Liu Guan

Liu Guan

Liu Guan (from August 18, 1270 to December 7, 1342) was a famous writer, poet, philosopher, educator, calligrapher and painter in Yuan Dynasty. He is erudite and versatile. He is a man of melancholy writing. He is skilled in calligraphy and appreciation of antiquities, calligraphy and painting. He is well versed in classics and history, Bai Shi, numerology, Fangji and Daoism. He was an official in the Imperial Academy and was also edited by the Academy of national history. Together with Yuan Dynasty essayists Yu Ji, Jie Lisi and Huang Zhen, he was known as the "four outstanding scholars".

brief account of the author's life

Liu Guan (1270-1342) was a writer of Yuan Dynasty. According to the legend, he was born in Wushu mountain, Pujiang, Wuzhou (now Lanxi Hengxi, Zhejiang Province). His ancestors lived in Hedong. Liu Zhu, the seventh ancestor of Liuguan in Jianyan, Song Dynasty, first moved to Hangzhou, and then moved to Wushu mountain, Pujiang (now Lanxi Hengxi). He is erudite and versatile. He works in calligraphy, and is good at appreciating ancient objects and paintings. He is well versed in classics, history, Baishi, numerology, Fangji and Daoism. He was a famous writer, poet, philosopher, educator, calligrapher and painter in the Yuan Dynasty. He was one of the "four outstanding scholars" in the Yuan Dynasty. Yu Ji, Jie Lisi, Huang Zhen and Liu Guan were also known as the "four outstanding scholars" in the Yuan Dynasty. According to the records of biography of Huang Jue, the 68th biography of Yuan history, the biography of Guan, the biography of Zi Dao He is as famous as Yu Ji in Linchuan and Jiesi in Yuzhang, and his name is "four outstanding scholars." Yuan Dade 4 years (1300) Chaju for Jiangshan county teaching edict, a few years later promoted to changguozhou Xuezheng. Yanyou 6 years (1319) as assistant professor of Guozi, Xuansheng doctor. There are thousands of scholars who have become officials. Most of them are well-known. Among them, the most famous are Song Lian, Wei Su, Wang Li, Dai Liang and so on. In the first year of TAIDING (1324), he was promoted to doctor Taichang. All the grand ceremonies of the imperial court must be judged from the past and the present, and everyone obeys his fine judgment. In 1326, he was promoted by Jiangxi Confucianism and returned to his hometown for more than ten years. He received apprentices to teach, read and wrote, and was immersed in Neo Confucianism. In the first year of Zhizheng reign (1341), the imperial court made use of it and appointed it as the assistant system of the Imperial Academy and the editor of the Academy of national history. In the second year of Zhizheng reign (1342), he died in Dadu (now Beijing) on November 9. Liu Guanguan was limited to Wupin, and his salary was no more than Qianshi. However, he had a great influence on the literary world at that time. His poems were hard and elegant, meaningful and widely respected. Some people called him "the commander of the literary field and the leader of the scholars". Song Lian, the "founder of the Ming Dynasty", is Liu Guan's most proud student. Song Lian once described Liu Guan's knowledge and his relationship with his teacher as follows: "Liu Guan has learned a lot, learned a lot, and learned a lot, from rites and music, military punishment, yin and Yang, law and calendar, Tian Cheng, local chronicles, philology, ancestral genealogy, and old Buddhist family letters." Although Lian is not sensitive, she is deeply taught by her husband. " Liu Guan's famous anthologies include 10 volumes of "Jin Shi Zhu Bo Yi Wen", "Jin Si Lu Guang Ji" 3 volumes, "Zi Xi" 2 volumes, "Liu Dai Zhi Wen Ji" 20 volumes, "Dai Zhi Ji", "Zi Xi", "Jin Si Lu Guang Ji" and "Jin Shi Zhu Bo Yi Wen".

Poetry and evaluation

Liu Guan's poems are hard and elegant in ancient times and meaningful. The poem "mountain bridge" can be a representative. He himself said: "Poetry into our Jiangxi Society, tuyuan Liangyuan every few spring. "It can be seen that he worships Jiangxi poetry school. In the volume of self titled manuscripts, he said: "He Yong praises danger, but I hate magic. "I'm a little dissatisfied with Jiangxi poetry school. He wrote several poems about the life of the salt people on the seashore, such as "the head of Guizhou Province is a living frown" (i.e., "even the title") and "the whip is bloody and the ground is fishy" (i.e., "the feeling of staying in the book of Changlu"), expressing sympathy for the suffering people. Liu Guan's name is bigger than that of his poems. His prose is vigorous and neat, and he is good at discussing. His details and words are clear, and he is well-known at that time. However, most of his essays are written in the form of tomb inscriptions, school building and bridge building, and few of them express his temperament. There are only a few articles, such as a simple handwritten reply to Linchuan's danger, which are clear and clear in writing, sincere and meaningful. Commenting on the social atmosphere at that time, he said: "compared with decades ago, most scholars have the heart of self-interest, but their ambition has become increasingly inferior and their road has become increasingly distant. "Talking about the literary world at that time, he said:" the superficial decoration is enough to boast about the production of the forest, and to hunt for the capital of the nobility. "These remarks are to the point. Liu Guan also has some inscriptions and postscripts, which are short and natural. Compared with the inscriptions, they are lively and can be regarded as some good essays.

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