Fang Weishen

Fang Weishen

Fang Weishen (1040-1122), a native of Houdai in Chengxiang, Putian, lived in Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu Province) with his father as a child. In his early years, however, Shen studied Confucian classics, especially poetry, and was the first to pay tribute to the countryside. Later, when he was promoted to be a scholar, he abandoned it and worked with his younger brother. Fang Weishen gave a special award to Xinghua army teaching assistant in 1106, the fifth year of Chongning. He died in the fourth year of Xuanhe. He was 83 years old and had no children. Only one daughter married Mr. Lepu's son.

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Fang Weishen is the author of ten volumes of the collection of Fang Mi's proofs. His poems are extremely harmonious and alert, and are highly appreciated by Wang Anshi. He said that the poets yuan (Zhen), Bai (Juyi), Lu (guimeng) and PI (Rixiu) of the Tang Dynasty were not everywhere. "Zhongwu Jiwen" says: "Zi Tong (Weishen) is the best at poetry. If he writes something, he will be called good after reading it by Wang Jinggong, which means that he is deeply versed in the syntax of the Tang Dynasty." Fang Weishen wrote in his poem "Ye Jing Gong Bu Yu":

Spring River misty embrace masts flow, tobacco fluffy a worry.

Blowing out willow flowers, people disappeared, spring flag urged the sun down the city.

The four sentences in this poem are all composed by the way of melting feelings into the scenery and describing feelings with the scenery. Although there is not a single word to directly express the author's feelings of sadness when he visits people, his strong thoughts are rendered and set off through Chunjiang, Guifan, tobacco, Liuhua, Chunqi, sunset, etc., which makes the scene of the whole poem blend into a whole and win the style of the Tang people. According to Zhongwu Jiwen: "this poem was written by Jinggong himself, but it was wrongly recorded in Linchuan collection (collected works of Wang Anshi)" It can be seen that Wang Anshi is very fond of this poem.

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Fang Weishen also wrote a poem named "Jianxi under the boat", which is also known as "Jinggong loves it, tastes the book, sits on the right side, and later generations mistakenly enter Jinggong's collection" (Puyang literature by Zheng Yue). His poetry says:

At dusk of the closing month of the passenger airlines, the wild shop wants to close without lights.

The sand maple is half dead, and the boat still has last year's mark.

This is a seven character quatrain describing the journey at night. In the poem, the most characteristic scenery is selected to describe the tranquil state of the boat moored on a moonlit night in a deserted village. Through careful selection of materials and ingenious conception, the poet makes people feel as if they are on the spot though he is sincere and straightforward. At the beginning of the poem, the sentence of "the evening of the moon when the passenger sails to Puzhou" in Lin Bu's Xiaomei in the mountain garden and the poem of "the evening of the moon when the fragrance floats" are used, while the famous sentence of "crossing the river without a boat" in Wei Yingwu's Xijian in Chuzhou "is used, which is new and meaningful.

According to Zhongwu Jiwen, "Zitong (Weishen) visited Wang's gate at the beginning, but he didn't want to meet him. Later, he lived in the east old town of the city, and he was high with Mr. Lepu for a while. Every emissary and commander-in-chief will get out of the car and see it at his home. In the first and second chapters, there were so many people who recommended him that he refused to be an official. Seng Zhongshu's poem says, "it's still desolate, but I only have pines and cypresses to keep the autumn wind."

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