Ji Yun

Ji Yun ( 紀昀 ), born in 1724 with Xianxian in the current province of the Hebei and deceased in 1805) is a writer Chinese.

Biography

Ji Yun is resulting from an aristocratic family. Obviously very gifted, and impassioned by the study since childhood, it shows a intellectual precocity which leads it to the statute of large prize winner of the provincial examinations at 24 years.

Member of the Academy of the Forest of Pinceuax at the thirty years age, it continues loads in province and knows brilliances success at the Court of manchou, near the emperor Qianlong.

Legal annoyances lead however to the banishment with Ouroumtchi. After two years of exile, he is recalled, and takes then the station of editor association of the imperial manuscripts ( Siku quanshu ). Fifteen years of labor later, it reaches under Grand Secretary of the throne .

Publications

Its work is composed, a little with the manner of Jean of the Heather, of small anecdotes, concise, joined together in an immense work: Notes of the thatched cottage of the subtle observations ( Yuewei caotang biji ). Six volumes which compose it appear in 1789 with Beijing.

Various facts, memories of court or mythical matter, the saynètes that Ji Yun immortalisées anchor in China in prey to the demons and the supernatural creatures, côtoyant the human ones in extremely short and very diverse accounts.

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