Youmao
You Mao of the Southern Song Dynasty was born in a family of scholarly family. He has been well influenced by his family since he was a child. At the age of five, he wrote poems. At the age of ten, he was called a child prodigy. At the age of fifteen, he was well known by many people because he was good at poetry and fu. At the age of twenty-one, Youmao won the Jinshi, who was originally the top scholar, but was changed to the top three because he offended Qin Gui. You Mao was the first county magistrate in Taixing. At that time, the mountains and rivers in the Song Dynasty were broken and Jiangnan was relatively safe. Taixing is located in the border area of the Southern Song Dynasty, and the nomads often invade. After you Mao came to power, he pleaded for the people, exempted from exorbitant taxes, and led farmers to tidy up the city walls.
In the thirty-first year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Bing invaded the Song Dynasty on a large scale, and Yangzhou, Zhou Zhen and other places fell one after another. Only Taixing was preserved. After the nomads from the Huaihe River ravaged, the people were displaced and had no peace all day. In his poems, You Mao described the tragic experience of Huainan people and expressed sympathy for Huainan people.
After you Mao made a great contribution to Taixing as an official, he was ordered to be transferred to the capital, edited by the National History Institute and reviewed by the local records institute, and later promoted to the servant of the Prince. Later, because You Mao and many ministers opposed the emperor's appointment of Zhang Shuo, he was driven out of the capital in the second year and became a magistrate in Taizhou. During his tenure as the magistrate of Taizhou, Youmao reduced the taxes of the poor and continued to thicken and heighten the city walls.
Youmao's pronunciation
The pronunciation of your hair, your hair, "Mao" is the word "Mao" in a vast sea of smoke. After the popularity of Youmao's pronunciation, let's introduce Youmao. You Mao was a famous poet, minister and bibliophile in the Southern Song Dynasty. You Mao especially likes collecting books. He has a special interest in books all his life and has the title of bookcase. As long as he knows the title of any book he hasn't read, he must try his best to find it to read. After reading it, he should not only take notes, but also copy them.
Yang once described the scene of Youmao copying books like this: Every time Youmao retired from the DPRK, he would close the door and copy several ancient books every day. His disciples also copied books, and so did his daughter. Yang also recorded a story about You Mao, saying that Yang once gave his book to You Mao, and You Mao was happy to write poems as a reward.
Because you Mao likes collecting very much. Collect books, in addition, he also served as an assistant in the National History Museum and other related positions. Whenever he had the chance, he borrowed books from the three secret halls of the imperial court, and was able to read some books that were difficult for ordinary people to see, and copied them all down. Therefore, there are many kinds of books in Youmao, among which there are many rare ones. His later Lu You once described his book collection in this way, generally referring to all kinds of books piled all over the house, too many to get up.
You Mao copied more than 3,000 volumes in his life, and it is not easy to borrow books. It seems that no one has touched a brand-new book. In addition, there are several places where books are collected, with more than 30 thousand volumes. You Mao once compiled books into a volume, which is also the earliest edition catalogue in China, and has a very important reference function for the study of ancient books in China.
You Mao is a famous poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, and his main literary achievements are reflected in his poetry creation. The situation in the Southern Song Dynasty was turbulent, the people's life was very hard, there were strong enemies abroad, and the domestic political situation was very chaotic. In Youmao's poems, we can often see his thoughts and sympathy for the people.
Fang Hui of Yuan Dynasty once talked about poets in Southern Song Dynasty. He said: "When it comes to poets, you, Yang, Fan and Lu will definitely be mentioned." The four people he mentioned are the four great poets in the Southern Song Dynasty, and You Mao is one of them. Unfortunately, a large number of poems by You Mao, his related works and more than 30,000 books were burned in a fire. The 59 poems about him that I see now are collected by his descendants from many places. From his poems, we can see his ideological content. You Mao, like the other three poets, showed great dissatisfaction with the attitude of the court in the Southern Song Dynasty at that time, and was angry and powerless at the political turmoil, the broken mountains and rivers and the oppression of the people. For example, from the poem "Falling Plums" by You Mao, we can see that the poet is worried about national security and angry with the court of the Southern Song Dynasty for not making progress and singing and dancing all day.
You Mao's poems are ordinary and natural, popular and fresh, without flowery rhetoric or pretentious mystery. For example, the snow he wrote mainly describes the scenes and feelings after the snow. The poet didn't know it was snowing when he slept, but he was surprised that the window lit up. The snowflake is a foot thick, and the moon shines at night.