Fang Run, Wei Zhongxian, and Jimo Phoenix Village, Shameful History
In Jinkou Town, Jimo District, Qingdao, Shandong Province, near Laihaiyang, Yantai, there is an ancient and mysterious village - "Phoenix Village". Everyone who visits will be fascinated by the village's history, and what is even more surprising is that the village has a little-known connection to the most notorious eunuch in Chinese history, Wei Zhongxian.
So, did Wei Zhongxian really come to Jimo? Was Fang Run really once his stepfather? Why is this history so kept secret among the locals? To solve these mysteries, we must begin with the history of this small fishing village in the middle of nowhere.
Jimo Phoenix Ancient Village, a mysterious place hidden in the long river of history. Here, more than 50 ancient buildings from the Ming and Qing dynasties stand quietly, witnessing the passage of time.
What's even more amazing is that this remote fishing village, with only 180 households, has produced 28 court officials and 46 taisheng officials above the seventh grade, which is really rare in Chinese history.
The record of the Fang Clan Genealogy makes the history of this small mountain village full of mystery and legend.
In the ancient Jimo Phoenix Village, there are many exquisite ancient buildings, which are mostly built with blue bricks, bluestones, and green tiles, and the structure is exquisite, and some even exceed the customized specifications of the time.
In a feudal society that pays attention to grade and specifications, the people who can build and live here are certainly not ordinary. However, there is a little-known story hidden here, Fang Run, a simple businessman, who inadvertently saved Wei Zhongxian, and this historical past is still little known to this day.
Fang Run, a native of Fenghuang Ancient Village, runs a family-owned brewery. Every year, he would store more than a dozen large vts of freshly brewed rice wine in the warehouse, and then sell the old wine and store the new wine, and this business has made him a lot of money.
Once, a poisonous snake accidentally fell into the vat, and from then on, the vat became a real "snake medicine wine". Although this vat of wine may cause harm to the human body, Fang Run is an honest person, and he doesn't want to hurt others because of it.
However, he was reluctant to discard the vat of wine, so he moved it to the patio in the backyard and left it untouched for several years. Perhaps because the wine is mixed with snake ingredients, or because the wine has been stored for many years, the aroma of this vat is unusually strong.
Even outside the village, you can smell the intoxicating scent.
Li Jinzhong, a poor orphan in the Hebei River, suffered from hardships and illness, but his life has not changed. Until one day, he smelled a scent that amazed him in Jimo Phoenix Village, which changed the trajectory of his life.
From then on, he changed his name to Wei Zhongxian and began a legendary journey full of glory and shame.
Wei Zhongxian was drunk and accidentally walked into Fang Run's house. The aroma of the wine vat soaked in the blue and white snake made him can't help but take a sip. As a result, he fell drunk by the vat.
When Fang Run came home, he saw a drunk and unconscious man named Hanako. Fang Run was worried about getting into a lawsuit, so he woke Wei Zhongxian up and took good care of him.
Surprisingly, Wei Zhongxian's flower willow disease was cured. Perhaps, this is due to the venom of the snake in the vat.
Wei Zhongxian once became ugly because of Hualiu disease, but after a drunken awakening, his body appeared abnormal, and his face became young and bright. However, his *** was unable to recover because of this.
Later, he entered Beijing as a eunuch, and with his intelligence, aggressiveness, and cunning, he gradually rose to prominence, and eventually became a "nine thousand years old" above 10,000 people under one person.
The story of Wei Zhongxian, the old building of Jimo Phoenix Ancient Village, is not fictional, although people have an evasive attitude towards this history, but in fact, it is more out of gratitude to the old man Fang Run, the life-saving benefactor, and the people of Fenghuang Village.
According to the old people in the village, their ancestors have been circulating the story of Wei Zhongxian recognizing Fang Run as his godfather, and also the story of him promoting people who had been kind to him to become officials in Beijing.
And the ancient houses built beyond the standard in Fenghuang Village are the residences where these people live after returning to their hometowns. Although Wei Zhongxian was once a powerful minister who was spurned, his gratitude was deeply admired.
His story teaches us that even in difficult times, we must never forget the people who helped us.
Wei Zhongxian in the historical drama, according to the memories of the villagers, in the sixties and seventies, during a huge movement, Fang Run's grave was excavated, and a stone tablet with the words "Yizi Wei Zhongxianli" was excavated, about one meter high and half a meter wide.
This stele was erected by Wei Zhongxian for Fang Run, and items such as a gold basin and wine vessels were also found, but unfortunately they were all destroyed, and none of them were preserved. This period of Wei Zhongxian's history in Jimo is as short as a white horse, leaving almost no traces.
In my opinion, in addition to the fact that people at that time did not pay enough attention to history, there were two important reasons:
1.The people of Fenghuang Village did not record Wei Zhongxian's past, more out of consideration to avoid trouble. After all, Wei Zhongxian, as a generation of eunuchs and traitors, is notorious and has been put into the "blacklist" by history.
His suicide also made people stay away from him, who wants to have anything to do with him? 2.In a country like China, where we value the glory of our ancestors, our culture is more respectful of the most virtuous, loyal, and virtuous people.
On the contrary, people like Wei Zhongxian and Qin Hui are regarded as representatives of evil, and once they are involved, they will make people feel disgraced, and may even insult the lintel.
Therefore, it is understandable that the people of Fenghuang Village avoided mentioning Wei Zhongxian's past.