Gu Xiancheng, the great-grandfather of Zhenguan, was the party leader in the late Ming Dynasty, and the Gu family was a famous family in Wuxi, with excellent cultural traditions and noble family style.
Zhenguan is intelligent in nature. When he was a teenager, he joined the Shinto Society founded by Wujiang celebrity Wu Zhaoqian. He showed extraordinary talents in society and became a friend of life and death with the prestigious Wu Zhaoqian. Later, in Huishan, Wuxi, my hometown, I formed a "Cloud Gate Society" with several fellow villagers, and gathered many Jiangnan celebrities such as Jiang, Wang Wan and Tang Bin, which had a great influence in Wuzhong.
About the end of Shunzhi, Zhenguan resigned and went to the capital. In the first year of Kangxi (1662), he was recognized by the prime minister Gong Dingzi and the university student Wei as the cabinet bookkeeper. In July of the third year (1664), I met the son of heaven. In the fifth year (1666), a southerner won the second place in the rural examination of Tianfu in Shuntian, and was called Shuntian Nanyuan. In charge of the classics of the National History Museum.
In the 15th year of Kangxi (1676), he met Nalan Xingde, the son of Quanxiang Pearl, and became close friends. Together, they rescued Wu Zhaoqian, a good friend who was unjustly imprisoned in Ningguta because of Ding Youke's case, and caused a sensation in the north and south of the country.
In the twenty-third year of Kangxi (1684) and the twenty-fourth year of Kangxi (1685), Zhao Qian and Xingde died one after another, and their chastity was distraught. In the second year after Xingde's death, he returned to his hometown. At the foot of Huishan in Wuxi, his hometown, next to the ancestral temple, he built three bookstores named "Ji Shuyan". Since then, I have lived in seclusion, and I have no distractions. I have studied day and night and changed my charming and enthusiastic life.
In the fifty-third year of Kangxi (17 14), Zhenguan died in his hometown. Before his death, he chose 40 poems of his life, and Du Fu, the owner of the school, asked him to engrave them. Claiming that this work is "the taste is beyond sour and salty." Therefore, although his writings are rich, there are not many poems.
He has written Tang Ji Ji Ji and Zi Zhi Ci, edited the deletion of pronouns in Tang Poetry and Song Poetry, and co-edited the first Collection of Golden Ci with Nalan Xingde. Among them, the "Finger-flicking Ci" spread overseas, and it was called a poet with Chen Weisong and Zhu Yizun (Biography of Qing History and Biography of Wen Yuan). It is also as famous as Nalan Xingde, a famous poet in the early Qing Dynasty. He compared them in the history of Qing Dynasty, the history of literature and the study of Ci, and thought that they were a pair of poets with similar styles and the same opinions.
Zhenguan and Xingde advocate writing with ease and spirit in their lyrics. Their lyrics are extremely emotional, simple and natural, good at learning and edifying, but they can innovate and change. Qin Gengtong said in the Preface of Finger-flicking: "There is a cloud in the inscription of the former Sikou:" The poets of this dynasty focused on finger-flicking. "Stealing the exhibition and reciting it, I was surprised by the unprecedented poets since ancient times. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, it has changed every few words, and Mr. Wang's handwriting is poor but fluent, but extremely. Divine transformation has opened up the frontier that predecessors have not opened, which is almost a pronoun school, but it is a pity that the first shepherd commented. 」