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Hu Zongxian (; November 4, 1512 – November 25, 1565), courtesy name Ruzhen (汝貞) and art name Meilin (梅林), was a Chinese general of the Ming dynasty who presided over the government's response to the wokou pirate raids during the reign of the Jiajing Emperor. As supreme commander, he was able to defeat Xu Hai's (徐海) substantial raid in 1556 and capture the pirate lord Wang Zhi the next year through ruses. Despite his accomplishments, Hu Zongxian's reputation had been tarnished by his association with the clique of Yan Song and Zhao Wenhua, traditionally reviled figures in Ming historiography. He was rehabilitated decades after his death and was given the posthumous name Xiangmao (襄懋) by the emperor in 1595. He is a direct ancestor of Hu Jintao, President of the People's Republic of China from 2003 to 2013.〔Liu, Melinda. (2002, May 06). ("The Man in Jiang's Shadow" ). ''Newsweek''.〕 ==Early life and career== Hu Zongxian was born in the year 1512, in the Hu ancestral village of Longchuan (龍川) in Jixi County, part of Huizhou prefecture at the time. At the age of 23, he passed the provincial imperial examination and became a ''juren'' (舉人). This was followed him passing the palace examination in 1538, becoming a ''jinshi'' (進士) and paving the road to officialdom. Hu was first assigned to the be the magistrate of Yidu in Shandong province, where his administration of justice won him the love of the people, who claimed that he brought rains during a drought and magpies to eat the locusts destroying the crops. He raised a thousand volunteer troops from miners out of work and sent them to the northern frontiers under the command of the Shandong grand coordinator Zeng Xian (曾銑). For this Hu Zongxian was earmarked for promotion, but he had to retire due to the death of his mother in May 1542 to observe the years-long period of mourning per Confucian rituals. Two years later, his father also died, and Hu Zongxian stayed at his home village for another three years. In 1547, Hu Zongxian reemerged as the magistrate of Yuyao of Zhejiang province. He was well-loved there as well: he was one of the few local officials to earn the praise of Zhu Wan, the grand coordinator of Zhejiang who held the local gentry in disdain; and in 1548 Hu's likeness was carved into the cliff of Mt. Shenggui (勝歸山) north of the city in his honour. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Hu Zongxian」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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