Lou Jian

Lou Jian

Lou Jian (1554-1631), Zi Rou, Xie an. His ancestral home is Changzhou. He moved to Jiangdong (now Gaoqiao Town) and moved back to the south of Jiading city. In his 50th year, he was a tribute to chunguan. He was good at poetry and ancient prose. He came back to youguangyou and integrated the teacher's ideas to form a family. Peace, peace and elegance win over people with sincerity and simplicity. Between Yuan Dynasty and Changqing Dynasty, ancient style prevailed. Calligraphy Su, wonderful world, Chi Book inch simple, people competing for the purchase.

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Lou Jian's father was a royal physician, and later generations practiced medicine. His father, Lou Xunzhi, was a child prodigy of Jiading. When he was a minor, he was the first disciple of the doctor. He paid great attention to training and educating Lou Jian. As a young man, Lou Xunzhi sent Lou Jian to Anting to learn from Gui Youguang. Among Lou Jian's classmates is his cousin Tang Shisheng. Under GUI Youguang's careful education, Lou Jian and Tang Shisheng studied hard and became GUI Youguang's students. Due to the outstanding poetry, it gradually became famous in Jiangnan.

Lou Jian lived in the middle and late Ming Dynasty. The eunuch group headed by Wei Zhongxian controlled the government. The Ming Dynasty was in the darkest period of corruption due to internal and external troubles. Loujian is closely related to Tang Shisheng, Li Liufang and Cheng jiasui. They are known as the "four masters of Jiading". They are fond of literature and art. They roam in the landscape and garden. They communicate with the literati at home and become a group of people's attention.

Talent

poems

Lou Jian's article inherits the tradition of GUI Youguang. His style is peaceful and elegant. It can become a family's opinion with simple and moving style. The title of his anthology "Introduction to learning ancient Chinese" reveals his intention of learning GUI Youguang's ancient prose. This book was later included in Sikuquanshu.

Lou Jian's poems also have their own characteristics. His metrical poems imitate Yuan Zhen and Bai Juyi, and have the charm of the middle Tang Dynasty. His achievement of ancient style is high, and Wu Xiao Cao is handed down. Wu Ji is a kind of address for folk songs and Sanqu in Wu area. Taking Wu Ji as the name of poetry collection shows Lou Jian's attention and love for local folk songs on the one hand, and his modesty on the other hand, which means that his poems are just as common as those in Wu area.

Calligraphy

Lou Jian is good at calligraphy. In his early years, he studied the characters of Zhong Yao and Wang Xizhi, but in his later years, he changed to Su Shi to wash his soft and charming habits. At that time, Dong Qichang's calligraphy was very popular in the society, but Lou Jian didn't think much of it. He thought that Dong's calligraphy was more beautiful than vigorous. In his later years, Lou Jian achieved more in calligraphy. His calligraphy works are known as "the best in the world". During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Gu Siye, a famous scholar from Suzhou, visited friends in Jiading. Under the eaves of a broken house, he saw an abandoned plaque with three characters "xiuyeyuan" inscribed on it by Lou Jian. The more he looked at it, the more he loved it. His feet seemed to be absorbed and he was reluctant to leave. Finally, I discussed with the owner, bought it and brought it back to Suzhou. I hung it in my garden. I was with it day and night. It was a good story.

Today, you can still see Lou Jian's calligraphy works in Jiading. Lou Jian's calligraphy scroll is collected in Jiading Museum. His stone inscription "shequ bridge" is in Qiuxia garden, and the FA Hua tower in Jiading is also inscribed with his name.

Relevant evaluation

Lou Jian has extensive knowledge and profound attainments. For example, Su Shi's famous prose "Ode to red cliff" has such a few sentences: "only the breeze on the river and the bright moon in the mountains can be heard by the ear, and the color can be seen by the eye. It's inexhaustible and inexhaustible. It's the creator's inexhaustible possession, and I can eat with it." Now in some versions, the word "co food" is changed to "co adaptation". In the past, it was written as "eating together". The word "food" is really puzzling. Zhu Xi, a scholar of the Song Dynasty, once asked Zhu Xi: what's the explanation for this "food"? Zhu Xi said: "it's like the word" food "in Shiyi, which means" enjoyment. " (see Zhu Zi Yu Lei) and Lou Jian believes that there is a saying in the Buddhist Scripture that "wind is the food of the ear, and color is the food of the eye", which is used by Su Dongpo, who is proficient in Buddhist scriptures. Undoubtedly, Lou Jian's explanation is closest to Su Dongpo's original intention.

Lou Jian is not an indifferent scholar, but a scholar with a sense of mission. Open his "Introduction to learning ancient", you can see many articles concerned about the people, enthusiastic about local undertakings, these articles are full of his heart. In order to cultivate talents and revitalize Jiading's educational cause, he once wrote the book of the governor Wang Yushi, criticizing the "empty and unrealistic learning" at that time. When Jiading was flooded, the people had no food in their homes, and the disaster was serious, Lou Jian resolutely wrote to the county magistrate of Jiading with a book on floods with Chen Mingfu, proposing to release grain for disaster relief, in order to save the victims of "thousands of families waiting for feeding". At the end of the letter, Lou Jian cautiously advised the county not to think that "scholars do not know the current situation, but laugh at it as circuitous".

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