Chapter 1 Taimiao Worship Ancestors

On April 24, 2024 in the Western calendar, the hundredth year after Emperor Ming's abdication, a young couple from the south of the Yangtze River came to the gate of the "Taimiao" of the Ming Dynasty. www.biquge.info The woman looked at her boyfriend, who was usually obedient to her, and couldn't help but wonder if the man didn't go to so many 5A-level scenic spots in Beijing this time, but insisted on coming to this rustic place first. Looking at the bustling crowd at the door, he couldn't help but complain that the other party was so stubborn and caused himself to wait in line for such a long time, and made up his mind to let him spend the night on the sofa in the hotel tonight. The man seemed to know the other party's thoughts and didn't say anything, but kept smiling with his face.

After two hours of queuing, the two finally entered the Taimiao, and at this time, the man seemed to have come to the spirit, and pulled his girlfriend straight to the west side of the Taimiao Temple. stopped in front of the tablet of Ding Shouming, the prince of Qingguo, and while looking at the tablet thoughtfully, he listened to the tour guide introduce the deeds of this prince who were not included in the annals of history:

Ding Shouming's word Ziren, and Li Rusong, who was enshrined and enjoyed by the side, were called "Liaodong Double Tigers" by later generations. He has been fighting for the Ming Dynasty for nearly 60 years. In his early years, he followed the crown prince Shao Baoning in Liaodong and waited for Li Chengliang to resist the attacks of the Mongolian tribes for the Ming Dynasty. Later, he followed his son Li Rusong and went to Korea three times to resist the Japanese invasion. To commemorate his exploits, the Joseon royal family erected a statue of him at Peony Peak outside Pyongyang as a memorial. Over the years, many Korean experts have thrown out the research results of Ding Shouming as a Korean ethnic group, and everyone listens to it in vain, but this also proves its impact on future generations from the side.

He made good use of firearms throughout his life, and the improved arquebuses and artillery were important force guarantees for Chongzhen Zhongxing. Under the leadership of Ding Shouming, the Liaodong Army and Qi Jiguang's Qi Army, Qin Liangyu's Shizhu White Pole Army, Lu Xiangsheng's Nanzhili Tianxiong Army, He Tengjiao's Guangxi Wolf Army, Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's Shaanxi Qin Soldiers were called the six strong armies in the late Ming Dynasty. I was known as one of the six powerful ministers of Chongzhen Zhongxing by later generations, and I was also the only military general among them.

The history of the Ming Dynasty called it "in adversity, he is unique, clean and retreating, and straightforward." "Speaking outrightly, in his early years, he offended Emperor Wanli because of his support for the crown prince Zhu Changluo. During the Apocalypse, because he was not used to Wei Zhongxian's dictatorship, he offended the 9,000-year-old who was powerful at that time. Chongzhen was able to be reused during the years, and began to concentrate on the Ming Dynasty against the Jianzhou Jurchens, and broke countless enemies for the Ming Dynasty in his life.

Chongzhen was ordered by the emperor in 19 years to supervise the construction of Chongzhen bell for the soldiers who died in the war for many years, the bell bell is majestic and loud, the tail sound is endless, and its sound is heard in a radius of dozens of miles, as if it is in the dead siblings. After his death, Emperor Chongzhen remembered that he had made great contributions to the Ming Dynasty, and personally wrote a tombstone for him, which was placed in the imperial city together with the big bell. In 1924, Emperor Ming was forced to abdicate, and the bell cracked after ringing hundreds of times, and according to legend, Ding Shouming could not bear to see the change of dynasty.

After being repaired by the government of the Republic of China, it was placed in the Great Bell Temple, but it was unable to speak, and the cultural catastrophe was destroyed by the Red General in 1966. After many searches by cultural relics experts, several fragments of the bell and half of the inscription were finally recovered, and the fragments of the bell are now exhibited in the Palace Museum. However, most of the inscriptions were destroyed, and the rest were engraved with the words "Bull Ghost", "Snake God" and "Royalist" by the red generals, which could not be exhibited. Only the descendants left a poem on the fragment of the stele: "The bronze bell is fortunate to accompany the loyal bones, and the bluestone innocently remembers the naughty child." In the past, merit and demerit were reversed, and after all, merit and demerit are in the world "for future generations to taste." According to legend, his descendants are hidden from the people, and they will come here from time to time to worship, and you can pay attention to the fact that you may meet the descendants of the Ding family. That's it for the introduction of the characters, everyone lined up and we went to the next hall for a tour. ”

