April 27, 2019 lunar calendar is the 407th anniversary of Xing Tong's death, in order to commemorate this famous calligrapher and literary artist, the author hereby writes this article to analyze and restore the original face of history, so as to commemorate the ancients.
Xing Dong (1551-1612), zi wish, number Zhiwu, self-titled Mian Sheng, late trumpet to come to the bird Jiyuan Mountain Lord, the world respected as the bird fuzi, Shandong Linyi County Xing Liuxing village people. Xing Dongming entered the priesthood in the middle of the second year of the Wanli Calendar, and the official reached the Shaoqing (四品) of the Taibu Temple in Shaanxi. In May of the fourteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, he resigned his official post and returned to his hometown, built a poultry house for twenty-six scenes, and studied for 26 years. Calligraphy is treasured at home and abroad, and is known as "people and books are the same price, and ink and gold are the same price".
Xing Tong's "Lai Fowl Pavilion Post" with double hooks and stones was praised in the Ming Dynasty as one of the top ten private carved posts. Xing Tong, together with Dong Qichang, Mi Wanzhong, and Zhang Ruitu, was called the "Four Greats of the Late Ming Dynasty". He was also known as "Northern Xingnan Dong" with Dong Qichang.
Xing Tong resigned at the age of 36, and he repeatedly refused the advice of friends to invite them to go out to be staff, taking filial piety as the first, always accompanying his parents, serving his parents, and raising his parents. Xing Tong fell ill in childhood, almost died, and was very strong when he became an adult. When he was serving as a senator in Huguang, he was transporting grain for the imperial court in the dangerous waves for many years, and unfortunately suffered from severe arthritis, and resigned from the government on the grounds of serving his parents.
After Xing Tong returned to his hometown, his body gradually healed, because he had an optimistic personality and an open mind, and he could still walk fast until he was 61 years old, coming and going in a hurry, without a single tooth defect, chewing fried soybeans "clucking" and making a sound, and his hair without a single stem of white hair, like a prime-age. The friend teased: "Zi Wish is not an ordinary person, like a fairy like a god." "But why did he suddenly die the next year?"
At that time, the news came out, and some friends who often walked around with Xing Dong were shocked and wondered why? Some people even had mixed doubts, suspecting that Xing Dong did not die a normal death.
Now, more researchers suspect that Xing Tong was assassinated. The reason was that Xing Dong hated the Wokou's constant aggression against Korea to the bone, and he immersed himself in studying the laws of the Wokou's activities, wrote the famous "Theory of the Wokou", analyzed in detail the characteristics of the Wokou and the geographical location of the Japanese island country in more than 7,000 words, proposed to the imperial court a strategic plan for sending troops to attack the Japanese island country, and wrote the "Pingwu Song" with a swinging intestine.
Wan Zongbo, Xu Zhishi, and others praised this, praising Xing Tong for "being a wise man, Xu Chen's knowledge, and his son's willingness to do both." "Thus, it aroused the hatred of the Wokou.
The author has been studying Xing Tong for nearly 20 years, has been paying close attention to this matter, and has a lot of information and evidence, and the conclusion is that Xing Tong did die of death, but was not poisoned by Wu Kou, but was killed by quacks. Some of the information will be published below to study and discuss with readers.
1. Inspector of Shandong and Shangshu of the Nanjing Military Department Huang Keyun was a good friend of Xing Tong, Huang Keyi was in charge of Shandong for more than ten years, and had come to Visit Xing Dong many times, and Xing Dong had also visited Jinan many times, and the two had a large number of correspondence exchanges, many of Huang Keyi's letters were entrusted to Ask Xing Dong for words, and many of the letters written by Xing Dong to Huang Keyi were mostly for the people to ask for orders, asking Huang Keyi to open a warehouse to release relief and relief for disaster victims.
After Xing Tong's death, Huang Keyi wrote in the "Biography of Mr. Xing Ziyuan": "Zi Yuansu was widowed, died prematurely because of the eldest son Wang Ruicai, missed a disease, suffered from secret knots, and the healer suddenly threw himself into it with a sharp agent and took it quickly." Yu heard in Jinan: Oh, the son wishes to be. Did Yao Monk Tan's words ever be unheard of? More than half a month has passed, and on the day of death, the sea knows and does not know..."
