Chapter 299: Song of Righteousness

Heaven and earth have righteousness, mixed manifolds, the lower is He Yue, the upper is the sun and the stars, and the people say Haoran, Peihu is full of darkness. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info Huanglu when Qingyi, Han and Tu Ming Ting; Shi Poor Festival is seen, one by one to hang Danqing, in Qi Taishi Jian, in Jin Dong Fox Pen, in Qin Zhang Liangzhi, in the Han Su Wu Festival; for General Yan's head, for Ji Shi Zhongxue, for Zhang Suiyang teeth, for Yan Changshan tongue; or for Liaodong hat, Qing Cao Li Bing Xue; or for the teacher's table, ghosts and gods cry strongly, or for crossing the river, generously swallowing Hu Xuan; or for the thief wat, reverse vertical head cracking.

It is majestic and majestic, and it is fierce and eternal. When it runs through the sun and the moon, life and death are sufficient, the earth depends on it, and the heavenly pillar depends on it. The three outlines are really life, and morality is the root.

It is not effective to give Yang Jiu, and it is really ineffective. Chu prisoners were crowned, and the car was sent to the poor north. The woks are as sweet as gluttony, and they can't get it. The ghost fire in the yin room is dark, and the spring courtyard is dark. Niu Ji is in the same morning, and the chicken is perched on the phoenix food. Once it was covered with dew, it was divided into barren ditches. No matter how cold and hot it is, Bai Wei is easy to find itself. Sorry and depressed, for my peace and happiness. How can he be skillful, yin and yang cannot be thieves. Looking up at the clouds, I feel sad, and the sky is very bright. The philosopher's day is far away, typical in the past, the wind eaves show books to read, and the ancient road shines on the color.

I was imprisoned in Dadu, in a dungeon, eight feet wide and about three feet and two feet deep, with low and small doors, short and narrow windows, and low-lying and dark ground. On this hot summer day, all kinds of smells gather together, rain flows here from all sides, and beds and tables float up, this is the moisture.

After a heavy rain, the room is full of mud, and most of the day is full of water bubbles evaporating and flowing, which is the rustic atmosphere; the weather suddenly becomes sunny and hot, and the vents are blocked on all sides, this is the sun qi; the fire is raised under the eaves to make the room even hotter, this is the fire; the rice grain stored in the warehouse is rotten, and the stench is overflowing, and it is pressing, this is the rice gas; the prisoners are crowded side by side, emitting a fishy stench, which is the popularity; sometimes from the toilets, dead corpses, rotten rats, and so on, all kinds of foul smells, this is the filth.

These smells add up, and few people who encounter it will not fall ill. And I, who am physically weak, have lived here, and it has been two years now, and I am very lucky not to get sick, which is probably because of the cultivation of kung fu.

But I don't know what I'm cultivating, probably as Mencius said, "I'm good at cultivating my grand righteousness." ”

There are seven kinds of evil qi in this dungeon, and there is only one kind of righteous qi in my haoran, so what am I afraid of if I use this righteous qi of mine to resist those seven evil qis? Not to mention that the righteous qi of Haoran is the righteous qi of heaven and earth, so I composed a song of righteousness.

There is a righteous qi between heaven and earth, which is scattered in various forms, on the ground is the heroic spirit of rivers and mountains, in the sky is the brilliance of the sun and stars, and in the human body is the heroic righteousness, which is grandly filled between heaven and earth. When the Qingming Dynasty was peaceful, he served the court of the Ming Dynasty with the spirit of harmony and obedience contained in the subordinates; once the situation was difficult, the righteousness of the loyal ministers would be manifested and left in the annals of history one by one.

In the Qi Dynasty, there is a brief book of Cui Shuyijun recorded in the Taishi, in the Jin State there is a text of Dong Hu recording Zhao Dunyijun, in the Qin Dynasty there is Zhang Liang sniping the iron spine of the first emperor, in the Han Dynasty there is Su Wu's envoy to the Xiongnu held the festival, there is General Yan who would rather cut off his head, there is Ji Shi who is splashed with blood in the emperor's clothes, there is Zhang Suiyang who was picked by thieves, and there is Yan Changshan who scolded thieves and cut off his tongue.

Guan Ning, who lived in seclusion in Liaodong in a morning hat and cloth clothes, was more chaste and pure than ice and snow; Zhuge Liang, who wrote the teacher's list, even the ghosts and gods wept for his heroic discipline; Zu Ti, who crossed the river to fight the pulp, swore to swallow Hu Ji with great indignation; Duan Xiushi, who snatched wat and attacked thieves, made the rebellious boy's head bleed.

