Translated by Huang Lianchuan of Song History, translated by Huang Tingjian of Song History

Huang Tingjian, History of the Song Dynasty, ancient Chinese translation

Huang Tingjian is straightforward, and he is a native of Fenning, Hongzhou. At an early age, he was alert and intelligent, and he could memorize it several times. His uncle Li often came to his house to sell tan, took the books on the shelf and asked him, and there was nothing he didn't know.

Li Chang was very strange, thinking that he was a talent in a thousand days of matching codes. Later, Huang Tingjian was admitted to the Jinshi and served as the county lieutenant of Ye County. Xining Chu took the examination of the Sijing academic officials.

Because of the best essays in the exam, he served as a professor of Guozijian in Beijing, and Wen Yanbo stayed behind and took a fancy to his poetry. Keep him teaching again.

Su Shi once saw his poems and thought that his poems were extraordinary, independent of thousands of poems, and there had been no such masterpieces in the world for a long time. Thus began his fame to shake everywhere. Huang Tingjian served as the magistrate of Taihe County to govern the county in an easy way.

At that time, the salt policy was issued, and other counties were vying for the majority, but Taihe County was not like this, and the county officials were not happy, but the people of the county liked it.

After Zhezong ascended the throne, he summoned Huang Tingjian as the school secretary and the reviewer of the "Records of Shenzong". After a year, he moved to Saro and added Jixian to the school. After the completion of the "Record", he was promoted to a living housekeeper.

Lost by his mother. Huang Tingjian has a filial temperament, his mother was sick for a year, he inspected the color day and night, could not untie his clothes, and died, built a room to guard filial piety next to the tomb, and almost died of grief.

After the mourning clothes were lifted, he served as the secretary, mentioned the Mingdao Palace, and concurrently served as the editor of the national history. At the beginning of Shao Shengchu, Huang Tingjian was appointed as the governor of Xuanzhou and changed to Ezhou. Zhang Dun, Cai Bian and their henchmen believed that the "Shi Ling" was framing untruths, so that the former historians lived in various places near the capital for interrogation, and excerpted more than 1,000 pieces of content to declare them, saying that these were not verified.

Soon, the scribes examined and examined, but there was a factual basis, and all that remained was thirty-two things. Huang Tingjian wrote in "Real Spirit" that "using the iron dragon's claws to govern the river has the same child's play", so he interrogated him first. Huang Tingjian said:

Ting Jian was an official in the Northern Capital at the time, and he saw this incident with his own eyes, and it was indeed like a sleepy drama at that time. "Anyone who asks about it, <>

He was honest and unscrupulous, and everyone who heard him praised him for his boldness. As a result, Huang Tingjian was demoted to Fuzhou and Qianzhou, and his attackers also thought that he was going to a good place and accused him of perverting the law. Later, he was suspected of being a relative, so he moved to Shuzhou, and Huang Tingjian didn't mind it as if he had nothing to do.

The scholars of Sichuan all looked up to him and were willing to be close to him. He lectured to them tirelessly, and all the articles he instructed were impressive.

Summary. Translation of the Ming Dynasty by Huang Hao.

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