"Jiangxi talent" Liu Fengyu

On the pillar of the gate of Daming Lake in Jinan City, Shandong Province, there is a couplet: "Lotus flowers on four sides, willows on three sides, a city of mountains and half a city lake". The author of this painting is Liu Fengyu, who is known as the "Talent of Jiangxi".

Liu Fengxuan (1760?1830), also spelled Qimu (丞牧), was a native of Shiguanquan Village, Chishan Township, Shangli County, Pingxiang City, and was the third jinshi (Tanhua) of the First Class in the Fifty-fourth Year of Qianlong (1789). In the fifty-sixth year of Qianlong (1791), he was promoted to the rank of attendant of Hanlin Academy. Subsequently, he successively served as the superintendent of the Kuniko Matsuri, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, the cabinet scholar, the right attendant of the military department, the right attendant of the Household Department, and the right attendant of the official department. During this period, he has successively served as the academic administrator of Guangxi, Shandong, Zhejiang and other provinces, and served as the township examination examiner of Hubei, Shandong, Jiangnan and other provinces. The Qianlong Emperor admired him and called him the "Great Instrument of Jiangxi".

Liu Fengchen is quick-witted, exported into chapters, written into writing, and Many of his stories of improvisation and kindness are circulated in Pingxiang folklore.

When Liu Fenghuan was a teenager, he wrote in the township as a child prodigy. In the spring of a certain year, an old man who was quite literate and ink saw Liu Fengchen passing by the edge of the field, and said: "The straw is tied to the father and the son", and the fate is right. It just so happened that a young girl was carrying a basket of small bamboo shoots, and Liu Fenghuan had a clever move, and then said: "The bamboo basket is full of bamboo shoots mother and child".

In the old system, the first three must be hand-picked by the Imperial Palace to determine the first place. After Liu Fengchen came to the Golden Ruan Hall in the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong (1789), curiosity drove him to look up and peek around the Golden Palace, but he happened to be seen by the Emperor, who angrily rebuked: "What are you looking at?" Upon hearing this, Liu Feng replied with sincere trepidation: "The minister wants to see the calligraphy and paintings in the palace." The Emperor said, "Which characters and paintings?" Liu Fenghuan said: "Couplet, if the emperor does not believe, the subject can recite it." When the emperor heard this, he might as well put his back on his back, and said, "If you can recite the couplet in the temple, you will be exonerated." Liu Fenghuan really memorized all the couplets in the palace word for word, and the emperor said, "How do you have such a memory?" Liu Fengchen replied, "Emperor, the remnant moon can illuminate the world." (Legend has it that Liu Yiyi had a disease.) The emperor was overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately chanted the instructions: "East Qiming, West ChangGeng, Antarctic Dipper, who is the star picker?" After a little thought, Liu Fenghuan said, "Spring peony, summer lotus, autumn chrysanthemum, winter plum, Chenben Tanhualang." His Highness was not impressed. According to the talent, Liu Fenghuan should have been the middle of the Yuan, but this pair of meanings was originally dedicated to exploring flowers, "east, west, south, north and south" is not for "spring, summer, autumn and winter", "picking stars" is not for "exploring flowers", so the emperor hand-picked Liu Fenghuan as a flower exploration.

Liu Fenghuan was an official in Beijing, and once accompanied the Qianlong Emperor on a trip to Mount Taishan as an attendant, climbed the summit, looked at the mountains, saw the momentum, was very happy, and then rested at the peak temple. Taking this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, the abbot ordered Xiao Shami to carry it into a huge plaque and request the Imperial Letter to increase the glory. The Qianlong Emperor was very fond of writing and ink, traveling around the world, and liked to write poems and ink to leave royal traces. See the abbot asking for a book, and the heart snickers with joy. However, for the huge plaque, Wen Si stagnated, chanted oh repeatedly, and finally could not write, a moment of heat, very uncomfortable. Suddenly seeing Liu Fengchen following the left side of the attendant, he made a clever move, used a pen to draw a few strokes on the palm of his hand, and stretched out his palm to ask Liu Fenghuan: "Qing thinks it is okay?" Liu Fengxuan saw that Qianlong's palm was empty, and knowing that Qianlong wanted to make his own proposal, but he refused to ask for it out loud, he frequently bowed his head and pretended to chant in his mouth: "'Unobstructed, perfect.'Good!'" When Qianlong heard these eight words, he had the courage of an emperor, silently understood, and waved the book with great interest, but unexpectedly, he raised the "one" character of "unobstructed view" by half a grid with his hand, and if he wrote it again, the layout of the words was not beautiful. He stopped his pen quickly, and his hands couldn't help but sweat. Liu Fengchen saw this scene and was also anxious and busy thinking about remedies. While he was thinking, Qianlong's hand reached out again and said, "How about this book?" Liu Fengxuan knew that the emperor's old trick was repeated, so he hurried forward, pretended to taste it seriously, and said: "'And the small world is more beautiful and better.' Qianlong can rest assured at this moment, according to Liu Fenghuan's words, in one go. To this day, the temple on the top of Mount Tai is hung with this horizontal plaque that reads "And the small world, more beautiful and better".

Liu Fengxuan's "rise is cold", which can really be described as "liquan has no source, zhicao has no roots". He was born in a poor peasant family, lost his mother at the age of 6, and was eager to learn from an early age, diligent and hardworking. After entering the army, he went to the capital to participate in the temple examination, and he only had 14 strings of money on his body, so he had to walk all the way, and he really couldn't move before renting a donkey. Kung Fu did not pay off, and became famous in one fell swoop and returned home, and Pingxiang's father, Yu XingxianTang (now Pingshi Attached Elementary), gathered a feast for him to celebrate. Liu Fenghuan loved Du Fu's poems very much and collected 3 volumes of Du Fu's poems. He said in the Book of Proverbs: "The text is loaded with the Tao, the Fu Shang Cihua, the flying algae, and the loss of exaggeration." Thus his poems are also written very plainly. Because of his poems, Inspector Li Gongyi of Guangdong did not feel that he was from a humble background, and gladly betrothed his daughter Xu to him, leaving a good story for thousands of years. Liu Fengchen is also very accomplished in calligraphy, proficient in orthodox calligraphy, calligraphy, cursive writing, and still has his ink treasure engraved in Shiguanquan. When he lived in Nanchang in his later years, He was a corrupt inspector in Jiangxi, and Liu Fenghao said: "This money wears ears!" Never interact with each other. He was even more tireless in his studies, persevering, lasting more than 20 years, changing his manuscripts three times, and finally completed the historical masterpiece "Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties", and also compiled the 32 volumes of the "Collected Works of Regret and Regret", 4 volumes of the outer collection, and became a famous scholar of the hundred generations. In the first month of the tenth year of Daoguang (1830), Liu Fengyu died of illness in Hangzhou and was buried in Nanchang.