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Xu Wenchang's literary and artistic creation covers a wide range of fields, but it can be pointed out that they have a common feature, that is, they never rely on others in art, like originality, have a strong personality and unrestrained style, and often show their love for folk literature. Xu Wei's calligraphy works in the poetry circle of the Ming Dynasty, due to the advocacy of the first seven scholars, appeared an antique style. Although they all have undeniable achievements, this tendency to learn from others obviously hinders the development of poetry art. Xu Wenchang was deeply dissatisfied with this and made a sharp criticism. He said: birds learn from human speech, and nature is still a bird; If you imitate your predecessors with all your heart, writing poetry is nothing but flowers and birds, and it has no real value. His own poetry creation pays attention to expressing personal actual feelings about social life, and his style is slightly close to Li He's, asking about learning and prospering the Tang Dynasty, and taking the Southern Dynasties in and out of the Song and Yuan Dynasties without losing himself. This tendency was inherited by the public security school, which advocated the expression of spirit in the later period, and it was of great significance to the change of poetic style in the late Ming Dynasty. Yuan Zhonglang, the commander-in-chief of the Public Security School, made a wonderful evaluation of Xu Wenchang's poems: "A long man has no ambition and a teacher, so he indulges in wild waves and landscapes ... What he saw was that mountains rushed to the sea, clouds rose in the sand, trees sang in the wind, and most of the valleys were people, fish and birds. Everything was shocking and shocking, which was expressed in the poems. There is an indelible smell in his chest. The protagonist is lost and helpless, so it is a poem, such as anger, laughter, underwater sound gorge, unearthed, widow crying at night and chilling. It will be thousands of miles away when it is released; Occasionally it is deep and steep, and there is a ghost anger in autumn. " In Xu Wenchang's prose, Ego Epitaph is the best. In addition, many letters are also very distinctive, pungent and humorous, and their writing style is far from first-class by Jin Shengtan, but overall, their achievements are not as good as poetry. Xu Wenchang's drama creation includes four independent dramas: The History of Crazy Drum, Cui Xiang's Dream, Female Mulan and Female Champion. "The History of Crazy Drum" is about the feeling that Yan Song killed Shen Lian, showing the arrogant spirit of resistance. The latter two plays are all stories about women disguised as men, which reflect Xu Wenchang's view on women and have certain anti-feudal significance. These works broke the fixed format of zaju and opened the door for the diversification of drama forms. In drama theory, he advocates "true colors", that is, the drama language should conform to the identity of the characters, and the authenticity of the characters should be guaranteed by spoken language and colloquialism, while opposing elegant parallel language and excessive modification. These views are very insightful. In addition, he also wrote "Narrative of Southern Opera", which is the first theoretical monograph of Southern Opera in China and is of great significance in the history of drama. Xu Wenchang once said: "My book is the first, my poem is the second, my writing is the third, and my painting is the fourth." This is probably the usual trick of literati, that is, to put their most valued art in the last position to raise others. In fact, he is a great master of freehand brushwork in China, which has influenced Badashanren, Shi Tao, Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics and even Wu Changshuo and Qi Baishi. He has a high position in the history of art. He is best at flower painting, indulged in pen and ink, vigorous and charming, full of poetic lyricism and rhythm, and is highly respected by people. His calligraphy is better than cursive script. Although Xu Wenchang ranks first, his achievements seem to be inferior to those of painting. In addition, the zaju Dai Xiao and the novel Yun He Qi Zong are also said to have been written by Xu Wenchang.