The ancients wrote Shucheng | "Shucheng Daozhong" (Yuan Yu Ji)

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About author:Yu Ji (1272~1348), whose ancestral home was Renshou County, Chengdu (present-day Renshou County, Meishan City, Sichuan Province), Linchuan Chongren (present-day Chongren County, Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province), was a famous scholar and poet of the Yuan Dynasty. The character Bosheng, the number of the Road Garden, known as Mr. Shao An. Yu Ji has been intelligent since childhood, knowledgeable, proficient in science, able to understand the origin of the ultimate, research and subtlety. He was known as the "Four Masters of Rulin" along with Jie Daisi, Liu Guan, and Huang Shu, and the poems were equally famous as Jie Daisi, Fan Yi, and Yang Zai, and were known as the "Four Families of Yuan Poetry". He is the author of the Ancient Records of Daoyuan Studies, the Manuscripts of Daoyuan and the Collected Poems of Yu Wenjing. This poem "Shucheng Daozhong" is estimated to be what he saw and heard on the way to Shucheng when his protégé Xie Li Puhua was in Shucheng County Rendalu Huachi (equivalent to Zhi County), which not only wrote about the industriousness of the people in Shucheng County, but also showed the leisure of the people's lives, and even more praised the cultural style of Shucheng. This, of course, is all due to the good governance of his student Xie Li Puhua. Yu Ji also has an article about Shucheng, "Shucheng County XueminglunTang Record".