But in the hometown of overseas Chinese Jimei Dashe, the first day of the first month of the 15th all-day Lantern Festival of religious and folk temple fair is the most grandiose, the parade through the streets of Jimei when the firecrackers, heavy smoke suffocated, and its spectacular scene, the number of people assembled is rare. Folks at home and abroad and the local people have worship ancestors "ship Ling Gong" - "open Min Wang" Wang Shenzhi, as well as "Jinshi祖" Chen Wenrui. "Chen Wenrui, praying for good weather and peace in the new year.
History
Wang Shenzhi: According to history, Wang Shenzhi was originally a feudal official who, in the first year of the Tang Dynasty's Jingfu era, was ordered by his brother, Wang Chao, to lead his army to attack Fuzhou and pacify the whole of Fujian. Wang Auditory knew the military and political power in charge of Fujian for 29 years, he learned from history, people-oriented, to take the policy of protecting the territory and interest of the people, light levies, persuade agriculture and education; he recruited the exiles, selecting the best, expanding the opening up, especially eighteen surnames with the king of the Fujian, resettled a large number of exiles from the Central Plains, which is following the "Yongjia chaos", the Central Plains into the south of Minnan and a Climax, these south of the Central Plains people brought the north of the new culture, new technology, promote the economic and cultural development of Fujian, so that the land of eight Fujian in the five generations and ten states in the situation of strife, not only to avoid the pain of war, politics, economy, culture, but also be able to rapid development, maintained a long period of thirty years of sustained stability and prosperity for the two Song Dynasty, after the Fujian has become a place of affluence has laid a solid foundation. Wang became one of the few kings with outstanding political achievements and far-reaching influence in the history of Fujian, enjoying the reputation of "King of Fujian". Emperor Song Taizu bestowed a plaque entitled "The Ancestor of the Eight Min People".
Wang Shenzhi governance in Fujian, pay special attention to the development of southern Fujian Xiamen, Zhangzhou, Quanzhou coastal area. In the development of Tong'an Province, he stayed in Tong'an, personally to Xunwei (now Jimei) Jiahe Island (now Xiamen), and then died in Tong'an Beichen Mountain. At the end of the Tang and early Song Dynasty, the local people in southern Fujian built Guangli Temple on Beichen Mountain, and molded a golden body for him, dedicated to the "King of Fujian". By the end of the Ming Dynasty, many people in Xiamen, Zhangzhou and Quanzhou followed Zheng Chenggong's recovery of Taiwan, bringing the statue of Wang Shenzhi and incense from the mainland. There are also many people who moved across the ocean to other countries, most of them in Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and other places, and they have been worshipping the "King of Fujian" Wang Shenzhi. More than a thousand years have passed, although the children and grandchildren of Wang Qiandi scattered all over the world, but everyone on the ancestor's virtue of hope and merit in the heart.
Jimei was under the Tong'an Province, Chen's folks in the ancestral home built the Wang Auditory Temple, and from the North Star Mountain to bring incense, honored as "ship Ling Gong", become the North Star Mountain "sub-furnace". For hundreds of years, the overseas Chinese community Jimei Daeshe has been worshipping this ancestor. To 1913, Mr. Chen Jiageng from the South China Sea back to the hometown of Jimei Dashe school, Chen Jiageng nostalgia here, "the King of Min", and the expansion of the Chen's Ancestral Alcove for the "King of Min". Now all over Southeast Asia and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, as well as southern Fujian no less than thousands of temples dedicated to the "King of Fujian", Wang Auditory has become one of the important sources of Fujian-Taiwan culture, but also become a scenic spot for religious tourism in Fujian and Xiamen. Every year on the 15th day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, a grand festival is held, on the one hand, to thank the king of Fujian, Wang Shenzhi's achievements in the development of Fujian, on the other hand, to pray for the next year's wind and rain, peace and good luck.
