About the author: Gong Zizhen (1792 (Year of Renzi) August 22nd ~ 18465438 (Year of Xin Chou) September 26th), born in Se, was named Ding 'an (ān). Han nationality, Renhe (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). In his later years, he lived in Yushan Pavilion in Kunshan, also known as Yushan people. Thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in Qing Dynasty. Promoted at the age of 27, Jinshi at the age of 38. He used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan, and director of etiquette department. He advocated abolishing graft and resisting foreign aggression, and once fully supported Lin Zexu to ban opium. He resigned at the age of 48 and returned to the south. The following year, he died suddenly at Yunyang Academy in Danyang, Jiangsu. His poems advocated "changing the law" and "changing the painting", exposed the corruption of the Qing rulers, and were full of patriotic enthusiasm. They were praised by Liu Yazi as "the first class in three hundred years". He is the author of Ding 'an Anthology, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen. The famous Ji Hai Zashi ***3 15 is full of poems and allegories.
Writing background: The author resigned from Beijing and returned to Hangzhou because he hated his official career, and then went back and forth to meet his family again.
Expressing emotion: criticizing the decay of Qing Dynasty, full of patriotic enthusiasm. Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems ***3 15. It is a group of autobiographical poems, which are about life experience, writings, friends, etc., with a wide range of topics.