Tang Jingsong

Tang Jingsong

Tang Jingsong (1841-1903) was born in Guanyang, Guangxi. Tongzhi four years (1865) Jinshi, selection of Shu Ji Shi, granted the Ministry of official affairs. In 1882, France and Vietnam began to ask Liu Yongfu to go to Vietnam to recruit the black flag army. The next year, when he arrived in Vietnam, he advised Liu Yongfu to attach it. In 1884, when the Sino French war broke out, Zhang Zhidong ordered him to recruit brave soldiers to enter the pass, set up four battalions, and joined Vietnam to fight against France. After the Sino French war, he led his troops back to China. He was awarded the title of Jiachun batulu, the second rank of Jin Dynasty, except Fujian Taiwan Road. Guangxu 17 years (1891) moved to the political envoys. Twenty years, acting governor of Taiwan.

brief account of the author's life

Tang Jingsong Tongzhi four years (1865) Jinshi, took over the Ministry of officials alternate principal, served as Xiaojing official for 18 years, depressed and unsuccessful. In 1882, France invaded Beiqi, Vietnam. In the last chapter, I would like to talk about Vietnam. Please go to Vietnam to contact the black flag army to fight against France. He traveled among Shunhua, Baosheng, Shanxi and Beining, and worked for Liu Yongfu. Unite all parties to resist France and take part in the two wars of Hanoi and Shanxi. In the winter of 1884, with the support of Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Guangdong Province, the Jingjun army was set up. It went to the west line and the Yunnan army besieged Xuanguang. After the Sino French war, the Fujian Taiwan road was transferred to Taiwan governor and the governor of Taiwan. In 1895, the Qing Dynasty cut off Taiwan, and the army and the people of Taiwan established a democratic state, which promoted the Tang Dynasty as the Grand President to lead the Anti Japanese war. On the same day, he was criticized by the army of the Tang Dynasty when he landed in Taipei. After that, he went back to Guilin to live in leisure and no longer became an official.

In 1897, he supported Kang Youwei to carry out the reform movement in Guilin.

In 1899, he was employed as the chief Chinese teacher of Guilin sports school. During the teaching, he encouraged the students by contacting China, France and Japan. In his later years, he was enthusiastic about the innovation of traditional opera and created a variety of GUI opera. He died in 1903. His works include Diaries of inviting volunteers, shichou, Mishi, jikuyinguan Shicun, watching Qiting zaju, etc.

Life story

Self defense

Tang Jingsong (1841-1903), named Weiqing, was born in Guanyang County of Guilin. He was a Jinshi in the fourth year of tongzhi (1865) of the Qing Dynasty. He was elected to the Imperial Academy in the imperial examination presided over by the emperor, just like today's trainee. After three years, he was sent to the Ministry of official affairs as an alternate principal. Tang Jingsong has been working here for 15 years, plus three years. He has been a good scholar for 18 years. He has always wanted to seek opportunities to make an earth shaking career for him who was determined to "cultivate himself, manage his family, govern the country and level the world" since he was a child.

Vietnam, which is adjacent to Tang Jingsong's hometown Guangxi, is a vassal state of China. After the second Opium War, France gradually turned the south of Vietnam into its colony. The French were not satisfied with this. In April 1882, they occupied Hanoi again with the goal of opening the land passage to China. The Qing government was fully aware of the danger of the French occupation of northern Vietnam, but it did not want to send the Qing army to fight directly with the French army before the War reached its territory. Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in power, racked her brains with the ministers and couldn't come up with good ideas.

Tang Jingsong, who is always concerned about Sangzi and familiar with the situation of his hometown, lost no time in giving suggestions to Empress Dowager Cixi.

After the failure of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom movement, there was an anti Qing rebel army with black flag in Guangxi. In order to avoid the encirclement and suppression of the Qing army, it entered Vietnam. Its leader is Liu Yongfu of Bobai nationality. The black flag army is a force with strong combat effectiveness. At that time, he assisted the Vietnamese authorities in cracking down on local bandits, maintaining public order, and getting along well with the Vietnamese government and the people. After all, they were from the Qing Dynasty and could not stay away from their hometown for a long time. They wanted to go back to their hometown in Guangxi and were afraid of China's investigation and suppression, so they were in an awkward situation. Tang Jingsong believed that the imperial court should let bygones be bygones, subsidize and recruit the black flag army to fight against the French army, which could not only avoid the direct war between China and France, but also attack the arrogance of the French army, so that the Qing government could maintain the initiative and flexibility of decision-making. Empress Dowager Cixi greatly appreciated this suggestion, but it was difficult to find a suitable communicator because of the deep relationship between the Qing government and the black flag army. At this time, Tang Jingsong stepped forward and offered himself to Vietnam to appease Liu Yongfu. Cixi was overjoyed, so she took Tang Jingsong's advice and asked Guangxu to send him to Cen Yuying, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou.

At the beginning of 1883, in the Vietnam France War, Tang Jingsong arrived in Vietnam by Cen Yuying to defend his victory. He advised Liu Yongfu to fight against France and give advice to Liu Yongfu. He personally took part in the command of Hanoi and Shanxi campaigns. At that time, the black flag army won the "paper Bridge victory" and killed the commander of the French Beiqi fleet, Colonel Lee Willie. Tang Jingsong was awarded the title of "four grade minister" for his meritorious service.

