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Xu Wenchang, who has been famous for his talent since he was a child, has always been conceited and full of yearning for fame and fortune, but he has been frustrated repeatedly in the imperial examinations. At the age of twenty, he stumbled into the scholar's exam, and then took the provincial examination again and again until he was forty-one, and he failed eight times. In the meantime, he lost his wife at the age of 26, moved out of the Pan family and made a living by teaching. At the age of 37, at the invitation of Hu Zongxian, he entered the shogunate to take charge of documents. It is no accident that Xu Wenchang failed again and again in the imperial examination. In his later years, he wrote "Self-Distortion Spectrum", and also specially wrote the poem "Chicken Crow, Purple Road Cold in the Morning" written by Cen Can when he entered school at the age of six, revealing endless feelings about life.
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Xu Wei ink painting flower map
Xu Wenchang usually gives people the impression that he spends his birthday by talent, but he is also a person who cares about social politics and is full of patriotic enthusiasm. During Jiajing period, the southeast coast was frequently invaded by Japanese pirates. Due to the slack of military equipment and incompetence of officials, people's lives and property were greatly lost. On the one hand, Xu Wenchang sharply criticized this with his poems; on the other hand, he devoted himself enthusiastically to War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Although he didn't have a job, he put on his short coat several times, ventured to the front with the troops to observe the war situation, then recorded the course of the war, analyzed the reasons for success or failure, and put forward the general plan to break the enemy to the relevant officials. Most of these articles are very practical, which is different from the comments of ordinary scholars.
In the thirty-sixth year of Jiajing (1557), Xu Wenchang was recruited by Hu Zongxian, who was appointed as the military governor of southeast China, and entered the shogunate to take charge of documents. This is the most proud period of Xu Wenchang's life. At the beginning of the curtain, Hu Zongxian wrote "Into the White Deer Original Table", which was appreciated by the emperor. Since then, Hu Zongxian has been more dependent on him and more tolerant of his laissez-faire personality. Xu Wenchang Biography by Tao Wangling records that Xu Wenchang often drinks with friends in the market. The Governor's Office was in a hurry to find him, so he left the door open late at night. Hu Zongxian was told that Xu Xiucai was drunk and shouted loudly, but Hu Zongxian praised him instead. At that time, Hu Zongxian's weight was very dignified, and all the officials were afraid to look up when they saw him. But Xu Wenchang, wearing a shabby black headscarf and a white cloth, broke in and talked about what was going on in the world.
Of course, the shogunate also has many unpleasant things. For various reasons, Hu Zongxian kept close contact with the powerful minister Yan Song, while Xu Wenchang hated Yan Song, and his best friend Shen Lian was killed for his participation in Yan Song. However, Xu Wenchang had to write something flattering Yan Song for Hu Zongxian, which was really a tragedy of a scholar.
In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), Yan Song was dismissed from office and Xu Jie became the cabinet record. Under the instigation of Xu Jie, Hu Zongxian was involved in illegal activities, and was arrested and returned to Beijing the following year (after being dismissed only for meritorious service). Xu Wenchang left the Governor's Office. In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing, Hu Zongxian was arrested again and died in prison, and several of his former aides were also implicated. Xu Wenchang is a bit extreme by nature. He failed the exam year after year, and he was very unhappy mentally. At this time, he was deeply saddened by Hu Zongxian's framed death, and he was more worried about his persecution, so he was completely disappointed with his life and even went crazy. He wrote an angry epitaph for himself, then pulled out the nail on the pilaster and smashed it into his ear, bleeding like a spring, and it took several months to heal. Later, I hit the renal capsule with my spine and didn't die. Repeated attacks like this, repeated suicide nine times. In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing, he was jailed for killing his wife Zhang because he suspected that she was unfaithful.
Among them, Zhu Dazhao, assistant minister of does, and then John gave the greatest assistance.