Yao Nai (nài) (1731~1815), also known as Ji Chuan, was known as Mr. Xi Baoxuan (in present-day Tongcheng Middle School). When Yao Nai was born, his family had declined, and he loved to read in his childhood, and after he passed the examination at the age of twenty, he was named Sun Shan after five ceremonial examinations, and did not enter the army until he was thirty years old in the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong (1763), and then held some insignificant official positions. In the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong (1773), the Qing court opened the Siku Quanshu Museum, and Yao Nai was recommended to enter the library as a repair official. This post should have been filled by Hanlin, and Yao Nai, Xiuning Dai Dongyuan, Xinghua Wu Dachun, Shexian Cheng Jinfang and 8 others were elected.
Between the summer and autumn of the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong (1774), Yao Nai, who had been in the Sikuguan for less than two years, said that he had resigned at the age of 44.
It is said that this is the time when the career is booming, why is the rapids retreating and the intention to retreat? Here to introduce a general background, each dynasty and each generation in ancient China had a different literary genre, in this article protagonist Yao Nai lived in the Qianlong Jiajing era popular two academic schools - Sinology and Song Studies.
To put it simply, Sinology refers to academic research that pays attention to archaeology, examines the origin of things, and speaks with facts. For example, how to write a word, and how to write such a thing later for what reason! Song Xue refers to academic research that focuses on doing research and examining how to do an article on a question. In short, the views of the two schools are basically incompatible, and they are somewhat opposed.
I don't know if you have understood it, but it doesn't matter if you understand it or not, because the focus is on the following, the helmsman of the Siku Quanshu is Ji Yun, who is known to everyone, and he advocates "Sinology". Talented people always long to have a stage to show their skills, and the stage is often only one, advocating "Song Xue" Yao Nai naturally stubborn, a soul who has not been illuminated by the spotlight for many years may be able to endure the torment of the cold bench, but can not hide the depression and loneliness in the heart.
In this way, various internal and external factors were intertwined, and Master Yao finally made the decision to resign. After all, "the world is so big who doesn't want to see it", and the house price in that era was not high, and there was no need to buy a house to marry a wife, and the material requirement was to eat enough and wear warmly.
In this way, Yao Nai began his teaching career of more than forty years. He successively worked as a teacher in Yangzhou Meihua Academy, Anqing Jingshi College, Shexian Ziyang Academy, and Nanjing Zhongshan Academy, and trained a large number of stalwarts of the Tongcheng Sect.
Although Yao Nai's calligraphy is not as outstanding as his literary achievements, his inkblots are sparse and sparse, and his flowing and beautiful posture contains the atmosphere of Confucianism and elegance, which is also extraordinary.
Yao Nai's "Seven Words and Poems scrolls on the west side of Xingcao Gaozhai" Cursive on paper, 82.6×37.4cm Collection of Hubei Provincial Museum
Interpretation: Gao Zhai faces the Chengjiang River to the west, and slows down the Lanling Spring Wine Tank. Mo tired of sitting in the deep wind exposed, the sky is divided into a full moon and the window begins.
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Seal: Xi Bao Xuan Han Mo (Zhu Wen), Ji Chuan (Zhu Wen).
【Source】The Complete Collection of Chinese Legal Books--17-Qing 2 (Cultural Relics Publishing House)
Yao Nai's "Seven Words and Poems in the Rainy And Sunny Time of The Grass", Cursive on Paper, 108.5×27.5cm, Beijing Municipal Cultural Relics Store Collection
Explanation: When the rain is clear, the wind is full, and the sunset is empty and the courtyard is cloudy. Summer over the autumn solstice concerns who cares, pay and groan on the cold cicada tree.
Department: Record the old sentence book like a classmate of Shu Lan. Yao Nai.
Seal of Qi: Xi Bao Xuan Han Mo (Zhu Wen), Ji Chuan (Zhu Wen), Yao Nai's Seal (Bai Wen).
Yao Nai's "Xingcao Chunlou Ten Miles seven absolute poetry scrolls" on paper Xingcao 82.1×38cm Collection of Sichuan Provincial Museum
Interpretation: Spring Building Ten Mile Bead Curtain Roll, as if three lives Du Muzhi. The peony tip is first cocooned, and the Yangzhou wind moves into silk.
Department: The book is like a curse to the virtuous friends. Woe to you.
Seal: Mengyu (Zhu Wen), Yao Nai's Seal (White Text)
【Source】The Complete Works of Chinese Art Calligraphy seal engraving -6-Qing Dynasty calligraphy
"Xingshu Pro-Discussion on Seating Posts" Collection of Calligraphy Art Museum of He Chuangshi, Taiwan
Yao Nai's "You Jiangdong Poetry Book" Book on Paper, 24×28cm Changzhou Cai Zhengfang Private Collection (Courtesy of Changzhou Museum)
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Seal: Xi Bao Xuan Han Mo (Zhu Wen), Ji Chuan (Zhu Wen)
Yao Nai's "Seven Absolute Poetry Scrolls of Xingcao" Cursive on Paper 116.1×43.2cm Collection of Zhejiang Provincial Museum
Explanation: If you want to let the mountains and streams flow freely, you can teach the ice and snow to fall on the sandbar. Out of the mountain will be swept by the tide of the river, can be less for the mountain monks to stay.
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Seals: Mengyu (Zhu Wen), Ji Chuan (Zhu Wen), Yao Nai's Seal (Bai Wen).