Xia song

Xia song

Xia song (985-1051) was born in De'an County, Jiangzhou (now cheqiao Town, De'an County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). In the Northern Song Dynasty, he was a minister and a writer, who was known as Xia Wenzhuang Gong, Xia Yinggong and Xia Zhenggong.

In the first year of Jingde, Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty (1004), Xia song was recorded in the official book of Danyang for his father Xia Chenghao's loyalty. In 1010, he was selected as the editor of national history. He was the same as Wang Dan in compiling the notes on daily life, and he also participated in compiling the new year's turtle of CE Fu. During the reign of emperor Tianxi, he came to know Huang, Deng, Xiang and other states. Encountering a great hunger, he advised his family name to give birth to millet, and got 20000 Dendrobium, saving 450000 poor people. During the reign of emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty, he ordered more than 1900 wizard families to return to agriculture and destroy their immoral temples. In the fifth year of Tiansheng, he was a privy Deputy envoy. In the seventh year of Tiansheng (1029), he was promoted to be an official. In the ninth year of Tiansheng (1031), he was the Minister of the military department and the minister Zuo Cheng. During the reign of Jingyou, he went out to know Qingzhou and supported the city guards to build Nanyang bridge in Qingzhou, which is generally believed to be the earliest Hongqiao bridge in China. After entering the court, he moved to the Ministry of punishment and the Ministry of household. During the reign of Kangding, he also served as a pacifier for the four routes of Shaanxi Province, and knew Yongxing army, and presided over the war against Xixia. He Zhongfu was sentenced, Tongping Zhangshi was promoted, and Daming Fu was sentenced. Qingli seven years (1047) into the worship phase, immediately changed to grant Shu Mi Shi, granted the British public. The next year, he paid homage to Tongping Zhangshi. In the first year of Huangyou (1049), he was granted the title of Zheng Guogong.

In the third year of emperor you's reign (1051), Xia song died of illness. He was given the title of "Wenzhuang" as a gift to Taishi, Zhongshu Ling and Shangshu Ling.

Life of the characters

Youth talent

Xia song began to study when he was four years old. When he was young, he was very talented, outstanding, and very agile in writing poems and Fu. When he was 12 years old, Xia song wrote Fu of fanggongren, which was successful and well done. At the age of 17, Xia song, with his father in Langshan, Tongzhou, wrote a poem named "ferry crossing:" the ferry people are dim and green, and they like sunset when they climb. Canyun right leaning on Weiyang (now Yangzhou, Jiangsu) tree, far water south back to Jianye (now Nanjing, Jiangsu) ship. The mountain leads to the chaos of ape crowing temple, electric drive rain through the idle field. After Ji Ying's death, there will be no return guests. The perch on the river is worthless. " Wang Bizhi of the Northern Song Dynasty said: the later poems did not surpass his.

Change to Danyang

In the first year of Jingde, Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty (1004), Qidan invaded the Central Plains. Xia song's father, Xia Chenghao, led song's soldiers to fight against Qidan from a remote path. At night, he met with the Qidan army. Xia Chenghao immediately led song's soldiers to attack the Qidan army. In the battle, Xia Chenghao was injured by the arrow and died on the battlefield. The imperial court paid a pension to Xia Chenghao's family and rewarded him with a small military officer named "three class envoy". One day, Xia song was waiting for Prime Minister Li hang on his way home with his collection of poems. He finally saw a group of people from Prime Minister Li Hang retreating. He stopped Li Hang's horse head, bowed down, and presented the collection to Li Hang respectfully. Li Hang was very appreciative of the poem that "the mountains are broken and the streams are swallowing." he continued to read on, and the whole volume was good verse. The next day, Prime Minister Li Hang went to the court and presented Xia song's poetry collection to song Zhenzong. He said that his father died and his family was poor. Please change him to a civilian. Then Zhenzong appointed Xia song to be the director of Danyang County in Runzhou (now Zhenjiang City, Jiangsu Province).