This vast and filled righteousness will exist solemnly and magnificently in the universe. When it runs through the sun and the moon, where is the life and death of an individual worth considering? The outline of the earth depends on it to be permanent and continuous, the pillar of heaven can appear to be noble with it, and the outline of human kings and ministers, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives can always have it, so that they can be maintained without falling, and morality is the root of righteousness.

It is a pity that I have encountered the fortune of poverty, and now that the country has perished, it is really I, as a courtier, who did not do my best for the country, and in a hurry I became a prisoner and was escorted to the capital in the far north by stagecoach. If the enemy wants me to be tortured by the cooking of the wok, I will also treat it as a sweet drink like drinking syrup, and I only want to die happily but I can't.

In the dark and silent cell, ghost fires flickered everywhere, and even in spring, the doors were closed, and the day was as dark as night. Keeping me with ordinary prisoners is like Maxima and a cow eating in the same trough, and a chicken and a phoenix living and eating together. Once he suffers from disease, he expects to die and abandon the ravine, and become a barren corpse. After two years like this, all kinds of evil qi naturally retreated.

Sadly, this low-humid place has become my Elysium, do I have any other ingenious way? so that the yin and yang, cold and summer evil qi cannot harm me. It's just that this heart is bright, eternal and unchanging, and it is just that wealth and nobility are like floating clouds. Although the ancients are gone, but the exemplary deeds will remain in the world forever, reading the books of the ancient sages under the cool eaves, the moral demeanor of the former philosophers, as in front of me, the light reflects on my face.

Wen Tianxiang, a famous anti-Yuan hero in the late Southern Song Dynasty, was also one of the national heroes in the history of the Han nationality. Wen Tianxiang, who was born in the champion, resolutely sold his property to organize the rebel army to resist the Yuan in the era of the late Southern Song Dynasty, and was finally defeated and captured, so how did Wen Tianxiang die?

Wen Tianxiang, a native of Luling, Jizhou, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, was a native of the Han Jiangyou people, the original name was Yunsun, the word Tianxiang, and after the selection of tributes, he was replaced with the name of Tianxiang. Wen Tianxiang passed on to future generations in the name of loyalty and martyrdom, during the captivity, Yuan Shizu persuaded him to surrender with high-ranking officials, Wen Tianxiang would rather die than give in, calmly go to righteousness, and his life deeds were praised by later generations, and Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie were called the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty.

At the age of nineteen, Wen Tianxiang won the first place in the Luling Township School Examination, entered Jizhou Bailuzhou Academy to study, and was selected as a Jizhou Gongshi in the same year, and went to Lin'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, with his father to take the exam. In the palace examination, he made the imperial examination to hit the disadvantages of the times, put forward a reform plan, expressed political ambitions, Song Lizong personally selected as the first place, and the examiner Wang Yinglin said: "It is a volume of ancient friendship like a turtle, loyal liver like iron stone, and the minister dares to win people's congratulations." But four days later, his father died, and Wen Tianxiang returned home to mourn for three years.

When the Mongol army attacked Ezhou, the eunuch Dong Songchen advocated moving the capital; Wen Tianxiang asked Dong Songchen to behead him, and suggested a plan to resist the enemy, but it was not adopted; later, Wen Tianxiang successively served as the official of the Judge's Office of the Ninghai Navy, the Lang Officer of the Criminal Department, the Jiangxi Judge, the Shangshu Zuo Shilang Official, the Hunan Prisoner, and the Zhiganzhou Prefecture.

The Yuan soldiers crossed the river, Wen Tianxiang scattered all his family property, recruited heroes, raised troops and Qinwang, organized 30,000 soldiers of the righteous army, and carried out the anti-Yuan struggle with the slogan of justice in me, seeking everything, having many people, and being able to succeed. However, in the end, because of isolation, the struggle failed, and in the end there were only six people left.

The following year, Wen Tianxiang served as the right prime minister, and went to the Yuanying to negotiate, hoping to spy on the Mongolian military situation in the way of negotiations. Boyan learned that Wen Tianxiang's army had been disbanded, so he ordered him to be arrested and escorted to the north.

