Some say it belongs to Liu Yi, while others say it belongs to Qian Yong. Find their information and take a look for yourself.

The saying "Read thousands of books and travel thousands of miles" comes from Qian Yong's "Lu Yuan Cong Shuo" in the Qing Dynasty

A brief introduction to Qian Yong's life:

< p>Qian Yong's original name is He, with the courtesy name Liqun and the name Meixi Jushi, a native of Wuxi. Born in 1759 and died in 1844 at the age of 85. Qian Yong was born in a famous family but did not take the imperial examination. Whether this was because his family was rich and did not need to make plans, or because of his personality, there is no historical data. This is also a bit incredible today. It's like today's children who can take the college entrance examination but insist on not taking it. Perhaps it is because of this that Qian Yong traveled thousands of miles, read thousands of books, did not follow what others said, and continued to write when he was over eight years old. He left his name in the annals of history and made us Wuxi people proud for generations to come.

When reading notes from the Ming and Qing Dynasties, one cannot avoid Qian Yong’s "Lv Yuan Cong Hua". This ancient notebook is famous for its rich content, detailed information and smooth writing. The book is divided into 24 volumes, covering many aspects such as laws and regulations, astronomy and geography, epigraphy and archaeology, cultural relics, calligraphy and painting, poetry and novels, social anecdotes, character anecdotes, customs and sentiments, warnings, jokes and dreams, ghosts and spirits, etc. It can be said to be all-encompassing and magnificent. In his later years, Qian Yong lived quietly in Luyuan. "In his spare time in irrigating the garden, he wrote notes on what he saw and heard with his eyes and ears." He prefaced "Lv Yuan Cong Hua" in July of the 18th year of Daoguang's reign in the Qing Dynasty, when he was eighty.

To say that Qian Yong retired to his hometown means that he left home when he was young and traveled far away from home for many years. He traveled to Zhili, Shandong, Henan, Hubei, Jiangxi, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Fujian. After waiting for the province, he returned to his hometown after fifty years and lived a secluded life. Usually when scholars talk about retirement, it means that an official is old and sick and can no longer serve as an official, so he goes home to take care of himself in his old age; or someone who is upright and upright and does not give up for five buckets of rice goes back and asks himself whether he will return. ; And Qian Yong's retirement is different from these people, because Qian Yong has never been an official in his life, and has never even passed the imperial examination. Therefore, compared with an official's withdrawal from officialdom, he is more like a martial artist's withdrawal from the world. Qian Yong was a famous scholar in the Qing Dynasty. He was proficient in the study of gold and stone tablets during his lifetime, and was especially good at seal script. Even today, two or three hundred years later, his calligraphy can be seen everywhere; such as the Mingyue Tower in Yangzhou and the Tomb of Qian Muzhai in Changshu, to name a few.

Qian Muzhai was originally a minister of the Ming Dynasty, and was promoted to the Minister of Rites. When the Qing troops went to Jiangnan, he led the officials of the Hongguang court to surrender to Duduo, and sent people to post notices everywhere, calling on the people not to resist. Lest it turn into powder, it will be a big loss and people will look down upon you. Just when Emperor Qianlong also scolded Qian Muzhai as "shameless" and banned his works, and the literati in Jiangnan despised him even more as the first of the "Five Unworthy Men of Jiangsu and Zhejiang", Qian Yong resolutely renovated the tomb of Qian Muzhai, which had been abandoned for a long time. The collection is engraved with the words "Tomb of the Old Man Dongjian" written by Su Wenzhong. The stone is placed in front of the tomb, and everyone who watches it will laugh at it. "This is like sailing against the current. How much courage does it take to dare to do this?"

Qian Muzhai's "Collection of Chuxue", "Collection of Youxue", "Story of Heroes in the Early Kingdom" and "Collection of Poems of Dynasties" are still important works studied by scholars of Ming and Qing history. When Qian Yong carved the inscriptions on Qian Muzhai's tomb, he respected Qian Muzhai as a scholar, rather than surrendering to Qian Muzhai. One is one, two is two, Qian Yong is right. In the "Blood Robe" section of "Lv Yuan Cong Hua", Qian Yong showed more respect for Yang Tingshu, who was martyred in the Qing Dynasty, and his admiration overflowed between the lines.

It is generally believed that women’s feet were bound from the Song Dynasty, through the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties until the Republic of China, which lasted for more than 700 years. The so-called foot binding is to wrap a woman's feet with cloth since she was a child, making them small and pointed. They are called "three-inch golden lotus". Qian Yong was proficient in classics and history since childhood, read a lot of books, and was especially good at historical research. In the "Foot-Binding" section of "Lv Yuan Cong Hua", he took the trouble to trace the origin of foot-binding. He discovered that the ancients respected women's foot binding because they liked to see women dancing in small and exquisite dance shoes. They believed that the smaller the shoes, the more beautiful they would be. Naturally, they also wanted women's feet to be smaller than the other. According to Qian Yong's research, foot binding "began in the Southern Tang Dynasty with the empress Li of the Southern Tang Dynasty, and in the Song Dynasty, there were some foot bindings." So he wrote in the book: "In general, the virtue of a woman takes gentleness of temperament as the first meaning, and dignified appearance as the second meaning. Even the size of her feet is of no importance.

"In the Qing Dynasty when every woman had to bind their feet, Qian Yong issued a call to get rid of this bad custom, making him as famous as Yuan Mei, Li Ruzhen, Yu Zhengxie and Gong Zizhen who also opposed foot binding

"Read Wan "Books Traveling Thousands of Miles", the original author is Liu Yi ("Painting Purpose").

Liu Yi

[1017--1086 AD] Zi Zhizhong, Fuzhou He was born in the first year of Emperor Zhenzong of the Song Dynasty and died in the first year of Emperor Zhezong's Yuanyou. At the age of seventy, he was promoted to Jinshi in Qingli and moved to Qushan to benefit the people. The people of the city recorded the incident and called it "Zhi Fan". During the reign of Emperor Shenzong, the customs in Xunzhi Prefecture were witches and ghosts, and they did not practice medicine. Then he changed his position and was demoted to Guizhou as deputy envoy of Tuanlian in Junzhou. At the beginning of Yuanyou (AD 1086), he was summoned back to Du Shuicheng and died of illness. There are 170 volumes of discussion, 30 volumes of Mingshan collection, and 30 volumes of Juyang collection, both of which are handed down to the world in "The Biography of the History of the Song Dynasty"

The latter was written by Du Fu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, in his "Biography of the History of the Song Dynasty". As written in "Twenty-Two Rhymes for Wei Zuocheng",

Like the former, it requires us to learn to integrate theory with practice after learning book knowledge. Book knowledge and practice are interrelated, and neither side can do it. Give up~