Li youtang

Li youtang

Li youtang (1720-1798) was named Zhaobai, Shiyuan and Xihua. He was born in Rongshan, Linchuan, and was the grandson of Li Fu. He once served as the editor of Sanli Yishu and xuwentongkao, and vice president of Sikuquanshu, and made great contributions to China's literature collation.

Li youtang had been "extremely gifted" since he was a child. Under the careful cultivation of his ancestor Li Fu, he was promoted in the last years of Kangxi. He became a Jinshi in the tenth year of Qianlong (1745). He was appointed to Guangxi Guiping, Guangdong and Heping counties. After he became a Jinshi, he was changed to an ordinary Jinshi and was sent to the Imperial Academy for editing. In the 15th year, he served as the Deputy examiner of Shaanxi provincial examination, and in the next year, he was awarded the censor of Fujian Province. He also served as the same examiner of Shuntian rural examination and the Deputy examiner of Guizhou Rural examination, and served as the same examiner when he was promoted to the household examination center.

Life of the characters

In 1755, he was appointed as the censor of Taiwan inspection and arrived in Taiwan on April 6 of the following year. He was the first censor to visit Taiwan after the censor of Taiwan inspection was changed into a three-year group. On April 11 of the same year, he was ordered to give the handprint of the criminal division to Shizhong. Since April 16, he and the Manchu Royal historian have been watching the performance of the officers and soldiers of the three battalions of zhenbiao and Chengshou battalions in Taiwan, as well as the three battalions of Anping Association and the Navy. On the 21st, he began to inspect the South Road, from dahuqiaotou and other places to Fengshan County, Yutou, aligang and other places, and then returned to the county city through dajiedian, luohanmen and other places under the jurisdiction of Taiwan County. Rain, rice planting and rice price in South Road were also reported. Then, on August 16, he inspected the North Road from Mucha to douliumen in Zhuluo County, maowulan, anlishe, Dajia and Zhonggang in Changhua County, and to Zhuqian in Danshui hall. Along the way, he inspected the performance of the North Road Association's battalions, and went to luzai port, Bengang port and Yanchang port to investigate the situation of the people. He returned to the county town on September 7. On the 12th, he boarded the boat and returned to the mainland, where he served as the governor of Fujian Xuezheng. Later, there was a painting of Taiwan appreciating fan, which was inscribed by Jiang Shiquan, Qian Daxin and Yao Nai. Taiwan is rich, but it is located in the remote areas. Most of the inspectors sent here are bribed. After Li youtang arrived, Tong Shi tried to bribe him and was severely refused. After the event, the general affairs officer was frightened and said to people, "I'm going to pay homage to the officials. I'm not as stern as Richard's court." In the 38th year of Qianlong reign, Li youtang became Vice President of Sikuquanshu. From the opening of the library to the completion of the first book, there were more than 360 librarians, including 16 chief executive officers, 12 vice-president officers, 16 general readers, 3 general compilers and 1 general school officer. However, the first leading group of the Siku library, on March 11, 1773, Emperor Qianlong's 38th year, issued an edict saying: "now we are going to handle the Siku Quanshu, which has a large number of volumes, so we must send more ministers to take charge of it. Liu Tongxun, Liu Lun, Yu Minzhong, Fu longan, Wang Jihua and Qiu Yuexiu are all the chief executives. Yinglian, qingguiwai and Zhang ruofeng, Cao Xiuxian and Li youtang were appointed vice presidents. in the earliest leading group compiled by Sikuquanshu, there were six chief executives and five vice presidents, of which Li youtang was one. According to Siku Caijin bibliography, there are 18 kinds of bibliographies handed over by Li youtang. It can be seen that Li youtang made a lot of contributions in the initial compilation process of Sikuquanshu. In 1777, Li youtang wrote a poem in the book Zi Guan written by Wang xihou in Xinchang (today's Yifeng county). Emperor Qianlong scolded Li youtang for "being the second minister of Qing Dynasty, but he dared to write a poem to praise these rebellious books. It's not good enough." So he was dismissed. We didn't see Li youtang's name among the vice presidents of "handling the official positions of Sikuquanshu" in the archives of compiling Sikuquanshu. It was really affected by this incident. In the 55th year of the reign of Emperor Qianlong, on his 80th birthday, Li youtang was called to Beijing to wish him the title of three grade minister. In the 60th year of Qianlong's reign, he went to the banquet of Lu Ming again. "Lang Qian Ji Wen" says: "in Yimao of the 60th year of Qianlong, there were four people who went to the banquet of Lu Ming again in the countryside: Cheng Xiu, Taishi of Feng qianzhai in Guangdong, Zhong long, Taishi of Chen Yunzhong in Hubei, you Tang, the servant of Li Xihua in Jiangxi, and Shi Yuhao, fengmengting in Zhejiang. Since then, there have never been people in one dynasty who had a heavy banquet of Lu Ming. In the first year of Qianlong, they had a banquet with the people in the 60th year of Qianlong. All four of them had a taste of jienan palace and Zhici yuan (qianzhai Jiwei, Chen renxu, Li Yichou, Mengting Wuchen). Qianzhai was the longest, and they were hundreds of years old. It's not easy to meet when you are in the hall. " He was an official of the Qing Dynasty. He was a senior high school Jinshi in 1745. In 1756, he came to Taiwan as a censor to inspect Taiwan. He stayed in Taiwan for half a year.

Main works

In the third year of Jiaqing period, Li youtang died of illness in his hometown of Linchuan. He wrote a collection of Tianyang and Houji, which created a grand view of ancient poetry.

Chinese PinYin : Li You Tang