Characters' Life in Huang Ziping's Works

Huang Ziping Huang Zitai

Huang Zitai, a timely word, is Ziping's eldest brother, whose date of birth and death is unknown.

The Huang brothers' ancestral home is Putian village, Fujian. At the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, his grandfather Huang Linshu went south to do business in Dianbai, first living in Zhucun and then in Changshan Village, becoming the ancestor of Changshan Huang. Zi Tai and Zi Ping's father Huang Gao, whose real name is Renfu and Yangming, is the second son of Huang Linshu. Huang Lin has been in business all his life and has a lot of money. When Huang Gao was a teenager, his family was relatively rich and had no worries about food and clothing. He has great ambitions since he was a child. When I grow up, I will learn from my friends and devote myself to studying classics. He is generous, and anyone who has difficulties will turn to him for help without exception. After the death of Huang Linshu, the Huang family gradually declined, and even became stretched, and the family was surrounded by high walls. Huang Gao had to give up his studies and try to manage production and accumulation. After several years, his family gradually improved. He married Yang and Wang, and gave birth to eight sons, including Zi Tai, Zi Ping, Zi An,,, and Zi Jia. Huang Ziping is the second child.

Huang deeply regrets that he failed to realize his ideals and ambitions because he dropped out of school. He sighed: "My father went from Fujian to Guangdong and did business all his life. I was dragged down by my family and couldn't show it to my ancestors. How can we let eight sons drop out of school now and humiliate the virtues of their ancestors, just like ordinary people? " So I asked Zi Tai and Zi Ping to go to private schools first.

Shuidong was originally a small fishing village, because it is located on the coast of the South China Sea and has developed land and water transportation. I used to pass through this place when I went to Guangzhou and Lei Qiong for business. In addition, it is a natural harbor, where merchant ships used to shelter from the wind and replenish supplies. Over time, it has formed a rather busy small commercial port. At that time, Huang Gao worked in a pawnshop opened by Shandong people in Shuidong, and the whole family lived in the dormitory arranged by the boss.

The boss and his wife are over 500 years old and have been suffering from no heir. They saw that Huang Gao's eight sons were lively, cute and clever, and especially loved Zi Tai and Zi Ping, so they found an opportunity to ask Huang Gao to adopt Zi Ping as their adopted son, but Huang Gao declined. The boss and his wife were very disappointed, but they never mentioned it again, and Huang Gao gradually forgot it. However, the boss did not give up. Later, he found the right opportunity, abducted the prince and left a book for Huang Gao, saying that he was old and childless, and the evening scene was bleak, asking Huang Gao to forgive him. He also said that because he was too close to his son, he had been taken back to his hometown in Shandong and adopted as an adopted son. He must be treated as his own child and brought up carefully. Please don't miss him. Leave gifts such as real estate pawn shops as compensation. Huang Gao and his wife only know that the boss's home is in Shandong, but they don't know where it is. After reading the letter, they had to sigh helplessly

Since then, Mr. and Mrs. Huang Gao have taken more care of their sons and sent them to private schools one after another when they grow up. Brother qi is also quite successful. Zi An became a scholar and a Confucian scholar, Zi Ning and Guo Zi were students and tongzhi, and Zi Jia was a longevity officer. Ziping performed particularly well, and won the title in the rural examination of Jiazike in the seventeenth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (AD 1384) (the first single subject in the province). The following year, he went to Beijing to take the exam, and he was a scholar in the exam, ranking 26th in the family of Yi Chou (the 13th in Huang's genealogy). It is surprising that there are brothers and sons studying together. It turns out that Zitai has refused to change her name since she was abducted to Shandong. She worked hard for more than 20 years and finally got into the Jinshi. Brothers in the same family, it's a surprise to meet again after such a long separation.

This incident reached the ears of Zhu Yuanzhang, who specially summoned the Huang brothers and allowed them to go home in clothes. The news quickly returned to my hometown and caused a sensation in western Guangdong. After being separated for more than 20 years, the Huang brothers reunited in Beijing and became the same family, which was even more celebrated by people at that time.

