Huang Xieqing

Huang Xieqing

Huang Xieqing (1805-1864), formerly known as Xianqing, was born in Wuyuan town of Haiyan, Zhejiang Province. He was a poet and playwright in the late Qing Dynasty.

Daoguang 15 years (1835) to raise people, after repeated trials, old age began to Yidu county magistrate, transferred to Songzi, not a few deaths. After middle age, he began to devote himself to poetry. Most of his poems are about personal injustice and people's sufferings. His poems are characterized by profundity and boldness. There are "yiqinglou poetry collection" and "yiqinglou seven kinds of songs" (including "imperial flower" and "Taoxi snow") handed down.

Life of the characters

Huang Xieqing was famous for his Yuefu Poems when he was young. However, his official career was bumpy. He failed to take the provincial examination for six times. He was not elected until the 15th year of Daoguang (1835). After that, he failed to take the joint examination for many times. Later, he served as a counsellor in Jiangxi and Anhui. Xianfeng two years (1852) in Beijing when the first record of the museum transcripts, was appointed as Hubei county magistrate. When the Taiping army uprising, the flames of war is burning, Huang Xieqing did not go to office and returned home sick. From then on, he was happy with the landscape, repaired the Zhuoyi garden of Nanmen villa in the county, and changed the Qingyun Pavilion into Yiqing building. Later, he bought the waste site of inkstone garden, planted flowers and bamboos, and called himself "the master of the two gardens". He sang with friends every day and entertained himself with poems. In the 11th year of Xianfeng (1861), the Taiping army conquered Haiyan, and yiqinglou was destroyed in the war. Therefore, they took their home to escape and served as the aide of Zhejiang governor Wang Youling. Before long, Hangzhou was in a hurry again. It went to Hankou via Shanghai and followed Yan Shusen, governor of Hubei Province. In 1862, he was appointed as the examiners of Hubei provincial examination. Later, he acted as the magistrate of Yidu county. The next year, he was appointed as the magistrate of Songzi county. He died in Wuhan in 1864.

Literary achievements

Huang Xieqing is talented and thoughtful. He is good at poetry, CI and Qu, especially CI. In his early years, he learned from Han and Wei dynasties and imitated many of his poems. After middle age, due to political frustration, he wrote many works to express his personal depression and dissatisfaction and to reflect the people's suffering. Especially in the period of the Opium War, the poems such as the woman in Wujiang and the heavy snow on the new day of November expressed deep concern for the fate of the country and the suffering of the people. These poems are simple and fluent in art, and their feelings are beyond words. This period is the most successful period of his poetry. In addition, he also wrote many works about the past and the history, such as Guangling Diao Shi Ge Bu and Huang tiandang's nostalgia for the past. Some small poems, such as "long Shuizhu Zhici" and so on, are also quite fresh and flowing, with their own characteristics. Apart from a few articles about his worries and feelings, most of his ci poems are narrow in subject matter, with the choice of words and the creation of names. In his later years, some rich words, such as [Manjianghong], entitled Shi Tingwu maocai qiyoucao, vividly and truthfully reflected the social reality of "collecting and transferring all kinds of money and paying all kinds of taxes, being exiled but feeling the harmony between heaven and earth", objectively exposed the suffering brought by the feudal rulers to the people, but held an antagonistic attitude towards the Taiping army. The legends written by him are rich in words, especially in Dong Dynasty. He has written 12 volumes of yiqinglou poetry anthology, 4 volumes of yiqinglou poetry sequel, 4 volumes of yiqinglou poetry Yu, more than 220 poems, 24 volumes of Guochao CI Zong sequel, seven kinds of yiqinglou songs, etc.

Representative poems

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Guangling Diaoshi Pavilion

the beacon fire along the river is raging, and the sky is propped up. The small group had already crossed the South Bureau, and the isolated minister still resisted the northern soldiers. in the palace, Yushu is singing and dancing, and boots and swords in the battle will be dead. The plum blossoms shine like snow in Wucheng.

Main works

Huang Xieqing's seven songs of yiqinglou include seven Legends: the emperor's daughter flower, the snow of Taoxi, maolingxian, lingboying, jilingyuan, yuanyangjing and juguanjian. In addition, there are two legends, yutaiqiu and jiangxiaoji. According to the story of the emperor's daughter flower, Princess Kunyu, the daughter of emperor Chongzhen, wanted to become a monk in nunnery after the Qing army occupied Beijing. Zhou Shixian, who had an engagement with the princess, found out the whereabouts of the princess after many visits. The Qing government still married them with the wedding ceremony of the princess. The play was widely sung and spread to Japan. In Taoxi snow, it is written that in the early Qing Dynasty, Geng Jingzhong came down and fell back. He sent Xu Shangchao to Yongkang and Jinhua. Yongkang local officials offered Wu jiangxue, who was chaste at home and good at poetry and painting, in exchange for asking Xu Shangchao to leave the county. Wu jiangxue jumped off the cliff and killed herself. Huang Xieqing did not stick to the stories of Yuan drama and Ming legend, but wrote many historical events and folk stories in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. The lyrics are elegant and vivid, and the style is close to poetry. He made great efforts to pave the way for structure and conflict. He also paid great attention to the melody. He once asked Cha Zhonghao and Yu Xin to compose for him, making his works suitable for stage singing.

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