Ding Yaokang's literary and artistic achievements

　　Ding Yaokang, a native of Zhucheng, Shandong. The character Xisheng (西生), also known as the Wild Crane (野鹤), called himself "Ziyang Daoist", and after the age of 60, he was called "Muji Daoist", born about the twenty-seventh year of the Wanli Calendar (1599) and died in the eighth year of the Qing Kangxi Dynasty (1669).

　　Regarding the life of Ding Yaokang, the history books contain: "Little lonely, negative wizard, uninhibited." Ruo Kou is a sentient being, walking in Jiangnan, traveling to the gate of Dong Qichang, and associating with the famous scholars. After returning, he was depressed and depressed, composing ten volumes of the "History of Heaven", the late Ming Dynasty was pirated, and he helped King Zuntan of Soshan to recruit thousands of troops to relieve the siege of Anqiu. Shunzhi entered the Beijing Division in the fourth year, and was taught by Shuntian and taught by the White Flag. Built a room in Huayan Temple, known as Lu Fang, and famous secretaries of state at that time such as Wang Duo, Fu Zhanglei, Zhang Tangong, Liu Zhengzong, Gong Dingzi and other poems, the name was very famous. Later, as a teacher of Rongcheng, he moved to Hui'anzhi County, and did not go to his mother and old age. He died after sixty years and died at the age of seventy-one. ”

　　Ding Yaokang was born in Zhucheng City and later moved to Xiangjiagou Village, Huanghua Town, Zhucheng. He was born in a bureaucratic family, his grandfather Ding Chun and his father Ding Weining had all been in the jinshi, however, Although Ding Yaokang was full of talent, he repeatedly failed on the road of the imperial examination, and he lamented that he was not born at the right time, and he did not meet with talent, coupled with his uninhibited nature, so he revealed these emotions in his pen and wrote a series of influential literary and artistic works.

　　"Continuing the Golden Plum Bottle"

　　"Continuing the Golden Plum Bottle" is Ding Yaokang's famous work, a total of 64 times before and after, about the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), the earliest published in the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), later generations in the form of imitation engravings, manuscripts, rewritten and other forms.

　　The book takes the Song and Jin conquests as the historical background, and alludes to the tragic reality of the Ming and Qing dynasties. The author has left many traces throughout the novel to imply Song Youming, Jin Jiqing. The book recounts the story of the people in the "Golden Plum Bottle" who threw themselves into the afterlife and repaid the karma of the past life. "Continuing Jin Ping Mei" has its own characteristics in artistic expression, it is a work of people, things, feelings and reason.

　　The more than 80 characters in the novel can be roughly divided into three categories: the first is the real character in history; the second is the original character in "Jin Ping Mei"; and the third type is the re-fictional character. The whole book takes the cycle of cause and effect as the scripture, takes the Song and Jin conquest as the weft, and unifies the various stories as a whole, "The Strange Book of the Continuation of the Golden Bottle Plum that has never existed in ancient and modern times, the main book, and the Taishu also." A mirage, a vatican pavilion in the air, the shadow is invisible, and the wind is without a trace. Strange harmony, Zhuang Lie ethics, borrowing the words of the sea jujube as a bodhi, QiMoqi is here. ”

　　Theatrical works

　　"Double Tour", also known as "Huaren You Songwriting", a volume of ten, written in the fourth year of Shunzhi (1647). The script is from "Liezi Zhou Mu Wang", which tells the story of he Yehang, a student who is cynical and has great ambitions, but he cannot achieve it. He was depressed in his heart but his ambitions were not extinguished, and it was difficult to find a voice in reality, so he used his fantasy to return to history to find friends, such as Cao Zhi, Liu Zhen, Li Bai, Du Fu, Xi Shi, Zhao Feiyan, Zhang Lihua and so on. The author uses this fictional absurd plot to expose the dark and corrupt reality and express his cynicism.