Chen Wenrui: Jimei Dashe Erfangjiao people, breast name Jiu Guan No. should be cui word Wenrui, late alias Tongfan. Born in 1573 A.D. Ming Shenzong Wanli years, the family cold, the father died early, the public early childhood is very intelligent, calm, very few words and laughter, whenever resting with his brother farming, is always hand in hand, the mother felt that the public learning to have a strong will, they sent him into the school hall reading. Ming dynasty Wanli wuwu section (1618 AD) Dai Guozhang list of public exams in the lifelong; tomorrow's enlightenment yichou section (1625 AD) Yu Huang list, bachelor's degree and the first, the Chin point of Jiangsu Province, Suzhou Province, Wu County magistrate. The great instrument late in life, when the age of fifty one. Become the first person in Jimei Daisha high school scholar, known as the "scholar ancestor".
He was in office, clean and honest officials, diligent and loving people, not afraid of the powerful and noble, law enforcement and fair, upright; "five years of wearing a star by the prison", "the rich and powerful dare not scratch". He for the people, justice, incurred local vested interests hate, as a thorn in the flesh, want to get rid of it quickly.
It is reported that Chen Wenrui term expired after 5 years, leave to return home to visit relatives, in the return journey with dozens of large boxes. Wu County landlords and gentry thought it was loaded with gold, silver and jewels, the crowd forced to stop, and jointly sued for raiding the people's fat and wealth. Superiors had to put a seal on the box first reported to the court to send people to investigate. To be opened to check, I did not expect that in addition to old clothes and shoes, ceramic plates and tiles, but also "pretend" to be gold and silver bricks and stones. Originally, Chen Wenrui during his term of office, integrity and self-discipline, do not covet pennies, and therefore did not return home, for fear that the people laugh, had to "fake the real". In order to reward Chen Wenrui's integrity, Emperor Xi Zong Royal gift "Zun pro Church" plaque, the decree of sixteen soldiers across the lift out of the city, if they meet the people's graves blocking the road, permission to dismantle the passage. Chen Wenrui in order not to disturb the people along the way, not by land, but by boat from the sea back to his hometown, leaving a good story.
Because Chen Wenrui all righteousness, two-sleeved clean, not a power, offended the castrate party. The castrate party is looking for faultless, they will face the invitation to Chongzhen, he will be transferred to the capital appointment. Looking for an opportunity to cast a dark arrow in the future. After Chen Wenrui to physical discomfort, it is not suitable to continue to stay in office, and the emperor to allow. In this way, Chen Wenrui was able to avoid trouble and return to his hometown, and spend his old age in peace.
Chen Wenrui honor return to the community, because of the shyness of the bag, only built a humble shelter. During the war, the community was bombed by Japanese aircraft, the former residence razed to the ground. Later, Mr. Chen Jiageng to commemorate the village sage, according to the original appearance of the construction for the people living.
Today, the highest honor of the "scholar" plaque and "honored relatives hall" plaque, is a clear evidence of the humanities of the Dashe flourished. But in the Cultural Revolution was burned, today's ancestral temple hanging the plaque is imitation. Jimei Dashe folks to commemorate and encourage the clan's children can be more outstanding, successful, will also be his statue in the first month of the fifteenth day to carry out offerings, worship, for the clan to pray for blessings. ① ② ③
Temple Process Introduction
The day before the Lantern Festival, Jimei merchants along the street and households have to prepare tribute, set up tables and cases on the street, rich people are ready to the whole pig the whole goat, the ordinary people will be prepared to chickens, pork, fresh fruits and other bountiful tributes, tributes, no matter how much, that the pious heart is the same. At the same time, but also in front of the eaves put on the bucket, built-in soybeans, groundnuts, straw and other things, according to the old man, this is not only for the "'open Min Wang 's soldiers and horses" to prepare food, but also symbolizes the masses of people on the next year's harvest year of good prayers.
(Scene of worship at the square of the ancestral house of Dashe on that day)
At 8:00 a.m. on the Lantern Festival, the statues of the five sages ("King of Min" Wang Shenzhi, Mrs. Wang Shenzhi, Wang Shenzhi's younger sister, "ancestor of the scholars" Chen Wenrui, and "ancestor of the black face") were brought out in eight-carried sedan chairs and carried out by the "King of Min" Chen Wenrui and "ancestor of the black face". The eight-carried sedan chair was invited out, led by the dragon dance team and the waist drum team, and the flags of each corner, and the parade, which lasted for a whole day, was formally kicked off. At one time drums and music in the sky, gunfire, in the drums and firecrackers, along the streets and alleys, parade along a fixed route, believers follow all the way, burning incense and praying for blessings, the team is getting longer and longer, stretching for miles. Along the street merchants are happy, open the door to welcome God.
