Zong Chen (1525-1560), Zi Xiang, Yi Zi Fang Cheng, a famous literary figure of the Ming Dynasty, one of the "Seven Sons of Jiajing" (also known as the "Later Seven Sons"), was known as the "Talent of the Central Plains". Jiangsu Xinghua people. The History of the Ming Dynasty, vol. 287, is transmitted.
In the fourth year of Jiajing (1525), Zongchen was born in a family of scholars outside the West Gate of Xinghua. His father, Zong Zhou (宗周), also spelled Weihan (伟汉), also spelled Li'an (理庵), was a member of the same family as Li Chunfang (李春芳), and was an official in the prefect of Mahu, Sichuan. He is honest and knowledgeable. He begged for a return from the prefect's post, built a hundred flowers, and read on it. His book "On the Zhenglu Li Ji Hui" was archived by the "Four Libraries", and the "Yiyuan Shuhua", "Zhongshu", and "Wenxun" were handed down, which were highly valued by Heyi, and once erected the "Zonggong Zhen Zhou Kai Fan Monument" on the right side of the Xuegong Gate to set up a model for the disciples.
The patriarch inherits the family learning and bears the father's style. Fang Zhi remembered that he was "born different, and his eyes shone brightly." Slightly longer, the diary is thousands of words. Should be the county test, lingqi qiwen".
Zongchen entered the county school at the age of 16, that is, he emerged. "Every trial is the first". At the age of 21, he and his classmate Lu Xixing (the author of the Fengshen Yanyi) were known as wizards by the people of the time with their articles. At the age of 25, he was lifted up in the middle, and at the age of 26, he became a gengzhi branch jinshi. In this year, his "Zongzi Album" has been integrated into 12 volumes and published.
After the Emperor Zhongshi entered the priesthood, he was appointed as the chief of the Punishment Department and transferred to the Examination Department of the Bureaucracy. Zongchen was young and ambitious, and a group of young talents who were officials in Beijing were valued by the people of the time. Among them, such as Li Panlong (1514~1570) and Wang Shizhen (1526~1590), they were all new scholars, serving in Beijing, and they all had certain achievements in literature and similar literary ideas, so they sought the same qi and gathered into a society. At first, led by the elderly Xie Hazel (1495-1575), a total of seven people from Liang Youyu and Wu Guolun gathered to form a poetry club, advocating that "those who have passed the fourteen families of Li Du, who have read it well to seize the spirit, moan to seek tone, and play with good essence", advocated "poetry will flourish in Tang", and was a sensation in Beijing for a while, called "Seven Sons". Subsequently, Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen rose up from the army, and from poetry and literature, they put forward the literary proposition of "Wen bi Qin Han", and launched a polemic with Xie Hazel, rejecting Xie Hazel's ally status and parting ways with him. Li Chunfang once explained in the Yi'an Tang Collection: "Zongchen and Li Panlong and others formed a society in Yanzhong, the number seven sons. Later, he broke off friendship with Xie Hazel, and Liang Youyu was known as the Fifth Son" in the South China Sea. Later, the literary scholar Lu Xixing, in an ancient poem remembering the emperor, split his head and said, "There are five sons in the Original Plains, and my friends are one of them", which originated from this.
About the thirty-first year of Jiajing (1552), Zongchen returned to Li on leave due to illness. When they left Beijing, Li Panlong and Wang Shizhen bid farewell to them and wrote poems to give each other, reflecting the unusual friendship between them. Li Panlong's "Sending Sons to Guangling" Yun:
Guangling autumn rain opened, and the horse-trained Qingfeng River came to power.
The sunset is low, and the waves are snowy.
Zongchen returned to Xinghua, recuperated from illness on the Hundred Flowers Continent, and took pleasure in reading chants every day. Gradually, he built a hibiscus hall on the island, making the Hundred Flowers Island a famous spot in Yiyi.
Since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Xinghua private gardens have gradually sprung up, initially yanqing Pavilion built by Li Chunfang, followed by Zongzhou Baihuazhou, and its rear hudao, Manyuan (Willow Garden), Jujube Garden, Xiejiayuan, Wenyuan, Yiyuan and Leiyuan are all over the outskirts of the city, and the Green Brick Daiwa and Xiaoqiao Flowing Water in Yizhong form the spring color of Jiangnan. During the reign of the emperor, Lu Xixing, Han Zhen, Wang Shi, and Li Chunfang, a relative of Guili Province, all visited the continent and left many famous poems.
In the third year of Jiajing (1554), the 30-year-old Zongchen returned to Beijing after recovering from illness, and was transferred to the Wenxuan Division of the History Department and promoted to the position of Inspector Wailang.
The country was in chaos. The Jiajing Emperor blindly believed in the Tao, retired to the Western Garden for a long time, wore a feather and gold crown and alchemist alchemy and confession, and ignored the government. The traitorous minister Yan Song led Zaifu to control the government and opposition with Yan Shifan and Zhao Wenhua, swallowing military salaries and abolishing border guards, which caused the northern Tatars and the southeastern Wukou to aggravate their offenses, and they were very vicious, and all the courtiers who dared to rebuke were framed by him. Wang Shizhen's father, Wang Chen, was killed for rebelling against Yan Song, and wang Shizhen wrote a long poem "Taibao Song" to mourn his father's grievances and denounce His crimes.
