The Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems, edited by Song Guangmin and Wang Xinfa, were published and distributed by Unity Publishing House. The book is another literary and historical classic after the "Changyuan Jinshizhi", "Changyuan Ancient Poetry Collection", "Changyuan Gentleman's Cultural Chronicle", "The Chronicle of Changyuan County of the Republic of China" and other books.
The book has a total of 528 pages, 500,000 words, a large 16-open layout, a cloth pattern hard shell cover, a line folding arc, and the binding is beautiful and generous, simple and thick.
The content of "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems" consists of four parts. The first part is Wang Yongguang's poems, including a total of 231 of his works. This is the entire work of Wang Yongguang's poetry that can be seen at present. Its content involves government, military, literary circles, social style, and personal family and friendship. His poetic style is high and ancient, poetic and majestic, with wide range of classics and free literary style. From this, we can not only admire Wang Yongguang's personality charm, but also glimpse the official form of the dynasty, and even comb the social customs of the late Ming Dynasty, which is an artistic reproduction of the history of the late Ming Dynasty. The second part is a special collection of "Four Friends and Two Old Poems of Nongchen". It includes the reward poems of Hubu Shangshu and Prince Taibao Bi Ziyan, Shangshu Shen Yan of the Punishment Department, Li Tengfang of the Libu Shangshu, Zhang Yandeng of the Ministry of Works, and others who were jinshi in the same year as Wang Yongguang, who was also an official of the same dynasty and a good friend of Wang Yongguang, reproducing a good story that caused a sensation in the literary world at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The "Four Friends and Two Old Poems of Renchen" is of great documentary value for the study of Wang Yongguang and the literary history of the late Ming Dynasty and the history of dynastic politics. The third part is other literature about Wang Yongguang. Most of the relevant documents included in it, such as Wang Yongguang's performance of the emperor and the emperor's edicts, as well as Wang Yongguang's descendants Wang Pengzhu and Wang Luanchao, are also published for the first time, which has important historical value for the study of Wang Yongguang and his family history. The fourth part is a photocopy of Wang Yongguang's "Bingyutang Poetry Grass", which preserves the original engraving of Wang Yongguang's poems.
The "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems" has a great amount of historical information. It is an indispensable and important document for the study of Wang Yongguang and the history of the Ming Dynasty.
Attached: Reverence for the Sages And Poetry
—— Preface to "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems"
Song Guangmin
Changyuan, an ancient and magical land, has a long history, splendid civilization and rich cultural heritage. The 6,500-year-old Yangshao cultural sites in Dingluan Town, The 4,500-year-old Yangshao Cultural Sites in Puxi Street, Su Tomb in Puxi Street, Xiaogang in Pudong Street, Yiqiu in Mancun Town, Dayu in Zhangsanzhai Town, and Qinggang in Fanxiang Town, prove that the dawn of human civilization was the earliest to shine in the East. During the Xia Dynasty, Changyuan was the ancient land of "Mingtiao" in Yuzhou; in the Spring and Autumn Period, the city was built and ruled, which was the seat of the Weiguo "Kuang" and "Pu" two yi; during the Qin Dynasty, a county was set up, named Changyuan, which was changed several times and is still used today. In the long course of history, there have been major historical events here that have changed the course of Chinese history. For example, in the sixteenth century BC, the "Battle of Mingtiao" of Xia and Shang, which changed dynasties for the first time in China's history; during the Warring States period, the "Battle of Guiling" of Qi and Wei, which was sung for thousands of years with the theme of "encircling Wei to save Zhao"; the "Battle of Kuangting" in which Cao Cao and Yuan Shu competed for the Central Plains in the last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty; And so on. All of this has left a profound cultural accumulation on the land of Changyuan.
It is also the hot land of Zhong Lingyuxiu that gave birth to Guan Longqi, the "first loyal servant of China" in Chinese history who was known for his death advice; the "Chinese gentleman" Yu Boyu, who gave birth to the "Chinese gentleman" who "knew the wrongs of the poor", "Shu Scroll has the Way", and opened the precedent of "ruling the country with virtue"; and achieved the "Five Honest Officials of the Han Dynasty" and "The Six Festivals of the Tang Dynasty". Especially in the late Ming Dynasty, which was unified, the "Seven Shangshu of Changyuan" represented by Hu Rui, Hu Ding, Li Hualong, Cui Jingrong, Wang Yongguang, Wang Jiazhen, and Xu Zongli emerged. With the loyalty, tenacity, wisdom and ability of the Changyuan people, or walking in the temple or galloping on the battlefield, they supported the unification of the Ming Dynasty and created the thousand autumns of glorious descendants. Among them, Wang Yongguang, the "elder of the Four Dynasties", is most concerned by historians for his magnificent life with the longest time in history and in the whirlpool of the "Donglin" and "eunuch party" struggles.
