Chinese name: Xu Wei.
Nationality: China.
Ethnic group: Han nationality
Place of birth: Yin Shan.
Date of birth: 152 1
Date of death: 1593
Faith: Confucianism
Main achievements: calligraphy and Chinese painting.
Native place: Shaoxing, Zhejiang
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Overview of life
The details of a person's life have long been famous and will not be sold.
From Murong to prison
Down and out in old age
Artistic achievements in many aspects
Original Biography of Xu Wei (Wen Chang)
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Calligraphy achievement
Artistic achievements splash ink and freehand brushwork
Between similarity and dissimilarity
There are pictures in the book, and there are books in the picture.
Draw like a man.
Xu Wei chronology
Anecdotal allusions
Xu Wei's poetry collection "Sea Song"
Pay tribute to Xiaoling's poems
It snows on the 28th.
Ink grape poetry
Textual research: the suspicious author of Jin Ping Mei
Personal introduction of the characters in the famous novel The Best Who
Overview of life
The details of a person's life have long been famous and will not be sold.
From Murong to prison
Down and out in old age
Artistic achievements in many aspects
Original Biography of Xu Wei (Wen Chang)
translate
Calligraphy achievement
Artistic achievements splash ink and freehand brushwork
Between similarity and dissimilarity
There are pictures in the book, and there are books in the picture.
Draw like a man.
Xu Wei chronology
Anecdotal allusions
Xu Wei's poems
On the 28th day of Xiao Ling's poems on the sea, a textual research on the poem entitled "The Poem of Ink Grapes": The characters in the famous novel "The Best Family" of Jin Ping Mei, a suspected author, began to edit this personal profile.
He is a poet, painter, calligrapher, strategist, dramatist, folk writer, gourmet, alcoholic, Zen Buddhist, Ivy League Taoist, traveler and historian.
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In the first year of Jiajing (152 1), Xu Wei was born in a bureaucratic family in Dayunfang, Yinshan, Shaoxing, Zhejiang. His father is Yan Xu and his mother is a maid concubine. When I was a teenager, I was talented and went to Xu private school to study. "At the age of six, the university taught him more than 1000 words every day." "A book taught me hundreds of words, so I stopped reading." . At the age of ten, he imitated Yang Xiong's "the legendary swordsman" and wrote an article "Interpretation of Mourning", which was uninhibited. "Between your fingers, you can say anything." He became an intern at the age of 20. In the twentieth year of Jiajing (154 1), he married Pan, the daughter of the same county. He failed in the next eight exams. "If you try again, you will be rejected by time." . In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), he set up a library as a disciple in the rental house in the east of Yinshan City, and was recruited at the age of 40. Together with Xiao Mian, Michael Chen, Zhu, Qian Bian, Zhu, Lu Guangsheng, etc., they are called "ten scholars across China". Later, he served as an aide to the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian, and once entered the Hu Zongxian shogunate. All the tricks were out of his hand, and Xu Hai and other enemies were unexpectedly broken. One day, Hu Zongxian captured the white deer in Zhoushan, and Xu Wei wrote "Entering the White Deer Original Table", "Re-entering the White Deer Original Table" and "Re-entering the White Deer Original Table" and presented them to North Korea as auspicious things. "Pay attention to the words in the world. Beautiful words are pointed out with imperial pens. Don't let the little prince remember them as a book." Bachelor Yao Fen and others praised Xu Wei's article. He also wrote Gong Shouchen Kai, touting the traitor Yan Song. In the 43rd year of Jiajing (1564), Hu Zongxian was arrested for "ten crimes of rape, deceit, greed and prostitution" and committed suicide in prison. Xu Wei wrote "Ten White Fu" to mourn. Li Chunfang investigated the Hu Zongxian case, and Xu Wei was so angry that he wrote "an epitaph for himself" and committed suicide three times. "This huge cone is very rough and several inches deep; The renal capsule was broken with the vertebrae, and neither of them died. Almost crazy, almost crazy. In forty-five years of Jiajing (1566), he killed his stepwife Zhang at the onset of illness and was imprisoned for seven years. In prison, I finished the annotation of Zhouyi Shentongqi and tried to figure out the art of calligraphy and painting. In the first year of Wanli (1573), he was pardoned and rescued from prison by Bian, the top scholar. He was 53 years old after his release. From then on, he was down and out, hated powerful people, wandered around Jinling, Xuanliao and Beijing, passed through Juyongguan to Xuanhua House and other places beyond the Great Wall, taught Li the art of war, and met the Mongolian leader Anda Sannianzi. Wanli five years (1577), returned to Shaoxing to annotate Guo Pu's funeral book. In his later years, Xu Wei made a living by selling paintings, but never painted for the ruling bureaucrats. " There were thousands of books, and then they sold out. It's not easy to break the law. It's time to borrow a manuscript to sleep. He often "wanders alone under the moon". Dumen thanked the guests, and only when he died did he go to the Zhang family to pay his respects and almost never leave home. Finally, he ended his 73-year-old life in the case of "several staggered rooms and one diversion". Only a dog accompanied him before he died, and there was not even a cushion on the bed, which was terrible.
