A remnant with an inscription
On the eve of the Mid-Autumn Festival of the previous year, Xueyou Lian Chun's brother came to visit his home and gave me an ancient stone stone that he had treasured for decades.
I saw that this stone stone was made of a broken stele, the front was a brick face, and the first end was engraved with a poem in italics: "A garden of pine and bamboo is half green, and the incense burners do not go out." Try to boil new tea to re-fix the score, and the frequency of the title is good engraving. The sketch book visits Ou Xiang And visits the ancient stele Tibetan Ink Pavilion. "Falling paragraph: "Retreat from the valley hall XiaoQi Le Ming in Sumen." The lower left side is also titled: "Yun Steaming Lu Zhan (Seal Book), Xiu Shui Qian Zai Play Research" and other lines of characters. The back of the yan is engraved with a orthography inscription, which speculates from the incoherent words that it is roughly a record of the fundraising.
I am amazed by such elegant verses and beautiful engravings, but due to the limitations of the stone surface, the seven-law poem lacks two sentences at the end. At the same time, two doubts arose: First, this stone is only a broken stone stele, why did the original owner choose this stone as a stone? The second is who is Xiushui Qianzai, and has this stone really been used by him?
After investigation, I learned that the money carried his people, and it turned out that he was not an ordinary person, and there were still many stories about him!
Qian Zaiyan's first inscription poem (partial)
History says that Qian Zai was born in 1708, died in 1793, the character Kunyi, the number of the stone, also known as the dagger, the late name of Wansong Jushi, the hundred old man, Xiushui (present-day Jiaxing, Zhejiang), was a Qing Dynasty official, poet, calligrapher and painter. Qianlong seventeen years into the soldier, changed to Shu Jishi, scattered teaching editing, later awarded the cabinet bachelor and ceremonial department waiter, walked on the study, the general compilation of the "Four Libraries of the Whole Book", Shandong Xuezheng. The official was the second product, and the family was poor, but in his later years, because of poverty, he made a living selling paintings.
Money contains chronology
Qian Zai was born from an official eunuch and a scholarly monk. His original surname was He, and he lived in Haiyan Ganquan Township. In the fourteenth year of Ming Hongwu (1381), his ancestor was moved to guard the frontier because he did not report his horse breeding. The He family then entrusted their descendants to a large family surnamed Qian to raise them, so they changed their surname to Qian and later moved to Xiushui (present-day Jiaxing). This is completely corresponding to the "Xiushui Qianzai" of the Brick Face Drop.
Money loaded with paintings
Qian Jiazheng, the high ancestor of the Qian clan, fought against the Wei Party, elected Songxi Zhi County, and promoted the inspector of Shandong Province. His honesty in abiding by the law, not fearing power, and scrupulously abiding by loyalty and filial piety had a great influence on Qian Zai. To the money to carry the father's generation, the family road gradually fell. Qian Zai's father, Qian Xuan, was kind and straight-talking in his life, and he was praised for his accusations in the face of others without remembering hatred.
Money carries the painting of orchid bamboo
Qian Zai was intelligent and studious at a young age. When he was a child, Qian Zai saw his great-uncle Qian Lunguang's wife Chen Shushu and his paintings were all workers, and the landscapes, characters, flowers and plants were all clear and beautiful, and he was deeply impressed. In the seventh year of Yongzheng, Qian Zaixiang failed the list, began to copy Chen calligraphy and paintings, and made new ideas and achieved high achievements. His paintings have the characteristics of simple and quaint, not fake carving.
When Qian Zai was seven years old, he worshipped Cao Tan as a school teacher. Cao Tan Tong Five Classics, the main theory. Qian Zai was educated by Cao Tan and came into contact with Rigaku very early. In the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Qian Zai's father returned from the Beijing Division and personally taught Qian Zai theory of Science. Yongzheng five years Qian Zai and worship sang to adjust the yuan. The ideas of Sang Tiaoyuan's main theory had a great influence on Qian Zai.
In the third year of Yongzheng, Qian Zai, Zhu Peiran, Chen Xiangzhong, Zhu Weihuan, Wang Youzeng and other literary friends combined five poems into one episode called "Nanguo New Poems". Qian Zai also interacted with Wang Menglu, Wang Zhonglu brothers, Wan Guangtai, Zhu Xiudu, Zhu Jin, Jin Deying, etc., talking about the study of poetry and forming a genre with a common creative tendency in poetry creation, the "Xiushui School".
In the fourteenth year of Yongzheng, Qian Zai went to Beijing through Cheng Yuanzhang Baoju, the governor of Zhejiang, to take the erudite Hongzi examination, but failed. As a scholar, he had no ability to make a living, and his family was in a predicament, so he was only taught by Deqing. His mother died of exhaustion. Six years later, his father died. In the seventeenth year of Qianlong, Shuntianxiang examination, august to participate in the examination, the court pair, the first place in the second class, changed to Shu Jishi, is forty-five years old! It's not easy. Qian Zai's career path is generally relatively smooth. Qianlong was very generous to him. Qian Zai repeatedly filled the township examination and the examination examiner, and was ordered to pay tribute to Shaanxi, Sichuan Yuedu and the tombs of the emperors of previous dynasties. Official to the Ceremonial Department Waiter.
Money-laden fan letters
However, Qian Zai's upright personality also caused him trouble. After his return from Shaanxi and Sichuan Yuedu and the tombs of the emperors of previous dynasties, he should pay tribute to the tombs of Pingyang and not Puzhou. As soon as this theory came out, it caused an uproar. Although it was refuted by the university scholar and Jiuqing, Qian Zai still insisted on playing it again and again, and was angrily reprimanded by Qianlong. Because if we follow Qian Zai's words, don't we mean that the Yao Tomb that Qianlong sacrificed in the past was wrong? And that pays off. Fortunately, Qianlong regretted his talents and only took what Qian Zai had suggested as "untrue evidence" and punished it.
Qian Zai's poetry collection
In the forty-eighth year of Qianlong (1783), Qian Zai was retired with the original product. After returning to the field, Qian Zai's life became poorer, and he made a living selling paintings, and after a stroke, he was half unsuccessful, and his family was standing on the wall. A person who is an official of the second grade and who has repeatedly held the balance of literature and balance is so poor! Therefore, Yuan Ming, a famous Qing Dynasty scholar who was also admitted to the Jinshi, called him "True Ancient Man". Qian Zai does not take poverty as a reality, but enjoys himself between the mountains and rivers. Worship the ancestor Li Yitian, in order to support the people, leaving a clear name.
It can be seen from this that in his later years, Qian Zai, who was poor and focused on calligraphy and painting, took the stele as a stone, which was completely reasonable. And from the perspective of the elegance and exquisite calligraphy of the stele, it also coincides with Qian Zai's own artistic achievements. Looking at the stele itself, the stone is hard and delicate, the form and pulp are natural, and there is no suspicion of pretense. Third, the original inscription of the stele is skillful, the knife technique is skilled, the text and sentence are naturally broken, and non-descendants can deliberately make it. Inferred from this, there is no doubt that this stele should be the original of the money carried more than two hundred years ago.
(Except for the selfie of the stele, the rest of the pictures in the text are from the Internet)