Wang Mian (13 10 ~ 1359), also known as the farmer who cooks stone mountain, the owner who eats Chinese Weng and plum flowers, etc. Qiaofeng, a native of Zhuji, Zhejiang Province, was a famous painter, poet and seal engraver in Yuan Dynasty. He was born in poverty, herded cattle for others in his childhood, and became a success by self-study.
Wang Mian's ancestral home is Jing Wang in Kansai (west of Hanguguan). His tenth ancestor was Wang, who served as an official of the Qingyuan Army in the Song Dynasty. Wang has two sons. One is Wang Qi, who used to be an observer in Langzhou. One is Wang Lin, who is a controller. Later, Wang Lin moved to Zhuji, Shaoxing, Zhejiang, and was the ancestor of Zhuji. Wang Mian's distant ancestor was a bureaucratic family, but his father came to Wang Mian and became a poor farmer.
Wang Mian was born in the 24th year of Zhiyuan (1287) and died in the 19th year of Zheng Zhi (1359) at the age of 73. Wu Rongguang's Chronicle of Celebrities in Past Dynasties holds this view. Upp also recorded Wang Mian's birthday as July 22nd. Yi Shuo was born in the first year of Yuan Dynasty (1335) and died in the fifth year of Yongle in Ming Dynasty (1407) at the age of 73.
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Wang Mian was eager to learn from childhood and herded cattle during the day.
When he was seven or eight years old, his father told him to herd cattle on the ridge, and he sneaked into the school to listen to the students. After listening, I always remember it silently. When he came home at night, he forgot all the cows he was grazing. Wang Mian's father was furious and gave Wang Mian a good beating. After that, he was still like this. His mother said, "The child is so obsessed with reading, why not let him?"
Wang Mian ran away from home and stayed in a temple. At night, he sneaked out and sat on the Buddha's lap, holding a book in his hand. By the light of the ever-burning lamp in front of the Buddha, the sound of reading was read until dawn. Most of the Buddha statues are clay sculptures, all of which are ferocious and frightening.
Child as Wang Mian is, he doesn't seem to see it. Han Xing of Anyang heard that he was different and accepted him as a disciple, so Wang Mian became a learned Confucian scholar. But when I failed the exam again and again, I set the article on fire.
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