Yao Mian

Yao Mian

Yao Mian (1216-1262) was born in Lingyuan village of ancient Tiande township (now Xinzhuang Town, Yifeng County, Jiangxi Province). His name was changed to Mian because of taboo. Song Jiading was born in 1216. When he was born, he was once abandoned in the mountains and snow, so he called himself "xuepo" when he was an adult.

Personal experience

According to Xinchang County annals, Yao mian "Shao Yingwu, recites thousands of words every day, and has the ambition to dominate the world in his composition.". He moved to haijue temple in longfengzhou, Fengcheng, and wrote from Le Lei, a famous poet of Jiangxi poetry school. Chunyou 12 years (1252) in the election, the first year of Baoyou (1253) Jinshi and, court on the first point for the champion. He has successively awarded chengshilang, secretary, Zhengzi, xiaoshulang, Jiedu judge, Prince Sheren, Professor of Yijing palace. In the third year of JINGDING (1262), he was granted a general sentence to Chuzhou. He was unable to take office because of illness. He died at the age of 47. He was buried in Zou Jiashan, yankeng, Fengcheng City. His wife, Zou Zhuzhuang, was the eldest daughter of the famous scholar Zou Chungu, who died early. Then Yao Mian took Zou meizhuang, Zou Zhuzhuang's younger sister, as his wife. The two girls are both talented and beautiful.

personal works

Yao Mian was knowledgeable and full of literary talent. He had a deep study of Cheng Zhu Neo Confucianism. He was once praised as "the outstanding person of five salt" by Zhu Shi, the great Bachelor of Qing culture hall. Yao Mian had a lot of articles in his life, including fifty volumes of xuepo anthology, which was later included in Sikuquanshu and yuzhangcongshu, providing precious historical materials for the study of the history of the late Southern Song Dynasty, especially Jiangxi customs.

There are four poems: Bajiao, Baihe, biexihu, bingchendong and lekuisheng. Bingchen only called to Xinzhou of Jingdao to ask for a cup Pavilion. He didn't come to the lake for a long time after his illness. Later, he broke the bridge with his guests.

Character and conduct

Yao Mian is upright and upright. In 1256, the treacherous Prime Minister Ding Daquan appointed his accomplice yuan Fei as the Deputy envoy of Jiujiang system, which caused the river defense crisis. The government and the public were full of complaints. Chen Zong, a student of the Imperial College, wrote a letter to expose and attack him. Ding Daquan and his accomplices attacked and framed him. At that time, Yao Mian was Secretary of the provincial government. His official rank was not high. However, regardless of his personal safety, he came forward to impeach Ding Ding Daquan and Yuan fan, accusing Ding Ding Daquan and others of "neglecting their friends and traitors", and persuading song LiZong to strictly investigate and uphold the national law. The whole government and the public were shocked. However, Yao Mian was also dismissed because of this. In the first year of Kaiqing (1259), Ding Daquan finally stepped down. Wu Qianjin was the prime minister. Yao mianzhao was the school secretary and the professor of jingwangfu of Yijing. When Kublai Khan attacked Ezhou, Jia Sidao, the treacherous minister, joined the Yuan Dynasty to seek peace and pay tribute. Later, he became the right prime minister. So Yao Mian took advantage of the opportunity to talk about Zhouyi with the prince to criticize Jia Sidao, who was deposed by him. When Yao Mian was appointed as an official, he fought with the prime minister twice and was dismissed twice. However, his loyalty was praised by the government and the opposition. Fang FengChen said that he was "honest and upright with extraordinary integrity", while Wen and Weng said that he was "cynical of the world and evil, expelling evil means sycophantic, honest and upright" and "born but not dead".

After Wu Qian's death, Yao Mian put an end to his official career. Since then, he studied behind closed doors and left the precious cultural heritage of xuepo anthology for later generations.

Character evaluation

Yao Mian's poems are elegant in diction, beautiful in rhyme, and full of strong people's character, while his writings are characterized by simple style, sharp diction, and thorough reasoning. Fang FengChen once praised his works as "like the Yangtze River, flowing thousands of miles". He and Hu zhongyun of Gao'an, Liu Yuangao of Xinchang and Huang Mengyuan of Xinchang were called "four heroes of Jinjiang". Yao Mian, Mei Fu of Han Dynasty and Tao Yuanming of Jin Dynasty were called "three sages of Yifeng", and built "three sages Temple" to worship them. Yao Mian had a very high political opinion. When he first talked with LiZong court of Song Dynasty, "when he talked about the political program of the court, it was only in employing people, listening to what he said, and at the same time, it was easy to keep the commander. A group of little people look sideways. " (see Hu Sijing's Yancheng) and the general catalogue of Sikuquanshu commented on his article: "when you look at the things he wrote, the notes he wrote, and the articles he wrote to the imperial court, you talk about the fallacies of current politics and the prime minister's deceit.".

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