A Study on Ren Zuomei,a"Wu Jie Yuan"in the Last Reign of Qing Dynasty
The article adopts methods such as interview,literature review,and rural investigation to study the year of birth and death,hometown,and examination situation of Ren Zuomei in the year of Dingyou,the 23rd year of the Guangxu reign in the Qing Dynasty,as well as the landscape of Ren's Manor.After research,it was found that the history of Ren Zuomei recorded that at the age of 35,he changed from a liberal arts exam to a martial arts local exam,becoming the last Wu Jie Yuan in the history of the Guizhou imperial exam-ination.He witnessed the history of the disappearance of martial arts in the late Qing Dynasty,and the Ren Family Manor became a living fossil for studying the ancient martial arts examination system.