This article is well written, first of all, because Yuan Hongdao wrote himself and devoted his feelings to the preacher. Yuan Hongdao can be called Xu Wenchang's confidant.
Readers can see that at the beginning of the article, Yuan Hongdao and Tao Wangling were pleasantly surprised when they read Bian Que, a collection of poems by Xu Wenchang: they jumped up, read in the shadow of a lamp, and shouted at the same time, waking up all the sleeping servants and hating the late acquaintance with Xu Wenchang. This heartfelt joy and admiration can't help but make people as infected as the author.
Xu Wei (xúwèi) is a strange man, and Yuan Hongdao's Biography of Xu Wenchang can also be called a strange article. Xu Wenchang is a famous poet, dramatist, first-rate painter and calligrapher. He has a lofty position in the history of literature and art, but his life is bumpy. When he was alive, although he was not a nobody, he almost achieved something.
But in the end, as this biography says, "I died in anger because of frustration." After his death, his name was gradually forgotten. Yuan Hongdao discovered him, published a collection of essays for him, and made a biography for him, so that this unknown figure finally became famous all over the world and later generations.