On the way home, Mrs. Zi once said to Ping, "When I return to China, I will go back to my ancestral home and never return to Shandong again." Zi Ping advised, "Brother, please think twice. I don't think this is appropriate. Although Shandong Raul has been separated from his brother for more than 20 years, he has the kindness to raise his brother, and he has achieved great success today. Besides, filial piety has always been the first in China, and my parents are old now. If anything happens to them, wouldn't my brother be called unfilial? If you fall in love with reason, your brother should support you until the end of your life. My brother estimates that my parents will think so when they know. " Zi felt reasonable and dismissed the idea.

Zitai married the original surname, and later became an official and became a doctor (Zhengwupin). Due to naturalization in Shandong, his life and descendants are unknown.

Huang Ziping was the first official to supervise the assistant minister's suggestion. In the twenty-fourth year of Hongwu (A.D. 139 1), he was promoted to the imperial history of Shandong Province (the seventh product), and soon he was promoted to the imperial history of Shandong, Yunnan and Gyeonggi due to his outstanding performance. This promotion, although Huang Ziping's rank has not improved, his supervision scope has expanded several times. Each channel (thirteen channels in the country * * *) is the backbone full-time official who directly exercises the supervisory power over Douchayuan, the central supervisory organ. He is not only under the jurisdiction of Douchayuan, but also can act independently without the control of Douchayuan, and he can play the son of heaven alone if something happens. As for sending people to patrol and hunt on behalf of the emperor, power is more important.

While Huang Ziping was promoted repeatedly and his career was magnanimous, his parents passed away one after another. At the age of 76, Huang Gao was posthumously awarded by Ming Taizu as a government doctor and royal consultant in Shandong, Yunnan and Gyeonggi. In the 30th year of Hongwu (A.D. 1397), Emperor Taizu praised: "Huang Ziping is a true imperial history!" As a result, Huang Ziping was promoted to be the deputy governor of Douchayuan, whose duty was "to correct all unjust, false and wrong cases, distinguish right from wrong, and prefect all means, which is the discipline and training department of the emperor". He is the deputy chief of Duchayuan and the highest-ranking central official of Dianbai County in past dynasties.

Huang Ziping's four sons are also very successful. Among them, the eldest son Longsheng (A.D. 1372 ~ 1432) was born in the city, and the official rank was up to the county magistrate; The second son Hu Sheng (A.D. 1373 ~ 1465), a county native, was sentenced to general Wuzhou, named Chengde Lang; The third son Luan Sheng (A.D. 1375 ~ 1460), a county native, was granted a Confucian official. The fourth son, Sheng Feng (A.D. 1376 ~ 1443), was born in Zengsheng County and was named Jian Jiaolang. At this point, Changshan Huang became a prominent family in the mountains, and Huang Ziping also realized his father's long-cherished wish to show his ancestors.

Huang Ziping was upright and upright, fearless of power and daring to remonstrate the truth, which made him famous and won the appreciation of Zhu Yuanzhang, the emperor of Ming Dynasty. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the world was settled and everything was ruined. Some military commanders and heroes run amok, causing complaints everywhere. During his tenure as an imperial minister in Gyeonggi, Huang Ziping resolutely resisted or impeached those who bullied the weak and feared the hard and made trouble without reason, so as to help justice and make the people feel a little peaceful. At the suggestion of his promotion to vice governor, he witnessed some Yuan generals who made outstanding achievements in conquering Guangdong and Guangxi, and later was ordered to attack Shu, which made them invincible and made outstanding achievements repeatedly. They are highly valued by Zhu Yuanzhang, who pretend to be heroes, arrogant and arrogant, and many of them are illegal. To this end, he personally wrote many times to remonstrate, which won Zhu Yuanzhang's appreciation and praise. He praised Huang Ziping as a veritable imperial city in front of many ministers. In the 23rd year of Hongwu (1390), after Zhu Yuanzhang eliminated the anti-Party, there were 57 ministers on the list. At that time, Huang Ziping was a Taoist priest. Although he was not awarded the reputation of meritorious service, he was invited to attend the commendation meeting and praised Huang Ziping as a "true suggestion".

