This man's family education is very special. His father deliberately let him live in the library at home for five years. He is also very talented. In today's words, five years' study not only builds knowledge but also builds a world outlook, which can be described as self-learning.
According to Ming History? Biography of Yang Weizhen (excerpt):
Yang Weizhen, whose name is Lian Fu, is from Yinshan. When I was young, my diary was full of thousands of words. Hung-fu built a building in Tieya Mountain, surrounded by hundreds of plums and tens of thousands of books. He went up the stairs to study for five years, and was named Tieya. In four years, Tai decided to be a scholar, appointed Tiantai Yin and changed Qian Qing Salt Commander. It's been ten years. When Wei Zhen was studying the history of Liao, Jin and Song Dynasties, he wrote more than 1,000 words of Debate on Orthodoxy. The headmaster Ouyang Yuangong looked at it and sighed: "After a hundred years, the public opinion is set here." I would recommend it, but failed, and transferred it to the general manager's office of Jiande Road. If Confucianism in Jiangxi prospers, it will be chaotic, avoiding Fuchun Mountain and moving to Qiantang. Zhang Shicheng tired, don't go, sent his brother to visit him, because of writing five theories, with a book to reply to honesty, repeatedly told success or failure to obey, honesty is not available. I know the Prime Minister very well and moved to Songjiang. The doctor at home and the talented people in the southeast built a door to take care of it. I used to drink too much, and my pen and ink flew all over the sky. Or put on huayang towel, feather coat, sail on the house, play iron flute and write plum blossom lane. Or call the lyrics of the children's song "Snow White" and rely on it. The guests all danced around and thought they were fairies.
In the second year of Hongwu, Taizu called on Confucian scholars to compile books on rites and music, so as to strengthen the old documents of past dynasties and sent Hanlin Zhan to serve the door with money. Wei Zhen thanked him and said, "Is there an old woman who is willing to make do with wood and ignore the evil of remarriage?" The following year, the Resettlement Department urged to dedicate a chapter of "The Ballad of the Old Guest and Woman" to the court, saying: "The emperor should do his best, unless he is strong enough, he will die in the sea." The emperor agreed, gave a car to Kuiting, stayed for 100 days, and it was decided that it was begging for bones. The emperor realized his ambition and returned the car to the mountain. Outside the west gate of the ancestral home of the history museum, Song Lian presented a poem, "White clothes are declared, and there is no imperial edict of five colors". Home, 75 years old.
Wei Zhen's poems were famous for a while, taking the iron cliff as the topic. He is a friend of Yongjia Li Xiaoguang, Maoshan Changyu, Xishan Ni Zan and Kunshan Gu Ying, and a non-party friend. Changyu said that his ancient Yuefu went in and out of Shaoling and Erli, while Jin and Song Lian said that his essays, such as poems by Shang Dun, Zhou, Lei and Han Mang, shook the mausoleum, and ghosts and gods set up gods, were called famous artists. When Wei Zhen moved to Songjiang, he made peace with Huating Road and expatriates. Both of them died, and Wei Zhen was buried in Ganshan, with the tomb of Sangao Stone as the head. Translation:
Yang Weizhen, whose name is Lian Fu, is from Yinshan. When I was a child, I recited thousands of words every day. Father Yang Hong built the first building in Tieya Mountain, planted hundreds of plums around the building, and there were thousands of books in the building. He took the stairs and let Wei Zhen study upstairs for five years. Wei Zhen therefore called himself Iron Cliff. In the fourth year of Thailand (1327), he was a scholar, a magistrate in Tiantai, and later a salt governor in Qian Qing. Wei Zhen's temperament is impatient with frankness and frankness, and easy to get along with others, so that ten years can't make up for it. Wei Zhen wrote more than 1000 words of Debate on Orthodoxy when compiling the three histories of Liao, Jin and Song. After reading it, President Ouyang Yuangong praised and said, "After a hundred years, public opinion will be among them." So he was recommended to participate in the compilation of three histories, but he was not admitted and transferred to Jiande Road as an official. Later it was promoted to Jiangxi Confucianism. Before he took office, the anti-Yuan struggle rose, Wei Zhen avoided chaos in Fuchun Mountain and then moved to Qiantang. Zhang Shicheng hired him many times, but he refused. He also sent his brother Zhang Shixin to visit and consult. Wei Zhen wrote five theories, wrote back to Zhang Shicheng, and repeatedly described the theory of success or failure of surrender, which Shi Cheng failed to adopt. Wei really offended the Prime Minister, so he moved to Songjiang, by the sea.
Dr. Jin Shen and southeast gifted scholars invite them to the door every day, often drunk and writing; Or put on a Huayang towel, a feather coat, take a boat, play the iron flute, and do Plum Blossom Lane; Or ask the singer to sing the words of Snow White with a pipa, and all the guests dance and think they are fairies.
In the second year of Hongwu (1369), Taizu called all Confucian scholars to compile a book "Rites and Music". Because Wei was really a famous scholar in the former dynasty, he sent Hanlin Zhantong to visit with gifts. Wei Zhen declined politely and said, "Have any buried old women remarried?" The following year, he asked the local officials to urge him to enter Beijing. Wei Zhen presented a chapter "Old Hakka Female Ballads" and said, "The emperor can let me use my talents, but I can't force me to do what I can't do, otherwise I will jump into the sea and commit suicide." The emperor had to allow him not to participate in the compilation of music books, but he still gave him a car to take him to the court and stayed for 1 10 days. After the compilation of the master program he wrote was finalized, he wrote a letter requesting to go back to his hometown. Mao got his wish and still prepared a car to send him back. Senior officials of the History Museum held a curtain outside the west gate, and Song Lian presented a poem saying, "I am not subject to the five-color imperial edict of the king, and I declare my return in white." I have great respect for him. Wei Zhen died at the age of 75 shortly after returning to China.
Wei Zhen's poems were famous for a while, and they were called "Iron Cliff Style". He was friends of poetry with Yongjia Li Xiaoguang, Maoshan Changyu, Xishan Ni Zan and Kunshan Gu Ying, and friends of Buddhism and Taoism with Bi Taosou, Zhi Guisou and Rong Qing Sou. Zhang Yu said that Wei Zhen's ancient Yuefu poems are comparable to those of Du Shaoling and Erli, and have the voice of peerless stone. Song Lian praised Wei Zhen's paper, such as reading Shang and Zhou bronzes, written in the clouds, glowing with cold light. His poems are earth-shattering, serious and solemn, and his writing is like a god, which is worthy of being a masterpiece.
When Wei Zhen moved to Songjiang, he was good at echoing overseas Chinese and Qian Wei. After the death of Lu and Qian, they were buried with Wei Zhen in Ganshan, which was regarded as the tomb of the "three nobles".