Zhao Wan

Zhao Wan

Zhao Wan (1808-1877), a native of Taihu County, Anhui Province, was named YUNPU, Hucun, Suiyuan and suiweng. Li Hongzhang's father-in-law was a minister in the late Qing Dynasty.

Daoguang 21 years (1841), in the Jinshi, selected the Imperial Academy Shuji Shi, compiled the "water transport history", special purpose on the study walk, Professor Prince reading. As a magistrate of Anqing, he organized League training to suppress the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In 1877, Zhao Wan died of illness in Anqing. He wrote a volume of suiweng's chronology and six volumes of Suiyuan poetry.

Life of the characters

Zhao Wan, the son of Zhao Wenkai, was born in Taihu, Anhui Province. Yougu is the posthumous son of Zhao Wenkai, the number one scholar in Qing Dynasty. He was born in 1808. Mrs. Wang, the widowed mother, had been living a miserable life, but she was also separated from her family. Wen Kai learned that his family was poor and withered behind him, so he helped out one after another. It was a timely help that made the living conditions of the Zhao family better. In order to continue her family education, Mrs. Wang did not hesitate to sell off her family property and hired some scholars to study. What happened in front of him inspired Zhao to study hard.

In his early years, he studied under Yu Erkang. Daoguang twenty-one years (1841) Jinshi, selected the Imperial Academy Shuji Shi, compiled the "history of water transport", special purpose on the study walk, Professor Prince reading.

In the third year of Xianfeng, the Taiping Army swept the southeast and occupied Nanjing. LV Xianji, the Minister of the Ministry of industry, invited Zhao Wan, Yuan Jiasan and Li Hongzhang to establish the League training, and formulated six articles of the League training constitution.

Xianfeng six years (1856), as Guangdong Huichao Jia Road.

In the first year of tongzhi (1862), his mother died of illness in Changsha. She was buried with Zhao Wenkai in the immortal meditation mountain and lived in Li Yunzhang's home in Anqing.

In the third year of tongzhi (1864), he resigned from office and returned to Li. He lectured at Jingfu Academy in Anqing, where he was rewarded for being backward.

In the fourth year of tongzhi (1865), Wei's wife, first daughter-in-law and second daughter-in-law died one after another.

Guangxu three years (1877), died in Anqing. He wrote ten volumes of Sui Yuan Shi Chao, four volumes of Sui Yuan Shi Lu Shi Chao, and one volume of rebuilding pan Liu Di Bei, and compiled Sui Weng's own chronicle.

Anecdotes and allusions

Good at writing couplets

Zhao Wan is good at writing couplets. When he was 21 years old, he went to Zhiguo nunnery outside the county to study. Beside the nunnery is the tomb of tanyun, a concubine who was buried by Li Shizhi, the former magistrate of Taihu Lake. Zhao Yi wrote a couplet of Fu An Seng: "Qingzhong is still there, where can I ask the beauty of vanilla; if the world of mortals does not arrive, there are peach blossoms here." We can have a glimpse of his elegance and talent.

Plaque presented by Hongzhang

In Yuexi County, Anqing City, a set of birthday plaques inscribed by Li Hongzhang was found, the contents of which are to celebrate the 60th birthday of his father-in-law Zhao. Zhao Wan was born in 1808. According to the custom of Wanjiang River, he lived nine years but not ten years. He should have lived in 1867. In that year, Li Hongzhang was appointed governor of Huguang.

There are three nanmu Heshou plaques, one large plaque is 48 cm wide, and two small plaques are 24.5 cm wide and 86.4 cm high. Li Hongzhang's poem "he Shiyun" is written in gold on a red background

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He was elected to take the place of Chenglong and was grateful to the east of the bed. More than 20 years of old dream, vaguely like yesterday. I'm ashamed of my appearance. Wish to play the music of eternal life and enjoy the relationship of heaven all the year round.

