Born in a peasant family, he was born in a poor family when he was a child and loved reading. 16-year-old went to Luoyang, Henan Province with his uncle after failing to obtain the post of master book (equivalent to today's documents), and then continued to hold the post of master book in Mengxian County and Tongcheng County. After being appointed as the chief of the three counties, he was promoted to magistrate of a county, called for a test, given the background of Jinshi, and moved to Shangshu as an official, so he was called the official of Du Mei. After Mei became an official, she was ambitious and ambitious. His original name was "Yu Sheng" and later changed to "Yao Chen", which meant that he was determined to be a sage of a wise king. However, he did not meet a wise king. During his five years as a magistrate in Meijiande County, he was honest and upright, and he was self-reliant. He was able to observe the sufferings of the people and did many things beneficial to them. He often went to the rural people's homes to visit incognito, talked with farmers, bricklayers and poor women, understood the sufferings of the people, and personally rushed to the scene of forest fires and flooded streams for on-the-spot inspection; He got rid of dereliction of duty and did everything by himself. Jiande was a small mountain county at that time, and there was a dilapidated bamboo fence outside the county government, which needed to be repaired all the year round, and it became an excuse to extort money from the people. After Mei Yao Chen came, she decisively replaced it with an earthen wall and planted a pile of bamboo in the courtyard. Wu Shidao praised him as "kind, easy-going, gentle and sincere" in "The Palace of Mei". For such a great writer, poet and celebrity, when Jiande was an official, he loved the people and expressed their sufferings in the form of poetry. People naturally respected and loved him. Therefore, after more than 900 years, Mei Gong's moral and benevolent policies are still recited among people in the East.
Although Mei Gong was extremely dissatisfied with his rule, he enjoyed a high reputation in the field of poetry. With infinite grief, anguish, longing and pain, he wrote many exciting poems. At that time, he was as famous as Su Shunqin and enjoyed a high reputation in the poetry circle. He is called "Samui", and he and Ouyang Xiu are good friends. They were all promoters of the poetry innovation movement and had a great influence on the Song Dynasty. He actively supported Ouyang Xiu's ancient prose movement, and his poems were divided into two types, Mei Xu, which were praised by people at that time. Ouyang Xiu once thought that his poems were inferior to Sebrina's. Lu You once quoted the poems of Ouyang Xiuwen, Cai Xiangshu and Mei in Preface to Mei Bie Ji. His poems can reflect social life in many ways, with unpretentious style and profound meaning. Among a large number of poems he wrote in Jiande, Tianjiayu is about farmers. "Who teaches the field, the spring tax is not enough!" This poem tells the sufferings of farmers in the tone of farmers. The poem "Little Village" said: "In western Western jackdaw, people have to eat and call their companions every day, but the old people still hold their grandchildren and don't wear clothes. How does he make a living? Liao is in Wang Min Edition! " In the poem Tao Ren, he shows the social phenomenon of the opposition between the rich and the poor in a rough way. The poem says: "In front of the pottery door, there is no tile on the house, and there is no mud between the fingers, so the scales live in the building." Sharp and clear, people feel a strong sense of injustice after reading it. In his spare time, Mei Gong often walked out of the county government and wandered among the green mountains and green waters of Jiande, Liu Dong and Chizhou, writing many poems about scenery and friends. From the hundreds of poems left by Mei in Jiande, we can see that Mei's unique style is simple and profound, delicate and appropriate, concise and free, innovative and inflammatory, and he can make a breakthrough in the short form of lyric poetry.
In the description of landscape scenery, it has also formed the characteristics of depicting personality and copying details, giving people a fresh and meticulous feeling. "There are mountains and plains in the south. If you don't dig or camp, you will produce good tea ..." This is the prologue of Mei, a great poet in the Northern Song Dynasty, who wrote "There is Good Tea in the South of the Yangtze River". Mei was transferred to the county magistrate of Jiande (now dongzhi county) in the first year of Jingyou in the Northern Song Dynasty (1034), until she left office in the fifth year of Jingyou (1038), and served as an official in Jiande County for five years. This well-known "Nanyou Zhujiafu" was written after he personally inspected the whole process of tea growth, picking, production and sales in Guanbu tea area. "Tea Picker" is a kind and modest self-metaphor. How amiable and respectable it is that the parents' palace in feudal times can closely connect itself with tea pickers!