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Chadao (955-1018) was a minister of Song Dynasty and a famous filial son. Zhanran, born in Xiuning, Shezhou (now Anhui), is the son of Zha Yuanfang. He seldom talks and laughs, but he likes to be close to paper, pen, ink and inkstone. When he was a minor, he was famous for his poems. The accompanying mother moved from the north to the south of the Yangtze River and lived there. My mother once fell ill and wanted to eat mandarin fish soup. At that time, it was a cold winter and she couldn't buy mandarin fish. Chadao went to the river to cry and pray to the God of the river. He poked the ice in the river and got a foot long mandarin fish for his mother. Mother recovered from her illness.

In the early years of Duangong (988 AD), Jinshi was selected. He started as Guan Tao Wei. Kou Zhun recommended his talents and awarded his works to Zuo Lang. Dazhong Fuxiang first year (1008 AD) Zhishi Museum. Wailang, a member of the Ministry of criminal justice, was moved to the capital of the imperial palace. In the third year, he entered the rank of the Ministry of war and worked for the Dragon Pavilion. Tao is pure and honest in nature. He does not correct his mistakes. He forgives his mistakes, so he has few achievements. Tao wrote 20 volumes of anthology, and the biography of the history of Song Dynasty was handed down to the world.

In May 1018, Chadao died at the age of 64.

Life of the characters

dutiful son

Chadao was born in an official family. His grandfather was the Minister of the Ministry of industry in the Southern Tang Dynasty, his father was the imperial censor in the hall of song Taizu, and later the magistrate of Quanzhou. As a result, Chadao received a good family education since childhood. He liked reading and writing since childhood. When he was young, his words were widely spread. Zha Dao was very filial. Once his mother was sick and wanted to eat mandarin fish soup. Because it was freezing and there was no place to buy it, Zha Dao went to the river to dig ice and fish, and finally got it. Chadao also cut his arm and transcribed Buddhist scriptures with blood, hoping that his mother would recover soon.

promotion

At the age of 33, Zha Daokao won the Jinshi examination, and then he embarked on his official career. At the beginning, he was appointed as a lieutenant (police chief) of Guantao (now Guantao, Hebei Province). A few years later, he was promoted to the post of general judge (administrative supervisor) in Suining, Sichuan Province. When the imperial court inspected the officials in the western region, Zha Dao was praised for his outstanding performance and was transferred to the prefecture magistrate of Guozhou (now Nanchong, Sichuan). He became a local senior official at the age of 43. Since then, he has had a good career, and successively served as the magistrate of ningzhou (now Ningxian County, Gansu Province), Xiangzhou (now Xiangfan, Hubei Province) and Guozhou (now Lingbao, Henan Province). During that time, he worked in the imperial court for ten years, and once served as Zuo Zhengyan (deputy director of the Ministry of supervision), Zhishi Guan (librarian of the National History Museum), wailang (deputy director of the Ministry of construction), wailang (Criminal Justice), etc. When he was 55 years old, he was appointed to be a doctor of the Ministry of punishment and an elected official of the Ministry of officials. LongTuge, a special research institution, was built after the death of Emperor Taizong Zhao Guangyi to preserve his cultural relics. Those who served inside had a high status and were highly appreciated by the emperor, so they were able to contact with the emperor frequently. According to the historical records of the Song Dynasty, "when Zhenzong retired from the dynasty, he called Feng Yuan to talk about the book of changes and then sat down, but Tao and Li Xuji and Li Xingjian were in advance." Seven years later, because of his deafness, Cha Dao was afraid that he would not be able to deal with the emperor. He asked for a foreign official and was allowed to be appointed governor of Guozhou. Before leaving, zhenzongqin went to LongTuge to bid farewell to him.

generous and easygoing

The reason why Zha Dao was appreciated by the imperial court and the emperor for a long time is that he was honest, capable, responsible and responsible, and had outstanding political achievements.

When he was Guantao's captain, one of his important tasks was to collect taxes. At that time, the management of the state was very strict, and the taxes were not enough, so the officials of the county government were punished by flail. However, after a while, the officials took off the flail one after another, and only Zha Dao continued to press for payment with the flail on. When he went down, he never accepted a meal, and first of all, he strictly investigated the tax arrears of the rich. Seeing this, the people paid their taxes one after another.

When he was in Guozhou, a madman named he Yanzhong gathered more than 200 people to fight against him. The imperial court sent people to recruit and pacify him, but they failed, and decided to send troops to fight against him. The investigation found that most of them were coerced. They couldn't bear to be burned during the campaign. They decided to take only a few servants to persuade them to surrender again. Some people in the anti democracy movement recognized him as the governor. In view of his good official voice, they said, "how can Zhizhou harm us?" So they agreed to surrender and plead guilty. Instead of punishing them, Zha gave them identification cards and asked them to go home to work in agriculture. After receiving the report, the imperial court thought that he had handled it properly and issued an imperial edict to praise him.

In the autumn of the year when he left LongTuge to work in Guozhou, there was a serious locust disaster in Guozhou and the farmland was in arrears. He opened official storehouses to relieve the disaster and set up porridge sheds to help the hungry people. At the same time, 4000 wheat seeds were distributed to the victims, so that farmers could produce and save themselves. Finally, more than 10000 people survived the famine safely. It's a matter of great praise.

The above three events can be seen in the history of Song Dynasty. In May 1018, Chadao died in office at the age of 64.

