Tongzhi worked as a political scholar in Jiangxi for six years. After nine years as a waiter, I studied undergraduate course and soon became a lecturer. Later, he was the assistant minister of the Ministry of War. .
In the eleventh year of Tongzhi, he returned to Beijing, and successively served as Assistant Minister Zuo of the Ministry of Rites, Minister Zuo and Minister Shang of the Ministry of War.
In the first year of Guangxu (1875), all counties in Jiangsu were free of grain, except Baoshan County and Jiading County. Xu Yong and Liao Shoufeng, a fellow countryman, played together according to the facts. Emperor Guangxu ordered the Ministry of Industry to reconsider the tax amount of the two counties to reduce the burden on the people.
In the twenty-first year of Guangxu, Kang Youwei and other provincial buses jointly tried the capital, and asked Duchayuan to play for him. Duchayuan was difficult at first, so it was delayed. Guangxu ordered the court to send him a question. Shi Yude and Xu Yong, both court counselors, began to be afraid and learned about it in a few days.
In the 22nd year of Guangxu, Emperor Guangxu ordered Xu Yong and Li Wentian to publish and engrave Wang Yun's Supplement to Hua Cheng in the South Study Room. These images were carved in the Song Dynasty by Gu Kaizhi, who imitated the stone chambers of Han Dynasty portraits and painting styles. The carved lines are smooth and meticulous, with the technical style of western lithography. This is an illustration of Wuying Hall. A Brief Introduction to China was written by Wang Yun, an admonition officer in the Yuan Dynasty, aiming at encouraging the prince to follow the example of the ancients and become a wise king.
In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu, he was the co-organizer of the university and the minister of rites, and was called "Xu".
In the thirty-first year of Guangxu (1906), he abdicated due to illness and died the following year.
Xu Shi is good at calligraphy and painting landscapes. When he entered the Ci Hall, he was called to Zhinan's study, which won the appreciation of Cixi.
In the Qing Dynasty, Liu Shengmu's "Three Paintings of Changchuzhai" has four volumes: "Guo Xiang lived in Nanzhai for a long time, and Empress Xiaoqinxian (Cixi) devoted herself to seal cutting, official business and painting in her later years. She often tells Xu that she has the word "Chang Chu Zhai" and studies seal cutting, official business and landscape painting at the same time. Because Wu Guxiang painted 100 landscape plates with 200 gold coins, he thought it was temporary. For a long time, I was tired. It was too hard to learn seal script. I used to be kind, but when I was old, I couldn't learn painting and seal cutting, so I had to learn eight-part essay and be kind. "
Huang Shizhuo's "Continued Records of Jiading County", Volume 11, "Biography of Xu Mian" says: "After Xiao Qin appeared, he painted with an imperial brush, and he was informed of his life, so he was grateful for his life." Most emperors in Qing dynasty loved calligraphy and painting, and attached great importance to writing in imperial examinations, thus leading to the emergence of top calligraphers. Since Jia Dao, the trend of learning calligraphy has intensified, and the imperial examination has become a calligraphy competition. There were more than 20,000 literati in the Qing Dynasty who were good at calligraphy.
In the Qing Dynasty, there were 1 14 champions, and about 44 people were famous for their calligraphy. Some champions are not only good at calligraphy, but also like painting and calligraphy, commonly known as "champion calligraphy" and "champion painting and calligraphy". Top scholars of all ages, such as Sun Chengen, Wang Yi, Wang Jingming, Zhou Shu, Yu Minzhong, Qian Weicheng, Gao Gu, Long Qirui, Weng Tonghe, Zhang Wanzhi, Xu Wei, Lu Runxiang, Wang Renkan, Xia Tonghe and Liu Chunlin, have attracted many fans so far.
"No.1 Scholar's Calligraphy" is authentic in the calligraphy styles of Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing, Zhao Mengfu, Dong Qichang, etc., with solid techniques, mainly linear and elegant. In painting, the brushwork is meticulous, the shape is accurate, the color is exquisite, and the palace painting style is rich.
Xu Yong's calligraphy began with calligraphy and studied Wei Bei, and was influenced by epigraphy since Daoguang Xianfeng. The running script is free and easy, with vivid charm; Lishu has the rules of the Han people, calm and healthy; Regular script is elegant and elegant.
"Liulichang Monument" written by Jin Taiju Qianchuan said that Xu's calligraphy is "round and compact, detached and unique, with its handwriting, mostly tower and delicate brushwork". The paper plaque of "Xu Mian Bao Shu Feng Ruirong" is now in the Palace Museum.
Until the Republic of China, Beijing-Shanghai Bookstore still reprinted Xu Wei's copybooks for profit.
