According to Gao Sizu and other old people's memories, during the Wanli period, Cao Wen and Zhang Erfeng took very young people to Beijing to catch the exam, and it rained heavily in Sanguanmiao Village. They hurried to the downstairs of the gate of Ji Wuchang to take shelter from the rain. Zhang Erfeng was moved by the scene and blurted out a sentence "The wind is surging and the waves are big", and the very young man replied "The rain is hitting the waves". Hearing this, Ji Wuchang felt that the people sheltering from the rain outside were a little literary talent, so he asked his adopted son to look at people at the door. Shan Chao came back and said, "It's a ride, followed by an excellent boy." Ji Wuchang told Shan Chao: "It's getting dark and it's raining heavily. Ask them to come in and take refuge. " After ChanChao called Zhang Erfeng's servant into the room, Ji Wuchang told Chao Egg to prepare meals for the guests. Zhang Erfeng is very grateful for his host's enthusiasm. After dinner, Ji Wuchang asked Zhang Erfeng, "Where are you from and where are you going?" Zhang Erfeng said: "We are from Cao Wen and want to go to Beijing to take the exam." Uncle Ji asked again, "Can you prepare an answer sheet when you go to catch the exam?" I'm ready. Zhang Erfeng said. "Can you show your answer sheet to the elderly?" "yes". Zhang Erfeng found the answer sheet and handed it to Ji Wuchang. Ji Wuchang thought for a moment and said, "Do you want to listen to the old man?" "Yes" Zhang Erfeng quickly answered. So Ji Wuchang pointed out the places where the answer sheet should be changed one by one. Later, Zhang Erfeng entered the examination room and was admitted to Jinshi according to the instructions of Ji Wuchang. Later, Zhang Erfeng worshipped Ji Wuchang as a teacher and often went to the door for advice.
(Excerpted from Baijia surname in Jiaozhou)
The Legend of Cao Wen and Zhang Erfeng
Zhang Erfeng, a native of Jiaozhou, is a mysterious figure. Judging from the relics of Jiaozhou, Zhang Erfeng is indeed a real person. According to the author's research, Zhang Erfeng was Ruoyun Zhang, a great bureaucrat in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. Some people think that Zhang Erfeng is someone else.
There are always different opinions about the origin of the names of Zhang Ergui or Zhang Erfeng. According to Gong Tianyu, Zhang Erfeng is an officer guarding the imperial tomb in Beijing. On a cold night, he was drunk and slept on the ground, and the patrol could not wake him up. The next morning, the boss asked him why he was so drunk. He didn't know it was cold in such a cold day. Zhang Erfeng replied: "I am wearing a Long Dan, so I am not afraid of the cold." From then on, people laughed at him for being stupid and a "madman" because he was the second child of his brothers, and his hometown people called him "Zhang Er madman". Some people think that the two sons in the late Ming Dynasty, Cao Wen, a native of Jiaozhou, were called "Erfeng" when they passed the examination, and Ruoyun Zhang ranked second, called Zhang Erfeng. The author believes that the second statement is credible. There are many legends about Zhang Erfeng, some of which are absurd. Here are just a few examples.
After Zhang Erfeng retired in his later years and returned to his hometown, he rode a donkey to visit Laoshan when he had nothing to do. It was dark when he was halfway there. There are no hotels in the village. When he saw the lights in the village school library on and the old gentleman was correcting the students' homework, he asked to stay for the night. Unexpectedly, this teacher, who teaches eight students, saw that Zhang Erfeng was crazy and said nothing. When Zhang Erfeng was worried, an old man in his 70 s came face to face and asked him with concern: "Where have all the guests gone? Is there no place to rest?" Zhang Erfeng went home with the old man. The old man told his family to drink and cook, and the two chatted while drinking. The next day, breakfast was more abundant than the day before. Zhang Erfeng observed that although the elderly were not very rich, men, women and children were very kind, but none of the teenagers studied, so he asked why they didn't send their children to school. The old man explained why there are so many poor children at home. Zhang Erfeng thought for a moment and said, "I have been teaching for several years, but now I am old and have nothing to do. How about living in your home and tutoring some children? " The old man was overjoyed and thanked again and again. The old man has five sons, and he recruited two from his brother's house. A * * * gathered seven students to make room for an East Room. Zhang Erfeng teaches seriously, and the students all know that this opportunity is hard to come by and are eager to learn. In a blink of an eye, three years later, Laizhou government opened a course to take students, and Zhang Erfeng and his teacher took their students to sign up for the exam. Before the exam, Zhang Erfeng went to see the magistrate of Laizhou, demanding that all the students he taught be admitted to the scholar, and all the eight students taught by the teacher were erased. Although the magistrate was reluctant, he knew that Zhang Erfeng was an old minister and could not afford to offend him, so he promised to give him seven steel-toed scholars. After the list was published, the seven students taught by Zhang Erfeng were indeed on the list, but none of the students taught by the teacher who didn't stay overnight passed the exam. Knowing the inside story, the teacher was so angry that he swallowed the copper buckle on his chest and died. Zhang Erfeng rode a donkey back to Jiaozhou.
There is a folk saying in Jiaozhou that "hail doesn't hit Zhang". Legend has it that once, Zhang Erfeng and Zhang Tianshi attended the emperor's banquet together, and it was very inconvenient to see Hail carrying a plate with a cage mouth. So he asked Zhang Tianshi to take down the cage of the Hail King. Lord Haier thanked him: "When it hails in the future, you will never hit Cao Wen again and cause trouble." Cao Wen is Zhang Erfeng's hometown, and Naozi is his tenant village. Lord Haier also said, "Zhang Erfeng retired in his later years and gave him an umbrella." Later, Zhang Erfeng's way home from Beijing was in the hot summer, but wherever he went, there was a cloud in the sky to keep out the sun for him.
(Excerpted from Baijia surname in Jiaozhou)
Legend of "Zhang Er Madness" in Wangtai, Jiaonan
According to the report of Qingdao Evening News on Sunday 10, 14, 2007, there are three adjacent administrative villages, namely, West, East and East Caowen, at the northern end of Wangtai Town, Jiaonan City, east of National Highway 204 south of Yanghe. In the Ming Dynasty, the three villages were not connected with each other, but there were several stories of historical celebrities and places of interest in the eastern and central parts of western languages, which enriched their human history. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, two brothers, Ruoyun Zhang and Ruoyun Zhang from Cao Wen, won the Jinshi. In order to praise the merits of the Zhang family, they built a garden covering an area of 2 1.6 mu in the west of the village, placed stone statues and horses in a large pine forest, and built archways, tunnels, ponds and pavilions, which became a unique garden landscape in the south of ancient Jiaozhou at that time.
Later, Ruoyun Zhang's son Zhang Yonggui became an academician at the age of 16. Legend has it that one winter in the emperor shunzhi, the emperor passed by and visited the garden. He saw a teenager sleeping on the roadside. The emperor dressed Zhang Yonggui in a yellow robe for fear of catching cold. Zhang woke up and quickly confessed to the emperor. The emperor smiled and asked him who was at home. Zhang said that he was the second child, and the emperor said, "What an idiot." From then on, "Zhang" got its name.
Don't want to the emperor shunzhi this Chen Yan suddenly raised the prestige of the changs, changs prestige in this area. There is a pond in the southeast of the garden. In midsummer, frogs and toads are noisy and annoying. Zhang Yonggui casually shouted "Go up there"! From then on, the frogs and toads in this pond stopped barking.
(Excerpted from Qingdao Evening News, Sunday, 2007 10, 14, 18).