Usage: as object and attribute; Used in written language.
Source: Ming Yuan Hongdao's Biography of Xu Wenchang
Original text (excerpt):
At that time, the governor counted the border troops, threatened the southeast, and did not dare to raise his head. However, Wen Chang is proud of his subordinates, walks confidently, speaks casually and playfully, and is unscrupulous. You will get a white deer, which belongs to Wenchang generation. At the dinner table, Yong Ling was very happy. Openness is good, and all the omissions are out of their control.
At that time, Hu Zongxian was in command of soldiers in several fields. The soldiers were all afraid of him. They knelt down to talk and crawled like snakes, afraid to look up. As a subordinate scholar, Wen Chang is proud of him, doing whatever he wants, talking and laughing at will, and fearless.
Like a white deer being caught, Hu Zongxian asked Wen Changdai to make a congratulatory table. Emperor Sejong was very happy to see the chapter on the table. So Hu Zongxian paid more attention to him, and let him do all the words and official documents.
Extended data
First, the creative background
Yuan Hongdao once roamed wuyue after resigning from Wuxian county magistrate. In the twenty-fifth year of Wanli (1597), I traveled to Shaoxing and met Xu Wenchang's poems at the tomb of my friend Tao Wangling. Yuan Hongdao was overjoyed. He admired not only Xu Wenchang's poems, but also his personality. So he collected information and wrote this biography in the twenty-seventh year of Wanli (1599).
Second, appreciate
In the main part of this article, the author briefly introduces Xu Wenchang's life. If you meet Hu Zongxian and go to Bailuyuan table, you will be "wild and twisted" because you don't want to be a manager, or even have an unfortunate experience caused by "pretending to be crazy and selling stupidity" in your later years. It is worth noting that the author is not concerned with what the main information is, but with the mental state and personality expressed from it.
These descriptions strongly highlight Xu Wenchang's mental state and personality characteristics. His personality is relatively liberated, not bound by feudal ethics and secularism, and he is outstanding in talent and arrogant, so he is not tolerated by society, and he has only been down and out and "died of anger" all his life. The article is full of sympathy and praise for preachers, and full of accusations and exposures of burying talents in the old society and destroying talents by the imperial examination system.