The annual parade route to each corner of the ancestral temple as a connecting line, on the way route will be almost the Jimei cultural district side of the main streets and alleys connected, the specific route is roughly: 8:00 a.m. from the Dashe Ancestral Alcove incense start, through the Dashe Road - Jicen Road - Cengtou incense point (stopping point: Jimei Department Store) -Cenxi Road - Jiageng Road (through the school village gate) - Guo Chu incense point (stopping point: Guo Chu) - Jiageng Road - Shigu Road - around Longzhou Road - Duotou Dutou Incense Point (stopping point: Aoyuan Parking Lot) - Houwei Incense Point (stopping point: Guilai Hall) - Shangnan Road - Meixi Lane - back to Dashe Ancestral Alcove Incense Point. Starting from Dashe Ancestral Alcove at 1:00 p.m., the route goes through Dashe Road - Duonan Road - South Gate of the Monument - Shanghall Incense Point (stopping point: Shanghall Corner) - Huan Cheng Road - Jicen Intersection - Tong Qing Incense Point (stopping point: Tong Ching Banyan Tree) - Huan Cheng Road - Tong Po Road - Shing Kwong Road (new district incense point) - Shing Kwong Road - Yin Ting Junction - Nei Tau incense point (stopping point: Nei Tau) -Shek Kwu Road around Chi Yuen Road -Sheng Kwong Road around Dashe Road -Back to Dashe Ancestral Alcove Incense Point. Each incense point stops for 30 minutes to give people in the neighborhood time to worship and pray.
(Sitting statues of Wang Shenzhi, the "King of Min", Mrs. Wang Shenzhi and Wang Shenzhi's sister)
The people who carry the statue of Buddha are required to be the strong male descendants in the Chen's Dashe. And those big flags are not for everyone. The flag bearer must be a young man who has just gotten married in the previous year or has just given birth to a boy in the previous year.
Parade on the way, each to a worship point, but also carry the statue of the gods run around several times, swaying around, wherever, a sea of people, the sound of firecrackers is deafening, the scene is lively and extraordinary. It is said that this is because these gods are 365 days a year to stay in the temple, a year out once in a while, so excited to the hands and feet dance, so that the sedan chair bearers can not be pressed.
After the day's parade, the statue of Wang Shenzhi, the "King of Fujian," returns to the square in front of the Chen Ancestral Hall in Jimei Dashe, where it receives offerings from the Chen clan in Jimei, as well as from folks from home and abroad, and from the local people. During this period, colorful folk activities such as dragon and lion dances, opera and puppet shows will be interspersed, making it the most lively day of the year in Jimei. First month 16 will also be held in the ancestral ancestral temple square "attack cannon city" activities, the degree of its lively than the first month 15.
According to the old people said, this Lantern Festival religious customs from ancient times, but stopped during the Cultural Revolution, some ancestral plaques were also destroyed. After the reform and opening up was restored. About a few years ago, the government recognized as superstitious activities and was banned. According to the locals, one year on the day of the Lantern Festival, the police were mobilized to prevent the statue of Buddha from being carried out, and at the same time the baguettes used to carry the statue of Buddha were also confiscated by the neighborhood committee. The parade did not materialize that morning. However, the devotion of the local people could not be stopped, and they sent the elderly to the neighborhood committee to retrieve the baguettes, and in the afternoon, despite the resistance, the statue of Buddha was carried out. Around last year's Spring Festival, this activity was again allowed, and that year's event was particularly grand and lively.
Today, the men and women of Jimei Daisha are very enthusiastic about this activity. The reason for this is that in the years when it was banned, there were bad things that happened in the area, such as car accidents, which led to the local people's belief in this activity. As a result, the annual Jimei Lantern Festival is now a very lively custom.
