Li Changqi

Li Changqi

Li Changqi (1376-1452) was a novelist of Ming Dynasty. His name is Zhen, and his name is Changqi and Weiqing. His name is Qiaoan, Baiyishan, Yunhu, and Luling (now Ji'an, Jiangxi). In the second year of Yongle, he was a Jinshi and an official in Guangxi. He was a clean and upright official. He helped the poor and had a good official voice. He is talented and knowledgeable. His poetry anthology includes Yun Bi man draft and Jian Deng Yu Hua, which is imitated by Qu you's Jian Deng Xin Hua.

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1. Background

His father, Li bokui, has a poetic name. In 1404, in the second year of Yongle, Li Changqi was a Jinshi in the Imperial Academy. He once participated in the compilation of Yongle Dadian and promoted to be a guest doctor in the Ministry of rites. Yongle seventeen years (1409) due to negligence was removed, penalty service Fangshan. A year later, he returned to Beijing. In the first year of Hongxi's reign (1425), he moved to Guangxi as an envoy. In the fourth year of Zhengtong's reign (1439), he got sick and became an official. He lived at home for more than 20 years. His "works on the river" says: "idle body is poor everywhere, only a few volumes of poems of the Tang Dynasty." Jingtai died of illness in the second year.

Literary achievements

In the 17th year of Yongle, when he was relegated to Fangshan, Chang Qi imitated Qu you's "Jian Deng Xin Hua" and created "Jian Deng Yu Hua" to express his feelings. Hu Guang, Zeng Zhen, Li Shimian and others all wrote prefaces and postscripts to this book. There are 20 chapters in 4 volumes of Jian Deng Yu Hua (with 1 chapter in the story of resurrection) and the engraved edition of Dong's recitation room. The present edition consists of 22 chapters in 5 volumes (two chapters are added into "the story of resurrection" and "the journey of the most upright prostitute"), which was completed in 1420 (the 18th year of Yongle), with a self narration of Xia, gengzi of Yongle. Most of his books are based on the events in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty. They are mainly about marriage and love stories, and there are many supernatural figures in the nether world. The author expresses his meaning of "good can be done by law, evil can be avoided, justice can be expressed, and customs can be cultivated". On the one hand, it exposes the evils of feudal power, violence and feudal ethics, on the other hand, it praises the free love of young men and women, but at the end, it always adds the name of "righteousness" to the characters. "Tian Zhu meets Xue Tao" and "Jiang Miao Ni Shen" are about people falling in love with ghosts and gods. Others, such as the record of sword dance in Qingcheng, extol the integrity and chivalrous temperament of hermit chivalrous men; the biography of Taishan censor criticizes the darkness of officialdom by discussing the officials in the underworld; and the record of he Siming's visit to Fengdu describes the affairs in the underworld in order to "punish evil and promote good" for the world.

"Jian Deng Yu Hua" is rich in content, plot twists and turns, and artistic. For example, "Lotus screen", "swing meeting" and "Resurrection" were all changed into imitative script by Ling Shao at the end of Ming Dynasty. However, the author shows off his literary talent and inserts many poems into his works, which is too cumbersome. Chang Qi himself also wrote a preface, describing the original reason of the book. The preface of Yu Hua says: "why do you feel depressed when you are not in Chu Mo's hands because you are in trouble, have few days to eat, and are not good at playing games?" He also said, "if the rest of them are bored, they will be punished. If they leave, they will take care of themselves. At the beginning, they will not live in peace. They will do it intentionally, in order to satirize the elegance." Because literature and art were despised by scholars at that time, Changqi was also ridiculed. After his death, he "discussed the sacrifice to the society, and the villagers made it short." Du Mu's "Duke Tan Zhuan" also said: "during the period of Jingtai, Han Duxian, Yong, governor of Jiangxi Province, worshipped the scholars in Luling County, and Chang Qi was not allowed to enter the book of Yu Hua alone, so he was careless in his writing."

Li Changqi has also written 7 volumes of Yunbi manuscripts.

Historical records of Ming Dynasty

Li Changqi, named Zhen, was born in Luling. Yongle two years Jinshi. Choose a good man. In the pre revision of Yongle Dadian, there are many people who doubt things. He was promoted to be a doctor of the Ministry of rites and moved to zuozhu, Guangxi. I'm going to be a banishment officer. Hongxi first year, since the official Henan. Xiao Sheng, the right political envoy, was a shrewd man. He went to the corrupt and the disabled, spared the stagnant and abandoned the government, helped the poor in disaster relief, and made great efforts in politicization for several months. Worried about return, Xuanzong has ordered his servant Wei yuandai. But when the drought in Henan, court officials to Changqi honest and generous, Henan people, please Changqi. He lost his official life, paid for his pension and even died. In the orthodox reform of the Yuan Dynasty, the three things mentioned in the letter can be reported. Four years in office. Home for more than 20 years, screen trace does not enter the government, the old house cut cover wind and rain, Fu wax not full. He died in the second year of Jingtai.

Selected works

Poetry

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From Nanyang

The past days are still hot and autumn, but the return days are cold and frosty.

The country is not the hometown, the character is a foreign land.

Old age comes with age, and there is a long way to go.

AI Chen, as if in love, flutters everywhere.

A talk from the villagers to the night

Description does not know the local accent, pick up the cold lamp to the deep night.

Old by Jun Xiu more said, old bosom easy to touch.

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Elegy of scholars in Song Dynasty

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The river's Lake is full of wine and poetry, and the jade flute is full of bright moon.

He was born on Chengping day of Zhao Dynasty when the Yuan Dynasty was in turmoil.

Jian he does not follow Huang Hu, but only Bai Ou knows.

All go underground, like the public less, far south state heavy I think.

Ci works

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Green willow shoots

All the hibiscus are fallen, and the remaining Gorgon is harvested. The night color is gloomy. Broken with the flow, withered lotus folding handle, autumn full Su dike.

Sand birds live in seclusion. The water level of jipuwai and TIANLIAN is low. The lotus house falls in powder, the wild rice floats in waves, and the West Lake is covered with smoke.

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