The piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and hops were inseparable in those years. Now the seven characters have changed, and the rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea have been self-examined as "Lianpo Poetry". It means that "painting, calligraphy, piano, chess, poetry and hops" was originally a matter of elegance. In those days, it was fun and chic. Now, everything is declared "subversive" and has become a common thing of "rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar tea".
Cha Weiren (1695 ~ 1749), a poet in Qing Dynasty, was named Lianpo, also known as Lianpo Jushi. Tianjin people. Born in a scholarly family, his father once built the Chashi Garden Villa Shuixizhuang. Cha Wei-ren widely bought books here, and made friends with famous domestic literati and scholars. Cha Wei Rensheng's career was bumpy. In the fifty years of Kangxi (1711), he took the township entrance examination as the first place, and Zhao Shenlou, the main examiner, was put in prison and was released eight years later.
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Cha Weiren was born in a scholarly family, which made Tianjin's ancient literature and art career enter its heyday centered on Shuixizhuang. Its literati prosperity, along with Yangzhou Mashi Linglong Mountain Pavilion and Hangzhou Zhao Xiaoshantang, has become a famous cultural resort at home and abroad. Cha Weiren himself also showed great talent, and the wonderful good words written with Li E was included in Sikuquanshu. He is the author of 9 volumes of "The Draft of Shu Tang", 8 volumes of "External Collection" and 3 volumes of "Poems on Lianpo".
In the appreciation and criticism of poetry, it is permeated with its own unique aesthetic view and values, which opposes the formalism and retro ethos in the poetry circle, advocates "unique spirit", advocates the original spirit, respects the fresh and natural poetic style, and tends to the aesthetic realm of "light but eternal".
Baidu Encyclopedia-Cha Weiren