Xu Chun

Xu Chun

Xu Chun (about 1784-1845) was named Chunshan, and was named Kelou. He was born in Fenglin, Yihuang County, Jiangxi Province. Kunqu artists in Qing Dynasty. The year of birth and death is unknown. Sixty two years old. Young people are ambitious and intelligent by nature. Because of the loss of his father when he was young and his family was poor, he followed the local artist Xi Si Guban and said, "he is extremely intelligent. He must read Kunqu Opera in detail. Fine rhyme study, can poetry. With excellent skills, the voice is clear, loud, mellow and free of noise. It can create an atmosphere for the plot and has a certain reputation in the Kunqu circle. After work, he studied hard, read widely four books and five classics, poetry, song and Fu, and studied the reason, so he was good at poetry and prose.

When he was middle-aged, he went out with his class. Whenever he met famous mountains and historic sites, he went to visit them and wrote poems to express his feelings. Zhang Hefang, Yongfeng and Xie Nangang are close friends in the poetry circle. Later, he met AI Chang in Dongxiang, and his four books lecture notes was unique. He knew that it could not be compared with ordinary people, so he became a close friend. He also wrote several volumes of the legendary "weiliaoyuan" and "Selected Poems of Kelou" and "shigongzhi", which are not seen today. Huang Zhimo's xunmintang series records Volume 1 of his four books private talks.