Gui Youguang (150765438+1October 6th-15765438+February 7th) is known as "Mr. Zhenchuan". Han nationality, from Xuanhuali, Kunshan County, Suzhou (now Kunshan, Jiangsu). Prose writers and officials in the mid-Ming Dynasty.
In the 19th year of Jiajing (1540), Gui Youguang was promoted to the imperial examination, and then took the exam, ranking first from the bottom eight times. He moved to Anting River in Jiading, where he studied and gave lectures and had many apprentices. In the thirty-third year of Jiajing (1554), when the Japanese made an insurrection, Gui Youguang went to the city to prepare for defense and wrote the Proposal for Defending the Japanese.
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Gui Youguang's life works are numerous and rich, involving all parts of the subset of classics and history, but his main achievement lies in prose creation. After Gui Youguang's death, his son Ning arranged some of his posthumous works and carved them in Kunshan. Many words were changed. His grandson and Qian searched for the posthumous works, carefully sorted them out and compiled them into 40 volumes, but failed to carve them all.
During the reign of Emperor Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, Gui Zhuang, the great-great grandson, supplemented some of his posthumous works and, with the help of Dong and others, carved The Complete Works of Mr. Zhenchuan, with a total of 30 volumes, 10 and 40 volumes. It contains 774 essays of various genres and 1 13 poems.