A general named Gao of Xuzhou Prefecture in the Ming Dynasty

Gao Gongchen, courtesy name Zongji, was born in Hejin County, Pingyang Prefecture, Wanli Mountain, Ming Dynasty (now Nanyang Village, Wanrong County, Shanxi). Ding Mao was born in the first year of Longqing in the Ming Dynasty (1567). Throughout his life, he served as magistrate of Huining County, Gongchang Prefecture, Gansu Province (changed to Shaanxi in the Hongwu Year), Tongzhi of Henan Prefecture, Tongzhi of Xi'an Prefecture, and Yuanwai Lang of the Second Department of Household Workers. He was promoted to a doctor in the household department.

Wanli (September 4, 1573 - August 18, 1620) was the reign of Zhu Yijun, the 13th emperor of the Ming Dynasty. After 48 years, Gao Gongchen spent most of his official career in this period.

Gao Gongchen studied in Jishan County as a boy, and studied for three years with Wang Longya, the son of Wang Jishi, a Jishan scholar and township Jinshi. In the first year of Longqing's reign, he passed the examination as a township Jinshi.

In the fifth year of Wanli (1577), Gao became the first magistrate of Huining County. Huining is located in central Gansu and is now under the jurisdiction of Baiyin City, Gansu Province. The current city wall of Huining was built in the sixth year of Hongwu (1373) in the Ming Dynasty. It has been an important transportation thoroughfare and military center since ancient times, and is known as the "Key to Qinlong". The Silk Road passed through the country, leaving many important towns and castle ruins along the way. In October 1936, the three main forces of the Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army successfully joined forces in Huining, making Huining famous both at home and abroad. The ancestor Gao Gongchen, when he was the magistrate of Huining County, majored in "Rural Chronicles of Huining County, Gongchang Prefecture, Gansu Province". In the seventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1579), the city walls, city gates and gate towers were repaired and added. At this point, the Huining city outline was basically completed.

Gaozu Gongchen served as the magistrate of Henan Prefecture for the second time (unknown), during which his father died. In the fifteenth year of Wanli (1587), he served three times as Tongzhi of Xi'an Prefecture. He successively took charge of Shang, Jingyang and Fuping counties. He was famous among the three assistants and had achievements. The current Guanshan City in Yanliang District, Xi'an City was built in the 17th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1589) by Gao Gongchen (originally under the jurisdiction of Lintong), who was the founder of Guanshan City.

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In 2011, two teachers, Li Fei and Wang Chengyi, who were engaged in local historical and cultural research in Yanliang District, Xi'an, In Guanshan Town, three stone inscriptions on the original south, east and west gates of Guanshan City were discovered by villagers (the stone inscriptions on the north gate were engraved during the Tongzhi period and were inscribed by Cheng'an Zhida of Lintong County, and no rubbings have been found on the actual objects). Among them, the inscription of the south gate of Guanshan City is "Weibei Great Wall", the upper one is "built by Gao Gongchen, the Tongzhi of Xi'an Prefecture in Wanli Dynasty in Ming Dynasty", and the lower one is "rebuilt by Zhao Weibin of Lintong Branch County in Jiaqing Jiazi Period of Qing Dynasty". The forehead of the east gate is "Luoshui Huanqing", the upper inscription is "Ming Wanli Jichou Chun", and the lower inscription is "Xi'an Prefecture Tongzhi Gao Gongchenli". The Jichou year of Wanli is the seventeenth year of Wanli (1589). From the stone withdrawals, it can be determined that Guanshan City was founded in the 17th year of Wanli.

Through actual measurement of the site, we learned that Guanshan City is about 700 meters from east to west, 400 meters from north to south, and has a circumference of four miles and four miles. It is slightly smaller than Lintong County at that time, but it is indeed larger among the surrounding towns.

Due to his outstanding political achievements in Xi'an, the city where he governs, he was initially promoted to a member of the Ministry of Works and a doctor of Fengzheng; then he was promoted to a member of the Ministry of Works and Households and a concubine; and finally he was promoted to the fourth rank of Household Doctor. During this period, he "supervised Tingning, carried out canal transportation, recruited desolate villages, and used all the money to pay, so that the border troops had enough food and foreign troubles subsided." For his achievements outside the Great Wall, he was promoted to the "Second Rank" by the Emperor Sheng. Official promotion. Just when he was able to fulfill his great responsibilities due to his "timely use", he "died without any illness", which made "people of the time cherish him" and sigh with regret.