Folklore

Zha Dao was born a thousand years ago, but there are still some legends about him among the people and on the Internet. One is the story of Chadao eating dates and keeping money. One day, he took his servant to the countryside to inspect his work. On the way, he met a jujube tree full of sweet jujubes, and the servant picked some for Zha Dao. After Zha Dao ate them, he asked the servant to hang a bunch of money on the jujube branch. Zha Dao said: "if you eat other people's dates, you should give money." From then on, Chadao left money to eat dates has become a story handed down from generation to generation. There is also a story about Cha Daoyi saving the mermaid. He was surprised to find a woman lying on the beach of an island on his way to Korea. Think about this desolate beach, how can anyone? When the boatman was called to have a close look, he found that the woman had a disordered bun, bare chest and bare back, and had red fins behind her elbow. He immediately realized that this was not a man, but a mermaid. When the boatman wanted to kill the mermaid, Zha Dao immediately stopped it and said, "although the mermaid is an aquarium, she knows human nature and must not kill people indiscriminately." Then he asked the boatman to drag the mermaid into the sea. When the mermaid got the water, she nodded her head to Zha Dao and swam away. When the incident spread to Korea, the Korean people praised the ambassador of Song Dynasty for his generosity, not killing innocent people indiscriminately, which was quite trustworthy. Because of this, Zha Dao successfully completed the mission.

In Taizhou City, Jiangsu Province, there is a rare pine. Tonggao is no more than three feet high. It has two protruding roots, which are tied together. As soon as it gets out of the ground, it turns to both sides and circles away, stretching for more than ten meters. People say that "high eaves, shade a few acres" is rare in the world. Taizhou People call it "Taichang pine". Taizhou people say that this pine was planted by Zha Dao. Because Zha Dao was a doctor of Taichang, it was named "Taichang pine". Taizhou people also said that there was Zha Dao's former residence in Wisteria street in the north of Taizhou City, and the wisteria tree on Wisteria street was also planted by Zha Dao. Whether Zha Dao worked in Taizhou, whether he was a doctor of Taichang, or not, is not recorded in historical materials. These are only legends. But to say the least, Taizhou people still remember to find out.

Historical records

The history of Song Dynasty

original text

Zhadao was born in Xiuning, Shezhou. Dao you is not a group of people. He seldom talks and laughs. He likes to write inkstones by himself. Wen Hui loves it very much. Not crown, known as Ci industry. When his mother crossed the river, he was raised with filial piety. Mother taste disease, think mandarin fish soup, Fang winter bitter cold, the market does not get. The way weeps and prays in the river, chisels the ice to take it, obtains the Siniperca chuatsi Chi Xu to feed, the mother disease seeks heals.

At the beginning of Duangong, he was promoted to the highest rank. Kou Zhun recommended his talents and awarded his works to Zuo Lang. In Chunhua, the Shu bandits rebelled and ordered the way to pass judgment on Suizhou. Those who have made contributions to the two rivers will be rewarded with a just and clean way. He moved to Zhiguo state. At that time, there were still some bandits who lived in danger. He Yanzhong, the chieftain of the bandits, gathered more than 200 of his disciples and stopped at the big wooden trough in Xichong. Before the imperial edict was issued, please send troops. The way said, "the fool is afraid of sin and wants to prolong his life for a moment. His party is not evil. "So he took a single horse to count his servants, and went to the thief's place without a ruler. I'm afraid at first, but I'm full of extroversion. The way is self-conscious and sits on the Hu bed, giving an imperial edict. Or knowledge said: "Sheriff also, taste its benevolence, is Ning to harm me?" that is to say, Xiang Li joined the army in Luobai, called out to plead guilty, learned to give coupons to farmers.

In the first year of Tianxi, Guozhou was known. In autumn, when the people were sorry for the locust disaster, they did not wait for the report. They sent out the official rice to relieve them, and set up porridge to save the hungry. They gave the state four thousand wheat and Dendrobium as seeds for the people. The people relied on it to help them, and they lived for more than ten thousand people. In May of the second year, he died and received an obituary. Zhenzong regretted his death and ordered his son to follow the rites and pass them on to the funeral.

The moral character is honest and honest, some criminals are not corrected, all the things are forgiven, the petty officials have never been punished, the people's lawsuits are not satisfied, or they pay for it with their own money. Taste according to the Department, the roadside has good jujube, from the person who pick to offer, the road that is straight hanging money in the tree. When I was a child, I tasted the opera and painted the land as the first place. I said, "I should support the orphans." And live in the capital, the family is very poor, gather more relatives alone, Lu given income, scattered with all, not to disdain. When you make friends with others, you have a deep feeling. If you abandon the lonely dew, the thicker you treat it, the more you give it.

In the early days, when they went to the imperial examination, they were poor and could not go to the imperial examination. When he came out of the slide, he passed his father's friend Lu Weng's house. Weng's funeral was so poor that he could not be buried. His mother and elder brother took care of his daughter. The way to Chu Zhong Qian with it, and for his daughter to choose son-in-law, do not add salary. And he died, and was very poor, and was a slave girl. The way is to redeem it and marry the gentry. The gentry obeyed his performance. He is fond of learning and playing chess. If you live in peace, you can eat a lot of vegetables. If you sit in silence all day long, you will be very frugal. He was sixty-four years old.

translation

Zha Dao, Zi zhanran, was born in Xiuning, Shezhou, Anhui Province. Zha Dao was calm and unsociable when he was young. He seldom talked and laughed, but he liked to be close to paper, pen, ink and inkstone. When he was a minor, he was famous for his poems. Later, his mother moved from the north of the Yangtze River to live in the south of the Yangtze River, famous for her filial piety. Once, when my mother was sick, she wanted to eat mandarin fish soup. At that time, it was a cold winter and she couldn't buy mandarin fish. Chadao went to the river to cry and pray to the God of the river. He poked the ice in the river and got a foot long mandarin fish for his mother. Then she opened her arms and wrote Buddhist scriptures with blood in her arms (to show her reverence for the gods). Soon after, her mother died

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