Wang Shangchen

Wang Shangchen

Wang Shangchen (1826-1902), born in Hefei, Anhui Province, was named Boyuan, Beiyuan and qianzhai.

Later generations often call him Wang qianzhai, another name is Wufeng, Muji old man and Yiyuan old man.

Wang qianzhai was a Gongsheng in Tongzhi period. He was an official in the Imperial Academy. He is the author of qianzhai poetry anthology, a thousand poems and a volume of Yiyuan poetry. He was one of the leading poets in Hefei in the late Qing Dynasty.

brief account of the author's life

Wang Shangchen, born in Hefei, Anhui Province, is a member of the Imperial Academy. Tang Yifen sighed as a genius. It is as famous as Xu Ziling, and has the aim of "three monsters" with Xu Ziling and Zhu Jingzhao. According to Wan Shi Yu Xie, there are three strange things in Luzhou: Xu Ziling is eccentric, Zhu Jingzhao is aloof, and Wang qianzhai is dissolute. In 1861, he went to Mengcheng to say that he had descended Miao Peilin. After 50, he left Gongqing behind and ranked fifth, which was called "five madness". The ups and downs of Qi, one in poetry, take the law of Du Fu, and zongwang, Meng, Su, Lu. Sun Jiagu wrote about his collection: "you can be a hero if you have vertical and horizontal Qi, and you can be a roaring song with the sound of pain." Tan Xian selected his poems with Xu Ziling (Yifu) and Dai Jialin (Zirui) as "Hefei Sanjia Shichao". His works include Qian Zhai poetry anthology and Yi Yuan poetry. His life story can be found in volume 16O of collection of poems of late Qing Dynasty, diary of Fu Tang by Tan Xian and sequel of Xueqiao poetry by Yang Zhongxi.

Four anecdotes of hometown

Wang qianzhai's filial piety

Wang qianzhai was an old friend of General Liu Mingchuan (nicknamed Liu Liuma, now Feixi). When Liu died of illness, Wang bought incense paper and went to Liu's house to pay homage to him. He wrote an elegy couplet: "Liu Liuma is eternal; Wang Wufeng Baibai." Although Liu's children and grandchildren were not happy with the couplet, they were awed by Wang's elders, his father's best friends and famous scholars in Luzhou.

Eating fried dough sticks on the verge of death

Wang qianzhai's Xuxian Niu family is much younger than his age. Before Wang qianzhai's death, she was Xu Niangniang's elder, and her charm still existed. In this way, Wang qianzhai could not put down his heart to "go on the road", and he wanted to say it again and again several times. Niu also exquisite, tears said: "you have something to say, you - you are not assured of me, uncle I can not keep. Don't worry. I was born in the Wang family and died in the Wang family. " Wang qianzhai nodded slightly and said, "I want to eat hot fried dough sticks." "OK, I'll do it." "You make it yourself, and you fry it by my bed." "Good." Niu thought that he had never made fried dough sticks before, so he went to Jishang restaurant and invited a master to come. The master sat in front of Wang qianzhai's bed and watched the fried dough sticks in the oil pan. After fried, Niu took one and handed it to Wang qianzhai. Wang qianzhai took the fried dough sticks and asked Niu to give him the cup. He took a mouthful of fried dough sticks and drank a mouthful of tea. Several times, he put his hand to the oil pot and said, "master, thank you. OK, you're busy. Go back!" the master said, "not busy, not busy." Still sitting still. Wang qianzhai ate half of the fried dough sticks, put down his chopsticks, waved and said, "OK. Take away the pot, too! "The master picked up the oil pot and left. Niu felt strange and said, "if you want to eat hot food, ask the master to fry it." Wang qianzhai sighed, "no! I - where do I eat fried dough sticks? I want to pour the tea into the boiling oil pan, splash the boiling oil and destroy your face. Who knows the master is sitting still. I can't do evil if it's not my will Niu said with tears: "you are not at ease, I use scissors to destroy my face in front of you." Wang qianzhai said, "no, No. It's because I've been confused for a while, and I've never done anything wrong in my life. That's why I'll leave a name on my deathbed. " Niu couldn't speak with a lump in his throat. That night, Wang qianzhai died.

Glutinous rice of that year

When the Taiping Army rose, Wang qianzhai was not very good at Taiping army, and he was disgusted with it. In the Qing army general back and forth, as a guest, lobbyist. In the spring of this year, when he came back to his hometown and was planting rice, he said to his uncle Wang, "uncle, you don't want to plant rice this year, but all glutinous rice." On hearing this, boss Wang thought to himself, the three-year-old child also knows that it's not cost-effective to harvest more rice and less glutinous rice. Besides, how to eat all kinds of glutinous rice? He was puzzled. Wang qianzhai also said to his neighbors, "this year, we should plant glutinous rice instead of advanced rice." The villagers thought they had never heard of it. However, Wang qianzhai had been to the provincial docks and the capital. He was knowledgeable and knowledgeable. He gave advice and did things. He never asked the villagers to be fooled, so he relied on him. Every family grows pure glutinous rice. When Wang saw it, his heart began to move. He gritted his teeth and planted an acre of glutinous rice. The summer of this year was extremely hot, and all the animals were restless. Good for rice. In Jianghuai dialect, "Guaqi" is actually derived from "Tingkuo", but it does not only mean that the plants are flat, but also mean that they are growing well. With ten days to go before the harvest, Wang qianzhai sent a message, "you can cut it. Hurry up. After seeing the letter, boss Wang shook his head like a rattle: "nonsense! How can there be a "boy" who cuts green ahead of time? "So he grabs the ground bar and ignores his nine points. But the villagers discussed it. Wang qianzhai's serious letter is not from Kha people. Besides, he tortured his fellow villagers. If he had any face, he would be drowned by their spit. Then he began to reap the glutinous rice. Only boss Wang was not cut. Before long, when the summer came and autumn came, the Taiping army sent people down to buy green glutinous rice and glutinous rice grass at a high price. People in the village happily sold the green glutinous rice and glutinous rice grass to the Taiping Army and brought back the white money in their pockets.

