Interpretation of running script calligraphy

The layman's search for poetry is still wet.

The news of apricot blossoms makes the rain cold.

Who said poetry to Su Huang,

Wan Li has a wide view to the south.

Xie Qikun's Poems on Poetry

This poem is used to evaluate Chen. Chen was an outstanding poet and a poet at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty. His ci style is unique, but unique, especially close to Su Dongpo. His meaning is superb, his brushwork is ethereal, lively and natural.

The meaning of the poem itself is this: the layman (referring to Chen) wrote the poem, and the ink was not dry, and the apricot flower had already felt the cold of the rain (setting off Chen's bleak situation of avoiding Jingkang's shame). Who said that when poetry came to Su Shi and Huang Tingjian, there was no successor? (referring to Chen's poems, which are also very good) laity found everything in the south. Although I fled Kyoto, I went there with a new look. This is an encouragement to let Chen Jushi not be depressed and have confidence in the future.

This poem is written according to the state affairs. Although it is entitled "On Poetry", it is actually about things. Although the northern song dynasty died, the southern song dynasty still exists, so we can make every effort to start all over again. It shows the author's concern for the national conditions and expectation for the future.

Xie Qikun (1737—1802), whose name is Liang Bi, is Yunshan and Sutan. Qing Qianlong was born in the early years after Bufang, Dongjie Street, Nankang County. He was an official in the imperial examination, compiled by an official, and took the exam after the provincial examination. He served as magistrate, provincial judge, political envoy and governor, and became an outstanding governor, famous scholar and local historian at that time.

Xie Qikun was born in a scholarly family and received strict family instructions and orthodox Confucianism from an early age. His father is also a well-read man, especially good at language, writing, phonology and exegesis, and is famous for teaching children well. Xie Qikun was gifted, receptive, studious and self-motivated, and passed down from family to school, so he was praised for his excellent academic performance when he was young. 16 years old, Xie went to Beijing to enter imperial academy. At the age of 24, he took the provincial examination and took the eighth place in the second year. In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (A.D. 176 1), palace examination won the first prize and awarded Hanlin Jishi Shu as a scholar. [ 1]

He acted fairly. He was selected by the examiner twice and was recognized as a scholar with real talent and practical learning, which was widely praised by the society. Moreover, he himself was famous for his economic articles in Beijing, and he was awarded the first class merit and was appointed as a government official and a Taoist official.

Then, Xie Qikun successively served as the magistrate of Zhenjiang, the magistrate of Yangzhou and the minister of Shanxi. In the fourth year of Jiaqing (A.D. 1799), he served as assistant minister of the Ministry of War and right deputy governor of Douchayuan, and served as governor of Guangxi.

Xie Qikun not only made outstanding achievements in his life as an honest official, but also won the hearts of the people and achieved academic success. He is the author of 23 volumes of Shu Jing Tang Ji, 4 volumes of Essays, 526 poems of Shu Jing Tang, 24 volumes of Western Wei Shu, 50 volumes of Primary School Examination, and Off-Valley Ji. Supplement to Other Collections, Textual Research on Historical Records, Records of Scholars in Guangxi, Records of Martyrdom in the Holy Dynasty, Notes on the Fate of the North Building, etc. , become a generation of famous scholars, outstanding historians, especially outstanding local historians.

In terms of local chronicles, besides the Annals of Nanchang compiled by Qianlong, the most successful one is Guangxi Tongzhi, which has far-reaching influence and is called "the model of local chronicles" by Liang Qichao.

On June 26th, the seventh year of Jiaqing (A.D. 1802), Xie Qikun died of illness at the age of 66, when he was the governor of Guangxi. The Qing court gave 3,200 taels of silver, ordered the governor of Jiangxi to offer sacrifices, and allowed Xie Qikun's coffin to enter Jiangxi and be buried in Dashan, Taohua Township, Xinjian County.