When Huang Ziping first entered Beijing as an official, he practiced Zi Ning (? ~ 1403) made good friends, and they lived together, often "together when they left, and colleagues when they lived." If so, they practice their language for many years. "They are like-minded friends. When Huang Gao died, he had just been promoted to vice capital and editor of imperial academy. Huang Ziping asked him to write a biography for his father, "by decree." Because "in the early days of the establishment of the emperor, the country was full of disasters", Lian Zining never wrote it. It wasn't until Huang Ziping was promoted to the vice capital suggestion that he wrote the biography of Huang Yangming, an official position granted by Ming Dynasty, and gave it to Huang Ziping.

Huang Ziping married two wives, Pan Shi and Liang. Among them, Mrs. Pan was the great-granddaughter of Yin, a famous Mao county in the late Song Dynasty, and Pan Weixian, an anti-Yuan hero. In the first year of Xiangxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (AD 1278), Pan Weixian and his eldest son Pan Doufu died heroically in the battle with the Yuan Army, and only the second son Pan Meida survived. In the thirty years of Hongwu, the Pan Shi family was found guilty and almost exterminated. Huang Ziping actively rescued, went to Taiwan for ten times, and finally saved the Pan Shiyi family. His masterpiece "Three Sages of Pan Shi" based on the deeds of Pan Weixian and his son was written in this period. Later, he invited the imperial court to make Pan Weixian Song Zhongchen, Dou Fu and Mei Da dutiful sons, and made great efforts to publicize and praise Pan Shi and his son as representatives of loyal subjects and filial piety. Pan Shiyi's three sages are famous in history. Pan Shiyi's family is grateful for Huang Ziping's kindness. After Huang Ziping's death, they enshrined his spiritual position in the center of the ancestral temple, educating future generations to worship and not to forget others. Every time a sacrifice is made, Huang Ziping must be sacrificed first. This has become a century-old tradition of several people after Pan Shiyi.

In February of the 31st year of Hongwu (A.D. 1398), the enemy attacked Ninghai, and Huang Ziping actively cooperated with the front work to help Tao Duo defeat the enemy quickly. That summer, Zhu Yuanzhang collapsed in the Nishinomiya, and Zhu Yunwen, the great-grandson of the emperor, succeeded him. The following year, he changed his position to Wen Jian.

At that time, in order to consolidate the Ming Dynasty, Sun's twenty-four sons and one son were sent to all parts of the country as prisoners. The influence of princes is expanding day by day, especially the power of Judy, the prince who was sealed in Peiping (now Beijing), which has seriously threatened the rule of the central monarch. Wen Jian acceded to the throne only a month later, he listened to the suggestions of Huang Zicheng, Qi Tai and other ministers, and implemented the policy of reducing the number of vassal states, weakening the power of each vassal state one by one. In July of the first year of Wen Jian (A.D. 1399), Wen Jian began to take measures to separate the vassals of the prince, and Judy took the initiative to rebel in the name of "Jun Qing side, Guo Jingnan", which is known as the "Battle of Jingnan" in history. The Prince of Yan followed Ming Taizu to Mongolia in his early years, and then fought against the Mongols in Peiping for a long time. He is good at strategy, makes good use of the magic weapon, and has made outstanding achievements. However, after Zhu Yuanzhang wantonly killed the heroic old general, his men were almost useless. The generals he sent were old and incompetent. Although the number of troops is far greater than that of princes, they often suffer defeat.

