On the characteristics of Jiang Kui's life, literary works and anecdotes

Jiang Kui (Kuí) (1154-1221) was born in Poyang, Raozhou (now Poyang County, Jiangxi Province). Writers and musicians in the Southern Song Dynasty. He is a poor boy, who has tried many times. He has never been an official all his life, and he has been wandering the rivers and lakes all his life, helping his friends by selling words for a living. He is versatile, proficient in temperament, able to compose his own music, and clear pronunciation and mellow voice. His works are famous for their ethereal subtlety. Jiang Kui is good at poetry, prose, calligraphy and music, and is another rare artistic all-rounder after Su Shi. Jiang Kui's ci has a wide range of themes, such as feeling of time, lyricism, chanting things, love, writing scenery, remembering trips, arranging festivals, making friends and giving gifts. In his poems, he expressed that although he was in the Jianghu, he never forgot the feelings of the monarch and the minister and the thoughts of harming the heavens and the earth, described his wandering life, and expressed his depressed mood of being unworthy of the world and frustrated in love, as well as his transcendent and refined character like a lonely cloud and wild crane. [1] Jiang Kui lived in the West Lake at night and was buried in Ximacheng. Many books have been handed down, including Poems of Taoist White Stone, Songs of Taoist White Stone, Continued Book Score and Jiang Tieping.

Main work

There are more than 80 existing poems by Jiang Kui, most of which are travel notes and poems chanting things, expressing personal life experiences and feelings of parting, and occasionally revealing feelings about current affairs. His words are sincere in emotion, rigorous in meter, gorgeous in language, quiet and indifferent in style, which means correcting graceful words with fine, hard and clear style. The representative works Dimfragrance Old Moonlight, Thin Shadow, Moss Branch and Jade Ornament express their worries with Yongmei. His Yangzhou Man Huai Zuo Du Ming is a realistic work. It depicts the broken scene of Yangzhou after the looting of the Southern Song Dynasty, and expresses the mourning for the decline of the Southern Song Dynasty and the hatred for the atrocities of the Southern Song Dynasty. A word of "Twenty-four Bridges" is still there, and the waves shake Leng Yue silently. After reading the red medicine by the bridge, you will know who to live for every year! " A few words were highly praised. In his later years, influenced by Xin Qiji, the style of ci poetry changed, such as "Singing Jade and Music to Fan House" and "Returning to the Palace in the Spring", showing a bold style. Song of Taoist Baishi has 17 self-directed and self-performed songs, with music notes, which is the only complete music score data circulated so far. Jiang Kui is a representative writer of metrical school, inheriting Zhou Bangyan and enlightening Wu Wenying and Zhang Yan, which has a great influence on later generations. Huang Tingjian began to learn poetry, and later studied Lu Guimeng in the late Tang Dynasty. Although his words are careful and deliberate, there are few delicate traces, and his poetry style is beautiful and far-reaching, such as ten poems from Shihu to Tiaoxi. The book Shi Shuo is quite original. For details about his life, please refer to the summer chronicle and notes. The year of death is based on a new study of the year of death of Jiang Kui. There are Taoist Baishi's songs, Taoist Baishi's poems, poems, Jiang Tieping, continued book scores, and ancient music.

Anecdotal allusions

There was a love affair in Jiang Kui's life, which was unforgettable. Living in Hefei in my early years, I met two sisters who are good at playing pipa. Since then, he has formed an indissoluble bond with one of them. But because Baishi can't be self-sufficient, he has to run around and eat, and he can't be together forever. In Jiang Baishi's poems, there are only three quatrains of "sending Van Boehner to Hefei", but in his poems, there are as many as 22 poems related to this situation, accounting for a quarter of all his poems, which shows that he is unforgettable. Predecessors often blame them for their inexperience, and Wang Guowei even made a mockery of "White Stone is dignified and heartless". But in fact, Baishi's expertise in emotion is comparable to that of Lu You among the literati in the Song Dynasty. This also makes his ci have extremely touching quality, as Mr. Xia said, "it is the most prominent love story in Tang and Song Dynasties".