In "Tuzan Pingding Fifteen Gurkhas", Gan Long specifically mentioned that Xiao Shenyang is proficient in Manchu, Chinese, Mongolian and Tibetan.
Another trick of Xiao Shenyang is to do what he likes. Gan Long loved writing poetry and calligraphy all his life. In order to cater to Gan Long, Little Shenyang has made a lot of efforts in these areas and reached a higher level.
Ji Yun
Brief introduction of Ji Yun
Ji Yun, (right) word Xiaolan, word Chunfan, real name, Taoist priest. Born in June of the second year of Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty (1724), died in February of the tenth year of Jiaqing (1805), and was born in Yongzheng, Qianlong and Jiaqing Dynasties, at the age of 82. Posthumous title Wenda was called Wenda Gong in the village after his death because he was "sensitive and eager to learn, able to use literature as a text and politics as a teaching" (inscription by Emperor Jiaqing).
Ji Yun's ancestral home should be Shangyuan County, Tianfu, and his home is near Jijia. In the second year of Yongle in the Ming Dynasty (1404), he was ordered to "move his surname to Historical Records" (Qianlong's Records of xian county), and then moved to xian county, joined the Li Anmin family, and lived in the scenic town of East Jiuli, xian county. After arriving in Ji Xiaolan, move north to 14.
It is well documented that all those who rose from Ji Xiaolan to VII were scholars. Gao Zu Ji Kun (1570- 1642), a student, tried and tested, and wrote a collection of poems "The Remaining Draft of the Examination Hall" with poetry as the topic. Great-grandfather Yu Ji (1632-1716)17 was a doctoral student, and later entered the imperial college, and was praised by the emperor for his talent. Grandfather Ji Tianshen (1665-1732) was an army supervisor and served as a county magistrate. Father Ji (1685- 1764) was the imperial examination officer in the fifty-second year of Kangxi (17 13). He worked as an official of the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Punishment, and was released to the magistrate of Yao 'an, Yunnan, which made him a political wise man. His moral articles were famous for a period of time, especially good at textual research, such as Tang Yunkao, Du Lushu and Yu Tai's "New Poems to Test Righteousness". In the end, Ji Ji's family declined and revived, paying more attention to reading, and his second son, who still has the saying that "poverty does not break books", was born in such a generation of scholarly family.
Gan Long's calligraphy is very skillful. Xiao Shenyang's handwriting is like Gan Long's. Maybe he imitated it. Some poems and plaques in Gan Long's later period were written by Xiao Shenyang. According to textual research, the imperial poem tablet hanging in the main hall of the Forbidden City was written by Xiao Shenyang.