Duan Yucai
Duan Yucai (1735-1815) was a text exegesis and classics scholar in the Qing Dynasty. He was also known as Ruoying and Maotang. In his later years, he was also known as Yanbei Jushi. , a brief introduction to Duan Yucai, a layman from Changtang Lake, an old overseas Chinese from Wu, a native of Jintan, Jiangsu. Grandpa Gong Zizhen. During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, he successively served as magistrate of Yuping County in Guizhou Province and Wushan County in Sichuan Province. He returned home due to illness and settled in Fengqiao, Suzhou, where he studied behind closed doors. Duan Yucai was good at the study of characters, phonology, and exegesis, and he was also good at editing. He was able to identify the right and wrong in various primary schools. He was an outstanding scholar among the masters of Pu Xue in the Hui School. His personal writings include "Shuowen Jiezi Annotation", "Six Books Phonetic Table", "Old Texts Shangshu Zhuan", "Mao Shi's Old Exhortations", "Jingyunlou Collection", etc. ? 2 poems
In Yimao, the 13th year of the Yongzheng reign of the Qing Dynasty (1735), Duan Yucai was born in Damatou Village, Ximenwai, Jintan, Jiangsu Province. He had one sister and two children. A younger brother and a younger sister. Although their father is a private school teacher, his income is meager. Since his father was away teaching all the year round, his mother, Shi, took care of all the housework. The whole family wears coarse cloth, lives on barley porridge all year round, and rarely eats white rice. The family is very poor.
In the 13th year of Qianlong's reign (1748), he went to Yangzhou Anding Academy to study at the age of 13.
In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign (1759), he passed the imperial examination at the age of twenty-five and served as a tutor at the Imperial College. He failed the metropolitan examination many times. According to someone's introduction, Duan Yucai took a teaching position in Beijing and read Gu Yanwu's "Five Books on Phonology". He was interested in the study of phonology, so he taught and studied at the same time, which lasted about 10 years. While in Beijing, he studied under Dai Zhen and got acquainted with scholars such as Qian Daxin, Shao Jinhan, and Yao Nai. After returning here, he had to communicate with Liu Taigong, Wang Zhong and Jin Bang
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Philosophical thoughts
Seeking truth from facts is the motto of Qianjia School scholars *Same flag and belief in life. Duan Yucai was Dai Zhen's eldest disciple. Although he failed to write a series of philosophical works like his teacher, he basically followed the academic style of the Anhui School created by Dai Zhen in terms of academic ideals and routes, and had his own unique characteristics. * The dedication, especially the spirit of pursuing true knowledge he implemented in the study of classical philology, is similar to that of Dai Zhen. He said: "Anyone who writes a book will only seek what is right, and will not seek to be better than his predecessors and seek a name. If he seeks to be better than his predecessors and seek a reputation, then I will not believe it, but will hope for future generations in the world. There is no reason to believe it. Although Duan Yucai’s introduction is not based on reputation, I am not seeking to be better than others but sincerely seeking truth, so the success of his book must be credible. ”
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Duan The distant ancestor of the jade tailor is called Duan Baisan. Bai Sanben was a native of Henan in the Northern Song Dynasty. He traveled south with the Song Dynasty during the Jingkang Revolution and settled in Jintan. After that, he became a general and became a general in the fifteenth life, and Duan Wu was born. This man was Duan Yucai's great-grandfather. Duan Yucai's grandfather was named Duan Wen. The Duan family began to settle in Damatou Village in Jintan County probably from the time of Duan Wen. In this farmhouse, from Duan Wu to Duan Wen, both father and son were Yixiang students, that is, students in the county school, that is, scholars. Duan Wensheng Duan Shixu, Duan Yucai's father. Duan Shixu was named Dexin. Like his ancestors and father, Dexin was also a scholar. The difference was that he was a local student. Linsheng is provided with grain and rice by the government every month, and fish and meat are provided by relevant departments. Three generations of the Duan family were scholars. Therefore, in Jintan at that time, the Duan family belonged to a scholarly family.
In the era when imperial examinations were prevalent, those who excelled in learning would lead to officialdom. Young people should
Duan Yucai’s poems
The second tower of Dengya Prefecture
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Qing Dynasty: Duan Yucai
Flying over the peaks and hearing the sound of wooden leaves, I feel overwhelmed when I join the army late in life. But I know that Mu Yu is diligent in guarding the prison, and he dares to murmur and wash his tassels.
The long pines and vines are falling, and the people in the remote grassland are newly clear. But I am worried about the moonlight above the city, and the night camp at Guan Mountain in the west.
One of the towers in Dengya Prefecture
Qing Dynasty: Duan Yucai
The battlements are steep and Suwen stands tall, which makes Bailiu Fen a prosperous place. The sound of the beach never gets tired of being noisy throughout the ages, and the scenery of the mountains is always beautiful in the evening.
Luo and Mo are from different origins and go to the sea together, while Cai Meng is alone in the sky. The teachings of the holy dynasty are nothing more than external ones, and they occasionally pledge to the Sixth Army in order to prepare for the war.