1. Introduction
Liu Ji (13 1 1 year-1375) was born in Nantian Township, qingtian county (now wencheng county, Zhejiang). Military strategist, politician and writer at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, the founding father of Ming Dynasty, and one of the "three great poets of Ming Dynasty".
2. Young and eager to learn
Liu Ji is a native of Wuyang Village, Nantian Mountain, Qingtian, Zhejiang Province (now Wuyang Village, Yuemei Township, Nantian Town, wencheng county, Zhejiang Province). At the end of Yuan Dynasty, Qingtian County belonged to Chuzhou Road (now Lishui, Zhejiang) in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and Wenzhou Road (now Wenzhou, Zhejiang) in the east, with mountainous territory.
South Tianshan Mountain is in the south of qingtian county 150. The situation in the southern Tianshan Mountains is "the top of thousands of mountains, with dozens of miles of land alone, which is called the blessed land in the south". "Paradise in China" records that "it was called seventy-two blessed places in ancient times, and Nantian was one of them".
3. Bad career
After resigning, Liu Ji returned to Qingtian for three years (1343), and the court recruited him as the deputy envoy of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Confucianism and the provincial examiner. Later, due to the criticism and supervision of Yushitie, he could not get the support of the minister of the DPRK and gave him a lot of blame. He had to write and resign for about a year.
Live in seclusion
In the sixth year of Zheng Zheng (1346), Liu Ji accepted the invitation of his good friend Ouyang Su, went to Dantu with Ouyang Su, lived in Jiaoxi Bookstore near Ouyang Su's home, and lived a semi-secluded life. Make a living by teaching children in the village to read, and occasionally come back with friends such as Moon and Tao Kai.
In the eighth year of Zheng Zheng (1348), Liu Ji ended his semi-secluded life in Dantu for about two years and rejoined the crowd. He came to Hangzhou to live, and his wife gave birth to a son, Liu Lian. During his four years in Hangzhou, he kept close contact with foreign scholars such as Zhuchuan and Yue Hunan, and had close contacts with the poems of scholars such as Liu, Zhou, Xiong and Yue Hunan.
Become an earl
Hongwu three years (1370), Taizu awarded Liu Ji a bachelor's degree in Hong Wen Pavilion. 1 1 month, was awarded a great honor, and was also awarded Liu Ji as the founding minister, a good doctor, an ambassador to protect the army, and a sincere person, with a grain reward of 240 stones. The following year, Liu Ji was sent back to his hometown.
6. Write poems at court.
In the eighth year of Hongwu (1375), Liu Ji, like all officials in Beijing, still attended the early hours of New Year's Day, and then wrote a poem "Early Morning at the Age of Mao Yi" in Fengtian Temple. Although this is an entertaining text, Liu Ji's mood can still be seen in the poem.
It is said that in the middle of the first month, Liu Gang, a master of Song Lian, came to Liu Ji's residence, asked Liu Bowen to edit Song Lian's 100 volumes for reading, and asked Liu Ji to preface the new book. He agreed without hesitation.