Shen Lian

Shen Lian

Shen Lian (1507-1557), with the name of Chunfu, was born in Qingxia mountain. Zhejiang Kuaiji (now Shaoxing), Ming Dynasty officials, royal guards. Jiajing 17 years Jinshi, except Liyang county magistrate. Because of this, he moved left to the royal guards and was appreciated by Lu Bing.

Shen Lian is upright and resentful of evil. He is always proud when he drinks. Yan Song was impeached for "ten crimes" (i.e. being good at state affairs, embezzling and accepting bribes, selling officials, being envious of talents and abilities, and suppressing admonishments). He was sentenced to the punishment of Zhang Xing and was relegated to Baoan Prefecture for the people. Shen Lian is outside the Great Wall, but he still takes pleasure in swearing at Yan Song and his son. Yan Song is very angry. In the 36th year of Jiajing (1557), Yan Shifan sent the imperial censor Lu Kai and the governor of Xuanda Yang Shun to kill Shen Lian. It happened that Yan Hao, a white lotus believer, was arrested and confessed to many suspects, so he listed Shen Lian's name. Shen Lian was killed because he was falsely accused of treason, and both of his sons were killed. In the early years of Longqing, the imperial court issued an imperial edict to praise those who dared to speak, especially to the young minister of Shenlian Guanglu temple, and appointed a son as an official. In the early years of apocalypse, he was named Zhongmin. Scholars all over the world respected his virtue and compiled his works into Qingxia collection. The history of the Ming Dynasty is well-known.

Life of the characters

In 1507, Shen Lian was born in Kuaiji, Zhejiang Province. You Congmin was able to attack ancient Chinese prose. Wang Wensheng, as an assistant envoy to the school, was astonished by his prose. He was called a stranger. He ranked first and began to supplement the students in the government.

In 1531, Shen Lian passed the examination.

In 1538, Shen Lian became a Jinshi in the examination and successively served as the magistrate of Liyang, Chiping and Qingfeng counties. Clean and honest, love the people, outstanding achievements. However, because he was not flattering, he was upright and often disagreed with the powerful. Lu Bing, the commander-in-chief of the royal guards, heard that Shen Lian had a good reputation, so he asked the official department to transfer him to the capital for the royal guards experience. When Shen Lian arrived, Lu Bing treated him with equal courtesy. So Shen Lian became more energetic. He once followed Lu Bing to Yanfu for a drink. When he saw Yan Shifan pouring wine to the guests who were too strong to drink, he forced Yan Shifan to say, "I'll pay you back on behalf of the guests." Yan Shifan harbors a grudge, but he is afraid to harm Shen Lian immediately for fear of Lu Bing.

In the winter of 1550, the Mongolian army invaded and threatened the capital. The emperor summoned all the civil and military officials to discuss the strategy of retreating the enemy. From morning to noon, no one spoke. When retreating from the dynasty, Zhao Zhenji, a member of the Imperial College, said loudly: "I think the emperor should take out gold, silver and silk to recruit the army, and reward the brave people personally. All civil and military officials will guard the city together, and the enemy will retreat." Shen Lian, the experience of the royal guards, strongly supports Zhao Zhenji's opinions and enthusiastically adds them. Xia bangxian, the Minister of the Ministry of official, rebuked Shen Lian: "the civil and military officials didn't speak. What are you talking about Shen Lian said: "important officials don't speak, so petty officials have to stand up." In the end, the Imperial Court adopted their proposal that they should fight without paying tribute. Soon the enemy troops withdrew.

