During the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse and Chongzhen years, there was an old Confucian in Cangzhou, surnamed Liu, with the character Yu Chong, whose name was no longer verifiable. Liu Yuchong and Ji Xiaolan's Gaozu Houzhai bus have a good relationship, both of them like to compose poetry, and often compose poems and sing together, which is very harmonious.
Ji Xiaolan's family is very good at learning, and the previous generations have been readers. His Gaozu Jikun, also known as Houzhai (厚斋), who was good friends with Liu Yuchong, was a Ming Dynasty man who was born in the fourth year of Ming Longqing (1570) and died in the fifteenth year of Ming Chongzhen (1642). Hou Zhai Gong spent his life on scientific expeditions until he was sixty years old, experienced many scientific frustrations, and finally only a student of the diet, that is, a child born of the national annual supply of rice. In the late Ming Dynasty, the country's power gradually declined, and Houzhai Gong was worried and indignant, and wrote poems to open his mind. He wrote poems all his life, sorted out six volumes, and in his later years he was ready to print them, but unfortunately there was a peasant uprising by Li Zicheng, and the poem manuscripts were destroyed in the military chaos, and he died regretfully. Later, Hou Zhaigong's wife found the burned and remnants of the poem manuscript from the cellar and handed it to her son Ji Yu. The poems were burned, and with the bite of silverfish, the moisture was obliterated, and there were not many six volumes of poems left. The poem is written in Huaisu's wild cursive style, and many words are difficult to read. Ji Yu took it to Wang Yuyou, identified and sorted out more than 100 posthumous poems, and compiled them into "Leftover Manuscripts of Kao Pavilion". The Leftover Manuscripts of Kao Pavilion were later included in the Siku Quanshu by Ji Xiaolan.
Liu Yuchong and Ji Xiaolan's gaozu Houzhai often sang harmony, and his learning and poetic talent were not extraordinary. However, this Yu Chong Gong has a somewhat withdrawn personality and is not willing to associate with ordinary people. The high and arrogant nature of learned people may have been a common thing since ancient times.
Yu Chong Gong likes to talk about the ancient system in everything. The ancient system was the learning of the time to solve the problems at that time, the passage of time, the things are not human, and then the ancient system is moved to the present to apply, and the ancient system to do the present, usually it is not appropriate and feasible.
Yu Chong Gong once asked Dong Tianshi to paint and asked Ji Xiaolan's Gao Zu HouZhai to write an inscription. Among them, there is a picture of "Autumn Forest Reading", and the poem with the title of Houzhai is: "Wu zuo qiu tree roots, blocks are not with each other." I don't know what the poem is, but I just have to look at the eyebrows. Only the hand held, or the Ida spectrum. ”
"Ida Spectrum" is the "Zhou Li Ida Spectrum" written by Xia Xiu in the Song Dynasty, which is a study of the Zhou Dynasty well field system. In the Ming Dynasty, the well field system of the Zhou Dynasty was still being studied, and more than a thousand years had passed, and it was not a little out of place to take the well field system of the Zhou Dynasty to solve the problem of the land system of the Ming Dynasty? Hou Zhai's poem is an exhortation, hoping that Liu Yuchong will understand it, pull himself out of the mud and not fall into learning. However, the deep meaning of the Houzhai Gong, Yu Chong Gong did not understand, still everything is based on the ancient rope.
Yu Chong Gong accidentally got an ancient soldier book, read it behind closed doors for more than a year, and claimed that he could send 100,000 soldiers. Later, there was a local Tukou rebellion, and Yu Chong Gong trained the township soldiers himself to suppress the Tukou, but as a result, he was defeated as soon as he fought, and he was almost captured by the thieves.
After a few more years, I got an ancient water conservancy book and studied it behind closed doors for more than a year. After learning, he claimed that he could turn the wilderness into a fertile field. Yu ChongGong took matters into his own hands, drew a picture, and explained to the governor his ideas and strategies for controlling water. After the governor heard this, he felt that it made sense and wanted him to try it. The governor found him a village and asked him to first solve the problem of irrigating the farmland in one village. He followed the method of ancient books and built ditches and canals. After the completion of the ditch, there was a big water, and the water poured into the village along the ditch, and the village and the fields were flooded, and the people of the village became "fish in the water".
After these two events, Yu Chonggong, who was already somewhat lonely, was even more depressed, often pacing back and forth in his own courtyard, saying to himself: "The ancients deceived me!" "Are the ancients deceiving me?" Repeat these words in your mouth, and you can say them a thousand times a day. It didn't take long for the onset to die.
Buried after death, pine trees were planted in front of the grave. Every night when the moon is white and windy, someone will see the ghost of Yu Chonggong wandering under the pine trees, shaking his head and pacing. Listen carefully, or say "the ancients deceived me." Someone heard the sneaky laugh, and he disappeared. The next night, he was still wandering under the pine trees, chanting.
When Ji Xiaolan wrote about this matter in his notes, he sighed: "The mud ancients are stupid, why are they stupid or even stupid? “
Ah Wen Qingong once discussed the problem of Nigu with Ji Xiaolan, saying: "A full belly of books can harm things, and a full stomach without a book is also harmful." Guoyi does not abolish the old spectrum, but does not adhere to the old spectrum; the national medicine does not mud the ancient formula, and does not leave the ancient formula. Therefore, it is said: 'God and god are clear, and they exist in others.' He also said, "I can be in tune with people, but not skillful." ‘“
There are many people who are full of experience, and there are more than enough things to accomplish and more than enough to fail; there are many people who do not read a book, and there are also many people who have achieved nothing. There are too many similar people in life. Speaking of something, a certain field, a certain profession, a lofty position, a high talk, but when it is implemented, it is often thousands of miles away from what is said. Learning and learning knowledge lies in the fact that the scholar understands the meaning of it, and after understanding it thoroughly, he can apply what he has learned, not to learn some superficial noun concepts and theoretical chapters and sentences. "Learning from the ancients" like Yu Chonggong really did not learn thoroughly, but let the learning delay a lifetime, and after death, he still remembered and could not wake up, which was really sad and lamentable!