Huang Tingjian, a writer and calligrapher in the Song Dynasty, once proposed it.
Huang Tingjian, whose courtesy name was Lu Zhi, also known as Shangu Daoren, later known as Fu Weng, was a native of Hongzhou Fenning (now Xiushui County, Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province). He was a famous writer and calligrapher in the Northern Song Dynasty and the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School. As famous as Su Shi, he is known as "Su Huang" in the world.
Huang Tingjian put forward poetic theories such as "turning iron into gold" and "reshaping the body and bones", which had a profound impact on Song poetry and later generations. Huang Tingjian's poems are based on Du Fu. They pay attention to rhetoric and sentence construction, emphasizing that "no word has its origin". He writes mostly about personal daily life. His style is unique and he is the founder of Jiangxi Poetry School. His works include "The Collected Works of Mr. Huang from Yuzhang" and "Gu Gu Qinqu Waipian" ("Gu Ci").
About Huang Tingjian
Huang Tingjian’s distant ancestor is Huang Ba, the Prime Minister of Xunli in the Western Han Dynasty. His tenth ancestor Huang Han was a Jinshi in the mid-Tang Dynasty, and his ninth great-uncle Huang Baoren was a Jinshi in the Tang Dynasty. Huang Rong, the eighth generation ancestor, was the deputy prime minister of the Tang Dynasty, Youpu She. Huang Hao, the seventh generation ancestor, was a Jinshi in the late Tang Dynasty. Huang Qi, the sixth generation ancestor, was a scholar in the late Tang Dynasty. Huang Pu, the sixth uncle, was a Jinshi in the Southern Tang Dynasty. Huang Fan, the fifth generation ancestor, was a Jinshi in the Southern Tang Dynasty. He was a doctor and knew Fenning County. Huang Yuanji, the fourth great uncle, was a Jinshi of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He was the first Huang family of Fenning to be a Jinshi after they moved from Jinhua, Zhejiang to Xiushui, Jiangxi.
The Shuangjing Huang family, under the guidance of the Huang family rules formulated by Huang Zhongli, has a very good reading style, and has a succession of talented people. It is a prominent cultural family in Yuzhang. Huang Tingjian has a rich family background. The Shuangjing Huang family had 25 more Jinshis in the Song Dynasty. In this way, in the Song Dynasty alone, the Shuangjing Huang family had 48 Jinshis. Today, Xiushui Shuangjing Village is known as the “No. 1 Village for Chinese Scholars”.
Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia—Huang Tingjian