Yuanyang Folk Story: the Origin of Maizhai Village

Maizhai Village, Qijie Township, Yuanyang County, Henan Province is the hometown of the traitor Wan Jianchao (Yin Mohui) in the Southern Song Dynasty, and its tomb still exists today. But there is no surname in the village, only Nie, Hong and Liu. There is a story that villagers admire the hero Yue Fei and break up with traitors.

Yue Fei was loyal, filial and righteous all his life, outstanding and immortal. The traitor Qin Gui conspired with Wan Yi and Luo Ru to kill Yue Fei, which was reviled by later generations.

It turned out that he was often just a small official in Hangzhou, who was always running around like a dog around treacherous court official and prime minister Qin Gui. Then Qin Gui had an affair with Jin Wushu, forged an imperial edict, called Yue Fei back to the DPRK with 12 gold medals, framed him for treason, and sent him to Dali Temple for trial on Wednesday. On Wednesday, I was afraid of being honest and honest. I was anonymous and lost my official position. Qin Gui played Emperor Gaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty and promoted Wan Yi to be an official of Dali Temple to hear the case. In return for his kindness, together with Luo Rugeng (Dali Temple Cheng), he severely punished Yue Fei with criminal laws such as "Pima Wen" and "peeling and copying". Finally, he killed a generation of heroic sons and daughters in the Fengbo Pavilion according to the deadly trap of Qin Gui and his wife.

Hearing the bad news, Qin Gui and Wanxian in the Southern Dynasties were all well. What happens when a traitor hates his guts? Maizhai village, etc. , his hometown, is a common ancestor, but they all secretly cursed him as a black sheep. Just because Wan Yong was attached to a power traitor and played a great role, and there were his cronies in the village, people just dared to speak out and hated it in their hearts.

At that time, there was a poor family in the east of Maizhai Village. There are three people in the family. My father Wan is very loyal. He is sixty years old. His ancestors plowed the fields and were loyal. My son, Wan Fazhi, is in the year of vigorous blood. My daughter Wan was founded. She is 28 years old, with fine features and intelligent talents. That night, Wan initiated the loyalty and righteousness family to close the door, and the father and son quarreled endlessly and refused to give way to each other. Zhiqiang said: "Wan Sixie, a traitor, humiliated our ancestors and made our generation feel ashamed. Listen to Ji, how many people are secretly cursing him! He is greedy for injustice and destroys loyalty; In the village, everyone at his door is bullying the city and harming the people. I don't touch his light and I won't be blamed by him. I want to change my surname in public, not Yue! " Although the father knows his son's difficulties, he also understands the great righteousness, but it is absolutely forbidden to change his surname. So he persuaded him in one breath: "Marshal Yue is for the country and the people. Who doesn't respect? Admiration is not changing the surname Yue. Wouldn't I be ashamed if the black sheep left the gaos thought? But this has nothing to do with our ancestors. How can you change your surname and betray your ancestors? We should find ways to solve these two problems. " Zhiqiang refused to accept it, but her sister Yu Zhen persuaded her brother: "Marshal Yue risked his life to resist nomadic people, recover lost land and save the people. He made so much credit and the government did so much, but he was defeated by Qin Gui and Wan Yi. " When a traitor is killed. How dare you, an unknown village man, so blatantly oppose them? Isn't this asking for trouble, touching the stone with an egg? I agree with dad. We should take a long-term view and find out whether it is anger or other reasons. Soon, Wan fell on the bed and couldn't get up. On his deathbed, he left his son and daughter a will: "I can't change my position in life, but I will never be with you after I die." Gao Tongfen, in order to avoid suspicion, you are not implicated. Just say Mr. Feng Shui has seen it. It is not good for people to manage ancestral graves. I want to build a new grave. "After the death of the old man, my son and daughter held a funeral in accordance with the will.

What goes around comes around. After driving Fan away, he acceded to the throne. Just when nomadic people invaded the Central Plains again, Zhang Xin, marshal of the Southern Dynasties, put forward a plan to retreat from the enemy: arrest the traitor, hell to pay, and complain to the people all over the world: order the court to build the tomb of King Yue to show loyalty. Filial piety allowed him to play and ordered him to cooperate with Niu Hao on Wednesday, and to investigate and convict these traitors according to law. Trial of the case: Although the Qin couple died, they betrayed the country, bullied the monarch and harmed the loyalty. The law should cut open coffins and slaughter bodies: Wan Yi? Traitors, such as Luo Ruzhen, are authoritarian and chaotic, harming the country and the people, and will never be wasted. The traitor's family copied the door and destroyed the nine families. The imperial edict reached the county government of Wu Yang (now Yuanyang), and the magistrate's adult arrived at Maizhai Village with people, driving the whole village, old and young, to the wheat field at the head of the village.

Pull out a question, as long as the family name is Wan Yi, no matter how close it is to Wan Yi, it will be shot. In an instant, the bodies were everywhere, and the blood became a river. Wan Fazhiqiang rushed forward several times to make it clear to the magistrate's adult that everyone's feelings were blocked by his sister. Yu Zhen whispered, "Brother, when my father was alive, didn't you want to change your surname?" Zhiqiang said angrily, "It's not like you and dad are in cahoots. Don't let me change my surname? " Then he said, "You should change your name now, but don't change your surname to Yue. That would be too exposed. " Zhiqiang asked urgently, "So you changed your surname?" Yu Zhen was about to say that a soldier came and left with Zhiqiang. Yu Zhen gave his brother a hard squeeze, and Zhiqiang suddenly woke up. The magistrate asked him, "What's your name? What's your name? " Zhiqiang replied: "My name is Nie Zhiqiang." Everyone was surprised. The county magistrate can't bear to kill so many innocent people again, but the sacred order can't be violated. Hearing this, Zhiqiang casually said, "Nie is exempt from killing." And pulled out a group of people, according to Zhiqiang, also calculate. Yu Zhen was afraid of being caught by the county magistrate and wanted to remind others to change their surname, but he was afraid to make it clear. She frowned and thought about it. She said to a mother-in-law standing by, "Grandma, how do I see that all the blood on the ground is black?" What color is that blood? "The old lady casually replied," Red. " Unexpectedly, the old woman's answer, Bo County magistrate's adult listened, and said in her voice, "Even those surnamed Hong are not allowed to kill! "A group of people changed their surnames and escaped to live. Yu Zhen lowered his head and thought about what to do next. An old man said, "Miss Yu Zhen, move your foot back and blood will flow to you. "Who knows that there are also good people among the soldiers, but he hurriedly ran to report to the magistrate:" The little girl's surname is Liu. " The county magistrate nodded approvingly and said, "Are the rest of you surnamed Liu? From death. "

Since then, Maizhai Village has changed its surname to Nie, Hong and Liu until today. Tomb, but no one surnamed Wan Yi.