Dongyang Jianxian 1800 has never won the top prize for more than 800 years. Unfortunately, the city people quoted it, so they tried their best to find it, and there was a saying that "most of Dongyang's scholars".
This statement is based on the fact that in the forty-first year of Ming Jiajing (AD 1562), Ren Xujia was the adopted son of the Xu family in Dongyang. And why is the adopted son of the Xu family? It is based on Tanziyu and the dance drama Antang Mother.
Wu Ren 'an, a professor of history at Shanghai Normal University, devoted a chapter to this matter in his book "Famous Families in the South of the Yangtze River and Social Economy and Culture in the Ming and Qing Dynasties", entitled "The First Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty Shen Shixing and Dragonflies Forbidden Jade". The article is more than 7,000 words long, which clearly discusses the relationship with the Xu family and the source of jade.
Professor Wu made a comprehensive study of Ming History, Biography of Poetry and Fu in Past Dynasties, Bieji Shantang, Record of Evidence of Crimes, First Supplementary Record since Jiajing, Zhao Duilu, Record of Mei Gong's Experience, Records of Wuxian County in Chongzhen, biographies and genealogy of Shen Shi.
Shen Shixing (1535~ 16 14) was born in JOE, Huntang Lane, Pingjiang Road, Suzhou in the 14th year of Ming Jiajing. Grandfather Xu Gan's original surname was Shen, but he adopted his uncle's family at an early age and changed his surname to Xu. Father Xu, whose real name is Junmin, was originally from Yao, Changzhou County, Suzhou City. Born in the 11th year of Zhengde in Ming Dynasty, Bingzi (15 16) died in the 38th year of Jiajing (1559) at the age of 43. Xu World Bank's biological mother died when he 12 years old, and his stepmother was Huang. Xu Shixing entered the country at the age of 20. At the age of 24, my father died. At the age of 26, he won the highest prize. At the age of 28, he returned to his hometown because of his grandfather Xu Gan's illness. At the age of 30, he resumed his surname for thirteen years in Wanli (1585) and was allowed to "resume his surname and return to the clan". This incident caused a sensation in Suzhou's urban and rural areas and spread in the streets as a beautiful talk.
Professor Wu believes that there are eight major events in Suzhou for many years as an official, and it is enviable that his descendants will become famous families in Suzhou. Therefore, the methods of "catching the thief first, catching the king first" and "cutting down trees first" were adopted to slander Shen's ancestors by innuendo, so as to shake Shen's aristocratic status and vent his dissatisfaction.
It can be seen that the so-called semi-literary champion in Dongyang is just people's good wishes, or that some people are far-fetched and will only flatter themselves.
Besides, some people think that Su Feng is a top scholar. However, in the eighth year of Zhenyuan (792), Feng Sudeng's branch had its own champion, namely Jia Leng (also called "Leng" in variant), which was clearly recorded in different versions of the History of the Champion, the History of Imperial Examinations and the Record of the Champion in Past Dynasties. Jia Ling's exam-oriented works Mingshui Fu and Yugou Liu Xinshi are included in the book Jindian palace examination Dingjia Zhu Juan. Therefore, it is not accepted.
Although Dongyang has not produced a literary champion, it has produced six martial arts champions. Followed by, Zhou, Du, Zhou, Yu Kui and Yu Zhongao.