Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan and took away these three people, and also took away the roots of the Chinese nation
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Chiang Kai-shek retreated to Taiwan and took away these three people, removing the roots of Chinese culture
Traditional culture, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, the Chinese nation, Chiang Kai-shek, Kong Sage, Kong Decheng, Taoist “Zhang Tianshi” Zhang Enpu, and the seventh living Buddha Zhangjia.
Speaking of traditional culture, we will naturally think of Taoism, Confucianism and Buddhism. The cultures of these three families are full of wisdom and are the shining pearls of the wisdom of the Chinese nation. When Chiang Kai-shek withdrew from Taiwan in 1949, he not only brought gold, precious cultural relics, and high-end talents from all walks of life, but also ordered these three people to be taken with him. Who were these three people?
The first one is Kong Decheng, the 77th generation grandson of Saint Kong.
When Kong Decheng was born, in order to prevent someone from secretly changing the baby or causing an accident, the Beiyang government at that time sent troops to surround the delivery room and set up sentries everywhere. A general was stationed in the Confucius Mansion. Qu Yingguang, governor of Shandong Province of the Beiyang government, and Meng ( The sacrificial officers of the three clans, Meng Qingtang), Yan (Yan Shiyong) and Zeng (Zeng Fanshan), were also present to supervise.
All doors in the Confucius Mansion were opened, including the Chongguang Gate, which was only opened for festive ceremonies, to welcome imperial edicts, and to hold major sacrificial activities. It happened that Wang had a difficult childbirth, so someone suggested opening the south gate of Qufu, which could only be opened when the emperor was on tour or paying homage to Confucius, so that “little saints” could come in.
Tao followed his instructions and sent people to open the main south gate, and also hung a wooden sign that read “Luban is eight feet high” on the corner door of the back hall to raise the ground. After that, Kong Decheng was finally born smoothly. The Confucian government ordered people to ring thirteen gongs everywhere to announce the birth of the young prince. The whole city of Qufu set off firecrackers to celebrate. The Beiyang government also fired a thirteen-gun salute in Qufu to celebrate the saint’s descendants. Later, Yan Shiyong, the enshrined official of the reinstated Saint Yan Zi, was responsible for notarizing and signing his birth certificate, and reported it to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Beijing. On the 100th day, the Confucius Mansion received the presidential decree of Xu Shichang from the Beiyang Government, and Kong Decheng officially conferred the title of “Yanshenggong” of the 32nd generation.
Chiang Kai-shek had great respect for Kong Youde, the 31st generation “Yan Shenggong”. In 1937, before Qufu was about to fall into the hands of the Japanese army, Chiang Kai-shek urgently sent Sun Tongxuan, commander of the 72nd Division, to personally escort Kong Decheng to Wuhan, and later moved to Chongqing. .
What is unexpected is that before the Japanese army completely occupied Shandong, they sent advance troops to the “Three Kongs” in advance. In January 1938, after the Japanese army entered Qufu, they sent troops to guard the Confucius Temple and organized officers and soldiers to pay homage.
Until the Japanese surrender in August 1945, Qufu’s “Three Kongs” basically suffered no damage during the Japanese occupation. It is said that after the Japanese army occupied Qufu, the soldiers would bow and salute when they saw Confucius’s car. They would also bow and salute when they entered a house and found a statue of Confucius on the wall.
But in the 1960s and 1970s, when Confucius was reduced from the most sage teacher to the “Second Confucius”, when the mainland Red Guards were digging three feet into the “Confucius Forest”, all generations of Yanshenggong were crushed to death. At this time of ashes, Kong Decheng in Taiwan may be able to better understand the true meaning of “the immortal orthodoxy”.
The second place is Taoist “Zhang Tianshi” – Zhang Enpu
In the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Longhu Mountain in Jiangxi Province was where Zhang Ling, the founder of Zhengdao, once made elixirs. It is said that “when the elixir was completed, dragons and tigers appeared, and the mountain got its name.” Zhang Sheng, the fourth generation grandson of Zhang Ling, settled here during the Three Kingdoms or the Western Jin Dynasty. Passed down from generation to generation, Longhu Mountain has also become the ancestral home of the Zhengtian Master. Zhang Tianshi of all generations originally lived in the “Longhu Mountain Successor Han Tianshi Mansion”, and Zhang Tianshi is famous all over the world. .
In February 1949, the 63rd generation Heavenly Master Zhang Enpu moved to Taiwan. As soon as Zhang Enpu arrived in Taiwan, he founded the Taiwan Provincial Taoist Church and set up the “Sihan Tianshifu” office in Taiwan to show that the Taoist “teaching tradition” had come to Taiwan. Zhang Enpu even founded the China Taoist Federation and was elected as the chairman. He must have learned before and after that the Shangqing Palace in Longhu Mountain, Jiangxi Province, the “ancestral palace”, was also destroyed during the “Cultural Revolution”.
