Lu Qi

Lu Qi

Lu Qi (1306 ~ 1362), the word Xihan, Kuifeng, Lizhai, Huian after longfengwei (now Quangang District) people. He was also a great poet in the Yuan Dynasty. He was one of the four famous scholars in Minzhong literature at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. He wrote 10 volumes of Kuifeng anthology, 12 volumes of Shiji, and the general catalogue of Siku was handed down to the world. Huian County annals evaluates his poems as "above the thirty masters of Yuan Dynasty".

brief introduction

Lu Qi (1306-1362), the word Xihan, No. Guifeng, Lizhai. A native of Dayin village, Fengwei Town, Quangang District, he was born in 1306. When he was young, he concentrated on reading, and carefully studied the classics, poetry and prose. In 1341, Lu Qi went with his teacher Yu Zixian to Zhejiang Province for a rural examination, but his teacher died on the way. "Qi, regardless of the trial period, and his friend Chen Yanbo broker his funeral. When he got a salary, he regarded his son as a virtuous man and his family as a teacher. In the second year of Zhizheng reign, Lu Qi made outstanding achievements in poetry and classics, and was ranked among the top of Chen Zuren's list. At the beginning, he was appointed to Shi Lang and Taizhou, Zhejiang Province. Because of his father's worry, he didn't take office. Fu Chu, governor of Yanping. In the 12th year of Zhizheng reign, he turned to Yin of Yongchun County. Shi Yongchun was suddenly hit by rainstorms, floods, landslides, loss of countryside and collapse of village houses. More than 3000 people were affected. In order to help the people in the Soviet Union, Lu Qi Shangshu asked to open a warehouse for relief and loan. He saved the famine by giving relief, selling goods and lending money. He also leveled off taxes and duties, reduced the grain tax, exempted the iron furnace tax, and stopped imposing additional taxes on cattle, ramie, silk materials and husband's service. On the other hand, he went to the countryside to persuade the farmers, actively cleared up the accumulated cases, so that the long-standing outstanding cases could be fairly decided, and advised the people not to hurt the farmers with detailed lawsuits. He also renovated the school buildings, increased the number of school fields, hired the highly respected and famous Confucians in the city to be professors, and often traveled to the countryside to inspect the safety of the four places, so that "He Yi had a good understanding of human relations, a good sense of shame, integrity, loyalty and filial piety Lu Yongchun is famous in Fujian and Guangdong. In the fourteenth year of Zhizheng period, there was a severe drought in Quanzhou, and "people eat each other when they can't grow in the soil.". In the name of "Lu Yongchun", most people support the old and carry the young, and eat Yongchun. Lu Qi tried his best to solve the problem, and "told the Ju surname and the Fu Tu (Buddhist temple) to eat it. Those who were childish and abandoned to the Tao were ordered to carry it in a boat". The people applauded, and the Tao did not die of starvation.

historical event

In the 16th year of Zhizheng reign, Lu Qi was transferred to Ningde. Yongchun's father went to xuanweisidu Marshal's residence in Fujian Province to beg for help. Instead, he set up a temple to offer sacrifices. He invited Lin Quansheng, the Hanlin, to write a memorial tablet of Duke Lu, magistrate of Yongchun County, to extol virtue in the suburbs. On the eve of Lu Qi's coming to Ningde, there were rampant bandits in Ningde and the people were in dire straits. As soon as Lu Qi arrived in Ningde, the thieves scattered, and the people hiding in the deep mountains and narrow valleys returned to their hometown one after another to live and work in peace and contentment. In the same year, Xinghua and Quanzhou used military forces, and the commander's office was highly respected by Lu Qi and invited him to discuss military plans. He traveled between the two counties and was very busy. Soon after, because of his merit, he was awarded the title of salt division, a branch of Haikou, and foreign merchants had to obtain his permission before they could trade in the whole province. Due to the correct supply of salt by the class supervisor, it is well-known. At that time, some Tibetan merchants took part in the province with their goods, and threatened the Ministry of household to order the four salt farms in Fujian to be their own cities. Lu Qi thought that the measure was a loss to the state and poisoned the people, and refused to implement it. In the 22nd year of Zhizheng reign, Qi was promoted to the magistrate of Pingyang, Zhejiang Province, on the recommendation of the minister. He died before his appointment. He was buried in guibieshan (kuibi village, Fengwei town), Badu (now Wangchuan town), Hui'an. Lu Qi is highly accomplished in literature.

personal works

His "youdongling Temple" was included in the book of Yuan poetry edited by Zhang Jingxing in Qing Dynasty. "Thirty poets of the Yuan Dynasty are selected, and the public poems are far away, and the artistic conception is extremely high Among them, "the sun is high, the flowers are scattered, the wind is fixed and the bamboo is silent" is a famous sentence of the generation. Lu Qi has two volumes of Guifeng collection.

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