Source: Rain wakes up poetry and dreams come to firewood; Lotus grows from the sound of books in the wind.
-Title: Qingteng Bookstore
Xu Wei (152 1- 1593), a native of Zhejiang (now Shaoxing), was born in Tianchishan and was an Ivy Taoist. Writers, dramatists and artists in Ming Dynasty. He is a genius, but he failed in the imperial examination. In his prime, he worked as a secretary under Hu Xian, the governor of Zhejiang Province, and surprised the enemy. After Hu was convicted and executed, he was also down and out all his life. In his later years, he made a living by selling calligraphy and painting. He wrote many beautiful and ingenious couplets, but when he was in power, bureaucrats begged him for a word, but he couldn't get it. He was called a madman. A good poem, critics say, won the argument between Li and Su Shi, but did not fall into the same pattern. His operas and zaju works have gone beyond the previous views to a considerable extent, breaking the old rules, and some of them show dissatisfaction with the political reality at that time. Calligraphy, cursive script, flying. Middle-aged began to learn painting, specializing in flowers and birds, painting with original paper, indulging in a lot, splashing ink and creating something. He and Chen Daofu are also called "green vines and white sun". These two people had a great influence on the later freehand brushwork of flowers and birds. There are operas such as Nanci, Zaju Simian, Complete Works of Xu Wenchang, Xu Wenchang's Lost Draft and Xu Wenchang's Lost Grass.