge City Wangmai Village and the Changge Zhu Clan Friendship Association (preparing); Zhu Fuji: Deputy Secretary General of the Changge City Wangmai Village And Changge Zhu Clan Clan Friendship Association (preparing). ）
Below: Those who participated in the "symposium" on March 12, 2019 (from left): front: Zhu Genchang (Ke Zi Generation), Zhu Rongsheng (Yong Zi Generation), Zhu Shulin (Guang Zi Generation), Zhu Decang (Guang Zi Generation), followed by Village Director Zhu Wuzhou (Deng Zi Generation).
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【About the author】Lu Zhichun, vice president of the Changge Municipal Cultural Promotion Association, "ticket friend" of the local history of Changge.
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