Famous politicians, writers, historians and thinkers in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty were called "the great poets in the third day of Ming Dynasty" with Gao Qi and Liu Ji, and "the four gentlemen in eastern Zhejiang" with Zhang Yi, Liu Ji and Ye Chen. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, praised him as "the head of the founding civil servants", and scholars called him Taishigong and Song Longmen. ?
Song Lian was ill since childhood, and his family was poor, but he was smart and studious, so he was known as a "child prodigy". He was employed by Ji Meng, Wu Lai, Liu Guan, Huang Cheng and others. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he resigned from the imperial court and ordered monks to write books. In the early Ming Dynasty, he was hired by Zhu Yuanzhang and was honored as a teacher of the Five Classics, giving lectures for Prince Zhu Biao.
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), he was ordered to major in Yuan history. Most of the court etiquette was formulated for him when he was tired of being an official and learned the imperial edict from the Hanlin bachelor.
Hongwu ten years (1377), resigned as an old man and returned to his hometown. Later, because his eldest grandson was involved in the Hu case, he was demoted to Maozhou and died in Kuizhou at the age of 72. Ming Wuzong pursued "Wen Xian", so he called it "Song Wenxian".
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Introduction of main works:
1, "Huancui Pavilion"
Huancui Pavilion is an essay by Song Lian, a writer in Ming Dynasty, which comes from the sixteenth volume of Complete Works of Song Wenxian. This article is written for people. Written at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. It depicts the process of a garden pavilion from prosperity to waste and from waste to prosperity, and praises the endless entrepreneurial spirit of Xu scholars.
However, the author's purpose in writing this article is not limited to this. He linked the rise and fall of a garden pavilion with the rise and fall of the people and the country in the world, praised the great achievements of the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and placed high hopes on the newly established Ming regime.
2. yuan dynasty history
The History of the Yuan Dynasty is a biographical chronology that systematically records the rise and fall of the Yuan Dynasty. It was written by Song Lian (1310 ~1381) and Wang Qi (132 1 ~ 650) in the early Ming Dynasty.
Book 2 10, including 47 biographies, 58 chronicles, 8 tables and 97 biographies, describes the history from the rise of Mongols to the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, and then the Yuan Dynasty fled to the northern Mongolian plateau.
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