Author: Yang Shunchang

According to old people's memories, there was once a noble man named Zhang Bodan in jingshan county New Town, who was the county magistrate of jingshan county's anti-Japanese democratic government. He is one of the eight leaders in the county, and is called "the founder of Bodhisattva" and "alcoholic".

Zhang Bodan (1884—1950), a native of this county, was a scholar in the late Qing Dynasty. His wife Guo (person).

At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, Zhang Bodan worked in Anlufu and Hunan successively, and both of them immediately returned to their hometown because of family changes. Before War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, he served as county inspector, director of persuasion and director of education. During the period of 1938, when Hegu held a cooperation training class in Yingcheng Tang Chi, he was introduced by his disciples and visited their home. Tao and Gu invited them to cooperate, but gave up teaching and agreed. 1940 In September, jingshan county Administrative Committee was established, and Zhang Dang was elected as its chairman. The following year, jingshan county Anti-Japanese Democratic Government was established as the county magistrate. Prior to this, he properly organized the restoration and reconstruction of the bombed county town and the work of appeasing refugees. 1942 resigned and settled in the county. During his retirement, he participated in rescuing anti-Japanese cadres arrested by the Production Party for many times with his prestige and social relations, regardless of life and death.

Zhang Bodan is tall, kind and generous, and is called "the founder of Bodhisattva". Because he is a heavy drinker, his friends call him an alcoholic.

194 1 In the spring of, local puppet police chief Chen hosted a banquet in honor of Japanese and puppet officers. At the invitation of the police chief, Zhang Bodan sat at the same table with him. The arrogant and contemptuous expression of the Japanese and puppet officers made Zhang Bodan look at it and hate it in his heart. His face is calm and his illness is like hatred. When wine was in vogue, Japanese puppet officers learned that Zhang Xianling was brilliant and had a large capacity for drinking, so they asked Zhang Bodan to write poems and drink. Zhang county magistrate a listen to delicious, a brainwave, today have to teach a lesson, handy, with Tang poetry "dare to state dialect" irony about the Japanese and puppet officers:

Wine luminous glass,

If you want to drink the harp, hurry up at once.

Don't laugh when you are drunk on the beach.

How many people fought in ancient times?

Hearing this, the Japanese and puppet officers thought for a moment and suddenly felt something was wrong. They looked angrily and were speechless. Zhang Bodan didn't agree, and felt that he still didn't feel wronged. He pretended to be crazy by drinking, and knocked the Japanese puppet on the head with a cane, which was relieved by the people at the same table.

Zhang Bodan was fearless of power, courageous and resolute, and the incident of ridiculing Japanese puppet officers with poems quickly spread throughout Jingshan Chengguan. People applauded him for his extraordinary capacity for drinking, courage and talent.