Member of Shandong Writers Association Zhang Dingcai
Ao Shan, Zi Jingzhi, Shiling, from Xin County, Shandong Province.
In the first year of Chenghua (1465), Ao Shan achieved the first good result in the township examination, and in the fourteenth year of Chenghua (1478), Ao Shan became a jinshi and was appointed as a Hanlin Shuji Shi, and was appointed as an editor, that is, the editor of the Hanlin Academy, and later promoted to the deputy envoy of Jiangxi Tixue.
Ao Shan studied the doubts of the hundreds of schools of thought and the difficulties of the changes in the ancient and modern worlds, and after careful examination and explanation, he formed countermeasures to educate all sentient beings, and most of his teachings were not covered by previous Confucianism.
Later, due to the death of Ao Shan's mother, he returned to his hometown and kept filial piety for three years. After that, he was reappointed as the deputy envoy of Shanxi Tixue, and resigned due to illness and returned to his hometown.
Ao Shan's writing is fluent, endowed with talent Xiong Shuang, and his articles are like rushing rivers, self-concoming, and he is on a par with Wang Yue in Jun County and is known as "the second master of Jiangbei." He is the author of "The Legend of Shiling" and "The Brilliant Draft of the Innate Hand Mirror".