Yuan Jiagu Yuan Jiagu (1872- 1937), a scholar in Honghe Prefecture in Qing Dynasty, was born in Shiping County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. In the 20th year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1894), he took the examination in the 29th year of Guangxu (1903), won the first place in China's special economic topic, commonly known as "Teyuan", and was awarded the editing by imperial academy. Wei Wuzhuang, governor of Yunnan-Guizhou Province, specially wrote a book "Da Kui Tian Xia" and hung it in Jukui Building on Tuodong Road in Kunming to show its brilliance, so Jukui Building is also called "Zhuangyuan Building". In the same year, Yuan Jiagu, the champion of economic specialty in Qing Dynasty and a native of Honghe, Yunnan, was sent to Japan to study and supervise students studying in Yunnan. In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1905), he returned to China and served as the director of the Department's Bookmaking Bureau. In the year of Xuantongyuan (1909), he was sent to Zhejiang as a scholar and minister. In Zhejiang, he devoted himself to setting up schools and libraries and made great contributions to the education in Zhejiang.
After the Revolution of 1911, Yuan Jiagu returned to Yunnan and was elected as a member of the Senate of the National Assembly and the Senate of Yunnan Province. He also served as the ambassador of Yunnan Salt Transportation, a professor at Donglu University (now Yunnan University) and the director of the provincial library, and devoted himself to academic research and cultural education. Rich in works, involving history, literature, education, Confucian classics and other fields, he has his own unique views and is an accomplished scholar in the cultural history of Yunnan.
Yuan Jiagu's academic research focuses on historiography and Confucian classics. In historiography, he studied the history and writing of China, and paid more attention to the local history of Yunnan. His major works include Yunnan Memorabilia, Yunnan Arts and Shiping County Records. Yunnan Memorabilia is a six-volume chronological history book, which records the history of Yunnan from "Tang Yao Yuan Zai Chen Jia" to the year of Xinhai in Xuan Tong in Qing Dynasty, * * * 4268. Dian Yi, with four volumes and 267 articles, is a notebook historical work. This paper discusses the historical facts, events, figures, historical sites and scenery of Yunnan from the pre-Qin period to the Republic of China, which is of great reference value to the study of Yunnan history. In the study of Confucian classics, he made a long-term study of Confucian classics. His main works are Jing Shuo, Yi Essay, Yi, Fei Chun and so on.
Yuan Jiagu taught in Donglu University and later Yunnan University for 14 years (1923- 1937), mainly teaching history, Confucian classics and poetics. Its profound knowledge and tireless spirit of educating people have benefited students a lot.
Yuan Jiagu is not only a historian and educator, but also a poet and calligrapher. He is good at writing ancient poems, including 12 volumes of Poems of Woxuetang, followed by two volumes. Twenty-two volumes of Collected Works of Lie School; There is also "Wo Xuetang Poetry Talk", which has commented on dozens of poems. Yuan Jiagu's narrative prose, writing landscapes, is delicate and appropriate, which is very literary; His poems are lyrical and poetic. In his life, his poetry creation never stopped, and there are more than 840 existing poems. In addition to writing books, Yuan Jiagu also studied calligraphy. His calligraphy belongs to Wang Xizhi, Mi Fei and Chu Suiliang, and has its own system. His calligraphy is vigorous and elegant.