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Li Hongzhang's birthday couplets to his father-in-law are as follows:

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The blue clouds spread their skyscrapers, and Taiyue added poems of longevity. Li Hongzhang, son in law

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And so on. The characters in the plaque

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More than 20 years of old dream

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It means that Zhao has promised to recruit Li Hongzhang as the East bed for more than 20 years, not that he has recruited Li Hongzhang as his son-in-law for more than 20 years;

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The desk is full of color

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Li Hongzhang, as the governor, was very busy, tired and haggard, so he didn't come to pay homage to his birthday face to face. Zhao Jilian (Zhao Xiaolian), the stepmother of Li Hongzhang, was the youngest daughter of Zhao, so Li Hongzhang was called "son-in-law".

Main achievements

At the age of 28, Zhao Wanzhong was in shuntianfu. He was 34 years old. He was a Jinshi in the imperial examination, and he was a good scholar in the Imperial Academy.

During his stay in the Imperial Academy, in addition to serving as an examiners for four times, Zhao also participated in compiling official history books, compiling the history of water transportation and the actual records of Emperor Xuanzong. Due to diligence, dedication and strict character, Emperor Xianfeng ordered Zhao wan to go to the study to teach princes and nobles to study. It is worth mentioning that Zhao Wan proposed the whole story of preparing for the affairs of the barbarians. "If you want to take all the reports and transcribe them, you will not leave a single word or change a single word, and gather them into a book with the name of" the whole process of preparing for the foreign affairs ", which will be submitted to table B for inspection." Because Du Shoutian was the chief supervisor of the book, most of the posterity believed that the book was compiled on Du's suggestion, so Zhao's name was concealed by Du.

At that time, the Taiping Army rose up and soon swept the southeast. The Qing army was defeated and retreated, and the situation was almost out of control. In the third year of Xianfeng (1853), the Taiping army occupied Nanjing and changed its name to Tianjing. The Qing government had no choice but to enforce the policy of strengthening the walls and clearing away the wild, and ordered the soldiers to organize regiment training by themselves in all provinces, so as to eliminate the "bandits". According to the biography of LV Xianji in the draft of the history of the Qing Dynasty, LV Xianji, the Minister of the Ministry of work, went to Anhui to be the principal of the work, "playing the tune to Yuan Jiasan, the governor of the work, and Zhao Wan, who helped to organize the regiment to defend and suppress, and also to edit Li Hongzhang and other officers to assist the military.". So Zhao Wan took the title of governor of Guangdong Province, and soon he was promoted to the title of Taoist to assist the League training. After going to Anhui, Zhao Yun went to work on the League training affairs, formulated six articles of the League training regulations, and published them everywhere. According to Taihu county annals of the Republic of China, in April of that year, Zhao Wan returned to his hometown Taihu Lake and founded tuanlian.

At the beginning of the fourth year of Xianfeng (1854), Zhao Ran Ran took care of himself in the third camp of Yuanjia. In October of that year, the Taiping Army and the Qing army fought fiercely outside Taihu County. The city was destroyed, and more than a thousand honest officers and soldiers were killed. When the Taiping army occupied the county, Zhao's family members were exempted from taking refuge in Zhaojiahe, but thousands of books in their home were burned. At that time, Yuan Jiasan and Fuji, the governor of Anhui Province, attacked each other. Li Hongzhang, who had accumulated military achievements, was envied. Zhao Wan was well aware that the situation in Anhui was complex, and it was difficult for him to do anything, so he was asked to be transferred to huichaojia road of Guangdong Province in 1856.

Today, the local government of Chaoyang City made a positive response to the proposal. In May of the next year, when the dyke was completed, the squires gathered to discuss the dyke, which was rejected by Zhao Wan and still used the old name. Secondly, they set up granaries to stabilize grain prices and relieve famine. He also led his troops to fight against local tyrants and maintain local order. Zhao Wan's measures beneficial to the people are also recorded in Chaoshan local chronicles, which shows that Zhao Wan is indeed an orderly official who cares about the people and promotes the advantages and eliminates the disadvantages.

