gong zizhen
original text
Longpan in Jiangning, Dengwei in Suzhou and Xixi in Hangzhou all produce plums. Or: "Mei takes pleasure as beauty, straight without posture; Take beauty as beauty, and the law has no scenery; Sparse is beautiful and secret is stateless. " Solid also. This literati painter, knowing what he meant, failed to write a letter to the queen and won the plum blossom on earth; And you can't let the world straight, delete secrets, hoe, and take mei disease Mei as a career for money. People who are not in a hurry for money can also take away their wisdom. Others told Plum the secret of the literati's loneliness, and they were right. They raised the edge, deleted the secret, killed the young branches, hoeed straight, and suppressed their anger in order to raise prices, while Plum in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were all sick. The disaster of literati painters is so fierce!
I bought 300 pots in advance, all of them were sick, and I didn't finish any pots. After crying for three days, I vowed to treat it: let it go, destroy its basin, bury it in the ground and untie it; For five years, it will be restored. I am willing to be criticized for this kind of non-literati painter and set up a museum of sick plums for storage.
Oh! Ann gave me more leisure days and more fields to store the sick plums in Jiangning, Hangzhou and Suzhou, and to treat them when I was poor!
Gong Zizhen's existence in Jiangning during the Qing Dynasty refers to Nanjing.