Zongchen and Hundred Flowers Continent
(1) Hundred Flowers Island
Xianfeng's "Chronicle of Rebuilding Xinghua County" says: "Hundred Flowers Island, Nanguo Wai, Mingyi Ren zong zhou and his sons and daughters to read, there is a Furui Hall, Tongwen Bridge. The subject died in Min, buried under him, and erected a shrine. According to this, Baihuazhou is located outside the southern city of Xinghua Ancient City, built with a Furui Hall, which is connected with the Wenlin Bridge in the city, which is the place where Zong Zhou and his sons of Zongchen of Xinghua in the Ming Dynasty read, and it is also the place where Zongchen is buried and sacrificed.
Who are Zong Zhou and Zong Chen? Xianfeng's "Chronicle of Re-repairing Xinghua County": "Zong Zhou, Zi Weihan, Yi Zi Li An, Jiajing Ten Zhongxiang Ju, Zhijin Xiang Zhi County, Moved to Sichuan Xuzhou Prefecture Tongjue, Entered Guangdong Zhaoqing Fu Tongzhi, Promoted Tonzhong of the Southern Punishment Department, transferred to The Prefect of Mahu, Sichuan." Honesty and honesty should not be selfish, but there is a favorable government. ...... The official was too guarded to beg for rest, and Dumen did not see the guests. ...... Reading a hundred flowers, early industriousness is like HanSu. "Biography of Emperor Ming Shi Zongchen": "Zong chen, zi xiang, Yangzhou Xinghua people." The chief of the Punishment Department transferred the examination skills, returned from illness, built a hundred flowers on the island, and read among them. Rise up the old official, transfer the selection of texts. The foreign lang of the Jin Inspectorate, Yan Song evil, was appointed as a senator in Fujian. In the city of Wubo, the subjects guarded the West Gate, and there were tens of thousands of people who took refuge in the inner countryside. Or to speak of thieves and compulsions, that is, "I am, and I am not worried about thieves." "Fight back with the Lord." The deputy envoys, the officials, and the soldiers all wept. ”
The ancient city was built on the waterfront, and the city wall followed the water potential. Baihuazhou is located in the waterfront area outside the south city, and the Xinghua Confucian Temple and the Xuegong Palace in the city are close, only separated by a wall, due to the barrier of the city wall, here back to the city face the water, secluded and deep, beautiful scenery, is indeed a good place to read. Zong Zhou's father and son built a room to study here, which not only enjoyed the tranquility of this place, but also facilitated communication with their peers, which can be described as unique insight.
The Xinghua Zong clan was one of the largest surname families in the Song Dynasty after Zong Ze, a famous anti-Jin general in the Song Dynasty, and built a residence in the North Hou family of Shiqiao outside the West City Gate of Xinghua. Hundred Flowers Continent is considered to be a zongshi's other business. In his early years, Zongchen often studied here with his father. According to the report, Zongchen Washui, "Born different." Eyes twinkle. Slightly longer, the diary is thousands of words, should be tested by the county, and the strange text. Sixteen into the county school, every test first."
(ii) The last seven sons
In the twenty-eighth year of Jiajing, Zongchen was twenty-five years old and won the township examination. In the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing, Zongchen Jinshi and the first, won the third place in the second division. Together with Xu Zhongxing, Liang Youyu, and Wu Guolun, He was a zhongjinshi in the same department, Zong, Liang, and Xu were all the chiefs of the Punishment Department, and Wu was a Zhongshu She. As early as before, initiated by Li Xianfang, Li Panlong, Wang Shizhen, and others inherited the literary propositions of the former "Seven Sons" and held high the banner of "Wen Bi Qin Han, Poetry Bi Sheng Tang", and had already formed associations in the capital. Because of similar interests, Later Zongchen joined Xu Zhongxing, Liang Youyu, and Wu Guolun, and Wang Shizhen, together with Li Panlong, Xu Zhongxing, Liang Youyu, Zongchen, Xie Hazel, and Wu Guolun, collectively known as the "Seven Sons", forming the "Last Seven Sons" in the history of Ming Dynasty literature. In the "Later Seven Sons", Zongchen and Wang Shizhen were similar in age, like-minded, and closely related. Since Zong Chen, Xu Zhongxing, Liang Youyu, Wu Guolun and Wang Shizhen all served in the Punishment Department, in fact, the Punishment Department became the base camp of the "Later Seven Sons". Compared with the "first seven sons", the "last seven sons" banner is more distinct, more powerful, and more far-reaching. Later, Zongchen was transferred to the official department, and because the officials were in charge of personnel affairs, in order to avoid suspicion, most of the officials did not interact with officials in other departments, and the zongchen ignored this set, but still had a very close relationship with the sons of the punishment department, frequent exchanges, and often exchanged poems and sang with each other. Researchers believe that the thirty years of Jiajing to the spring of the thirty-first year of Jiajing are the most frequent times for the activities of the sons, and all the leisure time is sung together. Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen are the core figures, and Zongchen is an active participant. Later, when Wang Shizhen recalled this experience of Zongchen, he said: "Jun Day and Night and his old Cao Li YuLin, Xu Zihe, Liang Gongshi and Wang Shizhen you, yi xiang xiang three ancient words. Li Panlong also praised Zong Chen: "Gentle and gentle Wei Yangshi, he was very well known in his early years." The conclusion has the most thoughts, and the ancestors are the wills. When the vulgar is screaming, this thing knows it. Depressed and lonely, with a hundred folds of river power. "The seven sons felt sorry for each other and had a wonderful time.
