Yin Shidan

Yin Shidan

Yin Shidan (1522-1581), whose name is Zhengfu, was born in Licheng County, Jinan Prefecture, Shandong Province. Jiajing Jinshi. Longqing four years (1570) official to the Ministry of rites Shangshu and wenyuange bachelor. In the next year, Gao Gong gave up his official career. It is built on the Bank of the Luoshui river. It is known as Mr. tangchuan by scholars.

Life of the characters

Yin Shidan was diligent and studious when he was a child. He won the examination in the 19th year of Jiajing (1540) and the Jinshi in the 26th year of Jiajing (1547). He was selected as a good scholar and was awarded the same title as Zhang Juzheng. Later, he served as the lecturer of Zhu Zaiyan (emperor Longqing). Later, he moved to youzanshan, where he went to the government to wash horses and was still responsible for educating Yuwang. In the first year of Longqing (1567), he was promoted to a bachelor degree in Imperial Academy, and became the right servant of the Ministry of rites. Soon he became the right servant of the Ministry of officials. In the spring of the next year, he was promoted to minister of rites, in charge of the affairs of Zhan Shifu. In winter, he returned to the Ministry of rites to take charge of the Ministry. In the third year of Longqing (1569), he was also a Bachelor of wenyuange, and later promoted to Shaobao, and became a Bachelor of wuyingdian. In the first month of the fourth year of Longqing (1570), there were solar and lunar eclipses. Yin Shidan took this opportunity to make a few remarks and put forward some suggestions, such as "Bude, probation, admonishment, thrift", so that the officials concerned about the suffering of the people. Before long, he became the crown prince and his wife. He taught Zuxun, Daxue Yanyi and Zhenguan Zhengyao all year round, which won the praise of emperor Longqing. However, it was hit by the crowding out of the first auxiliary high arch. In the fifth year of Longqing (1571), Yin Shidan repeatedly asked to resign and return to his hometown. He was authorized by the emperor of Longqing, and was granted a fee to Daoli, but he was still paid.

After returning to Jinan, Yin Shidan chose the former site of Wanzhu garden of Yuan Dynasty as his dwelling place. He built his house on the Bank of Luan River and named it "Tongyuan yuan". He built a pavilion in the garden, built mountains and rocks, scattered springs, planted flowers, and wrote books and lectures. He lived for 11 years and died in the ninth year of Wanli (1581). He was buried in the southern foot of Fenghuang Mountain in the east of Dangjiazhuang, Licheng. The imperial court pursued the Taibao and changed its posthumous title to Wentong and Wenzhuang.

Character evaluation

Yin Shidan is very famous in the poetry world. During the Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty, the poets were known as Bian (Gong), Li (Panlong), Yin (Shidan) and Xu (Bangcai). Shi Dan, Li Panlong, etc. There are fourteen volumes of jinyushanfang manuscript, see general catalogue of Siku.

Historical records

Ming History Volume 193 biography 81

cemetery

At the north end of yinjialin village at the foot of Fenghuang Mountain in the southwest suburb of Jinan City, there is the cemetery of Yin Shidan, the cabinet Bachelor of Ming Dynasty. Yinjialin village was originally named lvwangzhuang. Since the tomb of Yin Shidan, the Prime Minister of Ming Dynasty, was built at the edge of the village, the name of the village has been changed to "yinjialin", and the descendants of Yin Shidan, who are waiting for the tomb forest, have been living here.

Sun yinguanghe, the 18th generation of Yin Shidan, said that Pu Songling, in a story of "Fox married woman" in Strange Tales from a lonely studio, said that a "Yin Tianguan" lived in a deserted courtyard late at night, attended the fox wedding, was the bridesmaid of the "new couple", and was invited to participate in the fox's wedding banquet and other activities. "Yin Tianguan" in the story refers to Yin Shidan. Pu Songling introduces that "Yin Tianguan" has courage and tact in the story, and praises him for his "Ti Tang" by the fox man.

Yin Guanghe said that when he was a child, he also saw the portrait of Yin Shidan worshipped by the Yin family. "The portrait is about one meter wide and one and a half meters high. It's a full-length portrait. The ancestor is wearing an official uniform and a black Shamao with hat wings. It's very dignified to sit on the chair of the grand master." Yin Guanghe said it was a pity that this precious portrait was burned during the cultural revolution.

"I'll take you to the cemetery." Later, the reporter followed Yin Guanghe to the north of yinjialin village, followed a straight "Shinto" and walked about 500 meters to the tomb at the foot of Fenghuang mountain. The first thing you can see is a lush ancient cypress standing on the top of the tomb. The height of the ancient cypress is about four meters. Some roots are exposed on the ground, and the branches are vigorous and curly, which is simple and spectacular. If you look at the cemetery again, it is square in shape. The platform is about two meters high and 20 meters long. It is inlaid with blue stone of imitation wooden mortise and tenon structure. It is well preserved. The soil seal in the middle of the platform is about three meters high, and there are many thorns on it. The whole tomb area presents an atmosphere of vicissitudes. On the southeast side of the cemetery, there is an incomplete stone tablet engraved with four characters: "Tomb of Yin Shidan", as well as the words "announced by Jinan Revolutionary Committee on September 3, 1979" and "established by Licheng County People's government".

