On this day, 227 years ago, on December 7, 1798 (November 1, 1798, the Qing Dynasty poet Yuan Mei passed away. Yuan Mei Yuan Mei (1716-December 7, 1798) was a poet and poetry commentator in the Qing Dynasty. The name Zicai was Jianzhai. In his later years, he called himself Cangshan Jushi and was born in Qiantang (now Hangzhou, Zhejiang). Yuan Mei was one of the representative poets during the Qianlong and Jiaqing periods. Together with Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan, he was collectively called the "Three Great Masters of Qianlong". In the fourth year of Qianlong (1739), he was awarded a scholar of the Hanlin Academy. In the seventh year of Qianlong, he was transferred to an official and served as a magistrate in Jiangning, Shangyuan and other places. His political reputation was good and he was appreciated by Yin Jishan, the then governor. At the age of thirty-three, his father passed away and he resigned from his official position and adopted his mother. He purchased the Sui family abandoned garden in Jiangning (Nanjing), changed its name to "Suiyuan", built a house and settled down, and was known as Mr. Suiyuan in the world. Since then, he has lived a leisurely life here for nearly 50 years, engaged in poetry writing, compiling poetry stories to discover talents, rewarding the younger ones, and was respected in the poetry world at that time. Yuan Mei participated in the imperial court's scientific examination at the age of 24. The test question was "Fu De Think of Yuke according to the wind". There is a clever sentence in the poem that "people come to the forbidden courtyard with suspicion, but people seem to be separated from the Tianhe River." However, the presidents thought that "the language is not involved, and they will be sent to Sun Shan." Fortunately, Yin Jishan, the governor at that time, stepped forward to avoid failing the list. His works include "Xiaocangshan Fangji";"Suiyuan Poetry Notes" in 16 volumes and "Supplement" in 10 volumes;"New Qi Harmony" in 24 volumes and "Continuation of New Qi Harmony" in 10 volumes; and Suiyuan Food List in 1 volume; There are more than 30 kinds of prose, official slips, and Suiyuan Food List. The masterpiece of prose,"Sacrifice to a Sister", is sad and sincere, and has been passed down for a long time. Ancient scholars mention it together with Han Yu's "Sacrifice to the Twelve Lang" in the Tang Dynasty. Advocate "spirituality theory". He advocated that writing poems should express one's own personality, and believed that "from the 300 poems to this day, all the inheritors of poems have been spiritual, regardless of stacking." It is advocated to express your thoughts directly and write down your personal "temperament and suffering". It advocates the combination of "soul" and "knowledge", taking temperament, talent and academic background as the foundation of creation, and taking "truthfulness, newness, and vitality" as the creative pursuit. Only in this way can we combine innate conditions with acquired efforts to create good products. It is believed that "the meaning of writing poetry and prose is like a beautiful woman's hair and smile, which is innate; the use of scriptures in poetry and poetry is like a beautiful woman's clothes and jewelry, which is acquired." He advocated that literature should evolve and should have the characteristics of the times, and opposed adhering to the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty. He ridiculed the Shen Yun School as being "poor and humble and proud of themselves", the style school as "puppet acting", the texture school as "opening a Gu Dong shop", and the Zong Song School as "beggars moving away." He also opposed Shen Deqian's theory of "gentle, gentle and honest", believing that "Confucius's poems are trustworthy because he is 'seeking to observe the grievances of the masses'; those who are not trustworthy are 'gentle, gentle and honest.'" It advocates equal importance to parallel prose and prose, and believes that parallel prose and prose, like the odd and odd in nature, cannot be neglected. They have the same origin but different flows. Their relationship is that the two peaks stand side by side and the two rivers diverge. The poems are fresh and meaningful and flow freely. The scenery poems are elegant and exquisite. Yuan Mei's literary thoughts had a development perspective, which had an impact on feudal orthodox literary views and formalism trends. In addition, he emphasized the existence value of parallel prose as beautiful literature, which has certain positive significance. However, his poems mostly describe trivial matters around him, often recite romantic and romantic things, and lack social content. Some poems tend to be vulgar, which is inevitably superficial and even slippery. Jiangsu Ancient Books Publishing House has published "The Complete Works of Yuan Mei" in eight volumes. Commentary: Qing Dynasty literati