At this time, the woman suddenly noticed that there were tears in her boyfriend's eyes, and asked with concern: "Why are you crying, I heard you whisper when I mentioned the Korean stick earlier, by the way, you are also surnamed Ding, this hall should not be your ancestor, right?" ”

After listening to his girlfriend's words, the boy hurriedly replied: "No, no, I just think it's a pity that such a big hero doesn't even have a complete tombstone left." Besides, except for this trip, I usually don't dare to go west when you say east, how can I have a little bit of the spirit of this hero's descendants. ”

The woman covered her mouth and smiled: "That's not necessarily, maybe this general used to be a person who was afraid of his wife, is there any ancestral property left in your family, just take something out so that my mother can quickly agree to our marriage." ”

At this time, the boy suddenly hugged the woman and said gently: "Okay, little baby, don't tease me anymore, I'm tired after standing for so long, blame me for not being good, come and I'll take you to eat Quanjude, our little Xinxin is the most understanding, and I won't be punished for sleeping on the sofa today, right." After speaking, he hugged his girlfriend and walked out of the hall with a smile.

At this time, several imperceptible laughter sounded in the sky above the main hall: "Haha... Brother Ziren, it's not my brother who said you, every time your descendants come here to worship me for so many years, I can recognize it at a glance, and I am afraid that my wife will remain unchanged with you for hundreds of years. ”

At this time, another voice replied with a smile: "Brother Rusong, don't laugh at my brother anymore, let's go back quickly, your sister will punish me again if I go home late." She recently asked someone to burn the keyboard thing that was burned for her, and it hurt more to kneel than a washboard. After saying that, he saw two auspicious clouds, floating in the northeast direction.

Ming Shi Ding Shou Ming Biography

Ding Shouming 1573-1647 AD, the word Ziren. He was born in Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Nanxun District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province). His adoptive father's ancestor was the same clan as Ding Dexing, the prince of Jiguo, and after the death of Ding Dexing, he followed Xu Da, the king of Zhongshan in the Ming Dynasty, to fight in the north, and had quite a lot of military achievements. Later, because he followed Xu Huizu to lead the troops to resist Chengzu's Jingnan, Xu Huizu was cut down and asked to be transferred from Nanjing to settle in Zhejiang. In the first year of Wanli (1573), he was adopted by his adoptive father Ding Kedi, and when he was a teenager, he was determined to serve the country from Rong, and was promoted in the sixteenth year of Wanli (1588). Later, he was recommended by Xu Bangrui, the eighth Duke of Wei, and abandoned literature and martial arts. He went to Liaodong, thousands of miles away, and put himself under the command of Li Chengliang, the general soldier of Liaodong, and awarded the chief flag officer of the firearms battalion, and then defeated the Mongolian Duoyan, Taining, and Tuman many times.

At the beginning of the twentieth year of Wanli, he conquered Korea to participate in the world-famous "Imjin War to Resist Japanese Aggression and Aid Korea", and was famous for its achievements in resisting Japanese aggression.

In the thirtieth year of Wanli, because the Francois massacre the Chinese in the Philippines in Sulu, he led an expedition overseas. After the victory, he continued to resist the invasion of the Dutch and the Japanese on the southeast coast, and the famous town was Nanyang. In the first year of Chongzhen, he was promoted to the chief military officer of Liaodong Pingnu, and he broke Huang Taiji, after this battle, the Manchu children practiced martial arts and lazy people, and their parents only scared and said: "King Ding Yan is coming, King Ding Yan is here!" "No one will dare to be lazy anymore. In the future, the Ming Dynasty drove the Tartar slaves outside, and the thieves were chaotic inside.

Ding Shouming was good at training troops all his life, and his generals were Mao Wenlong, Zu Dashou, and Cao Wenzhao. Ma Kuang, Liu Zhaosun, Zu Kuan, Jin Fengwu, Zhou Yuji, Zuo Liangyu, Liu Zeqing, Qi Jin, Ma Xianglin, Zu Dale, Cao Bianjiao, Wu Xiang, Wu Sangui 14 people served as general soldiers. There were as many as 72 guerrilla generals and above.