Li suiqiu

Li suiqiu

Li suiqiu (August 21, 1602 - November 10, 1646) was born in Banqiao Township, Panyu County, Guangzhou (now Banqiao Village, Nancun Town, Panyu District, Guangzhou). At the end of Ming Dynasty, he was a patriotic poet.

In the seventh year of Tianqi (1627), he failed to pass the examination. During the reign of Chongzhen, he was elected as an economic Confucian, but his mother was old and didn't go to work. Emperor Longwu of the Southern Ming Dynasty succeeded to the throne and gave the Ministry of arms the responsibility to lead Guangdong troops to rescue Ganzhou.

In the second year of Longwu (1646), Chengpo died in martyrdom and was awarded to the Minister of the Ministry of war with the posthumous title of Zhongmin. Li suiqiu is good at poetry, painting landscape, known as the "Peony champion", handed down painting "send District QITU North landscape".

Life of the characters

Li suiqiu was born on July 5, 1602, the 30th year of Wanli reign of emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty. In his early years, he studied scriptures and was good at writing poems. He once studied under Chen Zizhuang. In the seventh year of Tianqi (1627), Emperor Xizong of the Ming Dynasty won the imperial examination. After that, he went to Beijing several times to have an examination. He was in harmony with the literati and poets along the way, and gradually became famous.

In the 12th year of Chongzhen (1639), he failed in the examination in Beijing again, so he wandered south of the Yangtze River. When he arrived in Yangzhou in the spring of the next year, Zheng Yuanxun, a well-known poet at that time, organized a huge poetry competition. Four celebrities gathered in the "shadow garden" and made an appointment to collect poems with peony as the title. Qian Qianyi served as the referee. Li chanted ten poems on the spot and won the first place alone. He was promoted as the "number one scholar of peony" by many talented people. He rode around the streets of Yangzhou for three consecutive days To accept the cheers of the scholars and the people.

When he returned to Guangzhou, more than 1000 taxi people from his hometown met him in the suburbs and sent out dozens of boats and boats to sing and dance along the river. The grand occasion became a long-standing story of scholars. Li suiqiu built two small buildings in Haoxian street, one is lianxu Pavilion, and the other is Qingmei Pavilion. He wrote poems, painted, played the piano and practiced calligraphy here every day, and lived the life of a scholar. Later, Li suiqiu devoted himself to revitalizing the southern style of poetry in his hometown, and initiated the reconstruction of the literary group "Nanyuan Poetry Society" with 11 people including Chen Zizhuang. In March of 1644, the Ming Dynasty was overthrown. After that, Zhu Yousong, king of fortune, established the Hongguang Dynasty in Nanjing. After hearing the news, Li invested in the production of five hundred iron blunderbuss and sent them to Nanjing to assist the army, and organized the villagers to prepare to fight against the Qing army.

In May of the first year of Hongguang (1645) of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the Qing army captured Nanjing. In June, Emperor Zhu Yujian of the Tang Dynasty proclaimed himself Emperor of Fujian, that is, Emperor Longwu. Li suiqiu was appointed as the head of the Department of military affairs, and supervised the two Guangshui Lu Yishi to support the Southern Ming army in Ganzhou. Later, because the Navy under his command had been defeated by the Qing army, Li could only lead his infantry to Ganzhou to defend the enemy with various reinforcements. On October 4, 1646, the second year of Longwu (1646), the Qing army broke through the south gate. Li suiqiu led hundreds of righteous soldiers to fight with him in the street. He was killed by three arrows and his younger brother suihong was also killed. He was 45 years old. His death was given to the Minister of the Ministry of war and his posthumous title was Zhongmin.

Character achievement

In his early years, Li suiqiu deliberately studied Wen Zhengming's brush, and later learned from Huang Gongwang and Ni Zan. The painting is bold, old, bright and powerful. Also write flowers, feathers, fish and insects. Chen Li wrote poems for the volume of painting and poetry of Yellow Peony. Ink painting of fish, shrimp, snail and chicken is calm and interesting. Works handed down from generation to generation include the album of "send the district to the north for landscape" in 1641, which is now in the collection of Guangzhou Art Museum. His works include two volumes: the collection of poems and essays of lianxuge and the name of things in Zhouyi.

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