Introduction to Emperor Xiao Gang of Liang Jianwen Literary achievements are greater than those of the emperor of political achievements

Xiao Gang (503-551), Liang Dynasty literary scholar. That is, Emperor Jianwen of Liang of the Southern Dynasty. Word Shi Miao. A native of Nanlanling (present-day Wujin, Jiangsu). The third son of Emperor Wu of Liang. Due to the early death of his eldest brother Xiao Tong, he was made crown prince in the third year of Zhongdatong (531). In the third year of Taiqing (549), Hou Jing rebelled, Emperor Wu of Liang was imprisoned and starved to death, Xiao Gang took the throne, and Dabao was killed by Hou Jing in the second year (551).

Emperor Xiao Gang of Liangjian, also known as Shi Zan, was the third son of Emperor Xiao Yan of Liangwu and the younger brother of Xiao Tong, the Crown Prince of Zhaoming. He was initially enfeoffed as the Prince of Jin'an, the Prince of Zhaoming, and was made crown prince and heir apparent. Emperor Jianwen of the Imperial Household, temple name Taizong. Xiao Gang's political achievements are far less than those in literature. Xiao Gang loved literature since childhood, and because of his special status, his staff was the mainstay, surrounding him, forming a literary group with distinct views. With Xiao Gang being made crown prince in the third year of Zhongdatong, the literary influence of this group gradually reached its peak, openly announcing and advocating the famous palace style literature in literary history, forming a fashion that influenced more than one era in literary history.

Xiao Gang was made the King of Jin'an at the age of four, and the general of Yunqi at the age of seven, leading the Shishu military and placing zuo officials. At this time, it was the beginning of Xiao Gang's "poetic fetish".

(1) The cultivation of his "poetic fetish" and the formation of his later "palace body" poems are directly related to Xu Huan and Zhang Rate, who were like curtains at this time.

(2) Xu Bao read for Xiao Gang, and he "belongs to the literary good for the new change, not informal". Its new variation is actually the palace poetry.

(3) Zhang Li "twelve years old, can belong to the text, the daily limit is limited to one poem", and is friendly with Lu and Ren Fang, and has been praised by Shen Yue. At the beginning of the Heavenly Prison, he was once "made to copy the book of the Second Book, and to write more than twenty articles of women's affairs, and to reduce them into hundreds of volumes... to give to the harem". It can be seen that he has long had the basic conditions for writing palace poetry. And there is no shortage of erotic content in his surviving poems. His "ten years in the palace, very generous", the impact on Xiao Gang is also imaginable.

(4) When Xiao Gang was 11 years old as General Xuanhui and Danyang Yin, yu shoulders and others entered the curtain; when he was 18 years old, when he was the southern Xu assassin, wang gui and others entered the curtain, so that Xiao Gang's literary group began to take shape.

(5) From the fourth year of the ordinary to the second year of zhongdachao (523~530), Xiao Gang served in the yongzhou assassin history for seven years. During this period, in its shogunate there were:

Liu Xiaoyi, Liu Xiaowei and others entered the curtain. His literary community has naturally formed, and his poetry has become increasingly prosperous.

(6) After Xiao Gang entered the Eastern Palace, literary talents were even more gathered. (Xu Bao, Zhang Li, Yu Yiwu, Wang Gui, Liu Xiaoyi, Liu Xiaowei...) ）

Xiao Gang's literary propositions also had representative significance at that time. He opposed both bluntness and cowardice and superficiality ("The Book of the King of Xiangdong"), and put forward positively that "the body must be careful before standing, and the article must be debauched" ("The Book of the Great Heart of the Duke of Dangyang"), which echoed Xiao Xuan's advocacy of "shaking the spirit of love". The Nanshi Liangjian Wendi Ji records that he has 100 volumes of anthologies and more than 600 volumes of other works. The surviving works were compiled by Zhang Pu in the Ming Dynasty as the "Liang Jian Anthology" and included in the "Collection of One Hundred and Three Families of the Six Dynasties of Han and Wei".

In addition to literature and metaphysics, Xiao Gang's writings were also refined, and he wrote three volumes of the Bathing Sutra and ten volumes of Ruyi Fang, all of which were equal; he was also more interested in acrobatics and the five elements of yin and yang.