Original text of Sending Chess Monk Wei Zhao

Send the chess monk Weizhao

[Author] Wen Tong? [Dynasty] Song Dynasty

Learned the nine-chapter formula to open the square, and recited a line of multiplication and division poems.

Natural nature knows extraordinary skills, but the enemy's national players should respond to my teacher.

Standing on the couch beside the stove in front of the window, when the heavy snow is pressing down on the house outside the door,

I am alone in reversing the old situation and making mistakes, and sneer at who the ancients allowed? A brief introduction to Wen Tong, the author of "Send Chess Monk Weizhao"

Wen Tong (1018-1079), also known as Yuke, also known as Xiaoxiao Jushi and Mr. Xiaoxiao, was also known as Mr. Shishi. A native of Yongtai County, Zitong County, Zizhou in the Northern Song Dynasty (now part of Yanting County, Mianyang City, Sichuan). Famous painter and poet. In the first year of Emperor Renzong of the Song Dynasty (1049), he became a Jinshi. He moved to Taichang and became the school manager of Jixian. He served as magistrate of Qiongzhou, Dayi, Lingzhou, Yangzhou (today's Yangxian County, Shaanxi Province) and other prefectures or counties. In the early years of Yuanfeng, Wen Tong went to Huzhou (today's Wuxing, Zhejiang) to take office, and the world called Wen Huzhou. On the 20th of the first month of the second year of Yuanfeng (1079), Wen Tong died of illness in Chenzhou (now Huaiyang County, Henan Province) before taking office at the age of 61. He and Su Shi were cousins. He was famous for his scholarship and was good at poetry, calligraphy and painting. He was highly praised by Wen Yanbo, Sima Guang and others, and was especially respected by his cousin Su Shi.

Wen Tong's other works

○ Hokusai After the Rain

○ Returning Friends

○ Liang Jinghe

< p> ○ Drinking Alone in the County House

○ Five Chapters of Poems about Mountain City’s Ambition in Autumn and Presenting the Picture of Wu Long

○ More works by Wen Tong