Xu Zhenqing, whose real name is Chang Gu and Guo Chang, is Han nationality and a native of Wuxian County. He was originally from Meili Town, Changshu, and later moved to Wuxian County. A writer of the Ming Dynasty, known as the "Wuzhong Poet", he was one of the four talented people in Wuzhong. He is famous for his quatrain "The articles are far away from Jiang Zuo's family, and the flowers and trees are growing in the misty moon over Yangzhou".
Xu Zhenqing is smart in nature, but he is not very enlightened in art and science. He is known as "there is no book in the family that can do anything". In his early years, he studied literature in Wu Kuan and calligraphy in Li Yingzhen. In terms of literary genres, He Jingming, Kang Hai, Wang, and Bian Gong became the "First Seven Sons", emphasizing the learning of Qin and Han Dynasties, the praise of Han and Wei Dynasties in ancient poems, and the strict patriarchal legal system of the Tang Dynasty. Wang Shizhen's "Yi Yuan Yan" quotes the quatrain "The articles are left in every family in Jiang, and the flowers and trees in Yangzhou are in the misty moon". Calligraphy is also a must. Wang Shizhen said: "I am an art master, and I am a young herbalist, Huai Su, who imitated Su, Huang, and Mi, "The Preface to the Holy Religion of the Collection of Kings". I will take the profit and loss of the "Preface to the Preface of the Collection of Kings", Grow old slowly, so that I can become my own family." Xu Zhenqing wrote "Di Gong Collection", "Digong Wai Collection", and the literary criticism work "Talk about Art". Xu Zhenqing, 16 years old, "Xin Qian Ji". But, in the early years, I tried many times. After watching "Li Sao", it felt like "The Collection of Tan Tan". In the 14th year of Hongzhi's reign, "Jiang Xing Ji" was written; in the 16th year of Hongzhi's reign in the Ming Dynasty, Wen Zhengming compiled "New Records of Taihu Lake"; in the 18th year of Hongzhi's reign, he heard that the Tatars had invaded and the officers and soldiers were defeated by the ineffective resistance against the Japanese. He wrote a The first poem is "A Trip to Yutai". In the same year, Zhongjinshi was not allowed to enter the Hanlin Academy because of his ugly appearance, so he was appointed vice-president of Zuosi Temple in Dali. In the fifth year of Zhengde in the Ming Dynasty, he was demoted to doctor of the Imperial College. Xu Zhenqing believed in Taoism and studied health preservation in his later years. He died in the capital in the sixth year of the Ming Dynasty at the age of 33. He was the earliest to die and the shortest to live among the four great talents. Xu Zhenqing's works include "Di Gong Ji", "Jian Sheng Ye Wen", "Foreign Forest", etc. Among the "Four Heroes of Wuzhong", Tang Yin, Zhu Yunming and Wen Zhengming are famous for their calligraphy and painting, while Xu Zhenqing is the only one famous for his poetry. He occupies a special position in Xu Zhenqing's poetry circle. He has written many poems and is known as a "literary hero". His early poems were close to the style of Bai Juyi and Liu Yuxi. Later, he was influenced by Li Bai, He Jingming and Bian Gong. He advocated that "literature must be from the Qin and Han Dynasties, and poetry must be from the prosperous Tang Dynasty". He devoted himself to the literary revival movement and became one of the "First Seven Sons". "Tan Yi Lu" only discusses the Han and Wei dynasties. After the Six Dynasties, it was eliminated and the theory of restoration was expounded. His poems are elegant in style and popular between Han and Tang Dynasties. Although it is deliberately retro, there is still a romantic feeling in Wuzhong. Shen Deqian, in the Qing Dynasty, compiled the "Collection of Poems of the Ming Dynasty". Among the poems of four talented scholars, only Xu Zhenqing and Wen Zhengming recorded them. Wen Zhengming only recorded two poems, while Xu Zhenqing actually compiled as many as twenty-three poems. He is one of the first seven sons, and his reputation is second only to Li and He. When comparing Xu's poems with those of Li and He, he said: "Li Qixiong, He, and Xu have deep feelings." This clearly pointed out the basic feature of poetry: "deep feelings." Although he collaborated with Li Mengyang, his habits in the Central Plains were not deep, and the left-hand style of the Yangtze River still existed. The style of the Wuzhong School is still retained, and it has its own characteristics compared with other poems of the previous Qizi. The word "Rong Jing Police" summarizes his poetic style. He is good at seven-character poems, with excellent quatrains, elegant lyrics, and meaningful emotions. Xu Zhenqing's poems contain many penetrating insights and are among the few masterpieces in the history of poetry in the Ming Dynasty and even in the history of ancient poetry