Mei Geng

Mei Geng

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Mei Geng (1640-1716), a famous painter and poet in the early Qing Dynasty, was originally named Geng. He was named Ou Chang and Zi Chang, Xueping and xuepingzi, and tingshanweng. Mei Geng's great grandfather was Mei Dingzuo, a dramatist, poet and book collector. His father, Mei Langzhong, was a well-known scholar in the restoration society. He was good at calligraphy, painting, poetry and prose. At that time, he was known as the "three wonders". Unfortunately, he died young at the age of 36.

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Mei Geng (1640-1716) was born in Xuancheng, Anhui Province in Qing Dynasty. Mei Qing followed sun. Kangxi 20 years (1681) Ju Ren, official Taishun County Magistrate. Good seal, Li, painting landscape, flowers, out of the ordinary, not a family, occasionally writing, elegant. He also works as a Sketcher. In the 36th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign (1697), he tried to make a landscape fan, which is now stored in the Palace Museum. His poems include Wu Shiyin, Shanyang dimanxing collection, Yusi Youcao, and he wrote poems on his deathbed.

Character experience

Mei Geng was brought up by his mother. He was "gifted and outstanding" since he was young. He was diligent and knowledgeable in classics and history. He inherited the style of Gao zumei's virtuous lectures and was close to the rhyme of his great grandfather and father's poetry, calligraphy and painting. Mei Qing, a great painter and poet of the same family, and Mei wending, a great scientist and poet, admired him very much. Mei Geng passed the examination in 1681, and went to Beijing the next year. Shi Runzhang, a great poet from the same hometown, read Mei Geng's poems and essays and said that he was "full of Hua Zhenxiu, and the Qing police won alone". He regarded him as a good friend of his youth. He introduced him to meet Zhu YIZUN and Wang Shizhen, the great masters of literature at that time, and was "a scholar of Zhu YIZUN". Originally, Mei Geng had a chance to develop in the capital, but he was again dethroned because of his sex. Mei Geng left the capital and went to Taishun, Zhejiang Province as a county magistrate. He used Confucian classics to govern the local area. He was very beneficial to the government and had a good official voice. But he couldn't change the habit of literati. He was depressed in officialdom and finally resigned five years later.

Mei Geng renovated the calligraphy garden of his ancestors, drank and wrote poems with friends of Xuancheng school poet Shen Mi and great artist Shi Tao, and amused himself by painting and calligraphy. He roamed the mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River and "served as a leader of celebrities for decades.". Most of Mei Geng's poems are "based on events", fresh and bright, and not fake. His early works show his arrogant temperament; his poem "mending boat ballad" written during Taishun's term of office reveals the sufferings of the people brought by the battle of building sea ships by the Qing government; his poems such as "money shortage" and "vegetable shortage" criticize the shortcomings of the times and sympathize with the people's sufferings. Mei Geng's poems have a wide range of themes. In addition to describing the reality, he also wrote many poems about singing and painting. His poems about scenery and lyric are also simple, meaningful and unique. Cao Rong commented that he was "comprehensive in Han, Wei and Tang Dynasties, and galloping to the utmost", while Chen Yunheng said that he was "close to Xie Tiao except for his heroism". He wrote in the deep ditch: "there are few people in the mountain city, and birds are noisy in the autumn field. A beautiful picture appears on the paper. "Leaning on trees, dancing together, the moon comes out of the back of the mountain", "people surround with water, gulls and herons occupy the sand in the garden", "solitary Pavilion receives the color of the wild, and thousands of gullies go to the twilight" Such verses can be seen everywhere in Mei Geng's poetry collection.

work

Mei Geng's footprints are all over the family mountain, and he wrote poems from life. Many of his works depicting the landscape of Xuancheng are unique in both poetry and painting, and have become classics handed down from generation to generation. For example, Jingting folk song, Shanshui, Qiulin bookstore and Shanshui book are collected in the Palace Museum, Shanghai Museum, Tianjin Art Museum and Anhui Museum. He wrote 16 volumes of shudaiyuanji and 50 volumes of Fu Ji (collected before the Tang Dynasty). Most of his paintings and calligraphy were lost, and his deeds were recorded in Guoqing Dynasty painting knowledge, Jiangnan Tongzhi and jingzhiju Shihua. Mei Geng's poetry anthologies include Tianyi Pavilion anthologies, Xueping poetry notes, Tingshan poetry notes, manxing anthologies, Nanya anthologies, Yusi Youcao, zhiwo Lu, etc. At the same time, he is a cadre of "Huangshan painting school" and "Xuancheng poetry school".

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In historical records, Mei Geng was "good at writing eight points, good at painting landscapes and flowers, without style, not belonging to one family, and with elegance". His seal and Li calligraphy is simple and elegant, and his landscape and flowers are thick and light, old and spicy, simple and unrestrained.

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