Chen Zuoming

Chen Zuoming

Chen Zuoming was named yinqian, a native of Ji Liushan, and a native of Qiantang (now Hangzhou). The year of birth and death is unknown, about the fourth year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty. A famous poet and poeticist in the early Qing Dynasty, he was not an official of the Qing Dynasty, and he lived his life in cloth clothes. "Erudite and good at writing.". He wrote to the capital as a poor servant and died in a guest's residence.

Life of the characters

In 1656, he entered Beijing and roamed among the officials as a Qing Dynasty guest. Gongshi, which is based on the Tang Dynasty, has a fine rhyme. Jiliushanrenji, a collection of 21 volumes of poems, is originally called wochuji, which includes works written between 1655 and 1673 and is arranged in chronological order. Caishutang ancient poetry anthology was compiled between 1659 and 1663.

Publishing works

Ji Liu Shan Ren Ji is a collection of 21 volumes, whose original name is wo zhao Ji. He Zuoming wrote 20 volumes of poems and one volume of CI. Later, there are 20 volumes of Ji Liu Shan Ren Ji (also known as wo Chu Ji). The general catalogue of Si Ku recorded his poems from the 12th year of Shunzhi to the 12th year of Kangxi (1655-1673 A.D.). There are 38 volumes of "Selected Ancient Poems of caishutang" and 4 volumes of addendum. "Selected Ancient Poems of caishutang" is a very distinctive Anthology of ancient poems of pre Tang Dynasty (Anthology of poems of Han, Wei and six dynasties), which is named as "selected edition of poems of Han, Wei and six dynasties of caishutang". After Chen's death, it was published in 1709 by his student Weng Songnian. He expressed his poetic theory by selecting and commenting on poems, established a new history of ancient poems in pre Tang Dynasty, and provided us with a new vision to understand the poems of Han, Wei and six dynasties. In the selected ancient poems of caishutang, his brilliant comments on the ancient poems of the pre Tang Dynasty were absorbed by Shen Deqian's the source of ancient poems and Wen Renfu's notes on ancient poems. Therefore, caishutang ancient poetry anthology is an ancient poetry anthology with great theoretical value and academic value.