Although there are many Qing Palace dramas nowadays, there are only a few that can be called classics in most people's minds, such as "Iron Tooth Copper Tooth Ji Xiaolan", which has been broadcast continuously since 2000.
He Yan, played by Teacher Wang Gang, can be said to be a classic in the classic, which embodies the smoothness and treachery of He Yan to the fullest, but it is not cute; and Ji Xiaolan, played by Zhang Guoguo, thoroughly tells us what is articulate and does not live up to the name of "iron teeth and copper teeth".
Although the historical Ji Xiaolan is a little different from the TV series, he is not so upright, but he is a "Teddy Jing"; but he is indeed very powerful, and he is the chief compiler of the "Four Libraries". The Complete Book of the Four Libraries. Divided into four parts: classics, history, sub-works, and collections, it can be called the largest cultural project in ancient China, and it has made the most systematic and comprehensive summary of classical Chinese culture.
The subjects of literature, history, philosophy, science, engineering, agriculture, and medicine in traditional Chinese culture can all be found in the "Four Libraries". From a "Four Libraries Complete Book", it can be seen that Ji Xiaolan has many extensive books. And Ji Xiaolan's achievement in poetry is also very high, and it is full of witty interest.
Qianlong, like his grandfather Kangxi, made a total of 6 trips down the south of The Jiangnan, and Ji Xiaolan did go to Jiangnan with Qianlong as an attendant. Jiangnan has many scholars, and the officials in the Jiangnan area are basically talented in literature, and when they heard that Ji Xiaolan, who was very good at poetry, had also come, they asked him for poetry.
Ji Xiaolan was particularly detrimental, and specially made a double-voice poem for the accent of the southern officials, that is, double-voiced rhymes, which not only tested the talent of the poet, but also tested the eloquence of the reciter.
This poem is particularly damaged from the beginning of the poem title, called "Grass House Closed Household Speech", I did not understand it more than a few times to understand, the content is as follows. "The official of the pavilion has been sent to Beijing for a long time, and the courtiers have accepted the favor to go out of the heavy city; the sanshin Song Temple is looking for a supper, and the flowers are happy to be waiting for Xiaoxing; the affection is kind and kind to the grass, and the skimming of the Pengzhuo is Piaoping; in the history of the book in the prosperous world, the barbarian people are mu lingling."
As soon as the poem was made, the southern officials present did not feel anything at first, and when they read it, they understood what it was to be miserable--this flat tongue tone could not be turned. Reading the poems in front of the imperial court was read as "big tongue" one by one, and the faces of the southern courtiers were all thrown away, which not only caused other northern attendant officials to laugh backwards and forwards, but even Qianlong laughed so much that he not only bent down on his seat.
At first, Qianlong still thought it was quite interesting, but every time a southern official came to ask for a poem, Ji Xiaolan had to copy the poem and hand it to the officials, just to see the funny appearance of them reading the poem, Qianlong gradually began to get bored. No matter how funny the joke is, if you say it a few times, a dozen times it will be boring, not to mention that Ji Xiaolan is still teasing his Qing officials. So on the southern tour that followed, Qianlong not only stopped Ji Xiaolan from transcribed this poem again, but even forbade him to write poetry again.
But you can't write poetry, but you can change it. According to records, of the 40,000 poems written by Qianlong in his lifetime, the only one that was selected for the primary school language textbook, "Fei Xue", was "one piece after another, two pieces of three pieces of four and five pieces, six pieces of seven pieces of eight or nine pieces, flying into the reed flowers are not seen." The last two most classic verses were ghostwritten and changed by Ji Xiaolan.
In 1805, the 81-year-old Ji Xiaolan died at home, and the Jiaqing Emperor personally made an altar and inscription for him, leaving him with the praise of "sensitive and studious, and given to him to be a politician".
Reference: The Complete Book of the Four Libraries