When Li Yu was born, he enjoyed a rich life as soon as he was born, because his ancestors had been starting a business in Rugao for a long time, and at this time, "his family was rich, and his garden pavilion was Luo Qi Jia Yi".

Later, due to his failure in the imperial examination, Li Yu, who shouldered the heavy responsibility of making his career prosperous for his family, gave up this pursuit and resolutely changed to the road of "great seclusion in the world".

In 1666 A.D. (the fifth year of Kangxi) and 1667 A.D. (the sixth year of Kangxi), Li Yu won the title of Joe and Wang Erji respectively. After careful consideration of them, he formed a family troupe with Erji as the pillar, and toured all over the country all the year round to entertain dignitaries, earning a lot of money. This is also the most proud stage of Li Yu's life, and it is also the literary creation of Li Yu.

In 1672 and 1673, with the death of Joe and Wang Erji, the family troupe that supported Li Yu's rich life also collapsed, and Li Yu's life turned into a difficult situation, often relying on loans to make ends meet. In 168, Li Yu in seventy years of age died of poverty and illness.

Speaking of Li Yu, at first, it was almost a conversation between several men, with a little privacy. About how to choose a woman, about the version of Jin Ping Mei, and so on, I thought they were all kept secret.

But later, I found that more and more people like Li Yu, and not only men like it, but also women appreciate it.

Is it fair to say that I like Li Yu, almost out of a man's instinct?

Because Li Yu is a person who loves life and lives very artistically.

Moreover, he can write his life experience into a book artistically, which is where he is superior to many romantic talents.

Lin Yutang said: "Another important part of Li Daiweng's works is devoted to the study of the pleasures of life, which is a pocket guide to China people's living art, ranging from living room and courtyard, interior decoration, boundary wall separation to women's grooming, beauty, cooking art and food series.

The rich and the poor seek ways to have fun, ways to relieve boredom all year round, abstinence in sexual life, prevention and treatment of diseases ... "

Li Yu's opera works contain the lyrics and songs of Casual Sentiment, and discuss the opera literature from six aspects: structure, diction, rhythm, object, subject translation and pattern, so as to select plays, tone sandhi, give songs and teach himself.

In addition to the theory of traditional Chinese opera, Casual Stories of Leisure also contains the contents of diet, construction and gardening.

Li Yu said in a letter to Gong Zhilu, an official of the Ministry of Rites, "There is nothing that can be done with wisdom in the temple; Spring stone economy, then graceful and abundant.

..... empty words, a little comfortable accumulation. " It can be seen that this book can reflect his literary accomplishment and life interest.

Xiali Village is sparsely populated, and "about two-thirds of them live abroad". Many people of Xiali Village deal in medicinal materials in Rugao ancient city, Jiangsu Province, and Li Ruchun, uncle of Li Yu with the title of "doctor with crown", also runs a thriving drugstore in Rugao city.

Li Yu's father, Li Rusong, moved his family to Rugao shortly after Li Yu was born to help his brother take care of the business.

Li Yu, who was smart since childhood, was an infant and never forgets the Four Books and the Five Classics. He was able to compose poems and write thousands of words when he was a master.

He engraves a poem on the buttonwood tree in his backyard every year to warn himself not to waste his time.

when I was 15 years old, I carved a poem on the plane tree: "When I was a child, I planted a plane tree, and the plane tree was as thin as Ai.

small poems are carved on the tip of a needle, and the words are thin and not bad.

in three or five years, the characters of tung are also big.

the word "Tong" has been so long, and people are also ridiculous.

good interjection, carved out of the previous poem.

new words are urged every day, while old words are ignored.

Take care of this old and new mark, but ignore it for leisure. "

In order to let her son study quietly, Li Yu's mother learned from Meng Mu's "three-move godson" and put Li Yu in an "old stork building" in Libao town to study.

