Basic introduction Chinese name: Li Ruzhen mbth: Li Ruzhen alias: Zi, Taoist, commonly known as Beiping Zi Nationality: China (Qing Dynasty) Nationality: birthplace of Han nationality: Daxing, Zhili (present-day Beijing) Date of birth: about 1763 Date of death: about 1830 Occupation: novelist's main achievements: representative work: "Mirror Flower Edge" When I was a teenager, I studied ancient etiquette, music, calendar and territorial evolution with Ling Tingkan (about1755-1809), and Li Ruzhen was particularly interested in territorial evolution. Li Ruzhen's disdain for stereotyped writing (a style of imperial examination in Ming and Qing Dynasties) led to his failure in life. The biggest official is Xian Cheng of Henan Province, but he is knowledgeable and proficient in phonology. When I was a teenager, there was a book "Shi Liyin's Jane". He was born honest and frank all his life. He is neither strong nor good at finding a job, and has never had a decent office. After middle age, he felt hopeless to find an official, so he devoted himself to study. From 1795 to 18 15, it took 20 years to write this book, which is comparable to Journey to the West and the list of gods. /kloc-when he was 0/9 years old, he came to Haizhou with his younger brother Li and lived in the ambassador's office of Banpuchang Salt Affairs Department. Since then, I have lived in Haizhou except for two trips to Henan as an official. Li Ruzhen studied under Ling Tingkan, a master of Confucian classics, and was classmates with Qiao Shaofu, Qiao Shaoqiao and Lin. Shortly after arriving in Haizhou, Li Ruzhen married Xu's sister and married Banpu Erxu. Li Ruzhen is well-read, not only proficient in literature and phonology. , but also proficient in Go. Sixty years after Qianlong (1795), he held a public game in Haizhou and played against nine chess players. Later, he sorted out more than 200 chess games played by famous players at that time and compiled a book, The Book of Recipients, which was published in the 22nd year of Jiaqing (18 17). In the preface, he praised the book as "a masterpiece for the benefit of the family" Li Ruzhen's greatest achievement in his life is to write the classic "The Edge of a Mirror Flower". This book was written by him in the ancient Haizhou area by collecting local scenery, local slang and historical relics, and "killing more than 30 years of hard work". It is a classical masterpiece directly produced in the ancient Haizhou area. Jing Hua Yuan has been paid attention to by all parties since it was published in the 23rd year of Jiaqing (18 18). Lu Xun, Zheng Zhenduo, Hu Shi, Lin Yutang, etc. They have all been studied, and the evaluation is very high. Lu Xun called it a wonderful book that can be "compared with Wanbao Quanshu" in "A Brief History of Chinese Novels". Foreign scholars are also committed to the study of this book. Felschmann, a female sinologist in the former Soviet Union, said that this book is "a masterpiece of fantasy novels, historical novels, satirical novels and travel novels." Jing Hua Yuan has been translated into English, Russian, German and Japanese. Scholars from Australia, South Korea and other countries have also come to Haizhou to investigate the writing background and the author's life. Li Ruzhen was down and out in his later years. He is the author of Jing Hua Yuan, Shi Li Yin Jian and Handwriting Shop. Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall Now, there is a "Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall" in Banpu's former residence. Li Ruzhen's personal work Jing Hua Yuan was written in his later years. Originally planned to write 200 times, only 100 times was completed. In the first 50 chapters of "Flowers in the Mirror", three literati, Tang Ao, Lin Zhiyang and Duo Jiugong, went to the sea to travel around the world, and Tang Xiaoshan searched for his father. The flower fairy offended the fairy Chang 'e at the queen mother's birthday party and vowed that "if the flowers bloom in the wrong season, I would like to fall into the mortal world and suffer a lifetime of disaster." Later, when the Heart Moon Fox was going down to earth, Chang 'e specifically told her to let a hundred flowers blossom to show her fame. Heart Moon Fox reborn as Wu Zetian. Later, Wu Zetian was drunk in the severe winter and ordered a hundred flowers to blossom. The Flower Fairy was not in the abode of fairies and immortals dared not disobey the imperial edict, so they had to open it. So the Baihua Fairy and 99 Flower Gods were exiled to the world. Originally named Tang Xiaoshan, Baihua Fairy is the daughter of scholar Tang Ao. Tang Ao's official career was not smooth, so he wanted to live in seclusion. He abandoned his wife and son and went overseas for business and sightseeing with his wife and brother Lin Zhiyang. They passed through dozens of countries, saw many strange customs, strange people and strange things, wild flowers and weeds, monsters on a desert island, and met more than a dozen beautiful young women reincarnated by Hua Xian. Tang Xiaoshan followed Lin Zhiyang to find his father until Xiao Penglai Mountain. According to my father's orders, I changed my name to Tang Guichen and returned to China to take the exam. The last 50 chapters focus on the talents of many women. Wu Zetian took the subject examination and admitted 100 talented women. They held many celebration banquets and performed books, paintings, piano, chess, poems, phonology, medical divination, algorithms, riddles, alcoholic drinks, backgammon, hanging horses, shooting mandarin fish, cuju, fighting grass and carrying pots. , are happy to break up. Tang Guichen went to Xiaopenglai twice to find his father and never came back. Finally, the son Luo and others, with the help of the gods, defeated the four puzzles set by the Wu army and made Zhongzong succeed to the throne. Memorial Hall To commemorate Li Ruzhen, Banpu Town built a "Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall" in the center of the town for people to pay their respects. The memorial hall is in the form of antique architecture, with a bust of Li Ruzhen in the main hall. The museum displays related cultural relics, various versions of Jing Hua Yuan and the research results of Jing Hua Yuan at home and abroad. On the wall surrounded by bamboo, the words "the moon reflects the sky" are engraved, which reminds people of the scenes and meanings described in the book. After the completion of Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall, many Chinese and foreign scholars and tourists come to visit it every year. Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall was built in 1992, located in the East Street of Banpu Town, Guanyun County, covering an area of 1500 square meters. It includes a newly-built hall, a main exhibition hall and a renovated former residence. It is small and exquisite, antique. In the exhibition kitchen of the hall, there are many versions of "The Mirror Flower Edge" in Chinese and foreign languages, as well as academic papers and research materials of experts and scholars at home and abroad. Li Ruzhen has lived in Banpu for more than 30 years. It took him twenty years to write his masterpiece "The Edge of a Mirror Flower" in his former residence. At the commemorative ceremony, experts and scholars from the Jinghuayuan Research Association fully affirmed the construction, protection and collection of cultural and historical materials of the memorial hall. They hope that relevant departments at all levels can expand the scale of the memorial hall, collect all kinds of cultural relics in Li Ruzhen, domestic and foreign versions and research materials of Jing Hua Yuan, constantly enrich the collection of cultural relics, gradually expand the scale, and build the Li Ruzhen Memorial Hall into a research center of Jing Hua Yuan. Painter Xu also presented portraits of Li Ruzhen's brother-in-law Lin and Xu Guilin, as well as precious calligraphy and painting to the memorial hall. Character achievement novels are complex in content and wide in knowledge. The works eulogize women's talents, fully affirm women's social status, and criticize the feudal concept that men are superior to women and women are incompetent. The author praised the wisdom and ability of talented women. Like the graceful beauty in Blackpool, at an early age, she was asked by the great sage and talented Dojo Palace in China "sweating like a pig", "scratching her head" and "blushing red, green and green, wishing there was no seam to drill". For example, Luo Hong's ability to shoot a tiger with an arrow far exceeds that of male Orion; Yan Zikuang, a female swordsman, flies over the eaves and walks over the walls, haunting them. Zhi Lanyin and proficient in phonology, Milan Fen is like a mathematician. In addition, like Shangguan Waner in Gong E's works, she is "knowledgeable", "quick in talent", "beautiful in chest and eloquent", and writes poems quickly and well, which all courtiers admire. The ideal of the author of the rare book "The Garden of Flowers in the Mirror" is a "daughter country" with women as the center. "Men wear dresses and, as women, manage their internal affairs; Women, like men, wear boots and hats and manage foreign affairs. " Women are not inferior to men in wisdom and talent, from the emperor to the assistant minister. This reflects the author's good wishes for equality between men and women and equal social status between men and women. Although there have been many works praising women's talents since the middle of Ming Dynasty, The Country of Daughters is Li Ruzhen's original creation. The author uses the imaginary "country of scholars" to express his social ideal. The "scholar country" is a "land of rites and music" where it is easy to put down disputes. There are four big characters written on the city gate: "Only goodness is treasure". "The Lord of the country has strict orders that if the subjects offer jewelry, they will not only burn it, but also demand punishment." The prime minister here is "modest and amiable", approachable and "official habit", which makes people feel amiable and respectable. People here come and go, "Shu Ren and others, rich or poor, behave and talk respectfully", "The tiller gives way, and the walker gives way". Sellers strive to make less money and sell better goods; Buyers try to pay a high price for inferior goods and cannot give in to each other. In this way, the novel denies the hegemonic and corrupt feudal officialdom and the real society full of intrigue and intrigue. The personal evaluation cartoon "The Country of the Confucians has Two Sides" satirizes the fake Confucians with a pungent and humorous style. Mr. pedant, who puts on airs in the White Republic of China, actually read "I am young, people are young" in Mencius as "cutting me and cutting against people". Such an uneducated generation regards "money as life" and tries to make use of the mercenary stream. There are gold plaques everywhere in Shu, such as "being virtuous and upright", "being virtuous and Confucian" and "being clever and upright". All kinds of people are dressed in Confucian scarves and plain clothes. Their manners are gentle and full of "even people who care". However, they are haggard and stingy. After eating, they even put the remaining salt beans in their arms and even put a used bald tooth stick in their sleeves. The works reveal the sour taste of these fake sven through internal and external comparison, and the ugly satire of soldiers and men is incisively and vividly. The author also satirizes and criticizes all kinds of people with bad quality and misbehavior in the form of cartoons. People in a "two-faced country" are born with two faces, one for others to see and the other for behind. Even when facing people, it is changeable. For those who are "Confucian in silk", they are "kind and polite", while for those who are in rags, they are cold and silent. Once people uncovered his awe-inspiring towel, they revealed their ferocious face. In the "country without intestines", the rich man is stingy with pickling and cooks dung for slaves. People who wear breasts are crooked and evil. The head of "Wing the Republic of China" is five feet long, all because of flattery. People who "tie their chests" have higher chests, only because they are lazy. People who "seal the country with dogs" all have dog heads. People in "Bird Mouth Country" have a pig mouth. Are extremely sarcastic. The Garden of Flowers in the Mirror inherits some materials from overseas western classics and wild western classics in Shan Hai Jing. After the author's re-creation, with his rich imagination and humorous style, he created a novel with unique structure and novel conception by using exaggeration, metaphor and contrast. However, the characters portrayed in the novel are all poor in character, and the talented women's character is not clear enough. In particular, the second half focuses on showing off knowledge, and the characterization is not vivid enough. Therefore, Lu Xun said, "On art and classics, it is too long to be self-sufficient." .