Historical Writting And Loyal Minister Worship

As the vice director of the Ministry of War during Jiajing dynasty, Yang Jisheng died due to impeached prime minister Yan Song, but after his death, he was commended and revered by the Ming and Qing Dynasties imperial government, local governments and scholars. What the research topic of this paper is the historical writing and loyal minister worship phenomenon of Yang Jisheng since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Though interpreting the writing process and cultural phenomenon, detect the age factors and cultural connotations hidden behind it.Late Ming period, there are lots of rewarding activities about Yang Jisheng in Longqing, Wanli and Tianqi eras. His hometown and office places also built memorial temples to worship him. Entering the Qing Dynasty, dominatores inherited thoes activities, Shunzhi emperor wrote articles to extol Yang Jisheng, makes his fame more widely spread. By contrast the writing process of Yang Jisheng in Ming and Qing Dynasties, we can know that they are all proceed under political pulse with different realistic demands..Popular literary works also make Yang Jisheng’s fame spread widely, Mingfengji and Biaozhongji are two legendes about Yang jisheng, they represent Yang Jisheng’s valiant by the skill of virtuality and reality combination, have strong stage effect. People printed Yang Jisheng’corpus and extant textes, all contain the writing and image-building for him. Consequently, Yang Jisheng become the scholars model and folk hero, produced widespread impact in society.Town god belief is very popular in Ming and Qing Dynasties, as a loya lminister, Yang Jisheng’s personal image is also evolved into a town god. Whether the political environment chaos or missing sages, there are always some complex and universality included in the process of worshiping loyal minister. It’s not only a political bailment, but moral sympathy for loyal minister.