But just as Li Yu was studying hard in the sea of books, mountains and learning, his father died unfortunately because of illness, and his family suddenly lost its pillar, leaving the whole family in trouble.

forced to make a living, and because he was going back to his hometown of Zhejiang to take the imperial examination, Li Yu decided to help his family to return to his hometown of Xiali Village, Lanxi. This year, Li Yu was nineteen years old.

In the same year, I married the Xu daughter of Xu Cun (now Shuiting Township) in Shengtang, which is about ten miles away from Xiali Village, and lived together forever.

Li Yu has traveled many times, and she is responsible for housekeeping, so she has no worries.

Li Yu affectionately calls her "Mrs. Shan" in her works.

the death of his father strengthened Li Yu's determination to seek fame. In the eighth year of Chongzhen (1635), Li Yu went to Jinhua to take a boy test and became a famous boy of the Five Classics.

The success of the first battle made Li Yu taste the sweetness of becoming famous by reading. He was more confident and studied harder.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen (1639), Li Yu, 29, was a shoo-in to take the provincial capital Hangzhou for the provincial examination. Unexpectedly, he fell into Sun Shan.

He was full of complaints because of his defeat in the examination. He wrote in a letter to his friends who failed in the examination: "Only talent can save my life, and the ci field will give me back my old glory.

Take the piano to know yourself in the wild, and let Jun temminick in front of the street.

It is better to drink on credit if you have less wine, and read Li Sao slowly if you are angry.

The name of Liu Chui is eternal, which is higher than that of entering a college. " The following year, on the first day of January, I wrote "Recalling the Blow on the Phoenix Platform" and sighed for fame: "Last night, today, we only fight for time, so we will divide the young and the old.

how long is it? It's almost thirty.

I didn't leave the double ten yesterday, but I was still young.

sigh today, although it is difficult to be old, it is difficult to be young.

The boudoir is also one year older, but before God, wish me good luck in the morning.

when the flowers are sealed, forget your birthday.

when I sigh with a cup, I bend my fingers and don't feel frown.

Don't mention it, because you are drunk. "

In the fifteenth year of Chongzhen (1642), the Ming Dynasty held the last rural examination, and Li Yu went to Hangzhou to take the exam again. Due to the turbulent situation, Li Yu heard the police on his way back to Lanxi.

before long, the social situation changed fundamentally. The fighters of the Qing Dynasty swept across the south of the Yangtze River, and the Ming Dynasty became a tottering trend.

When the country was in crisis, Li Yu's road to fame came to nothing. At this time, Li Yu was disheartened and disappointed.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day this year, when he visited Xian Ci's tomb, he had mixed feelings and felt guilty. He sang a long song and cried: "It's a shame to have a teacher in three moves, and there is no son and talent in one life."

People's tears and peach blossoms are all blood, and paper money is turned to dust. "

Soon after, he was invited by the newly appointed Wu Zhou Sima Xu Lingcai to be a screen guest.

after that, I met Zhu Meixi, the new magistrate. They shared the same interests and kept close contacts.

once, Zhu Meixi invited Li Yu to enjoy the scenery of the Bayong Building in the southeast corner of the city, and asked him to write an inscription for the building to make up for the lack of poetry in the building.

The Bayong Building, formerly known as Yuanchang Building, was named after a poem "Ode to Yuanchang Building" written by Shen Yue in the Qi and Liang Dynasties. It was renamed after the Tang Dynasty, and it was a flourishing place for literati to chant.

In the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Qingzhao once boarded this building and wrote "The Eight Odes to the Building".

Because of the famous works of predecessors, later generations dare not write poems and couplets easily.

Li Yu immediately wrote a couplet "It's hard to say when Shen Lang is gone, but when a woman is in charge, don't pick the stars", which is amazing.

Zhu Meixi ordered someone to make a plaque and hang it on the post.

Three years later, the Qing soldiers invaded Jinhua, and the building was damaged and the joint was destroyed. Li Yu was also forced to leave Jinhua and return to Lanxi.

in August of the third year of Qing Shunzhi (1646), the Qing army captured Jinhua, and "Wucheng captured the southwest corner, and people fell like rain for three days".