(3) Kao Gong Lang
Thirty years after Jiajing, Zongchen was appreciated by the official Shangshu Li Mo, and was transferred by the chief of the Punishment Department to the Examination Gonglang of the Ministry of Punishment, but he still "had no miscellaneous guests at the door, his heart was as light as water, and he was not happy to want it."
When Zongchen first entered the career, he had a high political enthusiasm, and he wrote in his poems that "the hair is clear, the loyalty and righteousness are forgiven", and he longs to "be born as a marquis, and die as a temple food".
It is a pity that Zong Chensheng was not born at the right time. At that time, the Ming Empire still retained its superficial brilliance, as if it were in the sky, but in fact, it had gradually fallen into a situation of internal and external difficulties. Since the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the external forces that had threatened the Ming Dynasty were The Jurchens from the North and the Wokou who harassed the Southeast Coast, and the Ming Government had no effective response. Internally, the Jiajing Emperor did not go to the court for decades, so that the traitors seized power and the government became worse. In the autumn of the twenty-ninth year of Jiajing, the emperor Zhongjin, invaded in a big way, reached the city of Beijing, and plundered it like no man's land. Qiu Luan, who relied on bribing Yan Song's father and son to become the chief soldier of Datong in Xuanfu Province, led "more than 100,000 horses, and they did not dare to shoot a target forward", and after the completion of the plunder, they calmly retreated, which is known in history as the "change of Gengji". This incident shook the government and the public, and also poured a basin of cold water on the head of the clan ministers who had just entered the career and planned to show their grand plans.
In the winter of the thirtieth year of Jiajing, Li Mo, an official who appreciated Zong chen, was framed and dismissed by Yan Song, causing Zong Chen to suffer a direct blow emotionally, and he experienced the dangers of the officialdom, which also triggered his thinking. This experience of the officials made the emperor know a lot about Yan Song's selling of officials and corruption. He did not go with the flow, but took the opportunity of replying to the letter to create the "Book of Liu Yizhang" to expose the ugly phenomenon of bribery and bribery in the official field, expressing his anger and also showing his determination to adhere to ethics. This experience also made Zongchen have a heart of retreat, Jiajing thirty-one years, Zongchen was allowed to return to Xinghua to recuperate due to coughing up blood in his lungs, and returned to Baihuazhou to study and recuperate, and no longer asked about the world. During this period, Wang Shizhen, the core figure of the "Later Seven Sons", once visited, and the zongchen went to Gaoyou to greet him, returned to Baihuazhou hand in hand, drank bitterly for three days, and sang poems and singing harmony between the two sides. Wang Shizhen's "Two Poems of the Tizong Kao Gong Fu Rui Guan": "Ru Zhu Yuan Ting leans on the fishing rock, and the rock side han yu drama Fang Fei." Each one of them made a surprise list with red makeup, and both green feathers flew into the bright moon. Wave turned over Wu Nuqu, and the west wind was cool. The flowers of the stone lake should be issued infinitely late. Bing Ge painted a rare harrier. Relying on the aroma of Guo Chengbo floating, hibiscus flowers full of large sea heads, cacti between the clouds, the sea wind to Taiyi boat, near the water blue tube can be drunk. Whoever has a white mushroom in the middle of the stream, the ions can also be reversed, and the frost at the end of the day is far away. Zong Chen composed "Yuanmei Visits Me Hundred Flowers Continent on the Night Collection of Four Songs".
