His poems and songs were beautifully written before and after. For example, in his Ten Odes to Insects, from the small butterflies and ants in front of him, he was fascinated and swept across Wan Li-bees: righteous, diligent and diligent. When fragrance accumulates in the world, wine becomes young. Fake vernal equinox millet, real Wang Xiaoban flower. The narrow waist of the special room is not the only boast of the Chu Palace. "Ants": Millions of people crowded, pills in the Olympic area. If you are born with it, you have it, and if you are born with it, you have it. In response to the rain, yin and yang are in harmony, spinning the sky and spinning the sun. Hu Weiwei's hunger for good food also helps the world to become stupid. Firefly: See you in the early autumn when the fire is low, and the night is bright and sunny. The sparse curtain can enter and exit, and the grass is clear. Dark and blank, flying too clear. I have been reading for a long time since I broke up with fate. "Squid": Who knows how to enjoy the fish again and parade this grand view? Taking books as a life has existed since ancient times. It is easy to cover a thousand articles roughly, but difficult to transmit them remotely. Can Cong couldn't stand it. He laughed at the crown of Confucianism. "Earthworms": The evening is empty, and it is cloudy when we go our separate ways. Although there are traces of bending, the source is unintentional. Hou's style is calm, and his endowment is profound. At present, it is relaxed, pleasant and lasting. ..... Obviously observed ants fighting, bees making honey, autumn insects singing, but with a stroke of a pen, wrote the secular life, what the monarch and the minister are righteous, millions of soldiers and horses, and the waist of the Chu Palace are all vivid and eye-opening. The most intimate and warm poem is Octopus. In the second half, he quietly talked with Squidward Tentacles and told him his reading experience: "It is difficult to go to the sky with coarse details"; He smiled at the fish. When the fish is full, the author laughs after studying hard ... The poet's elegant and kind mind naturally shows.
Naturally, his reading life is rich and lonely, and his poem "Summer is Things" tells his daily life and feelings. There is a cloud: I have been lonely for a long time, and my mood is as light as a cloud. The wind is easy to burn incense in the bamboo yard, and the banana window smells the pillow rain first. Many diseases are familiar with herbs, and the thirst for tea in summer is also intoxicating. He who laughs last is different from the sandman. His chronicle poems are magnificent, but there are too few left. I don't know what happened when Li Guojie chose poems, but he only kept a few. In the first month of the 15th year of Guangxu, he wrote that a ceremony of returning to political power was held, and an imperial edict was given to give adults a purple rein, and a poem was given to congratulate them, that is, to use Mr. Zhai's original rhyme: The saddle is still vigorous, and I have seen the purple whip hanging in the middle. Make the code dare to worship the system, and ZTE also reads the merits of the old minister. I am honored to receive the honor of Feng Dan, and I hope I can look forward to it. However, I wish the holy dynasty a long time to suppress martial arts, and the clothes are in the town to dial the emperor's wind. In addition to the gratitude of the Qing court, ZTE in the world does not forget the merits of its old ministers. It is mainly hoped that the Qing court after "returning to politics" can "suppress the martial arts for a long time" and not fight, so as to truly make the world peaceful. What impressed me most was his singing of history and his nostalgia for ancient poems. It's probably the year when he took the provincial examination in Jiangnan. After coming out of the examination room, he visited places of interest in Nanjing and Hefei. Facing the ruins of the old capital of the Six Dynasties and the low pavilions on the long streets, he was filled with emotion. He wrote more than 50 ancient poems in one breath, telling the story of the ruling and opposition parties, and the rise and fall of the giants are at your fingertips. Such as: "Teaching Taiwan": Wait for a thousand crossbows to cross the river, and climb a hundred feet with one step. I don't envy teaching water warfare in a pool, but I think straight, defending the sea and fighting back the tide. The general always carves a bow, and the iron Buddha welcomes him back to the temple. The autumn wind blows grass at dusk, and the rustling still carries the sound of arrows. Farewell to the Bridge: The song of the Han army began as a eulogy, and the Millennium Bridge still exists. The silver candle will enter the wine, and the red makeup sword will reward you. Tears are unbearable at the farewell banquet, and the grass invites some souls. You hate more than one stream, and you weep till dusk. Qinhuai Fisherman's Song: New Yan Song's Du Sha Wei Niang, Red Banqiao low painting boat. Fishing flutes sound like willows, and the bustling world is cold. Smoke from the Cow's Head: The waste palace grass has withered since. Only the two corners of the castle peak are there, and there is a faint smoke of the Six Dynasties. "Hometown of Chang Gan": The long cadres are connected with the small cadres, and the temples are opposite, which is spectacular. Thousands of households in the green field, who are the descendants? "Come to Swallow": There is no king to thank guests in the hall, and the swallows still return in front of the hall. Love deeply, the Lord is hard to give up, and he is ashamed to fly to others. ..... These poems not only show his talent, but also incorporate his historical point of view, which shows that he did take on a lot of desk work.
