Wu Renchen

Wu Renchen

Wu Renchen? He was a writer and book collector in Qing Dynasty. His real name is Wu Zhiyi. He changed his word to Zhiyi, which is a tool. It was named Hongxiang at the beginning, and called Tuoyuan. He was born in pinghaiwei, Xinghua prefecture (now Putian, Fujian Province). He followed his father to Renhe (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province). Kangxi eighteen years (1679) for erudite Hongci branch, granted review. He was the editor of Ming history. He was fond of reading rare books, but his family was poor and had no money to buy books. When the war broke out, all the rich families in the south of the Yangtze River fled. He exchanged money for books and added books every day, so most of the books in Wuzhong belonged to him. The collection is printed with "Zhi Yifu", "Wu Renhe and Wu Renchen seal" and so on. The book of jingtianguan, Yuelu and Qiren was highly valued by Gu Yanwu and was as famous as Wu nongxiang. Wulin is called "Er Wu". Taking the books collected by the family, we searched the affairs of the hegemonic states after the Tang Dynasty as 114 volumes of the spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms. According to the catalogue, there are hundreds of ancient and modern books, such as "CE Fu Yuan GUI" and "Tai Ping Yu Lan". His works include Zhouli Dayi, zihuibu, Chunqiu zhengshuo textual research, Litong, Tuoyuan poetry anthology, and Shanhaijing Guangzhu.

Character evaluation

Gu Yanwu, a thinker in the Qing Dynasty, once said from his heart, "I am not as good as Wu Renchen in the house of erudite and powerful records and numerous books.". Gu Yanwu highly praised Wu Renchen.

Wu Renchen's academic attitude is rigorous and serious, his interest is wide, and he is erudite and versatile. He loves history. He made use of the leisure and rich collection of books in the Imperial Academy and the convenience of his work on the history of Ming Dynasty to further collect a large number of historical materials, especially a large number of historical materials of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and knew the history of the Ten Kingdoms like the palm of his hand. He went on to sort out and study. He carried forward the tradition of private history compilation in our country, and determined to write a history of ten countries after Ouyang Xiu wrote the history of Five Dynasties for later generations. After a period of time of conceiving and determining the principles and styles of writing, he worked hard day and night and finally wrote the historical monograph of the spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms. His achievements have been highly praised, which is called "extensive search, extensive citation, and can be called Yanguan".

Wu Renchen has also written many works, such as the great justice of Zhou rites, Li Tong, the textual research of spring and autumn zhengshuo, the joint notes on the history of the north and the south, the notes on the classics of mountains and seas, the supplement of words and the collection of poems and essays of Tuoyuan. The spring and Autumn Annals of the Ten Kingdoms is a great historical work with 140 volumes. The ten states are min, Wu Yue, Wu, Chu, Nan Han, Qian Shu, Hou Shu, Nan Ping, Nan Tang and Bei Han. The spring and Autumn Annals of the ten states describes the whole process of the founding, development, consolidation and decline of the ten states, with rich content and full and accurate historical data. It takes the historical records as an example, and the whole book is divided into local chronicles, aristocratic families, biographies, economy, culture, religion and other departments. It has high academic value. Wu Renchen made outstanding contributions to the collation and research of the documents and classics of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and had a considerable impact on later generations.

Book collection in troubled times

Wu Renchen? -1689), named Zhiyi, with the word line, No. Tuoyuan. Xinghua Fuping Haiwei (now Putian, Fujian) people. When he was a child, he was intelligent, and he did a lot of reading. According to the local records, "when I was a student, I ranked first in the examination.". He wrote articles that people rushed to circulate. When he grew up, he ran a private school in his hometown and taught the children in his hometown. Although he was not rich, his meager income was used to buy books, and his family had a rich collection of books. Later, he lived in Renhe County, Zhejiang Province, and continued to search for historical materials for research. At the same time, he kept on writing. As a result, he is knowledgeable.

As a historian

After the reign of Emperor Kangxi, the rebellion of "San Francisco" was about to be put down. The so-called situation of "he Hai Yan Qing" had been formed and basically stable. Therefore, the government decided to strengthen the rule of culture and promote the policy of recommendation, so as to attract famous scholars and social sages with prestige and status in the society to reach the political power at all levels. In the 17th year of Kangxi (1678 A.D.), Xuanye decided to be a learned scholar. The central and local governments were ordered to "give their knowledge to each other" and to select erudite scholars.

In the 18th year of Kangxi (1679 AD), Emperor Kangxi collected talents and held the erudite Hongci section. All over the world recommended talents to enter Beijing for examination. In Kangxi's examination, Wu Renchen, as a student, was elected to Beijing to take part in the examination of erudition and Confucianism. He was awarded the Imperial Academy review. At the same time, Kangxi also decided to reopen the Ming History Museum and ordered Hongru to enter the museum to repair the Ming history. Wu Renchen was the editor of Ming history. He was divided into two parts: Lu Li Zhi.

Personal achievement

Wu Renchen studied astronomy and Mathematics for a long time. His achievement in arithmetic is very high. Quan Zuwang, a native of Yinxian County in Ningbo, highly praised him for his "unique skill (arithmetic)" and his "Su people Wang xuanxu, Xuan people Mei Ding and Jiu Ding". He is versatile, good at music and appreciation. One day, he saw a chime clock in the market. After identification, he thought it was "Dalu" clock. People are suspicious. Results after washing, check the money above, it is the "big Lv" bell. People admire him for his profound knowledge.

Wu Renchen was fond of reading and mastering ancient Chinese. Once, he had a drink with a friend. During the dinner, a friend asked, "how do you read the words" Yuan Kai "and" Yi "? Without hesitation, he replied: "Yi" and "Ye" are the same, you can see the "Qin Quan ancient prose"; Yuan Kai and "Xu" are the same, you can see the "Shuo Wen Chang Pian". After listening to this, everyone admired his knowledge of quoting classics.

Chinese PinYin : Wu Ren Chen