Xu Yong is also good at landscape painting. Huang commented in "To Huang Jusu Miscellany" that "Xu Zhang is first-class, and Gan Jia painters are far behind."
"Continued Records of Jiading County" said, "After Xiao Qin appeared, he painted with an imperial pen, and someone informed him of the inscription." For the paintings of Empress Dowager Cixi handed down from generation to generation, Xuchang's poems are often inscribed in block letters, and others, such as Lu Runxiang, Li Wentian, scholar Lu Baozhong, etc.
Cixi painted an example of Xu Yong;
1. Cixi's red plum map, Xu Wei's inscription.
2. The peony picture of Cixi, and the inscriptions by Xu Wei and Li Wentian.
3. Cixi's "Fairy Mountain Map", inscribed by Lu Baozhong and Xu Wei.
4. Inscriptions by Fan and Xu Wei of Cixi's "Changchun Fushou Map"
5. Qiu Jutu, Xu Wei and Li Wentian of Cixi.
6. Cixi's Lotus Picture, Xu Wei's inscription.
7. Cixi's Fu Shou Ai Rui Tu, Xu Wei's inscription.
8. Cixi's "Peony Map", Xu Wei's inscription is between Guangxu Gengzi and Xin Chou. Boxing bandits advocate chaos, and the two palaces hunt in the west. Britain, France, Russia, Germany, the United States, Italy, Austria and Japan entered the G8, which is divided into eight parts. He was ordered to meet Gong (Li Hongzhang) at Fei, go to Beijing to discuss peace, and stay in Jiexianliang Temple, which was very prosperous. Anyone who comes to see the maharaja Baylor must go to the concierge first. At that time, Zhang Jiuzhai, Wang Zhongxiang and Jing Qing Shanquan stayed in the concierge to receive them.
From the main hall of Vae Pavilion in Jiading to Xianliang Temple, Wen Zhong is called an old guest. One day, I flogged the German soldiers, told Wen Zhong, and laughed it off.
Zhao Wei, assistant minister of Li Lichun in Wuyuan, also lived in Germany. At that time, he ordered the minister of rites to go in and beat him with a whip. Assistant minister v. Yu Wenzhong, please take revenge. Wen Zhong is usually called a stubborn minister, who plays why German soldiers come to fight. Tell me, I wrote a thank you passbook, and I wrote "Thanks for grace, thanks for Yang Jieqi's victory over Shi Jian", and German soldiers whipped it inside. Wen Zhong smiled and said, "Afraid of making mistakes?" Answer: "Nothing wrong". He smiled again and said, "What if I don't make mistakes?" There is another cloud: "The German whip is really popular. It is allowed to use the whip as the official minister, and Li Lichun uses the whip as the official minister." There are many famous paintings in Xu Yong's old collection, such as Lanfeng Fuyu Volume, Yun's Landscape Flower Book, and the Landscape Handscroll, which is the world standard.
Xu Yong has a large collection of precious stone rubbings, such as Yi Ying Bei, Si Bei, Shao Xing Mi Tie, Zhang Qianbei in Ming Dynasty, Shi Chenbei and so on. He has communicated with Weng Tonghe and Wang. Wang Weixu's Shang Shu Ming inscribed a poem "Chang 'an Book Song Shu Temple Monument": "The secret of Lanting, Qin Xitong, is rich in gold. When Chengwu Changan bought this book together, Tang Tuo was always embarrassed. " (Wang Ji)
Weng Tonghe and Xu Wei are closely related because of their collection of calligraphy and painting. Weng Tonghe's Diary1August 25, 887: "A gift to Shanghai Mi Tie, a consignment of calligraphy and painting, are all excellent works, but the price is extremely high: Tang's" Deep Comfort Tie "Black Swallow Volume, Wen Jia Zhou Ji. 500. "Yunnan Day" a volume of ten sectors is extremely fine, 300. Wang's Ge Tie has two volumes and 300 articles. Dong Hua Shu has eight leaves and a hundred silk books. "
Weng Tonghe's Diary1September 6, 887: Xu Zhi invited Weng Tonghe and other scholars in Beijing to appreciate his elegant collection of paintings, including Wang Shimin's Fuchun Tu and Yun Fan Book.
The collection seals include Song Collection, Jiading Xu Yong Collection Seal and Xu Zhenbao.
Eighty manuscripts of Geng were collected by Xu Wei. According to my close friend Li Shoumin's "Pearl House Series Talk", "I have read eighty copies of A Dream of Red Mansions copied by Zhi Yanzhai, which are Xu's old collections." 1933, Hu Shi got this copy from Xu Xingshu, the son of Xu Yong, and wrote a long article "Long Gengchen Postscript Notes". /kloc-in the summer of 0/948, yenching university bought it from the Xu family and became the collection of Peking University Library.