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"King of Min" Wang Shenzhi4
("King of Min" Wang Shenzhi (862-925 AD)
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Wang Shenzhi, the "King of Min" (862-925 A.D.), was honored by the descendants of the Min Wang Clan as a proud ancestor of the Min Wang Clan because of the many achievements he made during his stay in Min, and was the first cross-strait cultural research institution on February 4, 2007, which was jointly organized by the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. --On February 4, 2007, the first cultural research organization jointly organized by the two sides of the Taiwan Strait was set up in Fuzhou, Fujian and Taiwan Wang Qinzhi Research Association. The world knows Shanxi Taiyuan Wang, about the situation of the King of Fujian, the following documents are listed for future organization, and at the same time use this platform to publicize the ancestor of the Min Wang family, to send the thought of the ancestor. Min Wang's descendants are mostly open Min Wang Wang Shenzhi 4th son Wang Yanzheng.
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"King of Min" and his people
Wang Shenzhi (862-925), the word Shengxin, Xiangqing, the name of the White Horse Sanlang, Henan Province, Guangzhou, Gushi people. Since the first year of the Guangqi (885 years) into the Fujian until his death, in Fujian 39 years, of which 32 years in Fuzhou, successively served as Fuzhou Observation Deputy Minister, Weiwu Army to stay after the inspection of the Ministry of Criminal Justice, Weiwu Army Festival, with the Zhongshu Menxia Pingzhang matter, inspection of the school of the Right Servant, inspection of the school of the Sikong, the special inspection of the school of the Sifu, the inspection of the school of the Taibao, the King of Luangya, Zhongshu Ling, the Fujian Governor of the long history of the king of Fujian, the king of Fujian, and so on.
Wang Shenzhi attaches importance to the security and stability of society. In August of the second year of Guangqi (886), Wang Shenzhi's brothers led an attack on Quanzhou and killed Liao Yanruo, the assassin of Quanzhou, who was a corrupt and unscrupulous person. Chen Yan, the Fujian Observer in Fuzhou, was forced by the situation to recognize the Wang brothers and asked the Tang court to appoint him as the assassin of Quanzhou, and the appearance of Quanzhou soon changed for the better. In the second year of Dashun (891), Chen Yan died of illness, and his younger brother Fan Hui claimed to be the queen of Fuzhou. In the first year of Jingfu (892), Wang Shenzhi brothers made careful preparations for the unification of Fujian, and after a year and three months of hard fighting, finally in the second year of Jingfu (893) on May 21, captured the city of Fuzhou. After entering the city, the Wang brothers personally "buried Chen Yan in plain clothes" and "caressed his family" to stabilize the situation. Subsequently, the Wang brothers also set up Liu Xingquan Temple to worship, great popularity of the military might greatly shocked, the diabolic, Jianzhou Xu Guifan, Tingzhou Zhong Quan Mu, as well as mountainous areas, the coast and other places scattered armed forces have successively submitted to the unification of the whole Fujian. Wang Shenzhi took various measures to stabilize and stabilize the social order in Fujian, creating favorable conditions for the economic and cultural development of Fujian.
Wang Shenzhi attached great importance to economic development, the main performance: first, the development of land and water transportation. Tianfu first year (901) he built Luo city at the same time, digging the city of Hao, built to go to the Si Bridge, Jin Tongmen and so on. Tianyou three years (906), Wang Shenzhi in Fuzhou Street (now north of the East Street) Mao should be built in the bridge south of the Pearl Gate, built the South Pass Bridge (now known as the Antai Bridge), but also open the river through the Woqiao Pu, the tidal flow through the city, after the Liang Kaiping two years (908 years), built the Shahe Bridge (also known as the bridge of the Nine Immortals), and so on. Second, expanding internal and external trade. When he was in power, he canceled the barriers in the Minjiang River area so that the goods could flow smoothly to ensure the exchange of materials between the mountainous areas and the coastal cities. At the same time, he opened a foreign trade port in Huangqi Peninsula, known as "Gantang Port". Subsequently, Fuzhou and Korea, India, Sumatra's Sanfoqi and other countries, there are often emissaries and merchants traveled in Fuzhou and other places to carry out economic, cultural and other trade activities. Imported goods such as ivory, rhinoceros horn, pearls, incense and medicines and so on. Third, emphasize the development of agricultural production. He appointed the production experience of Yan Renyu management of agriculture, and sent competent officials "to patrol the state and counties, advising