Zheng Qian (historical celebrity related to Guxing in Zhengzhou City)

Zheng Qian (691~759 AD), also known as "Ruoqi", "Weak Qi", "Ruozhai"). Zheng Shuzu's sixth grandson (一說玄孙), a native of Xingze County, Henan (present-day Guxing Town, Huiji District, Zhengzhou).

Zheng Qian was a famous writer, poet, calligrapher and painter of the Sheng Tang Dynasty, and a generation of Confucians who were proficient in astronomy, geography, military, medicine, and music, almost encyclopedic. Du Fu praised him as "Xingyang Crown Confucian, long known for public rewards", "only through Qu Yuan", "Dao Yi Huang" and "Dezun Generation". He was a scholar of five cars, proficient in scripture and history, and had outstanding achievements in calligraphy and painting, and his biography was widely found in dictionaries such as "Ci hai" and "Ci Yuan", as well as professional dictionaries such as literary scholars, poets, calligraphers and painters, and calligraphers of past generations.

Zheng Qian has left many allusions in history. The story of Zheng Qian's "leaf picking and practicing characters" recorded in the New Book of Tang and the Biography of Zheng Qian is one of them. Zheng Qian's family was poor and could not afford to buy paper for practicing calligraphy. When he was living in Chang'an, he learned that several houses of persimmon leaves were stored in the Ci'en Temple in the south of the city (the Big Wild Goose Pagoda is located in the temple), so he moved to the temple to live, and every day he took the persimmon leaves as paper to study hard, like a drunk, day after day, never stopping, and even wrote the persimmon leaves of several houses. Zheng Qian finally became a master, and his cursive writing reached the realm of "sending clouds like a swift wind, harvesting the sun and pushing the moon".

Zheng Qian is good at writing poetry and painting. He once painted a painting and wrote his own poem on it, dedicated it to Tang Xuanzong. When Xuanzong took a look at it, he was absolutely desperate, and he wrote the four words "Zheng Qian Three Absolutes" with a stroke of his pen. From then on, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang greatly admired Zheng Qian, and once set up a "GuangwenGuan" for Zheng Qian's children to study, and appointed Zheng Qian as the Guangwenguan Botu to teach learning, which was called "Zheng Guangwen" at that time.

In the fourteenth year of Tianbao (755 AD), An Lushan attacked Luoyang and Chang'an, and An Lushan gave Zheng Qianshui langzhong, and Zheng Du claimed that he was ill and did not take office. In 757, due to the An Lushan Incident, Zheng Qian was demoted to the post of Sihu of Taizhou (present-day Linhai, Zhejiang) to join the army. Taizhou is located on the border, the fields are desolate, the people's customs are closed, and the culture is backward. Zheng Qian enlightened and educated, and opened a generation of literary styles in Taizhou, so that the literary style flourished and famous sages emerged. Zheng Qianshen was deeply admired by the local people and was known as the "enlightener of Taizhou culture and education".

Zheng Qian "works in the grass, is good at Danqing, is bright in yin and yang, is arithmetic, and has a hundred sons and sons, such as fingers and palms", so "the home country is considered to be a treasure, and the government and the opposition are three absolute", and has written works such as "Tianbao Army Defense Record", "Hu Bencao", "Huizhi" and other works, showing his high attainments in geography, history, military, medicine and other aspects. But only one poem "Boudoir" remains in Zheng Qian's work. In 2001, the Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House published "Tang Zhengqian Calligraphy and Paintings". Zheng Qian's paintings, the famous calligrapher and painter Zhao Mengfu of the Yuan Dynasty commented that "the thoughts are deep, the scenery is elegant, and the reading is profound and far-reaching" (from "Zhao Mengfu Collection, Title Zheng Qian Paintings"). Rarely, Zheng Qian depicts in his ship paintings a typical Chinese, foldable, strip-style sailboat. According to Zheng Qian's ship paintings, Chinese used such longitudinal sails in the early Tang Dynasty, when there were longitudinal sails and rudders, and it was possible for the ship to adjust the line against the wind. Therefore, the Chinese sailing ship is one of the first excellent sailing ships in the world to achieve headwind regulation.

Zheng Qian and Du Fu were close friends, and Du Fu wrote more than 20 poems in honor of Zheng Qian. In October 1999, Zheng Qian was selected as one of the "Top Ten Historical Celebrities of Zhengzhou" by experts and scholars in the field of history and culture in Zhengzhou.

【This article is compiled and referred to "Telling My Huiji Story"】

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