Yao Nai (1731-1815) was a native of Tongcheng, Anhui Province, Qing Dynasty, character Ji Chuan, a word dream valley, the name of the living room Xi Baoxuan, scholars called Mr. Xi Bao.
Less employed by Liu Daxun. Qianlong Jinshi. Tired officer to the punishment department Langzhong. Sikukan was opened, recommended for revision, book completion, and named after the imperial history.
Yao Nai composed "Flowers and Birds" vertical axis in 1797
After his return, he has been the master of Yangzhou Meihua, Anqing Jingshi, Huizhou Ziyang, Jiangning Zhongshan and other academies for more than 40 years. He is a major writer of the Tongcheng school.
Zong Fengcheng Zhu Lixue believes that "confucians are born Cheng, after Zhu, Cheng, Zhu Ermingkong, Meng Zhizhi, Cheng and Zhu Youwu father Shiye" ("Re-restoration of the Book of Jane Zhai").
Sinologists are accused of "attacking Cheng and Zhu as capable" and "greatly harming scholarship" ("Fu Jiang Songru Shu").
It advocates that "righteousness", "examination evidence", "word chapters" and "three chapters" are all infallible", and "they must be both accepted, but they are enough to be good" ("Fu Qin Xiao Dan Shu").
The thesis takes "god, reason, qi, and taste" as "the essence of the text", and "the style, law, sound, and color" as the "coarseness of the text", and summarizes the process of learning ancient Chinese as from "coarse" to "fine", and "in the end, it is the one who is refined and the coarse is left behind" ("Preface to the Ancient Literary Dictionary"); and also puts forward the theory of "masculine and feminine" to distinguish the style of the article.
He is the author of "Nine Classics", "Zhuangzi Zhangyi", "Xi Baoxuan Anthology", "Xi Baoxuan Poetry Collection" and so on. An anthology includes the Compilation of Ancient Texts and Dictionaries.
Tomb of Yao Nai