From the age of four, Li-Shugu was dictated by his father, such as Filial Piety, Ancient Poems, Neize and Shao Yi. Grandfather Su Xianweng bent a small bow to guide him to practice shooting. When he went to primary school at the age of eight, Mr. Xiao Yan taught him parenting etiquette and read classic books. At the age of fifteen, he married the sister of Yan Xizhai's best friend Wang. Fagan's evaluation of Li Yong is very pertinent. He once said to Zhai, "I am close, my brother is crazy, and my brother-in-law is close to the Bank of China." In the sixteenth year of Kangxi, Li-Shugu was nineteen years old, and participated in scientific research, ranking first among the students in the county.
In the eighteenth year of Kangxi, when Li-Shugu was twenty-one, he visited Mr. Yan Xizhai. "Since then, I have been deeply interested in learning six arts from Xizhai, but I have been eight to one, specializing in learning." Since then, I have often traveled with Xizhai. Yan Yuan once solemnly said to him: "Scholars should not entrust the right of transfer to their own luck. A person's behavior is academic, and everyone follows it as a custom. People's embarrassment, still endure outside the film? " Li-Shugu was moved to tears. He is determined to do his best to spread Zhai's theory. "If you don't inherit his knowledge, you will abandon the sky!" Yan Yuan and Li-Shugu have a close relationship between teachers and students, and they are both strict with each other. Li-Shugu "took the courage to change from Zhai, and if his ambition increased, he would benefit from introspection in Zhai Diary". His daily chart draws a circle every hour, draws different symbols in the circle on time, and records the advantages and disadvantages of his actions and ideas. Yan Yuan often comments on his Japanese genealogy, and once taught him to "remember the outline less tedious, do housework less trivial, save energy, read less what you have learned now, and learn less without greed".
Besides being taught by Yan Yuan, he studied Qin successively in Zhang, Feng Yingming, Zhao Xizhi, Wang Ruoji and Guo Jincheng, consulted Wang Yucheng on the art of war, studied books in Peng Tong, studied mathematics in Liu Xue, and then came to Zhejiang to have fun with Mao Qiling. On weekdays, he taught himself lessons, practiced etiquette for one day, studied music for three days, studied law for five days, studied numbers for seven days, practiced shooting for nine days and read books at any time.
Since the age of 22, Li-Shugu has been studying medicine, selling medicine and opening a library for apprentices. He went to Liucun as a teacher and studied the "learning law" for his disciples. The main items are: filial piety to parents, respect for elders, respect for dignity, dressing, schoolchildren, far heresy, emphasis on poetry, learning six arts and general history. For the six arts, special attention is paid to: "Rites and music shoot the number of imperial books, which is also the business of sacred learning. People who are willing to teach with their materials. " After the age of twenty-five, his political and academic thoughts became more and more mature, and he began to write and make friends with people from all over the world.
He once wrote a book called I forgot to make up. In the preface, he said: "People of Song and Ming Dynasties, like Hua Zi, forget illness and sleep, and forget people's affairs. Once a disaster occurs, there is nothing to do. Fight until you die and forget your body. Oh, what a shame! He has been in business for more than 20 years, and he really wants to do something, but he is short-sighted, forgets his illness and is afraid of drowning every time. This is a rough view of the world, and the harmony of this book is based on this. " At the age of 28, he also wrote a history of economic feasibility in the 21st century, called Reading History. At the age of thirty-one, he prefaced Yan Xizhai's Existentialism, Existentialism and Existentialism, explaining the true meaning and significance of Yan's theory. After the age of forty, he wrote "Distinguishing the University", which put forward a new view on the Confucian theory of "learning from others". He compiled a collection of biblical studies, extracted and explained Confucian classics such as The Analects of Confucius and Mencius. At the age of fifty, he wrote to Ding, expounding his political views.
When Li-Shugu was thirty-two years old (twenty-nine years of Kangxi), he went to Beijing to take the provincial examination and won the prize. He deeply feels that the current writing is harmful to the world. After that, although he should have obtained the provincial examination, he stopped working. He has traveled to and from the capital for many times, and has also been to Zhongzhou and Jiangnan. He has served as a teacher and aide and discussed knowledge with scholars from all over the world.