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During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were many versatile literati. But like Xu Wenchang, he is unique in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting, which has left a far-reaching influence on present and future generations, but it is also quite rare. Yuan Zhonglang honored his poems as the first in Ming Dynasty, and his plays were highly praised by Tang Xianzu. As for painting, he is one of the most outstanding figures in China's art history. Zheng Banqiao has great respect for Xu Wenchang and once carved a seal, calling himself "the running dog under the Ivy League"; Qi Baishi, a modern painter, once said: "The paintings of green vines, snow and great polyester can be horizontal or vertical, which I am extremely convinced. 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 in the painting of the green vine is better than Lu Gong in calligraphy." Xu Wei pointed out in Xie Yuanming's Volume Zhengge Gongdan: ... Painting is sick, not in the lightness and weight of ink, but in the vividness and unreality. "However, Xu Wenchang's life is unfortunate. Although he has a strong ambition of fame and fortune and a desire to serve his country, he didn't even pass the exam. Seven years in prison for crazy wife killing in middle age. In his later years, he made a living by selling calligraphy and painting and even books and clothes, and finally died in poverty. People love him very much, and many stories about Xu Wenchang are still circulating in Zhejiang. After more than 400 years, his former residence in Shaoxing, the Qingteng Bookstore, is still well preserved, maintaining a long-term memory of this literary artist with a civilian flavor.
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, whose real name is Wei, has a long word. Also known as Qingtengshan people, Tianchisheng, Tian Shuiyue and so on. Ming Zhengde was born in a declining family in Shaoxing in the sixteenth year (152 1). His father, Vae, is a Tongzhi native of Kuizhou, Sichuan. He was originally a Tong family and gave birth to two sons, Xu Huai and Xu Lu. After marrying Miao, she has never given birth. In his later years, he married a concubine, gave birth to Xu Wenchang, and died one hundred days after Wen Chang was born. After that, Xu Wenchang was raised by Mrs. Di Miao until she was fourteen years old. After Miao died, she lived with her eldest brother Xu Huai until she was 2 1 year old. Although he was born in a bureaucratic family, Xu Wenchang's early life was not happy. His biological mother is a handmaid, so naturally she has no position in the family. Mrs. Di Miao raised Xu Wenchang as her own flesh and blood and had high hopes for her. But perhaps for this reason, when Wen Chang was ten years old, Mrs Miao kicked his biological mother out of the house. Losing his mother in his early years was a great stimulus to Xu Wenchang. Although he could take his mother back to his home at the age of 29, he couldn't forget it until his twilight years. Because Xu Wenchang is an unmarried woman and her two unmarried brothers are thirty years older than him, Xu Wenchang has no position in the family. He didn't take the scholar exam when he was young. In his last book, he asked the inspector for a second interview: "Learning is ineffective, so I don't trust my father and brother. And the flesh and blood are fried and the beans are burned. I look around day and night, but my body and shadow! " Looks sad and angry. As an adult, family wealth declined, and life in Xu Wenchang was certainly not so comfortable. An alert and sensitive person, who grew up in such a bumpy situation, naturally tends to develop a stubborn and extreme character. Xu Wenchang was born very clever. He began to study at the age of six and