2. Li Weizhen, the Shangshu of Nanjing Libu, is a close friend of Xing Dong's literature, and he and Xing Tong, Wang Zhideng, Feng Shishi, and Dong Qichang are known as the "Five Sons of Zhongxing" in literature. After Xing Tong's death, Li Weizhen recorded in the "Epitaph of Mr. Xing Ziyan": "Zi Wish is strong and disease-free, and Wang Rui, the eldest son of Chen Ruren, has beautiful talents, died childless, mourned for more than a year, and was ill for forty days. The son is more please, the pawn is speechless, self-care of the belt, sitting upright and blind." Li Weizhen also wrote in the text "Sacrifice to Xing Zi Wish": "Forty days of public illness, he was strong, and the quack doctor took advantage of the medicine to cure it, and then he was reformed." ”
3. Feng Shike, Ziyuan Cheng, No. Wen Suo, Songjiang Huating people. Longqing was a five-year soldier, and successively served as a counselor in Guangdong, a counselor in the Yunnan Cloth Administration Department, a political department in Huguang Province, and a political department in Guizhou. Feng Shike and Xing Dong met in Pingshui, but they saw each other as before, and they hated each other late. In the thirty-third year of the Wanli Calendar, Feng Shishi went to Beijing to report for duty, and because the canal was frozen in Texas, he once came to live in Xing Dong's house for more than a month.
Feng Shican recorded in the "Epitaph of Mr. Xing Ziyan's Tomb": "Zi Wish is strong and diseaseless, with the eldest son Wang Rui youmei to die childless, mourning for more than a year, so sick for forty days, there is no chaos in the face of God, the book of aid is written: the sky is high and the water is long, the learning is the same, the five peaks are stopped, the small garden is not completed, and the Western Han book is not rotten." Just sit upright and stare, its sunset fierce wind and thunderstorm, russia and the heavens drumming, more than a day of beauty. ”
4. Shi Gaoxian, a native of Leling County, Shandong, the third son-in-law of Xing Dong, and the head of the Nanjing Ceremonial Department. He assisted his brother-in-law Xing Wang to publish his father-in-law Xing Tong's Lai Fowl House Collection. Shi Gaoxian recorded in the "Small Introduction to the Collection of Poultry Houses": "There are two in the sixties of the year, the beard is black, the wind god is strong, because of the early death of his son, the illness is forty days, and the quack doctor is for the benefit of the cure, so he is reformed." He died on April 27. ”
5. The "Wang Rui" mentioned by the above people is Xing Wang Rui, the eldest son of Xing Dong. According to the "Xing Family Ride", Xing WangRui, the word is blameless, the number of jade runes. Xing Wangrui has been beautiful since childhood, intelligent, did not like to be funny at an early age, and behaved like an adult at the age of four.
When Xing Wangrui was seven years old, Xing Tong personally taught him a hundred Tang poems on his lap, and Xing Wangrui was able to recite them like a stream. Xing Wangrui wrote poems at the age of nine with amazing words, and was regarded by Mr. As a "prodigy".
When he was fourteen years old, he wrote his father's calligraphy like a cool portrait, and he was almost chaotic when he wrote the Magu altar post. Wanli 37 years (1609) to take the exam, several consecutive exams down, the article is the first, the chief examiner Le Gong can not help but beat the festival praise: "Seven works like pottery soup, Shandong rarely have people." ”
Unexpectedly, Le Ji was sad, and Xing Wangrui accidentally violated the taboo of the imperial court in the last exam and was removed from the list on the spot. Xing Wangrui has been known as a prodigy since childhood, full of economics, but he is pregnant with talent and has a bumpy career. Wanli thirty-nine years of re-trial, yi feel depressed, he felt faceless to face his hometown father and elder, after returning home with a drapery to cover the doors and windows of his home, closed the door, depressed and died, only 34 years old.
According to the above records, a review of the lineage chart of the Xing Family Found that Xing Dong had five sons, and only Xing WangRui was born to Xing Dong's original wife, Chen Shi. Xing Dong and Chen Clan Qingmei Bamboo Horse, deep feelings, Chen Clan has a total of four sons in his lifetime, three of which died early, Xing Wang Rui is the only love crystallization of Xing Dong and Chen Clan.
In the fourteenth year of the Wanli Calendar, Chen died in childbirth at the age of 35. Xing Dong was devastated and vowed not to marry another woman. Xing Dong's parents said: "There is no zongzi without a clan wife, and there are few children and unmarried marriages. Xing Dong had no choice but to break his promise and marry Zhao. Now, after the loss of his beloved son, and Xing Wangrui has left no descendants, Xing Tong misses his deceased wife and son more and more, and often borrows wine to pour sorrow and drunkenness.
A year later, the depression became a disease, unfortunately suffering from old age constipation, which could not be cured for forty consecutive days. The quack doctor suddenly used laxatives to heal him, causing Xing Dong to dehydrate and die.
About author:: Sun Jiangong, a member of the Shandong Provincial Writers Association, was named "Dezhou City High-level Talent" in 2017, and his representative works are "Legend of Land Rover", "Xing Dong Research", "Xing Tong, Xing Cijing Brother and Sister Research", "Xing Tong, Xing Cijing Brother and Sister Story" and so on.