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Chaoshan culture-anecdotes of celebrities-Guo is an honest official

Guo Jing, a native of Kengzai, Nanyang, was elected as the county magistrate of Huitong County, Hunan Province in the second year of Xuantong in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 19 10), and later promoted to Don Juan as the director of the Foreign Affairs Department. He used to be the ambassador to Japan. His life was honest, rigorous and brilliant, which left a deep impression on future generations.

During Guo Jing's tenure as county magistrate, a considerable number of boxes of smuggled opium 107 were uncovered. At that time, his boss and colleagues were expecting a windfall, but he was eager for Lin Zexu's feat of destroying cigarettes and resolutely burned all the opium in public. The boss went to Hong Kong to profit from it. Although praised on the surface, in fact he bears a grudge. Later, Guo Jing was impeached, and he was transferred from Hunan on the pretext of not paying. From then on, both inside and outside the officialdom called him a "firewood-headed juren". It is praise or condemnation, and it permeates it.

Guo has been involved in officialdom for more than 20 years. His family was depressed and nobody cared for him all his life. He never built a house in his life, only bought a paddy field. Resigned at home in his later years and only lived in his ancestral home. Due to economic difficulties, most of their children make a living overseas and travel in other places. Guo Jing himself didn't want to live a luxurious life, but wanted to live a simple and clean life, calling himself the owner of the "Qiushi Zhai". Even Mrs. Li, who is respectful, has to plow, spin and weave. A patchwork chair, barely sitting for decades, was called "a chair for raising human milk" by neighbors and spread as a joke. Because there is no savings at home, we have to make do with it.