could write at the age of nine. When he was a teenager, he imitated Yang Xiong's "Laughing" and caused a sensation in the whole city. The local gentlemen called him a prodigy and compared him to Ada and Yang Xiu. In his twenties, he was associated with Yao Haiqiao, Shen Lian and others, and was listed as one of the "Top Ten in Vietnam". Shen Lian once praised him and said, "There is only one gate." It is said that at a banquet, the host deliberately embarrassed Xu Wenchang, pointing to a little thing on the table and asking him to give it, but secretly ordered the little boy to hold a paper roll more than ten feet long. Xu Wenchang picked up a pen and finished it in one breath, which surprised the full house. In addition, there is a short story about Xu Wei, which can also highlight his cleverness. When he was young, he was still studying in a private school. Seeing that he is clever, the teacher will test him and let him fetch water with two buckets. In the meantime, he must cross the wooden bridge. At that time, Xu Wei was still young, with insufficient strength and natural difficulties. However, when the teacher saw Xu Wei happily carrying water back, he was surprised and asked how this happened. He said happily, put the bucket in the water naturally. At that time, there was no buoyancy, and the long and clever words made the teacher greatly appreciate. 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. When I was a teenager, I liked reading extensively and hated stereotyped writing. In addition, his personality was revealed and his feelings were publicized. I'm afraid he really can't write a qualified stereotyped writing. However, although Xu Wenchang knew stereotyped writing was useless, he always scoffed at some bureaucrats who were born in imperial examinations and had no talent, but this was the only way out for the old literati politically. Repeated failure to sell is a heavy blow to Xu Wenchang, and its future is hopeless. In his later years, he wrote "Self-abnormal Spectrum", which was specially written by Du Fu when he entered school at the age of six. This poem reveals his endless understanding of life.
From Murong to prison
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. In the Governor's Office, it is difficult to find out what Xu Wenchang has done for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. However, as Xu Wenchang, with his curious personality and his passion for War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, it can be concluded that Xu Wenchang participated in many important projects. We can really see some pertinent opinions in his reserved articles such as "Letter to the Governor's Office"-although his skill of managing troops is a bit harsh. 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 Shen Lian, his closest friend, was killed because he participated in Yan Song's lettering. 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 killed his wife Zhang because he suspected her unfaithfulness. Being in prison for the first time in life is naturally painful. Xu Wenchang was in chains and covered with lice. In winter, snow piled up on his bed, and he was shivering with cold. Even the food sent by his friend was taken away. Later, many of his friends moved around to save him and improved his treatment. One of the most powerful assistance was first Zhu Dahao, assistant minister of does, and then Zhang Yuanluan, editor of Hanlin (he was the great-grandfather of Zhang Dai, a famous essayist in the late Ming Dynasty). They are all close friends of Xu Wenchang, and they are all top scholars with high reputation. With the help of these friends, Xu Wenchang spent seven years in prison and was finally released when Emperor Wanli ascended the throne. This happened in 1573, and Xu Wenchang was 53 years old.
