Author Li Yunsheng
The conversation with Mr. Yu Qiuyu began with his work "I Can't Wait".
"Teacher Yu, how did you know that you were a descendant of Yu Que?" My question was straight to the point.
"With an intuition that is difficult to express, plus a large number of historical materials have been consulted. I found that my family came from Anhui to Zhejiang, and my ancestors were Tang Wu people who originated in the ancient Qiang people. Even if we only count from the traces in the Wuwei area of Gansu Province, from them to us, the life and death experience along the way is really called earth-shattering and weeping ghost gods. ”
Yu Qiuyu continued: "There are records that Yu Que left no descendants after his death. However, Song Lian, a famous scholar who was writing for Yu Que at that time, visited Yu Que's protégé Wang He and knew that Yu Que still had a young son named Yu Yuan. Yu Yuan knew that his father had died to defend the Yuan Dynasty, but he still accepted the Ming Dynasty and was still a prominent person in the Ming Dynasty. According to the clues recorded in several "Yu Family Genealogies", Yu Yuan's descendants are also strongly multiplied, and there are about 5,000 people in Hefei, Anhui Province, and more than 1,000 people in Tongcheng. ”
It can be seen that Yu Que had a son, Yu Yuan, and multiplied three branches: one was Hefei, one was Tongcheng, and the other was Sichuan. These two descendants of Anhui live in Zhejiang. Yu Qiuyu is a descendant of the Yu clan in Zhejiang. At present, the descendants of Yu Que have multiplied in Hefei to the 25th generation.
We looked for the imprint of Yu Que in Luzhou City, and at the Provincial Public Security Department and the Provincial Museum, Dr. Weng Fei pointed to that most of the remains of Yu Que in Hefei had disappeared into the long river of history, but there were still clear records in local historical records, such as the former Luzhou Prefecture and Hefei County Ya, and earlier It was Yu Que's mansion in Hefei; moreover, there was once Yu Zhongxuan Ancestral Hall outside the city.
In 1980, Shi Jinbo and the Western Xia scholar Wu Fengyun came to Hefei, Anhui Province, to investigate the descendants of Yu Que, a Tang Wu man in the Yuan Dynasty. According to historical records, Yu Que's ancestral home was Liangzhou, Gansu during the Western Xia Dynasty, and his father, Sha Lazangbu, moved from Liangzhou to today's Hefei, Anhui Province, with his army in the Yuan Dynasty. During the investigation, Shi Jinbo and Wu Fengyun found Yu Que's descendants Yu Zhangyuan and Yu Guoquan after several twists and turns according to the clues provided in the "Luzhou Fu Zhi". The "Genealogy of the Yu Family" was also found at the Erli Bridge outside the Xiaonanmen Gate of Hefei and the Hongtao Mountain in Tongcheng City. According to the exact records of the genealogy, the Yu family is the descendants of the Western Xia that have been passed down for more than 700 years.
Yu Que (Chinese: 余阙; pinyin: Wáng Que), also spelled Tingxin (字廷心), literally "Tianxin", was a descendant of the Tang Wu clan who lived in the wuwei region of present-day Gansu, and was a descendant of the Western Xia people who were destroyed by Genghis Khan. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were four kinds of Mongols, Semu people, Han Chinese, and Nan people, and Yu Que belonged to the Semu people. His father, Zang Bu, was a native of Guanlu Prefecture, and Yu Que was a native of Hefei.
Yu Que was born on the eleventh day of the first month of the seventh year (1303) of Emperor Yuanchengzong's reign, and on the fourth day of his life, he lost his father at a young age, and his family was very poor, and he began to study at the age of thirteen. In the first year of The Reign of Emperor Huizong of Yuan (1333), Yu Que ranked second in the Luzhou Luguan and Henan Provincial Township Examinations, and ranked second in the right list of the subject, and the second place in the Temple Examination, and was also the third place in the Hefei Examination in the history of the Imperial Examination.
The Wuwei Tongzhi (Character Volume) records: "In the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1333), Yu Que was admitted to the Jinshi, and was granted the same knowledge of Sizhou affairs, and for the sake of strict government, the gentry and gentry were very afraid of him. Soon after, he was summoned to the dynasty, and in order to serve the Hanlin script, he was changed to the head of the Punishment Department, did not flatter the magnates, and wrote to the prime minister to expose the bad deeds of the magnates. Soon, he was summoned to revise the three histories of Liao, Jin, and Song, and once again entered Hanlin for cultivation. Bye Inspector Royal History. He was appointed as the left and right Shiro of Huguang province. When local corrupt officials heard that Yu Que had come to take up their posts, most of them voluntarily left their posts. ”
In the twelfth year of Zhengzheng (1352), Yu Que acted as the deputy envoy of Huaixi Xuanwei and the marshal of the capital, and divided his troops to guard Anqing. In the fifteenth year of Zheng, the eastern and western cities of Huai fell, and Yu Que alone guarded Anqing. Yu Que's old friend Gan Yan persuaded Yu Que to surrender, and Que beheaded Gan Yan outside the East Gate. Yu Que ruled the army, gave strict orders, and was able to share weal and woe with his subordinates. Every time he was at the forefront of the battle, the stones were like rain, and the left and right shields covered him, and he pushed the shield open and said, "You also have a life, why come to protect me?" In the spring of the eighteenth year of Zhengzheng (1358), Zhao Pusheng's army surrounded the East Gate, and Chen Youyi's army surrounded the West Gate. He was a pioneer, beheaded countless times, and was wounded more than ten times. After the fire broke out in the city, Que knew that the city had fallen, but he killed himself with a knife.
After Yu Que killed himself, the whole family jumped into the well and was martyred. After Yu Que's death, he was posthumously awarded the official titles of Chengcheng Shouzheng Qing Zhongzhi Gongchen, Ronglu Dafu, Huainan and other officials in Zhongshu Province, Pingzhang, and Zhuguo. He was posthumously enfeoffed as the Duke of Gongguo and given the title of Zhongxuan.
The descendants of the Yu clan have flourished in the land of China, and countless heroes and celebrities have emerged in thousands of years. If Yu Que had a spirit in heaven, he might feel very relieved. In addition to him, a loyal and good general who defended his family and defended the country, there was also Yu Qiuyu, a descendant who educated the world and inherited culture. Perhaps he would hope that the descendants of the Yu clan could produce more literary and martial talents, guard the four directions, and secure the world.