Ling Mengchu

Ling Mengchu

Ling Mengchu (June 18-1644, 1580) was also named Lingbo. His name was Xuanfang, and his name was chucheng. He was also named Lingbo. He was also called the master of Kongguan. Because of the 19th place in the family, people at that time also called it "Ling 19". Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now shengshe, Zhili Town, Wuxing District, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Ming Dynasty writers, novelists and overprint publishers.

Ling Mengchu was an 18-year-old bunting student. After that, he failed in the exam many times. Chongzhenzhong, as a deputy tribute to the county magistrate of Shanghai, and the Department of coastal defense affairs. During his term of office, there was a lot of political voice in cleaning up the long-standing abuses of salt farms. Chongzhen 15 years (1642), promoted Xuzhou Tongtan. In 1644, he was besieged in Fangcun by the peasant uprising army, led the people to resist and died of vomiting blood.

His works, such as the first and second stories, together with Yu Shi Ming Yan, Jing Shi Tong Yan and Xing Shi Heng Yan by Feng Meng long, are the representatives of Chinese classical short stories.

(source: Jiaqing Yichou magazine, the lineage of the Ling family, the first portrait of Ling Gong in Xuzhou in Ming Dynasty)

Life of the characters

Early experience

Ling Mengchu was born in dongshengshepu, Wucheng County, Huzhou Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Zhili Town, Huzhou City, Zhejiang Province). Grandfather Ling Yue Yan, Jiajing gengzi Ju Ren, official to the Nanjing Ministry of justice member wailang. Father Ling dizhi, Jiajing Bingchen Jinshi, 52 years old. His mother, Bao, is dead. His mother, Jiang, was 21 years old.

In 1581, Ling Mengchu was two years old. This year, Dijun was born.

In 1591, Ling Mengchu was 12 years old. Admission.

Reading and making friends

In the 25th year of Wanli (1597), Ling Mengchu was 18 years old. Make up for the meal.

In the 28th year of Wanli (1600), Ling Meng was 11 years old. His father, Ling dizhi, died on the fifth day of December, 1992. Zhu Guozhen, a Jinshi from the same county, came to express his condolence.

In the 30th year of Wanli (1602), Ling Meng was 13 years old. He married Feng Mengzhen, a Jiaxing scholar living in Hangzhou, and betrothed his daughter to Feng Yansheng, Feng Mengzhen's grandson. On the eighth day of November, Feng Mengzhen came to shengshe to hire him. Ling Mengchu invited Wu Mengmin, a poet in cloth clothes and one of the four sons of Tiaoxi, to accompany him. He also invited LV Sanban to play xiangnanji. According to Feng Mengzhen's Diary of kuaixuetang: "it's sunny on the eighth day of November. Travel 30 Li in the morning to shengshe It's entering Hong Kong and coming to Lingshi. Ling's Taixue came to the beginning and Yingchu went out to welcome Yu Yu in the boat. When he arrived, he came to the door in his lucky clothes. The host and brother welcomed him outside. His name was Mengchu, and his name was Xuanfang. His name was xunchu, and his name was xuanjing. Ascend the hall to accept Zhi and express thanks. The host invited Wu Yunzhao to accompany him. The master's mother's family, after Jiang Shangshu, is yunzhaonei's niece. There is a front banquet on the day. When the front banquet comes to an end, he worships the second grand master and lives with the son of the second spring (called Ling Shuzhi). He worships the second king xuanjing and the master accompanies him. When the front banquet comes to an end, it's already dusk. Lu Sanban plays in the story of sachets. If the banquet is scattered, it will be half night. "

