No. Chen Mengji, Fang Tangjing, He Tanru and Liu Huadong are collectively known as the Four Great Scholars of Guangdong.
Song Shijie, originally Song Shijie, was actually a native of the Ming Dynasty's Chenghua Xinyang Prefecture (present-day Xinyang, Henan Province), not a Qing Dynasty man with a big braid in costume dramas. Song Shijie in the drum opera The Purple Gold Hairpin was originally only a supporting character, and in the earliest version of the Peking Opera The Four Advocates, Song Shijie was also a supporting character. Between the 13th and 14th years of the Jiajing period of the Ming dynasty, there was Gu Duo (Peking Opera's "The Four Scholars" changed Gu Duo to Gu Read), a native of Boxing, Shandong province, who went to Xinyang as a deputy envoy of the press, when Yao Tingchun, a resident of Shangcai county, Henan province, and his wife Tian plotted to take over the family's property and devised a scheme to poison his younger brother, Tingmei.
Because the main culprits rely on his brother (Tian Lun Jiangxi inspector) official high and powerful, wanton, in the death of husband and brother, and then falsely accused his sister-in-law Yang Suzhen adultery, conspired with his brother to sell her, passing through the outskirts of the state of Xinyang, the buyer of the wife, Yang Chun, see what happened to the poor Suzhen, they tore up the marriage book, willing to be married to Suzhen as a brother and sister, and went to Xinyang, the more Yamaha to sue. This thing is being visited by the Henan inspector Mao Peng see, very touched. On the spot, they wrote a petition to the court. Righteous siblings to Xinyang, and met the always righteous and courageous, specializing in the love of justice Song Shijie, he was determined to avenge the injustice for Yang Suzhen.
But the case involves high-powered officials, the magistrate Liu question greedy cup bribery, Jiangxi inspector Tian Lun (Tian's brother) secret letter bribery, Xinyang Taoist Gu read the stolen goods and perverted the law, and they and Mao Peng is the same year of entry, the four are still brotherhood. But Song Shijie not afraid of the situation, resourceful, for the people to redress the grievances, seized the key to the case, and finally Liu question, Gu read, Tian Lun, three magistrates sued down. Mao Peng refused to show favoritism and acted impartially, which was also praised by the people at that time. Song Shijie's love of fighting for the people to sue for justice has won him universal praise and wide popularity in the world.
Toward the end of the Qing Dynasty, a revolutionary from Datong, Shanxi Province, named Song Shijie, because "shi" is the same as "shi" in Mandarin, and Song Shijie and Song Shijie in the opera also loved to fight for justice and often scolded corrupt officials, and with the Cantonese opera "The Trial of a Deadly Official" in Guangdong, China, the opera has been widely performed in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It was also popularized in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao with the Cantonese opera "The Inquisitor".
Combined with the fact that in the late Qing Dynasty, there were four outstanding counsels in Guangdong (Chen Mengji, Fang Tangjing, He Tanru and Liu Huadong), collectively known as the Four Great Counsels of Guangdong, he was gradually mixed up with Song Shijie in the late Qing Dynasty, and Song Shijie (Sung Shi Jie) went from being a zealot in the Ming Dynasty to being a righteous counsellor in the Qing Dynasty, and was even mistakenly regarded as one of the Four Great Counsels of Guangdong.
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The four great Guangdong solicitors are: Fang Tangjing, Chen Mengji, Liu Huadong, He Tanru.
1, Fang Tangjing
Fang Tangjing, (1845-1900) the end of the Qing Dynasty, a famous lawyer, Guangdong Xinhui Chao Lian (now belongs to the Pengjiang District of Jiangmen City) people. Fang is known in Guangdong folklore as a trickster, colluding with the magistracy to oppress the people, and is known as the "Master of the Twisted Scheme", often appearing as an antagonist in Chen Mengji's stories, and is known as one of the "Four Great Scholars of Guangdong" along with Chen Mengji, Liu Huadong, and He Nanyu.
2, Chen Mengji
Chen Mengji, for the late Qing Dynasty Guangdong folk the first lawyer, the first of the four litigators, dared to say "twisted counting ancestor", its power and wisdom has been Lingnan folk as God. Chen Mengji was a descendant of Chen Renweng, the seventh son of Chen Fengtai of the Southern Song Dynasty, who was born in Shunde, Guangdong in the Qing Dynasty.
Legendary experience since childhood has been very legendary, was born without crying, the family thought born deaf and mute, and then taught by the high people, its extraordinary talent, talent gradually revealed. Later, he became the "King of Bridges" in Guangzhou.
3. Liu Huadong
Liu Huadong (1778-1841), Zixu, Sanshan, Sanliu Jushi. He was a famous opera writer in modern times, and was the author of the play "The Great Seal of the Six Kingdoms". He was one of the "Four Great Scholars of Guangdong" at the end of the Qing Dynasty.
Originally from Fujian, he was naturalized in Panyu after his father came to Guangdong to engage in salt transportation. In 1801, he became a graduate of the Qing Jiaqing University. His poems and writings were strange and unusual, and he was known as a "literary monster". He was also an expert in calligraphy and painting. In his later years, he was poor and downtrodden.
4, He Tanru
He Tanru (1820-1913), the name of He Yixiong, the word Tanru, to the word line. He was a native of Wan He Fang, Wan Hua Village, Nanhai County, Guangdong Province (now Lanshi Town, a suburb of Foshan City). When he was studying, his name was Wenxiong, and he was expelled from school because he was recognized by the examiners when he took the test for someone as a gunman (taking the test instead of someone else) at the test institute. In the Qing Dynasty, the concept of "learning and excellence" was very deep, and He Tanru was expelled from the school for this secular consciousness, which was equal to being cut off from the path of career, and it was very difficult to be an official in the future, so he laughed at himself by deleting a little bit of the word "Wen" from the head and replacing it with the word Therefore, he mockingly deleted a point on the head of the character "文" and replaced it with the character "又", hence the name "又雄". And to light as the other word with it, but also changed his wife's name to people chrysanthemum, take "people light as chrysanthemum" verse of the meaning.
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