Wei Zongwu Travel Test

Wei Zongwu is an important scholar of Huating in the Song-Yuan period,who have six volumes of poetry named Qiu Sheng Ji.He is good at poetic prose and presented an artistic conception of indifferent in his poetry anthology,he has also led literary world of Huating for many years with his son Wei Qian.Wei Zongwu had a brief official in the Southern Song Dynasty.Shortly afterwards,he left the officialdom and began his leisure life of intellectuals in hometown.Wei Zongwu scrupulously abide by the fidelity and integrity,never step into the official circles again since the perdition of the Song Dynasty.In his secluded life in Huating,he set up free private school with friends,constracted ancestral hall for Confucius,these measures led an positive study ethos,to promote the development of culture and education in Huating.Wei Zongwu followed the Luoyang Qiyinghui which established by Sima Guang,Wen Yanbo,Fu Bi in the Northern Song Dynasty,set up the Zhen Shuai Hui with his fellow villager in senectitude.Wei Zongwu responsory with his comrade like Ye Ruzhou,Lu Pengnan,at the same time,they also inviting th famous scholar of Jiangnan Area to participated in this association,finally formed a cultural circle of Huating which centered by Wei Zongwu.These cultural activities enlivened the cultural atmosphere in the Huating region,has played a positive role in the promotion of the local cultural strength of Songjiang in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.Zhen Shuai Hui of Huating also had an important influence on the association and creative style of the Songjiang literati group in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.