A few years ago, when I was reading Qing Feng County Records in the third year of the Republic of China, I read a tragic event that happened in qingfeng county 374 years ago:
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army went south and counties in Hebei collapsed. After eight days of garrison in Qing Dynasty, the city began to fall. If you are martyred, you will die differently.
Later, Jie Zhong recorded the tragic process of the incident in detail, which made me cry several times. I can't bear to see it. In this incident, I learned the extraordinary family story of Zheng He, the saint of Qingfeng.
After field trip, I have a deeper understanding of this family. According to the introduction and genealogy of Zheng's descendants in Qingshiwan Village of Daliu Township and Huangying Village of Datun Township in qingfeng county, Zheng's historians began in the late Ming Dynasty, and their ancestors were Zheng Shitong and Zheng Shida. The second is Zheng Zicheng, a filial official in Dongchang, and Zheng Ziqing, a filial official in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. According to the records of Qingfeng County, Zheng Ziqing was born in Linyi. In order to dedicate the poem to you, he was appointed as an official in Hanzhong, Shaanxi. I have been kind to my relatives and friends since I was a child, and I am sick. The prosecution delayed medical treatment until I didn't sleep or eat. On the day of death, mourning and destruction will last for three years. Since the Qing dynasty, people have been frank and straightforward, giving goodwill when needed, and the clan-related party has always relied on this. Taste the words integrity and loyalty in the book. Three people died at seventy. As can be seen from the records, Zheng Ziqing is a dutiful son, advocating a clean and honest family style. Because of his son Zheng's great contribution to society, he was promoted to be an official in Hanzhong, Shaanxi.
Two brothers died defending Qingfeng at the same time.
Zheng's son is very clever since he was a child. Because of his excellent academic performance, he was sent to imperial academy as a student worker, which is the so-called Gong Xuan. According to records, Zheng issued a warning to Hanzhong. The general manager said that the criminal officer should be responsible for the lives of the people. Don't help you get angry and let me worry. Poetry is dedicated to duty. He used to be a well-known friend of Qingyang Prefecture, and he was quite bureaucratic. It is worth hundreds of thousands, and the people hope so. Three years later, he got the best result in the exam, so his father was stopped and Zheng Shi was promoted to Sima in Qingyang County. After five years in office, he was known as the first in Xunliang in business, and later he was promoted to Tongzhi in Qingyang Prefecture. Zheng is just born. He is very filial. He has a younger brother named Zheng, who is the supervisor of Mingcheng Temple. Zheng is very kind to his brother. Very kind to him, very affectionate, and generous at home, making my brother willing to eat salt. Brotherhood is obvious.
In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Zheng resigned and returned to his hometown to take care of his old father because his father was old and seriously ill. In December of this year, Huang Taiji sent Abatai, the seventh son of Nurhachi, south again with a great army, plundering property and attacking qingfeng county crazily. Faced with this dangerous situation, the Zheng brothers resolutely bid farewell to their families, gave everything they had, and fought side by side with other squires and Qingfeng sages at that time to defend the city. After eight days of bitter fighting, the city was still breached, and the Zheng brothers were captured by enemy soldiers at the same time. At this time, Zheng was shocked and gnashed her teeth. It turned out to be a stone, but he wanted to kill people and give books. The poet said with a book in his hand, this is my brother. He is ill. I am willing to die for him. Laugh at its delusion and drag it away. The poem was firmly grasped and the knife was thrown down, but the two brothers knew it was inevitable and were scolded to death at the same time.
This touching scene was recorded in detail: Zheng confronted several times and the brothers fought side by side.
At that time, Yongji admired Zheng's talent and was just catching up with bandits invading Thailand, saying that Zheng was leading troops to understand the siege of Thailand. Ann. Wang Yongji appreciated his talent more and promoted him to obey the military discipline. Later, he was appointed as the overseer of Shandong Dong Changjun Road and stationed in Qingyuan. After hearing the news of my father's death and the bad news at home, I hurried back to our home-Qingfeng. At this time, the Qing soldiers had retreated, and Zheng secretly looked for a traitor who tipped off the Qing soldiers and helped them kill their father. When you find it, kill it, give birth to its flesh, and make the first father cry before the funeral. And built a house in front of the tomb to guard his father's grave.
In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, wars continued. Wei Wei, who was in power, guarded his father's tomb for filial piety, and thieves and bandits became rampant again. For the sake of safety, Kevin Z was advised to leave the cemetery, but Kevin Z was unmoved. Later, Duan Tengzao, then the magistrate of Qingfeng County, personally went to the grave and asked Zheng to come out of the mountain to help qingfeng county fight bandits. So Kevin Z donated his savings to defend qingfeng county with the county magistrate, and successfully repelled the attack of thieves and bandits. Later, Li Zicheng army passed by Qingfeng-xiangguang fracture and invited Kevin Z to attend. Kevin Z decisively refused and burned the official clothes they brought, showing his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty.
Two years later, the Ming Dynasty perished. Wang Yongji, the former right capital of Kevin·Z, surrendered to the Qing Dynasty and became an official assistant minister. Someone suggested that Zheng be demoted, but Zheng refused. Kevin·Z has always been generous, generous. He has been living under the forest and the scenery is very good. After Qing Feng was captured by the Qing soldiers, he went to the south of the Yangtze River and did not fall to the Qing Dynasty. He died in Gaoyou in his fifties. Later, he was buried in Zheng's grave Zheng Xiahou _, whose son is Zheng Ruqing, is from Pakistan.
Wang Yongji appreciated Kevin·Z's admiration for Kevin Z's talent and moral character, and praised Kevin Z: arrogant in nature, handsome in appearance, poor in poetry and wine, skilled in one skill, gentle in speech, strong in martial arts, good at singing and dancing, a scholar's tool, talented in the chest and proud of himself. Kevin·Z After Kevin Z died, Wang Yongji erected a big tombstone for him. There was a famine in the 18th year of Jiaqing in Qing Dynasty, and the tombstone on Zheng's position was secretly betrayed by his people. A dozen people had to lift it. At this time, Zheng's mother Sun Zhengkui was taken aback. She offered to redeem the stone tablet, but the people did not agree. Fan Shi sued the county government to redeem the stone tablet for reconstruction. Because of this, Fan Shi was named Qingfeng County Records. However, more than 200 years later, this huge monument has disappeared.
Zheng Can's descendants tell stories of their ancestors' loyalty and filial piety.
Today, more than 370 years later, I am still moved by the deeds of Zheng, a saint of Qingfeng. I went to the village of Datun in qingfeng county to look for Zheng's descendants. Speaking of these stories of the Zheng family that deeply moved me, the descendants of the Zheng family are even unheard of.
They took out portraits of their ancestors. They don't know the names of their ancestors. They carefully identified the inscription on the top of the portrait and confirmed that it was a portrait of Kevin Z. Through the introduction of the Zheng family in the village, we can see the Zheng family tree hanging in Qingshiwang Village, Daliu Township. More than 370 years ago, Zheng Shengxian was in power, but their touching stories were little known. According to Zheng's descendants, Zheng's grave is in Zhengjiafen. In recent years, the cemetery has been repeatedly stolen and dug, and people reinforced it with cement and then stole it. We saw the grave dug halfway around the world. Later generations said to Zheng that this is Zheng's grave. After being stolen, the clan found that Zheng's tomb was double-decked, with a fake tomb above and a real tomb below. It can be seen that Zh at that time