Xu Da (1332-1385) was born in Tiande, Fengyang, Anhui. He was the founding military commander of the Ming Dynasty and one of the twenty-four generals in Hua
Xu Da (1332-1385) was born in Tiande, Fengyang, Anhui. He was the founding military commander of the Ming Dynasty and one of the twenty-four generals in Huaixi. Then I want to tell you a couplet about Xu Da.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a couplet hanging in Xu Da's mansion. The couplet was:
The river of no return, the hero of the ages. Ask the castle peak outside the building and the white clouds outside the mountain. Where is Han Que in Tang Palace?
Spring returns in the small garden, and the warbler calls a beautiful family. Look at the green trees by the pool. It's raining red, and it's sunny here.
In the late Qing Dynasty, Zengxiang Fan wrote a couplet saying:
Golden crown, silver crown Jigong, spotted bamboo crown, dragon queen;
Strange flowers and plants are in court, strange books are in hand, and strange landscapes are in sight, which suits my temperament.
There is a couplet in Fangguang Temple in Tiantai Mountain, Zhejiang Province, which reads:
Wind, water, insects, birds, Sanskrit, a total of 360 bells and drums, silent;
Moonlight, mountains, grass, trees, clouds, clouds and the 48,000-foot peak are all empty.
In the former, those emperors will be proud. The waves are rolling and the universe is vast. Han que in Tang Palace, ashes. Think for a thousand years and win every battle. Today, we can enjoy peace and prosperity.
The winner showed the integrity and pride of a bachelor of arts. Morality, speech and merit are the foundation of a person's life; Books, flowers and trees, mountains and rivers are the roots of temperament. Clear reputation and elegant hope, a lifelong wish.
The latter, who is indifferent to the world, looks at ordinary people coldly. Dynasties rise and fall, fame and fortune chase, but the environment is born from the heart. Color is empty, and empty is color. The world doesn't know this and has created countless grievances.
These three couplets embody three realms and three lives.
About the life of Xu Da.
Xu Da was born in a peasant family. He is resolute and unwilling to be inferior. He has a slim face, slightly higher cheekbones and a tall figure. I have practiced martial arts since I was a child, and I have practiced a good hand. And Zhu Yuanzhang are good friends since childhood. Guo Zixing initiated it, led by Tanghe in Haozhou 10 strong men participated. At the invitation of Tanghe, Zhu Yuanzhang also joined the Guo Zixing Department. In the 13th year of Zheng Zheng (1353), Zhu Yuanzhang was ordered by Guo Zixing to go back to his hometown to recruit soldiers. Xu Da, who was only 22 years old, gladly * * *. From then on, he began his military career. At the beginning of the town governor's award, Zhu Yuanzhang found that Xu Da was superior, so he entrusted him with an important task and asked him to take the place of himself. Guo Zixing was at odds with Sun Deya and other people involved. He Peng, who occupied Xuzhou (now Jiangsu), was defeated and fled to Haozhou. Soon, Zhao and Peng became kings, controlled and killed. Zhu Yuanzhang saw that Haozhou was difficult to achieve great things, so in the autumn of 14th year (1354), he led Xu Da, Tanghe and others to leave Haozhou, entered Dingyuan in the south and captured Chuzhou. Xu Da took the lead, and Wei Yong was the first to appear. 1Feb. 355, in the fifteenth year of Zheng Zheng, there was no harvest in Chuzhou, and Xu Da and Zhu Yuanzhang captured the state, now Anhui County. After attacking Hezhou, Guo Zixing captured Sun Deya alive, and Sun Deya's army also captured Zhu Yuanzhang alive. Xu Da proposed to exchange himself for Zhu Yuanzhang, thus resolving this contradiction. In June, Zhu Yuanzhang led Xu Da and others to cross the river, quarrying in the northwest of Dangtu, Anhui Province, and going down to Dangtu, Anhui Province, in a further attempt to celebrate Nanjing, Jiangsu Province. In the battle with Cai Shiji and Taipingfu, Xu Da and Chang Yuchun took the lead, bravely crowned the three armies, captured Yuanye County, and subdued Kang Maocai's insurgents. In August, Xu Da and others divided their forces to attack Lishui, Liyang, Jurong and Wuhu. In the 16th year of Zheng Zheng,1February 356, he broke the navy in The Hague, Man Zi. In March, Qing Ji was captured and changed to Tianfu. In the east, Jingkou, Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, was awarded the title of Marshal Huai Xingyi. In July, Zhu Yuanzhang called Wu Guogong, placed Jiangnan in the Privy Council, and took Xu Da as his colleague. They besieged today's Piling in Changzhou, Jiangsu, but captured Zhang Shicheng's younger brother Zhang Shide alive, and together with Chang Yuchun, captured his ministry Zhang De alive. In February of the following year, he conquered piling and rose to the Privy Council. And successively conquered Ningguo and Xuancheng. In the eighteenth year of Zheng Zheng,1October 358, Yixing was conquered. In November, Zhu Yuanzhang personally levied Wuzhou, now Jinhua, Zhejiang, and Xu Da stayed in Tianfu.