Second, family background.
Shan Li's family background has not been discussed much in painting theory. Shan Li often inscribed "descendants of Li Wending", "grandson of Li VI" and "immortal prime minister's mansion" on his paintings and calligraphy. It is not difficult to see his pride in his distinguished family.
In recent years, the discovery of Li Jiapu has provided valuable information for us to study the formation of Shan Li's family background and world outlook. Shan Li is indeed Li Chunfang's sixth grandson. Its branches are:
Li Chunfang handed down six sons: Mao Nian, Mao Cai, Mao De, Mao Gong, Mao Ye and Mao Zhong; Mao Zhongchuan has three sons, the eldest son is; Si Qian; The company passed on four sons, and the second was Wei Long; Chang Weichuan's second son, the second son Li Fa; Li Fachuan's third son, the third son is yi zhu; Zhu Yichuan's four sons: perch, land, qingyan and mackerel. The third son of shark biography: then officer, and noon. Qingyan adopted the Xie family, so Shan Li is also known as, for example, the poem Three Silence in Li Huai.
In this branch of Li Chunfang's genealogy, six ancestors Chunfang, six ancestors Lifa and six ancestors yi zhu are directly related to the growth of Shan Li and the formation of the world outlook. The situation of these three people is roughly as follows:
Li Chunfang (1511-1585), whose real name is Shi Lu. Yangzhou Xinghua people. Jiajing was a juren in ten years and a champion in twenty-six years. Because he entered Xiyuan to write Qing Ci, he was favored by the emperor as soon as possible and was awarded the Bachelor of Hanlin. At the age of 55, he was promoted to bachelor's degree in Zhongji Temple. Before the death of Emperor Jiajing, he was a minister in charge of life and later a record, so he was called Li Xiangguo. In his later years, he lived in seclusion in Hong En Temple in Xishan, Yangzhou, and was buried next to the temple after his death (now Li Xiang Township, Yangmiao, Hanjiang). Li Chunfang also had a nickname called "Master Huayang Cave" to commemorate Huayang Cave, the Taoist ancestral home of Maoshan in Jurong, which shows his love for tranquility and beauty. Wu Cheng'en and I had a good relationship. The words "Huayang Cave's main faction" are found in the The Journey to the West published by the Ming Wanli Shidetang and Yang Minzhai, which shows that Li Chunfang is not only a patron of Wu Cheng'en, but also a participant of The Journey to the West. From this perspective, Shan Li's title of "immortal prime minister" not only shows off his family background, but also shows his religious belief and cultural origin.
Li Fa, the ancestor of Shan Li, was recommended by Zizi. Because of the honor of Ming dynasty, he was given a unique name, and he was also called Dao goose. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Dumen abandoned his son's career and sang with Rugao Maoxiang. Calligraphy, good poetry. He is the author of "The Collection of Blue Waves Mountain Residence", "The Collection of Qi Shoutang" and "The Book of the Goose".
Li, Shan Li's father, whose name is Tian Sun, was once the "Wen" among the seven small officials. Calligraphy is also good at poetry.
Judging from the above, the Shan Li family gradually declined from Li Chunfang, the sixth ancestor, to Shan Li. From his grandfather Li Fa's resolute refusal to cooperate with the Qing Dynasty to his father Zhu Yigan's being a seven-product civil servant in the Qing Dynasty, it shows his ideological orientation and past changes. In Shan Li's middle-aged pursuit of official career, in order to "protect the body by speaking the official" (Zheng Xie's "Drinking Li Fu") [2], his thought of seeking high officials should be the inevitable development in its context. On the other hand, Li Shan was born in such a romantic and literary family environment, which is a good growth condition for Li Shan to become a painter who combines poetry, painting and calligraphy.