In addition to being a teacher in Liucun, he also worked as the home of Shen and Guo Zigu. At the age of 37 to 39, at the request of Guo Zijian, he went south twice and went to Tongxiang, Zhejiang Province to take charge of politics. Along the way, he visited scholars, publicized the West House Theory, and learned to have fun with Mao Qiling. At the age of forty-six, at the invitation of Wen Yixiu, the magistrate of Yancheng County, Henan Province, he went to Yancheng to assist the government. Fifty-one to fifty-two years old, hired by Yang Shen, the flag bearer of the Han army, he went to Zuoxian County, Fuping, Shaanxi Province twice. He once suggested measures such as choosing rural security, training militia, honoring parents, attaching importance to schools and building water conservancy projects, so politics and religion became a big business. Li-Shugu later recalled: "Bibby urged Yang Shenxiu to go west. Fortunately, he listened humbly and won the hearts of the people. Guanzhong scholars are quite talkative. When you are in power, when you are in the grass, there is nothing but reality, and my road is bumpy and clear. After two rounds of eastward turning, the officials and gentry sent people to fill in the way. " At the age of fifty-four, he went to Jinan and served as the staff of the magistrate. He will return soon. At the age of 60, he was elected to study politics in Tongzhou, and returned due to illness soon after taking office. At the age of 6/kloc-0 and 62, he went south twice to give lectures and spread the theory of Xi Zhai.
Li-Shugu, like Yan Yuan, stressed that a true Confucian must "go hand in hand with the outside world", on the one hand, be strict with self-discipline, on the other hand, it is his duty to help the country and the world. However, there are also differences in their personalities and ways of dealing with life. Zhai's character is noble, and he doesn't go out or pay dignitaries. Shugu is open-minded and has a wide range of friends. Zhai refused to accept anything, honesty and self-control, and Shugu won the reward, enriching the field. Once, Shu Gu was going to Beijing to meet his friends. Zhai said to him, "Don't be tainted with fame and fortune." Shu Gu replied, "Only if you dare not seek fame and fortune can you achieve something." If a gentleman doesn't pay, it will be expensive. No matter how tall or low he is, he is the only one. A gentleman is not a valuable person. He only asks questions, makes it clear and practical. Mr. Wang has nothing to do with township personnel, but with local advantages and disadvantages, so he can be in power and learn from it. Mr. Wang refused to accept it, but listened to Mencius' words,' eat if you can,' but it should be clean and have the same ears as Mr. Wang. "Shu valley in his later years, rich in money. Some people say that he "helps farmers get rich". He said, "If you don't want to get rich, you can talk to yourself. "I always wanted to do things, but I was late this year and I knew it was useless, so I hid in the country. If you burn your hands and feet, you will be braver than a hero. If you can't get it, you will get it, and then the wind will retreat. " Since the age of 64, Li-Shugu has spent most of his time writing in the countryside, with little contact with outsiders.
He ordered the "quasi-peaceful policy", claiming that "the summary of life is a book", and said in the preface: "Fortunately, there is a peaceful world, with four eyes and four wisdom, which makes all scholars speak. If you don't think about the strategy of governing the country and leveling the world, you will be defeated by Confucianism, not for the righteousness of the world! " Yongzheng eight years (1730), seventy-two years old. The governor of Zhili has repeatedly hired him as the president of Jifu Tongzhi. Li-Shugu couldn't refuse, so he went to work in the Lotus Pond Museum in Baoding, and personally wrote the model of Ji Fu Tong Zhi. Soon, he returned home with illness.
At the age of seventy-four, Li-Shugu wrote an epitaph for himself. In the 11th year of Yongzheng (1733), he died in the first month of the following year. Xie Shi wrote a poem before he died: "Love and knowledge robbed the year, and my foot was hurt. The moon shines in Beimang Mountain. " If Jiujing meets a wise teacher and friend, it will be easy to know each other. "