Biography

Zhao was born in 1829 in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province into a merchant family. He became a Xiucai at the age of 20, and obtained the title Juren in 1859 in Zhejiang provincial exam. With the outbreak of Taiping Rebellion in the following year, his political ambition was hindered. During the rebellion, his family shattered, and a number of his art works as well as his collections were lost. Later, he went to Beijing for the national exams. After repeated failures, he gave up his dream of becoming a government official. He submitted a request to become an alternative governor of a county in Jiangxi Province. He was remarried at 46, and had offspring.

Zhao's studio name was Yangshi qianyibaishijiu he zhai congsu, which may be translated as "The Studio where, looking upwards, 1,729 Cranes have been Observed". His written works include the first Chinese study of snuff-taking, entitled Yonglu Xianjie, or "Researches done during Spare Time into the Realm of Yonglu, God of the Nose", an English language translation of which by Richard Lynn can be found in the 1991 Autumn edition of the Journal of the International Chinese Snuff Bottle Society. He was also author and chief editor of the Jiangxi Tongzhi, the Gazetteer of Jiangxi, published in the 7th year of the Guangxu reign (1881).

Zhao died in 1884 at the age of 56.

生平

趙之謙生于道光九年（1829年）7月9日，初，家境尚好，少年時期家道中落。20歲考中秀才。咸豐九年（1859年）考中浙江鄉試舉人。次年，太平天國之亂爆發，戰亂暫時擾斷了他的科舉夢。

在此期間他家破人亡，多年的文物珍藏和大量作品也因戰火流失殆盡。此後他進京趕考屢試不第，遂絕功名之心，呈請替補為江西候補知縣。46歲時再娶，複得子女。

任鄱陽、奉新、南城知縣，1884年（光緒十年）10月1日，積勞成疾卒于任上。享年56歲。

作品

• 《六朝別字記》

• 《補寰宇訪碑錄》

• 《國朝漢學師承續記》

• 《悲盦居士文存》

• 《悲盦居士詩謄》

• 《二金蝶堂印稿》，趙之謙好友胡澍于同治二年（一八六三）輯拓，是譜收錄印章由趙氏為沉韻初和魏稼孫所製印鈐拓而成

• 《二金蝶堂印譜》由清末浙江紹興著名篆刻收藏家傅栻于光緒三年（一八七七），遍訪友人所藏及自藏趙之謙治印鈐拓而成

圖集

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外部鏈接

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