What kind of person is Qi Jiguang?

Qi Jiguang is a famous anti-Japanese fighter, an outstanding strategist, calligrapher, poet and national hero. At the same time, Qi Jiguang is an outstanding weapon expert and military engineer. He reformed and invented all kinds of fire weapons. The warships and chariots he built made the waterway equipment of the Ming army superior to the enemy; He creatively built a hollow enemy platform on the Great Wall, which can be attacked, retreated and defended. This is a distinctive military project.

1. Militarily, Qi Jiguang wrote two important military works, namely "Ji Xiaoxin's Book" and "Practical Training Law". These two books are a summary of his experience in training and fighting, and they are also teaching materials for his training. They have a high position in military science, and are included in Sikuquanshu, accounting for one tenth of military works.

2. During his intense and busy military career, Qi Jiguang not only wrote military works such as Ji Xiaoxin's Letter, Training the Discipline of Actual Combat, but also left poems and chapters such as Zhi Zhi Tangji, which enjoyed the reputation of "a talented person is like a man, and it is rare to get married at that time". The Summary of Sikuquanshu praised Qi Jiguang's poems as "powerful in meter" and "close to the voice of Zhao Yan". Wang Shizhen listed him as one of the eleven famous poets in ancient and modern times.

3. Qi Jiguang's calligraphy is fluent and has a personalized artistic expression. The whole work is bold and natural, with bold brushwork and natural charm, which is greatly influenced by Huang Gu's calligraphy style. Express a high-spirited atmosphere. The works reveal his inner calmness and fortitude, and the angular thick lines outline his unrestrained spirit.