Speaking of Yue Fei, everyone must be familiar with it, and his "Man Jiang Hong" expresses the sadness and indignation of a patriotic general for the country being deeply caught in the hands of the enemy, his ardent desire for national reunification, and his bold loyalty to the country to the imperial court. However, such a mighty and righteous general who was loyal to the country was finally killed under the design of the faint king and the traitor, and his magnificent life and tragic end made people feel very sorry at the same time. In order to punish the adulterers and promote the good, the descendants cast iron kneeling statues of the four adulterers in front of Yue Fei's tomb to repent for Yue Fei and let future generations spit and curse. This kneeling has been on the knee for more than eight hundred years, and now someone wants to rehabilitate them.
Yue Fei (岳飞), courtesy name Pengju, was born in the second year of chongning in the Northern Song Dynasty (24 March 1103), a native of Tangyin County, Xiangzhou (present-day Tangyin County, Henan). The famous anti-Gold general, military and calligrapher of the Southern Song Dynasty ranked first among the "Four Generals of Zhongxing" in the Southern Song Dynasty. Since the age of 20, Yue Fei has served in the army four times, participating in and commanding hundreds of large and small battles. (Photographed in 2020 at West Lake in Hangzhou, Zhejiang.) ）
Among them, Yue Fei's most well-known event is that his mother encouraged Yue Fei to be loyal to the country, and engraved the words "Jing Loyal to the Country" on his back. This incident has been widely circulated by later generations, and even inspired many young people to follow suit and dedicate their lives to the security of the country.
In the third year of Shaoxing (1133), Yue Fei was appreciated by the general Zong Ze because of his outstanding skills, and was appointed as an envoy along the river. In the fourth year of Shaoxing (1134), Yue Fei lived up to Zong Ze's high expectations and recaptured the six counties of Xiangyang in one fell swoop. In the sixth year of Shaoxing (1136), Yue Fei led an army in the Northern Expedition and successfully captured the prefectures of Yi, Luo, Shang, and Yu. For a time, the Yue family's army was famous, and rebel armies from all over the country turned to Yue Fei's command.
In the tenth year of Shaoxing (1140), after Yan Zongbi unilaterally destroyed the alliance and led tens of thousands of Jin troops to attack the Southern Song Dynasty, Yue Fei was ordered to wave the Northern Expedition again, and for a time the common people along the road rushed to tell each other, and the momentum was like a rainbow. During the battle, Yue Fei keenly grasped the fighter plane, broke the Golden Army, and successively recaptured Zhengzhou, Luoyang and other places. However, at this time, Emperor Gaozong of Song and the chancellor Qin Ju were bent on peace, and ten gold medals were issued in a row, and Yue Fei had no choice but to return to the dynasty, burying the good situation of recovering the rivers and mountains of the Song Dynasty.
Just as the Southern Song Dynasty was negotiating peace with the Jin State, Qin Ju, together with Zhang Jun, Wan Qianjie (mò qí Xiè) and others, framed Yue Fei for secretly colluding with the Jin State and put him in prison. In the eleventh year of Shaoxing (28 January 1141), Yue Fei, his eldest son Yue Yun, and his general Zhang Xian were killed by Qin Ju at Fengbo pavilion (on the banks of the Xiaodong Bridge in present-day Hangzhou) on charges of "false accusations". The jailer risked his life to carry Yue Fei's body out of the city and buried it in the pile of snail shells in the Jiuqu Cong Ancestral Hall outside the Qiantang Gate, marked by two orange trees, and the tombstone was written with the words "Jia Yiren Tomb".
It was not until after Emperor Xiaozong of Song ascended the throne that Yue Fei was unjustly punished, and Yue Fei was reburied in Qixialing on the shore of Hangzhou's West Lake, and built the Temple of Yue Wang, posthumously honoring Wu Mu, and later posthumously honoring Zhongwu and posthumously honoring him as king of E. As a patriotic general and national hero, Yue Fei was highly respected by future generations. However, at that time, there was no kneeling statue of Qin Juniper and others in front of Yue Fei's tomb.
For thousands of years, Yue Fei's spirit of being loyal to the country has touched countless patriots. In the eleventh year of Chenghua in the Ming Dynasty (1475), Zhou Mu, an envoy to Zhejiang Province, in order to express his admiration for Yue Fei and his dislike for Qin Juniper, first cast a kneeling statue of Qin Juniper and his wife with iron in front of Yue Fei's tomb. Later, due to the wind and rain, the kneeling was damaged like decay. In the eighth year of Ming Zhengde (1513), Zhejiang Du commanded General Li Long to cast iron kneeling statues again, only this time casting three kneeling statues of Qin Jun, Wang Shi, and Wan Qianyu with their hands cut backwards. When the people found out, they came to beat the kneeling statues to vent their anger.
Later, the kneeling statue was damaged, and when it was reforged again, the kneeling statues of Zhang Jun and Luo Ruji were added, and since then Yue Fei's tomb has become five kneeling statues. During the Qing Yongzheng period, when Li Wei was serving in Zhejiang, he felt that Luo Ruji was not famous enough, so he moved his portrait away. According to historical records, in the past 800 years, the kneeling statues of these traitors have been cast 12 times, and some of the yuewang temples in China are still five kneeling statues. It is true that "Aoyama has the honor to bury loyal bones, and white iron innocently casts servants".
These kneeling bodies have been kneeling for more than eight hundred years, beaten and scolded by countless people, and even some people have spit on them. However, recently some scholars believe that Qin Ju and others have only carried the black cauldron for people, and the real culprit behind the scenes is Zhao Shuo. Moreover, some descendants who called themselves Qin Juniper asked for the removal of the iron statue that had been kneeling for more than 800 years, and they believed that even the most serious sin should be redeemed. As soon as this remark came out, netizens fried the pan and thought it was a big joke. However, the scenic spot also said: we should respect history, and what history has left behind cannot be demolished! What are your thoughts on this?