　　Akamatsu You, three volumes and forty-six, began in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen (1634) and was completed in the sixth year of Shunzhi (1649). Ding Yaokang's friend Wang Han was killed in the War of Annihilation, and Ding Shi remembered his friend bitterly and composed "Red Pine Tour" to affirm his ambitions. In the play, Ding Yaokang borrows Wang Han's admiration for Zhang Liang's personality in the Han Dynasty, and describes the three parts of Zhang Liang's vertebrae, Qin, Fuhan, and Guishan, alluding to the cruelty of the Qing soldiers entering the pass, "Shu indignant and Zuo Fuji", showing dissatisfaction with political darkness, and also conveying the author's feelings about his life.

　　"West Lake Fan", two volumes and thirty-two, the play was completed in the shunzhi decade (1653), the author signed "Ziyang Daoren". The play depicts the tragic and joyful love story between Gu Shi and Song Xiangxian and Song Juan in a chaotic world.

　　The Snake Bile, also known as the Book of Table Loyalty, is a two-volume, thirty-six, written in the fourteenth year of Shunzhi (1657) during the reign of Ding Yaokang Rongcheng.

　　Poetry creation

　　Ding Yaokang's poems in his lifetime were numerous, with varying numbers, and manuscripts, engravings, and manuscripts were all seen. There are mainly the following:

　　The Collected Poems of Ding Yehe is a collection of three kinds of seven volumes. The Shunzhi period engraving, including five volumes of "Lu Fang Poetry Grass" and one volume of "Guishan Grass", is stored in the Shandong Provincial Museum.

　　The Collection of Ding Ye Cranes, thirteen volumes. The engraved editions from Shunzhi to Kangxi include three volumes of "Getaway", five volumes of "Lu Fang Shicao", two volumes of "Jiaoqiu Collection", five volumes of "Ding Yehe's Testament", and one volume of "Instructions for Home Economics".

　　Ten volumes of Ding YeHe's Poems. The Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, vol. 123, Yiwen IV. The "General Catalogue of the Four Libraries" says: "It is divided into five kinds: the two volumes of the Jiaoqiu Collection, the beginning of the Jia Wu Wu Wu, the official Rongcheng teachings; the five volumes of the Lu Fang Poetry Grass, the qi Peng Zi Final Kui Mi, all of which were composed after entering the capital; the first volume of "Jiang Hay", the beginning of the Hai final Gengzi; the "Guishan Grass" volume, the beginning of the yin and the end of the noon; the "Listening to the Mountain Pavilion Grass" volume, the beginning of the Ding did not stop the self-unitary. Since the "Lu Fang Poetry Grass", Yao Kang's self-engraving, "Jiang Hay" below, are all his son Shen Xing continued to engrave also. ”

　　"Draft Poems of Mr. Ding Yehe" in ten kinds of twenty volumes. There are engraved editions of the Shunzhi period and the Kangxi period, among which the sub-catalogues of the poems are: "Getaway" in two volumes, "Lu Fang Poetry Grass" in five volumes, "Pepper Hill Poems" in two volumes, and "Mr. Ding Yehe's Testament" in three volumes.

　　The Complete Works of Ding Yehe. The kangxi period engravings include five volumes of Lu Fang Shicao, two volumes of Jiaoqiu History, one volume of Jiang Hay Grass, one volume of Guishan Grass, one volume of Listening to Mountain Pavilion Grass, two volumes of Getaway, one volume of Household Economics Instructions, two volumes of Table Loyalty, three volumes of Red Pine Tour, and three volumes of Huaren You. Among them, the first six are poetry collections.

　　Ding Yaokang left valuable literary and artistic works, which were praised by the people of the time and posterity, and the "Chronicle of Zhucheng County" during the Qianlong period called him "a poem that is vigorous and vigorous, and a few works is to spare the wind and rhyme, and in his later years, the language is more northern, and the beginning of the Kaiyi style and elegance", and the poets in the county have recommended him as his predecessor.

　　Ding Yaokang's works are rich and extensive, poetry, drama, novels, etc. He has the courage to lash out at the darkness of feudal rule, actively pays attention to social life, sympathizes with the suffering of peasants, and fully expresses the feelings of worrying about the country and the people in his works. (Bai Yan)