When Wen Tianxiang was escorted to Zhenjiang, he was rescued by local righteous people, and then tried to recover and moved to the southeast. At this time, the Southern Song Dynasty had surrendered, Emperor Gong was escorted to the capital of Yuan, and Lu Xiufu and others supported the seven-year-old Song Duanzong to ascend the throne in Fuzhou. Wen Tianxiang entered Fuzhou with the edict and served as a privy envoy, and at the same time supervised the military horses of Zhulu, established a governor's mansion in Nanjianzhou, and sent people to various places to recruit troops and raise salaries to continue the war against the Yuan. In the autumn, the Yuan army invaded Fujian, and Duanzong was swept to the sea, where he drifted by boat in the area of Guangdong.

Wen Tianxiang disagreed with the courtiers Zhang Shijie and Chen Yizhong at that time, so he left the Southern Song Dynasty and opened a mansion in Nanjianzhou as the governor of the same capital, commanding the anti-Yuan Dynasty. Wen Tianxiang led the army to move to Longyan and Meizhou, invaded Jiangxi, defeated the Yuan army in Yandu, captured Xingguo, and recovered ten counties in Ganzhou and four counties in Jizhou.

But the good times did not last long, the main force of the Yuan army attacked Wen Tianxiang's Xingguo camp, Wen Tianxiang was outnumbered, led the army to retreat north, defeated and retreated to Luling, Hezhou, suffered heavy losses, and his wife and children were also taken away by the Yuan army. Wen Tianxiang learned that the Southern Song Dynasty had moved to Yashan, and in order to get rid of the difficult situation, he asked to lead an army to meet with the Southern Song Dynasty.

Due to Zhang Shijie's resolute opposition, the plan failed, and Wen Tianxiang led the army to retreat to Chaoyang County. In August of that year, the Southern Song Dynasty court named Wen Tianxiang as Shaobao and Xinguo Gong. In the winter of the same year, the Yuan army attacked in a big way, Wen Tianxiang was defeated and fled again, legend has it that when Wen Tianxiang was almost arrested by the Yuan army, three mountains suddenly appeared to cover the Mongolian soldiers, covering Wen Tianxiang to escape, and the descendants worshiped the three mountain gods to protect the loyalty with the temple of the king of the three mountains.

Wen Tianxiang was attacked by the Yuan general Zhang Hongfan on the way to retreat to Haifeng, Wen Tianxiang's army was attacked by the Yuan army when making rice in Wupoling, and the army was defeated, Wen Tianxiang swallowed the ice chips he carried with him and attempted suicide, but he did not die, but he passed out, and in the coma, Wen Tianxiang was captured.

Zhang Hongfan asked Wen Tianxiang to write a letter to recruit Zhang Shijie, and Wen Tianxiang wrote "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang Poem": "After hard work, there are few stars around. The mountains and rivers are broken and the wind is fluttering, and the life experience is ups and downs. The panicked beachhead said panic, and the zero ding sighed in the ocean. Who has not died in life since ancient times? ”

Zhang Hongfan laughed and ignored it, and soon sent an envoy to escort him to Dadu, where he went on a hunger strike for eight days, did not die, and was imprisoned in Fuxue Hutong in Beijing for four years.

After the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang still adhered to his original intention, and said in a letter to his sister: "Receiving the letter from the willow girl, cutting the stomach and intestines, who has no wife and children? "He wrote "Song of Righteousness" while in prison.

Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, loved Wen Tianxiang's talent, and successively sent Pingzhang political affairs Ahma and Prime Minister Polo to surrender, and Yuan Shizu summoned Wen Tianxiang and personally persuaded him to surrender. Wen Tianxiang was unyielding and replied, "There is nothing else to do but die." ”

The Yuan Dynasty also invited the ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty, who had already surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, to persuade them to surrender, but they were severely scolded by Wen Tianxiang; the Yuan Dynasty sent Emperor Gong of Song, who had already been captured, to persuade him to surrender, but Wen Tianxiang ignored them. The next day, he was escorted to the execution ground of Chai Shikou, where Wen Tianxiang bowed down to the south and calmly accepted righteousness at the age of 47. Soon after the execution, Wen Tianxiang was dead, and Kublai Khan lamented and said: "Good man, he is not used by me, it is really a pity to kill him." ”

When Wen Tianxiang's wife Ouyang collected the body, she found a unique self-praise in his belt: "Kong said to be benevolent, Meng said to take righteousness; What do you learn when you read the books of the sages? Now and in the future, you will hardly be ashamed. ”

Wen Tianxiang is the author of a number of works, with "Crossing the Zero Ding Yang" and "Song of Righteousness" inscribed in prison are the most well-known and praised, among which the former's "Who has not died in life since ancient times, leaving Dan to take care of the sweat and green" is a quatrain for the ages.