Jiang Renxiu

Jiang Renxiu

Jiang Renxiu (1676-1751) was originally named Geng, whose name was Ziyun, and his name was returning farmland. He was born in Baipu, Rugao, Jiangsu Province in Qing Dynasty. In the 59th year of Kangxi (1720), he was elected and became a Jinshi in the next year. He was granted the title of Imperial Academy scholar and Zhili Qingyuan county magistrate. Act decisively and honestly. He was impeached and dismissed because he was a law enforcement official and offended a big official. His term of office was only five months. After returning to his hometown, he built "three gardens" and engaged in academic research. His works include 10 volumes of Chu Ci Yi, 40 volumes of Han Wei Six Dynasties Shi Yi, 2 volumes of Bai Xue Qing Peng Shi Yi, 8 volumes of Tang Wu Qi Lu Yi, 5 volumes of Du Shi Xiao Jian, and Bai Pu Zi Shi Chao.

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Jiang Renxiu, formerly known as Geng, was born in Rugao, Jiangsu Province. Kangxi 60 years (1721) Jinshi, official Qing Yuan county magistrate. Calligraphy, painting, chess and arithmetic are all excellent works. His father, Jiang Fu, said, "the class is very strict. He extended his famous teacher to his home. He knelt down and entered the school first in the Xia and Chu dynasties (ancient school corporal punishment equipment)". Jiang Renxiu has read a lot since he was a child. He is proficient in astronomy, geography, etiquette, music, military, punishment, Pythagorean geometry, medical divination, calligraphy and music, especially in poetry and ancient prose.

Personal life

When Jiang Renxiu was young, he visited Maoxiang, who compared him to the famous poet Chen Qinian (Weisong). Kangxi 59 years (1720) in the election, the next year Jinshi and, granted the Imperial Academy Shuji Shi, after the Qing court magistrate. He was honest and upright as an official. He said, "there are more than a hundred things in the daily legal documents, which are so arbitrary that people call them" white bread Lord. " Because the law enforcement officer: offended the official, was impeached and dismissed. The local people were attached to it, and some of them sent it thousands of miles away.

As for Jiang Renxiu's frustration in his official career, Shen Deqian said when he wrote a preface to his poetry anthology: "the abuse of Mr. Yu Cheng by high officials is suitable for his poetry to be passed on to later generations." It means that it was because of his official career that he was able to devote himself to academic writing and poetry creation, and became an outstanding scholar and poet.

Jiang Renxiu is knowledgeable and has abundant works, including reading yibaishu, reading xuanbaishu and Zhuangzi Baishu. He has profound research on the philosophy of Zhouyi and Laozhuang. He has also made a comprehensive and systematic exploration from the book of songs and Chuci to the poems of Han, Wei and Tang Dynasties. His works include 5 volumes of dushixiaojian, 10 volumes of Chuci, 40 volumes of Han, Wei and Six Dynasties, and 2 volumes of Bai xueqinglian It has eight volumes. It can be seen that his research scope is wide and his academic attainments are deep. In the 1950s, the collection of research materials on 19 ancient poems published by Shanghai Ancient Books society, followed by Mr. Sui Shusen's collection and interpretation of 19 Ancient Poems, all included Jiang Renxiu's 19 notes on ancient poems; in Mr. Ma Maoyuan's new exploration of 19 Ancient Poems, Jiang Renxiu's works were quoted many times, which is sufficient to prove the academic value of Jiang Renxiu's works.

Jiang Renxiu is also famous for his poems and essays, including Jiang Ziyun's essays, baipuzi's letters, baipuzi's ancient prose, and baipuzi's poems. His poetry creation was particularly praised by people at that time. He praised his poetry as "outstanding and high-ranking Taibai, embellished with Jinbi, also special Changji and feiqing", and compared him to famous poets Li Bai, Li He and Wen Tingyun of Tang Dynasty. Shen Deqian wrote a preface to baipuzi's poems, and commented on his poetic style as "pure natural interest".

After Jiang Renxiu returned home, he built "Baipu bookstore" (also known as "sanyiyuan") There are Mihua Valley, Meiyu, Xinglin, pear Valley, Liutang, mudantai, yulanpo, Lianchi, huibailing, songguilin, huangshishan Pavilion, and the land for conversion. It is one of the 12 famous gardens in PUTANG. Qianlong's Rugao county annals: "Baipu library, Shuchang Jiang Renxiu library." "Baipu town records:" a three garden, in the west of the town, for the then celebrities wine gathering place There is a four character plaque on the West River in sanyiyuan, which was written by Wang Shu, a famous calligrapher in Qing Dynasty. For a time, scholars from the north and south of the Yangtze River came to the library, and the library became a place for celebrities to communicate and literary friends to get together. Wu helun wrote a poem called "Baipu bookstore:" bamboo is green, pine is cold, far away, the city is noisy, and there is a famous garden on the West River. The water in fangtang is wide and the tide is clear, and the flowers in deep valley are dim. Who has the talent of several generations to draw up a poem. If you want to know where the bamboo slips are now, there are high graves to cover your soul. " The "mountain bamboo slips" in the poem are Zhennan generals of Jin Dynasty who often go to the county gardens for banquets. Wang Wei's poem "Xiangyang good wind, stay drunk and mountain Weng".