It turned out that the commander-in-chief of the Confederate army was the only remaining veteran of the Hongwu Dynasty-Changxing Hou Gengbing Wen. This man has been through many battles and has rich battlefield experience, but he is good at defending and not attacking. Geng Bingwen's first battle was unfavorable, but he couldn't persist and fought a protracted war with the prince. At this time, he heard that Geng Bingwen was defeated. On the recommendation of Huang Zicheng, he appointed Li Jinglong, the son of the famous Cao Guogong in the early Ming Dynasty, as the general of Lu, replacing Geng Bingwen to fight against the Yan army, and his strength increased to 500,000. Qitai strongly opposed it, but it was ineffective. Li Jinglong, originally the son of Kao, knew nothing about soldiers, and was "arrogant when he was narrow-minded and arrogant when he was insatiable." This appointment made the prince overjoyed. In the winter of the first year of his reign, the Yan army was attacked inside and outside, and the Confederate army was defeated. Li Jinglong took the lead in escaping by night and retreating to Texas. The next day, the soldiers heard that the commander-in-chief had escaped, "but abandoned the soldiers' food and ran south for a day and a night." Huang Zicheng was shocked to learn of the defeat. After careful consideration, he made up his mind to hide the real situation and keep Li Jinglong's command position. At that time, the ministers of the DPRK were afraid to report the truth to Emperor Wen Jian. In the spring of Wen Jian's second year (A.D. 1400), Huang Ziping, who learned the truth, was impeached by the powerful in Bao Li, showing that he was "left behind". Huang Ziping then thanked the sick and retired.

Shortly after Huang Ziping returned to his hometown, he presided over the expansion project of Huang's ancestral hall behind Changshan Village. He carved his family rules on the tablet, and on February 15, 2002, he clung to the temple wall, admonishing his descendants to be filial at home and be loyal to the country, and formulating reward and punishment rules, hoping that the wind of loyalty and filial piety would last forever in the family. This is the "family rule monument". In order to publicize his thought of loyalty and filial piety, Huang Ziping wrote a book "The Record of Loyalty and Filial Piety" before his death. This book has been lost. At present, only the Three Sages of Pan Shi are known to have been handed down from generation to generation, which are contained in Gaozhou County Annals, Dianbai County Annals, Gao Lei Literature published by Hong Kong Gao Lei Travel Association and Guangdong Zheng Wen published by Hong Kong Zhuhai College Publishing Committee, with slightly different versions.

After Judy acceded to the throne, she thought about using Huang Ziping as an official consultant, but he was tired of the officialdom struggle, so she refused to take office. In the rural life of more than 20 years, Huang Ziping lived in seclusion, building schools and teaching in his hometown. He often gives generously to poor villagers, but he lives a simple life, so he is deeply loved by people. Huang Ziping was born in an honest and frank way. He doesn't like flattery, disdains making friends with powerful people and doesn't take the initiative to associate with the government. He only made friends with local sages, told classics and history together, and benefited the whole village.

In the 22nd year of Yongle (A.D. 1424), Huang Ziping died in a mountain village on August 16th at the age of 74. He was buried in the northeast of Shendianwei (now Dianbai County), where he was honored as a rural sage by Guan County. His biography is recorded in the Old Biography of Xians in Dianbai County. Shao Shi, Prince of the Ming Dynasty, and Yang Rong (A.D. 137 1 ~ 1440), a senior minister of the Huagai Temple, later wrote a biography for Huang Ziping, entitled "Biography of Imperial Scholar Huang Gong in the Ming Dynasty". After the death of Mrs. Pan Shi and Mrs. Liang, the Ming royal family presented them as second-class ladies and were buried with Huang Ziping. In September of the third year of Chenghua in Ming Dynasty (AD 1467), Dianbai County was moved from changpo town, Gaozhou to Shendianwei. Huang Ziping's tomb happened to be within the planning scope of Xinxian County, and was moved and buried in the ridge of Zhuangshan Mountain in the north of the city (that is, behind the team in the current electrical city). The tomb seat is a multi-stage gourd shape, about 15 meters long, 9.7 meters wide and 5.7 meters narrow. It is a masonry lime-sand structure, with tombstones and stone pillars half a meter high. Except for a pair of stone lions lost in front of the tomb, they have been basically preserved to this day and have been repaired many times by later generations. /kloc-in the summer of 0/996, there was a stolen hole in the tomb, which went straight to the tomb. The loss of funerary objects is unknown, and now the traces of stealing holes can still be clearly seen above the tomb. This is also the most serious damage to the tomb in more than 500 years.