Zhao Yijiong and Li Shuchang's friendship
Text: Zhao Wei
Zhao Wei, pen name Zhao Yingshu, Zhao Hui, etc., was born on the banks of the Yangtze River in Guizhou Province, and now lives in Sanlitun, Chaoyang, Beijing, and is the 32nd grandson of Zhao Kuangyin, the grandfather of the Song Dynasty. I love literature, like to read, some people call poets, writers, but I have always been dismissive, just think that I think therefore I am. Quan dang a confession of a lover of literature and history, for the mountains and rivers and the people to establish a biography, I deeply love this world, I write therefore I am.
Li Shuchang (1837-1898) was a man of Qian, a native of Zunyi, Guizhou, and the fourth son of Li Kai. He lost his father at the age of 6 and was raised by his mother and eldest brother. After 1854, he served as a family school teacher, and was sponsored by the famous lyricist Chengling to go to Beijing to take the Shuntianxiang examination. After failing to win, his brother Li Boyong funded the re-examination, and he fell behind and stayed in the Beijing Division. His father's protégé Xiao Tingzi was appointed as a Beijing official, who kept his food and accommodation and recommended him to be a school master.
In 1862, Li Shuchang, as a Gongsheng, went to the "Book of Ten Thousand Words" to enter the strategy of governing the country, summoned to the Military Aircraft Department for an interview, specially rewarded the county title, and distributed it to the Jiangnan Zeng Guofan Camp Committee. Six years later, Zeng Guofan was transferred out of Jiangnan, and Li Shuchang was promoted to the title of Zhizhou of Zhizhou, and Li Shuchang was made a protégé.
After Zeng's death, Li Shuchang and Li Hongzhang jointly compiled and printed the Complete Works of Zeng Wenzheng gong, and wrote 12 volumes of the "Annals of Zeng Wenzheng" and 1 volume of "The Biography of Marquis Yiyong of Zeng Taifu". He successively served in Wujiang Zhi County and Qingpu Zhizhou. Later, he was recommended by Ding Baozhen to serve as a foreign affairs official. In the winter of 1876, the second year of Guangxu accompanied Guo Songtao on an envoy to the British and French countries, and Li Shuchang was made a third-class counselor. He spent 5 years in Western Europe, successively in London, Berlin, Paris and Madrid. He was later promoted to second class and first class counselor. Chang Dai presided over the affairs of the embassy, and during his stay in Paris, Li Shuchang represented China at the panama canal preparation meeting. Li Shuchang traveled to 10 countries and wrote 8 volumes of Western Magazine. Served as Minister of Chincha in Japan. In the seventh year of Guangxu (1881), he crossed east to Japan. Li Shuchang collected more than 20 kinds of rare books in China and funded the printing of 200 volumes of the "Guyi Series", which was praised by the domestic academic circles. After returning to China, he took tens of thousands of books he had purchased, transported them back to his former residence, and built the "Humble Garden" to hide them. In the spring of the thirteenth year of Guangxu (1887), Li Shuchang returned to China to investigate the geographical customs of Sichuan, Shaanxi, Jin, and Hebei. Along the way, there are daily records, compiled into the upper and lower volumes of the "Ding Hai Into the Capital Chronicle". After that, he served as a minister in Japan again, compiling the "Compilation of the Banquet collection of li xing envoys".
Li Shuchang sent envoys to the East and West for more than ten years, and in the tenth year of Guangxu (1884), he once submitted to the imperial court "Respecting Chen Guan and Seeing Folds". As is customary, when ministers return to China at the end of their terms, most of them are promoted to squire or inspector. Li Shuchang requested that a "Zheng Mo Ancestral Hall" be built in his hometown to worship Zheng Zhen, Mo Youzhi and other deceased ancestors. Contrary to the rules of the constitution, he was demoted to three levels by the deliberative office. After "Kaifu", he was transferred to the eastern Sichuan Military Preparation Daoist and the governor of Chongqing Customs. In the past five years in office, he has advocated the establishment of industry, built the Yungui Guild Hall, active business, opened up the Wufu Palace as a public place, and set up a park for Chongqing. The establishment of the Western Affairs School and the training and transportation of a group of talents to study abroad are conducive to the economic and cultural development of the eastern Sichuan region.
