Oracle Finder
Three Guozi overseers of wine
The Minister of Training of the Beijing Division at the Time of the Eight-Nation Alliance
Died: July 20, Guangxu 26
August 14, 1900 A.D
Place of death: No. 10, North Thira Hutong, Wangfujing, Dongcheng District, Beijing.
Cause of death: Swallowing gold is not dead, yang medicine is not dead, throwing wells and drowning.
The Final Stroke: The Lord is sad and humiliated, and the Lord is humiliated and the subject dies. To know what it is, this is near.
Tomb: Ten days after his death, his colleagues salvaged the remains, buried them shallow in the garden gap on the side of the well, and later floated in the Yiyuan Garden of Baoying Temple on the outskirts of Beijing. In February of the following year (March 1901), the second son Fu Coffin was transported by sea to his hometown of Shandong via Tianjin (the general direction can be said to be contrary to the route of the Eight-Nation Alliance), and was buried in the northwest of Fushan Liangjiapo (about two kilometers south of Qiujia Village in present-day Fushan District, Yantai City, about two kilometers east of Lijia Village), with archways and imperial inscriptions. It was excavated in 1946 and destroyed during the Cultural Revolution in 1966; the entire family cemetery was destroyed during the 1958 "Great SteelMaking" movement. In 1983, the 4th issue of the Red Flag, a theoretical journal of the CPC Central Committee, published a commentator's article entitled "From Patriotism to Communism," praising chen tianhua and Wang Yirong's nationalist spirit of preferring to be crushed by jade rather than waquan, which caused repercussions in Shandong, and tombstones, jingbiao tablets, and Shinto tablets were recovered from the ruins.
Sacrifice: In 1903, the second son Wang Chonglie built a family ancestral hall in Jingyu, and his sister Zhang Zhidong was inscribed. The stone of the Pavilion next to the well is called "The Martyrdom of Prince Wenmin of Fushan". Attached to the Ancestral Hall of the Son of the State of Han. In 1989, the memorial hall was established at the former site of the Fukuyama Red Cross Society, and in 1999, the Wang Clan Manor was relocated. The desperate word is now in the Palace Museum.
Wang Yirong
American poet emeritus Daniel Hoffman (1923-2013) has a poem called "The Twentieth Century" that ends with the sentence: "A million blood veins make the Yellow River discolored." His poem points to the beginning of the twentieth century, the Gengzi Incident in northern China in 1900, during which there were mass casualties including boxers, Chinese catholics, foreigners in China, and other civilians on the North China Plain. But the difference between death and death is as great as the difference between the same Tarzan and the feathers of a goose decorated at a wedding. In this sudden millions of unnatural deaths, Wang Yirong's suicide may be the most unique of them: more than one door of history is ping-ponging, opening and closing, and the person concerned may not know anything.
Prior to this, in the autumn of 1899, Wang Yirong had just inadvertently become famous in history: he may have taken advantage of other scholars at that time out of the habit of collecting antiques in his life, or because of the cause of taking traditional Chinese medicine due to illness, he came into contact with the oracle bones excavated from the old capital of Yin Shang in Henan Province, and accurately judged this as the legacy of the ancient ancestors. He secretly bought more than fifteen hundred pieces of oracle bone three times. In this regard, this kind of first systematic writing of the Han civilization three thousand years ago has reappeared in the sky and is known to people. The discovery of the Oracle and the Dunhuang Tibetan Scripture Cave not long after, at the turn of the century, opened up new scholarship in twentieth-century China with new materials. In the Shang Dynasty, China began to reveal its true face from the legendary veil of Chen Chen Xiangyin, and more frank written records copied its rich details. However, Wang Yirong died before he could continue to collect oracle bones secretly, and he did not even have time to carry out oracle bone research, you know, he had written several antique works before, and he had a lot of experience in stone carvings. If it were not for the fact that most of his oracle bone collection was later attributed to his novelist Liu Hu, the face of ancient China might not have returned to the present so early, and the clarity may be different from what we see now.
Wang Yirong was brilliant
Wang Yirong has never been good at what he has always done in his life. In addition to holding a heavy treasure but not having the heart and time to open the history of oracle bone research, he did not even have the necessary beginning of entering the eunuch road that year, the imperial examination, so unsuccessful: in seventeen years, he took seven township examinations in succession and did not win the examination, until he was tired of his wife Wang Huangshi's fearful death, and the eighth time he finally passed and immediately passed the jinshi. Wang Yirong was also not good at entering the new century—even to the point of death, he might not know that he had entered the new century.
