As we all know, Yue Fei is a national hero in Chinese history, and his patriotic feelings and heroism have always been admired by posterity. However, there is a village of more than 5,000 people in Jingchuan County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province, northwest of China, which still retains three ancestral precepts: one is to prohibit the viewing of literary and artistic works related to Yue Fei, including various novels and film and television dramas, the second is to prohibit the marriage of the same surname and the same ethnic group, and the third is to prohibit any outsiders from stepping into the ancestral hall of the Yan clan.
Regardless of Yue Fei, why did the people of Wanyan Village resist Yue Fei so much? It turns out that there is a big secret behind it.
To solve the mystery, let's first briefly take a look at the history of that year.
At that time, because the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty was faint, the restless Jin State had always been eyeing the Central Plains and often entered the invasion. The general of the Southern Invasion of the Jin Kingdom was named Jin Wushu.
Jin Wushu was originally named Guanyan Zongbi, he was brave and good at war, a man with a martial strategy of Wentao, the founding father of the Jin Kingdom, but an invader of the Northern Song Dynasty. Because of his repeated military achievements in the process of invading the Northern Song Dynasty, he was the "hero" of the Jin Dynasty.
And the Southern Song Dynasty is not without talents, Yue Fei is one of them.
Yue Fei learned martial arts from an early age and joined the army against the Liao at the age of 19. In 1126, the Jin army invaded the Central Plains on a large scale, and Yue Fei fought with the Jin army in order to protect his family and the country, and won many great victories. Therefore, Yue Fei became a famous anti-Jin general.
In this way, Jin Wushu and Yue Fei became mortal opponents.
In 1129, the Jin general Wushu led the Jin army to invade the south again, the anti-Jin general Du Chong led the army to abandon Kaifeng and flee south, Jin Wushu led the army to pursue, and Du Chong finally chose to surrender. After that, the Jin Wushu division continued to move south, and Emperor Gaozong of Song was forced into exile at sea.
At the moment of crisis, Yue Fei stepped forward and led his army to fight with Jin Wushu to the death. As a result, the two armies fought, and Yue Fei's army actually fought six battles and six victories, successfully stopping the jin soldiers' march.
In the following year, Yue Fei set up an ambush at Niutou Mountain, broke the Golden Wushu, recaptured Jiankang, and forced the Jin army to retreat north.
Later, Yue Fei defeated Jin Wushu one by one, and the recovery of the lost land was just around the corner. Yue Fei excitedly said to the generals, "Smash the Yellow Dragon Mansion and drink with the kings!" ”
However, his soon encounter was hit in the head, and Song Gaozong and Qin Ju were bent on peace, and issued twelve golden tablets in a row, ordering Yue Fei to retreat. After returning to the Dynasty, he was relieved of his military powers.
When Emperor Gaozong of Song sent Qin Ju to ask For Peace with Jin, Jin Wushu put forward a request, 6 words: "Must kill and fly, can be reconciled." In the end, Qin Ju, at the behest of Emperor Gaozong of Song, killed Yue Fei on the charge of "false accusations".
After Yue Fei's death, the Song Jin dynasty was successful, and the ambitious Jin Wushu took sole control of the Jin dynasty, and his son Yan Heng was also crowned the Prince of Rui. However, the Golden Wushu did not enjoy the blessings of Qingfu for long, and in 1148 AD, the Golden Wushu fell ill and died.
After Jin Wushu's death, King Hailing usurped the throne after Yan Liang and was very suspicious of Yan Heng. And Finished Yan Heng was completely unaware, and even after Finished Yan Liang gave Finished Yan Heng a good bow, FinishEd Yan Heng actually said that the bow was too soft to be used at all. After Yan Liang listened, he sent someone to buy off a servant in Yan Heng's mansion and instructed the servant to falsely accuse Yan Heng of rebellion. Therefore, the Hailing King Guanyan Liang arrested Guanyan Heng and killed the killer.
After Yan Heng's death, his family members were also framed, so in order to survive, some of his family members fled with Yan Heng's ashes to The Stability left behind by the old Jin Wushu department, that is, today's Jingchuan County, Gansu. And the complete Yan Heng was buried here, because the complete Yan Heng was the King of Rui before his death, so the tomb of the completed Yan Heng was also called the "Tomb of the King of Rui".
According to the "History of Jin", the son of Jin Wushu, the fourth prince of the Jin Dynasty, Completed Yan Heng, had accompanied his father in the conquest since childhood, and was both wise and courageous, and during the jin xizong period, he was an official to Yipin and was crowned the king of Rui. However, King Hailing, the son of Jin Wushu's eldest brother Zong Gan, held a grudge against his failure to inherit the throne, and King Hailing usurped the throne after Jin Wushu's death by killing Emperor Xizong.
Today, the villagers of Wanyan Village are not all descendants of the Shouling people, and fifty years before Guanyan Heng moved to Jingchuan, Jingchuan was already inhabited by soldiers of the Guanyan family. More than sixty years after Yan Heng was buried in Jingchuan, the coffin of the last emperor of the Jin Dynasty, Who was killed in CaiZhou, Henan, was also buried here by the tomb keepers.
That is to say, the descendants of Wanyan Village were formed by these three migrations. According to the Records of Jingchuan County, it is said that the Completed Yan clan of Jingchuan was a descendant of the Jurchens, and it was formed by the descendants of the last emperor who fled west to this place.
For more than 800 years, the descendants of Wanyan have basically integrated into the local culture, but there are still some unique customs. After the fall of the Jin Dynasty, in order to avoid persecution, it has been anonymized and called itself a Han Chinese. Since then, they have continued to integrate with the local Han people, and they are also learning the farming techniques of the Han people, and gradually assimilated by the Han people.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, because the Manchus considered themselves to be descendants of the Jurchens of the Jin Dynasty, the Yan clan here gradually changed back to their original surnames. It is reported that because of the "recognition of ancestors and return to the ancestors", this humble village, the Qing government gave them 2,000 acres of official land, and only need to pay less than 50 taxes and silver per year. All other taxes were confiscated and could be disposed of freely, so the village of Guanyan was greatly developed.
Nowadays, the pure-blooded descendants of Guanyan can no longer be found, and with the rise of the local tourism industry, the historical sites here are gradually commercialized, so the three ancestral precepts of Wanyan Village are now also beginning to loosen, and there is a tendency to gradually be abandoned. Visitors can also visit the ancestral hall at will, to know that the ancestral hall has witnessed the development history of the village for more than 800 years, and also represents that the village was once a descendant of the royal family, and also represents the historical story of the broken and chaotic.