This sentence comes from "Qinglian Zhailian", written by Zheng Xie in the Qing Dynasty.
Zheng Xie (November 22, 1693 - January 22, 1766), courtesy name Kerou, Banqiao, Banqiao Taoist, Xinghua County, Yangzhou Prefecture, Huaiyang Haidao, Jiangsu Province (now Jiangsu He is a native of Daduo Town, Xinghua City, Taizhou City, and his ancestral home is Changmen, Suzhou. He was young and poor, worked hard and worked hard. After he became an official, he was upright and disliked officialdom. He finally resigned and lived in Yangzhou. He made a living by painting and calligraphy, and became one of the main representatives of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou".
In the Kangxi period, the scholars went to Nanjing to pass the provincial examination in the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732). Qing Dynasty official, famous scholar, calligrapher and painter, good at painting bamboo. He is good at poetry and lyrics, good at calligraphy and painting. Poems disdain idioms. He is the author of "Banqiao Poetry Notes", "Banqiao Ci Notes", "Banqiao Family Letters", "Banqiao Paintings", "Mr. Banqiao's Seal" and other self-engraved editions, and "Ink Letters to My Brother".
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Character biography:
1. Early hardships
The thirty-second year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty (1693) On November 22) Zheng Banqiao was born.
In the 40th year of Kangxi's reign (1701), he lost his stepmother, Mrs. Zheng, at the age of fourteen.
In the fifty-second year of Kangxi (1713), he was admitted as a scholar at the age of about twenty.
In the fifty-fifth year of Kangxi (1716), he married Mrs. Xu.
In the fifty-eighth year of Kangxi (1719), he set up a private school in Zhijiang Village of Zhenzhou to teach.
2. Living in Yangzhou
In the first year of Yongzheng (1723), his father passed away. At this time, Banqiao had two daughters and one son, and his life was even more difficult.
In the third year of Yongzheng's reign (1725), he traveled to Jiangxi and met Master Wufang and Manchu scholar Paul Lu in Mount Lu.
3. Studying for official positions
In the fifth year of Yongzheng's reign (1728), he traveled to Tongzhou, studied at Tianning Temple in Yangzhou, and wrote one copy of each of the "Four Books" by hand.
In the seventh year of Yongzheng (1730), he wrote the first draft of "Ten Poems on Taoism". At the age of thirty-nine, Mrs. Xu died of illness.
In the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), Zheng Banqiao was forty years old. In the autumn of that year, he went to Nanjing to take part in the provincial examination, passed the examination, and wrote the poem "De Nanjieyin".
In the first year of Qianlong (1736), in Beijing, he took part in the examination of the Ministry of Rites and was awarded the title of Gongshi. In May, he took part in the imperial examination at Danqi in front of the Hall of Supreme Harmony, and was ranked 88th in the second grade. To give him a Jinshi background.
In the second year of Qianlong (1737), he stayed in Beijing for about a year and married Rao. The wet nurse Fei died.
In the fourth year of Qianlong's reign (1739), he composed four poems of seven rhymes and presented them to Yu Jianzeng, the envoy overseeing transportation in Huainan.
In the fifth year of Qianlong's reign (1740), he wrote the preface to Dong Weiye's "Yangzhou Zhuzhi Ci".
In the sixth year of Qianlong (1741), he entered Beijing and was waiting for an official vacancy. He was cordially entertained by Wang Yunxi of Shen County.
In the spring of the seventh year of Qianlong (1742), Zheng Banqiao served as the magistrate of Fan County and was in charge of the small county court.
In the eighth year of Qianlong's reign (1743), "Ten Poems of Taoism" was revised several times before it was finalized. The engraver was Situ Wenpao of Shangyuan Dynasty.
Four. Two terms as county magistrate
In the ninth year of Qianlong (1744), my concubine Rao gave birth to a son. When Zheng Banqiao was the magistrate of Fan County, he paid attention to farming and mulberry, observed the people's sentiments, and promoted people's labor, so that the people lived and worked in peace and contentment.
In the eleventh year of Qianlong's reign (1746), he was transferred from Fan County to Wei County. In the same year, a great famine occurred in Shandong.
In the twelfth year of Qianlong's reign (1747), Debao, a native of Zhenghuang Banner in Manchuria and a scholar who served as a lecturer, presided over the examination in Shandong. Banqiao was also in the examination courtyard and sang with each other.
In the thirteenth year of Qianlong's reign (1748), Gao Bin, a bachelor, and Liu Tongxun, the censor of the capital, went to Shandong as special envoys to provide relief, and Banqiao accompanied them.
In the fourteenth year of Qianlong's reign (1749), Rao's son died of illness in Xinghua. Visited Guo's Garden with Yushi Shen Yanfang.
In the fifteenth year of Qianlong's reign (1750), he wrote Banqiao's preface. In the same year, Wenchang Temple was rebuilt, the Zhuangyuan Bridge was advocated, and the record of Wenchang Temple was written.
In the 16th year of Qianlong's reign (1751), seawater overflowed, and Banqiao went to Yuwangtai in the north of Weixian County to investigate the disaster.
In the seventeenth year of Qianlong's reign (1752), he presided over the construction of the Town God's Temple in Wei County and wrote the inscription of the Town God's Temple.
5. Later life
In the eighteenth year of Qianlong (1753), Zheng Banqiao was sixty-one years old. He resigned from office because the people asked him to relieve the disobedient officials.
In the nineteenth year of Qianlong (1754), Zheng Banqiao visited Hangzhou. Return to Qiantang, go to Kuaiji, explore Yu Cave, visit Orchid Pavilion, and go up and down the mountain valley.
In the 22nd year of Qianlong's reign (1757), he participated in the Hongqiao Wanqiu Festival presided over by Yu Jian, the supervisor of the Huaihe River transportation, and got acquainted with Yuan Mei, exchanging poems with each other. During this period, Banqiao produced many calligraphy and painting works, which were widely circulated.
In the twenty-seventh year of Qianlong's reign (1762), he painted "Bamboo and Stone Pictures". A huge stone towers up from the sky, and several thin bamboo poles almost break the picture. ?
On December 12, the 30th year of Qianlong's reign (January 22, 1765), Banqiao died and was buried in Ruanzhuang, east of Xinghua City. He was seventy-three years old.