A brief introduction to the author of You Qingxi

About the author: Yuan Zhongdao (about 1575- about 1630), a writer of the Ming Dynasty, said little and wrote short. One of the leaders of the "Public Security School", the younger brother of Yuan Zongdao and Yuan Hongdao. Han nationality, Huguang Public Security (now Hubei). In the forty-fourth year of Wanli (16 16), he was a Jinshi, and he was awarded a professor in Huizhou, ending with a doctor in the official department. Together with his brother Zongdao and Hongdao, they are also called "Three Parks of Public Security", and their achievements are second only to Hongdao. His literary thought is basically consistent with Hongdao, emphasizing the spirit of nature. He died later than his two brothers, witnessed the abuses of those literati who imitated the public security school, and formed the idea of attaching importance to spirit and style in his later years. His works are superior to prose. Travel notes can be straightforward and written clearly; The diary is full of essence, which has a certain influence on the diary prose of later generations. He is the author of 20 volumes of Xue Kezhai Collection and 20 volumes of Yuan Xiaoxiu Diary.