Mei Kesheng once wrote to Xu Wei: "Wen is an old friend, illness is strange to people, and people are strange to poetry." Zheng Banqiao, a famous painter in Qing Dynasty, liked Xu Wei so much that he carved a seal and called himself "the running dog under the Ivy". Zheng Banqiao, a modern painter, also said, "The paintings of ivy, snow and polyester can be painted in any direction. I am very impressed. I hate that I didn't live for 300 years, grinding ink and sorting paper for you. No, it's right outside the door. If you are hungry and don't go, something will happen. " Wu Changshuo said, "The sage is better than Lu Gong in the painting of the green vine."
Xu Wei's study surpassed the times, creating and leading the style of "advocating Taiwan". Yuan Hongdao praised: "You can't write a book, but it is absurd to say that a long book is above Wang Yayi and Wen. No matter what the calligraphy is, the gentleman is sincere in the dispersion of the eight laws, and the word is Xia in the forest! "
Wei Xu is a patriotic man. He has a strong dedication to work and an urgent enthusiasm for serving the country. Unfortunately, God deceived people. No matter how eager Xu Wei was to be an official and serve the country and people, he failed in the last eight imperial examinations, and he only got the highest reputation. A man who has shown great talent and achieved great success in all aspects since he was a child actually failed in the Jinshi exam. Why?
To explain such a problem, we must first understand the imperial examination system at that time. With the development of the times, the feudal system imposed more and more severe restrictions on people, the most terrible of which was the ideological imprisonment. It turns out that the imperial examination system originated in the Sui Dynasty and was used to select available talents. At first, there were not so many rules and regulations, as long as you let the examiner think that you have the talent to govern the country. However, the imperial examination system developed to the Ming and Qing Dynasties and evolved to the point where stereotyped writing was an official.
What is eight-part essay? Eight-part essay refers to a fixed style, which consists of eight parts: breaking the topic, receiving the topic, opening the lecture, entering the topic, starting the stock, middle stock, late stock and binding stock. The topics are all from the original texts in the Four Books and Five Classics. Candidates must write in this format, and they also need to write the style and number of words of parallel prose, which is totally unnecessary. The most important thing is that you can't have your own opinions in the article. To put it bluntly, you can explain what the sage said and Zhu explained. In this paper, there can be no words that deviate from the holy religion, and no opinions other than the four books are allowed. A good eight-part essay is written within the framework of the article, imitating the tone of a saint.
According to the regulations, it is not impossible to answer questions according to a fixed format and a fixed answer. Sanyang, Zeng Guofan and Lin Zexu all chose * * *. So what kind of people can't be admitted?
First of all, there are profound thoughts beyond the times and many contradictions with saints. Such people tend to have their own opinions in exams, which is contrary to saints. Unfortunately, Xu Wei is such a person. He not only has personal ideas, but also is an excellent artist. Artists are destined to be different from others and not to be understood by others.
Xu Wei is a great man, but he is a strange man. He doesn't conform to the mainstream view, has his own ideas, is open and free by nature, and doesn't want to be bound by rules, resulting in Xu Wei's repeated failures.
Xu Wei is a versatile person, but being an official in the imperial examination has little to do with poetry, calligraphy and drama. Even if he has made great achievements in these areas, he will not be admitted to Jinshi.
Xú Zhēng is so awesome that most people can't evaluate him. Here is a quote from his predecessor Zhou Zuoren.
"The Sixth Continuation of the History of Poetry and the Fourth Xu Wei" —— Zhou Zuoren
I used to listen to my hometown dialect. I like Xu Wenchang.
He is narrow-minded, and there is nothing in return for his play.
The legend of market competition is always like hooligans.
Buy tofu separately and add tea soup.
Like to play with women, love to laugh, love to make trouble.
He killed the monk again, causing disaster to the monk's workshop.
The vast Xu Fuzi, playing the fool in troubled times.
The abnormal spectrum is very frank, and the traces are slightly fine.
The world likes to gossip, so it doesn't hurt to spread it.
Wu You, the two are evenly matched.