Gao Gongchen has been in politics all his life. He is honest and upright in government. He fulfills his duties as an official. He steals the people's peace and brings justice to the public affairs. He was promoted from a ninth-rank county official to a fourth-rank minister in the capital. The emperor praised him for his "stern guarding and bright talents." There are records in Huining County Chronicles, Pingyang Prefecture Chronicles, Yanliang Local Chronicles, and Hejin County Chronicles, and there are many praises from the people. Especially in urban construction, he made great achievements. Huining City and Guanshan City were built under his leadership. As a result, he was promoted to Yuanwailang of the Ministry of Industry and became Emperor Wanli's minister in charge of municipal construction across the country.

Gao Gongchen's father, Gao Ruli, was the deputy director of Zhanhua Prefecture at that time. Gao Gongchen's mother, Xue, was the fifth grandson of Xue Xuan, and his father, Xue Mi, was the grandson of Xue Pu, Xue Xuan's eldest son. His mother, Mrs. Gao's mother gave birth to two sons and one daughter, the eldest son Gongchen and the second son Gongdou. Gao Gongchen's wife is also from the Pingyuan Xue clan, and his father is Xue Bi. Xue's "Weide's journey is characterized by his good manners, filial piety and self-restraint, gentleness and thrift, diligence and integrity". In the eleventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the emperor's imperial stele named him Ruren, and in the seventeenth year of Wanli's imperial stele, the emperor further named him Yiren.

In 2007, Pingyuan villagers discovered a stone tablet in the shallow soil next to the south slope of the village. The upper part of the stele contains the words: "□□Zheng Shu Yin Hu Gong Second Department Member Wai Lang Nephew Gao Gongchen's Inscription". This monument was erected in the 23rd year of Wanli (1595) by the fifth grandson Xue Cang and the sixth grandson Xue Wei of Xue Xuan's second son Xue Chun for their great-grandfather Xue Chun. Gao Gongchen wrote the inscription for this. The famous Xue family in the Ming Dynasty had a deep connection with the Gao family in Nanyang Village.

More than two miles north of Tonghua Village, the hometown of Wang Tong, a great Confucian of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there is Wang Tong's tomb. There is a monument in front of the tomb. In the middle, it reads: "Tomb of Sui Confucian Wang Wenzhongzi", and on the right side: Fengzheng Dafu Gongbu Gao Gongchen, a member of the Qing Dynasty Department of Dushui, wrote in the Han Dynasty that "Yan Ziqiang was born in Yixiang on the auspicious day of the eleventh month of the 21st year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty".

This is another physical evidence recording the traces of Gao Gongchen's life activities.

The original Gaogongchen Cemetery is located in the west of Nanyang Village. It is adjacent to the Fangye Temple to the east, the Tian Temple to the west and the ditch. It is adjacent to the village road to the south and Tushan (mound) to the north. It is commonly known as The "Shima Tomb" has dozens of tombs and covers an area of ??about 4 to 5 acres. There is a tomb passage leading to the mausoleum from the village road. There are stone horse and stone sheep statues beside the road. At the end of the tomb passage, a large stele is erected in front of a large tomb in the middle. There is a stone hat engraved with the word "Huang Ming" and a giant tortoise underneath. This monument was destroyed during the "Cultural Revolution" in the 1960s. Most of the stone animal statues in the mausoleum were stolen. Some of the stone monuments were used in the construction of the Taizhao ditch in the 1970s. Most of them were scattered among the people, damaged, lost, or used for other purposes. After careful organization and collection by the village committee, it was found that Emperor Wanli of the Ming Dynasty awarded Gao Gongchen's wife Xue's family "ruren" and "Yiren" to the "Fengtian Chengyun" tablet. There is a monument with the square epitaph "Ruren" and another epitaph similar in size and style to Xue's epitaph. The body of the monument is well preserved. Unfortunately, all the words on it have been artificially destroyed and cannot be identified. They have completely lost their value as cultural relics. It can be inferred that it is of high The epitaph of Gongchen himself or his father Gao Ruli. In addition, a huge stone cap body was discovered with the word "Huang Ming" engraved on it. There were drilled holes in the four corners and iron gong silk caps. It was preserved after digging deep trenches in the 1970s to use it as a machine base. From the outside, it looks like The two larger "Fengtian Chengyayun" stele discovered should be the main stele in the "Shima Tomb" that was destroyed in the turmoil, that is, the cap body of the merit stele given by the emperor after Gao Gongchen's death.

There is the Gao family's "Langfang" ancestral hall in the middle lane of Nanyang Village. The original ancestral hall covers an area of ??about one acre and has one south gate building, three east and west wing rooms, three north halls, and a central hall. There are shrines. The plaque on the gate tower is engraved with three traditional Chinese characters of "Repay the Origin", and the idiom has the phrase "Repay the Origin and Return to the Beginning", which is the root of repayment and the meaning of not forgetting what you have done. The shrines and family trees enshrined in the temple were destroyed. It is said that this ancestral hall was built in the Ming Dynasty and should be the Gao Gongchen family ancestral hall.