Preface to seeing Ma Sheng off to Yang was written by Song Lian, a writer in Ming Dynasty. In this preface, the author describes his early experience of seeking advice with an open mind and studying hard, vividly and concretely describes the difficulty of borrowing books and seeking teachers, and the pain of running around in cold and hunger, and compares it with the superior conditions of Taiji students.
It is strongly explained that whether academic achievements can be achieved depends mainly on subjective efforts, not on the level of talent and conditions, so as to encourage young people to cherish a good reading environment and concentrate on their studies. The full text is rigorous in structure, meticulous and thoughtful, contrastive in reasoning, detailed in narration and vivid and touching to read.
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Song Lian (1310165438+1October 4th-13865438+June 20th), whose real name is Shou, whose real name is Jinglian, whose real name is Qianxi, whose real name is Longmenzi. Originally from Jinhua, he moved to the west (now Yiwu, Zhejiang) and later moved to Pujiang, Jinhua (now Pujiang, Zhejiang). Famous politicians, writers, historians and thinkers in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty were called "the great poets in the third day of Ming Dynasty" with Gao Qi and Liu Ji, and "the four gentlemen in eastern Zhejiang" with Zhang Yi, Liu Ji and Ye Chen. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, praised him as "the head of the founding civil servants", and scholars called him Taishigong and Song Longmen.
Song Lian was ill since childhood, and his family was poor, but he was smart and studious, so he was known as a "child prodigy". He was employed by Ji Meng, Wu Lai, Liu Guan, Huang Cheng and others. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, he resigned from the imperial court and ordered monks to write books. In the early Ming Dynasty, he was hired by Zhu Yuanzhang and was honored as a teacher of the Five Classics, giving lectures for Prince Zhu Biao. In the second year of Hongwu (1369), he was ordered to major in Yuan history.
Most of the court etiquette was formulated for him when he was tired of being an official and learned the imperial edict from the Hanlin bachelor. Hongwu ten years (1377), resigned as an old man and returned to his hometown. Later, because his eldest grandson was involved in the Hu case, he was demoted to Maozhou and died in Kuizhou at the age of 72. Ming Wuzong pursued "Wen Xian", so he called it "Song Wenxian".
Refer to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia-Preface to Dongyang Ma Sheng