Fang Zheng

In the Jingde reign of emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, Xia song was only in his early 20s. He was a virtuous and upright man. He was just out of the palace. Yang Huizhi, a Bachelor of Hanlin, saw that he was young and well-known in his poems, so he invited Xia song to come forward and said, "I don't know, but I only like to chant. I wish you a virtuous article to predict the future.". He took out Wu Ling's handkerchief and spread it in front of Xia song, who wrote a poem: "the sun and the moon are shining in the curtain, and the dragon and snake are dancing in front of the hall. I wrote three thousand words vertically and horizontally, but I didn't slant to Danlong. " One of Yang Hui looked at it, nodded his head and praised it

Xia song's poems were famous and valued at that time. Jiang Xiufu said: "Xia Yinggong's poems are written by young people with amazing meaning. There is a saying that" wild flowers have no owners and walk by people. " He added: "there are many poems in the pipa Pavilion in Jiangzhou (today's Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province). Li qingsun only left Xia Yinggong's Poems:" after years, the eyes are like the hub of a car, and the officials are like horses. If you meet a pipa, you should laugh. Why should you shed tears all over your shirt? "

In the reign of Dazhong Xiangfu, Xia song was appointed magistrate of Zhaoying palace of Yuqing, and Ding called Ren Yuqing Zhaoying palace envoy, who was Xia song's superior. One day, Ding said to Xia song: before there was no poem about acrobatics, you can write one. Xia wrote a poem on the spot and said, "dancing, picking beads, spitting pills, hiding and using hundreds of things skillfully. The Lord sits upright for no reason, but he is looked down upon by others. " Ding said that when he heard that Xia song was satirizing him, his face turned white with anger.

During the reign of emperor Zhenzong, Ding Wei was appointed as a political adviser and "asked Dazhi city to build a cannon farm in the west of Dazhi city and make a temple for Houtu Temple"; Lin Te, the "Third Secretary envoy", proposed to build a compound road in Shanglin garden to connect yuqingzhaoying palace; Li Pu, the "Fayuan envoy", proposed to carry the huge stones on the sea to huilingguanchi to build three sacred mountains. At that time, all the officials of the imperial court catered to Emperor Zhenzong's demand for Fu Rui and immortals. No one raised any objection. Only the member of the Ministry of household, Wai xiasong Shangshu, objected that these projects were too broad and far away, and they did not follow God's will. As a result, this costly project was prevented.

External achievements

In December of the first year of emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty (1017), Xia song was transferred to know Huangzhou. Pang Ji was his subordinate in Huangzhou. He served as an official manager and joined the army. One day, Pang Ji was ill in bed. He thought that his illness was over. He asked Xia song to deal with his affairs. Xia song personally came to see him and said to him, "you will not die. You will be a poor prime minister in the future, and you will live a long life. This disease will be cured. Don't worry." Pang Ji said, "if I become prime minister, will I still be poor?" Xia Song said: "in the prime minister's rank, you are poor." Pang Ji did become prime minister later. When he retired in his old age, he wrote a poem about it and said, "poor prime minister in the countryside, rich scholar in history."

In the third year of emperor Zhenzong's reign, Xia song was transferred to zhixiangzhou (now Xiangfan, Hubei Province). This year, there was a great famine in Xiangzhou. The people began to live in exile, and thieves took the opportunity to steal. Xia song opened the gong'an and released grain to the victims. At the same time, he persuaded the rich people in the prefecture to take out the remaining millet and collected more than 100000 Mu to help the victims. With the active efforts of Xia song, more than 460000 people lived through the famine in Quanzhou. Jiang Zun, the governor, wrote Xia song's deeds to the emperor, who gave him a commendatory letter. Later, people thought of Xia song's favor and carved the imperial edict given by the emperor into a stone tablet.