In the fourth year of Jiajing (1555), Yang Jisheng, a soldier who risked death to impeach Yan Song's father and son, was imprisoned and severely investigated by Yan Song, and abandoned the city after autumn. The emperor was greatly sad and indignant, and he did not want to die. On the day of the execution, he led Tongshelang Wang Shizhen and others to the West Market, undressed their robes and restored their corpses, and wrote articles and weeping sacrifices, and the people of Beijing were all moved.
Yan Song was furious and couldn't find a reason to put Zongchen to death, so he demoted Zongchen out of Kyoto and sent him to Fujian, where he was in trouble, to serve as an idle official and a political envoy.
In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), the 12-volume engraving of the "Collection of The Sons of Mr. New Engraving" was published. In the summer of the same year, the Wukou fell to Fujian, and the Fujian Inspector Ruan Hu was treated for his inability to resist the Wu. The three divisions jointly discussed the defense of Fuzhou City, and the sub-ministers supervised the west gate.
Zong Chen composed the "Two or Three Strategies of Coastal Defense" to spread to Minzhong, and personally committed yashi, painted all the strategies, and became the backbone of Fujian's anti-Wu struggle.
When Zongchen led his troops to guard the west gate of Fuzhou, the six gates were closed, tens of thousands of people outside the city called for the city, and the officials did not dare to make a decision, zongchen made a decisive decision, opened the city gate, let the people in, and stipulated that "strong men are not allowed to enter without shouldering the salary valley", so the city's salary valley is piled up, and the defenders on the city are mighty and majestic. When the Wokou attacked, the artillery of the city was fired in unison, so that "thieves admonished each other, and did not dare to commit crimes."
It was unfavorable for the Wu to attack Fuzhou and plunder Xinghua (present-day Putian, Fujian). Zong Chen only led his 2,000 men and horses to attack the enemy's rear with patrol troops, and was completely captured, sinking dozens of warships, so that the enemy was attacked from the head and tail of the wo, and Xinghua turned to safety.
In August, Wokou attacked Taining from Guangxi. Zong Chen's contrivance and joint suppression of the troops, with naturalized troops to intercept its west, Shao Wu to defend its north, Le bing to block its east, Yong'an soldiers to curb its south. After the siege, Zong Chen also led hundreds of elite horses to attack the naturalized White Lotus Village, and then used 200 soldiers to ride the Ziyuntai in an attempt to annihilate the enemy in naturalization. Emperor Wukou heard that Emperor Wuzong's soldiers were in a panic, and Zhang Huang fled. Zong Chen dispatched troops to pursue, and the enemy fled at night, and the army collapsed. The Battle of The Anti-Wu Dynasty fully demonstrated the military planning and command ability of the emperors, and he was a rare national hero of resistance who was both literate and martial.
After the wu rebellion was put down, Zong Chen was promoted to the rank of deputy envoy of fujian according to the inspection department and the deputy governor of The Imperial Household.
In the ninth year of Jiajing (1560), the 15-volume pink powder of the Zongzi Album was published, and the Lin, Huang, and Zhengshang engravings appeared. In the same year, the "Zhongyuan Talent" Zongchen became ill due to overwork and was critically ill.
It was Autumn, Zong Chen composed "Three Pieces of Absolute Pen", and the immortals of the pen passed away. Poetry Cloud:
With a long roar, the jade dragon rode back to the clouds. Leave the bright moon poems alone, and the ancient cold candles come to the stage.
For four or nine years in the world, the green mountains are separated by smoke. Now back to Huayang Cave, a thousand trees and peach blossoms are waiting to be whipped.
The four seas meet the Wolong, and the Qingjiang River picks hibiscus at night. I'm going to cross the rainbow today, and chi er kun is the first peak.
Zongchen died, only 36 years old, bad news came, Fujian, Xinghua all deplored, both places enshrined Zongchen into the township sage temple. Zongchen coffin was buried in Xinghua Baihuazhou, buried on the west side of the Furu Hall, and a special shrine was built behind the tomb. His former friend, literary scholar, and Shangshu Wang Shizhen of the Southern Punishment Department wrote an epitaph. Later generations of celebrities have stayed here to chant.
In order to commemorate and show this prodigy, the "Zhongyuan Caizi" arch was erected on the west side of Confucian Street outside the Xinghua Palace, and the stone pillars still exist today, and the plaque is hung on the fourth arch of Yizhong.
Zong Chen's "Collection of Mr. Zong Zixiang" was later collected into 25 volumes, and it was included in the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", which is now in the Chinese Academy of Sciences, beijing, Nanjing, Shanghai, and Taipei. The modern scholar Qian Jibo gave high praise to Zongchen's works in the History of Chinese Literature. It is believed that no matter whether his poems or texts are different from Li Panlong and others blindly retro imitations, "there is no repetition of the habit of imitating The Qin imitation han", its "poetic talent is beautiful, and Wang Shizhen) Li (Panlong) is the same voice and different style", "ups and downs are handsome, quite able to take the law too white", "genius is graceful, spit belongs to the wind". His "Zongzi Xiangshu" (宗子相集) is "sparsely written", especially selected into the "Book of Liu Yizhang" in the "Ancient Literature Guanzhi", "dripping with thinness", "and the humor that emerges from the sigh is very similar to Tai Shigong's "Preface to the Column of The Rangers" and Yang Yun's "Book of the Emperor of the Sun Hui", and his text is "Xu Wei Wei, Ya Jian has a degree, there is no arrogance, and Si Ze (Li) Panlong is inferior to those who are not as good as it is".
Zong Chen's "Book of Bao Liu Yizhang" has been a high school Chinese textbook after liberation, and it still has the merit of warning the world.