the lesson of agriculture and mulberry", because of the war and the exile of the peasants as many as possible back to their hometowns to give a reasonable arrangement to encourage them to open up farmland, the development of production; in order to alleviate the burden of taxation on the peasants, decided to cultivate all the "public land", its tax "tithe", "convergence does not add violence", "there is no military service" to reduce the burden of the Peasants burden, he also encouraged farmers to plant tea trees, large-scale production of export tea, etc., in order to increase the economic income of farmers; he attaches importance to the construction of water conservancy, such as dredging the West Lake in Fuzhou, the original 20 miles around the West Lake, extended to 40 miles, irrigating Minxian, Haukuan County, two counties of the people's fields; he built a seawall in Fuqing, tidal protection of the field, irrigating thousands of acres of people's fields. Fourth, the development of handicraft development. Such as the mountainous areas of northern Fujian, there are a lot of tea factories, the official baking 38 places, the people baking 1336 places. In the southwest of Fuzhou, Wang Shenzhi built 13 furnace for casting. In Jianyang, ceramics industry is also more developed. In Tingzhou lead field, casting lead and copper money. Later, the casting of large iron money, to 500 for the Guan. At that time, the development of handicraft production was rapid. During the tenure of Wang Shenzhi, the economic construction of Fujian has great development, the phenomenon of "time and year abundance, the family gives people enough".
Wang Shenzhi attached great importance to the development of culture and education. He attached importance to the use of talent, to Fujian, after the settlement of a large number of exiles in the Central Plains, especially on the literati very much, specializing in the establishment of institutions such as the House of Recruitment to receive them. He adopted the suggestion of Weng Chengzan, in Fuzhou, "built four doors of the school (higher education), to teach the Min in the outstanding", selected well-known figures such as Huang Tao as "four doors of the doctor". Under the advocacy of Wang Shenzhi, there were state schools in the state, county schools in the county, private schools in remote villages, and "young people were trained in the teacher, and the elders were put in the Ziang of China", so that the cause of culture and education was greatly developed.
Wang Shenzhi emphasized the search for books. The first year of Tianyou (904), Wang Qiqi organized a large number of intellectuals, collect and repair the books of various families, dedicated to the Tang government, enriching the historical data, and for Xu Yin printing "Jiaoji anthology", etc., for the rescue and preservation of the cultural heritage of the motherland has contributed. Wang also restored and created many temples and pagodas. When he was in charge of the government, he built and restored 260 temples and 6 pagodas, and some of these temples and pagodas have left valuable cultural relics for the future generations, which is one of the tourism resources.
Wang Shenzhi made remarkable achievements for the social stability, stabilization, economic and cultural construction and development of Fujian during the late Tang and Five Dynasties periods, and was praised by the descendants.
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FUZHOU, Feb. 3 (Xinhua) -- (Reporter Meng Zhaoli) -- the first cultural research organization jointly organized by Fujian and Taiwan, the Fujian-Taiwan Wang Qiàngzhi Research Association, has been established. This move marks the people of Fujian and Taiwan from cooperation to run factories, expanding to jointly run cultural research institutions.
Taiwan's famous entrepreneur Wang Jiankun as the first executive vice president, Taiwan Taoyuan County Wang Clansmen Association of the North District, Wang Jinrong and Taiwan's National Cheng Kung University Professor Wang Dachen were appointed as permanent honorary president and honorary president.
Wang Dasheng, president of the Fujian-Taiwan Wang Auditory Research Association, said the Association will carry forward the ancestral virtues, pro-relationships, and strengthen the Fujian-Taiwan folk cultural exchanges, the completion of the "King of the Golden Body of the Min" tour of the Golden Gate, Taiwan, praying for the people on both sides of the Taiwan Straits peace and security, and will be united with the Fujian-Taiwan and the more than two million children and grandchildren at home and abroad, *** with the propaganda Wang Auditory! The historical achievements of "virtue and favor" of the people.
Wang Shenzhi was the king of Fujian in the Five Dynasties, Henan Gushi people. During the turbulent period of the Five Dynasties, he adopted the policy of protecting the people in Fujian and endeavored to develop the economy and culture and education, and was known as the "King of Fujian".