In the first year of tongzhi (1862), Mrs. Wang died of illness in Changsha. Zhao Wan went to Hunan for a funeral, and then brought his mother's coffin back to Taihu Lake, where she was buried with Zhao Wenkai in the immortal meditation mountain. She donated money to buy land and built a Yizhuang Anhe Hall beside the ancestral hall.

In December of the second year of tongzhi (1863), Zhao Wan, 55, betrothed his second daughter Zhao Jilian (Zhao Xiaolian), 26, to Li Hongzhang, the then governor of Jiangsu Province, who was the stepwife of Li Hongzhang, 41 (Li Hongzhang was born in 1821 and died in 1861). Zhao Jilian ranks eighth in the same generation, also known as Miss Zhao ba.

In November of the third year of tongzhi (1864), Zhao Wan went to Anqing and borrowed Li Yunzhang, Li Hongzhang's younger brother, to stay in the house. In December, he bought the old house of Zhao in tiantaili, yangrugu, Huaining (after Zeng Guofan captured anqing on September 5, 1861, he set up the Waijiang grain terrace here, which is now No. 44, North Lane, tiantaili, Anqing City, where Zhao's family later became the number one scholar's mansion in Anqing).

In 1865, Zhao's wife, Mrs. Wei, the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law passed away one after another. In only four years, three generations and four coffins were dead. They were so sad that they could not help but feel sad and decided to retire. So the open space beside Zhao's house in the rooftop. The house was built several times. Since then, he has never asked about the world and picked chrysanthemums.

In his later years, Zhao Wan "traveled under the forest for 16 years, closed his family and had little access to foreign affairs, but he had to study in the pool to help himself." He is a lecturer of Jingfu Academy. He is a diligent scholar. Many years later, his grandson Zhao Chong also taught in Jingfu Academy. In 1877, Zhao Wan died of illness in Anqing.

Zhao Wan wrote a volume of suiweng's chronology and six volumes of Suiyuan poetry. The chronicle of suiweng's life is very detailed. It is an important material for the study of Zhao himself, his family and local history.

Future generations

Under Zhao Wan, there are "Ji", "Zeng", "en", "Rong" and "Xi", among which Mr. Zhao Puchu is "Rong".

Zhao Jiyuan

Zhao Jiyuan, the third generation of the Zhao family, is the eldest son of Zhao, whose name is Zifang and his name is Yangzhai. Born in 1828. At the age of 22, Cheng Bagong was elected to the imperial examination at the age of 32. At the age of 41, he was elected to the Imperial Academy.

In 1871, Zhao Jiyuan took the examination of "leaving the museum for the third class" and failed to stay in the museum. Later, he donated to the Taoist priest.

Tongzhi 12 years (1873) distributed in Jiangsu, has served in the Department of military affairs, the preparation and Prevention Bureau, Liangjiang Quartermaster General Bureau.

In 1875, Zhao Jiyuan married his daughter Zhao Xiguan (the "Zeng" generation, Zhao Puchu's aunt) to Li Jingxi (the second son of Li Hezhang, who was the Prime Minister of the Beiyang Government) as his original wife. Li Hezhang is Li Hongzhang's younger brother. Li and Zhao are close to each other. Zhao Xiguan (1859-1929) was only 16 years old. [Note: the Li and Zhao families have been married for several generations. After Zhao Xiaolian and Zhao Xiguan married Li Hongzhang and Li Jingxi one after another, there were many people who married the Zhao family. In addition, there were also many people who married the Li family (commonly known as huihuiqin), such as the grandmother of Zhao Enzhu's wife, Li Hongzhang's eldest sister. It is said that Zhao Rongxin, the eldest son of Zhao Enchen (Yangting), accepted the new idea of the May 4th Movement and went on the road of free love. He opposed the engagement with the Li family in Hefei. Otherwise, the two families would have marriage when they reached the "Rong" generation

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