Gu Sixie

Gu Sixie

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Gu Sixie, with the name of Yuanke, is called Yiyuan (a well-off family in Suzhou, where Yiyuan is built), and is also called renjiashan, a native of Changzhou, Jiangsu Province. He was born in the south of the Yangtze River, where poetry is very popular. He is a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty. He wrote Yiyuan poetry collection (six volumes), Yiyuan near grass and so on.

Political achievements and later influence

Gu Sixie was appointed magistrate of Xinhui County in 1707. Under the atmosphere of feudal corruption at that time, he did not go along with others in order to make a big profit in the "fat county". Instead, he was determined to get rid of the malpractice. Before he entered the county, he swore to be a honest and upright official. After taking office, he wrote a couplet in the County Department to express his ambition: "leave a free Xinhui County, and become a sincere Suzhou person.". During his four-year tenure in the new society, he continued to get rid of bad habits and strive to establish a good social atmosphere. In order to prevent the old habits from "relapse" over time, in June of the 48th year of the reign of Emperor Kangxi (1709), he listed 12 previous corrupt "bad rules" of the new society and the bad effects brought about by them, submitted them to the higher authorities, and applied for "permanent prohibition of Leshi" (replacing the "bad rules" listed in the 12 articles) The rules were engraved on two stone tablets, so that the later officials were also constrained by the system to "get rid of hardships" for the local government.

Gu Sixie is well aware of the sufferings of the masses and his feelings for the people of Xinhui. He also took out his savings from his hometown to repay his predecessor's deficit, leaving him a reputation of not greedy for money. He often went deep into the grassroots and the masses, and had the style of "asking about the government, the plans and the needs of the people". He devoted himself to his duty and devoted himself to his life. When he went to Yamen in the countryside in 1710, he fell ill and died in July. Although the coffin was sent back to his hometown in Suzhou by his wife and children, his spirit of diligence, honesty and serving the people will always be popular in Xinhui, and even in Jiangmen City, which is known as "the first hometown of overseas Chinese in China" (commonly known as "two Jiangmen at home and abroad", now the number of citizens and overseas Chinese is basically the same). Xinhui people set up a special portrait and built a temple of marquis Gu for people to worship. Perhaps it was the influence of Wen Tianxiang (the death of Yamen), Gu Sixie and other spirits and celebrities that nurtured Liang Qichao, a great master of politics, ideology, history, literature and education in Xinhui, and created the legendary story of "three academicians of one discipline" (Liang Sicheng, Liang Siyong and Liang Sili, the sons of Liang Qichao), as well as a self-taught historian like Chen Yuan. Gu Sixie, the magistrate of Xinhui County, has become a model for Jiangmen City to carry out the education and study of clean government culture.

Vitalizing culture and education

Gu Zhixian, who doesn't love money, loves talent in particular. As a famous poet in the Qing Dynasty, he attached great importance to the revitalization of culture and education. He often called together local learned people to solicit administrative opinions and talk about poetry. His poems were compiled into the new carving of Yutai. He especially admired Chen Baisha, a famous Confucianist, educator, poet and calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, who was known as "the first person in Lingnan, Chen Baisha in Jiangmen". He specially built a memorial hall of "Yangzhi hall" on the left side of Sanxian temple outside the East Gate (located near the original construction company opposite to today's Gangzhou Square). Chen Xianzhang's ancestral hall in Baisha Township has been declining for a long time, and he renovated it. He also organized the re engraving of six volumes of the complete works of white sand (he Jiuchou's re compilation), corrected and wrote the preface himself. He suspected that Guangdong's engraving was wrong, so he hired excellent craftsmen from the south of the Yangtze River to make engraving, which was printed in 1710. He found that Xinhui's poems and essays had lost a lot and had few collections. So he and his younger brother Gu Sili (named Lu Qiu) collected the poetry manuscripts of Xinhui since Luo MENGZHENG of Yuan Dynasty, edited 1164 poems by 59 people, and revised them into six volumes of Gangzhou manuscripts, which retained the valuable cultural heritage of Xinhui.

personal works

Gu Sixie left a lot of poems and essays, but the most praiseworthy one is his philosophical poem zaxing, which is often quoted: "a horse can adventure, plowing is not as good as an ox. A strong car can carry a load, but a boat is not as good as crossing a river. If you give up the long, you will be short; if you are wise, you will not be able to make a plan. You should be careful not to be too demanding This poem is short, concise and profound. It reveals the dialectical truth that each thing has its own use, each has its own advantages, and each person has his own advantages and disadvantages. Therefore, it is necessary to use according to the material, use the person's advantages, and avoid their disadvantages.

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