Wang Youling

Wang Youling

Wang Youling (March 31, 1810 - December 29, 1861), a marquis (now Fuzhou City), was born in the Qing Dynasty.

Life of the characters

In the seventh year of Daoguang (1827), Wang Youling, aged 17 or above, went to Yunnan with his father to assist in government affairs. Wang Youling is the eldest son. He is handsome and has a strange spirit. He disdains to be an eight legged scholar. The 14th year of Daoguang (1834) reported to donate salt ambassador. Daoguang 19 years (1839) issued by the Ministry of official Zhejiang. In 1841, Daoguang went to Zhejiang Province and took charge of Xinchang County. After two months in office, he has completed more than 100 cases of accumulated cases, showing his ability and integrity. There were many thieves in the city. Some people said, "this is because of hunger and cold." So it was announced that "those who return to the field do not ask, those who commit again will be pardoned", and all thieves will be dissolved. We should promote the county magistrate of Cixi County, eliminate the chronic problems, control the two lakes of Duhu and Baihu, and stop the disputes among the people, so that more than ten thousand hectares of grain fields in BEIXIANG can be irrigated. After that, he successively served as magistrate of Yinxian, Zhenhai, Renhe and Tongzhi of Dinghai.

In 1847, his father Wang Xie was appointed to manage the copper shop in Luzhou, Sichuan Province. One day, a neighbor's fire extended to his apartment, and his old collection of essays, poems, clothes and utensils were destroyed. Wang Xie was worried and worried, and since then he has laid the root of his illness. In the 29th year of Daoguang (1849), Xie was promoted to the magistrate of Pingliang Prefecture in Gansu Province in Tongdian, Luzhou, Sichuan Province. Because of illness, he hired a boat to go to Zhejiang Province to raise him when he was old. For more than 20 years, Xie served as an official. He was clear, cautious and diligent. This time, he started with illness, and his luggage was just stationery. It was summer. The rivers in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were rising and the boats were blocked. When the rain stopped, the cabins were steaming and fumigating. Xie's heat and dampness became more and more serious, and he died only in Wumen (now Suzhou). When you heard about the obituary, you could not help but cry. At night, you ran to Wumen to cry. That is to say, he helped the coffin to govern the funeral in Zhejiang. He returned to Fujian to keep the system.

In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), he arrived in Zhejiang Province when he was old enough to serve. Xuantiao buhang mansion. He moved to Jiangsu Province as an inspection envoy and an administrative envoy. During this period, the Taiping Army entered Fujian and occupied Pucheng, besieging Yanping, Jianning and other prefectures. The governor of Fujian sent a patrol general to attack and defend the border. Thus, the siege of Yanping and Jianning was solved, and Pucheng was restored. In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), Taiping commander drove south, Qingjiang, guangdezhou and other places lost one after another, and then Hangzhou city fell. There are years of thinking day and night to save. When Zhang Yuliang's army arrived in the Soviet Union, he was given the opportunity to attack Hangzhou. Zhang Yuliang learned that according to Youling's policy, he forced the Taiping army to retreat and Hangzhou was restored. He was promoted to governor of Zhejiang Province. During the more than 70 days and nights from the fall of the Qingjiang River to the restoration of Hangzhou, I worked very hard, and my hair was white.

After the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), the war situation in the south of the Yangtze River became more and more tense, and some people were ordered to take care of the military affairs of Taihu Lake in Jiangsu Province. The Taiping army occupied Suzhou, Changzhou, Jiaxing, Zhuji and other cities. The cities of Zhejiang Province lost, recovered and lost again Hangzhou city was besieged again. He was deeply worried and indignant, overworked and seriously ill, but he was still "supporting himself with all his strength and doing everything possible to make up for his illness". It is difficult to describe the situation of raising money and courage, distribution and allocation, internal and external attack and defense, and the confrontation between the two armies. In October, Yuhang, Shaoxing and other places were also occupied, the source of pay was cut off, and the aid division was blocked. Because Zeng Guofan and Zuo Zongtang excluded their dissidents and refused to send troops, Hangzhou "became a lonely note and could not be saved". Rao was so loyal that he and all the generals still tried their best to be loyal and good. He took one city as a million troops and held on for two months. In the early morning of December 29, the city of Hangzhou broke down and Youling calmly sacrificed his life for the festival. Li Xiucheng, the loyal king of the Taiping army, had always heard that he had a good reputation for his age. He also sighed that he was a loyal soldier and sent 500 old soldiers to escort the coffin back to his hometown. The Qing government gave the posthumous title of "Zhuang Min" and gave it a sacrifice and burial to Zhaozhong temple. It was ordered to build special temples in Zhejiang and Fujian.

