What is the life record of the author of "Officialdom in the Sky"?

Li, 1867 Shandong native, who lost his father in his early years and was raised by officials, was deeply impressed by the corruption and darkness of officialdom. When I was a teenager, I was good at painting and writing poems. 189 1 won the provincial examination. The Sino-Japanese War broke out in the Sino-Japanese War 1894, and internal and external troubles stung Li's heart. Influenced by the thought of reform and political reform, he gave up the pursuit of imperial examination and founded Guide in Shanghai on 1896. This is the earliest tabloid in the history of China newspapers. The following year, he founded Game Newspaper, with four editions per issue, about 5,000 words, half words and half advertisements. It has street news, humorous articles, poems, riddles, stone tablets, couplets, wine orders and debates. These two newspapers mainly published official jokes and folk anecdotes, which were quite different from the newspapers at that time. They are loved by ordinary citizens and down-and-out literati, opening the door for China's entertainment tabloids. In fact, Li's original intention is to expose, satirize and condemn corrupt officials and political corruption through games and ridicule, hoping that social reality will be improved and changed. Lu Xun once pointed out that this kind of tabloid "lives in Shi Kuang".

Later, Li transferred Game Newspaper to others and founded World Prosperity Newspaper at 190 1. This newspaper is a daily newspaper, with satirical columns on forests, art events, unofficial history, current affairs, novels, essays and talks. It is also mainly to expose and ridicule official corruption. It serialized Wu, a famous condemnation novelist in Confused World. At that time, he lived in Lloyd's Road (now liouhe rd), where there were many brothels. He specially posted a pair of couplets on the gate, "An old horse crouched next to a stray warbler." In this environment, he began to write "Officialdom in the Sky", which consists of several independent short stories. He planned to write 120 times, but only 50 times because of illness. For example, the forty-third chapter of Eight Ridiculous Disruptions refers to Zhang Zhidong, and the eunuch mentioned in the forty-fourth chapter refers to Li, which comprehensively and intensively depicts various bureaucrats in the late Qing Dynasty and reflects the ugly phenomenon of corruption, bribery and fraud in the whole officialdom. He was very popular with readers because he was good at disparaging the disadvantages of the times with humorous writing, and became one of the four "condemnation novels" in the late Qing Dynasty. At the same time, he was published in five series by newspapers, which was quite influential in the history of China literature. Under the influence of World Prosperity, founded by Li Chenggong, Shanghai tabloids have sprung up one after another, known as the originator of tabloids.