He Liangjun (1506–1573) was a Ming-dynasty painter and bibliophile. His courtesy name was Yuanlang and his sobriquet was Zhehu Jushi; he also used the courtesy name Fulang and the sobriquet Qingxi Manshi. He was a native of Huating in Songjiang.
Life
In his youth, he devoted himself to study, spent twenty years without descending from his upper floor, amassed 40,000 books, and read widely. He and his younger brother He Liangfu were both renowned for their talent; contemporaries likened the brothers to the “Two Lus.” He Liangfu (1509–1562) placed seventh in the third class in the jinshi examination of the twentieth year of the Jiajing reign.
He struggled in the examination halls and entered the Imperial College through the suigong route. Officials in charge, impressed by his reputation for talent, appointed him Kongmu at the Southern Hanlin Academy. In Nandu, he enjoyed discussing military affairs and regarded himself as capable of statecraft. He mingled daily with prominent figures and men of letters, had a subtle command of musical modes, composed his own tunes, and joined gatherings of wine and literature with strings and bamboo instruments in full play; contemporaries said that Jiangzuo elegance had returned. He left after three years, later sojourned in Suzhou, and did not return to Songjiang until the age of seventy.
Works
His works include the thirty-eight-juan *四友齋叢說*, the one-juan *四友齋書論* and *四友齋畫論*, the thirty-juan *何氏語林*, and the twenty-eight-juan *何翰林集*. Another work associated with him is *清森閣集*.
Literary and Social Exchanges
His literary exchanges included prefaces, postscripts, tomb inscriptions, sacrificial texts, and letters: he wrote prefaces for works by Xue Yingqi, Lu Shen, and Wang Weizhen, a tomb inscription for Ouyang De, and postscripts for works by Huang Zuo and Zhu Bao. He also sent and answered letters and exchanged poems and prose with other literati.
References
- CBDB He Liangjun (128402)
- 搜韵 何良俊 (42203)
- Wikidata He Liangjun (Q10886389)