Peach Blossom Fan Review, Who is the Peach Blossom Fan Author?

I only know that there are 11 versions of "Peach Blossom Fan".

The author of "Peach Blossom Fan" is the Qing Dynasty writer Kong Shangren.

"Peach Blossom Fan" is a legendary script written by the Qing Dynasty writer Kong Shangren, which was completed in June of the 38th year of the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty (1699) and published in the 47th year of the Kangxi reign (1708).

"Peach Blossom Fan" is a story that happened in Nanjing in the last years of the Ming Dynasty. The whole play is based on the joys and sorrows of Hou Fangyu and Li Xiangqi Hail, showing the social reality of Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty. At the same time, it also revealed the reasons for the decline and fall of the Hongguang regime, praised the national heroes and low-level people who were loyal to the country, and showed the pain of the remnants of the Ming Dynasty.

Background of the creation of "Peach Blossom Fan":

After the fall of the dynasty, many widows of the Ming Dynasty gathered from time to time to express the sorrow of the loss of the country and the indignation of life. Kong Shangren's father, Kong Zhenfan, is one of them. Kong Zhenfan's upright character, worried heart, and retreat behavior all had an important impact on Kong Shangren.

Jia Yanxi was another person who had a significant influence on Kong Shangren. Jia Yanxi is a friend of Kong Zhenfan, an upright Ming Dynasty relic. Kong Shangren was a guest of honor at Jia Yanxi when he was a child, and he was treated favorably by Jia Yanxi.

Jia Yanxi's ideas also had an important influence on Kong Shangren. For example, Liu Jingting in "Peach Blossom Fan" said that "Analects" was obtained from Zhongjia Yuan and Na Yanxi.

There is also an important figure, it is he who provided the material for Kong Shangren to create "Peach Blossom Fan", he is the old Kong Shangze in the late Ming Dynasty. He is the brother of Kong Shangren and served as a criminal department langzhong in the Hongguang Dynasty. Qin Guangyi was Kong Shangren's father-in-law, and because he had avoided chaos in the Chongzhen Dynasty, he learned a lot of things about the Southern Ming Dynasty from him.

After the death of the Ming Dynasty, Kong Shang lived in his hometown of Qufu, and the widows of the same clan such as Kong Zhenfan, Kong Shangda and Jia Yanxi came and went from time to time, often gathering together to drink and sing wildly, and express their sorrow. In addition, Kong Shangren's father-in-law, Qin Guangyi, often told Kong Shangren about Hongguang's legacy, which finally made Kong Shangren germinate the motivation to create "Peach Blossom Fan".

In 1690, Kong Shangren returned to Beijing and served as the doctor of Guozijian, and lived a long life of cold and idleness. His play "The Peach Blossom Fan" was written around 1699 after a long period of gestation.

According to Kong Shangren himself, he had long had the idea of putting the relics of the Southern Dynasty into pen and ink. "When Yu Weishi, every time he intends to make this legend, I am afraid that he has not heard of it, and there is a history of good faith, and he only paints its outline, but does not decorate its algae. After coming out, after more than ten years of tossing and turning, he returned to Beijing for a long time, and finally completed this work.

Although the embryo of "Peach Blossom Fan" germinated in the author's youth, the fruits were gathered after the author went through various twists and turns and matured his thoughts. The author's horizons have expanded, his mind has broadened, and his understanding of reality is profound, and when he writes historical dramas, he makes the work contain a greater capacity.