Li minduo

Li minduo

Li minduo

At the age of 32, he was a member of the imperial examination of Chongzhen and Guiyou, and a deputy of Jiaxu.

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At the age of 32, he was a member of the imperial examination of Chongzhen and Guiyou, and a deputy of Jiaxu. In the late Ming Dynasty, when the government was corrupt and the officialdom was dark, although he was elected vice president, he did not want to muddy the officialdom, cut off the contacts with the bureaucrats, and did not pursue wealth and glory. Instead, he left the city to return to his hometown, lived in Wentang village, Lianjiang, had a simple life, set up a society, taught students, wrote books and poems. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Lianjiang was one of the famous literati.

Main works

Li minduo had a lot of works in his life, and many of them have been lost. He passed on the book of changes, chapter of reminiscence, shanglun Lu, Wentang Ji and so on, among which Wentang Ji was written when he lived in Wentang village.

Appreciative Remarks

His works are widely spread and have far-reaching influence, and are highly praised by later generations. Most of Li minduo's existing works are poems, mostly describing scenery and objects, expressing his passion for landscape and nature, but indifferent to wealth and abhorrence of officialdom corruption. For example, "Wentang village residence" in Wentang collection reflects his feelings: there is no need to find a happy place in the mountains, and the scenery is full of drunken chanting; a flood of Wentang water contains the autumn moon, and it still shines on the heart of the ancients. Li Minze has many poems, which reflect his concern for the country and the people and his respect for patriots. When he was visiting Kaifeng, he read Yue Wumu's Manjianghong on a rainy autumn night. After reading it, he thought about the safety of the country and the warriors guarding the frontier and fighting against foreign aggression. So he could not help but feel excited and full of thoughts. Then he wrote the seven unique songs of saishangqu to express his feelings: Qiusheng went to Bailang mountain first, and fought against the cold; he did not read naiwensheng Timid dream, so teach chivalrous top three Korea. Li minduo wrote poems out of feeling, not for the sake of writing poems. In wentangji, he said that he wrote poems with twists and turns. There are 36 poems and 13 words in Wentang collection. When he lived in Wentang village, he either strolled under the moon, in the woods, by the spring or by the stream, enjoying the scenery and natural scenery, touching the scene and feeling, or meditating and associating, feeling sad. For example, one of his poems, a winter night with crimson lips, says, "when you see the root of heaven at first sight, the moon is dim and bright. May people enjoy it, after the frost has cleared the birds. The angle of the net gives birth to the awn, the tree goes with the wind. A cup of wine in the middle of a year, a plum in the ice and a thin heart! "Depicts the desolate scene of a winter night and expresses his sad mood of drinking alone on a cold night. It's really pathetic to read.

Work style

Li minduo paid great attention to drawing on the merits of hundreds of poets in the past dynasties. Some famous scholars once said that his poems could be compared with "Yuanming, Tianju, Zhuyong" and "Zimei (Dufu), Qiuxing, Zhuzhang". Indeed, like Tao Yuanming's pastoral poems, Li minduo's pastoral poems show his carefree life and mood, enthusiastic praise of ordinary working life, and disgust of officialdom; Li minduo's poems about autumn scenery, like Du Fu's eight poems of autumn prosperity, describe the depressed autumn color, the sad autumn sound, the deep feeling of caring about the fate of the country, the tragic desolation, and the deep artistic conception Hong. "Three golden circles are horizontal, the moon Wutong is cold, upstairs looking at silver and yellow, cold drops sparse stars."

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