307 years ago today, on February 14, 1718 (January 15, 1718, the China Ming dramatist Kong Shangren passed away. Dramatist Kong Shangren Kong Shangren (1648 - 1718), also known as Pinzhi, and also known as Ji Zhong, was known as Dongtang, and nicknamed himself Yunting Shanren. Born in Qufu, Shandong Province, he was the sixty-fourth grandson of Confucius. He was a poet and opera writer in the early Qing Dynasty. In 1684, Kangxi made a tour of the south and returned to the north, and went to Qufu to pay homage to Confucius. The thirty-seven-year-old Kong Shangren was lecturing in front of the imperial palace. He was quite appreciated by Kangxi. He made an exception and was awarded the title of Doctor of the State and went to Beijing to take office. At the age of thirty-nine, he was ordered to go to Jiangnan to control water for four years. In the twenty-ninth year of Kangxi (1690), he was transferred back to Beijing and served successively as a doctor of the Imperial College, chief of the Ministry of Revenue, and secretary of Guangdong. In the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi,"Peach Blossom Fan" was written. He was removed from office in March of the following year. This dismissal was probably due to the creation of "Peach Blossom Fan". After being dismissed from office, he returned to his hometown to live in seclusion. In the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi (1718), this famous opera artist of the generation passed away at his home in Shimen, Qufu, at the age of seventy. His work. There are also collections of legends and poems of "Xiao Hulei" co-authored with Gu Cai (Huhai Collection,"Antang Collection","Changliu Collection", etc.), all of which have been handed down to the world.