The ancients did not have WeChat, how to know who in his circle of friends? The answer is: read his poems.
The poem has its own circle of friends, and the record of the interaction is very vivid and detailed. Take The Qing dynasty man Li Huaimin, for example, whose poetry collection vividly presents his private circle of friends.
First of all, let's introduce who Li Huaimin is. He was a High Secret man of the Qing Dynasty, with the name Xianxiao, the number Shitong, and the world name Shitong.
The benevolent brother's path to seeking a career was not very smooth, and he failed the township examination seven times. Probably realizing that this road was not easy to follow, he changed his path and decided to be a poet. After painstaking study, Li Huaimin finally achieved something, founded the Gaomi School of Poetry, and also edited the "Re-fixing the Master and Object Diagram of Middle and Late Tang Dynasty Poetry", which occupies a certain position in the history of Chinese poetry.
In the fifty-eighth year of Qianlong (1793), Li Huaimin was plagued by illness, and on his deathbed, he said to his family: "Those who have nothing to say after their deaths, but the collection of my poems still needs to be taken care of." I can ask Shan Lianfu for order. "This is a matter of honesty, I have nothing to do with it!" "Sui.
Before his death, Li Huaimin had nothing to worry about, just thinking that his personal poetry collection had not yet been sorted out and engraved. He said that after his death, his family could ask Shan Lianfu to write a preface to his poetry collection. Then he added, "Since it is a matter for Lianfu, I don't have to bother." In this way, Li Huaimin passed away with great peace of mind.
This Shan Lianfu is Li Huaimin's best friend. Lian Fu Mingshao, a prisoner, talented, traveled with his father for more than 20 years, read poetry and books, and was also very proficient in Zen Buddhism and medicine. The ancient texts he wrote were even praised by the Qing Dynasty literary scholar Wang Qiansun.
When he heard the news of Li Huaimin's death, Shan Shao was very sad. For his friend's dying commission, he originally wanted to wait for Huaimin's younger brother Xian Qiao to return and compile it together to show caution. I didn't think about it, time flew by quickly, and five years later Li Xianqiao also died in his tenure in Lingnan.
At this time, Shan Shao was obligated to undertake the heavy responsibility of compiling Li Huaimin's poems. "Read his entire collection, record poems like a thousand poems, and preface them." In this preface, Shan Shao wrote that Li Huaimin had told him that his poems "have been able to stand on their own since the Cen Jiang Collection, and if they do not die for several years, in order to benefit them, they can delete the previous authors as much as possible, and there are hundreds of such poems, which is quite impressive."
Li Huaimin has a great pursuit of poetry, and he believes that among the poems he has done, the poems after the "Cen Jiang Collection" have begun to form an independent style, and he is more satisfied. I hope that I can write more poems in the future, so that I can delete all the poems that I was not satisfied with before the "Cen Jiang Collection". Hundreds of poems have survived in this way, and it is still worth reading.
But it didn't take long for Li Huaimin to die. Shan Shao compiled his friend's poems by deleting his early poems as "five out of ten". He believes that with this comparison, posterity can see the improvement of Huaimin's poetic style and his diligence.
It can be said that the reason why Li Huaimin's poetry collection can be compiled smoothly is because he has such a very reliable friend.
Some friends also gave their own poems to Li Huaimin on their deathbed. Speaking of which, this friend is also Huaimin's teacher, the list Zongyuan, the two are also teachers and friends.
In the twenty-sixth year of Qianlong (1761), when HuaiMin was 24 years old, he took his two younger brothers to the same village to receive teaching poetry under Shan Zongyuan. At this time, Shan Zong was already old. It was this student Li Huaimin he received in his later years, who was very trusted by himself. Li Huaimin also greatly respected him, honoring him as "Wuyi Poetics Ya", and poetics was greatly influenced by Shan Shi. In order to be grateful for shan Zongyuan's kindness, Li Huaimin compiled the teacher's poems and printed them.
A family back to the stream, Guo outside the firewood pass.
Every time the wild is alone, the monks come to accompany them.
Sick love poetry wine, old fu love YunShan.
May you hold the rod and go to the stone of the fountain.
This is a record of the 24-year-old Li Huaimin when he first met Shan Zongyuan, writing that his living environment is elegant and expresses his admiration.
There are many poems like this in the book "Li Huaimin's Annual Annotations on the Collection of TheOry". These poems reflect the poet's complex and humane circle of friends. They tie the friendship between people, can be separated by thousands of mountains and rivers, and even life and death are separated from each other and never fade.

"Li Huaimin Collection Of Annual Annotations" Xu Lijie Proofreading Huangshan Book Club published
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This book is a collated and annotated version of the existing poems of Li Huaimin, the representative writer of the famous "Gaomi Poetry School" in the Qing Dynasty, and the content includes six aspects: compilation, proofreading, annotation, department year, collective review, singing and (singing).
The manuscript of this book is based on the Guangxu Twelfth Year (1886) Li Yang Xi'an County Zhai carved "Mr. Shi Tong's Poetry Notes" as the base, the school is based on Qianlong Jiaqingjian Liu Daguan Suzhou carved copy "Erke Yin", Jiaqing Eighteenth Year (1813) Sizhao Lou Carved Book and other more than ten kinds of classics, and extensively searched for Yi poetry, a total of 437 poems (including 3 residual poems) and 12 texts.
The manuscript of this book examines 95% of Li Huaimin's existing poems, and collects relevant evaluation materials, as well as the original singing, should be harmonized or sung together with the poems, and appends them to the works for readers to interpret and study the works.
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Xu Lijie, Doctor of Literature, Professor, "Model Teacher" of Anhui Province, leader of the provincial "Ancient Chinese Literature Teaching Team", is currently the Director of the Development Planning Department of Chaohu University.
He has presided over 1 general project of the National Social Science Foundation ("Li Huaimin and the Study of the Main and Guest Diagram of the Middle and Late Tang Dynasty"), 4 provincial and ministerial scientific research projects, published the academic monograph "Annotations on the Annual Proofreading of the Zhang Book Collection" (co-authored with Mr. Yu Shucheng, Zhonghua Bookstore 2011 edition), "Research on the Poetry of Zhang Zhi wang jian" (Huangshan Book Club 2014 edition), of which "The Annual Annotation of the Zhang Book Collection" won the second prize of the "National Excellent Ancient Book Award" in 2011.
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