On this day, 400 years ago, on September 7, 1625 (August 6, 1625 lunar calendar), Wei Zhongxian ordered the destruction of Donglin Academy. Wuxi Donglin Academy was formerly the lecturing office of the Song Dynasty scientist Yang Shi. In the 33rd year of Wanli (1605) of the Ming Dynasty (1605), Lang Zhong Gu Xiancheng, the official of the official department, was dismissed and returned to Wuxi, so he rebuilt Donglin Academy and gave lectures with his comrade Gao Panlong and other gatherings to discuss the imperial government and criticize the eunuch clique, which was called the "Donglin Party". For a time, the scholar-bureaucrats who retreated from the forest and joined the Donglin Party, and those who had the same political views in the temple should also join the Donglin Party. After Gu Xiancheng's death, the trend of lecturing and discussing politics still did not fade. During the apocalypse period of Emperor Xi of the Ming Dynasty, the eunuch Wei Zhongxian was authoritarian and The Donglin party members wrote to inform Wei Zhongxian and the eunuch of the crime, which was regarded as a serious problem by the eunuch party. Wei Zhongxian (1568-1627), formerly known as Li Jinzhong. Eunuch at the end of the Ming Dynasty in China. Bei Zhili Su Ning (now in Hebei). Born in the city of scoundrels, he was forced by gambling debts to castrate himself into the palace as a eunuch, and befriended Wang An, the eunuch in the palace, and was protected by him. Later, he met Zhu Youxiu's nanny, Kushi, the eldest grandson of the emperor, and ate with him. To the eldest grandson of the emperor, he tried his best to flatter and lure him into banquets and tours, which was very pleasing to him. In the first year of Taichang (1620 AD), Zhu Youxiu ascended the throne and was the eunuch of Xi Zong. Wei was promoted to the eunuch of Sili Bingbi. Ming Zong liked the work of cutting paint with knives, saws and axes, "creating it day and night", "every time you create pride, that is, you can forget your meals and drinks, and you can't sleep in the cold and summer". Wei Zhongxian gradually specialized in the government. In 1624, Wei Zhongxian was impeached by Yang Lian, but survived, so he began to persecute and suppress the Donglin Party members on a large scale. On September 7, 1625 (the sixth day of August in the fifth year of the Apocalypse), he took advantage of the Xiong Tingbi incident, and Daxing was unjustly imprisoned and killed the leaders of the Donglin Party. Framed Zuo Guangdou, Yang Lian, Zhou Qiyuan, Zhou Shunchang, Miao Changqi and others of the Donglin Party for the crime of greed, and they In the sixth year of the apocalypse, Wei Zhongxian killed Gao Panlong, Zhou Zongjian, Huang Zunsu, Li Yingsheng and other people. The Donglin Academy was completely demolished and the lectures were suspended. At this point, the Donglin Party was completely eliminated by the emasculation forces, and when Donglin was "connected with each other, the head was executed". Wei Zhongxian was in cahoots with the emperor's wet nurse, Ke's, and was very favored. He was named "Nine Thousand Years Old", and he also raised many "adopted sons" in the folk, such as "Five Tigers", "Five Dogs", "Ten Children", and "Forty Grandchildren". During his heyday, officials from all over the world were flattering and set up shrines for him. After Zhu Youjian, Emperor Chongzhen, ascended the throne in 1627, he was impeached, exiled to Fengyang, and committed suicide in fear of crime on the way.