According to the Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point report:
The tomb of Ding Baozhen, a famous minister of the late Qing Dynasty, was confirmed by archaeologists in Jinan on the 10th.
Its location is located at the construction site of Shandong Electric Power Company, where a real estate project is to be developed.
Ding Baozhen's sixth-generation grandson Ding Jun has arrived in Jinan.
Ding Baozhen is a native of Guizhou and died in Sichuan, why does his grave appear in Jinan?
Ding Baozhen (1820-1886), courtesy name Zhi Huang, was a native of Niuchang Town, Pingyuan, Guizhou (present-day Zhijin County, Bijie City, Guizhou Province), and a famous courtier in the late Qing Dynasty.
In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the 33-year-old Ding Baozhen passed the examination for the jinshi, and then successively served as the Shu jishi of the Hanlin Yuan, the editor, the prefect of Yuezhou, the prefect of Changsha, the governor of Shandong, and the governor of Sichuan.
In his career as an official, Ding Baozhen had the courage to take responsibility, was honest and upright, and devoted his life to serving the country and loving the people.
During his tenure as governor of Shandong, he ruled the flooding of the Yellow River, founded Shandong's first government-run industrial enterprise, the Shandong Machine Manufacturing Bureau, and established Shangzhi Academy and Shandong's first official book bureau; during his ten years as governor of Sichuan, he reformed the salt administration, straightened out the administration of officials, repaired the Dujiangyan water conservancy project, and established foreign affairs to resist foreign insults.
In the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), Ding Baozhen died at the age of 66.
Under normal circumstances, Ding Baozhen should return to his hometown in Guizhou for burial after his death, but Ding Baozhen's situation is more special.
Soon after he entered the army, his mother died, and there were no direct elders in his hometown.
During the period of filial piety for his mother, a peasant uprising occurred in his hometown in Guizhou, and Ding Baozhen sold his ancestral property and formed an armed team to protect the order of the township.
Because there were no parents or houses in his hometown, Ding Baozhen took up posts in other places after that, and his relatives and relatives followed him to his post.
During his tenure in Shandong, Ding Baozhen's wife and second brother died one after another, and Ding Baozhen asked the imperial court for instructions to bury his relatives in Jinan.
After receiving special approval from the imperial court, Ding Baozhen purchased 10 acres of land in the south of Huashan Mountain in Jinan as a family cemetery, which was for "Ding Cemetery" and "Ding Jialin".
After Ding Baozhen died of illness in 1886 and was appointed governor of Sichuan, the fathers and elders of Shandong jointly signed the imperial court and requested that Ding Baozhen's coffin be transported back to Jinan, Shandong for burial in accordance with Ding Baozhen's wishes during his lifetime.
The following year, Ding Baozhen's coffin returned to Jinan and was buried on the east side of Lady Ding's tomb.
The gentry of Jinan "sacrificed in the countryside, and the soldiers and civilians wept."
Born in Guizhou and died in Sichuan, and eventually buried in Jinan, Shandong, Ding Baozhen's life can also be regarded as a bow to the country.
Qilu Evening News Qilu one-point reporter Zhang Jiulong
( One Point Izumi)