Tan brothers of Pengxi in the Ming Dynasty

All-media reporter Wang Xigang

Suining Pengxi has been full of talents throughout the ages. In the Ming Dynasty, 43 people in Pengxi County were selected during the township examination. Among them, 9 passed the temple examination and ascended to the throne. Among them, the Tan clan is the Ming Dynasty Pengxi County Wang clan, the examination reached 12 people, of which 6 people passed the examination, accounting for two-thirds of the total number of Pengxi Jinshi in the Ming Dynasty, especially Tan Miao, Tan Lu, Tan Wei brothers three, are all gold list titles, known as "one brother three jinshi".

Tan Miao, Ziyuan Xiaoxiao, Zhengde second year (1507) township examination, Zhengde twelfth year (1517) to participate in the examination, the temple examination, the examination of the third class 180th soldier. Tan was initially appointed as a pedestrian and later promoted to Inspector of Jiangxi Province. However, in the "Great Ceremony", Tan Miao's views made the emperor furious and he was punished with a staff on the spot.

Later, Tan Yi also participated in the impeachment of the powerful and forcible seizure of people's land, causing some trouble. Later, he impeached Wang Hong, a scholar in charge of the Hanlin Academy and an official. Wang Hong was so angry that he blushed and asked him, "Why do you need this?" Tan Miao replied angrily, "As a royal historian, since I know about you, I don't dare to hide it at all." At that time, people praised him as the "Iron Mask Imperial History". In the eleventh year of Jiajing, Tan Was promoted to deputy envoy of Henan.

Tan Miao was good at writing articles, and in the sixth year of Zhengde (1511), he wrote "Records of the Jinwen Zen Temple on Baogai Mountain"; in the first year of Jiajing (1522), he wrote "Immediately Blocking the Qian Clan for Tao"; in October of the fifth year of Jiajing (1526), he wrote the "Records of the Cultivation of Baofan Temple". In particular, the article "Records of the Construction of Baofan Temple" is very precious, and it is the earliest and most detailed historical material for the study of Baofan Temple and murals in the provincial cultural relics protection unit.

Tan Lu, tan's younger brother, took the township examination in the second year of Zhengde (1507) and was selected with Tan Miao; in the sixteenth year of Zhengde (1521), he was the 105th jinshi in the third class. The official served as the deputy envoy of Shaanxi, prepared the troops to consolidate the plains, and began to repair the border wall to ward off foreign troubles, so that the enemy did not dare to attack. During tan lu's tenure, the border was peaceful and he was repeatedly rewarded by the imperial court. Tan Lushan's calligraphy, Shu Character Chronicles and Sichuan Tongzhi contain his deeds.

Tan Wei's third brother Tan Wei , the 53rd jinshi of the second class in the seventeenth year of Jiajing (1538 ) examination , served as the head of the household department. After leaving Pengxi, he missed his mother all day long, known as Filial Piety. Later, when the inspector Yushi went out to Pengxi, he gave a plaque to commend the Tan family: the Zhongxiao family. Tan Miao and Tan Lu Tan Wei successively ascended to the Shidi, which made Pengxi a sensation, and people specially built the "Brother JinshiFang" outside the north gate of the county as a memorial.