Down and out in old age
After so many hardships, Xu Wenchang no longer has any political ambitions, but his concern for state affairs has a long history. After he was released from prison, he first traveled to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, climbed mountains near the water and made many friends in poetry and painting. In the summer of Wanli four years (1576), Xu Wenchang was a friend of his youth. At this time, Wu Dui, who had been the secretariat of Xuanhua and shouldered the heavy responsibility of the northern frontier defense, invited him to the north, and he gladly went. Xu Wenchang served in Xuanhua Shogunate for less than a year, but he left many poems describing the scenery, folk customs and military life in the north. In the preface of Many Officials, he likes to talk about political affairs, especially the border defense strategy. At that time, Zhang presided over the court affairs and adopted a policy of appeasement to Mongolia, which was well appreciated. He was respected in the Fifth Team, but in poor health, so he had to go back to his hometown by way of Beijing the following spring. At the age of 60, Xu Wenchang went to Beijing at the invitation of Zhang Yuan Tuan, but their relationship quickly deteriorated. According to Zhang Dai's description, Zhang Yuan Tuan is a person who strictly abides by ethics, while Xu Wenchang is a person who indulges in nature and is unwilling to be bound by traditional ethics. Zhang Yuan Tuan often used feudal ethics to restrict Xu Wenchang, which made Xu Wenchang very angry. He once said to the Zhang Yuan delegation: I killed someone when I died, but I got a knife in the neck. Now you have to chop me into pieces! Due to his bad relationship with old friends and unequal treatment with bureaucrats, Xu Wenchang suffered from a relapse of depression, which made it easy for him to return to his hometown after living in Beijing for three years. Since then, Xu Wenchang has never left Yin Shan. In his later years in the countryside, Xu Wenchang became more and more disgusted with the rich and polite people. Most of his friends were former friends and disciples who followed him. It is said that someone came to visit, but Xu Wenchang didn't want to see him, so he pushed Chai Men away and shouted, "Xu Wei is not here!" He has been dead all his life, and his money is easy to disperse. At this time, he had to make a living by selling calligraphy and painting. But with a little money, I refused to do it again. Is a group of younger generation students and friends, who often cheat or rob to get his masterpieces. Xu Wenchang seems to like crabs very much, and many poems on paintings record how friends exchanged live crabs for his paintings. In the last few years, Xu Wenchang suffered from various diseases, so he could not paint often, and his life was even poorer. Xu Wenchang's Collected Works contains poems such as Selling Minks, Selling Piano, Selling Paintings and Selling Books, which shows the bleak future of this great writer and artist. 1593, Xu Wenchang died at the age of 73.
Artistic achievements in many aspects
Xu Wenchang's literary and artistic creation covers a wide range of fields, but it can be pointed out that they have a common feature, that is, they never rely on others in art, like originality, have a strong personality and unrestrained style, and often show their love for folk literature. In the poetry circle of Ming Dynasty, due to the advocacy of the former and the latter seven scholars, there appeared a trend of archaizing. Although they all have undeniable achievements, this tendency to learn from others obviously hinders the development of poetry art. Xu Wenchang was deeply dissatisfied with this and made a sharp criticism. He said: birds learn from human speech, and nature is still a bird; If you imitate your predecessors with all your heart, writing poetry is nothing but flowers and birds, and it has no real value. His own poetry creation pays attention to expressing personal actual feelings about social life, and his style is slightly close to Li He's, asking about learning and prospering the Tang Dynasty, and taking the Southern Dynasties in and out of the Song and Yuan Dynasties without losing himself. This tendency was inherited by the public security school, which advocated the expression of spirit in the later period, and it was of great significance to the change of poetic style in the late Ming Dynasty. Yuan Zhonglang, the commander-in-chief of the Public Security School, made a wonderful evaluation of Xu Wenchang's poems: "A long man has no ambition and a teacher, so he indulges in wild waves and landscapes ... What he saw was that mountains rushed to the sea, clouds rose in the sand, trees sang in the wind, and most of the valleys were people, fish and birds. Everything was shocking and shocking, which was expressed in the poems. There is an indelible smell in his chest. The protagonist is lost and helpless, so it is a poem, such as anger, laughter, underwater sound gorge, unearthed, widow crying at night and chilling. It will be thousands of miles away when it is released; Occasionally it is deep and steep, and there is a ghost anger in autumn. " In Xu Wenchang's prose, Ego Epitaph is the best. In addition, many letters are also very distinctive, pungent and humorous, and their writing style is far from first-class by Jin Shengtan, but overall, their achievements are not as good as poetry. Xu Wenchang's drama creation includes four independent dramas: The History of Crazy