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北宋江夏（湖北武昌）人，性情耿直，天資聰慧，過目成誦。三元及第，尚未成婚，權貴張堯佐，欲以女妻之，以豐富妝奩誘之，而京不為所動。不苟同王安石之新法，不為權勢所屈。真為正直不阿之臣，不負父之德蔭也。其父壯年無子，其母勸納妾，為續馮氏香煙起見，乃至京都買妾。問其所由？女泣曰：「吾父負債，賣妾還債。」其父生惻隱心，即遣女歸。不索原金。
返家時，其母問曰：「妾何所在？」乃述前情。其母悅言：「君用心如此，何患無子乎？」數月後，其母有孕，京誕生時，裏人聞天樂鳴空，空中雲：「送狀元至馮家。」乃生京。易雲：「積善之家，必有餘慶；積不善之家，必有餘殃。」
【贊曰】
湖北馮京 志廣神清
過目不忘 鬼敬人欽
權貴不屈 肚大量容
忠君報國 照耀古今
【又說偈曰】
天資聰敏正直臣 不畏權貴治施仁
建功立業恩澤長 福國益民功德深
主持公道解窮困 力行節儉濟苦辛
父作陰騭子忠孝 為善受報樂滿門 |
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Feng Jing was from Jyang-sya (Wu-chang City of Hu Bei Province) during Northern Sung Dynasty. Upright in nature, and endowed with intelligence, he could memorize anything after reading it once. He took first place in three civil examinations, and had not yet married. The powerful and noble Chang Yau-dzwo wished to betroth his own daughter to him, and enticed him with a rich dowry, but Jing was not moved. He did not agree with Prime Minister Wang An-shr's new regulations and would not yield to his domination. He was so straightforward and unbiased an official that he did not fail to live up his father's virtue. In the prime of his life, Jing's father still had no son, so his mother urged him to take a second wife to continue the family line. His father went to the capital to find a mate in the market. When he asked one girl why she was being sold, she wept and said, "I am being sold to get my father out of debt." Jing's father took mercy and sent her home, without demanding his money back.
After he got home, Jing's mother asked, "Where is your second wife?" He told her about what happened. Jing's mother exclaimed delightedly, "With such good intentions, why worry that you will have no son?" After several months, his mother became pregnant. When Jing was born, the neighbors heard heavenly music played in space, and a voice in space said, "The one who will take first place in a future national examination is being sent to the Feng's." And so Jing was born. The
Book of Changes said, "A family that performs many good deeds will have a surplus of luck. A family that does many evil deeds will have an excess of calamities.
A verse in praise says:
Feng Jing of Hu Bei,
Vast in resolve and clear in spirit.
Never forgetting what passed before his eyes,
He was honored and respected by ghosts and humans.
Not yielding to influential figures,
He endured with great tolerance.
Loyal to the Emperor and grateful to the country
He shines in ancient and modern times.
Another verse says:
An honest and upright official of natural intelligence,
Not intimidated by power, he governed with humaneness.
Carrying out work of lasting kindness,
Bringing prosperity to the country and benefit to the citizens, his merit and virtue were profound.
With righteousness, he rescued people from poverty,
And practiced frugality to help the suffering poor.
The father practiced hidden virtue
and the son was loyal and filial.
For his good deeds, he was rewarded with a happy family.
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