Xu Wei made great contributions to the neutrality of the Japanese invaders. Why did he die penniless and wrapped in a straw mat?

Xu Wei (152 1- 1593), whose ancestral home is now Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and whose ancestral home is Tianchi Mountain and Tian Shuiyue.

Xu Wei was born in a declining small bureaucratic family, and his mother was his stepson. Xu Wei was born a hundred days ago, his father died, and his family was declining. Xu Wei was clever from an early age. He was a scholar at the age of 20, but it was not until 4 1 year old that he failed in the eight rural examinations in the middle, so he was frustrated all his life. Fame This gave a painful blow to the young Xu Wei in the feudal society where the imperial examination was supreme.

When Xu Wei was a teenager, she couldn't get the love of her biological parents. He has a low position in family life and feels dependent on others. However, he is extremely clever and quick-thinking. He began to study at the age of six and could write at the age of nine. When he was in his teens, he imitated Yang Xiong's "All Dynasties" and wrote "Stone Wounds", which was famous far and near. The local gentlemen called him a prodigy and compared him with Yang Xiu in the Eastern Han Dynasty and Ada in the Tang Dynasty. In the cold world, Xu Wei has formed an arrogant, complacent and unhappy character. ?

Later, Xu Wei became the aide of Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and often wore cloth to go in and out of Khufu, revealing the artist's unconventional and charitable personality. Because of his meritorious service in resisting Japan and being loved by the local people, there are many legendary stories about Xu Wei among the people. Later, Yan Song, a powerful minister in the DPRK, fell out of favor, and Hu Zongxian was arrested and committed suicide in prison. At that time, it was widely rumored that the court wanted to eliminate Hu's cronies. After learning the news, Xu Wei panicked all day, almost insane, and tried to commit suicide but didn't die. Later, his wife was sentenced to prison for manslaughter. He was 52 years old when he got out of prison. Xu Wei sells paintings for a living, and his temperament is relatively free. He reveled all night, despised the powerful, and ushered in the peak of his creative career with an extremely poor lifestyle.

In his later years, Xu Wei created his masterpiece "Ink and Wash Grape Map" (paper and ink pen, now in the Palace Museum in Beijing) and wrote poems on it. The shoulder pole became an elderly man, and self-study roared in the evening breeze. The pearls at the bottom of the pen have nowhere to sell, but they are thrown into wild vines. ? Pour out his vicissitudes and sad music. After Xu Wei's death, because he was penniless, he was buried in a straw mat and abandoned in the wild.