Qidong County, Hunan Province, has produced many talents in modern times, whether in the political arena or in the military, business circles, and cultural and educational circles, and is a famous "town of generals." However, in the ancient imperial examinations, there were names to be examined, and there were only five Qidong jinshi who belonged to today's Qidong County, ranking last in the entire territory of Hengyang City.
Looking at the history of Qidong County, it can be seen that Qidong County was with Qiyang City for most of the past. Qiyang City, on the other hand, has been under the jurisdiction of Yongzhou City for thousands of years. Since 1914, Qiyang City has been under the jurisdiction of Hengyang City, because the area of Qiyang City is too large to be managed, and in April 1952, the eastern area of qiyang City was divided into Qidong County. During this period, Qiyang City and Hengyang City were divided and merged many times. In 1983, Qiyang City returned to the Lingling area, while the younger brother Qidong County remained in Hengyang permanently.
According to relevant records, the literary style of Qiyang in history was at its peak, and there were talents on behalf of the generation, and there were a total of 142 jinshi from Guangqiyang. After Qi Dong and Qi Yang separated their families, there were a total of five Jinshi who belonged to the territory of today's Qidong County. In terms of numbers, it is very small, but the quality is very high. Because these five people all later made certain achievements in history, not just an ordinary official!
Qi Dong's jinshi were the following five: Lu Zhen of the Northern Song Dynasty, Ning Liang and Chen Zhan of the Ming Dynasty, and Chen Dashou and Chen Wenluo of the Qing Dynasty. Let's first understand the life stories of these five people.
First, Lu Zhen
Lu Zhen (957-1014) Was a northern Song Dynasty historian from Qidong County, Hunan Province. Former Chancellor of tang and descendant of Wei Guogongyan. Lu Yan was degraded and died outside the ridge, and his son Lu Chen hid from Qi Yang and settled here. Lu Zhen was a jinshi during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Song, and during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song, he was responsible for compiling the Records of the Two Dynasties of Taizu and Emperor Taizong. His masterpiece "Sacrifice of War Horse Wen" is a literary masterpiece, with 20 volumes. The 51 volumes of the Chronicle of the Nine Kingdoms and the 5 volumes of Chu Qing have been handed down.
Second, Ning Liang
Ning Liang,ZiYuanshan ,Ming Dynasty courtier, was born in Jinqiao Town, Qidong County during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. In the tenth year of the Ming Dynasty (1445), Jinshi and the first. Ning Liang successively served as guangdong envoy, zhejiang right and left envoy, and provincial envoy equivalent to the current governor. During Ning Liang's term of office, he was able to promote political discipline, was given thrift, advocated frugality, and vigorously guarded against all exaggerations and untruths, which was praised by people.
3. Chen Recommended
Chen Zhan, zi junyong, chu shi, ming dynasty minister, born in the twenty-fourth year of Ming Jiajing (1545), died in the fifth year of Ming Chongzhen (1632). A native of Pickle Pond, Jinqiao Town, Qidong County, Xin Wei (1571) dengjin shidi, successively served as a judge of Songjiang, a superintendent of yushi, an envoy of Shaanxi and Sichuan, an inspector of Yunnan, a rotating official, a criminal, a household department Shangshu, and also managed the transportation of rivers. As an official for more than 50 years, he abstained from self-denial and served the public, cared about the suffering of the people in his hometown, and once neglected to change the grain, and all of them were flattened on the mountain stagecoach. He is the author of more than 100 volumes of "Ancient and Modern Discernment".
Fourth, the controversial Chen Dasheng
Chen Dashou is a controversial historical figure and the most powerful jinshi in the history of Qidong. Why there is controversy is that after Qi Dong and Qi Yang separated their families, their place of origin was a bit unclear.
Chen Dashou (1702-1751), also spelled Zhanxian and Qizhai ( Kezhai ) , was a native of Jinqiao Town , Qidong , whose former residence was in Qiyang , Hunan Province. Chen Dashou's family moved from Qidong Jinqiao to Qiyang xiamadu. If you want to talk about ancestral origin, it should belong to Qi Dong. However, the historical classic Draft of the Qing Dynasty attributed him to Qi Yang.