In 1969, Zhang Enpu emerged as an adult. The problem came. Zhang Yunxian, the eldest son Zhang Enpu brought to Taiwan to succeed “Zhang Tianshi”, had previously passed away. The position of Tianshi could only be inherited by his nephew Zhang Yuanxian (there is also a theory that he is the acting headmaster). In that era of “sweeping all demons and demons”, except for some believers, Zhang Tianshi seemed to be a feudal trick of the previous era to mainland China, and the officials naturally had no interest in caring about it.
Zhang Enpu (picture: taken between 1894-1969)
But during the reform and opening up, after decades of avoiding it, the CCP suddenly launched its own version of “Zhang Tianshi” – Zhang Jintao in the 1990s. According to official propaganda, Zhang Jintao is Zhang Enpu’s “grandson” and is certainly more qualified to be this heavenly master than Taiwan’s “nephew” Zhang Yuanxian.
But in fact, the “grandson” Zhang Jintao is not even named Zhang. He is just the son of Zhang Enpu’s second daughter Zhang Daoxiang. His real surname is Lu. He just changed his surname to compete for this heavenly master, but after all, he is completely A person with a foreign surname. According to the two thousand years of inheritance rules, Zhang Tianshi has always regarded Zhang’s bloodline as the first principle, and there has never been a precedent for foreign surnames to be involved. Zhang Jintao, on the other hand, only clung to one point. Throughout the ages, no heavenly master had ever left Longhu Mountain. You talk about your bloodline theory, and I play about my geographical theory. After all, I am Zhang Tianshi.
It is another historical coincidence. On October 17, 2008, 11 days before Kong Decheng’s death, Zhang Yuanxian, the second generation successor of “Tianshi Zhang” after he came to Taiwan, also “emerged”. However, the “religious tradition” left by Zhang Enpu and Zhang Yuanxian was officially inherited by Zhang Daozhen in Taiwan in May 2009. What may be most embarrassing for Zhang Jintao is that Zhang Daozhen inherited the “64th generation” Zhang Tianshi, but he has always regarded himself as the “65th generation” in mainland China.
The third place is the seventh Zhangjia (Zhangjia Hutuktu)
Among the many eminent monks who went to Taiwan in 1949, the most famous was undoubtedly the Seventh Living Buddha Zhangjia (Zhangjia Hutuktu). According to the reincarnation lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, the Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama, Jebtsundamba Hutuktu, and Zhangjia Hutuktu are known as the four living Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism (the four major leaders of the Yellow Sect). Among them, the first two are divided into front Tibet and back Tibet. Jebtsundamba was the leader of the political and religious integration of Outer Mongolia, while Zhangjia was the highest living Buddha of Tibetan Buddhism in Inner Mongolia.
The seventh Zhangjia and Zhangjia Hutuktu (picture: taken before 1957)
According to legend, the first Arahant Zunda of Zhangjia Hutuktu was a disciple of Sakyamuni Buddha and was born in India. He was reincarnated in India before his fourth life and in Tibet and Qinghai after his fifth life. After the thirteenth reincarnation, he was called Zhangjia Living Buddha, that is, the first Zhangjia Living Buddha. Zhangjia I Agawang Norbu Sancho Laden was born in Zongkha. He received full ordination from Dalai Lama V at the age of 23.
The seventh Lobsang Pandendan Bi Rongmei took the opportunity to arrive in Taiwan with the Nationalist Government from Chengdu in 1949. He passed away in Taipei in 1957. It is said that before his death, the seventh Zhangjia personally signed that he would not reincarnate before “counterattacking the mainland”. Therefore, the Republic of China did not recognize the Zhangjia reincarnation system after that.
In addition to the living Buddhas of Tibetan Buddhism, there are also many eminent monks of Han Buddhism who came to Taiwan with Chiang Kai-shek, including Master Zhiguang, Master Nanting, Master Daoyuan, Master Jieyuan, Master Moru, and Master Miaoran. Among them, Master Bai Sheng, who served as the chairman of the Buddhist Association of China after the 8th Zhangjia, is the most famous. Thanks to the efforts of eminent monks such as Changjia Living Buddha and Master Bai Sheng to spread the Dharma, Taiwan today is the hope of Buddhism in the Chinese area, with more than five million Buddhist believers.
When we talk about Chinese culture in Taiwan, we should not only think of Hu Shi, Qian Mu, and Fu Sinian. In that era of great rivers and seas, there were also them who also came to Taiwan.
Three Kongs: Confucius Temple, Confucius Forest and Confucius Mansion in Qufu.
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