In the history of the Chinese nation, Confucius has a position that no one can match. In his brilliant life, **3,000, seventy-two people became great sages. However, when it comes to Kong Shangren, many people may not have heard the name at all. What kind of relationship does Kong Shangren have with Confucius?
Kong Shangren, the word hired, and the word Ji Chong, the number Dongtang, alias Antang, self-named Yunting Mountain people, the sixty-fourth generation grandson of Confucius. Kong Shangren is talented and has a wide range of hobbies, and has made considerable achievements in literature, classics, drama, cultural relics and archaeology. However, his career was very unsmooth, just like Confucius who traveled around the world for more than ten years and was not reused.
Kong Shangren studied with his father when he was young, and was ready to take the road of the imperial examination that scholars must take at that time. Although he studied the scriptures and read the history of books, he was always on the list, but even if he failed many times, he still did not give up easily, and when he was 31 years old, he also went to take the township exam, but unfortunately he still failed.
When Kong Shangren was 35 years old, in order to welcome the Kangxi Emperor's Southern Tour to worship Kong's ceremony, the Kong government selected hundreds of ** Xi Lile, and Kong Shangren was elected as a pre-feast lecturer as a saint, he preached the "University", and was appreciated by the Kangxi Emperor, and specially ordered the officials to appoint Kong Shangren as the doctor of the Guozijian.
Emperor Kangxi's exceptional promotion of Kong Shangren was just a gesture of respecting Confucius and courtesy to the saint, so after Kong Shangren became an official, he was not reused by the emperor. Later, he was sent to Huaiyang to control the water, where he stayed for four years. However, it was during his four years in Huaiyang that he was able to visit the hometown of the Southern Ming Dynasty, make friends with the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, deepen his understanding of the history of the rise and fall of the Southern Ming Dynasty, collect rich materials, and lay a solid foundation for the creation of "Peach Blossom Fan".
His "Peach Blossom Fan" wrote the story of Nanjing in the last years of the Ming Dynasty, showing the social reality of Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty, so it was deeply loved by the public. "Peach Blossom Fan" is known as a treasure of ancient Chinese opera and has had a profound impact on the development of Chinese opera.