Yuan Mei was one of the representative poets in Ganjia period, and was called "the three outstanding poets in Gan Long" together with Zhao Yi and Jiang Shiquan. After serving for four years, he entered Imperial College London, London and was awarded the Jishi Shu.
Dragon turned officer for seven years. He used to be Jiangning and Shangyuan magistrate. He has a good political voice and is appreciated by the Governor of Yin Jishan. After the death of his 33-year-old father, he resigned as an adoptive mother, bought the Sui Dynasty abandoned garden in Jiangning, renamed Suiyuan, and built a house to settle down, hence the name Suiyuan.
In his life, he was famous for his passion, behavior and unique style. I once said, "If Zhu Cheng doesn't turn around in front of Kong Zheng, he is lazy at his desk." . He likes singing, is lascivious, has deep pockets, is good at traveling, making friends, and is good at flowers and birds, and is unwilling to be a slave to a high official. After the Jiangning back garden was completed, I thought, "Let me be an official here, that is, from January to January;" Let me live here, and then day after day, "and resigned from his post," actually using an official to relax the garden. "
Since then, he has lived here leisurely for nearly 50 years, engaged in poetry creation, poetry compilation, talent discovery and awards, and was occupied by the poetry circles at that time. At the age of 24, Yuan Mei took part in the imperial examination, and the title was "Fu De, I listened to falling jade in the wind". There is a quip in this poem, "People are like a river every other day". But CEOs think, "Let it go without language." Fortunately, Governor Yin Jishan stepped forward to avoid being excluded from the list.
His works include "Kokura Mountain House Collection"; Volume 16, Suiyuan Poetry10; 24 volumes, addendum 10 volume; 1 Volume Same Garden Food List; There are more than 30 kinds of articles, letters and explanations about food lists in the park. Ziwuyu, with its sincere feelings and long history, was mentioned by ancient prose theorists together with Xu Ziwuyu written by Han Yu in the Tang Dynasty.
Yuan Mei advocated the theory of human nature. He advocated writing his own personality when writing poems, and thought that "300 poems handed down to this day are all spiritual, not piled up." Advocate to express your feelings and write your own "temperament". It advocates the combination of "spirit" and "knowledge", takes temperament, intelligence and upbringing as the basic creation, and takes "truth, novelty and vitality" as the creative pursuit, so that we can combine innate conditions with acquired efforts to create good products, and think that "poetry and prose are written with pens, such as beauty's hair and skin, which are innate; Poetry and prose are all written in classical style, such as "Beautiful clothes and jade" and "The day after tomorrow". He advocated that literature should evolve and have the characteristics of the times, and opposed living in the Tang and Song Dynasties. He ridiculed the verve school as "poor and arrogant", the style school as "puppet show", the texture school as "opening antique shops" and the Song school as "begging for tricks". He also opposed Shen Deqian's "gentleness" theory, thinking that "Confucius' poetic theory is credible, and' seeing the micro-knowledge' is also credible"; Not credible,' gentle and honest' is also ". It advocates that parallel prose and prose should be paid equal attention, and in essence, parallel prose and prose should not be neglected. Just like parity, the same source and different currents, the relationship between them is that two peaks coexist and two waters diverge. Poetry is fresh, meaningful and fluent. Poetry appeals to both elegant and popular tastes. Yuan Mei's literary thought is developmental, which has influenced the feudal orthodox literary view and formalism. In addition, he emphasized the existence value of parallel prose as American literature, which has certain positive significance. But his poems often describe trivial things around him, full of romantic songs and lacking social content. Some poems are often flashy, and it is inevitable that they will appear shallow or even frivolous.