Lai has achieved great results in both prose and academic research. There are 6 volumes of "Humble Garden Manuscripts", 8 volumes of "Western Magazine", 2 volumes of "Ding Hai Into the Capital Chronicle", 1 volume of "HaixingLu", 1 volume of "Zunyi Beach Li Family Genealogy", and 12 volumes of "Zeng Wenzheng Gong Genealogy"; 40 volumes of "Li Family Collection", 28 volumes of "Continuation of Ancient Literature and Dictionaries", 200 volumes of "Ancient Yi Series", and 33 volumes of "Qingpu County Chronicle" (compiled by Xiong Qiying). The extant manuscripts include 24 volumes of "Ode to the Ancestral Song of the Whole QianGuo" and 4 volumes of "The Story of Mu Mu", and there are many kinds of manuscripts of their own books, such as 2 volumes of "Kong Zhen", 2 volumes of "Making Dong Song Discussion", "Making Dong Wen Mu", "Records of Humble Chinese Paintings" 1 volume, "Notes on Shu Zhai", "Qian Wen Cui" and so on. Li Shuchang's prose achievements are quite high, and he is on a par with Xue Fucheng, and has the reputation of "Southern Li and Northern Xue". Academically, it is on a par with the southwest giant Ru Zheng Zhen and Mo Youzhi, and the academic circles call the beach culture "Zheng Moli Three Families". [Refer to the Chronicle of Guizhou Province]
Zhao Yijiong was 20 years younger than Li Shuchang, and when Zhao Yijiong was born, Li also went to Beijing to participate in the Shuntianxiang examination, and from the perspective of age, they were two generations.
Li Shuchang is the author of the "Humble Garden Series", which includes the "Preface to the Gift of Zhao Dian". The text states: "Since the Shunzhi Jia Shen to the present, in the past two hundred and forty-five years, there have been ninety-eight people who have raised the title, which is not a small number. The southeastern province has a few counties and a few people; and the southwestern frontier is a number of provinces, hundreds of years old and cannot be one with each other, how difficult it is! Guangxu Chengjiao, Wuqian Guiyang Zhao Junzhong Yingshi began with the title and the first, the world of the Great Kui, especially at home and abroad. The soldier is in the hearer. Xiang and ying are celebrated, and there is a glory of being favored by his body, although Yu does not know it. However, he did not know Zhongying. ”
"Ding Hai Midwinter, met in Shanghai, saw its gentle and humble appearance, suddenly made peace with its qi, and covered it into a virtuous instrument. Although, zhongying is made from being a step qinghua, calmly advancing, and being a servant of the Son of Heaven, taming to a great position, all of which are self-caused by the ability of its texture, it is not enough for Zhongying to be different. I wish zhongying a person who aspires to the Tao. The former Song Dynasty King Yigong replied to Liu Ziyi's play: "Zeng Sheng's life is not to feed himself. King Wencheng of ming entered the Beijing Division, and the nobles reluctantly took the Archery Jia Branch as the first class, and Wen Cheng laughed and said: "I am afraid that the first class should be a sage." "The two sages are enough to do the law."
Fu Qian, the right of the ridge of the world. Its mountains and rivers are clear and the spirit of the side, yu accumulated for a long time and was developed by Zhongying, and it is advisable to think of the meaning of the second life. Shen subliminal benevolence, Han Yonghu poetry, straight to raise the husband's strong spirit, to wait for the success of the xun karma, this is a heavenly fire, it must not be accidental, Yu and Zhongying parted for a year, the friendship can not be silenced, and the book is despised as a gift.
In the spring of the fifteenth year of Guangxu, he was written by the Embassy in Tokyo, Japan
Li Shuchang was twenty years old, and Li was also an outstanding diplomat at that time, and after Zhao Yijiong became a champion, the imperial court awarded the Hanlin Academy to cultivate. In the thirteenth year of Guangxu, two masters from Guizhou, Li Shuchang and Zhao Yijiong, met in Shanghai. It can be seen from the text that Li Shuchang praised and appreciated Zhao Yijiong, and at the same time placed high hopes and encouragement on Zhao Yijiong.
The acquaintance of the two masters intersected in Shanghai, and it has long become a historical story. At that time, they also often exchanged letters, exchanged scholarship, and learned ways, among which there was also Li Shuchang's good manner to Zhao Yijiong, and his Li Shuchang's academic thoughts and ways of composition. It can be seen that the deep friendship between the two is not only the friendship of fellow villagers but also the friendship of teachers and friends, and encourages him to inherit the law of Tongcheng.