During his studies and recuperation at Baihuazhou, Zongchen created many poems reflecting natural scenery. After recovering from his illness, he still remembered the quiet life of Baihuazhou. During this period, he also received a Fellow Xinghua villager Li Chunfang, who was also an official in the capital. Li Chunfang (14 January 1510 – 18 April 1584), courtesy name Zishi, was a native of Xinghua, Yangzhou (present-day Xinghua, Jiangsu). In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), Li Chunfang Zhuangyuan and the first, taught Hanlin to cultivate. Among those in the same department are Zhang Juzheng, Wang Shizhen, Yang Jisheng and so on. He was appreciated by Emperor Ming Shizong for his good writing of green words and was promoted to the rank of Hanlin Scholar. The successive officials were often Shaoqing, the Right Attendant of the Rebbe, the Left Attendant of the Rebbe, the Servant of the Bureaucracy, and the Shangshu of the Rebbe, and the Crown Prince Taibao was added. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1556), he was also a scholar of Wuyingdian University, and entered the cabinet to participate in the aircraft service with Yan Ne. In the second year of Longqing (1568), He was the first assistant of Xu Jie, and he was at least a member of the Imperial Household And a princely master, a bureaucrat Shangshu, and a scholar of the ZhongjiDian University. After repeated resignations, he finally wrote to Shi in the fifth year of Longqing (1571). Li Chunfang composed the poem "Visiting the Emperor and Examining the Gong Hundred Flowers": "The beauty Bu Zhuxiang is on the crabapple, carrying wine to sit on the sun obliquely, Mo wants to escape from the Zen Xianmin Society, The Ancient Hengcha of the Floating Sea, the Lotus Leaf of the Creek Is Paved with Green Grass, the Willow Branches of the Shore Lean on the Bisha, the Envy of the Youth can play the Fu, and the Mo Will XunYe Mistaken Smoke Xia." The city pavilion is not remote, the curtain is hanging down all day, the jiang path has a stream to plant vegetables, the xi pond is a water is rongfang, sitting on the deep sea moon moving Yao, looking at the ruins of the smoke and mushroom paintings The bridge is Yang Xiongyan, and when writing about the appearance, the boat asks the strange radius. "Li Chunfang grew up to Zongchen, and was a former friend of Zongchen's father, low-key, moody and angry. In the poem, the emperor Mo was advised to linger in the lakes and mountains, and the natural beauty delayed his work.
After that, Li Mozhong was appointed as the official Shangshu, giving the Zongchen a lot of confidence. At Li Mo's urging, Zongchen returned to the capital and remained a Kao GongLang.
The perverse behavior during Yan Song's dictatorship also aroused the anger of some upright officials. Zong Chen and other "later seven sons" were high-spirited and unsatisfactory, and repeatedly clashed with the power traitor Yan Song and his henchmen. The sharpest, most direct, and most direct conflict was in the Yang Jisheng case. In the thirty-second year of Jiajing (1553), Yang Jisheng impeached Yan Song for "five adulterous and ten major crimes" and was framed and imprisoned. After being tortured in prison, Jiajing was finally killed in the thirty-fourth year (1555), and Zongchen and others rushed to the school yard to say goodbye to Yang Jisheng, cry sacrifices, and fund the aftermath. Can Yan Song and his henchmen tolerate such things? The seven sons were relegated to the field.
(4) Fujian Senator
In the spring of the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing, Zong Chenwai was appointed as a political envoy to Fujian. With the patronage of his father, Zongchen went all the way south to enjoy the famous mountains and rivers, and to hang on to the historical sites.
At that time, the Wokou were raging, and the Wokou colluded with internal thieves and corrupt officials, and did all kinds of evil, and the people were miserable. In April of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing, when The Wukou re-invaded Fuzhou, the emperors guarded the West Gate and oversaw the patrol day and night, "The City of Wubo, the subjects guard the West Gate, and the Naxiang people have taken refuge in 10,000 people." Or to speak of thieves and compulsions, that is, "I am, and I am not worried about thieves." "Fight back with the Lord." Later, he went west twice, and gained a deep understanding of the dangers of the guest soldiers and the incompetence of the imperial soldiers. Soon after, he was transferred to the deputy envoy of the school, the viceroy of Fujian, the governor of Fujian, living a simple life, upright, impartial, scrupulously fulfilling his duties, promulgating regulations, teaching scholars and students to serve the country, and rewarding and promoting talents. In the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing, Zongchen became ill with overwork and died young in the post of deputy envoy of Fujian Tixue and was enshrined in the "Famous Eunuch Temple". Later, he was buried under the Xinghua Hundred Flowers Continent where his soul was haunted.
Zong Chen's talent is brilliant, he has attacked The Wokou in front of the battle, he has talents on the case, he writes articles under the lamp, he is suitable for both literature and martial arts, and he is a comprehensive talent.
Originally a waterfront place outside the southern city of Xinghua Ancient City, Baihuazhou was favored by the inkers of the past generations because of the privilege of marrying one of the seven sons of the Ming Dynasty and witnessing a long-hidden ming dynasty.