Grand Scholar, Bibliophile, and Intellectual Synthesizer of the Late Ming
Mural guide
A thatched pavilion open on three sides stands among tall bamboo; one person sits with their back turned at the veranda rail beside a zither and a stack of bamboo slips, while a stone path runs to a calm pond reflecting clouds and distant hills.
In the seventeenth year of Wanli, Jiao Hong was placed first in the palace examination and became a Hanlin compiler, studying the institutions of the dynasty more closely. In the twenty-second year, Grand Secretary Chen Yubi proposed compiling the state history and wished Jiao Hong to take sole charge. He modestly declined and wrote the Jingji zhi first; most of the other parts were never written, and the history office was in the end closed.
Jiao Hong studies under Geng Dingxiang and Luo Rufang
Late Ming
Jiao Hong was a native of Jiangning and already well known as a county student. He studied under the education censor Geng Dingxiang and took his doubts to Luo Rufang. He taught in the line of Luo Rufang while keeping on good terms with Geng Dingxiang and his brothers and with Li Zhi, and at the time he was often mocked for Chan leanings.
Ming