Xiong Guo

Xiong Guo

Xiong Guo (1506-1580) was born in Fushun County, Sichuan Province. In the eighth year of emperor Shizong's Jiajing reign in the Ming Dynasty (1529), he became a Jinshi and selected a good scholar in the Imperial Academy. Through the war ministry member wailang, temple priest doctor to the Ministry of rites doctor. He has rich knowledge, broad knowledge of classics and history, and his articles are elegant and simple. His poems and essays are called "four Shu masters" together with Neijiang Zhao Wensu, Chengdu Yang Shengan and Nanchong Ren Shaohai, and "eight talents of Jiajing" together with Chen Shu, Wang Shenzhong, Tang Shunzhi, Zhao Shichun, Ren Han, Li Kaixian and LV Gao. In the 20th year of Jiajing (1541), the fire broke out in the Taimiao temple. Xiong Guo served in the Ministry of rites and wrote a letter about the incident. He was relegated to baiyanjing of Yunnan Province as deputy governor. Because he was criticized, he was relegated to judge Wuxing. In the 26th year of Jiajing (1547), he was accused of being demobilized. After that, Xiong Guo lived in seclusion in Lize mountain, studied behind closed doors and devoted himself to writing. He revised the preface to the five character law for Yang Shen, and compiled two academic works, namely, the book of changes and the record of spring and Autumn Annals. In his later years, he handed over some of his manuscripts to his disciple Yan Qingjiang for eight volumes of Nansha anthology, which was engraved and handed down to the world. This anthology was included in the general catalogue of Sikuquanshu.

Life of the characters

Xiong guo16 years old for Zhu Sheng, Jiajing seven years (1528) Ju Ren. In the eight year conference examination, Lin Wenjun was the first, while Zhang Cong refuted Lao Zhuang language because of his complicated current affairs. In the imperial examination, he became a Jinshi, who was elected by Yang Yiqing. Because Zhang Gui was not polite, Liu Xuan became the head of the military election Department of the Ministry of war. In addition, he took charge of the affairs of Tiehuang. He spared Lang Yukai in asking for the change of the following malpractices, such as the excessive attack, the leading role of the middle officials and the bravery of Fu Zong. Zhang Zan, the Minister of state, impeached him for his happy event. He took the phrase "Xingdu Conglong" as an example to denounce Chengyu and ordered him to be jailed. Wang Xiwen was forgiven for his comments. After mourning his father, he rose again to be the head of the temple priest. In the 19th year (1540), he was promoted to be a priest and doctor. He wrote to Chengzu and Renzong that "it is not appropriate for the God to worship Yiling" and disobeyed Yan Songyi to impeach him. In April of 1541, he was banished to baiyanjing, Yunnan Province, where he was sent to zhenfusi. After 40 years, he returned to the South and met Yang Shen in Anning. In 1543, he was transferred to the Huzhou prefecture to pass judgment. In 1545, he moved to Tongzhi, Anji Prefecture. In July of 1546, Gao Jian was impeached and returned to his hometown. He died at the age of 75.

personal works

Xiong Guo read a lot of books and wrote a great deal of works in his life. His works include 12 volumes of Nansha anthology, 2 volumes of Miaoyi, 8 volumes of Liushu Dingjie, 4 volumes of Xiantian calendar Kaoyi, 2 volumes of tugui landscape survey theory, 4 volumes of Dushi Liqi, 10 volumes of huangming Chronicles, 6 volumes of Yuefu Linlang, 2 volumes of Bingting Zhiyan, 1 volume of nanzhong foreign body records, and 12 volumes of Sanli Zhijie, As a result of a large number of quotations from Buddhism and Taoism, they "will not pass it on.". In addition, Xiong Guo annotated Yuanjue, Jingang, Weimo, Yinfu, Huangting, and shentongqi in 30 volumes, which were the six books of the foreign family. In 1553, he set himself on fire.

Character evaluation

Yang Shen praised Xiong's study of Confucian classics, saying that "the article's sound price flows to southern province, and the technique's fine research runs through Mu Tian". In the notes of "Yang Gao Liu Gao", Yang Shen said that "the Zhouyi Xiangzhi written by Xiong Shuren in Nansha has this meaning, and the rest is derived from it".

Li Yuanyang praised Xiong Guo for "once watching the biography of Yi Xiang, flea understanding Fuxi God".

Jiao Hong said: "I have seen a lot of explanations, including Wu Caolu's zuanyan, Shijian's Yishuo and Xiong Nansha's xiangzhijuelu. Li Dingzuo's Ji Jie and Li Yanping's Yi Hai CuO Yao are all available. "

Pan Shizao is very interested in Xiong Guo's original opinion, and quoted it a lot in his book Du Yi Shu.

In the 11th year of Chongzhen (1638), Qiao ruoji said that "among all the schools who spoke for the book of changes, the one who took the image was no better than Xiong Nansha", and he was "absorbed in the spirit and poor in the spirit".

Qian Qianyi compared Xiong Guo with Zhao Zichang at the beginning of Ming Dynasty and he xuanzi at the end of Ming Dynasty, which was the first choice for the biography of scholars in Ming Dynasty.

Wan Sitong thinks that "those who have studied the classics, whose articles are simple and ancient, and who have written all the books of Zhouyi xiangzhijuelu, still talk about the classics."

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