Liu Yi

Liu Yi

Liu Yi (1796-1878), the word zhanyan. Jiangxi Yongfeng people.

Liu Yi was famous for his articles when he was young. In the 22nd year of Jiaqing, Ding Chou took part in the government and hospital examinations and made up for his doctoral students. Daoguang 15 years (1835) champion (become Jiangxi last champion). He has been a member of the Imperial Academy and a member of the South study. Daoguang seventeen years (1837) with the official title of sanpinjingtang as Shandong Xuezheng, supervisor time "advise class rules". Later, his parents were old and begged to return home. He has been the master of Luzhou academy and Qingyuan Academy for nearly 30 years, and has presided over Bailuzhou Academy for more than 10 years. He adheres to the school running tenet of "inheriting the origin by heart, explaining the past, enriching the learning, encouraging the good students, examining the behavior of the book, and carrying out the cultivation by heart". He died in the fourth year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty at the age of 82. Zeng Zong compiled Jiangxi general annals and Ji'an Fu annals, and wrote cunwu chunzhai Wenchao, Shichao and Chongzheng Zhuxie Lun.

Life of the characters

Liu Yi was eager to learn when he was young. He was famous for his articles. Before the local examination, my father told me: "if you can use it for external use, don't use it lightly." Yi obeyed his father's orders and asked him to change his teaching position and give him the instruction of Yihuang County. Father praised: "this official does not lose the nature of reading." In 1826, Daoguang went to Beijing to take part in the imperial examination. He ranked first and was appointed as a magistrate. In the 11th year of the imperial examination, in the 15th year of Daoguang (1835), he was the first Jinshi in the first grade of the second grade and the first scholar in the second grade. In the 17th year, he was in charge of the South study. In the next year, he took up the post of Xuezheng in Shandong Province. He engraved the regulations of admonishing classes and wrote a volume of the theory of advocating the right and dethroning the evil, in order to rectify education and promote study. At the end of two years, he was called back to Beijing and worked in the South study. Xuanzong inquired about his family affairs, knew that his parents were all there, and authorized his parents to stay in the forbidden Chenghuai garden to serve him, and showed preferential treatment. Twenty one years, because my parents are old and ill, I am not convinced of the soil and water. Please allow me to return to my parents. After returning home, he taught at Bailuzhou and qingyuanshan academies in Ji'an for more than 30 years. In the first year of Xianfeng (1851), the court officials were recommended, and Liu Yi was called to Beijing to listen and use. He was summoned by Emperor Xianfeng for three days in a row, but he still begged for his mother's support. In the winter of five years, Taiping army occupied Yongfeng city. Yi supported his mother to stay away from Le'an and Jishui, and helped to run local youth league training. In the eighth year, he was appointed as the training Minister of Jiangxi regiment, training the villagers and resisting the Taiping army.

During the Opium War, he advocated the prohibition of opium, citing the harm of Opium: "if the government sucks opium, it will be abandoned; if the army sucks opium, it will be abandoned.". The rich lose their families and the poor lose their lives. " As for the governance of the country, we should attach importance to the cultivation of vitality. "We should care about obtaining talents and solidifying the people's will. If there are no officials who have no words and interests, the virtuous will advance; if there are no corrupt officials, they will ask Yan an. The recovery of vitality must be due to this. " He also put forward the strategy of defending the British army, and advocated that the British ships invading the Yangtze River should be "firmly guarded along the river", consume their food and ammunition, cut off their way back, and then gather to annihilate them. After the defeat of the war, Liu Yi wrote to Qi Junzao, the Minister of the Ministry of accounts, opposing compensation for tobacco prices and war expenses. The key to governing a country is to acquire talents and strengthen the people's will. During the Tongzhi period, Liu Kun, the governor of Jiangxi Province, compiled the general records of Jiangxi Province and the Liu's genealogy of Hakka (he compiled the genealogy according to the holy decree, and he brought the genealogy to the court together, so the Liu's genealogy of Hakka was sent to the court of Qing Dynasty). Yongfeng county annals and Ji'an Prefecture annals were compiled one after another, and Yi was appointed as the chief editor. In his preface to the eighties, he said: "I have never had a strange encounter in my life, and I have never had a leisure in my life."

To give lectures with students, we should not be extreme or empty. On the one hand, we should examine the essence of behavior rather than discuss the merits and demerits of literature and art. He never writes at will. He must write in accordance with the purpose of "making a speech". Ask for the truth and the truth. It advocates "no imitation, no craftsmanship.". Naturally, if you can't help it. Although the word is shallow and the purpose is close, it is often true. " Poetry advocates that "poetry does not have to conform to the Tang and Song Dynasties, but it is true." Both the text and the poem emphasize the word "truth". He is good at calligraphy. When he was lecturing on Bailuzhou academy, he wrote the couplet "egrets fly and vibrate, not up and down with the waves; the ground is lively and splashy, and there is no division of water between the East and the west", which was engraved on the stone pillars in front of the Academy. The inscription "huiqingyuantai" embedded in the bell and Drum Tower is also his handwriting, which still exists today. He has 12 volumes of "cunwu chunzhai Wenchao" and 13 volumes of "cunwu chunzhai Shichao", as well as hundreds of thousands of words of undecided posthumous writings such as commentary on classics and quotations. Yi and Qi Gaizao (1793-1866) were in agreement, and they wrote poems and essays.

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