At that time, the northern border crisis was very serious, and it happened that Yan Song, the head of the cabinet, was good at power and concealed military information. Shen Lian saw that the Ming Dynasty was going to perish. He drank at his friend's house and was sentimental about the state affairs. He wrote down memorials on the spot and exposed ten major crimes of Yan Song and his son. He listed the ten major crimes of Yan Song's father and son, such as being good at state affairs, repelling dissidents, leading to private places, swallowing military salaries and deregulation of war preparedness, resulting in rampant Japanese invasion in the southeast and raiding the capital in the north "It's hard to say if people's minds are corrupt.". Shen Lian fought with Yan Song and his son in a humble position, but his generosity and justice angered emperor Jiajing. The emperor issued an imperial edict, saying that Shen Lian was noisy in the golden hall last year and did not pay attention to the etiquette of being a minister. Now he wants to gain fame by slandering the minister and ordering him to be punished. Finally, Shen Lian was demoted to Baoan prefecture (today's Zhuolu, Hebei Province) outside the Great Wall for farming.

Shen Lian is farming in Baoan. A businessman in Beiguan takes the initiative to vacate a house for him to live in. The mayor helps Shen Lian solve the problem of firewood and rice. Shen Lian's fellow countrymen talked about the great festival of loyalty and righteousness, and wrote some fierce poems. One of them, feeling on the wall, wrote:

Sand yellow flowers with snow open, relegated officials in the wine sitting around.

Suiyang scolds the enemy for being too strong, and the state thinks of the king.

The wind and dust of the north and the south often follow the sword, and the order of heaven and earth contains the cup.

Drunk wake up several spring and autumn to see, and Cheng Ying save Zhao.

Shen Lian took his wife and son to Baoan (today's Zhuolu, Hebei Province) for more than five years. Although he was reduced to the grass, he was still angry and could not forget. Bao'an is a border area. At that time, the governor of Xuanda (Xuanfu town and Datong town) of Bao'an Prefecture was Yang Shun, son of Yan songgan. He lied about his achievements and indulged his soldiers in killing Liang and offering his head for reward. Shen Lian learned that he presented a poem at Yang Shun's celebration banquet: "there is no such thing as killing Liang and offering his head in ancient times. White grass, yellow sand, wind and rain, how many ghosts look for the head ". Yang Shun was filled with hatred. At the security guard, Shen Lian also used the statues of Li Linfu, Qin Hui and Yan Song as targets to make people practice shooting day by day, which made Yan's family more incisive and eager to die, so he secretly ordered Yang Shun and others to kill Shen Lian.

In the 36th year of Jiajing (1557), Yang Shun, the Minister of the Ministry of war and governor of Xuanda, fought against the Tatar tribe of Mongolia and lost more than 40 cities. However, Yang Shun killed a group of innocent residents who had evaded the war and lied about their military achievements. Shen Lian visited him and sent two poems to Yang Shun to ask him about it. The words were very harsh. Yang Shunji negotiated with Lu Kai, the censor of Baoan Prefecture, to kill Shen Lian in the name of Bailian religion. On October 17, Shen Lian was killed at the age of 51.

After Shen Lian's death, Yang Shun also killed Shen Lian's second son with his staff, and sent people to Zhejiang Province to capture Shen Xiang, Shen Lian's eldest son. After that, he was tortured every day. Later, he exposed Yang Shun and Lu Kai to Wu Shi Lai Shangshu. The emperor was furious and ordered to arrest them and release Shen Xiang. After the fall of Yan Song and his son, in the first year of emperor Mu Zong's Longqing reign (1567), the imperial court gave Shen Lianping the title of Guanglu Shaoqing, and established an ancestral hall for him on the West Street of baoanwei (now xinbaoan Town, Huailai County). His posthumous title is Zhongmin. In Yu Shi Ming Yan, Feng Menglong describes Shen Lian's tragic story with Shen Xiaoxia's meeting as an example.

Shen Lian's nephew Shen Jing, his grandson Shen Liangqing and their descendants have been staying in Baoan Prefecture, studying and starting a family.