In 1603, Lingmeng was 14 years old. On the 25th of the first month, Feng Mengzhen went to Deqing mountain to worship and sweep. After hearing the news, Ling Mengchu, song Zongxian, Zhang ranjun and others came to visit Huzhou and had a drink until the second watch. The next day, they visited Jingshan in Huzhou and met the master of Shouan. In February, Ling Mengchu visited Suzhou with Feng Mengzhen, master Fuyuan and song Zongxian. They joined the boat and wrote poems. Feng Mengzhen's "kuaixuetang collection volume 64" has a poem that "when the boat crossed Pingwang and met song Zongxian, Ling Xuanfang and Fuyuan masters, Wu Chang first made an appointment to go to Wujiang on the same boat night and happily wrote this poem.". Feng Mengzhen wrote postscripts for the yuan edition of Jingde Zhuandeng Lu, which Ling Mengchu obtained, and commented on Dongpo Chan Xi Ji and Gu Gu Chan Xi Ji. On the fifth day of August, Ling Mengchu went to Hangzhou to visit Feng Mengzhen. According to Feng Mengzhen's Diary of kuaixuetang, "it's sunny on the fifth day of the eighth day. Master Fuyuan is here When Ling Xuanfang comes, he will not go with Fuyuan. In the same year, Wang visited Huzhou. At the invitation of hanchu, Mengchu and junchu, he went back to lingjiaqiyuan. In his qingtiao collection, Volume II, there is a poem "revisiting and being suitable for the garden, so ling Shijun and Zhizhe". It's the year of my brother Han's first death, forty-five years old.

In the 33rd year of Wanli (1605), Ling Meng was 16 years old. In June of that year, his wife Shen gave birth to his eldest son Chen. On the sixth day of September, his mother, Jiang, died in Nanjing. In October, Ling Mengchu returned to his hometown with a coffin. Hearing the obituary, Feng Mengzhen came to shengshe to express his condolence. According to Feng Mengzhen's "kuaixuetang Ji · Vol.2 18 · Yisi's trip in October", it is said that "after losing his mother Jiang Yiren in Tiaoxi lingxuan house, he confessed that he would return the coffin. When we hear the obituary, we should pay attention to it On the 16th, such as Ling's, Jiang Yiren was mourned in another house. When he stayed in Xuanfang, he saw his daughter as his second grandson. "

In the 34th year of Wanli (1606), Ling Meng was 17 years old. Liu Yuening and Liu shenqizhi, who were serving as the Imperial College's wine worshippers at that time, showed Ling Mengchu's words to Geng Dingli, who was the right servant of the military department at that time. Geng Dingli said, "this is my new year's family (because Geng Dingli's elder brother Geng Zhixiang and Ling Mengchu's father Ling dizhi were promoted to the Imperial College in the 35th year of Jiajing, so they are called Ling Mengchu's" New Year's family "). Don't you know that my late brother once praised him as a scholar in the world? " As soon as this saying came out, "at that time, there was no one who did not know Ling 19.". In that year, he made an appointment with Zhu Guozhen, the father of Guozijian in Nanjing. My cousin Wu Yunzhao came to Ling Mengchu's residence in Nanjing. They had a long talk and enjoyed books. Ling Mengchu asked Wu Yunzhao to write a preface for his opera. In the same year, Ling Mengchu's first academic work, Hou Han Shu Zuan, was published by Zhou family in Nanjing, and his father Wang chendeng was specially invited to write a preface, which was highly praised by Wang. From this year, Ling Mengchu lived in Nanjing for a long time.

In the 36th year of Wanli (1608), Ling Meng was 19 years old. About one year later, Ling Mengchu sent his five dramas to Tang Xianzu, a dramatist. In his reply, Tang Xianzu praised them: "it's easy to hide, but it's hard to understand. As for talent, Lu Li is a brilliant man. He sighs at a time when he is old-fashioned. He is ridiculous and sad. He is a regular master. " (Tang Xianzu's answer to Ling chucheng)

