He was Hu Zongxian's aide, helping him capture Xu Hai and seduce Wang Zhi. After Hu Zongxian went to prison, Xu Wei committed suicide nine times in fear and madness. Later, he went to prison for killing his stepwife and died. After being imprisoned for seven years, he was rescued by Zhang Yuan and other friends. Then travel to Jinling in the south and go to the valley in the north. Throughout the frontier fortress, I often lament generously. I was very poor in my later years, and thousands of books were sold out. Claiming to be a "southern accent", he died in the 21st year of Wanli (1593) at the age of 73.
Xu Wei is versatile and unique in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting. He is also known as "the three gifted scholars of Ming Dynasty" with Jie Jin and Yang Shen. He is the founder of "splash-ink freehand brushwork" and the originator of "Ivy League" in China. His paintings can absorb the essence of predecessors and be completely transformed. They don't want to look like gods. They took landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, and bamboo stones as their themes, with flowers as the most prominent, and created a generation of painting styles, which had a great influence on later painting circles (such as Badashanren and Yangzhou Eight Monsters). The book is good at cursive writing and has written many poems, which is known as "the next generation of talents". He can play the piano, is familiar with melody and loves China traditional opera. Narration of Nanci is the first theoretical monograph about Nanci in China, and other selected plays such as Four Sounds Apes and Song Dai Xiao have been handed down from generation to generation.