During the dynastic transition from Ming to Qing,Liu Yingbin,a courtier in the late Ming Dynasty,first served for The King Fu of Southern Ming Dynasty,and then surrendered to the Qing Dynasty.In 41st year of Qianlong(1776),the Emperor ordered the National History Institute to compile The Biography of the Turncoat Officials,and Liu Yingbin was placed in the third group.This is the collective memory and the official definition of Liu,representing the authoritative moral judgement about Liu's moral defect of surrender for survive.This moral judgment directly affected the local writings and positive memory of Liu Yingbin.Suffering with his reputation crisis,Liu com-piled the Collection of Pingshan Tang Poem,in which he repeatedly expressed his thoughts through literary practice and some divine events,presenting a great ambiguity between historical narrative and his self-interpretation.Beautification,amnesia and deification are the self-defense writing re-sponses of the Liu's family.Coordinating the three writing strategies mentioned above,the"Liu Nan Zhai"constitutes a set of new view about the ancestral Liu Yingbin's deeds and image.
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