Located in the west of wenshanlixi, Fuzhou City, the cemetery was once the largest tomb in the western suburbs. It was destroyed in 1977 for the need of war preparedness, but only one memorial archway was left. The Fujian Special ancestral temple was built on the left side of Mengzi temple in Wushishan and later used for other purposes. Today, there are still stone steps, double stone frame doors and a pair of exquisitely embossed drum stones.

Introduction of former residence

The former residence of Wang Youling is located at No. 53 of Jinta lane and No. 16 and No. 18 of Jinhuang lane, which belongs to the architecture of Ming and Qing Dynasties. No. 18, Huangxiang, was the main seat of the former residence, which entered three times. When Wang Youling's coffin was transported back from Hangzhou, it entered the residence through this gate. During the period of the Republic of China, Wang's great granddaughter Yuying also set up a kindergarten here. No. 16 of Huangxiang is No. 18 flower hall, which can pass through No. 53 of taxiang as soon as it enters. However, the flower hall has become a "sky in the mirror" photo studio in the early Republic of China. Before 1952, Wang Youling's descendants always lived at No. 53, Ta lane, and later moved out. The surviving grandson of Wang family VI spent more than 20 years here from his birth to his youth. In the past half century after 1952, the residence was in disorder and the structure was beyond recognition. There are two entrances, only the two entrances and three entrances are still in the style of the early Qing Dynasty: the hall with a wooden frame with five rooms in width and five columns in depth. The front and rear patios are paved with bluestone. Under the narrow sky, there is an old saddle Wall, silent and windward.

personal works

Wang Youling also has a special love for painting and calligraphy. In 1855, he was the magistrate of Hangzhou and 1860, the governor of Zhejiang. He twice hired Zhou kezongguan, a famous flower painter at that time. According to the records of Haiyan County in Guangxu, Zhou kezong was good at calligraphy and painting, especially in color design of flowers. He could not reach Yun Nantian. At the same time, Li Xiuyi was famous for his landscape and Zi for his flowers. Zhou died in the governor's office when the Taiping army conquered Hangzhou in 1861. I am also good at calligraphy when I am old. I feel sorry for the constraints of official business. There are few flaws. Only a small amount of ink treasures have been handed down to the world. His works are beautiful and colorful. Even an official letter is enough to show.

social connections

According to the available materials, most of them are fond of talking about Wang Xie's dramatic experience that he had no money to go to Beijing in his later years after he gave away the money to Zhejiang Province and was subsidized by Hongding businessman Hu Xueyan for 500 liang of silver. This is nonsense.

He was friendly with Hu Xueyan. However, according to the above-mentioned historical facts, Youling, before and after he reported to donate salt ambassador, until he was granted the "real vacancy" in Zhejiang, always accompanied his father to travel in Yunnan. He had never been to Zhejiang. How could he get to know Hu Xueyan? What's more, Wang Xie stayed in Yunnan and Sichuan for more than 20 years, and even did not serve as the magistrate of Pingliang, Gansu Province. The so-called "being sent to Hangzhou as an alternate, sitting in the mountains and empty air" is obviously a shadowy arrangement.

In 1849, when Wang Xie went from Shu to Youling to recuperate, Youling had been an official in Zhejiang for more than eight years. How could he be "poor" there? This fallacy can be traced back to Chen daiqing's "Hu Guangyong" in "Shen Jie Zhai Wen Cun" (some scholars have questioned this), and Gao Yang's novel "Hu Xueyan" is even more erroneous. In addition, Zeng Shiqiang's interpretation of Hu Xueyan's family history in the forum of 100 schools also has a similar view on Wang Youling's family history. The unofficial histories often deviate from the truth, although their "eight trigrams" are more in line with people's curiosity.

Wang Youling is 13 years older than Hu Xueyan. It was in 1834 that Wang Youling donated "salt ambassador" to Zhejiang Province. In 1839, he was issued by the Ministry of officials. In 1841, he went to Zhejiang Province to report "acting Xinchang" and then "promoted Cixi County Magistrate". Hu Xueyan was born in 1823, from the 14th year of Daoguang to the 21st year of Daoguang. He was still a teenager apprentice. His annual salary was no more than 8 Liang, but he had 500 Liang to support Wang Youling. The relationship between the two needs more historical data.