Representative works: Miscellaneous Notes in Prison, Zuo Anecdote, etc.
Place of Birth: Tongcheng County, Anqing District
Bao Fang himself.
Fang is the right assistant minister of does. Bao was born in Liucun, Liuhe, Jiangsu. In the 14th year of Wanli, Gao Fengmei, a scholar, became Shao Qing of Taibu Temple. Great-grandfather Fang Xianggan, born in Ming 'en Gong Sheng, was once the governor and served as Zuojiang Road in Cenxi. He lived in Jiangning in the late Ming Dynasty to avoid chaos. Grandfather Fang Zhi worked as an instructor in Wuhu and was later transferred to Xinghua County to teach. Father Zhong Shu, born in imperial academy, died at sunset, and later worked as a son-in-law in Wu Mian, Liucun, Liuhe County, Jiangsu Province; Three sons: the eldest son Ark, the second son Fang Bao and the youngest son Fang Lin. And the complete works of teacher Fang.
Life history of square bud
Fang Bao was very clever from an early age. At the age of 4, he could write couplets. At the age of five, he could recite classics and sentences. At the age of 6, he moved from Liuhe to Jiangning's former residence with his family, and still retained Tongcheng membership. 16 years old, went back to Tongcheng, Anhui Province with his father to take the imperial examination. At the age of 24, he went to Beijing and imperial academy to make friends with Wen, which made him famous. He is called "the first in the south of the Yangtze River". Li Guangdi praised Fang Bao's article as "the revival of Korea and Europe, which has never happened since the Northern Song Dynasty". At the age of 32, Fang Bao won the first place in the rural examination in Jiangnan. In the forty-five years of Kangxi, he was the fourth scholar. Mother was ill, and she went back to her hometown, but she didn't go back to the palace to catch the exam. In the fifty years of Kangxi, Fang Bao was sent to Jiangning County prison for the preface to Nanshan Collection. Soon, he was sent to the capital and sentenced to death. After two years in prison, he still insisted on his work and wrote The Book of Rites, Funeral Discussion or Analysis of Problems.
In the fifty-second year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi personally instructed that "Fang Bao learned all over the world", so he escaped from prison, entered the southern study as a civil servant and served as the emperor's civil servant, and then moved to Yangmengzhai to edit the music. In the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Chongwu Tang Ying was appointed as the president of book restoration. In the ninth year of Yongzheng, he raised the flag and awarded Master Zhan Zuochunfang Zuo Zhongyun. The following year, he transferred to imperial academy and was awarded a bachelor's degree. In the eleventh year of Yongzheng, he was promoted to a bachelor's degree in the cabinet, served as assistant minister of the Ministry of Rites, and served as president of the unified chronicle. In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, he served as the deputy envoy of Huang Qingwenying. In the first year of Qing Qianlong, he once again entered the south study room and served as the vice president of Sanlishu. After four years in office, he was dismissed from office and still stayed in Li Sanguan to study. In seven years, I retired to my hometown due to illness, and Emperor Qianlong gave me the title of imperial academy Institute Assistant Lecturer. From then on, he wrote books behind closed doors at home, and died on August 18th, 14th year of Qianlong. He died at the age of 82 and was buried in Liuhe, Jiangsu.
Fang Bao's personal achievements
The work introduces the essayist in Qing Dynasty, and won the first place in Jiangnan after the provincial examination. After forty-five years as a scholar, he returned to his hometown with his mother's illness but didn't become an official. In 1950s, he was involved in the Nanshan Collection in Dai Mingshi. After forgiveness, move the Han flag and enter the south study. In 6 1 year, Chongwu Tang Ying served as the president of book restoration. Yongzheng, was exempted from the flag, still belongs to the Han nationality. Tired of bachelor of lecturer, bachelor of cabinet, assistant minister of rites. Long, re-entered the south study, served as the right assistant minister of the ritual department and the curator of the history museum. I came back after seven years of resignation. Some of Fang Bao's works, such as prison miscellanies, reflect the cruelty and darkness of feudal judicial system and prison management; Preface to seeing off Feng Wenzi, Preface to seeing off Uncle Wu Pingyi's giant deer, Please set a silver period for collecting land tax, Please prepare for the dry land to cure children, etc., which reflect the shady management of officials and the sufferings of people's livelihood.
Fang Bao was the founder of Tongcheng School prose in Qing Dynasty. He admired Zhu Cheng's Neo-Confucianism and Tang and Song prose. According to what Confucius said in the Collection of Teacher Wang Xi, he advocated that "righteousness and law" should be emphasized in writing ancient prose. He said that "righteousness" is the so-called "saying things" in the Foreign Anthology; "Fa" is the so-called "preface" in Supplement to Foreign Anthology. Take classics as righteousness, and then take classics as adult language. Put forward an article emphasizing' halal elegance' and' elegance'. He said that in ancient Chinese,' Chinese language should not be included in quotations; People in Wei, Jin and Six Dynasties used jujube and plum language; China's fu adopts the method of tautology; Meaningful words in poetry; In the years of Yi Xianyan and Biography, he opposed the anti-Confucianism thoughts of Huang Zongxi and Yan Yuan, and held a strict view, but it could meet the needs of consolidating the ideological rule and style of writing in the Qing Dynasty, and his views were deeply rooted in the hearts of the people and had a great influence.
Fang Bao's own prose aims to mark "justice" and "halal elegance" Classic Notes, Confucius and History, General History of North and South, Biography of Teacher Wang Xi, Biography of Guizhen, Preface to Sending Li Yucang, Collating Books, On Wen Di, Preface to Li Ji, Biography of Lu and Zuo Yi. But the feelings are indifferent, the image is not strong, and the spirit is not grand enough. Yuan Mei laughed at his "lack of talent", and Yao Nai also said: "Reading Taishigong's book seems that the spirit cannot include its greatness, distance, sparseness and grandeur."