In order to avoid getting involved in the war, Wang Shenzhi insisted on "rather be an open-door minister than a closed-door son of God", and his achievements in maintaining national unity are still praised by the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and his grandchildren are also proud of them.
The descendants of Wang Shenzhi and his brother Wang Chao and Wang Jianji later migrated from Fujian to Taiwan, and then from Fujian and Taiwan to the world, and there are now more than 2 million, of which there are more than 500,000 in Taiwan.
Wang Dasheng told reporters that the study will also complete the construction of the Min Wang Mausoleum, Min Wang Memorial supporting projects, shaping the giant statue of Wang Auditory, the reconstruction of Lotus Yongxing Temple and other work.
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Lianjiang County Archives treasure a century-old Wang genealogy "open Min King" Wang Auditory inside the portrait have
September 21, 2007 Southeast Express
Yesterday, the first Straits People's Forum and Fujian-Taiwan genealogy exhibition held in Fuzhou The exhibition was held in Fuzhou yesterday, and nearly 1,000 "hundred surnames genealogy" from both sides of the Taiwan Strait were gathered together for public display.
Exhibition, from Fuzhou and Taiwan and other places in the descendants of Wang Qiandi some regret, because they did not see their own genealogy. However, the provincial archives, after learning about the situation, provided a copy of the Lianjiang County Archives collection of Wang's genealogy, which has a history of 100 years can make Wang's descendants eye-opening.
Lianjiang County Archives Zheng curator said, this genealogy into the book has a history of hundreds of years, recorded from the "open Min Wang" Wang Audit to the end of the Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of Wang's descendants of the inheritance of the genealogy. Turning the cover, you can also see the portrait of Wang Shenzhi, Wang Shenzhi kind eyebrows, extraordinary temperament. "It's the first time I've seen a portrait of Wang Shenzhi." A Mr. Wang from Wenzhou said.
"The precious thing about this genealogy is that one is a detailed description of Wang Auditory's ethnicity passed down from generation to generation, which is relatively rich in content, and another point is that there are a lot of biographies and preambles written by ancient people for Wang Auditory and his descendants in front of the genealogy." Curator Zheng said. A Taiwanese elder said most of these biographies and preambles cannot be seen in the Wang genealogy in Taiwan.
Wang Shenzhi's genealogy also contains brief biographies and achievements of Wang's descendants. If any of the descendants had been a good official who had benefited a party, or had done other good deeds, their best deeds would be recorded in the genealogy. Unfortunately, due to the influence of feudalism, no women were allowed to be on the genealogy.
This genealogy in the "Cultural Revolution" period was almost as "four old" burned, but fortunately the county party leaders found its value, at that time to let the archives will be collected and protected, but also the genealogy of the restoration. "It can be said to be one of the most precious genealogies in our museum, and I love it too1 Curator Zheng said excitedly.
"None of the Wang family trees handed down in Taiwan are this old. "Mr. Wang Yihui, a Taiwanese, said, "Nowadays, the Wang clan in Taiwan basically refurbishes a genealogy in 20 years, and the work of repairing the genealogy has gradually slowed down in the last few years." Now see the genealogy, Mr. Wang Yihui said several times, "really precious".
Small Zhang, a staff member of the provincial archives, led the Wangs to visit another set of five Wang genealogies. "This set of genealogy is also very rare, there are ancient people inscribed biography of Wang Shenzhi." Zhang said, "Including this set of Wang genealogy, we have on display the genealogies of the Shanggan Lin Clan, the Yanmen Sa Clan, and Li Gang, a famous minister of the Northern Song Dynasty, all of which are treasures in genealogy."
The Wangs would love to go through these genealogies on the spot, but the conditions of the exhibit do not allow this. Staff at the archives said that if these Taiwanese guests were willing to take the genealogies back to Taiwan, they could go to the archives to make a copy.
Mrs. Wang Lihua, a descendant of Wang Audit, said that the descendants of Wang in Fuzhou have a *** same wish to repair and protect as much as possible the Wang genealogy of Fuzhou, "a large number of Wang genealogy has been scattered in the historical calamity, we are now trying our best to salvage the rest of the Wang genealogy and refurbish it." (Our reporter Wang Jin text / picture)