Shi Kefa , courtesy names Xianzhi and Daolin, was a government official and calligrapher who lived in the late Ming dynasty. He was born in Xiangfu and claimed ancestry from Daxing County, Shuntian Prefecture . He was mentored by Zuo Guangdou . He served as Grand Secretary in the Ministry of War in Nanjing during the early part of his career. He is best remembered for his defence of Yangzhou from the Qing dynasty, and was killed when Yangzhou fell to Qing forces in April 1645. After his death, the Southern Ming dynasty granted him the posthumous name Zhongjing . Nearly a century later, the Qianlong Emperor of Qing granted Shi Kefa another posthumous name, Zhongzheng His descendants collected his works and compiled them into a book titled Lord Shi Zhongzheng's Collections .
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