Chen Yan
Chen Yan
Chen Yan (1856-august 1937), a famous writer in modern times, is a Marquis of Fujian Province (now Fuzhou City).
Qing Guangxu eight years (1882) Ju Ren. Liu Mingchuan, a former governor of Taiwan. Twenty four years ago, in the capital, he advocated the reform for the ten articles of the reform movement of 1898. After the coup, Zhang Zhidong, governor of Huguang, was invited to Wuchang, where he became the chief editor of the official newspaper Bureau and met Shen Zengzhi. In the past 28 years, he failed in the special economic examination. Later, he was the head of the school and taught in the Capital University. After the death of the Qing Dynasty, he taught and edited Fujian general annals in various universities in the north and the south. Finally, he lived in Suzhou and advocated the founding of the national society with Zhang Binglin and Jin Tianhe. He served as a professor of Wuxi National Studies School.
Character achievement
Chen Yantong's exegesis of classics and history is good at poetry. He is the leader of Fujian poetry school with Zheng Xiaoxu. When he was in Beijing in 1886, he and Zheng Xiaoxu flaunted "Tongguang style". He advocated the theory of "three elements", that is, "Shangyuan Kaiyuan, zhongyuanhe, xiayuanyou". He thinks that these are the three evolution stages of ancient and modern style poetry. The first peak is in the Kaiyuan period of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, the second peak is in the Yuanhe period of emperor Xianzong of Tang Dynasty, and the third peak is in the Yuanyou period of emperor zhezong of Song Dynasty. What inherits the "three elements" is the "Tongguang style" between Tongzhi and Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, that is, the poetic style he advocated. He wrote poems by himself, focusing on learning the twists and turns of Wang Anshi and Yang Wanli's writing style. He was fresh and vigorous, and had different styles from Chen Sanli, Zheng Xiaoxu, Shen Zengzhi, Chen Baochen, etc. All his life, he publicized the achievement of Tongguang style, which had a wide influence on the old poetry circle in modern times.
Main works
In 1915, Li Houji hired Shen Yuqing and Chen Yan to compile Fujian Tongzhi. Chen Yan was related to the Shen family by marriage, and his elder sister Chen Zhongrong was the stepmother of Shen Weiqing, Shen Yuqing's elder brother. After being employed, Shen Yuqing still lives in Shanghai. Chen Yan, deputy general manager, is in charge of everything,
His works include Shi Yi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi. There's a home block. Besides the series, there are 32 volumes of Shi Yi Shi Hua, 6 volumes of sequel, 12 volumes of Liao Shi Ji Shi, 16 volumes of Jin Shi Ji Shi and 24 volumes of Yuan Shi Ji Shi, all of which are printed by the commercial press. There are 5 volumes of "Shi Yi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi Shi. Also selected 24 volumes of modern poetry notes, 4 volumes of the Song poetry extract, all for the commercial press.
Personal experience
Chen Yan has been reading, writing and reciting poems with his grandfather since he was a child. When he was 10 years old, he had read the classics of traditional Chinese culture, such as Shu, Shi, Li and Yi. He can recite "the humanistic novels of the Six Dynasties, such as the two capitals, such as mourning, and all the Fu in Jiangnan", and "it is a poem all the year round, with one lesson every day". He also has a wide range of writings and novels of the Tang, yuan and Ming Dynasties. However, he was not satisfied in the examination room. He failed many times. He was finally elected in 1882, when he was 27 years old. Among those on the list was Lin Shu, a later translator of famous foreign works.