"According to the old man, this cypress tree has existed since the tomb was built. It has a history of more than 400 years. The platform around the tomb is the same as the original one." Yin Guanghe recalled that when he was a child, the cemetery was not like this now. At that time, there was a large stone tablet about three meters high in front of the tomb. The inscription on it was written by Yan Song. One hundred meters in front of the tomb, there is a white marble archway with exquisite carving. There is a stone tablet on both sides of the tombstone, with an epitaph on it. There are five stone figures on each side, as well as stone horses, stone sheep and other stone statues arranged in turn. There are large areas of pines and cypresses around the cemetery, which looks very impressive.

According to the history of the Ming Dynasty, Yin Shidan died in the ninth year of Wanli reign, and the emperor granted him the title of "Jinding jade burial" and the posthumous title of "Wenzhuang". The cemetery covers an area of about 30 mu, with white marble archways built and pine and cypress planted in the area. Therefore, Yin Guanghe's words are not empty words.

"It's a pity that tombstones and memorial archways were smashed during the" four old "period of the cultural revolution. Now only some residual stones and stone statues are scattered in the village." Yin Guanghe said that a stone sheep scattered in the villagers' yard was stolen by someone in the dark. It is said that there may be residual stones and stone sheep scattered in the nearby orchard. Under the leadership of Yin Guang and Zhang Chuangang, the village party secretary, the reporter searched for them in the orchard in front of the cemetery. When I came to an orchard, I suddenly found two stone sheep in the green rattan fence. They were almost the same size, nearly one meter high, and their patterns were very blurred. One of the stone sheep's eyes was smeared with red paint.

"Here's another slate." Along the way, Yin Guanghe found a 3-meter-long rectangular bluestone slab in the dead grass on the roadside, which had been eroded. He said that this was the crossbeam on the memorial archway in front of the tomb. At that time, there were such large stone components that it can be seen that the regulation of the cemetery was unusual at that time.

Old lady Yin, who is nearly 80 years old, is the sister of Yin Guanghe's family and the 18th generation descendant of Yin Shidan. She took out the "Yin's Genealogy" wrapped in red silk cloth from her home and carefully opened it to the reporter. In the genealogy, there is a biography of wenzhuanggong, which introduces Yin Shidan. It records in detail the life of Yin Shidan, as well as his friend, Li Panlong, the leader of the Ming Dynasty's literary circles, who wrote "to Yin Zhengfu and to Yin Zhengfu and ten poems in the capital of neihan", as well as the funeral oration for Yin Shidan's mother.

"He is knowledgeable and has excellent poetry. He is also known as" Bian Li Yin Xu "together with Bian Gong, Li Panlong, the leader of the" former seven sons "and Xu Bangcai, the famous poet." Yin Guanghe said that he had checked the "renewal of Licheng county annals", which evaluated Yin Shidan's poems as "elegant and tame in Qilu, solemn and stirring in yanzhao, graceful and beautiful in Wuyue, and a great hand in my hometown". It can be seen that Yin Shidan was highly respected in poetry at that time, and there are still works such as jinyushanfang collection and mingnongxuan Yuefu handed down to the world.

According to the records, in the 26th year of Jiajing, Yin shidanzhong was a Jinshi, who had been a teacher of King Yu (later Ming muzong). Yin Shidan did his duty and instilled his lofty moral standards into his students. In the biography of Yin Shidan in the history of Ming Dynasty, it is said that when Yin Shidan was king Yu's teacher, "when he was in charge of morality, he was always critical and critical, and the king was always in a mood of change.".

In the first year of Longqing, Yin Shidan was promoted to a bachelor degree and was in charge of the Imperial Academy. In the second year of Longqing, he was a minister of rites. In the fourth year of Longqing, he was a Bachelor of renwenyuange. He was a good official who cared about the sufferings of the common people. He once gave advice to the emperor, regardless of the exclusion of the powerful officials, "sparing the request for Bude, suspending the sentence, accepting the advice, economizing on the use of money, and admonishing the internal and external officials for the sake of the people.". At the same time, he was also a man of courage and justice. Because he was not used to the powerful Minister Gao Gong, he tried to fight him in front of all the ministers. In the fifth year of Longqing, Yin Shidan resigned and returned to his hometown of Jinan, where he "built his house on the shore of Luoshui (today's Baotuquan Park, Wanzhu garden)". After his death, he was buried in Fenghuang Mountain in the southwest suburb of Jinan.

"It's a pity that there are fewer and fewer people who know Yin Shidan now after more than 400 years." Zhang Chuangang, the village party secretary, said that Yin Shidan's tomb was stolen twice. In one case, the illegal elements dug a hole more than two meters deep in the tomb area, and a platform sill was broken. Fortunately, the villagers found and stopped it in time, and the tomb robbers failed. Secretary Zhang said that after the tomb of Yin Shidan was selected as the third batch of provincial cultural protection units not long ago, they especially hope that the government departments can take measures as soon as possible to strengthen the protection and repair of the tomb, so that it can be regarded as a precious historical and cultural heritage for future generations to look forward to.