Drum, Cui Xiang's Dream, Female Mulan and Female Champion. "The History of Crazy Drum" is about the feeling that Yan Song killed Shen Lian, showing the arrogant spirit of resistance. The latter two plays are all stories about women disguised as men, which reflect Xu Wenchang's view on women and have certain anti-feudal significance. These works broke the fixed format of zaju and opened the door for the diversification of drama forms. In drama theory, he advocates "true colors", that is, the drama language should conform to the identity of the characters, and the authenticity of the characters should be guaranteed by spoken language and colloquialism, while opposing elegant parallel language and excessive modification. These views are very insightful. In addition, he also wrote "Narrative of Southern Opera", which is the first theoretical monograph of Southern Opera in China and is of great significance in the history of drama. Xu Wenchang once said: "My book is the first, my poem is the second, my writing is the third, and my painting is the fourth." This is probably the usual trick of literati, that is, to put their most valued art in the last position to raise others. In fact, he is a great master of freehand brushwork in China, which has influenced Badashanren, Shi Tao, Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics and even Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi. He has a high position in the history of art. He is best at flower painting, indulged in pen and ink, vigorous and charming, full of poetic lyricism and rhythm, and is highly respected by people. His calligraphy is better than cursive script. Although Xu Wenchang ranks first, his achievements seem to be inferior to those of painting. In addition, the zaju Dai Xiao and the novel Yun He Qi Zong are also said to have been written by Xu Wenchang.
Calligraphy achievement
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Compared with the depressing atmosphere in the early Ming Dynasty, he is particularly prominent. What he is best at is the magnificent Wild Grass, but it is difficult for ordinary people to understand and his pen is messy. He likes his calligraphy very much. He believes that "calligraphy is the first, poetry is the second, writing is the third and painting is the fourth".
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Ink-splashing freehand brushwork
During the Ming Dynasty (1368- 1644) in China, art was in a special stage of learning from the ancients and colliding with innovation. Ink freehand brushwork has developed rapidly, and the splash-ink freehand brushwork represented by Xu Wei is very popular. Many famous artists have appeared, and their skills are constantly updated. With his unique talent, Xu Wei became the most accomplished master of freehand brushwork at that time. Xu Wei was born wild and uninhibited, but he made great achievements in painting, calligraphy, poetry and drama. His freehand ink-and-wash flower-and-bird paintings are bold and unrestrained, informal, concise, with more ink and less splash, less color, distinct layers, and the reality and reality are vivid. He also integrated vigorous brushwork into his paintings, which brought out the best in each other and gave people rich imagination.
Between similarity and dissimilarity
Xu Wei's ink-splashing freehand brushwork of flowers and birds is unique. His flower-and-bird paintings are not influenced by different schools, and they are bold and creative. His freehand brushwork, whether flowers or flowers and birds, is a painting, and everything is between similarity and dissimilarity. For the flowers and trees of the four seasons in the works, the painter uses various forms of pen and ink such as hook, dot, splash and orchid to depict graceful peony, beautiful crape myrtle, sparse bamboo, aloof frost chrysanthemum and beautiful cold plum charm, stretching nine feet and five feet respectively. His ink grapes, with strings of fruits hanging upside down, are fresh and tender and vivid. The lush leaves are made of large pieces of ink and wash, and the style is sparse and elegant, which represents the style of Xu Wei's freehand flowers. Mo Yun, with his rich trajectory and various strokes with different shades, strokes, sizes, dryness and wetness, has the improvisation and non-repetition of stimulating strokes and urgent books, which shows the strongest abstract expressionism in China's paintings. This is not a general description of the object, but an artistic process, which makes it contain some internal temperament and spirit, and then makes the viewer feel immersive. The pumpkins and chrysanthemums in Xu Wei's paintings, in one go, drive away ink like clouds, with great momentum, and at the same time control the pen and ink properly, with great changes in light and shade, density and dryness. In ink painting, there are both randomly infiltrated ink halos and properly controlled shades. Although Xu Wei claimed to be a "play brush", he vividly conveyed the different nature and charm of flowers and fruits with freehand brushwork. Only a small part of its picture of the phoenix tree is painted in ink, which is reminiscent of the towering phoenix tree. As Weng Fanggang said: "The paper is only one foot, and the tree is only a hundred feet. Why are you wearing this green forest? " . I'm afraid I'll be so arrogant that I'll be booed by wine songs in the middle of the night With his delicate brushwork, Xu Wei created an open aesthetic world for the appreciator between similarity and dissimilarity.
