Hai Rui’s daughter starved to death. What happened?

Hai Rui Haigang Peak is as famous as Bao Zheng. He is known as Beibao Zheng and Nan Hairui. He is a typical example of an upright official, a moral idol of the Jiajing and Wanli dynasties, and cannot be touched or photographed. To impeach him, there is no need for him to take action himself, there are many people who will stand up for him. Just like that Fang Huan, because he risked the disapproval of the world and wrote a letter to accuse Hai Rui, people from the Qing Dynasty wrote chapters and chapters to confront him, and "the soldiers were driven away when they were defeated." Fang Huan was unable to speak with others and was eventually demoted.

As a national idol of the Ming Dynasty, he is actually famous for both right and wrong. Being untouchable and untouchable does not mean that others dare not touch. After all, there were many people in the Ming Dynasty who were as strong-minded as Hai Rui. It is not that the emperor set up a model and worshiped him as a god to be consistent with the emperor. .

At that time, someone used a couplet to evaluate Hai Rui -

Not afraid of death, not fond of money, and not involved in cliques, these are his strengths;

No Being modest, ignorant, and not reading are his shortcomings.

It can be seen that idols also have shortcomings. If the shortcomings of idols are not exposed, it does not mean that they do not have shortcomings.

The most criticized thing about Hai Rui is that he killed his own daughter.

I watched "Ming Dynasty 1566" yesterday. There was a family scene when Hai Rui was recruited to Chun'an as a county magistrate. In the play, the mother, wife, and daughter are a happy family even though they have no money. It was completely impossible to see that he would let the little girl die.

What is the specific situation?

There are two ways to say it.

One type comes from "Jianzhibian" by Yao Shilin of the Ming Dynasty. It tells that Hai Rui saw his five-year-old daughter eating cakes and asked who gave it to her. The daughter said she was a servant. Hai Rui said very unhappily, "How can a woman be allowed to be abused by children? She is not my daughter. She can starve to death immediately, so she can be called my daughter."

As a result, the daughter really refused to eat or drink. No matter how much the family tried to persuade her, they could not get enough of it, and she eventually starved to death.

Yao Shilin came to the conclusion that only Hai Zhongjie (Hai Rui’s posthumous name Zhongjie) could give birth to such a good daughter! (I said that no one other than Zhongjie would have given birth to this daughter).

In the end, it was the life of the little girl that made Hai Rui famous.

Another theory comes from Shen Defu’s records.

Shen Defu was born in the sixth year of Wanli (1578). He was ten years old when Hai Rui died. In the "Wanli Yehuobian" he later wrote, Fang Huan's memorial to impeach Hai Rui was included. Fang Huan wrote, "He was often unkind. He married nine times at home, then changed his wife, and hanged him for no reason. Women, these are all abnormal things... Rui is now old, and his wife is young, and human desires are unstoppable. If the woman is killed and there is no son, the way of heaven may not be enough."

Huan means that Hai Rui was unkind, married nine wives and concubines, and hanged his own daughter for no reason. Now Hai Rui is an old man, but his wife is still young. This guy really has endless desires! But my daughter was killed and I didn’t have a son. People are doing it and God is watching. It’s really retribution in this world! "

Why did Hai Rui hang his daughter to death? Fang Huan didn't say anything. I guess he was angry about eating the cake and killed his daughter with his own hands.

However, Shen Defu's evaluation of Fang Huan's part is, "Those who laugh at jokes are the most hilarious" - he is really telling a joke!

In this case, did his daughter kill his own daughter? ?

According to Yao Shilin, Haenyeo is indeed dead, and she died in a great way. There is no doubt about this.

What does Shen Defu mean? Is it ridiculous to say that Hai Rui hanged his daughter to death because he was spreading rumors, or is it ridiculous to think that Hai Rui hanged his daughter to death as a crime?

I think it is more like the latter.

Both Yao and Shen recorded this matter to prove that Hai Rui was not only a great upright official, but also a staunch upholder of ethics and a worthy person to learn from.

As for the Qing Dynasty's " "History of the Ming Dynasty" does not record that Hai Rui killed his daughter, but only said that "Rui had no children." Therefore, it is inferred that there is no such thing as Hai Rui's killing of his daughter. Maybe it was because of the venerable's secrecy. After all, an upright official like Hai Rui was not afraid of death. Ten thousand years from now, the benchmark will still be set up.