In the fifty-fourth year of Kangxi, he was a scholar, and in the first year of Yongzheng, he chose tribute students. In the second year of Yongzheng, after having obtained the provincial examination in Shuntian, he was a scholar in the eighth year of Yongzheng (1730), and was elected as the Jishi Shu officially awarded by imperial academy.
Bai Qian was brilliant, well-read, good at accepting words and sensitive to Wen Han. He studied the poems of Lian Xiao and Du Li in this county in his early years. Li is also a native of Bangzhen, and he was awarded a prize in the fifty-ninth year of Kangxi.
According to the Records of Chongming County in the Republic of China, Bai Qian was a good writer in Chongming. He is honest and good at identifying and cultivating talents. Autumn of the thirteenth year of Yongzheng. Shuntian took the post of Chief Cabinet Secretary after the rural examination, and served as the examiner and examiner after the last two rural examinations in Fujian. After nine years of Qianlong, he went to Wuying Hall to compile the Outline of Ming History. At that time, all the manuscripts were gone because the main pen was changed many times. However, the deadline for submitting manuscripts is very urgent. With his talent and hard work, Bai Qian usurped the throne sooner or later and completed it as scheduled. Therefore, Zeng Wen looks forward to the ruling and opposition. Uncle Prince Yixian also envied Bai Qian's talent and asked him to give a lecture to the second prince. When Bai Qian was in Chongming, many prestigious people asked him to write articles. A scholar named Huang Jian, who is good at writing lyrics and composing music, should also ask him to make a good biography for him. Bai Qian once wrote the Cadastral Records of Zhao Gong, Postscript of Shen Wenhao's Clearing Land Taxes, Rebuilding the Pavilion of Respect for Classics, Biography of Mr. Jin 'an, etc., many of which are engraved on stone tablets. Bai Qian is particularly good at writing four-character poems, that is, the kind of articles that take part in imperial examinations. His articles are very famous. Once published in Yunei, it was all the rage and was a model essay for imperial examination candidates. He Zhongxiang of Chongming and Wang of Jintan made a preface. Later, with the abolition of the imperial examination system and the rise of vernacular Chinese, no one read his articles.
Bai Qian is also a poet. In the summer of Qianlong nine years, he took over the throne, attended a banquet in imperial academy with Zhang Yushu, Chen, Jin Deying and other ministers, and wrote poems and couplets with "Bailiangti", which was appreciated by Emperor Qianlong. So, "I called out the poems one by one." Bai Qian's poems were included in the Annals of Chongming County in Qianlong and Poems of Yingzhou edited by Yang Zun, a Chongming native in Qing Dynasty. His works reflect real life, including lyrical scenery, and also reflect the suffering of working people during the famine. Yang Xian called his poems "as handsome as his prose", and Du Li also called them "famous literary figures and outstanding poets".
Bai Qian's greatest achievement in his life was calligraphy, a famous calligrapher in Chongming in Qing Dynasty. It was because of his excellent calligraphy that he was chosen as Jishi Shu. His calligraphy is between Yu Shinan and Ou Yangxun, calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty. It combines the strengths of the two, is self-contained, returns to Xiangguan Pavilion, and has a strong and elegant style. As a calligrapher, his name was recorded in the Guangxu Jinling engraving and the Dictionary of China Artists' Surnames published by Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House 1985. During the Qianlong period, there was Bai Qian's calligraphy on the stone carving of "Rebuilding Zunjing Pavilion" in Chongming Academy.
Baiqian is one of the proud children of Chongming Island, which is a clean paradise facing the sea. He is a poet and calligrapher. When he was young, he was smart, honest and diligent. He is honest in his official career, works hard and often solves people's difficulties. After resigning, he presided over the teaching of Yushan Academy, discovered and trained a group of useful talents, and greatly improved the local cultural undertakings.