In 1886, he joined the Taiwan Governor Liu Mingchuan's shogunate and joined the army to appease the local aborigines. When he was in Beijing in 1886, he and Zheng Xiaoxu flaunted "Tongguang style" and became the representative of "Tongguang style" Fujian school. His critical works include Shi Yishi Shi Shi Hua. In April 1895, Chen Hongyan sent representatives of the Chinese and Japanese governments to the Sino Japanese War meeting to sign the treaty. Chen Yan drafted and signed a joint petition with Lin Shu and others to the Supreme People's Procuratorate against ceding Liaodong Peninsula, Taiwan and other territories. In the summer of 1897, Chen Yan was recommended as the main writer of Qiushi Bao. During the period of his main work, the contents of Qiushi Bao included editorials, encyclopedias, Chinese and foreign news, Chinese and foreign laws and regulations, translation and anecdotes, translation and introduction of theoretical science, and novel serialization, etc. moreover, each issue had comments on China's current situation, so it became popular with more and more readers. Zhang Zhidong, the governor of Huguang at that time, saw Chen Yan's outstanding ability from Qiushi Bao. In 1898, he invited him to Wuchang to write for him and served as the chief editor of the Bureau of official newspaper.
In the spring of 1898, at the time of the capital examination, the voice of reform was on the rise. Chen Yan wrote a discussion on the reform movement of 1898, which was divided into ten parts, namely, discussing the prime minister, discussing the soldiers, and so on. In the same year, he failed in the special economic examination. After the failure of the reform movement of 1898, the official newspaper stopped running, and Chen Yan organized the business newspaper, focusing on the study of industry. In addition to serializing on banking, on monetary system, commercial economics, commercial geography, history of commercial civilization, commercial Museum, Japanese commercial law and bankruptcy law translated by him and his subordinates, he also serialized the actual situation of European and American commerce, It has made a lot of full and accurate reports on the economic situation of various countries in the world. In 1907, Chen Yan came to Beijing as the head of the Department of education, and also as a liberal arts teacher in the school of Beijing Normal University. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1911, he gave lectures in the universities of the north and the south.
Since December 1912, it has been serially published in the half monthly issue of Yongyan sponsored by Liang Qichao. Hundreds of thousands of words of long articles have been quoted and talked about, which have been highly praised. Later, Shi Yi Shi Hua was published and became popular. "Huang Huang Ju Chu, the voice of education far and at home and abroad, for a time Haojun, ran to its flag." When the news came that he wanted to continue to compile poetry, poets from all over the world "wanted to be proud of his words, so there was no empty day for those who put in poems and begged for titles.". He complacently told his friend: "the collection sent by the poets from home and abroad is almost full of rooms, but on the desk, there are those who have selected good sentences that are not as good as their income Chen Yan's poetry theory makes a systematic summary and development of the above proposition of Tongguang style, which is of great significance. In his poems, Bai Juyi and Yang Wanli expressed their leisure interest, implied the wonderful purpose of swimming in the mountains and rivers, selected words and sentences, which were quite innovative, and became their own family in Tongguang style.
In 1916, the general annals of Fujian was compiled. Five years later, the full draft of the general annals was completed. All the more than 600 volumes, about 10 million words, except the records of salt administration and water conservancy, were compiled by Chen Yan. The general annals, published in 1938, is still the most complete one among provincial annals.
On the new year's eve of 1933, Qian Zhongshu called on him. At that time, he was over seventy years old. Qian was studying in Tsinghua University. It can be said that they are friends who forget their years. When Qian was studying in England, Chen Yan also sent him his own poems, among which there was a poem "blue eyes sing for a long time, and the emperor's comfort has been extravagant". In Qian Zhongshu's early years, he was "good at Yishan and Zhongze, and the style was gorgeous. He was a gifted poet, and all depended on his talents." Chen Yan criticized him: "Tang qingmou can't do it, Huang Zhongze especially can't do it." therefore, he changed his ways and worshipped Yan as a God. In the early 1930s, Chen Yan was still puzzled by Qian Zhongshu's study abroad: "why should we study literature abroad! Isn't our Chinese literature very good? "
In his later years, Chen Yan lived in Suzhou. Together with Zhang Binglin and Jin Tianhe, he advocated the founding of the national society and was a professor of Wuxi National Studies School. In August 1937, Chen Yan died of illness in Fuzhou and was buried in Ximen foreign language pen mountain.
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