But after he won the lottery, the examination room was unlucky. 1886, he went to Beijing to take the court exam as Yin Sheng, but failed. Although not recorded in the Jinshi, but the results are not bad. He was elected as the Minister of the Interior by the imperial court and was awarded the title of Dai Hualing. This title only shows a person's qualification, does not mean the actual award, and often belongs to the "alternate" status. Therefore, Li Jingshu actually only obtained the qualification of level 4 official, and still lives in the Beiyang Minister's yamen where his father is in Tianjin to study hard and prepare for next year's exam.
1895, Li Hongzhang was ordered to go to the East to make peace, and Li Jingshu asked to go with his father. Li Hongzhang disagreed and asked him to review his lessons at home with peace of mind. "Tell him to try the ceremony." However, at that time, Li Hongzhang had been defeated in the Sino-Japanese War, and the Beiyang Navy was completely annihilated, which became the target of public criticism. The snobbish examiner hates him, and so does Li Jingshu. It is said that his test paper has entered the admission file. When the registration was opened, the examiner saw that it was Li Hongzhang's son and threw his paper out. Li Jingshu didn't expect his father's "lightness" in the exam to be so touched-the article had already been shortlisted, and it was "quasi-high quality", but the exam host had a grudge against Li Hongzhang and would not hesitate to throw stones at you when Li Hongzhang was unlucky. So he secretly changed Li Jingshu's paper, and it was easy for him to write it, so Li Jingshu was unknown again, and his mood naturally became even lower. Soon after, I heard that my father was assassinated in Maguan. I was shocked. I want to visit, but I'm not allowed to. I can only cry alone. The first thirty years of his life were the period when his father became famous and the whole Li family flourished. Supposedly, he is generous and bold, but he is frugal in summer and winter. There is no madness in his works, but he will always be sad and depressed, and he will always be in his heart when times are difficult, which is absolutely different from some dude who played cricket at that time. His descendants told him in his "Towards the Star": "The historical events of the past dynasties and the sources of the ups and downs in troubled times have been carefully studied, especially the anecdotes of the present dynasty, even the official history of unofficial history, has been fully referenced." This is not empty talk.
Mother Zhao suffers from liver disease all the year round. After years of recovery, she suffered severe pain. At this time, Li Jingshu always waits on the side, tastes soup and medicine, and tries his best to alleviate his mother's illness. He inquired about the cure everywhere, and once heard that the disease could only be cured with his son's meat and medicine. Li Jingshu believed it, and really cut a piece of meat from his own hand and put it in his mother's Chinese medicine to give it to his mother. Unfortunately, my mother's condition didn't improve, and she finally died on 1892. Li Jingshu was heartbroken. Every time he remembers his mother's kindness, he will cry sadly, and every time he cries, he will gasp, so that he often faints and suffers a great loss. There is only one thing that Li Jingshu really did for the Qing court, that is, 1896, when his father was ordered to go to Britain, France, Germany and Russia, the Qing court remembered Li Hongzhang's lofty campaign that year, and specially ordered Li Jingshu and Li to accompany him. Li also serves as an interpreter, adding three titles and accompanying him in the name of counselor. The trip of Li and his son reached tens of thousands of miles, which lasted more than half a year. Wherever he goes, Li Jingshu always serves as a senior bodyguard around his father, providing him with meals and life for several weeks.