Wang Yongguang (王永光), also spelled Youfu (Chinese: 王永光; pinyin: Wáng Yūng), was born in the 40th year of Ming Jiajing (1561) and died in the 11th year of Ming Chongzhen (1638). In the twentieth year of the Ming Dynasty (1592), the Nongchen Branch Jinshi and the first. He was initially awarded the title of Zhongshu Sheren (中書舍人), and later became a post of Zhu Guo (柱国), Guanglu Dafu (光禄大夫), shangshu (吏部尚書) and crown prince Taifu Jia Shao (太傅加少保), and was a courtier of the four dynasties of Wanli, Taichang, Tianqi, and Chongzhen in the late Ming Dynasty.
The era of Wang Yongguang's officialdom coincided with the intensification of internal contradictions in the Ming Dynasty and the rise of hostile forces abroad. Inside, there were the "eunuch party" headed by Wei Zhongxian who controlled the government, the "Donglin Party" represented by Zuo Guangdou who rose up to resist, the peasant uprisings that rose and fell one after another, and the Wukou nuisance to the sea frontier and the later Golden Tiger and Wolf division invaded the frontier. As a pillar of the imperial court, Wang Yongguang took it as his own defense to be honest and loyal, honest and honest, and did not rely on the "castration party" nor befriend the "Donglin", with great wisdom and courage to reconcile the contradictions between the two sides, to maintain the normal operation of the Ming Dynasty's government, and to take the courage to take responsibility as his own responsibility, sacrificed himself to quell the chaos, swore to die against the Qing, and made an immortal contribution to the Ming Dynasty's "Jin Ou Yonggu", so that his career path "fell twice" without remorse.
In August of the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), the "Change of Nanjing's Clamor" began, and the imperial court appointed Wang Yongguang as the prince of The Nanjing Bingbu Shangshu and the title of Prince Taibao to quell the rebellion. He braved the summer to ride alone and galloped, arrived at the ren office in less than ten days, listened to the report of his subordinates in the starry night, grasped the situation, and resolutely arrested Yang Shan and his gang, so that the military chaos could be quickly quelled. In October of the same year, Nurhaci led the Qing army south to Ningyuan, and the government and the opposition were shaken. The imperial court ordered Wang Yongguang to summon his ministers to discuss countermeasures. When the group was timid and helpless, Wang Yongguang vigorously defied the consensus of the people, vowed to fight to the death against the Qing, supported Yuan Chonghuan and the border guards to hold ningyuan, faced the Qing soldiers, and personally arranged for the transportation of grain and grass needed on the front line and reinforcements to meet the various affairs, ensuring that Yuan Chonghuan led his army to kill the enemy, causing Nurhaci to be seriously injured and fleeing north in a panic, achieving the famous "Ningyuan Victory" in the history of the anti-Qing Resistance.
When the "castrated party" interfered in government affairs and the arrogance was raging, Wang Yongguang, as a "heavy minister of the three dynasties," was not afraid of power and power, was not co-opted by Wei Zhongxian, and was meritocratic and did not favor favoritism, and vigorously advocated the use of famous anti-Qing generals Zu Dabi and Liu Zeqing, who had contradictions with Wei Zhongxian, thus angering the Wei party and being attacked by the Wei party, so that Wang Yongguang fought with "firm intentions to beg for rest." In the sixth year of the Apocalypse (1626), a large explosion occurred at the Wang Gong Factory in Beijing. Proceeding from the interests of the state, Wang Yongguang disregarded his own safety, and took this opportunity to present the "Catastrophic Chen Yan Shu" to the emperor, generously saying that the big explosion was caused by the Wei Party's chaotic government, daxing unjust imprisonment, indiscriminate killing of dissidents, and heavenly punishment, and directly advised the emperor that the emperor should cut off the castration party and zhaoxue unjustly imprisoned, so as not to invite heavenly grievances again, but to ask heaven to bless Daming. In this regard, Wei Zhongxian and others were even more furious, and they gritted their teeth in hatred for Wang Yongguang.
Due to Wang Yongguang's special status, the "Donglin Party" people also tried their best to win Wang Yongguang into a strong lineup in the struggle against the Wei Party. Wang Yongguang had a sober understanding of the so-called "Donglin Party" people who regarded themselves as "Qingliu", and they always maintained the form of being inseparable from them and did not form a party in "Donglin", which caused the "Donglin Party" people to also be dissatisfied with Wang Yongguang, so that when the "History of Ming" was revised in the Qing Kangxi period decades later, the descendants of the "Donglin Party" still had a grudge against Wang Yongguang and removed it from the "History of Ming" and did not record it.