Li Yu, who had failed in fame and war, went back to his hometown to live in Xiali.

The Qing court issued a decree to shave hair, and wherever he went, he kept his head and hair, leaving his head and hair. Although Li Yu was strongly dissatisfied with this atrocity that hurt national pride, he shaved it to save his life and called himself a "crazy slave". He wrote: "Let's do our best to cultivate the grave and go to the fields.

after leaving the soldiers in the house, I live by the battlefield.

when several beacon lights go out, whose family is all flesh and blood? Borrow people to talk to comfort themselves and live a peaceful year. "

Li Yu, a self-proclaimed literate farmer, built his own paradise-Yi Shan's other business (i.e. Yiyuan Garden) by the tomb of ancestors' market in Yishantou.

The Yiyuan Garden is Li Yu's first masterpiece to show his gardening skills. Through his unique design and arrangement, the Garden is built with corridors, pavilions, bridges and other scenery, and its reputation can be compared with that of the West Lake in Hangzhou. "There are only a few platforms carrying songs and dances, and the scenery is not very different." He also wrote poems such as Ten Handicaps in Yiyuan and Twelve Appropriate Poems in Yiyuan.

"I won't be a king, but I have to be buried in Wangchuan". He decided to learn from the poet Wang Wei of the Tang Dynasty and live in seclusion in Yi Shan for life, where he died of old age.

Before that, he also wrote "Fu of Returning to Hometown", in which he wrote: "Chickens and dogs are welcome, and mountains and rivers know each other.

since the farmers stopped hoeing, they have been happy, and the fishing has been thrown into the pole.

Sao Peng's rhyme is persistent, and he asks for good sentences in Xi Bao; An old man, visiting news in a foreign country.

the house has no owner but always leaves the door, and the grass is waist-high and knee-less.

Yan moved to the nest of the old base, and the magpie welcomed the new guests.

the insect net is as thick as a cocoon, and the worm tracks are woven.

books are fat, and flowers are sparse and dense.

the wife's face turns red, while the pro-hair turns white.

Fortunately, I am still here today, and I regret the long March. " "The man was born, sagitta quartet.

when the world is silent, it belongs to the country of parents.

take the orchid and admire it, and watch it.

It's better to eat with Ding and be a stalk for Ping, and it's better to sip and be a mulberry for Zi. " I deeply feel the difficulty of walking, and the meaning of seclusion is revealed between the lines.

Li Yu is very concerned about the public welfare undertakings in the village, and led by him, he advocated the construction of a pavilion next to the main road at the entrance of the village, named it "Stop Pavilion", and wrote a joint statement: "It's good for the road to be busy, and the people who come and go are quiet and stop."

This pavilion has been praised by later generations, and it is listed as one of the "Top Ten Passing Pavilions in China".

He also advocated water conservancy, actively took the lead in building four weir dams, such as Shipingba, and digging six miles of ditches, such as Yikeng, which made the drought-prone loess hilly area form "gravity irrigation" and improved farmland water conservancy, and the villagers have benefited so far.

according to the genealogy of the Li family in Longmen, it is said: "After Yishan, Shiping was restored, and during the Shunzhi period, Li Weng was completely consolidated.

At that time, Dai Li Weng lived at the foot of Mount Yi, and Li Zhifang was appointed as the penalty booking office of Jinhua Mansion. He had a good public transportation with Dai Li Weng, got a sign, dug a weir pit in the field from Shiping, and stopped at the pavilion, then tried to turn around in front of the house at the foot of Wanyi Mountain.

The public wants to make Tian He pay attention to it, and it is even more appropriate to take advantage of the opportunity to sail a boat. " Shipingba was later praised as "Liyuba".

in the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), Li Yu was promoted to be the prime minister of the ancestral hall, and he ordered Thirteen Chapters of the Ancestral Hall of Li, and presided over the compilation of the Longmen Li Family Tree, which was highly respected by the villagers.

