Yang Ji
Yang Ji was a famous poet in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty. He was one of the four outstanding figures in Wuzhong. He was known as the "Five-character Condor Shooter". He was famous for his poetry and also He is a calligrapher and painter, especially good at painting landscapes, bamboos and rocks. Let’s talk about his poetry below.
Yang Ji, one of the "Four Heroes of Wuzhong"
Yang Ji (1326~1378) was a poet in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties. The courtesy name is Meng Zai and the name is Mei'an. He was originally from Jiazhou (now Leshan, Sichuan). His eldest father was an official in Jiangzuo, and his family was in Wuzhong (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). He was one of the "Four Heroes of Wuzhong". At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he once joined Zhang Shicheng's shogunate and served as the secretary of the prime minister's office, but later resigned. In the early Ming Dynasty, he was the magistrate of Xingyang County. He was sent to Shanxi as an inspector after being tired of his official duties. Later, he was slandered and deprived of his official position and sentenced to hard labor. Died in the workplace. Yang Ji's poetry style is clear, handsome and delicate, among which the five-character rhyme poem "Yueyang Tower" has a broad realm. At that time, people called Yang Ji the "Five-Character Condor Shooter". When he was young, he wrote "Lunjian" with more than 100,000 words. He also wrote the poem "Iron Flute" on Yang Weizhen's table. At that time, Wei Zhen had become a celebrity and praised Yang Ji very much: "I think the poetic realm is desolate, and now I have to give it up to my son." Yang Ji, Zhang Yu and Xu Bi As a friend of poets, he was known as one of the "Four Outstanding Masters of Wuzhong" at that time.
Yang Ji’s poetry
He is famous for his poetry. Most of his poems written in the late Yuan Dynasty expressed his support for the ruling stance of the Yuan Dynasty. After entering the Ming Dynasty, he still cherished the Yuan Dynasty. room. The style is different from that of Gao Qi. Most of his poems cannot escape the elegant and delicate style of Yuan poetry, especially his untitled and Xiang Lian styles. His works of describing scenes and chanting objects are still excellent. His works include 12 volumes of "Mei'an Collection" and 1 volume of supplement. It is arranged in volumes according to ancient style, song lines, rhymed poems, quatrains, long and short sentences, and lyrics and music. When it was re-engraved in Chenghua of the Ming Dynasty, Jiang Chaozong wrote the preface for it.