There are pictures in the book, and there are books in the picture.
Xu Wei is a calligrapher. In painting, he integrated his calligraphy skills and brushwork into his paintings, which made people feel that his splash-ink freehand brushwork was simply a kind of bold and vigorous calligraphy. As Zhang Dai said: "Today's Ivy paintings are bizarre, full of vigor and charm, and have the same effect as their calligraphy." People used to call rubbings poems, including paintings, rubbings and poems in paintings. I mean ivy league books, which contain paintings, ivy league paintings and books in them. "(Tao An Meng Wei) In his" Ink Grape Map ",the shade of ink shows the texture of leaves, the font structure and line spacing of poems are irregular, and they stretch freely in the air like vines, and calligraphy and painting are integrated. Xu Wei's calligraphy attainments are very high, and the ups and downs of brushwork have contributed to the ingenious changes in painting art, such as painting Mo Lian and grapes, which is unrestrained and difficult to achieve without a deep calligraphy foundation. Xu Wei once made a picture of plum blossom and banana leaves, put plum blossom and banana together, and wrote on the picture: "Banana with plum blossom, this is Wang Wei's painting", which shows the relationship between Xu Wei and Wang Wei in some compositions. Of course, Wang Wei's Picture of Banana in the Snow highlights a Zen machine, that is, the cold snow and the ethereal banana constitute the religious details of the picture, while Xu Wei's combination of such pictures highlights a kind of subject liberation that transcends time and space. Xu Wei's calligraphy and painting methods are extremely skillful and profound, and his inscriptions are like splashing ink and freehand brushwork, which is bold and vivid; His splash-ink freehand brushwork, which combines the brushwork of pen and ink, is full of fun.
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Xu Wei always leads a dissolute life and is not interested in power. When anyone in the present world wants to paint and needs Xu Wei's money shortage, if someone wants to paint, they can get it in an instant. If he is not short of money in his bag, it's hard to draw a picture no matter how much you give him-it's really temperament. Xu Wei's loneliness can really be summarized by his own poem "Poetry on the Ink Grapes": half-life loneliness has become an Weng, and self-study is whistling in the evening breeze. The pearls at the bottom of the pen have nowhere to sell, but they are thrown into wild vines. Xu Wei's life was bumpy, and his old age was miserable and inseparable. He put his grief and resentment into the pen and created one famous ink painting after another that shocked the world. The ink bamboo in his works is light in branches and thick in leaves, and his brushwork is careless. The bamboo branches are vigorous and powerful, and the bamboo leaves hang down emotionally. Although it is a bamboo branch, it is noble and refreshing. This is a brilliant portrayal of the painter's noble character and peerless independent personality. His splash-ink peony is not limited to the rich and elegant characteristics of peony, but is colorful. But he often paints with ink and wash, deliberately changing its nature. Its purpose is to endow peony with elegant and refined style and charm. The so-called "national color is not decorated, rouge is empty and charming." There are many works that have been handed down to this day, such as Four Sounds of Apes, Narration of Nanci, Lost Text of Xu Wenchang, Complete Works of Xu Wenchang, etc. Famous works handed down from generation to generation include Long Scroll of Ink Grape, Flowers and Birds of Landscape Figures (both in the Palace Museum), Long Scroll of Peony and Banana Stone and Nine Sections of Ink Flower (now in the Palace Museum).