In the eleventh year of Yongzheng (1733), he entered the priesthood, qianlong first year, was awarded the compilation and revision, the first in the imperial examination, promoted to a waiter, and served as a cabinet scholar, a right attendant of the official department, a right attendant of the military department, a prince Shaobao, a soldier, a household department, and a official Shangshu. In the thirteenth year of Qianlong, he was promoted to assistant university scholar, military minister, prince Taibao, prince Taifu, and served as the inspector of Anhui, Jiangsu, and Fujian, and was directly subordinate to the viceroy and the viceroy of Liangguang. In the sixteenth year of Qianlong (1751), he became ill after overwork and died in the office of the Governor of Liangguang. Military merit plus three grades, posthumousLy Wensu.
Chen Dafu has four sons, all of whom are very powerful characters, and his grandchildren are not bad!
The eldest son, Chen Huizu, successively served as the prefect of Chen Prefecture, the envoy of Anhui, the inspector of Guangxi, the governor of Hubei and the governor of Huguang, the governor of Henan, the governor of HedongHe, the governor of Jiangnanhe, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang and the governor of Zhejiang.
The second son, Chen Shengzu, was an official who served as the governor of Guangdong and administered Guangzhou Province, and had the "Testament of Zhiqiao".
The third son, Chen Yanzu, was the former zhi county of Lihuan County, Gansu.
The fourth son, Chen Hezu, successively served as Zhi County of Nangong County and directly subordinate to Changping Zhi Prefecture. There is the "Erxiao Yin Manuscript".
5. Chen Wenlu
Chen Wenlu was the great-grandson of Chen Dashou (1840-1904), also known as Zhongying, Shoumin, and Nansun. In the ninth year of Tongzhi, he was raised in the township, and in the thirteenth year, he entered the priesthood, changed to a Shu Jishi, and was taught editing. Guangxu served as the prefect of Jinhua for ten years, transferred to the prefect of Hangzhou in the fourteenth year, and served as the prefect of Taipei for eighteen years. In the nineteenth year, he served as the governor of Taiwan's Military Reserve Road and the Admiralty of Learning. He later served as the prefect of Taiping in Anhui. Twenty-eight years of supervision and office of the Anhui Northern Yali General Bureau. He is the author of "Yangfu Zhai Collection".
6. Zhuangyuan Bridge in Guiyang Town, Qidong Province, and Wenchang Pagoda in Qiyang
In the past, Qi dong and Qi Yang were one, and in addition to the Huanxi Stele Forest and the Huanxi Academy, which are related to the cultural heritage today, it is the Zhuangyuan Bridge in Guiyang Town and the Wenchang Pagoda in Qiyang.
The allusion to the Zhuangyuan Bridge originated from the fact that after the bridge was built at that time, there was exactly one Zhuangyuan who passed by and got its name.
The reason why the Wenchang Pagoda in Qiyang is mentioned is because the Wenchang Pagoda was built in the first year of the Wanli Calendar of emperor Ming shenzong (1573), and Deng Qiu, the Qiyang official who was the prefect of Tongren at that time, proposed to build the Wenchang Pagoda on the "Ten Thousand Scrolls Book Cliff" located on the bank of the Xiang River in the east of the city, in order to make the literary style not leak, in the hope that Qiyang would be talented.
However, during the ming dynasty, Chen Zhaonai, the son of Chen Zhan, a scholar of Qidong, saw that Qiyi's literary style was growing, lest the talents and future prestige of future generations surpass his father's, believing that it would damage his father's reputation, so he instigated the clan to demolish the pagoda, and the pagoda was destroyed in an instant.
Until the eleventh year of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty (1746), Chen Dashou, a scholar of Qidong, was serving as the inspector of Anhui, and once returned to his hometown to visit the Ten Thousand Scrolls Shuya, because he was worried about the decline of the study style in his hometown, saying that Wenchang Pagoda was "good at the wenyun of Yanyi", and for the purpose of revitalization, he donated 1500 taels of silver, instructed the county to take charge of it, and raised donations from the squires to rebuild the Wenchang Pagoda.
The descendants of a jinshi surnamed Chen in the former dynasty destroyed the pagoda for their own selfish purposes, while later another jinshi surnamed Chen rebuilt the tower for the sake of the prosperity of his hometown. Although they are all books, cultivating and reading heirlooms. But the hearts and realms of people are not the same!