Brief introduction of Xu Wei
Xu Wei (152 1- 1593) was an outstanding painter and writer in the Ming Dynasty. The first word is Wen Qing, and the word is changed to Long,No. Tianchi, a famous Taoist of the Ivy League, Tian Shuiyue and so on. Yin Shan, Zhejiang (now Shaoxing) people. Smart since childhood, quick thinking. And ambitious. Yan Song, who took part in the anti-Japanese struggle and opposed the rape of the southeast coast during Jiajing period, had a very rough life, which can be described as "down and out in the world". He ended up in prison for seven or eight years. After he was released from prison, he was poor and ill, making a living by selling poems and paintings, and he was down and out all his life. He studied painting in middle age and inherited Liang Kai's brush and ink and Lin Liang's and Shen Zhou's freehand flower-and-bird paintings. Therefore, he is good at drawing ink painting, indulged in using a pen, and drew a broken chrysanthemum, dripping with ink, flowing in Gu Zhuo, with a unique style. He also painted landscapes, regardless of rope and ink, and the characters he painted were lifelike. His brushwork is more bold and concise, dry pen, wet pen and broken pen can be used. His style is fresh and unrestrained in Wang Yang, forming an "Ivy League School". He himself is particularly proud of calligraphy. Claiming that "my book is the first, poetry is the second, writing is the third, and painting is the fourth". Yuan Hongdao and others praised his calligraphy as "bold and unrestrained", "vigorous and charming" and "above Wang Yayi and Wen". His Huangjiatu is vigorous and powerful, vividly showing the late autumn atmosphere of crab crawling and Hà Thu dying. The works have been handed down to this day. His works include: Four Faces of Man, Narration of Nanci, Lost Text of Xu Wenchang, Complete Works of Xu Wenchang, etc. World-famous works include "Ink Grape Axis", "Flowers and Birds of Landscape Figures" (all collected in the Palace Museum), "Peony Banana Stone Axis" and "Nine Sections of Ink Flowers" made in his later years (now collected in the Palace Museum).
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Xu Wei (152 1- 1593), whose first name was changed later, was named Tianchi Mountain, Qingtian Jushi, or Shitian Shuiyue, Tianchi Yuyun, Qingtian Laoren, Jin Huishan, Yinshan Buyi, Baishishan, and so on. He was gifted and intelligent. At the age of 20, he was admitted as a scholar in Yin Shan, but later he failed in Sun Shan's eight exams, and he could not aspire to fame all his life. When he was young, he was full of enterprising spirit, "conceited and resourceful, curious and talkative." He was diligent in the pursuit of the ideal of governing the country and leveling the world, and was once favored by Hu Zongxian, the right assistant minister of the Ministry of War and an imperial envoy of the imperial capital. In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), he was recruited as the aide of the governor of Zhejiang and Fujian. Xu Wei had many plans for the military, politics and economy at that time. In his poems, he enthusiastically praised the patriotic heroes who fought against Japan, and wrote "White Deer Original Table" for Hu Zongxian, which was greatly appreciated by Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty. I thought I could display my ambition, but later Hu Zongxian was impeached as an accomplice of Yan Song, and was arrested and committed suicide. Xu Wei was deeply stimulated. He was crazy, insane and committed suicide on purpose. He even committed suicide nine times. The way to commit suicide is creepy. He broke his head with a sharp axe. "The blood was covered, and the skull was folded and rubbed." He once "stuck a sharp cone into his ears, which was deep but could not die." He also suspected that his stepmother Zhang was unfaithful. In fact, he killed Zhang, so he went to prison and stayed in prison for seven years. Later, he was rescued from prison by his good friend Zhang Yuan Tuan (written by Ming Hanlin). He was 53 years old when he got out of prison. At this time, he really put aside his official career, traveled around and began to write books, poems and paintings. In his later years, he was down and out, penniless. Often, "a lone ranger under the hungry moon", everyone is grateful. Among them, only when he died, he went to the Zhang family to mourn, and almost all of them stayed at home. Finally, he ended his life in the case of "a few rickety houses and a southern accent". Only a dog accompanied him before he died, and there was not even a cushion on the bed, which was terrible. The dilemma of fate even aroused his depression. With his natural artistic temperament, he released his inner feelings through a tragic life and created an artistic miracle.
Xu Wei always leads a dissolute life and is not interested in power. When an official comes to draw, it is even difficult to say a word. In today's world, anyone who comes to ask for paintings must be worthy of Xu Wei's lack of money. At this time, if someone comes to paint, they can get it in an instant. If he is not short of money in his bag, then no matter how much you give, it is rare to get a painting. What a man of temperament.
When I was a child, I was very smart. At the age of 20, he was admitted to a scholar, and he was never promoted again. As a young man, he is full of enterprising spirit and hopes to govern the country. He was very thoughtful about military, political and economic affairs at that time, and participated in the struggle against the Japanese pirates along the southeast coast of China. He enthusiastically praised patriotic heroes in his poems, and once wrote "White Deer Original Offering Table" for Hu Zongxian, which won the appreciation of the Ming Emperor. But later, because of some political involvement, his spirit was deeply stimulated and he committed suicide on purpose nine times. The way to commit suicide is amazing. In his later years, his fate was even more embarrassing. Painting became the only way for him to release his inner feelings, and his miserable life made him an artistic genius.