
Selected Poems of Qian Qianyi
by Selected Notes By Sun Zhimei
About This Novel
Qian Qianyi (1582~1664) was an essayist and poet in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. The courtesy name was Shouzhi, his nickname was Muzhai, and his later nicknames were Mengsou and Dongjian Yilao. Changshu people. In the thirty-eighth year of Wanli (1610), he was a Jinshi. In the first year of Chongzhen (1628), he was appointed as the Minister of Rites and a Bachelor of the Imperial Academy. In the Hongguang Dynasty of the Southern Ming Dynasty, he was the Minister of the Ministry of Rites. After becoming an official in the Qing Dynasty, he took charge of the secretarial affairs as the Minister of Rites and served as the vice president of the "History of the Ming Dynasty". He first studied poetry in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and later studied extensively from famous writers in the Tang and Song Dynasties. The poems written after the fall of the Ming Dynasty express the feelings of the vicissitudes of life, the sadness of the stubborn beauty and the desolation of Chu. The interpretation of poetry in this book is academic, paying particular attention to the specific background of poetry creation and its connection with other poems. The allusions used in Qian's poetry are both complex and clever, and the annotator notes the sources of the allusions one by one, concisely and accurately. It is not only of great benefit to lovers of Qian Qianyi's poetry, but also of great value to researchers.
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