Main achievements

be versed in both polite letters and martial arts

The epitaph of Shen Qingxia, written by Wang Shizhen, says that Shen Gong was young, but his study was heterogeneous, so Mr. Wang Boan traveled. Mr. Wang talked with me again and again, that is to say, he was born a thousand li talent. Wang bo'an, Wang Shouren, also known as Mr. Yang Ming in the world, is a person from Yuyao, Zhejiang Province, and a great master of Lu Wang's theory of mind. He is a rare all-round Confucian in Chinese history and worships the 58th place in Dongwu of Confucius Temple. It is not easy for Shen lian to follow Wang Yangming in his study tour and be deeply influenced by his theory of mind.

When he was young, Shen Lian had the quality of reading. He was "brilliant at understanding people, easy to read and easy to read". He entered the government school at the age of 16. When he was 20 years old, Wang Wensheng, Vice Minister of tixue, was shocked by Shen Lian's beautiful words. He said that he was different from ordinary people and had integrity, so he was selected as the first. He was admitted to Juren at the age of 25 and won the Jinshi at the age of 32. According to the inscriptions of Jinshi, there are three in the first grade, 95 in the second grade, and 222 in the third grade. Shen Lian ranks 163 in the third grade. He is given the Jinshi background. After his name, there is the name of Hu Zongxian, a feudal official and anti Japanese hero in the Jiajing Dynasty. Looking at Shen Lian's way of imperial examination, it can be said that it was smooth.

Shen Lian was appointed magistrate of Liyang County after passing the entrance examination. In the 22nd year of Jiajing (1543), he was transferred to Chiping. After his father died, Shen Lian went back to his hometown. Ding you (in ancient times, when the parents of an official died, he had to leave his post and stay in his hometown for 27 months. During the period of Ding you, Shen Lian and Xu Wei, Xiao Mian, Chen he, Yang Ke, Zhu Gongjie, Qian Bian, Liu Lin, Zhu dashou, Lu Guangsheng and others formed the Yuezhong Shizi society. "Yuezhong Shizi" was an important regional literati Association in Jiajing period. Deeply influenced by Wang Yangming's theory, Yuezhong Shizi played a breakthrough role in the retro trend of "literature must be in Qin and Han Dynasties and poetry must be in Tang Dynasty", which was advocated by the former and latter seven scholars headed by Li Mengyang and Wang Shizhen.

Among the ten sons of Yue Zhong, Xu Wei is the most famous. Although Xu Wei was brilliant, he was down and out. He failed in the examination eight times in his life, not to mention the Jinshi. Xu Wei also had deep feelings for Shen Lian. Shen Lian is 14 years older than Xu Wei. He is also the brother-in-law of Xu Wei. He is also a teacher and friend of Xu Wei. He once commented on Xu Wei as "I haven't seen him for several years since so and so.". Close the gate, this is the only one! Xu Wei did not live up to Shen Lian's evaluation. His future achievements were incomparable, but he was not famous all his life in the imperial examination field, and he was only an aide under Hu Zongxian's account when he was most proud. Xu Wei is eager to show his ambition like Shen Lian, and he also has deep feelings for Shen Lian, which can be seen from Xu Wei's poems and essays. In the article "mourning for Shen Junwen with friends of all scholars", Xu Wei expressed his admiration for Shen Lian. His drama the history of crazy drum, also known as Yin scolding Cao, was created by Yan Song's killing of Shen Lian. In the play, Cao Cao alludes to Yan Song, and the character of Li Heng, who is resolute and unafraid of the powerful, barely scolds Cao Cao, symbolizes Shen Lian and Xu Wei. To some extent, Xu Wei has regarded Shen Lian as the embodiment of his own ideal.

Shen Lian was originally from a military family, and he also had the expression that "Yu was a swordsman in Cangjiang, and he had been an official for ten years."; When he was relegated to the frontier fortress, he often shot the images of treacherous officials such as Li Linfu, Qin Hui and Yan Song with arrows. In the chronicle of Shen Lian compiled by Wang Yuanjing, there are also records that Shen Lian danced with his sword, and there are "yellow cloth flying from the air", which shows that Shen Lian has certain martial arts skills. Shen Lian is in great love

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