Liang Xinli, "The Alien Lions of shejitan" (Capital Construction Daily, July 9, 2010): "This pair of stone lions is an antiquities relocated from Daming County, Hebei Province. In 1918, when Wang Huaiqing, the town guard of Daming County, was out on patrol, he found a pair of buried outcrop stone lions in a collapsed ancient temple. Deng Zitao, "The Stone Lion of the Song Dynasty of Daming in Beijing" (Handan Daily, September 22, 2007): "According to zhongshan park, the stone lion was excavated from an ancient temple in Daming in 1918, and when it was first discovered, the two stone lions were half buried in the ground. Wang Huaiqing, the town keeper of Damingfu, and Li Jieping, the commander-in-chief, paid for it and donated it to Central Park, and it was transported from Daming on November 14, 1918, and arrived in Beijing at the end of the year. ”
Did Wang Huaiqing really work as a "Daimyofu Town Guard" and a "Daming County Town Guard"?
Answer: No, because neither the Qing Dynasty nor the Beiyang government established this official position, and the correct official title should be "Ji'nan Zhenshou Envoy". Chronicle of Military and Political Officials in the Republic of China Period (edited by Guo Qingyou, Gansu People's Publishing House): "Ji'nan Town Guard: In June 1913, the general soldiers of Daming Town were re-established and stationed in Daming. Wang Huaiqing was appointed from 15 September 1914 to 31 July 1919). Chronology of Officials in the Seventeen Years After Xinhai (edited by Liu Shoulin, Zhonghua Bookstore, 1995): "In 1916, Wang Huaiqing was appointed as the guardian of Ji'nan Town, and in 1916 there was no Daimyo town guard, only Daimyo Daoyin. At that time, the daimyo Daoyin was Yao Liankui. "Diary of the History of the Republic of China" (author: Guo Tingyi, Institute of Recent History, Academia Sinica): "On September 15, 1914 (and the twenty-sixth day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar), Wang Huaiqing was appointed as the guardian of Ji'nan Town. ”
Zhen Shou Envoy, a temporary military rank during the Beiyang Government period in China, was set up in a certain important place in the province, and had similar powers to the former Qing General Soldiers (many town shou envoys are the former general soldiers who have changed the "Qing History Draft" Zhi 160, Bing 2: "The general soldiers of Daming Town command the three battalions of the town biao, and also have jurisdiction over the Kaizhou Association and the Daming City Shou battalion." Zhenbiao middle camp, left camp, right camp, Kaizhou Association, Dusheng camp, Dongming camp, Changyuan camp, Daming City Guard camp, Guangping camp, Shunde camp, Cizhou camp. Its official office is called the Town Guard Office. The town guards were all appointed by the Central War Department, often dispatched by active divisions and brigade commanders (lieutenant and major generals), and the source of the establishment was the "Interim Regulations on Escort Envoys" implemented on December 19, 1913. If it is located in a province with a military and political chief, it is a military establishment under the jurisdiction of the military and political chief and is subject to the control of the military and political chief; if there is no military or political chief in the province, the official or institution is in principle directly under the jurisdiction of the central government. Town guards are located in frontier areas and important big cities, such as Longdong town guards and Shanghai town guards. Later generations mostly classified the town guards of this period as one of the Warlords of Beiyang. It was not until the late 1920s, after the symbolic unification of China by the Nationalist government, that the official rank of town guard was gradually abolished.
A similar mistake was made in "Anecdotes of Wang Huaiqing, Commander of the Gyeonggi Garrison" (edited by Li Jianjun and Ji Hongjian, "The Guards of the Ancient Capital of Beijing"): "Chen Er was originally the person who shaved his head and trimmed his feet for Wang Huaiqing when he was serving as an envoy to Daming Town, and because he served well and won Wang Huaiqing's favor, he became Wang Huaiqing's "red man."
Some are even more bizarre. For example, on September 13, 2007, the Beijing People's Radio broadcast the "After Tea and Dinner Talk beijing" column "Stone Lion" bottom draft: "It is recorded that in 1918, a man named Wang Huaiqing, when he was inspecting Hebei Province as an inspector, saw two stone lions appearing in the rubble pile, let people pull them out, and then let people transport them to Beijing." Beijing's Zhongshan Park was opened to the public in 1914. An article from Zhongshan Park, "Ancient Altar Shen Yun Yao Jinghua - Zhongshan Park in the Long River of History": "There is also a pair of distinctive stone lions outside the south altar of the park, two lions weighing more than 8800 pounds, for the squatting style, straight back and chest, standing tall, majestic and handsome." In 1956, experts from the Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Group identified that "it may be a cultural relic of the Song Dynasty, which has a history of a thousand years." It was discovered in 1918 by Wang Huaiqing, the town guard of Daming Town, Henan Province, and Li Jieping, the commander-in-chief, in the ruins of an ancient temple, and bought and donated to Central Park. Not only did he write the "daimyo" as "Daming", but he also ran to Henan.