This year, Li Yu was involved in a dispute with Hu Village in Shengtang during a water conservancy project. Later, the lawsuit was suspended because Hu's surname was deceitful and things didn't go as expected.

This incident gave Li Yu the idea of developing his own career in Hangzhou.

So he wrote "Selling Mountain Vouchers", sold the Yiyuan Garden, which he carefully built and played all day, and moved his family to Hangzhou to find a new way to start a business.

Li Yu named his apartment in Hangzhou "Wulin House" and stayed here temporarily.

"There is heaven above, and Suzhou and Hangzhou below". Although Hangzhou is picturesque and better than heaven, it is a stranger here, and despite the help of friends, it is still struggling and desperate, and the situation is very embarrassing.

However, Li Yu was not discouraged. He knew that Hang Cheng, a huge city, must have his way to make a living.

For a period of time, he left his footprints and figures in the streets and bookstores of Hang Cheng. Through constant contact, constant observation and constant understanding, he found that in this bustling city, from gentry to ordinary citizens, they have a strong interest in drama and novels, and they just have their own expertise in this field. "Selling Fu to paste their mouths" can solve the livelihood of a family on the one hand, and on the other hand.

It's a definite idea. He resolutely chose a road of "selling words" that his predecessors had never taken, and was regarded as a "cheap business" by the people of the time, and began his creative career as the first professional writer who "sold fu for a living" in the history of China.

with strong creativity, he has written six legends, such as Companion with Fragrant Fragrance, Kite Mistakes, Love in My Heart, and Jade Scratched Head, and two collections of vernacular short stories, Silent Drama and Twelfth Floor, for several years.

Although these popular literary works were despised by orthodox scholars at that time and regarded as the last skill, they were popular and easy to understand, close to citizens' life, entertaining, and suitable for the appreciation of the audience and readers. Therefore, as soon as they came out, they sold well in the market and were sold out.

In particular, his collection of short stories is welcomed by readers and becomes a hot commodity.

Li Yu called his work "a book of fresh eyes and ears", seeking novelty with one heart, not relying on others or repeating himself.

He tried to discover "things that no one has ever seen before" and "described the unfinished feelings and the incomplete state", with fresh stories, strange plots, clever layout and vivid language.

His novels focus on persuading the good and punishing the evil, sympathizing with the poor underclass, praising young men and women's autonomy in love and marriage, condemning parents' orders and matchmakers' words, and criticizing hypocrisy, which has certain anti-feudal and progressive significance.

when commenting on his novel achievements, later generations claimed that his two collections of short stories, Silent Drama and Twelve Buildings, were rare and excellent works after Feng Menglong and Ling Mengchu's "Sanyan" and "Erpai", and were excellent works in vernacular short stories in Qing Dynasty.

According to himself and Guo Chuanfang, a contemporary of Li Yu, there are sixteen kinds of drama creation, namely, "eight kinds before and after" and "eight kinds inside and outside", but only ten kinds can be confirmed when writing.

Li Yu's writing legend is the biggest addiction in his life, claiming to be "the old slave in the song" and "the slave in the song".

He discovered the disadvantages from the fact that playwrights in the Ming Dynasty were far away from the stage, and began to pay attention to contacting the audience and the stage effect, and to studying the exercises of traditional Chinese opera.

Therefore, Li Yu has made great development and innovation in the artistic form and singing skills of traditional Chinese opera.

His unique drama style made him famous in the ci circles at that time. "Among the northern and southern operas, there are all those who know Li Shilang".

Li Yu's works are popular because of their elegance and popularity, and many of them have been translated into Japan and European countries.

from 1651 to 1668, while living in Hangzhou and Nanjing, Li Yu wrote a large number of plays, such as Companion with Fragrant Fragrance, Kite Flying Mistakes, Flounder, and Phoenix Burning.

He published ten plays, including Kite Mistakes, as Ten Songs of Li Weng. Once this book was published, it was sold out in Luoyang, and was praised by the drama circles at that time as "the lyrics and songs made were the first in this dynasty (Qing Dynasty)".