Yuan was gifted since childhood, and was carefully taught by famous teachers such as Yan Xiu and Fang Dishan. He was so immersed in ancient culture that he was proficient in poetry, calligraphy and painting.
However, this half-blood aristocratic son regards the imperial career as dirt and is an unruly cultural person.
Yuan Kewen 16 years old officially began to write poetry, and the first work was very skillful:
? Drunk and slightly green, crazy songs are in full swing.
? Linxi falls from the flowers and falls from the rocks, looking for a way to cross the stream pool.
? Clouds connect thousands of trees, and the bell rings again.
? Going home late, the resort is here to explore.
19 15 12, Yuan Shikai is going to be emperor, and his subordinates flatter him, imitating the popular styles of the British court and customizing a suit for Yuan Shikai's children. On the day of fitting, several other princes went into the sky and put on their portraits as a souvenir, while Yuan took his love for himself and went boating on Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace, and wrote down two seven laws, one of which was: "Don't pity the wind and rain, don't go to the top of Qiongding Building." It is really a poem. Eighty-three days later, Yuan Shikai was forced to cancel the monarchy in the reviled voice of the Chinese people, and then died of illness, and died in less than three months.
Besides reciting poems and writing poems, Yuan's calligraphy is also quite distinctive.
At that time, he wrote the so-called "three musts". One is not to write on the chopping board, but to let the waiter hang his wrist on one end of the paper to write. The brushwork is vigorous but not dirty or broken, and the viewer is amazed. The second is to grasp the giant pen to write. He has a big pen, the pen holder is about one and a half meters long, and the nib is fifty centimeters. He spread the paper in the yard and stood on it with a pen in his hands. The pen is as big as a rafter and moves like the wind. The third is lying in bed and writing on his back, with a paper in his left hand, a pen in his right hand and a cigarette in his mouth, but the written lower case letters are neat and delicate, and the paper is clean.
Yuan's calligraphy is famous in Beijing and Tianjin. No matter in the upper class or in the street, he is proud of getting the word Yuan, and Yuan always gives everything he wants. Yuan is addicted to books and spends a lot of money on books and posts.
At that time, as a prince, Beijing had a library. After Yuan Shikai's death, Yuan Kewen lived in Shanghai, and the economy was not as good as before, but he still did not change his addiction. Fu Zengxiang, a great bibliophile, said, "I haven't seen books for a long time, and factories and cities are very lonely. However, Yuan Baozhen recruited him with a lot of money, and I am afraid that he will be difficult to sell in the future. " It's just that sometimes it's difficult to make a living, so I often buy one and sell another.
On one occasion, Yuan was in urgent need of cash, so he sold the well-preserved and priceless engraved poems of Yu Song at the price of 1600 yuan, and let his old friend Fu Zengxiang stamp his feet.
It is worth pondering that after a period of time, Yuan actually spent 2000 yuan to redeem the book and gave it to Fu Zengxiang, which surprised Fu.
One year, hundreds of thousands of people died in Chaoshan. In order to donate money to the disaster area, Yuan gritted his teeth and sold his beloved Song Dynasty copybook "Lanting Post", which became a beautiful talk for a while.
Yuan likes theater tickets, calling himself "Master Leng Yun", and often goes to sea to perform with famous artists. At that time, four famous artists all cooperated with him, and they were good at playing plays such as "Checking the Head and Leaving Soup" and "Hero". Because he is full of bookishness, the clowns he plays, such as Tang Qin and Jiang Gan, have a unique flavor that others can't match.
Yuan can not only perform, but also be proficient in drama theory. He once opened a column about the game world in that year, and some of his views were quite incisive, which are still regarded as the standard by people who learn to sing Kunqu opera.
193 1 year, Yuan died of scarlet fever at the age of 4 1 year.
Later generations wrote poems and lamented: it is sad to learn to be an official and sell words under a high platform. If life is forced by drama, there is no Leng Yun.
Li Yu, the leader of the Southern Tang Dynasty, had a saying: "Being a poet is really unparalleled, and he was born in an imperial family."
Well, wasn't Yuan born in Yuan's home by mistake?