With the help of Jiang Renxiu, PUTANG poetry flourished for a time. The famous "ten sons of PUTANG" are Jiang Renxiu's nephew and apprentice. With the slogan of "cutting down the fake style, being close to the elegant style", they organized a literary group - "Pro society", which was called "the Grand Master of the literary circle" at that time. The ten sons of PUTANG include Jiang Gongshou, Jiang huizhao, Qin Weiping, Wu Jiyuan, Wu Rong, Wu Jisheng, Gu Hengxue, Gu Fu, Gu Yun and Gu Renji. Among them, Jiang Gongshou (the son of Jiang Renxiu, with the name of jingzai and Xiangyan) was the most outstanding poet. In the sixth year of Qianlong (1741), he was "unrestrained and unrestrained in talent, and his poetry and prose were excellent for a while", and he was good at painting. His works include 8 volumes of zhouyizhe, 6 volumes of Maoshi biannian, 5 volumes of Gaoyuan poetry anthology and 120 chapters of wakoulu Shiwen. He died at the age of 52. Yuan Mei wrote the epitaph of Jiang Xiangyan.

Family members

Jiang Renxiu's cousin, Jiang Yingxin (ziyong, Zhishan), was an official in the first year of Yongzheng (1723) and an official in Zhili. His works include the complete collection of Zhishan poems and essays and the classified edition of famous poets.

Jiang huizhao, the nephew of Jiang Renxiu, has written six volumes of Nanyuan anthology and eight volumes of Nanyuan poetry anthology. Jiang Shiquan, editor and editor of Hanlin academy, praised in his preface to Nanyuan poetry that "his poems are important, gentle and easy in the process of discussion, and they are not dirty and exciting words of Chu, that is, the words of friends singing, mountains and rivers climbing, and joys and sorrows parting, all of which are very touching and loyal."

Jiang Renxiu has a woman named Jiang Yi (named Yufeng), "at the age of six, she read Mao's poems, at the age of nine, she was familiar with Chu's poems, and then she chanted the poems of the Six Dynasties and the three Tang Dynasties." Later, he married Rugao scholar Qian biaolin, who had three volumes of Jiang Yufeng's manuscript. Jiang Renxiu's descendants, such as Jiang Zhan and Jiang Deji, are good at poetry and prose.

The Wu brothers and Gu brothers among the ten were all inherited from the family school, and were famous for their talent in poetry and prose. For example, Wu Jiyuan was born in the sixth year of Qianlong (1741) of the Qing Dynasty, and his poems were "clear, free and easy, and leisurely". Wu Rong's poetry and calligraphy work, "the composition is surging, such as the spring of ten thousand Dendrobium. Well known people at home are happy to travel with them. " Gu was born and distinguished. He "wrote for the text, exhaled like a rainbow, and was regarded as a child prodigy." "Shen Han's classic history runs through hundreds of schools, and he is unprepared for the beauty of his articles," and "all the famous scholars in the north and the south are afraid to be cited.". Gu Yun was born in the ninth year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong (1744). His poems, writings, calligraphy and paintings were all "elegant and elegant", and his mind was natural and unrestrained Gu Renji was a Jinshi in the 13th year of Qianlong (1748), and his poems were also praised. In addition to the ten sons, the other members of the "Pro society" are also "splashing ink on linchi and playing poetry, gambling on wine and playing flute and playing chess".

Pu Tang Shi Zi and Pu Shang's Poems

The outstanding achievements are inseparable from Jiang Renxiu's cultivation and careful guidance. After Jiang Renxiu's death, the later generation of scholars either "shed tears on the green suburb to worship the tomb field" or "leisurely travel to the famous garden" and wrote many works of nostalgia. Such as Gu Yun's "Baipu bookstore": "the clear water surrounds the water, the bamboo trees are gloomy, and the ancient hills are remembered. Ten Zhang vines, flowers, poems, wine fields and orchestral songs of a century old arbor. Whose small pavilion adds new color, several long bridges lock old worry. They all know xunling house, but they have tearful experience in Xizhou. "

After the change of ownership, the name of "Beilong" was changed to "Beiyuan". Gu Fu was a Jinshi in the 26th year of Qianlong reign (1761). He was an official with "honest and clean conduct, no bribe at all". In his spare time, he collected the rhymes of celebrities, and his poems were full of warning. Calligraphy is a treasure for those who have obtained the ink. " After he returned from Hubei, he lived in Beiyuan. Yuan Mei, a famous scholar, came to visit Pushang and lived here (see Suiyuan Shihua for details) it can also be regarded as the lingering charm of "Baipu bookstore".

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