Pan Ding's Life

. During his sixty years (1795) in Hangzhou, Qing Qianlong was good at calligraphy and painting, and met many celebrities. However, there are many failures in the examination room, and they are always tried. In the fifteenth year of Jiaqing (18 10), he won a secondary tribute in the senior high school entrance examination and was sentenced in Zhili, but he was worried about not being an official because of Ding Fu. Lin Minzhai, a social friend, observed that he was defending Chongqing, invited him as a staff officer, helped him to promote the advantages and eliminate the disadvantages, and his political voice was brilliant. In the meantime, he was in charge of Chuandong Academy with outstanding achievements. After Lin was transferred to Hubei to supervise grain, Ding followed and helped a lot.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jiaqing (18 19), he returned to the provincial wall with Dong Ya, a fellow countryman, to adapt to his younger brother's illness and death at sea, and personally carried the coffin back to his hometown to teach at Luoyang Academy.

Daoguang five years (1825), went north to Kyoto to help wait for the case. He was sent to Tongzhou for observation and was very ill. Out of friendship, Ding went to Tongzhou Commercial Office twice to deal with the aftermath, and didn't return to Beijing until it was finished. During his stay in the capital, Mu, a civil servant, was highly valued and hired an assistant minister as his mentor. And will be granted an official, suddenly spread to the mother's funeral, did not return.

Ding is charming, hospitable, eloquent, and has urgent difficulties among his relatives, so please ask them to solve them more. Whenever there is bad luck, it will be planned and funded. If people have had enough, they need to scold it to their face. Everything that can be accepted with an open mind should be tolerated and maintained, because people dare to approach.

He has read widely all his life, and is rich in poetry and prose, and is willing to cultivate backward people. He has taught in Luo Yang Academy for more than ten years, and his mentoring brings out the best in each other. When writing calligraphy, you should first learn facial expressions, and then copy them and make progress day by day. They are free to change, beautiful and beautiful, and become famous for a while. Ink freehand brushwork has a natural interest, and the orchids and bamboos it produces are even more popular. People claim to be good at writing, and strive to buy books, rubbings, seals, pen and ink, and wenwan at high prices, but they are extremely frugal in mouth and body, and make friends with their neighbors. Only Dong Bo and Ceng Huang are the best. They tasted three kinds of stones, Songting, Zhupo and Meixi, and took their Zhupo to Songting.

In his later years, he was sickly and lived with Dong Bo, a native of the village, and Duanmu Guohu, a celebrity in Qingtian, in the "Shilin Jingshe" to entertain himself with poetry and wine. He wrote a lot of poems and paintings in his life, but he was scattered. Now the county library has a volume of Poems and Notes of Xiao Li Shan Nong Pavilion. There are three paintings of orchid, bamboo and lotus in the county museum.