宋湘(一七五六—一八二六),字焕襄,号芷湾,广东嘉应州(今梅州市)人。出生于山村的一个贫寒的教师家庭,自幼天资聪颖,嗜好诗书。乾隆五十七年(一七九二),年届三十七岁,方中广东乡试解元,翌年进京赴考,接连落第,直到嘉庆四年(一七九九)第四次应试,始中二甲第十一名进士,选翰林院庶吉士。不久休假南归。嘉庆六年 Song Xiang (one seven five six - one eight two six), word Huan Xiang, Angelica Bay, Guangdong Jiaying state (now Meizhou City) people. Born in the village of a poor teacher family, since childhood, intelligent, hobby poetry. Fifty-seven years of Qianlong (1792), the 37-year-old, Fangzhong Guangdong Township try to solve the yuan, went to Beijing to study the following year, one after another until Jiaqing four years (1799) the fourth examination, The first two in the eleventh Jinshi, the Academy of Sciences selected Shuji Jishi. Shortly after the holiday south return. Jiaqing six years