In 1884, when the Sino French war broke out, Tang Jingsong ran to coordinate among the aid troops of Guangxi, Yunnan, black flag and anti French Vietnam. The Qing government awarded Liu Yongfu the title of "named governor" and awarded him Hualing as a reward. He also gave the "black flag army" 20000 liang of salary, silver and ordnance. Liu Yongfu and Tang Jingsong played an important role in the anti French war. What's more, Tang Jingsong was sent by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Guangdong and Guangdong provinces, to send Feng Zicai, the French army's nemesis and retired veteran, out of the mountain to lead the troops. He won the great victory in zhennanguan, and recovered Liangshan, Changqing and other places, and won a complete victory in the eastern battlefield. Tang Jingsong also enlisted four battalions of yongjingzi army under Zhang Zhidong's command. He led the army to take charge of his own affairs. He entered Vietnam and besieged Xuanguang French army with black flag army and Yunnan army. He joined hands with Cen Yuying, the governor of Yunnan and Guizhou, to organize and command the battle of Xuanguang. On the Western battlefield, they also won the great victories in Lintao and Xuanguang. The news of the French army's encounter with "Waterloo" in Asia spread to Paris, and the belligerent French cabinet of zufri collapsed immediately.

Later, in the form of diary literature, Tang Jingsong collected his deeds of helping Liu Yongfu resist France in Vietnam from August 1883 to October 1886, guarding the border outside the Guanxi pass in Guangxi, building the Jingzi army to attack the French army in zhennanguan pass, and participating in the Sino Vietnamese demarcation after the war as his diary.

Half of them resist Japan

After the end of the Sino French war, Tang Jingsong became a deputy provincial inspection cadre with the merit of "appreciating the flower plume, conferring the title of Jiachun batulu, ranking the second grade of Jin Dynasty, excluding Fujian Taiwan Road". When Tang Jingsong first came to Taiwan, most of the local culture still remained on the basis of the aborigines. Tang Jingsong set up academies, promoted imperial examinations, and advocated the construction of railways. In order to develop production, he visited the people, learned about farming and mulberry, and educated the local minorities in Tainan. He has not been in Taiwan for a long time and has done a lot to benefit the people of Taiwan. According to the records, Tang Jingsong "did a good job in writing. He hired Shi Shijie, a Jinshi, to teach Haidong academy, built wanjuan hall, had a rich collection of books, and compiled general records of Taiwan. For his own supervision, he was defeated by the cutting edge. Ren Bing prepared the way, repaired the old FeiTing Pavilion, and formed the "FeiTing chanting society". He wrote couplets and hung the pavilion columns. Every good spring and autumn day, he and Tainan Jinshi and scholars shot tigers in the Taoist department. Later, enigma was published and attached to the volume of FeiTing poetry. The collection of chenghuaiyuan chanting is a poem sung by Tang Jingsong and his colleagues, which was compiled by Tang Zan Gung. He served as the chief envoy in Taipei, and sometimes invited celebrities to chant in the official office. At the poetry club, dozens of peonies were transported from the sea, so it was called "Peony poetry club", and most of them made poetry bells. In January, 1893, he collected ten volumes of his best works and named it Shiqu. In it, there were 1301 copies of Tang Jingsong's works and 68 poems. Tang Jingsong promoted the local style of writing in Tainan and Taipei and contributed to the spread of poetry. "

In 1891, Tang Jingsong was promoted to the post of chief executive, that is, vice governor in charge of finance, taxation and civil affairs; on October 31, 1894, he acted as governor of Taiwan, and became governor of administrative, military and supervisory power.

When Tang Jingsong took office. It has been more than two months since the Sino Japanese war broke out on July 25, 1894. The following year (1895), the Qing army was defeated. On April 17, the Qing government signed the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Japan, ceding Taiwan and Penghu Islands to Japan.

The Qing government's treason aroused the indignation of the whole Taiwan people. Tang Jingsong firmly opposed the cutting platform. He called the Qing court seven times, saying that "Taiwan belongs to Japan, and all people refuse to accept it." "the land of Sangzi, righteousness and survival, is willing to defend it to the death with his ministers. If he is defeated in the war, he will say cutting the land after his ministers die." However, the Qing government, which was determined to betray Taiwan, remained indifferent and called back Tang Jingsong, saying, "although Taiwan is heavy, it is lighter than the capital. If the enemy takes advantage of the victory and attacks Dagu directly, the capital will be in danger. Moreover, Taiwan is isolated from overseas and can not be defended for a long time Don't forget all kinds of sufferings because of your indignation. On May 18, 1895, the Qing government sent Li Jingfang, the son of Li Hongzhang, as the special envoy to Taiwan for settlement. He also ordered Tang Jingsong, the Governor General of Taiwan, to come to Beijing immediately. All members of the civil and military forces in Taiwan Province, big and small, were ordered to enter China one after another. On the one hand, the traitorous empress dowager ordered Taiwan's big and small officials to go back to the mainland, and strictly prohibited the mainland from helping Taiwan's Anti Japanese army and people. Tang Jingsong refused to follow orders, and the angry people in Taiwan recommended Tang Jingsong as the leader and led the whole island with Liu Yongfu to fight against the Japanese aggressors.

Tang Jingsong re deployed Taiwan's defense. He led his troops to Taipei and took over the military and political power of the whole Taiwan. He also divided his troops to guard the major passes of the sea. However, hot blood could not stop the Japanese warships and artillery. Although Taiwan's rebel forces fought bravely and killed more than 30000 of the enemy before and after, the strength of the enemy and ourselves was very different, and Tang Jingsong gave up his promise at the critical moment and fled back to the mainland with a huge sum of money in disguise on a German ship. Compared with the diaries, it is not in the same breath. A hero or a coward is just a thought. Liu Yongfu was later forced to return to Fujian. On June 7, 1895, the Japanese captured Taipei. platform

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