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The relationship between Ji Xiaolan and Liu Yong

The relationship between Liu Yong and Ji Yun in history is quite harmonious. Ji Yun came from the disciple of Liu Tongxun, the father of Liu Yong, and the two have a brotherhood and brotherhood.

Ji Xiaolan was four years younger than Liu Yong. He passed the Jinshi examination in the 19th year of Qianlong (1754), and he was awarded the Jinshi examination in the same year as Zhu Gui, the teacher of Emperor Jiaqing, both from Liu Tongxun’s school. In the later years of Qianlong, Ji Xiaolan was an official worshiped as a first-rank co-organizer of the University, and also served as a secretary in the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites, but his political achievements were far inferior to his literary achievements. Library Quanshu”.

And all of this is largely due to Liu Tongxun. He is an important figure in Ji Xiaolan’s life, not just referring to their teacher-student status. Among the two most important events related to Ji Xiaolan’s career and even his destiny, Liu Tongxun is almost the one who is determined.

Ji Xiaolan and Liu Tongxun are teachers and students, but they are peers with Liu Yong. From the time they met to the death of each other, they have known each other for 57 years. There are many reasons why the two can maintain their friendship for more than half a century. For example, they are equally humorous and upright, but the most important thing is that they share the same interests.

University scholar Yinghe recorded in his “Enfutang Notes” that Ji Yun and Liu Yong had a very good relationship, Ji Yun was quick-witted, and Liu Yong wrote very well, so Ji Yun often asked Liu Yong to write couplets for himself. For example, “Floating and sinking officials are like gulls, books of life and death are like silverfish” is Ji Yun’s favorite poem. After Liu Yong’s death, Ji Yun was about to write it down and present it as an elegiac couplet.

Both Liu Yong and Ji Yun like to collect inkstones, and they also give them to each other for singing. In the fifty-seventh year of Qianlong (1792), Liu Yong presented an inkstone to Ji Yun, who was serving as the censor of the capital, and specially inscribed on it: Ji Yun liked my Fuwen inkstone, so I gave it to him, and the book Based on the inscription, “The stone structure is meticulous, the stone bone is strong, and I gave it to the censor of the capital to write a memorial.

This old man and this inkstone are really comparable.” This was passed down as a good story at the time. Jiang Shiyu also wrote about this inkstone and said, “How many noble people live in the south of the city, the prosperity of singing and dancing is not as good as Jin. Whoever sees Kongzhai commenting on the history of inkstones, the two ministers are facing each other.”

In the eighth year of Jiaqing (1803), Liu Yong gave it to Ji Yun’s inkstone party again, saying: “Send the ancient inkstone party to receive a Korean manuscript. The inkstone is a simple and melancholy style, which is like Wenge, for example.” Ji Yun Yuntong recorded: Liu Yong gave me an inkstone, with the word “Heshan” on the left side, I think it is something from the Song Dynasty, but I don’t think so. But Liu Yong also said, “The alleys rely on Su, Huang, Mi and Cai.

Do you know that there was a Wei in the Song Dynasty?” To the effect that the antiques in the Song Dynasty are generally claimed to be Su Dongpo, Mi Fu, etc. How could someone’s stuff pass off Wei Liaoweng’s name? Ji Yun admitted that what Liu Yong said, “is or just said.”

In the ninth year of Jiaqing, Liu Yong died. In the second year, Ji Xiaolan passed away. Before Liu Yong died, he gave Ji Yun an inkstone. Ji Yun wrote an inscription on the inkstone, saying, “Yu and Shi’an (Liu Yong) both like to store inkstones, and they often give each other gifts. They also rob each other. Tian doesn’t care about it. Taiping Qingxiang, don’t use sensuality, goods, and benefits to each other, but just take this as a joke, will it be a good story later?”

In addition to writing poems and gifting inkstones, the two often talked about Buddhism together. Ji Yun once wrote a poem “Song of the Remnants of Liu Shi’an Xiangguo Collection” to describe this situation.

Ji Xiaolan once said that the two were “the same glue in terms of friendship”, and it is not an exaggeration to describe the friendship between the two as gluey.