The brief introduction is as follows:
Yuan Mei (1765438+March 25, 2006 ~179865438+1October 3), Zi Zicai, No. In his later years, he was named Cangshan lay man, Suiyuan master and Suiyuan old man. Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang) was born in Cixi, Zhejiang. Poet, essayist, literary critic and gourmet in Qing Dynasty. Yuan Mei is not talented and good at writing poems. After four years of Qianlong (1739), he was born as a scholar and was awarded Jishi Shu by the Academy of Academician.
In the seventh year of Qianlong (1742), he was transferred to Jiangsu and served as county magistrate in Lishui, Jiangning, Jiangpu and Shuyang for seven years. He is well-known and diligent as an official, but his official career is not smooth and he has no intention of collecting money. In the 14th year of Qianlong (1749), he resigned and lived in Suiyuan, a small warehouse in Nanjing, where he recited poems and collected many disciples, especially female disciples. Jiaqing two years (1798).
Yuan Mei died at the age of 82. After his death, he was buried in Baibupo, Nanjing, and was called "Mr. Suiyuan". Yuan Mei advocated the theory of "the spirit of nature", and thought that the aesthetic creation of poetry should show the spirit of nature, write the poet's personality and express the poet's true feelings in his personal life. Together with Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan, they are also called "Three Masters of Ganjia" (or Three Masters of Jiangyou).
Together with Zhao Yi and Zhang Wentao, they are also called "three masters of spiritualism" and one of the "eight masters of parallel prose in Qing Dynasty". The style of writing comes down in one continuous line with that of Ji Yun, a great scholar, who is called "Southern Yuan and Northern Ji". His main works are Xiao Cang Shan Ju Ji, Sui Yuan Shi Hua, Sui Yuan Shi Hua Supplement, Sui Yuan Shi Dan, Zi Wu Yu, Xu Zi Yu Yu and so on. Ode to Sisters, a famous essay, was compared with Ode to Twelve Lang by Han Yu in Tang Dynasty by classical Chinese critics.
Before the age of 20, Yuan Mei had been studying in Hangzhou. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), at the age of 2/kloc-0, he decided to visit his uncle Justin, who was an adjutant in Guangxi, and began his first long journey. From Hangzhou to Guangxi, you can enjoy places of interest and magical natural scenery along the way.
The beauty of nature always triggers Yuan Mei, who naturally loves poetry. During this trip to Guangxi, he wrote many excellent poems about travel and nostalgia, which became the starting point of "Poems of Kokura Mountain Residence".
After arriving in Guilin, he was introduced by his uncle to the governor Jin Yi, and was appreciated on the spot with an article "Bronze Drum Fu". Jin praised his talent and wrote a letter recommending him to take the well-read examination held in September of the first year of Qianlong. Governor Jin's recommendation made Yuan Mei famous and became a stepping stone to his career.