Two Jin noodles and two cakes

After Zhou Sheng returned to his hometown, he learned that monk Tongyuan (commonly known as yuan Hongmo) begged for alms and wanted to rebuild the temple, which was destroyed by the war, so he mobilized the generals of the Huai army to support him. More than 100 palaces of Xilu temple were rebuilt and displaced. Hongmo moved to Mingjiao temple in Hefei and rebuilt dozens of temples as the lower courtyard of Xilu temple. In the two temples, there were many scattered soldiers of the Taiping army. In 1883 (the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu), Hongmo went to the north and bought a copy of the complete Sutra of the Dragon collection from the capital. It was sent back to the West Lu Temple in Zipeng, where he built the Sutra collection building and held the missionary ceremony of the two temples. This was a grand event in the Buddhist world at that time, so yuan Hongmo was honored as the "ancestor of Zhongxing". Among them, Wang qianzhai ignored taboos and advocated the achievements of master Tongyuan. He wrote the couplet "to monk Tongyuan": "Mituo, the monk of Tongyuan, is a monk, who is compassionate. He goes straight from the sword tree and sword forest to the rain of flowers." at the beginning, he is more successful than others. He laughs at his separatist rule and goes through the dust and calamities, and replants Songyin. "Replanting pine shade" in the couplet sentence refers to the small pine forest on the crossbow. Wang qianzhai praised master Tongyuan for being a hero of the Buddhist forest. He once crossed the sword tree and sword forest in the war, but now he has come to the Mingjiao temple to replant pine shade and practice to help the people. In his signature, Wang qianzhai also boldly stated what monk Tongyuan had done in the Taiping Army: "when he was young, monk Tongyuan had been wandering among the soldiers, and had set zhuoxi Zipeng Mountain in disorder. Now he opened a Taoist temple in Luotai Mingjiao temple and wrote a sentence to give it to him." From this point of view, although Wang qianzhai had the official title of Qing Dynasty, he was indifferent to politics and boldly praised yuan Hongmo's character and experience. By the way, Weng Tonghe, a teacher of Tongzhi and Guangxu emperors, also came to Hefei to write a couplet and present it to Zen master Tongyuan. His "gift to Zen master Tongyuan" is like this: all the things above are quiet, and all the things in his heart are empty. ji is the chant of Buddhist scriptures, which refers to Buddhist scriptures and Buddhist principles. the above congratulatory couplets are kept in the Ming Temple. You don't have to be polite to a confidant, but you have to have a good friend. Liu Mingchuan, Wang qianzhai's "old leader" in the army, is the same kind of person in thought as Wang qianzhai, who has experienced life experience and understood the origin of Buddhism. Liu Mingchuan once wrote a couplet: "ten years of Hedong, ten years of Hexi, in front of the color are illusory;" one time up, one time down, outside the fame is always empty. ". Liu Mingchuan's open mindedness lies in his clear understanding of life. He once wrote a couplet to his friends as follows: if you have the ability to do something, you can do something without it; if you don't have the ability to save something, you can save something. How interesting this couplet is! Yes, people have a lot of things because they have the ability. They are envied by others, which leads to the displeasure of Shangfeng. Therefore, they are pushed out to sit on the bench and become incompetent. Those who have no ability save things, save things, that is, they have the ability. Wang qianzhai knew Liu Mingchuan was open-minded, but if Liu Mingchuan didn't have Wang wulunatic's laugh and scold, he would feel vulgar and less fun. Liu Mingchuan's humor is anecdotal. When Li Hongzhang was celebrating his 60th birthday, Liu Mingchuan, who was idle at home at that time, only carried a basket of birthday noodles and cakes to Li's house to celebrate his birthday in accordance with the local customs of Hefei. A poem was attached to the Birthday Ceremony: "all the people at that time are good, and all the chickens, fish, meat and ducks are good.". Save three feelings too thin, two Jin noodles, two cakes. In Hefei Dialect of Anhui Province, "Hao he Bao" means to please, and "Sheng San" is the word of Liu Mingchuan. When it was Liu Mingchuan's turn to celebrate his 60th birthday, Wang qianzhai also came to send couplets to celebrate his 60th birthday: he started his career by beating up two ghosts of Wu, and once recorded the Golden Bridge burning as a ceremony; he opposed Weng Dahu, so he violated Dan's edict and entered the mountain forest. Wang qianzhai's couplet exposes Liu Mingchuan's "old foundation", because it describes that Liu Mingchuan killed Wu Er, the local bully, when he was young, and later burned the pawnshop of the local bully in Jinqiao township. When Liu Mingchuan got the white plate of Guo Jizi, he didn't buy Weng Tonghe's account to hand it over to the imperial court, so he repeatedly violated the Danzhao (Danzhao: imperial edict), As a result, he was sent to his hometown by the imperial court. Liu Mingchuan

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