Cheng Duolu

Cheng Duolu

Cheng Duolu (1864-1928) was born in Jilin Province. He was a famous calligrapher. He excels in poetry, calligraphy, poetry and manuscripts. His ink has spread all over the three provinces of Northeast China, and is well-known throughout the country. He is known as one of the "three heroes of Jilin". In the early years of the Republic of China, he was a member of the second Senate of Jilin Province and director of the Audit Department of the Ministry of education of the Republic of China. He was a clean and honest official and was praised as a "clean and honest governor" by the masses.

brief introduction

Cheng Duolu

It was originally named enling (enling), with the name of Zhushan and Dankan. The garden was named Yulu, Danyuan and thirteen ancient pagoda trees. He was born in qitamu town (now Jiutai City), Jilin Province, on January 16, 1864. His ancestral home is Shanxi. In the early Qing Dynasty, he moved from the capital to Wula, and then to qitamu Town, Jilin Province, where he belonged to zhenghuang banner of Han army.

family background

His father, Cheng Rongtai, once served in liupin Xiaoqi School of Jilin Wula general Yamen. He was a constitutional doctor in middle school and was strict with his children. Yinghui was studious when he was young. He began to read at the age of five. He was able to write poems at the age of eight. He would copy every book and be familiar with it. In the 16th year of the year, Ying Tongzi tried to be a student attached to Gongsheng, which was listed on the front desk. At the age of 22, he was selected as kobagong in Yiyou, Guangxu. In 1886, he was waiting for the examination in Beijing. Hearing of his father's death, he was eager to mourn and failed to take the examination. In 1893, when he was admitted to the Imperial College, more than 800 people took the first place. He thought that he would win the imperial examination. However, when he entered the Imperial College, he felt cold and seriously ill, fainted and did not wake up, so he came out in a mess So I went home and stopped thinking about the imperial examination.

Career experience

Because of his poor family background, he began to take part in Shuntian rural examination in Beijing at the age of 31. However, he was sick and lost his fame. At the age of 36, he came out of the mountain and successively entered Shengjing general yiketang'a and vice capital Tongcheng De of Qiqihar. He was promoted to the first governor of Suihua by his candidate Tongzhi. In the past three years, he won the title and traveled all over the south of the Yangtze River. After the tour, Mukden, Jiangsu.

Later, he studied in Chongwen academy, and his talent became more and more extensive, and his poetry creation also got higher achievements. At the same time, Duolu's calligraphy art is increasingly refined. It is said that Duolu practiced calligraphy in the west corridor room of the Guandi temple in Beishan. Only the three characters of "Fu Lu Shou" were written for three months in a row. After every 10 pieces of writing were finished, the paper was stacked together and carved with a knife to see if the strokes were consistent, so as to test his handwriting skills. There was more paper for practicing calligraphy. After leaving the mountain in 1898, he successively joined yiketang'a, general of Fengtian Shengjing, and Chengde, vice capital of Qiqihar. In 1905, he was promoted to the first governor of Suihua by his candidate Tongzhi. Duolu was an honest and clean official. Because he felt that he "bribed people to do business, and that it was not far to go to the end of the season", he resigned as the magistrate of Suihua in 1907 and went to Jiangsu with Cheng Dequan, the former governor of Heilongjiang Province.

When Duolu moved to the south, people found that he had few possessions and full of books. There were a lot of feelings among friends who saw me off. But Duolu said: "it's not strange that life is ever lasting. A book on the shelf is a rich man." Suihua area of the masses called it "honest Taishou.". In Jiangsu Province for more than two years, Duolu traveled all over the south of the Yangtze River and made friends by writing. He left a lot of poems and ink, which made Kanto culture flow into the south of the Yangtze River. The stone carvings of six five character poems on the corridor walls of canglangting Park and wangshiyuan Park in Suzhou are the ink marks left by Duolu in 1909.

After the revolution of 1911, he returned to his hometown. In 1916, Duolu was elected as a member of the second Senate of Jilin Province and a director of the Middle East Railway Council. He lived in Beijing in his later years. Zhang zuolin was a member of the national Senate when he organized the Angou military government in Beijing. In 1927, he was appointed director of the Audit Department of the Ministry of education of the Republic of China and deputy director of the library (now Beijing Library). In his later years, he lived in Beijing and turned his courtyard into a Danyuan garden. In 1928, Duolu died of illness in his residence in Jilin Province, aged 65. Cheng Duolu's life was less than glory and profit, and more important than the world in poetry and calligraphy. His poetry style is lofty, deep and steady, especially good at rhythm poetry, is one of the northern lead singers. There are no less than a thousand poems in one's life. There are two volumes of Dankan Shicao and one volume of self-made chronology. Zhai Liwei, Cheng Qichang and others annotated chengduolu collection and collected 860 poems. Mr. Wang is very accomplished in calligraphy. He takes the styles of FA ou, Yan, Su and Weng as examples. He is not out of his way and has a brilliant family. He is regarded as one of the four greatest calligraphers in Northeast China. Cheng Duolu's poems, manuscripts and inks are all over the three northeastern provinces, Beijing and Jiangnan. Its plaques and couplets are very popular in Beijing, Jilin, Fengzhou and Harbin.

evaluate

The remaining works include the chronicle of Cheng Duolu and the genealogy of the Cheng family in Jilin Province. The ink left behind includes a printed copy of Yu Yinlin's shuzhai Shicun and the calligraphy elixir of Jilin Beishan's Weizhou Dezheng tablet.

It is listed as the first of 34 historical and cultural celebrities in Jilin City. At the turn of the century, the descendants of Cheng Duolu in Beijing and Jilin jointly donated and deposited more than 200 historical relics to Jilin Municipal Archives, which has been opened to the public. The cemetery was also restored in Chengjia village, qitamu Town, Jiutai County, Jilin Province, and listed as a county-level cultural relic protection unit.

Representative works

Chinese PinYin : Cheng Duo Lu