Hou Tongzeng (159 1- 1645), Han nationality, was born in Di Zi Village, Jiading, Suzhou in the Ming Dynasty (now Huacao Town, Minhang District). The number is wide and far. Tomorrow will be the fifth year (1625), and Hou Zhen, the eldest son of Taichang, will be a scholar. Elegant manners, good at poetry and calligraphy. He once participated in politics in Zhejiang. In the first year of Hong Guang (1645, the second year of Qing Shunzhi), Jiading people rose up against the Qing Dynasty. He and Huang Chunyao were promoted to leaders, set out to defend the city on June 17, and broke the city on July 4, holding on for more than ten days. After the city was broken, he and his two sons voted for martyrdom in Yuzryha Pool.
Hou Tong was once a scholar in the late Ming Dynasty. In the fifth year of the Apocalypse (1625), he was a scholar and was awarded the commander-in-chief of Nanjing Ministry of War. He, Xu Shilin and Chen Hongmi are also called "South Sanqing". 1644, when Li Zicheng captured Beijing, Dong once lamented: "If I were in the capital, I would be a martyr in Zigong, and I would not die today." /kloc-in the summer of 0/645, the Qing soldiers went to Suzhou and attacked Jiading. Dong once led his second son to perform, assisted in aphrodisiac, led the officials and people to save their lives, and shared weal and woe with others. When the city was broken, he sighed, "Jiading is dead, why do you live alone?" Sink in the pool, not dead, captured, killed by Qing soldiers, at the age of 55. Both sons were killed by Qing soldiers. He is the author of Du Xia Moon Hee, Jiangxi Academic and Political Works and Hou Wen Ji.
At the end of the Ming dynasty, the Qing army entered the customs. In Jiangnan area, Yangzhou, Jiangyin, Jiading and other places have the strongest resistance. As a result, there are records about "Ten Days in Yangzhou" and "Three Slaughters in Jiading" in the history books. Hou Tongzeng's father and son are the heroes of Jiading Three Slaughters.
In the second year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, Jiading revolted against shaving and Qing Dynasty, and more than 100,000 people participated. Hou Tong and Huang Chunyao, a kindred spirit, were promoted to leaders, and the banner of "Jiading Restoring the Righteous Teacher" was erected on the rostrum of Jiading. Organized insurgents are deployed in the four gates of Jiading. Hou Tong once took his sons, Hou Xuanyan and Hou Zhen, to guard the east and north gates, and shelled the Qing soldiers in Cang Qiao at the north gate, killing the younger brother of the Qing generals. When Li Chengdong heard the news, he flew into a rage and vowed revenge.
Jiading City is a tiny place, but in the face of the siege of the Qing army, under the leadership of Hou Tongzeng and Huang Chunyao, the righteous soldiers guarding the city bravely held on for nearly half a month.
In the early morning of the fourth day of July, it was raining cats and dogs, and the defenders were hungry and sleepy. The Qing soldiers took the opportunity to storm, the East Gate fell, and there was street fighting in the city.
Hou Tong was defeated by his sons Xuan Yan and Xuan Jie. Seeing the tide ebbing, they couldn't resist.
After the father and son retired, Hou Tong once fell to his knees, facing the ancestral tablet, and suddenly knocked: "I failed in guarding the city, and I was ashamed of my fellow villagers! Shame on your ancestors! Now that the city is broken, how can we live with shame? Only when you die will you be loyal to the festival. " Say and proffering flaming again and again.
Hou Xuanyan and Hou Xuanjie, kneeling behind Hou Tongzeng, heard their father's words and understood that his father had made up his mind. They all stood up and followed their father closely.
Hou Tong once came to leafpool in the backyard, looked up at the sky, sighing, and was about to jump into the pool, but was hugged by Xuan Yan and Xuan Jie.
They knelt down and begged their father, saying, "Father, you are not the city guard. It's not your fault. Why can't you bear it for a while so that you can make a comeback? "
Hou Tong once closed his eyes and endured tears. She said to her sons in an iron voice, "I have made up my mind." You don't have to say anything, just leave! "
Xuan Yan and Xuan Jie brothers knew their father's temperament and knew that things were irreversible, so they tried to be martyred with their father.
Hou Xuanyan pushed his younger brother away and said, "I am the eldest brother. It is my responsibility to die with my father. Brother, hurry up! "
Hou hugged his brother and said, "Eldest brother, you are the eldest son of Hou family. You have to stay in Zongzong, and I will accompany my father to tide over the difficulties! "
They were arguing when, with a splash, Hou Tong turned over and sank into the pool. The two brothers embraced and jumped out of leafpool together.
In an instant, the Qing soldiers killed in the pool and caught the father and son ashore. Hou Tong once gave up the ghost, while Xuan Yan and Xuan Jie were still alive. Both of them were hacked to death by Qing soldiers on the spot.
Hou Tongzeng's head was cut off by the Qing soldiers and hung on the west gate upstairs for public display. Three days later, he fell to the ground, was picked up by a scholar, sent to the factory head of Hou's former residence, stitched with the body and buried.
Hou Tongzeng's strong sense of justice deeply touched future generations. Jiading can still see many monuments to commemorate them. In Jiading City, on the original site of leafpool at the northeast corner of Qinghe Road intersection, there is a leafpool monument, which is the martyrdom of Hou Shi and his son. The word "leafpool" was inscribed by former Prime Minister Wei.