Nan Hua Lu: Life History of Southern Scholars in the Late Ming Dynasty
by Zhao Baitian
About This Novel
Flowers are the essence, and people are also the essence. The most essential thing is the glorious and decadent material and spiritual life of that era. The "Nanhua" in the title of this book is not the name of a place (Nanhua County, Nanhua Temple), not the name of a person (Nanhua Zhenren), not the title of the book (Nanhua Sutra), but the literal meaning: "The Essence of the South." The work depicts stories of the vanished south: dreams, dramas, gardens; scribes, talented women, strange people... This is an artistic and literary chronicle of southern China after the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. There were painters, composers, and connoisseurs who devoted themselves to the construction of private spaces, including Wen Huiming, Dong Qichang, Wu Qizhen, Xiang Yuanbian, Li Rihua, Tu Long, Tang Xianzu, Dong Ruoyu, Qi Biaojia, Wu Meicun, Chen Hongshou, Zhou Lianggong, Zhang Yaoxing, and Gong Xian. , There are artists and craftsmen from the grassroots such as Ji Cheng, Zhang Nanyuan, Liu Jingting, Su Kunsheng, Luo Longwen, Wang Ranming, etc., As well as legendary women with different destinies such as Shang Jinglan, Xue Susu, Qian Yi, Wang Sun, Wang Wei, Yang Yunyou, Lin Tiansu, and Liu Rushi. These connoisseurs and hermits, together with the politicians and administrative bureaucrats of the same era who had feelings for their family and country, formed the two wings of the Confucian Chinese tradition. This book uses time as the warp and characters as the latitude, visiting gardens, dramas, travel, tea, wine, spices... Through individual characters, utensils and entries, it presents a history of material culture and spiritual culture of Jiangnan in the Ming Dynasty in a scattered outline and presentation.
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