Talk about Kublai Khan's descendant, the famous educator Liang Shuming, and the Yuan Empire's Liang King of Yunnan

Liang Shuming was a celebrity in the field of Chinese culture and thought in the twentieth century and a famous social activist.

Liang Shuming, from 1893 to 1988, lived for ninety-four years, his ancestral home was Guilin, Guangxi, and he was born in Beijing. He was a descendant of the late Yuan Dynasty Liang king Zaravarmi, so he took Liang as his clan. The Liang King of Yuan was a descendant of Kublai Khan's fifth son, Kublai Khan, so Liang Shuming was a descendant of Kublai Khan's concubines.

Liang Shuming

Liang Shuming was born in Beijing, primary and secondary school, both in Beijing, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, when he was seventeen years old, he joined Sun Yat-sen's League, dedicated to overthrowing the Manchu Qing and restoring China. After graduating from middle school, he served as the editor and reporter of the Republic of China Daily of the Beijing-Tianjin Branch of the League.

In 1916, when Liang Shuming was twenty-three years old, he was hired by Cai Yuanpei to teach at Peking University, teaching introductions to Indian philosophy.

In the following decades, Liang Shuming traveled to Hebei, Shandong, Hong Kong, Guangxi, Chongqing and other places, engaged in lectures and writings, as well as rural practical activities.

In 1928, Liang Shuming modeled on the ancient Chinese "Lü's Township Covenant" and put forward the idea of "township governance" that the transformation of society should start from the countryside, which rose to prominence and was approved and supported by the KMT Central Political Conference. During this period, Liang Shuming even became a guest of Honor of Chiang Kai-shek.

In 1938, Liang Shuming participated in politics as a national and went to Yan'an to investigate.

Liang Shuming's most famous event is the 1953 incident, which has since withdrawn from the stage of history.

After the reform and opening up at the end of the 1970s, Liang Shuming was re-active for a period of time, but at this time he was old, and the later period was mainly based on physical maintenance. In June 1988, Liang Shuming died in Beijing and was buried in his hometown of Guilin, Guangxi, while some of his ashes were buried in Zouping, Shandong Province, where he practiced his theory of rural construction during his lifetime.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Kublai Khan's two descendants took turns ruling Yunnan. Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan Dynasty, had ten sons and six daughters, of which the second son was Prince Zhenjin, and the fifth son, Ku Gechi, was crowned the King of Yunnan. After the death of Ku Gechi, his son Also First Timur attacked the King of Yunnan. Also first Timur had two sons: Tuohun Buha and Tuolu.

At that time, there was another Liang king, who was the eldest son of Prince Zhenjin, Ganmala, who was sealed in Kaifeng, Henan in 1290, and later, renamed Yunnan, and in 1292, he was renamed king of Jin and moved to Mobei. However, he had a line of descendants, his son Songshan and his grandson Wang Chan, who remained in Yunnan and inherited the throne of Liang, but Wang Chan was eventually killed by the powerful minister Yan Timur, so polo, the son of another line of Tuolu, was able to succeed him as the King of Liang and guard Yunnan.

Polo's son, Zaravarmi, was the last Liang king. In 1368, the Yuan imperial family left Dadu and fled to Mobei, after which Zaravarmi remained in Yunnan and repeatedly sent emissaries to Mobei to meet the Northern Yuan Khan and show his allegiance. After Zhu Yuanzhang pacified Sichuan, due to the remoteness of Yunnan, the Central Plains people went there, and the water and soil were not satisfied, so they did not want to use troops, so they persuaded the King of Liang to surrender, but they were refused.

In 1381, Ming Taizu sent Fu Youde, Lan Yu, and Mu Ying to lead an army of 300,000 to conquer Yunnan. Yunnan had two major centers, East and West, at that time, Liang Wang shou Kunming, Dali governor Duan Shi shou Dali. Earlier, king Liang, jealous of Dali's power, assassinated Duan Gong, the governor of Dali, and Duan Gong's wife, Agai County, was the daughter of King Liang, and died of martyrdom, and posterity built a shrine to commemorate Princess Agai and Duan Gong, known as Agu Temple.

Because of this incident, when the Ming army killed, Dali Duanshi stood by and watched, the King of Liang was equal to a broken arm, could not resist, the Yuan army was defeated, the King of Liang took Zaravarmi, forced his wife to surrender to Dianchi, although he himself escaped from Kunming, but eventually committed suicide with his ministers in a grass hut, and Ming successfully unified Yunnan.

The King of Liang moved some of The descendants of Zaravarmi to Guangxi, and eventually became fully Sinicized.