Appreciation of Gu's "Taste of Beijing"

Have you heard of Gu's story? Gu was a famous thinker and writer in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and one of the "Three Great Confucians". The core monument of Gu's life is named Gu Zhongqing. I decided to change my name to Gu because I admired him so much. His poem "Jingwei" is very famous.

Gu Portrait

The reason why this poem has been repeatedly studied by future generations is because it contains Gu's determination and persistence. At that time, Gu created it after reading the story of the Jingwei bird from the year "Jingwei" AD. Jingwei was originally my daughter, but she was killed by the sea. After her death, she turned into a jingwei bird and kept throwing stones into the sea, hoping to fill it up.

After watching it, I was deeply touched and felt that I should have a strong willpower like the Jingwei bird. One day, he will realize his wish. At that time, he insisted not to bow to the Qing Dynasty. There was still great hope of rebelling against the Qing Dynasty and restoring the Ming Dynasty, as long as he could be like the Jingwei Bird. In addition, in this poem, the sentence "I would like to calm the East China Sea, but I will not change my mind" is enough to show Gu's determination and persistence. To this day, the poem "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" is still an inspirational poem for many young people who work tirelessly to achieve their goals.

Second, Gu had a rough life, but he really traveled thousands of miles and read thousands of books. He spent most of his life completing the masterpiece "Jingwei", which contains a lot of valuable knowledge, national classics and astronomical knowledge. It is a masterpiece of great research value and has become a treasure of Chinese national culture.

Gu was able to complete such a magnificent work within thirty years, and all the text content was written by himself. This spirit just verified his will in the poem "Book of Benefits of Diseases in the World, Commanderies and Countries", and he was able to persevere like the Jingwei bird.

Everyone is reading Gu’s famous saying, “Every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.”

“Everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world” mainly refers to the rise and fall of the country. Defending the country from aggression is the duty of these emperors and ministers, and has nothing to do with ordinary people; the prosperity and destruction of the world is everyone’s responsibility. It is the unshirkable responsibility of ordinary people. The original words of this sentence are: "The protector of the country, its monarch and his ministers, the flesh-eating people seek it; the protector of the world, the humble and responsible person." From Gu's "Jingwei", the eight characters became the language type " "Rizhilu Zhengshi".

Gu Zijing

Gu proposed that "everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world", expressing the crisis in the late Ming Dynasty. There was a peasant army uprising inside, and Houjin advanced outside. Scholars only know how to read, but they are seriously out of touch with social reality and unable to save the world from huge dangers, so they express their feelings. When I said this, it was already the end of the Ming Dynasty, and the court was about to destroy the king. A large number of scholar-bureaucrats were demoted to the Qing Dynasty. Gu was very indignant at such a move and believed that the emperor lost power because of his dissolute life.

After two failed anti-Qing campaigns, Gu began a wandering life, and later tried to take back his room. However, because one time he slipped on his horse, he fell ill and eventually died.

Gu was born in 1613 in the Ming Dynasty and died in 1682 in the Qing Dynasty. He was a rare talent in both dynasties at that time. He was an outstanding Confucian scholar, historian, thinker and phonologist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. His representative works include "Painful Statement of Sin", "Rizhilu", "Five Books on Phonetics", and "Rhyme Correction".

Appreciation of the Complete Works of Gu

Gu was an outstanding thinker, geographer, Confucian scholar and phonologist in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. Together with Wang Fuzhi and Huang Zongxi, he was known as the "Three Great Confucians" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. He also studied national laws, celestial phenomena, grasses, county and city stories, phonological exegesis, military and peasants, and hundreds of Confucian scholars. In his later years, he created new research methods for the early Qing Dynasty, and was known as the "ancestor of the Qing Dynasty", thus becoming a master of the Qing Dynasty. His works record the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the gradual prosperity of the Qing Dynasty.

Gu Zijing

It is the first edition of a book published by Shanghai Ancient Books Publishing House on February 14, 2012, with a total of 7300 pages. This book contains all the verifiable works of ancient times. Gu's original works were selected, including the important representative works "Ancient Yin Table", but it was difficult to sort out, so it was listed as a secondary sorting.

It mainly includes nine classics, five sub-parts, seventeen historical parts and three collections, with a total of 34 types and about 12 million words. On this basis, re-typesetting, proofreading, punctuation, and publishing in traditional format. The book reflects Gu's academic thoughts and achievements in many aspects such as society and culture, and covers a wide range of content such as history, society, and culture.

Ge, a professor at Fudan University and director of the Institute of Literature and History, believes that he has a new understanding of the value and research of this book. Professor Shu Jingnan from the Institute of Ancient Books of Zhejiang University also commented that the book resolved academic debates such as "the dispute between Sinology and Song Dynasty", "whether Gu believed in Zhu Neo-Confucianism", and "the influence of Gu's theory on later generations".