The author's emotional attitude in Xu Wenchang's biography

Xu Wenchang is a strange man, and Yuan Hongdao's Biography of Xu Wenchang can also be called a strange article. Xu Wenchang is a famous poet, dramatist, first-rate painter and calligrapher. He has a lofty position in the history of literature and art, but his life is bumpy. When he was alive, although he was not a nobody, he almost achieved something, but in the end, as this biography says, "he died in anger because of frustration." After his death, his name was gradually forgotten. Yuan Hongdao discovered him, published a collection of essays for him, and made a biography for him, so that this unknown figure finally became famous all over the world and later generations. A short biography can restore a forgotten character's reputation, which is not a trivial matter in itself. Therefore, The Biography of Xu Wenchang can be regarded as an absurd story.

This article is well written, first of all, because Yuan Hongdao wrote himself and devoted his feelings to the preacher. Yuan Hongdao can be called Xu Wenchang's confidant. Readers can see that at the beginning of the article, Yuan Hongdao and Tao Wangling were pleasantly surprised when they read Bian Que, a collection of poems by Xu Wenchang: they jumped up, read in the shadow of a lamp, and shouted at the same time, waking up all the sleeping servants and hating the late acquaintance with Xu Wenchang. This heartfelt joy and admiration can't help but make people as infected as the author.

On the surface, Yuan Hongdao highlighted Xu Wenchang's weirdness in this biography. His people are strange, and so is his business. At the end of the biography, he summed up a sentence: "I say people are long but not strange." There are as many as eight or nine places where the word "strange" is used in Biography: "wonder", "benefit", "strange plan", "poetry benefits", "illness is strange to people, people are strange to poetry" and "nothing is strange, nothing is strange." Xu Wenchang is extraordinary, and so is his life. Highlighting his strangeness naturally captures the characteristics of this person's personality and behavior. However, this is not the purpose of Yuan Hongdao's biography. The theme of this biography should be the sentence "Elegance is out of keeping with the times" written by Xu Wenchang in his biography. The drawbacks of the imperial examination made Xu Wenchang a depressed and cynical person. He "tried and tested" and was just a scholar all his life. He "has no determination to be a manager", and of course he can't give full play to his talents and realize his ambitions. Therefore, Biography of Xu Wenchang mainly describes the representative knowledge points of such a feudal era.

Son, describing his debauchery and indignation, and his tragic fate at the expense of life and secularity. This is the theme of Xu Wenchang Biography.

We see Xu Wenchang's arrogance in his biography. He went to see Hu Zongxian, who was "commanding several border troops to the southeast of sublime". The officers knelt on the ground and did not dare to look up, but he talked with his scholar Kan Kan. Write Xu Wenchang's grief and indignation, "conceited talent", "treating life as a useless person", and so on. Obviously, these stories are not only about the miracle of Xu Wenchang, but about the sufferings of many frustrated people at that time. "Ancient and modern literati complained bitterly, and there is no gentleman." This is the true emotional expression of Yuan Hongdao's Biography of Xu Wenchang. Therefore, the last two sentences at the end of the article, although written as "nothing strange, nothing strange", seem to highlight the word "strange", but the conclusion is a sigh: "sad husband!" Why does it end with this word? Readers can naturally appreciate the author's intention in writing this article.