Due to historical reasons, Wang Yongguang's great achievements as the "elder of the Four Dynasties" are rarely recorded in later history books. Even the Chronicle of Changyuan County, compiled by his hometown people after his death, only a few words are recorded in the "political affairs" entry. Obviously, this is unjust. The historical records of later generations that bear historical facts owe an objective historical account to Wang Yongguang, the "minister of a generation."
It is precisely for this reason that in recent years, in the process of excavating, sorting out, and compiling the Changyuan Literature and History Classics, I have deliberately collected the historical materials of Wang Yongguang, and with a reverence for the sages, I have made public the historical materials that record and carry this "able minister" and "sage" to the world, so as to restore the original appearance of history. For example, in the "Changyuan Jinshizhi" (2019 Xi'an Map Publishing House) edited by me, the "Ming Shangshu Wang Yongguang Epitaph" was included, filling the gap in the genealogical information of Wang Yongguang's family; in the "Changyuan Ancient Poetry Collection" (2019 Zhongzhou Ancient Books Publishing House) edited by me, Wang Yongguang's poems were included for the first time, so that "a generation of courtiers" stood in front of the world with the appearance of "a generation of poets".
Comrade Wang Xinfa is the 20th grandson of Wang Yongguang, a great Ming official, who is a collection of outstanding grassroots party affairs workers and poets, and has been awarded the honorary titles of "Star of Pioneering and Striving for Excellence" by the Henan Provincial CPC Committee and "Meritorious Secretary" by the Xinxiang Municipal Cpc Committee of the CPC, and has created and published poems such as "Village Officials's Collection", "Sifei Zhai Miscellaneous Songs", "Pu Liu Collection", and "Selected Poems of Wang Xinfa". Over the years, he was full of enthusiasm for the prosperity and development of Changyuan, and had a strong interest in the excavation and promotion of Changyuan's literary history, especially the simple admiration for the historical merits of his ancestor Wang Yongguang. After the "Changyuan Ancient Poetry Collection" first recorded and reproduced Wang Yongguang's poems, Comrade Xinfa intended to compile another monograph of Wang Yongguang's poems, so that Wang Yongguang's poems, which carried a lot of historical information and artistic connotations, would be more completely passed on to the world. Therefore, with the full planning, participation and support of Comrade Xinfa, this "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems", which is the richest and most objective so far, integrates poetry and historical materials and can be presented to the world, thus filling the gap in the study of Wang Yongguang's poetics and historiography.
The content of "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems" consists of four parts. The first part is Wang Yongguang's poems, which contain a total of 231 of his works. This is the entire work of Wang Yongguang's poetry that can be seen so far. The second part is a special collection of "Four Friends and Two Old Poems of Nongchen". It includes the reward poems of Hubu Shangshu and Prince Taibao Bi Ziyan, Shangshu Shen Yan of the Punishment Department, Li Tengfang of the Libu Shangshu, Zhang Yandeng of the Ministry of Works, and others who were jinshi in the same year as Wang Yongguang, who was also an official of the same dynasty and a good friend of Wang Yongguang, reproducing a good story that caused a sensation in the literary world at the end of the Ming Dynasty. The "Four Friends and Two Old Poems of Renchen" is of great documentary value for the study of Wang Yongguang and the literary history of the late Ming Dynasty and the history of dynastic politics. The third part is other literature about Wang Yongguang. Most of the relevant documents included in it, such as Wang Yongguang's performance of the emperor and the emperor's edicts, as well as Wang Yongguang's descendants Wang Pengzhu and Wang Luanchao, are also published for the first time, which has important historical value for the study of Wang Yongguang and his family history. The fourth part is a photocopy of Wang Yongguang's Bingyutang Poetry Grass. The original engraving of Wang Yongguang's "Bingyutang Poetry Grass" is currently treasured in the Changyuan Extraterritorial Book Agency, and I borrowed it from my peers, and electronically scanned a copy, which is specially attached to the book to preserve the original appearance of Wang Yongguang's poems as engraved, which can also be regarded as a responsibility for history.
The "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems" has a great amount of historical information. Its content involves government, military, literary circles, social style, and personal family and friendship. His poetic style is in a word: high style, poetic and majestic, wide and broad, and free literary style. From this, we can not only admire Wang Yongguang's personality charm, but also spy on the official form of the current dynasty, and even more can sort out the social customs of the late Ming Dynasty. It can be said that "Notes on Wang Yongguang's Poems" is an artistic reproduction of the history of the late Ming Dynasty.
Unfortunately, limited to his own shallow feelings and the busyness of the current school's "Chronicle of Changyuan County", he was unable to make in-depth research and artistic analysis of Wang Yongguang's poetry, and this regret can only wait for the later gentlemen to work hard to fill the vacancies, but his admiration for the sage Wang Yongguang.