Gu Yingxiang

Gu Yingxiang

Gu Yingxiang (1483-1565) was a disciple, thinker and mathematician of Wang Yangming. His ancestral home is Changzhou (now Wuxian County, Jiangsu Province). His father, Gu Changyue, lives in gujiatan village, Hongqiao, Changxing County.

Life of the characters

In 1505, he was a Jinshi in Hongzhi of Ming Dynasty, and in 1508, he was awarded the promotion official of Raozhou (now Poyang) in Jiangxi Province. At that time, the government belonged to Leping (today's Dexing County). The peasants revolted and the magistrate of Leping was captured. All the officials were helpless. Gu Yingxiang, with an old soldier, rode a horse to the camp of the rebel army. Chen Ming was interested. After Gu Yingxiang's persuasion, the county magistrate was released. Shi Ping, moved to the royal guards, and later served as the governor of Guangdong Province. Another peasant uprising broke out in the border areas of Jiangxi, Guangdong and Fujian. The Ming court sent Wang bo'an (Wang Shouren), Zhongcheng, to lead Gu Yingxiang to suppress the uprising and capture Lei Zhen and Wen huoshao, the leaders of the peasant army. They moved troops to drive out pirates. In the 14th year of Zhengde, he was promoted to Jiangxi Deputy envoy and patrol Nanchang Road. Later, he took part in suppressing the peasant uprising in Hunan and Guangxi. Jiajing six years (1527), moved to Shandong buzhengshi, soon served as the right deputy capital censor of the capital inspection yuan, governor of Yunnan. As the governor of Yunnan Province, he was determined to set up Yongchang prefecture (now Baoshan, Yunnan Province) to ascend over the various health departments, set up Yongchang and other prefectures and counties to teach Confucianism, issued the Wang's convention, declared the shooting ceremony, carried out lenient military duties, and took over 20 cases of good governance, which made everything convenient for the people of Yunnan. When his mother's funeral didn't come back in time, he was dismissed from office and returned. He formed an association with Jiang Yao and Liu Lin in his hometown. He wandered between Zicheng and Xianshan (both in the suburbs of Huzhou City today) and was determined to die. At that time, the imperial court of the Ministry of officials played Chen for several times, transferred Gu Yingxiang to caress Yunnan again, and the people of Yunnan were happy. Before long, he was promoted to the right Minister of the Ministry of war of Nanjing. Before he took office, he was transferred to the Minister of the Ministry of punishment of Nanjing. After two years as an official, he left his post and returned to his hometown. Shi Chenwen's pen (fan Yuanfeng) has a close look at the volume of poems written by Yang Shengan himself. It was written in Gaoyi, Kunming County, on June 4, 1550, the 29th year of Jiajing. It is a cursive paper, 47.5cm in length and 672cm in length. "A volume of old poems is presented to Mr. Ruo Weng Gu of Da Wen Zong for advice. Yang Shen, the waiter, turned his head. On June 4 of the reign of gengxu in Jiajing, it was written by Gao Jianzhuang. Mr. Gu, Ruo Weng in the poem, is governor Gu Yingxiang. Gu Yingxiang, the governor of Yunnan Province, asked for calligraphy, and Yang Zhuangyuan, Sheng'an, wrote twenty-six poems in Bingwu (1546, the 25th year of Jiajing). Yang Zhuangyuan Shen (1488-1559) wrote this volume at the age of 63. He lived at the foot of the west mountain of Dianchi Lake in Kunming. It can be seen that the literati Yang Zhuangyuan and the local official Gu Xunfu's written communication.

Character evaluation

Gu Yingxiang was diligent and eager to learn all his life. He never let go of his books and went through all kinds of things. When he read books, he would "pass on the evidence and understand the essence, and be sure to be in his heart and then be in his mind.". When he was young, he went to school with Mr. Yangming and Mr. Zengcheng. He is fond of collecting books. He has collected thousands of works of the early dynasties, and compiled Gu's bibliography to collect the books collected by his family. Now there is no examination, but it can be found in Li Ze Tang bibliography written by Wang Daoming, a book collector in the late Ming Dynasty. He wrote 1 volume of chuanxiluyi, 1 volume of zhiliangzhishuo and 12 volumes of xiyinlu. He is especially proficient in the nine chapters of Pythagorean theory. He wrote 10 volumes of the classification and interpretation of measuring round sea mirror, which pointed out: "for mathematics, those who know the big can get its meaning, and those who know the small can get its number"; "set it as a number technique to measure it, so you can know the depth of heaven and earth, the appearance of the sun and the moon, and the secret of ghosts and gods." he wrote 4 volumes of measuring complex arithmetic, 1 volume of arc vector arithmetic, and 1 volume of Pythagorean arithmetic The world. There are more than 10 works involving astronomy, law, memorials, poetry, go, local chronicles, etc. Among them, Nanzhao Shi Lue is a historical biography of ethnic minorities written by Ren Shang in Yunnan. "The general catalogue of Sikuquanshu" says: "all the books and histories are different from each other. They are written separately for textual research. It is quite concise. The records of Zheng's life and all the facts are not recorded in the history of the Five Dynasties, the meeting of the Five Dynasties, and the general textual research of the literature, which is also good for the lack of Shi. " In the 38th year of Jiajing (1559), the annals of Changxing County was compiled for his hometown. In the preface, it is said: "to observe the writing of heaven, to observe the suitability of land, and to judge the changes of personnel, we can establish politics; to establish politics and educate people, we can also do this annals." Jiajing forty years, carved into a book. Jiajing 44 years (1565) died of illness, at the age of 83 years old, given burial City Northwest Lingshan.

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