In Li Shuchang's "Reply to Zhao Zhongying's Book", Li Shi received a letter from Zhao Yijiong in Japan, replying to the letter: Zhongying lives today, from the world's sayings, according to the last light of the sun and the moon, according to the choice of Qinghua, so the travels are all the powerful people of the Sage Gongqing Doctor, who call the ancient and modern and the reputation of the beautiful, who is not appropriate. And the book is deeply humble, diligent and diligent to ask, if there is a lack of apologies, and it is difficult to be willing to take advantage of people's kindness and self-benefit, it is difficult for them to solidify the ability of the wise and the gentleman with their intentions. In the reply, not only did he praise Zhao Yijiongzhuang's humble and studious gentleman's style, but such a character is difficult for a wise man and a gentleman to achieve.
Li Shuchang went from the learning of the Qing Dynasty, the three ends of the main reason, the examination evidence, and the dictionary, to the views of the Six Classics. Li Shuchang said, "Yu Zi took Lao Zhuang, Xun, Zhou, Cheng, Zhang, and Zhu, Yu Shi took the two Sima and Ban clans; Yu Ji took Wen Xuan, Han, and Ouyang." "The ancient goodness is the text, Mo Sheng is in Sima Qian, Ban Gu, Han Yu, Ouyang Xiu, Han Ou's text, the world is quite the Way to return; and Ma Ban is not." Du Su Mingyun said: "Although Qiangu wins with words, it also has both the Tao and the Fa, and the time has zhongni's will." Wangxi Fangshi, TuiZun Zichang, Zeng Wenzheng Gongze and Ban Clan, said that their classics, the purpose of the six arts, the source of words, the situation of the mysterious, the great preparation, is the worldly reputation for ruin. Li Shuchang talked about the way to learn is to be enlightened. The method of learning sub-, history, and collection. Finally, it is stated that your excellency has no intention of being in the text, and if you have the intention to do so, you will take my book and read it one day in order to conform to the law of Tongcheng, and not contradict the words of the Song Confucians, and because of the words of the Wen See Dao, you will have further study and gain it. From his letters, it can also be known that Zhao's use of Jiong Zhuangyuan as a text is also of the Tongcheng School. "The fortunes of heaven and earth will change for a long time: Xia Shangzhong, Shang Shangqian, Zhou Shangwen, and the way of the three kings are cyclical." Today, it seems that when the time of decline is also considered, the art of saving us is mo ruoguwen. Sven is ruined, and there is a destiny, and the servant is both the most reluctant and the best of his excellencies, and may the load be untraceable. It is not difficult to see from the text that Li Shuchang's slanderous and blunt words, humble character, and Zhao Yijiongyuan encouraged each other and pushed each other forward. It can also be seen that the two are not shallow. Li Shuchang's "Reply to Zhao Zhongying" is not of beneficial enlightenment and positive significance to today's cultural revival and for those who study Sinology.
Li Shuchang and Zhao Yijiong Zhuangyuan can be called friends of the year, the two are officials of the same dynasty, have the love of the townspeople, and also have the friendship of teachers and friends. And Li Shuchang's wife is the daughter of the Zhao clan, a famous cultural figure in Zunyi Beach. According to Zhao Xinxin's "Genealogy of the Zhao Clan in Qingyan", Zhao Yijiong's great-grandfather Zhao Weijing (字理倫, 敕授修郎, Jinfeng Senior Doctor, Shou Xiang Bailing, Fengzhi Jianfang, imperial gift of "ShengPing Renrui, Qiye Yanxiang" eight characters) wife Li Shi and Wu Shi. They had two sons, the eldest son, Yu Fang (字鑑堂, 已卯舉人), and the second son: 玉墀 (字瑶廷, 戊寅舉人). Yu Qi had six sons, Guo Lin, Guo Yi, Guo Shu, Guo Yang, Guo Tang, and Guo Rui. Guo Shu had four sons, Zhao Yihuan, Zhao Yijiong, Zhao Yibing, and Zhao Yixuan. Female second, Zhao Yilan and Zhao Yileng. Zhao Yijiong's great-grandmother was of the Li clan, was he related to the Li Shuchang family? I think there is, and when people meet today, they can still talk about it, let alone the ancients?
The friendship between Zhao Yijiong and Li Shuchang should be the friend of a gentleman, although the time is far away, but the love will last forever. From Zhao Yijiong's poems, calligraphy links, and fans, it can be seen that Zhao Yijiong traveled widely before his death, was a person with a wide range of hobbies, and was quite humble in his handling of things, and some of his whereabouts can also be found in the inscriptions of calligraphy art.
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