Qing Dynasty Qi Jinshi Three unique cases among the more than 20,000 Jinshi
Recently, when the author was flipping through "Strange Tales from Liaozhai", I saw a short article entitled "The Unusual Origins of Three Scholars", in which the experience of three ** is very interesting and indeed in line"Unusual"Definition. Here is the story I want to share with my readers.
Ren Xuanyou, who has obtained two diplomas.
Ren Xuanyou (some say he is from Huaibin), originally from Qi County, Henan Province, was born into a poor family where his ancestors had worked on the land for 18 generations. If the times were too peaceful, history would not remember such an unknown person.
However, Ren Xuanyou lived during the Ming Dynasty rebel army, when there was a peasant army in Shanhaiguan and the Houjin Eighth Battalion outside the pass. As the saying goes, heroes come out of troubled times, and in the troubled times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, Ren Xuanyou participated in the peasant uprising as the envoy of the town army.
After several years of conquest, Ren Xuanyou made many military exploits, and gradually rose from an ordinary soldier to a fourth-rank commander. Although Ren Xuanyou's personal career is very smooth, but the country is full of holes, Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong peasants continue to grow, but the imperial court has done nothing, Chongzhen seventeen years, peasants invaded Beijing City, Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself on the coal mountain with endless regrets.
Ren Xuanyou was the sworn enemy of the peasant army, and after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, he continued to serve the Hongguang regime of the Southern Ming Dynasty with the remnants. During this period, Ren Xuanyou made many military exploits, and the official became the governor of the rebel army.
In May of the second year of Shunzhi, Nanjing was captured by the Duoduo army, and Ren Xuanyou surrendered to the Qing court and became a member of the eighth battalion of the Han army. According to historical records, Ren Xuanyou read some books when he was a child and dreamed of passing the imperial examination to enter the official career. After surrendering to the Qing court, he began to study hard and prepare for the imperial examinations.
In the ninth year of Shunzhi, he was appointed as a jinshi in the Xuanyou examination. It is worth noting that Ren Xuanyou is a Manchurian, and his acceptance rate is very high, so his road to the city and the imperial examination is very smooth. However, after the imperial examination, an accident happened, and the Ministry of Rites excluded Ren Xuanyou from the second examination, and Ren Xuanyou lost the opportunity to become the champion.
Ren Xuanyou is not a person who gives up easily, and three years later, he retook the exam and won the championship in one fell swoop, ranking 60th in the second class. It's weird too!
Don't respect Wu Fang.
Wu Fang was born in a scholarly family in Shaoyang, Hunan, he was a native of the Chongzhen period, due to the lack of historical materials, the imperial historians could not find a record of him in the Chongzhen Dynasty. However, he had a bumpy career in his life, and he was appointed to the state and county orders.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Wu Fang went south to continue to serve the Southern Ming regime, and the official was the imperial historian Zuocheng. After the fall of the Ming regime, Wu Fang had no choice but to surrender to the Qing court. At that time, the ** and generals of the old Ming family were either treated favorably by Dolgon, or received very favorable treatment, and if they were honest and honest, they would generally be rewarded for their original positions.
After Wu Fang surrendered to the Qing court, some former Ming Dynasty ** went to Beijing to meet Dolgon. The Ministry of Culture dismissed Wu Fang from her post as imperial historian under the "Procedures for Atonement and Reward". But Wu Fang said that although the scholar surrendered, he could not lose his backbone, so he resigned from the official position of the imperial history of Zuodu, hoping that the imperial court would remove him from his official position and let him go home to study and participate in the imperial examination.
Wu Fang is actually the champion of the former Ming Dynasty, maybe he has an unfulfilled dream in his heart. But now the academic is unfamiliar, and it is not an easy task to get an undergraduate, but his efforts have not failed, in the second year of Kangxi, Wu Fang finally got his wish and passed the imperial examination in the second year of Jiachen Branch to enter the Hanlin Academy.
Regarding the second half of Wu Fang's life, there are not many records in the literature, only that he is the last generation of the secretary province of Taichang Temple**, not among the imperial court**.
Money Stony Creek's"Monasticism"
Qian Shixi, whose ancestral home is Wuhe, Anhui, was born in a family of eunuchs. Although his ancestors did not have a high official position, they had a high title and were talented. Qian Shixi passed the imperial examination in his early years, and in the early years of the Apocalypse, he was appointed as a magistrate after several failures.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, Qian Shixi refused to shave his hair and change clothes, preferring to remain incognito to avoid the pain of changing the dynasty. As a scholar, Qian Shixi is a difficult person, and the Shunzhi Dynasty is still alone in the empty door, refusing to go out, although there is a recommendation, it is not judged.
In the last years of Shunzhi, the Central Plains was unified, and under the influence of the unification, the anti-Qing and Ming dynasties gradually declined. And a series of measures taken by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty to recruit Han Chinese into the army really let Qian Shiyu know their sincerity. At this time, the idea of devoting himself to a career was rekindled in his heart.
But the most important thing for Qian Shixi is to choose the right path for the imperial examination, even if it is to go out. In the ninth year of Kangxi, Qian Shiyu, who was in his seventies, won the first place in the Gengxu Branch.
Qian Shixi was unable to enter the university due to his advanced age, but he was talented and left a large number of poems. It is said that after his death, his family was surrounded by walls, and only the scrolls of letters remained. His engraving manuscripts are circulated in the art world and are recognized as the standard by those who select them. He also devoted himself to the creation of ancient poems, but unfortunately, most of them have been dispersed and very few have survived.