After returning home, he still studied behind closed doors at home, kept a low profile, was indifferent to the camp, and was detached from the current evaluation. Friends and relatives saw that he was far away from officialdom and was a scholar, and he dared not act rashly to sell himself. During the Gengzi period, the Boxer Rebellion rose in the north, burning foreign buildings and killing foreigners. Before Eight-Nation Alliance went to Beijing, Empress Dowager Cixi hurriedly fled to the west with Emperor Guangxu, and sent the "Twelve Gold Medals" to Guangzhou, demanding that Li Hongzhang immediately go north to clean up the mess. At that time, Li Jingshu was fleeing the chaos with his family and returning to the south. When he arrived in Nanjing, he didn't reach the shore. He heard that his father had arrived in Shanghai, so he quickly turned around and ran to Shanghai again. When he arrived in Shanghai, Li Jingshu insisted on going north with his father. Seeing the chaos in the north, Li Hongzhang could not bear his son to suffer with him. Besides, Li Jingshu doesn't have many years of diplomatic experience, so he'd better not go, so he must stay. 190 1 autumn, Li Hongzhang's negotiations with envoys from eleven countries ended, and people fell down, living in Xianliang Temple and coughing up blood. Li Jingshu hurried to visit with his eldest son, Li Guojie, while Li Hongzhang was bedridden. Li Jingshu deserves to be a great dutiful son. He waits on his father every day. He doesn't want to eat during the day and doesn't pay attention at night. He stayed with his feet for more than 50 days in a row and still burned incense every day, preferring to be his own generation.
This year 1 1.7, his father died because of long-term fatigue and illness. Li Jingshu was in great pain. He consciously failed to save his father's life, which was actually his son's incompetence. He wanted to die for his father, but his family persuaded him to give up. But since then, his health has collapsed. Every thought, every cry, every breath, every breath, every sweat, burning liver and lungs, gradually died in God. Consciously died, wrote a suicide note in February 1902 1 1, stating that he was worried about his family, and so on. A week later, he also went with his father Xian. It was only a hundred days before his father died. His villagers felt his filial piety. Zhou Hao, the governor of Zhili, and Yang Shiying, the provincial judge, stated the facts and asked Yuan Shikai, Li Hongzhang's successor and new governor of Zhili, to praise him. The Qing court was also shocked by this news. Although the concubines of the two palaces just "died" and everything is undecided, they also praised their kindness and allowed them to be included in the national history "The Biography of Filial Piety". He inherited his father's title of Marquis, and his eldest son, Li Guojie, inherited this title. Finally, later people buried him in Dongxiang, Hefei, Maogang, the hometown of the Li family, which is only 20 miles away from Hefei (the "Maogang" here is Zhalonggang in Feidong County, Anhui Province today). Its tomb is located in Yong Dai, Magang Village, Feidong County, but after ten years of Cultural Revolution, I wonder if it can survive.
Li Jingshu's writing is elegant and full of emotion. The eleven volumes of Lianyuan Diary written in calligraphy are the last diary of his life, which records what he saw and heard around his old father in Xianliang Temple in Beijing, as well as the last things in his life and daily life, which have never been seen by the world or read within his family. From the Republic of China to liberation, although the relics of the Qing Dynasty are out of date, they are all the heritage of the ancestors, and his descendants have been hiding and locking them. Speaking of these eleven volumes of Diary of Lianyuan, Li Jingshu himself would never have thought that more than half a century after his death, there was another big trouble, which made his descendants very nervous. It was at the beginning of the ten-year catastrophe, and the rebels in Shanghai burned and took to the streets all day to "sweep the four old people." This diary was in the hands of his granddaughter Bian Huiqing (Li Yuliang's wife), and his family lived in Shengping Street next to Weihai Road. For the safety of the whole family, the old lady personally handled a lot of Li's old stories, and this "Lianyuan Diary" written for her ancestors was really reluctant to burn, so she tried to secretly send it to Nanjing, because her eldest son Li Daobing and her grandson were in Nanjing, so the "situation" in Nanjing was definitely better than that in Shanghai. Who knows that Nanjing is not safe either? After graduating from college, Li Daobing worked as a senior engineer in Nanjing electric power department, and now he wears a hat of "reactionary academic authority".
He has been cautious all his life. After his father died, he and his second brother Li Dao? Third brother Li Dao? Became the pillar of the family, sending part of my salary to my mother every month, because my mother has to live and three younger brothers and sisters have to study. He never says "no" to his mother. As the eldest son, it is the responsibility of the "heirloom". But this time, in the face of this "ancestral heritage" hot package, he really made a big worry. He knew that his property would be robbed sooner or later, and leaving this parcel at home was a quasi-"time bomb", and something might happen at any time. Finally, his wife Jiang Jin came up with a good idea-send it to her family in Changzhou. Her family has a relative who is a rebel leader and is very active outside. The rebel side specializes in copying other people's homes, and no one will copy his home. Isn't it foolproof to send this package of Lianyuan Diary to his home? This is really a foolproof and good way. No one has ever touched Lianyuan Diary, which is still preserved in the hands of Li Jingshu's descendants.