Li Shu Manjianghong's Calligraphy Works

The content of "Manjianghong" works: rushing to the crown with anger, leaning against the railing and resting in the drizzle. Looking up, screaming in the sky, strong and fierce. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and the moon. Don't be idle, grow old together and be unhappy. Jingkang is ashamed, but it is still snowing. When will courtiers hate it? Driving a long car, breaking through the lack of Helan Mountain. Eat pork when you are hungry, and drink Hun blood when you are thirsty. Stay from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and go to the sky.

There are different opinions about the creative background of this word. Some scholars think that this word was written around the second year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong (1 132), while others think that it was written after Yue Fei was promoted to Qingyuan Army in the fourth year of Shaoxing (1 134).

Controversy of works

From the discovery of the Ming Dynasty to the beginning of the 20th century, the whole world always regarded it as the work of Yue Fei. During the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, Maixiu, the eunuch guarding Zhejiang, ordered the word "Manjianghong" to be engraved on the tablet of Yuefei Hall in Hangzhou, written by Zhao Kuan. Obviously, this word was written by Yue Fei. Yue Ji, compiled by Xu Jie in the Ming Dynasty, also holds the same view, which has been believed for hundreds of years.

However, since the 1930s, scholars such as Xia, Xu, etc. have questioned the view that "Man Jiang is red with anger and rushes to the crown" is named Yue Fei. The main reason is that the word "Manjianghong" was not included in Jin Wan Bian and Letters from Wang E, and the word "Manjianghong" never appeared in the world before the inscription of Zhao Kuan's book "Manjianghong" in the fifteenth year of Hongzhi (1502).