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Zheng Banqiao was admitted as a scholar during the reign of Kangxi, but he was never promoted until the tenth year of Yongzheng, but he never became an official. In the first year of Qianlong, he waited at home. Later, he was appointed as the county magistrate of Fanxian County, Henan Province, and then transferred to wei county, Shandong Province to continue as the county magistrate. These are two places where he served as an official all his life.
Although Zheng Banqiao became a county magistrate at the age of 40, he devoted himself to the welfare of the people. During his tenure as county magistrate, he cared about the sufferings of the people, attached importance to farming, mulberry and small businesses, and built water conservancy projects, which played a great role in local development and won the love of the people. After he resigned from his post in wei county, Shandong Province, the people built a shrine for him to express his thoughts.
However, in Zheng Banqiao's personal data, the most prominent life is not being an official, but his literature and painting. Zheng Banqiao, one of the Eight Eccentrics in Yangzhou, spent his whole life keeping in good health by painting and calligraphy. In his early years, Zheng Banqiao lived in poverty. He sells his own paintings and calligraphy in Yangzhou to solve the economic problems in his life. It was also because of economic problems that Zheng Banqiao resigned and returned to China in his later years. He still made a living by selling paintings.
Zheng Banqiao's poetry achieved great success and was highly praised by people at that time. His calligraphy is also quite good, and it was also the object that people tried to imitate at that time. In painting, his attainments are higher. Zheng Banqiao was especially good at painting bamboo, which was very vivid and was recognized by people at that time. Modern people also recognized Zheng Banqiao's calligraphy and painting.
Zheng Banqiao's loss is a blessing.
This is a famous saying of Zheng Banqiao and a famous calligraphy work of Mr. Zheng Banqiao. The full text is: those who are full lose the opportunity, and those who lose gain gradually. It's good for him to hurt himself. I can't be human outside, but I can get inner peace inside, and I will be safe after peace. Happiness is everything. This sentence means that a person should have a normal heart. If you know how to pay without worrying about whether you will "suffer", then you will have a rich life. This is a kind of philosophical thought, which is the same as good fortune and bad fortune.
There is also a story about Zheng Banqiao's loss as a blessing. Said Zheng Banqiao has a relative who has been doing business in Hongjiang. On one occasion, he transported a large ship of timber from the waterway to Jiangsu and Zhejiang to sell it. The voyage was not smooth and he ran aground halfway. If he can't arrive on time, he will lose money.
Just when the men were very anxious, the flood season came. They sped up and arrived on time. When they arrived, they found that everyone else had sold out. At this time, there is a need for construction in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, and a lot of wood is needed. Not only did they not lose money, but they also sold it quickly and finally made a lot of money.
This relative of Zheng Banqiao told Zheng Banqiao about it, and Zheng Banqiao was very moved after hearing it, so he wrote this famous saying at that time. This became the origin of this famous saying.
Whether the story of losing Zheng Banqiao is true or not, this sentence is very famous. Now many people still think it is a classic. This dialectical way of looking at problems has also left us with profound thoughts, and also made this classic calligraphy of Zheng Banqiao, left us with precious calligraphy, and also gave us profound enlightenment.
Zheng Banqiao was rarely confused.
There is a plaque in Zheng Banqiao's home, which reads "Inseparable" and is written in three fonts: official script, seal script and cursive script.
These four words are easy to read but difficult to do. Few people in the world can be really confused when they should be confused. Confusion and intelligence are relative. In one's life, people try their best to be smart. Some people's cleverness is called cleverness, others' cleverness is called cunning, and only a few people's cleverness is called wisdom. The reason why intelligence is so important is that people are often confused, confused about doing things and confused about being a person.
There is an interesting story behind Zheng Banqiao's rare confusion. On one occasion, Zheng Banqiao visited Yunfeng Mountain and stayed at an old man's house at night. The old man claimed to be confused, but he felt that he was very knowledgeable. Unlike ordinary people, the two chatted happily. The old man has a big inkstone, which is made of excellent material and is not available in ordinary families. Zheng Banqiao likes it very much. The old man asked Zheng Banqiao to leave an original painting and carve his handwriting under the inkstone as a souvenir. Zheng Banqiao is a frank man and didn't refuse. He felt that the old man was not an ordinary person. He wrote the word "muddleheaded" and stamped his own seal. Zheng Banqiao also invited the old man to write an inscription, but the old man didn't mention it. He wrote a paragraph, meaning that exquisite inkstones are hard to get, and hard stones are even harder to get. Beautiful stones are more difficult to turn into hard stones, because hard stones are picked up by rural villagers and rarely seen in rich families. When the old man finished writing and stamped it, Zheng Banqiao saw that he was a retired senior official, so he filled in a line saying that being confused is harder than being smart. Later, Zheng Banqiao's rare confused story spread, and these four were widely used.