Su Wei (1295 ~ 1372) once said that 1303 ~ 1372 was a native of Baima Township (now Gao Qiao, Tongxiang, Huang), Jinxi County, Jiangxi Province. Historians, writers and officials at the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty even participated in the discussion of state affairs and obtained a bachelor's degree in Hanlin.
Su Wei began to study at the age of 4, and was proficient in the Five Classics at the age of 15. Learn from Wu and respect Li Cun. Wu Cheng admired him very much and introduced him vigorously, so that he could make friends with literary celebrities. At that time, Fan Yi, Yu Ji, Jellis and others were impressed by his profound knowledge and regarded him with special respect.
From the Yuan Dynasty to the first year of Zheng Zheng (134 1), he was appointed as a banquet judge on the recommendation of the minister, responsible for compiling the national history of Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties and commenting on Er Ya. After writing, Shun Di gave gold, silver and maids, but he didn't accept them. Five years later, he was appointed as a teaching assistant in Guo Zi. For seven years, he was the editor of Hanlin. He is responsible for compiling biographies of empresses and court chronicles. Suffering from the lack of ready-made information, he used his salary to buy off eunuchs and royal relatives, asked these people about the harem, asked them in detail, and recorded it in person, making it history. In eleven years, he was promoted to Dr. Taichang. Later, he served as a minister of the Ministry of War, a censor, an assistant minister of the Ministry of Industry, and a senior farmer. Seventeen years, promoted to does history. In eighteen years, he took part in Chinese books to save trouble and was in charge of Pingzhang affairs in Gansu. He reorganized the frontier defense, appointed virtuous officials, appeased the border people, and tried his best to revive the country, which won the appreciation of the Crown Prince, saying that he "distinguished loyalty and righteousness, and started from innocence". Soon, he entered the Yushitai to serve Shi Yu and Zhongshu Zuocheng. Zheng Zheng has been an official for twenty years (1360), and he understands political affairs. He is "an outspoken man who dares to do anything with a few facts." The palace in Shangdu (now the north bank of northeast Lightning River in Zhenglan Banner, Xilin Gol League, Inner Mongolia) caught fire, and Shun Di ordered the reconstruction of Daan and Ruisi Pavilion. At the time of crisis, the people were in dire straits, and advised them not to build large-scale projects, and personally sent money and grain to Henan, Hebei, Jianghuai and other places to help the disaster relief people. Twenty-four years, bachelor of Hanlin, Zuo Cheng of Lingbei Province. After abandoning his official post, he lived in seclusion in Fangshan for four years and devoted himself to historical works.
In the 28th year of Zheng Zheng (1368), Zhu Yuanzhang's army invaded Dadu. Su Wei felt that his country was ruined and wanted to commit suicide by jumping into a well, but his poetry friends stopped him on the grounds that "the national history is unknown, and the national death is also a national history". When soldiers in Zhu Jun wanted to enter the historical archives, Su Wei appealed to people in the town to help Wu Mian, so that Yuan Shilu could be preserved.
In the second year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1369), Su Wei was appointed as assistant minister of Hanlin, and Song Lian was a fellow of Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang summoned Su Wei for many times, asked the reasons for the rise and fall of the Yuan Dynasty, and ordered him to write an inscription on the imperial tomb. Soon, Su Wei was disintegrated and dismissed from office for one year. After he was reinstated, he also held a bachelor's degree in Hong Wen Pavilion and was given a car to avoid paying homage. Taizu often gave banquets to bachelors, and also recited poems. Although it was Su Wei who wrote poems in the end, he was often praised by Mao, saying that "old-fashioned, with the meaning of worrying about the world first". At this time, Su Wei was over 70 years old. The emperor's love for Su Wei caused jealousy among some ministers, and Wang Zhu, an imperial envoy, talked about it many times, saying that Su Wei was a minister of national subjugation and should not be reused. Su Wei was demoted to Hezhou (now Anhui County) and was ordered to guard Yuque Temple, the Minister of Yuan Dynasty. In five years, he died in Hezhou hanshan county apartment at the age of 78 and was buried in Gao Qiao, Jinxi. Bachelor Song Lian wrote an epitaph for him.
Su Wei became a minister of two dynasties. However, he was a vassal, and the feudal rulers of past dynasties did not promote him in an important position out of loyalty to the monarch. History of Ming Dynasty, Fuzhou Prefecture Records and Old Records of Jinxi County compiled in previous dynasties only introduced him in Wen Yuan. In fact, he has made indelible contributions in the field of historiography. The History of Song, Liao and Jin Dynasties was originally compiled by Su Wei, but it was signed as the editor-in-chief of Tuotuo, the prime minister of Yuan Dynasty, and became a minor figure. Dangerous and knowledgeable, good at ancient Chinese. His poetry creation had a high position and great influence at the end of Yuan Dynasty. His poems are magnificent, vigorous and powerful, and his poems are included in Volume II of Yunlin Collection. His prose is known as the master of Yuan Dynasty, and there are four volumes of anthology "Shuo Xue Zhai Draft". Elvis Presley of A Qing dynasty called his articles "being honest with others, plain and unremarkable". In addition, there are Er Ya Lue Yi 19 volumes, as well as Cao Lu Chronicle and Yuanhai Ji Yun. There is 1 zaju Flowers in the Garden of a Dangerous Servant in Taihe Yin Zhengpu, which Wang Guowei suspects was written by Su Wei. He is also good at calligraphy, and people love to cherish every word he writes.
At the end of Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of Ming Dynasty, a famous crisis happened in China academic circles. As we all know, The Twenty-four History is an indispensable and important document to study the history of China. Among the twenty-four histories, the four histories of Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan are dangerous, and his contribution to traditional culture is self-evident. According to historical records, he is from Jiangxi. In his early years in yuanshi county court, he participated in the compilation and revision of History of Song Dynasty, History of Liao Dynasty and History of Jin Dynasty, and his reputation spread far and wide. In the Ming Dynasty, he studied yuan dynasty history with Song Lian, which further established his lofty academic status. It is said that when he compiled Biography of Empresses in Yuan Dynasty, he bought a lot of food for some white-haired eunuchs because he didn't trust the ready-made information at hand, and tried to understand the actual situation before writing a book, and refused to perfunctory.