Gong Zizhen was born in Renhe (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Born into a family of bureaucrats and scholars for generations. Grandfather Gong Gan, an official of the Military Department of the Cabinet Office, is the author of Yin Meng's Poems on Living in a Mountain. His father Li Zheng is an official in Jiangnan. He was appointed as the provincial judge of Jiangsu Province, and he wrote Notes on Mandarin, Textual Research on Three Rites, Questioning the History of Han Dynasty, Textual Research on Famous Things of Chu Ci, etc.
Mother Duan Xun, the daughter of Duan Yucai, a famous primary school (ancient literature refers to philology), is the author of "Green Flowers Poem Grass". 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. Gong Zizhen used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan and director of etiquette department.
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 Shi Dingji, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen.
Gong Zizhen's Literary Achievements
Mainly reflected in his poems, Gong Zizhen's poems have a wide range of contents and diverse styles, which can be roughly divided into three categories: one is to expose social contradictions, attack the dark reality and sympathize with the people's sufferings; The second kind is poetry that expresses ambition and feelings; The three types are poems with unique style, exotic materials and rich imagination.
Gong Zizhen's poetry, with its bold and heroic poetic style, is full of indomitable enterprising spirit, enthusiastically praises the anti-feudal democratic thought, lashes out at the corruption of the Qing Dynasty, and sharply reveals the inevitability of the collapse of feudal society. Gong Zizhen's poems are rich in language and fresh in sentence patterns, which have an indelible influence on China's classical poems.