In his later years, he lived in Yushan Pavilion in Kunshan, also known as Yushan people. Thinker, poet, writer and reformist pioneer in Qing Dynasty. Gong Zizhen used to be cabinet secretary, director of Zongrenyuan and director of etiquette department. He advocated abolishing graft and resisting foreign aggression, and once fully supported Lin Zexu to ban opium.
He resigned at the age of 48 and returned to the south. The following year, he died in Yunyang College, Danyang, Jiangsu. His poems advocated "changing the law" and "changing the painting", exposed the corruption of the Qing rulers, and were full of patriotic enthusiasm. They were praised by Liu Yazi as "the first class in three hundred years". He is the author of Shi Dingji, with more than 300 articles and nearly 800 poems. Today's collection is the complete works of Gong Zizhen. There are 3 15 famous poems "Ji Hai Za Shi". Many works of praise and allegory.
Major achievements
Criticism, call, expectation and concentration in Ji Hai's miscellaneous poems reflect the patriotic passion of the poet who is highly concerned about the fate of the nation and the country. For example, the first two or three poems in Jihai Miscellaneous Poems say, "No matter what salt and iron are, there are many tears in the southeast." The national tax is three liters, the people are fighting, and it is difficult to slaughter cattle and grow grain. "
The author boldly exposed and criticized the Qing government's neglect of salt and iron production, taxation and water conservancy planning related to the national economy and people's livelihood, and its blind dependence on southeast water transportation intensified the exploitation of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, which led to the decline of agricultural production, the hardship of people's lives and the harm to the national economy. Another example is the eighth and seventh poems of Ji Hai's Miscellaneous Poems. "The old friend worships the general with the sea and stands on the south side of the sky. I have three hundred words of yin, and wax pills are hard to send. " Express the poet's concern about the struggle against smoking and the fate of the country.