The famous poet, essayist, and literary critic of the Qing Dynasty, Yuan Ming, was a famous poet, essayist, and Jian Zhai.
In his later years, he called himself a resident of Cangshan mountain, the owner of suiyuan, a native of Qiantang (now hangzhou, Zhejiang), a mid-level scholar in the fourth year of qianlong in the Qing Dynasty (1739), and was awarded the Title of Shujishi of Hanlin Yuan.
In the seventh year of Qianlong (1742), Yuan Mei was transferred to Jiangsu as an official, and successively served as the commander of Lishui, Jiangning, Jiangpu, and Shuyang County. Seven years of career as a county official, the career is not smooth.
Yuan Ming did not sink because of his unsatisfactory career, and during his tenure, he was honest and honest, diligent in political affairs, and won wide praise from the local Baixin. In the fourteenth year of Qianling (1749), after Yuan Ming resigned from his official position, he lived in seclusion in The Garden of Xiaocang Mountain in Nanjing, where he was widely discipled and enjoyed chanting poems all day long.
Among Yuan Ming's disciples, "female disciples are especially numerous", and many young literary women regard him as a good teacher and friend and idol fan. In the second year of Jiaqing (1797), Mr. Yuan Ming, who was eighty-two years old, passed away, leaving behind his posthumous works such as "Anthology of Poems of Kokura Mountain House" and "Poetry of Suiyuan".
After Yuan Ming became a county official, he did not think of making progress, lost interest in the official field, and after resigning from the government in his later years, he liked to feast on guests and friends, indulge in sex, and live a life of leisure.
Yuan Ming is a person with a lot of interest in life, he not only loves to sing poetry, but also likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, and has a unique insight into the way of food.
In addition to food, Yuan Ming prefers beauty and is a typical old cow eating tender grass. Once, Yuan Ming, who was in the age of huajia, met a famous prostitute Rui Xian in Chuanshan, and old Yuan took the initiative to seduce and said: "The old man writes poetry inscriptions, and he likes to have beautiful people grinding and serving, that is the best realm!" ”
Rui Xian is good at understanding the style, immediately answering, an old and a young, a smile, Gu Panzhong echoed in the distance, can be called a spirit of the heart. Afterwards, Yuan Ming rewarded Rui Xian with some scattered silver. Rui Xian left, posted a message in the circle of friends, and ridiculed Old Yuan for wasting pen and ink money, and he didn't even touch his hand.
Yuan Ming didn't care at all, and self-deprecatingly said: "Tonight's sexual encounter is a real affair, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and the non-flesh and skin of adultery can be compared." "When a prostitute reaches such a state, ordinary people really can't hope for it.
Yuan Ming's original wife has not given birth, which gives the old Yuan Na concubine an excellent excuse. He first took a concubine Tao Ji, but unfortunately Tao Ji died of illness shortly after giving birth to a daughter.
Since then, Yuan Mei has successively accepted the concubines of the three rooms, not for any reason, the three concubines have children who have not had miscarriages, or the children will die shortly after birth, or they will not be infertile at all.
Yuan Mei was over sixty years old and had no children under his knees, of course, he was not willing, so he took a fifth concubine, Zhong Ji, who was only nineteen years old at the time. Zhong Ji was originally an official prostitute, and after marrying Old Yuan, she was still very angry, and the next year she bore a son for Old Yuan.
Yuan Ming, who was already sixty-two years old, was full of emotions, and his poem was greatly developed, and he chanted a poem, including one sentence: "Sixty children are too late to feel late, and they are about to call Wu'er late." So he named this late son Yuan Chi.
Yuan Ming was dissatisfied with the status quo, and the five Miaoling concubines were still not satisfied, and would also use the excuse of "buying spring in the name of childlessness" to defend their own stealing.
Yuan Ming once wrote an interesting story: it is about an octogenarian old man, who prostituted an eighteen-year-old prostitute, who had a feeling and sent a poem: "I am eighty qing eighteen, qing zi red face I white hair." It is exactly the same as the Qing, and only a flower armor is separated in the middle. ”
It seems to be laughing at others, but in fact, this is not a true portrayal of Lao Yuan's own life? In the second year of Jiaqing (1797), Mr. Yuan Ming, who was in a good mood, died at the age of eighty-two and was buried in Baibupo, Nanjing.