Chasing Wen Gong after death. Learn from Han and Song Dynasties, be literate in Tongcheng, and have poems near Jiangxi. Calligraphy is vigorous and bone-opening. Young students learn from Europe and Chu, while middle-aged students concentrate on Yan Zhenqing, especially Suzhou and rice. He writes poetry and occasionally paints, especially calligraphy. Immersed in Han Li in his later years, he was the first calligrapher with the same age and the same light. Calligraphers at that time admired his calligraphy attainments.
Weng Tonghe was the minister of war at that time, so it was easy to get revenge on a nobody. However, when he learned of this incident, he did not get angry or retaliate, but just "laughed it off", which shows the great measures he took.
According to Nan Ting Notes, Weng, a famous minister in the late Qing Dynasty, was humorous and generous. He likes to eat Maling melon, a specialty of Changshu, Jiangsu Province, which is said to be also called Shanghai Benggua. Its skin is thin and brittle, and it will crack after a slight collision when it matures. Its shape is long and round, and the middle part is slightly thicker, like an olive-shaped melon. Its meat is thick, juicy and very sweet. The old man is an official in the capital. Every year, he consigns one or two hundred bell melons from his hometown to Beijing by sea. Because the preservation technology was backward at that time, when it was transported to the destination, the melon was already half rotten, "but it was already half rotten." Weng Tonghe will send a pair of bell melons to every relative and friend's house, but he has never sent them to his hometown in Changshu, Beijing. Maybe he thinks it's not uncommon in his hometown. This actually attracted jealousy. A Changshu person who works as a small official in Beijing actually instigated the relevant person in charge to detain all the bell melons he sent ―― if you don't give them to me, I won't leave you any food.
Weng Tonghe was the minister of war at that time, so it was easy to get revenge on a nobody. However, when he learned of this incident, he did not get angry or retaliate, but just "laughed it off", which shows the great measures he took.