Zhiren three states

In the first year of Tiansheng, song Renzong ascended to the throne, promoted Xia song to be the doctor of Hubu, and successively served as the governor of Shouzhou (now Shouxian County of Anhui), Anzhou (now Anlu County of Hubei) and Hongzhou (now Nanchang of Jiangxi).

When Xia song came to know Hongzhou, he said, "the common people of Hongzhou are still ghosts, and many witches confuse the people.". Xia song, knowing the situation, banned more than 1900 Hongzhou witches and ordered them to return to agriculture and study acupuncture. He collected more than 11000 statues, talismans, divine battles, soul scarves, soul hats, bells, horns, knives, wats, and Saros, and burned them all. Shangshu also demanded that they be strictly prohibited to change the evil spirit. In November of the first year of Tiansheng (1023), Renzong read Xia song's memorials and issued an imperial edict that "he should pay more attention to the law and forbid it from the south of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.". According to the Song Dynasty's "Duxing magazine", Xia Ying was in command of Jiangxi day, when Yuzhang was plagued, and the public ordered the medicine to be distributed to the residents. The doctor asked, "although the medicine is given, it's not true." "Why?" he said The doctor said, "the custom of Jiangxi is to believe in ghosts and witches. Every time there is a disease, there is no medicine or bait." Gong said, "if this happens, there will be many people who die of unnatural causes. We can't do without banning them." So he ordered to be arrested as the staff of the sorcerer, and the author of the book was in Taizhou. At the age of one year, he managed more than 1900 families in the Ministry. Since then, Jiangxi has ceased to be a sorcerer.

Make Khitan, show "dual essence"

In the third year of Tiansheng (1025), Xia song was appointed as a magistrate of Jingling palace and a judge of Jixian Academy. Xia song did not want to see the Lord of Khitan because his father died in Khitan invasion. The above table said: "when his father died, his mother was worried. If you don't wear heaven, you can't go down to the dome to worship; if you use propriety as a pillow, you can't bear to hear the music of the barbarians. " He refused to go. His watch was regarded as "the antithesis of four or six parallel prose".

He supported the soldiers guarding the city and built the first wooden Hongqiao bridge in China

In Qingzhou, Shandong Province, there is a Wannian bridge, formerly known as Nanyang bridge, commonly known as North Bridge. It is an ancient bridge with a history of more than one thousand years. It is horizontally erected on Nanyang River, which flows through the urban area of Qingzhou City. In the past, it used to be the only channel between the north and south of Qingzhou. The bridge is famous in Qilu for its long history, important value, grand scale and superb construction technology.

This is the Nanyang bridge of Qingzhou built by Xia song in 1034 when he was appointed to Qingzhou (today's Qingzhou City, Shandong Province) and a pacifier. It was the first wooden Hongqiao in China. In order to prevent water disaster, after several years of raising funds, we built huge stones on both sides of the river. Dozens of big trees were used to cross each other without columns. The flying bridge was changed from a beam column wooden bridge to a single arch wooden bridge without columns with unique structure. It looks like a rainbow, so it is called "Hongqiao". Before long, this kind of bridge building technology was extended to Fen, Bian and other places. The success of the construction of Qingzhou Hongqiao has caused a great sensation.

Prepare for Xixia

In February, the first year of Qingli (1041), Yuanhao, the leader of the Western Xia state, led the attack on Weizhou (now Pingliang, Gansu). In April of the same year, Xia song was appointed as xuanhui Nanyuan envoy and Shaanxi Silu JINGLUE appeasement envoy, Yongxing army was appointed, and Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan were Deputy envoys. Han Qi, the new deputy envoy of Shaanxi economic strategy, ordered Ren Fu's army to meet Yuan Hao's Xixia army.

Han Qi made it clear before Ren Fu set out: from Huaiyuan city to DUSHENG Village (now Southeast of Xiji, Ningxia) to yangmulong city (now Ningxia)

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