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Born in 1716 and died in 1797, Yuan Mei was a native of Qiantang and was the most famous and influential poet of the mid-Qing Dynasty. He and Jiang Shiquan and Zhao Yi are called together"Qianlong three families"(Also called.)"Qianjia three, everyone"), in"Qianlong three families"Medium and high in the first place.

Who is Ji Xiaolan, everyone must be familiar with it, in fact, in the Qianlong Dynasty, the world put Ji Xiaolan and Yuan Mei together and called"Southern Yuan Northern Period"。

In the fourth year of Qianlong, Yuan Mei was admitted to the Jinshi, and then awarded the Hanlin Academy. Later, he was transferred to become an official, and successively served as the magistrate of Lishui, Jiangning, Jiangpu, and Shuyang. Yuan Mei has been in Jiangsu and other places for about seven years, and has been in ** for more than ten years.

Although Yuan Mei implemented the rule of law during his time as an official, and did not shy away from the powerful, he was loved by the people and had quite remarkable political achievements, but later he resigned to support his mother, so his political achievements were not high. The most important reason why Yuan Mei was famous in later generations was his literary achievements. He was a famous poet, essayist, and literary critic of the Qing Dynasty, and his achievements in all three areas were extremely high.

In history, including many poets now, Yuan Mei believes that Yuan Mei is a poet in the true sense. Active in the poetry world for more than 40 years"But it's good to find verses"，"Rather than the end of the world, those who draw are competing for the way of the situation"Absolutely. He composed more than 4,000 lyrics in his life, and there are many classic Yuan Mei, who has a status in the poetry world or in literature.

History has also been very high in terms of his evaluation, but on the other hand, there are many criticisms in his private life.

Yuan Mei is a strange essayist in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and the Tongcheng School, he uses his talent to use the pen, expresses spirituality, many articles have the style of essays, sincere feelings, vivid and fresh, history does not clearly classify him as a school, it can be said that it is a family of its own.

The public security faction, the pursuit of the beauty of the landscape, the style of writing is fresh and timeless, popular in the Qing Dynasty for about 100 years, there is no substantive description!

Yuan Mei was the founder of the "Sexual Spirituality", one of the two major factions in the poetry circle during the Yongzheng and Qianlong periods of the Qing Dynasty. Yuan Mei's poems are the best tool for him to follow his nature and observe himself and express his private words. The heart and hand are the same, and the heart thinks like this, and it will naturally flow into the pen and express it outside.

This is one of the manifestations of the individuality or personalization of Yuan Mei's poetry. At the same time, the individualized color of Yuan Mei's poems is also clearly manifested in the fact that the change of poetic style is quite in tune with the transformation of his life state, which is an inevitable result of the creation of accompanying work.

Yuan Mei was also one of the main poetic theorists of the Qian and Jia periods. Following the Ming Dynasty Gong'an faction and Jingling faction, he held the spirit theory. "Suiyuan Poems", "Addendum" and "Continuation of Poems" are his main works on poetry.

In addition to expounding the theory of sexual spirituality, Suiyuan Poetry also has many comments on the works of poets in the past dynasties, the evolution of genres, and the poetry of the Qing Dynasty. "Continued Poems" is a work imitating Sikong Tu's "Twenty-four Poems", with 36 items, and uses four-word rhymes to summarize the specific experience of poetry creation process, methods, cultivation, skills and other specific experiences, that is, the so-called "painstaking creation". Compared with the Gong'an faction, Yuan Mei's theory of sexual spirituality is more anti-Taoist and anti-traditional, pointing out that poetry is not a means of preaching, but should express the sexual spirit.

He combines "spirituality" and "knowledge", takes temperament, talent and learning as the basis of creation, and takes truthfulness, novelty and life as the pursuit of creation. He did not reject the emphasis on the rhythm and ornamentation of the poetic form, but only demanded subordination to the expressive spirit. Yuan Mei's theory of sexual spirituality is a step forward from the Gong'an faction, comprehensive and complete, and is considered to be the main representative of the Ming and Qing Dynasty spiritual theories.

"Nan Yuan"refers to Yuan Mei, the old man of Suiyuan. "Northern Age"refers to Ji Yun and Ji Xiaolan.

Because of the two books of Yuan Mei and Ji Yun, these two have a lot of works, among which Yuan Mei's "Zi Bu Silent" and Ji Xiaolan have "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang".

These two books contain many stories of foxes, ghosts, gods and monsters, with many absurd and superstitious elements, which are intended to persuade the good to punish the evil, and the evil will be rewarded with evil, and the evil will be treated in the way of the wicked. The style of writing is very similar to Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

After the publication of "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", there were many imitations, including Yuan Mei's "Zi Bu Yu" and "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang", but these later works could not be compared with "Strange Tales from Liao Zhai", only the two books of "Zi Bu Yu" and "Notes on Reading Wei Caotang" were vivid and fascinating.

Mo is in the dark, which may also be an explanation of the beginning of the name "Nanyuan Beiji", whether it is true or not, it also adds detailed facts to Nanyuan Beiji, and has become an important argument for the origin of the name "Nanyuan Beiji".

Wang felt that Yuan Mei was indeed talented, but at most he was an idle literati, and he mentioned this point of view to a greater or lesser extent in several of his food essays. The more concentrated is in ** "Jin Dongxin", "Zheng Banqiao once made a general comment on Yuan Zicai, saying that he is a Sven lackey, which is not excessive" - this is also Wang's evaluation. There is also a narrative of this incident in the memoir "Old Man Wang Zengqi" written by Wang Zengqi's children.

For details, you can find the original text of "Golden Winter Heart" to take a look.

As for writing pickled eggs, because Wang originally thought that "Suiyuan Food List" was well written, and the eggs used for pickled eggs were Gaoyou's double yolk eggs, as a Gaoyou person, of course, I felt kind about it.

The Qing Dynasty poet Yuan Mei had a wide range of hobbies, openly claiming that he was good at food, good money, good travel, good friends, good flowers, good birds, good spring stones, good songs, and good books.

1.Garden art.

2.Diet. 3.Tea.

4.Longyang. 5.Library.

6.Traveling through the landscape.

7.Business. 9.Poetry.

Yuan Mei's nine hobbies.

Good food, good songs, good money, good travel, good swimming, good flowers, good birds, good springs, and good reading.