Xu Mengxin

Xu Mengxin

Xu mengshen (1126-1207) is a historian and writer of Southern Song Dynasty. He was born in Qingjiang (now Zhangshu City, Jiangxi Province) of Linjiang army of Southern Song Dynasty. Song Gaozong (Zhao Gou) Shaoxing Jinshi, official to Zhimi Pavilion. At the beginning, he taught nan'anjun professor. Later, he changed his knowledge to Xiangyin County, where he was in charge of Guangxi transportation department. When he was in office, he was concerned about the people's livelihood and the interests of the people. His life is full of learning and erudition. He is deeply moved by the rebellion of Jingkang. He studies the history of the song and Jin Dynasties in the 45 years since the seventh year of Zhenghe (1117). In the fourth year of Shaoxing (1193), he wrote 250 volumes of the compilation of the Northern Alliance of the three dynasties, which began in the seventh year of Zhenghe (1117 AD) of the Song Dynasty and ended in the thirty second year of Shaoxing (1162 AD), citing more than 200 official and private works. There are also BEIMENG Jibu, Huilu, dushujizhi, jisonglu, jixianlu, etc.

Life of the characters

Early experience

Xu mengshen was intelligent when he was a child. He was fond of classics and history, and could read through novels. Shaoxing 24 years (AD 1154), kaozhong Jinshi, Li Guan for Nan'an Jun professor. Later he changed to Xiangyin County. At that time, Hunan implemented kuotan and increased the land tax, and many counties were ordered to do so. Only Xu mengshen said that the county he was in charge of did not have Xintian, so there was no way to pay taxes. The boss resented Xu mengshen for flattering Yu Min, and wanted to find evidence from the book to expose his fault, but he failed to find it, so he paid more attention to Xu mengshen.

Zhizheng Guangxi

Soon after, Xu mengshen was in charge of Guangxi transportation department. At that time, the imperial court considered changing the salt law of Guangdong and Guangxi, and sent Hu Tingzhi, an official of Guangxi pacification department, to discuss with the officials of the East and the West. Xu Mengxin, who was accompanying him, said: "Guangxi is mountainous, so we can only carry out the official law, and the people will not suffer; while the counties in Guangdong are close to the river, so Salt Traders can be allowed to sell. Therefore, it is not appropriate to make the two cantons go together in one law." Xu mengshen's suggestion is not in line with Hu Tingzhi's. Hu Tingzhi completely put aside Xu mengshen's opinion and took the Hakka and peddler reform as the transshipment envoy of Guangdong and Guangxi. Xu Mengxin, who knew Pennsylvania well, was dismissed because of his previous suggestions to obstruct the implementation of the law. In less than three years, the merchants of Guangdong and Guangxi destroyed their business, and the people were suffering without salt, so they had to carry out the official law again.

Devoted to historical books

Xu mengshen is indifferent to Yingjin. He was born in the troubled times of Jingkang. When he was four years old, he was chased by Jin people in Jiangxi. His mother held him and escaped. These indelible impressions deepened his understanding of that period of history, and he compiled 250 volumes of the three dynasties North Alliance Association. The emperor specially encouraged Xu mengshen and promoted him to Zhimi Pavilion. Xu mengshen was fond of learning blog articles and devoted himself to it. He died in August of the first year of Kaixi (1205 AD) at the age of 82.

Literary achievements

Xu mengshen paid attention to collecting the old news, and then compiled the two hundred and fifty volumes of the compilation of the alliance of the three dynasties north, starting from the alliance on the sea in the seventh year of Zhenghe (AD 1117) and ending with the death of Wan Yanliang in the thirty first year of Shaoxing (ad 1161). The span was 45 years. All the imperial edicts, imperial edicts, national documents, books, memorials, prefaces and epitaphs were published without omission. In the preface, he said that the purpose of writing the book is to "make the good and evil traces of loyal and righteous officials and disorderly officials and thieves disappear from the world.". Xu mengshen quoted a large number of documents and made a series of reports on the major social events of the peace war in the song and Jin Dynasties in the past 45 years, recording and analyzing them from various angles, in order to explore the causes, process and historical significance of the disaster of Jingkang. There is no Xu mengshen's own deliberate comment in BEIMENG, and there is no large number of "Chen Guangyue" words (Sima Guang's comment) in Zizhitongjian. However, history is the unity of subject and object, and historians' views are mainly implied in the choice of materials. The 250 volume book is an important historical book of Song Dynasty. Xu Mengxin wrote many works in his life, including Ji Bu, Hui Lu, Du Du Ji Zhi, Ji Yi Lu and Ji Xian Lu, all of which are named "Ru Rong".

Historical evaluation

The history of the Song Dynasty by Yuan Tuotuo and others: he was fond of learning and writing, but he died later.

Family members

Younger brother: Xu Dezhi, who was a Jinshi in the 10th year of Chunxi. He has 14 volumes of Jing'an zuozu, 10 volumes of other collections, 8 volumes of Chenjiang Zhi, and 2 volumes of Xiyuan Guchui, all of which have been passed down to the world. Congzi: Xu Tianlin, Zhongxiang, was a Jinshi in the first year of Kaixi. He wrote seventy volumes of Huiyao in the Western Han Dynasty, forty volumes of Huiyao in the Eastern Han Dynasty, one volume of the history of Han soldiers, six volumes of Geography in the Western Han Dynasty, and thirty volumes of Shanjing.

Chinese PinYin : Xu Meng Shen