In the 37th year of Wanli (1609), Ling Meng was ten years old. From March to July, Ling Mengchu received yuan Zhongdao who came to visit him at his residence in Nanjing Pearl bridge. Yuan Zhongdao's "You Ju Shi Lu · Volume 3" records: "the Pearl bridge met with Ling chucheng in Huzhou, and Liu Songnian's painting was hung between the walls. They played chess and made a meditation, sighing that the work of the characters was like this. In modern times, after wenhengshan, the characters are not considerable. In autumn and winter, Ling Mengchu, Zhu Wuxia, Zhong Xing, Lin gudu, Han shanggui, pan Zhiheng and others formed a Poetry Association along the Qinhuai River. According to pan Zhiheng's biography of Zhu wuxianzhuan: "in the autumn and winter of Jiyou, all the five people who joined the chanting club with Taiyu collected all the celebrities in the world, such as Han of Guangdong, Zhong of Chu, Jiang Ruo of Wu, Chen Ruoyu of Wu, Wu Ruoling of Yue, and Erlin of Fujian."

In 1616, Lingmeng was 17 years old. In December, my wife Zhuo gave birth to her second son Bao.

In 1619, lingmengchu was 40 years old. Zhuo's third son was born in August.

In the first year of Tianqi (1621), Ling Mengchu was 42 years old. In the same year, Ling Mengchu engraved Dongpo Chan Xi Ji Ji and valley Chan Xi Ji with a set of engravings, and asked Chen Jiru to write a preface to Dongpo Chan Xi Ji.

In 1622, Ling Meng was 13 years old. In the autumn of that year, Ling Mengchu's academic work "Shi Ni" was published with an article "a study of the characters in the book of songs" attached to it. This book was edited by Ling Ruisen and others, and Ling Mengchu wrote his own preface.

In 1623, Ling Mengchu was 44 years old. In April, Zhu Guozhen went to Beijing to attend the election. When Zhu Guozhen was a minister of rites and a Bachelor of Dongge, he also left his hometown for Beijing. Because he invited Ling Mengchu to join him in the boat, he "visited the economy.". In June, they arrived in Beijing.

In 1624, Ling Mengchu was 45 years old. The capital was flooded. On the double ninth day of the lunar new year, he, together with Mao Wei, Tan Yuanchun, Ge Yilong, Wang Jiayan, Zhou Yongnian, Cheng Daoshou, Zhang Erbao and others, gathered in the house of Hao Yuejuan, a Geisha, to drink and write poems. In volume 5 of Shi Lai Tang Bing Ji by Mao Wei of the Ming Dynasty, there is a poem about this event, which describes the eight rhymes of Zhongxu Fu of Ge Zhenfu, Yu Xianxian, Wang kaimei, Zhou Anqi, Tan Youxia, Cheng Yingzhi, Zhang Baosheng, Shen Dingzhi, Shen Buqing, Ling chucheng and Hao jiyuejuan's residence.

To carve books and compose music

In 1626, Ling Mengchu was 47 years old. His "Qiu ran Weng" and other 13 dramas, "Qiao He Shan Jin Ji" and other three legends, as well as the Nanqu anthology "Nanyin sanlai" were formed about this year.

In 1627, Ling Mengchu was 48 years old. In the autumn of that year, Ling Mengchu failed to take part in the yingtianfu rural examination in Nanjing and began to compile the book "amazing".

In 1628, Ling Mengchu was 49 years old. In October, it was published by Suzhou shangyoutang. In November, my wife Zhuo gave birth to four sons.

In 1629, Ling Mengchu was 50 years old. Shen Tai edited and published two episodes of Shengming zaju, and selected Ling Mengchu's qiuranweng.

In 1630, Ling Meng was 11 years old. His academic work Yan Shi Yi, two disciples of Confucius, was published and collated by Ling Yingchu.

In 1631, Ling Mengchu was 52 years old. Through the relationship between pan Zengdong, a relative who worked in Fujian Province, I invited he Wanhua, the Deputy envoy of Fujian tixue, to write a preface to his academic work "the biography of poetry in the holy gate". In the same year, the book was published, with a volume of Shen Gong Shi Shuo attached.

In 1632, Lingmeng was 13 years old. In October, my wife Zhuo gave birth to five sons. It was in the winter of that year that the second quarter of the story was compiled.

In 1633, Ling Mengchu was 54 years old

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