Xie Jin (1369-1415), also known as Dashen and Jinshen, also known as Chunyu and Xiyi, was born in Jishui (now Jishui, Jiangxi) in the Ming Dynasty, in the 21st year of Hongwu (1388) Zhongjinshi, an official to the chief minister of the cabinet, a bachelor of Youchunfang, and participated in machine maintenance. Xie Jin was tabooed for his talent and outspokenness. He was repeatedly demoted and eventually imprisoned for being "unreverent". In the winter of the 13th year of Yongle (1415), he was buried in a snowdrift and froze to death. He died at the age of 47 in Chenghua. In the first year of the reign (1465), he was given to the imperial court official and given the posthumous title Wenyi.
Xie Jin has been an outstanding scholar since he was a child. His elegance is ancient, his poetry is prolific, his calligraphy is exquisite in regular script, and he is good at both writing and cursive writing. He is especially good at cursive writing. Together with Xu Wei and Yang Shen, he is known as Three great talents of the Ming Dynasty, author of "Collection of Scholars", "Tianhuang Jade Certificate", etc.; president of "Records of Taizu" and "Biographies of Women in Ancient and Modern Times"; presided over the compilation of "Yongle Dadian"; ink ink includes "Self-written Poems Volume" ", "Book of Poems of Tang Dynasty", "Anonymous Events of Zhaohengdian Examination in Song Dynasty", etc.
Main Achievements Editor
Literature
Poetry: "Going to Guangxi to Farewell Nephew Pengyun Road", "Visiting Qixingyan Occasionally", "Lushan Song", "Tengxian County" "Ji Shi", "Doujiazhai", "Sang", etc.
Writings: "Baiyun Manuscript", "Dongshan Collection", "Taiping Memorial", "Ding Chou's Fengshi", "Wen Yi Collection", "Chun Yu Miscellanies", "Tianhuang Jade Certificate", Later generations compiled "Jie Wenyi Gongji".
President: "Records of Taizu" and "Biographies of Women in Ancient and Modern Times".
In charge of the compilation: "Yongle Dadian".
Xie Jin was extremely talented and could not stop writing. He was especially good at five-character poems, with more than 500 poems extant. His ancient style songs are unrestrained and rich in imagination, which is close to Li Bai's, while his rhymed poems and quatrains are close to those of the Tang Dynasty. Xie Jinzhi's articles are elegant, powerful, ancient, and highly individual. His political essays are straightforward and full of momentum, and his biographies are concise and vivid in description. Zou Yuanbiao praised him and said: "The righteousness will last forever, and the articles will be respected for generations." Xie Jin's greatest achievement in his life was that he personally presided over the compilation of "Yongle Dadian". "Yongle Dadian" is the largest book in China and is called "Yongle Dadian" by academic circles. "The source of the collection of lost ancient books", "Encyclopedia Britannica" calls it "the largest encyclopedia in the history of the world" in the "Encyclopedia" entry.
Calligraphy
Self-written poems
Xie Jin is good at calligraphy. He has excellent regular script and cursive script. His penmanship is exquisite and unexpected. His cursive script Kuangcao was the first to be developed in the late Ming Dynasty. Wu Kuan of the Ming Dynasty wrote in "Guoweng Jia Zang Ji": "During the Yongle period, many people were able to calligraphy. The scholar Jie Gong should be the first to write smoothly and skillfully." His cursive writing was the first to develop Kuangcao in the Ming Dynasty. He Qiaoyuan's "Mingshan Zangji" " Said: "Jin learned calligraphy from Wei Su and Zhou Boqi. His calligraphy is proud and elegant, and his spirit is doubled." The ink marks include "Self-written Poems", "Books of Tang Dynasty Poems", "You Qixingyan Poems", "Song Zhaoheng" "The Anonymous Story of the Palace Examination" and so on.
"Self-written Poems" was written by Xie Jin when he was an official in Jiaozhi, Guangxi. The work was created in the eighth year of Yongle (1410), when Xie Jin was forty-two years old, just coming from the distant frontier. He went to Beijing to report, was imprisoned soon after, and died tragically five years later. It was once collected by the Qing'anqi, Qianlong, Jiaqing, and Xuantong imperial palaces. The calligraphy in this volume is vertical and horizontal, unrestrained and unrestrained.
Poems about Traveling to Qixingyan
The points and lines are well-organized and there is absolutely nothing sloppy or far-fetched. The composition and management are particularly ingenious, and the whole article is completed in one go, with a confident air, showing Jie Jin's extraordinary ability to control long scrolls with ease. From the self-awareness at the end of the volume, it is revealed that Xie Jin himself is quite proud of this volume. [19]
"Poems of Traveling to Qixingyan" is 22.8 cm long and 61.2 cm wide. It is now collected in the Palace Museum in Beijing. The works were written by Zhu Zhichi, An Qi, Qianlong Yufu, Gu Song, Pan Hou and Wu Lifu. , Zhang Heng and others inspected the collection, and there are 16 seals on it. The poem can be found in Volume 5 of Jie Jin's "Wenyi Collection", "Inscribed on Lingui Qixingyan". This poem was written in the sixth year of Yongle (1408), when Jie Jin was 40 years old. His calligraphy skills have reached a mature level, with unrestrained pen and ink, arrogant and rigorous intentions. [20]
Xie Jin's "Anecdotes of the Zhaohengdian Examination in Song Dynasty" is now in the Shanghai Museum. The first three lines of this volume are slightly restrained, but from the fourth line onwards, it gradually becomes smooth and unrestrained. The writing is vigorous and vigorous, with a sharp and changeable edge, full of pauses and setbacks
The Anonymous Examination of Zhao Hengdian in the Song Dynasty
It is smooth and smooth. The ink used is thick and dry, the ink is as dark as lacquer, and the ink rhythm is flying, adding to the elegance. Xie Jin's cursive script is famous in the history of calligraphy, on par with the three Song Dynasties in the early Ming Dynasty (Song Ke, Song Guang, Song Zhen).