He was a conservative scholar common in that era, who regarded Western studies as heretical, not like his sister Zhang Zhidong. In 1899, Wang Yirong took up the third term as the overseer of the State Son. Unknowingly, he breathed only half a year of twentieth-century air, from which he smelled a strong smell of gunpowder. Most likely, this reminded him of the past six years ago, when he gave up his duty of sake sacrifice and actively returned to his hometown to organize a regiment to practice resistance to foreign insults from the Eastern Sea. This may have been the precursor to Wang Yirong's appointment as the minister of regimental training when gengzi's faltering empire was once again invaded by eightfold military intervention. The position of Guozi's supervisor of sake is lackluster, and the military priorities in times of crisis are also impossible, and he is even deliberately left behind as a substitute ghost. At this time, in addition to seeing early on that the boxers could not be bullied and advocating the defense of the whole people, Wang Yirong could only face death. Therefore, when the armies of the eight countries brazenly entered the Chinese capital, the entire court was already in a hurry, and Wang Yirong, the minister of regimental training, only symbolically resisted, retreated home and began to commit suicide.
But things didn't go well, as in his duty. Wang Yirong first swallowed precious metals, that is, gold as money and treasures, and the indigestible food did not bring him relief — as if it were a metaphor for this major historical event: the Gengzi Incident was also making him indigestible and unable to be liberated. He tried to continue taking the poison, but still did not put an immediate end to his life—in the face of this new world, the ancient material composition scheme seemed to have completely failed.
The Qing court made a sealed monument
Perhaps, he had expected in advance that he would not be good at how to start a long sleep life. Therefore, there is another trick set early: order someone to dredge the well in the house and name it "stop the water" in advance. As mentioned in the early Chinese classic Zuo Chuan: "One drum blows, then declines, and three exhausts." Wang Yirong's life was exhausted in the topless groundwater, and the third suicide attempt was finally successful. With the knowledge of "the death of the Lord's insult to his subjects", he is determined to "stop knowing what he has stopped", and with his own death, he weakly unilaterally declares that from his point of view, this deep crisis in the grand historical narrative can end here - this is obviously just wishful thinking. But he died absolutely, and the blood of the blood was frozen, but in fact it continued the powerful forces of those classical political ethics, rather than the severance between the old and the new. Perhaps the deep contradiction is also a symbol of twentieth-century China: the country is about to be driven by the world to rush to its modern path in the process of covering, covering and fighting between the old and the new.
Wang Yirong died almost at the same time as his step-wife. But this is not necessarily a husband and wife bird-like martyrdom, because there is another one, his widowed eldest daughter-in-law. They and the head of their family threw themselves into the same well and entered the Yellow Spring in the most direct way, either resolutely or poignantly—according to the original meaning of the Chinese character, the nether world was located under the muddy yellow underground water layer. However, the historical records do not record whether the two women had swallowed gold and drank medicine together before, whether they had the same logic of "the lord insulted the subject to death", the relationship between husband and wife, father and son (also including in-laws and daughters-in-law), according to the tradition of Han culture, is nothing more than an internal version of the family relationship that the monarch or Wang Yirong called the "main subject". In Daniel Hoffman's poem "Twentieth Century", China is described as "a country with herringbone eaves", and it is quite possible that the American poet laureate did not know that in ancient Chinese characters, the eaves are written "yu", yes, the universe of yu, we further say, in a sense, here is a kingdom that presents the universe as a herringbone.
bibliography:
Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, vol. 468, this biography.
"Wang Yirong and the Oracle", by Yu Zuhua, Shandong Literature and Art Publishing House, October 2004 edition.
Three Tones of History: The Boxer Rebellion as Events, Experiences, and Myths, by Ke Wen, translated by Lin Jidong, Social Science Literature Publishing House, July 2015.
Network Information:
The Tomb of Wang Yirong and the Five Branches of the Clan (http://cs.chinacishan.com/index.php?m=content&c=index&a=show&catid=61&id=167).
"The former residence of Wang Yirong, the father of oracle bones, is dilapidated, and the cemetery turns into farmland" (http://www.wwdoa.com/2016/0131/1816.html).