Portrait of Wu Cheng'en
Wu Cheng'en, 1500 was born in Shanyang County, Huai 'an, with a poor family. When he was young, he was brilliant. He read a lot of unofficial history and strange books, and was familiar with all kinds of myths and legends and folk stories, which also contributed to his profound material accumulation and literary foundation.
1529, Wu Cheng'en entered Longxi Academy founded by Ge Mu, then the magistrate of Huai 'an. With diligence and extensive reading, Wu Cheng'en quickly gained the appreciation of Ge Mu.
2 1 year has passed. During this period, Wu Cheng'en's life was not smooth, and the long-term failure in scientific research and the hardships of life made him pay more attention to strange novels and express his inner anguish. Until 1550, Wu Cheng'en got a one-year-old tribute student, who was almost fifty at that time.
155 1 year, Wu Cheng'en came to Xinye county as the magistrate. During his five-year tenure, he performed well in Confucianism, water conservancy and other moral deeds. From 65438 to 0556, forced by her mother's old age and poverty, she went to Changxing, Zhejiang Province to be a county official. Frustration in early life, poverty in circumstances, corruption in officialdom and social darkness, coupled with Wu Cheng'en's honest and honest character, made him increasingly dissatisfied with real life. Eventually he resigned angrily because of being falsely accused, 1558 left home and devoted himself to creation.
In his later years, Wu Cheng'en's life became poorer and poorer. He traveled to Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places, earning a living by selling poems and essays, and then died at home at the age of 82.
Wu Cheng'en was a famous novelist in China in Ming Dynasty, and his masterpiece Wu Cheng'en. He created a lot of works in his life, but because of his poor family, childlessness, and no one to save his works, the number of his works spread to future generations was small. Among them, The Journey to the West, the most famous and representative novel, took seven years to complete, and only four volumes, Sheyang Survival Draft and Ding Yuji, have been lost, which has to be said to be a great regret for the development of ancient novel literature.
Journey to the West stills of 86 TV series
As we all know, The Journey to the West is one of the four classic novels of China. It tells the story of Tang Priest's going to the Western Heaven to learn Buddhist scriptures through hardships under the escort of the Monkey King, Pig Bajie and Friar Sand.
The author Wu Cheng'en has an incomparably rich imagination. He used romantic creative techniques to construct a fantastic and wonderful world of ghosts and gods, and created four vivid characters with distinct personalities. Fairy tales are compact and wonderful, with twists and turns subtly revealing the real world and feelings. Therefore, The Journey to the West is also a novel full of wisdom and profound meaning, which was later translated into western languages and spread all over the world. Many scholars have studied this and published monographs and papers. Until modern times, The Journey to the West has been adapted into various film and television versions and presented to the audience in a more vivid artistic form.
The artistic charm of Journey to the West has conquered the hearts of countless people in ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, and has also become Wu Cheng'en's masterpiece.
Wu Cheng'en Pictures Although Wu Cheng'en's life was bumpy, difficult and miserable, his work The Journey to the West, which took seven years to complete, was widely circulated in later generations and became one of the four classic novels. However, there are not many portraits of this outstanding novelist in the Ming Dynasty, but more vivid works and characters created by the world on the screen to commemorate him.
The ancient portrait of Wu Cheng'en.
Judging from the most widely circulated ancient portrait of Wu Cheng'en, his image is wearing a hat, eyebrows slightly raised on both sides, eyes slightly open, nose low, lips closed, and a moustache on his chin. His face doesn't give people a sense of seriousness and formality like ordinary people. On the contrary, his expression is calm and his eyes are gentle, revealing a sense of wisdom and indifference. Combined with his experience, it seems that people can see his ordinary but great life through the portrait. He can be said to be a loser in life and officialdom. The hardships he experienced in life and the corruption in the imperial examination made him feel the darkness of society, so he had to be full of disappointment in real life. But his achievements in novels are undoubtedly great. The birth of The Journey to the West had a far-reaching impact on the development of novel culture at that time and even later.
In order to commemorate him, a TV series named Wu Chengen and Journey to the West was broadcast on 20 10, in which a six-year-old boy played Wu Cheng'en, who interpreted his life and made the audience know more about the story and experience of the man who wrote Journey to the West. From then on, when it comes to Wu Cheng'en, it doesn't stop at simple portraits of the ancients, but his image is more vivid and full in front of the public.
Wu Cheng'en's Wu Cheng'en is an outstanding novelist and writer in Ming Dynasty. He wrote a lot in his life, but most of his works were lost because of his poor family, the early death of his only son and no other children.
Wu Cheng'en's Works by China Social Sciences Press.
Wu Cheng'en once wrote a famous sentence "Song of Erlang Seeking Mountains", satirizing and denouncing the minister of civil and military affairs who accompanied the southern tour of Ming Sejong to inherit the wealth of abundance, which made the people complain and suffer.
When compiling The Journey to the West, Wu Cheng'en not only read all kinds of strange novels and fairy tales since childhood, but also visited famous mountains and rivers to accumulate more perceptual materials, and finally finished this well-known The Journey to the West. The stories and characters in this novel are lively and interesting, with profound implications, which have been gradually translated into many languages and spread all over the world.
Sheyang Survival Draft is a collection of poems by Wu Cheng'en. His poems account for the vast majority, mainly praising various mountains and rivers and expressing the author's inner feelings. Some of his works reflect the social life at that time.
In addition to the above works, Wu Cheng'en also wrote Strange Tales from a Lonely Studio with reference to the Tang Dynasty novels such as Youyang Za and Xuanguailu, but it was later lost due to the turmoil of life, leaving only an original preface. There is also a New Collection of Flowers and Ci Collection edited by Wu Cheng'en, which is also lost.
Therefore, although Wu Cheng'en created many works, few of them were preserved and known to the world. His lost manuscripts may be ten times, a hundred times or even more than those he keeps today, which has to be said to be a great regret in the history of literature.
How Wu Cheng'en Died Wu Cheng'en was a famous novelist in Ming Dynasty, and his novel The Journey to the West was one of the classical Four Great Classical Novels in China, which was widely circulated in later generations.
The TV series "Wu Chengen and Journey to the West" Wu Cheng'en's stills in his later years
The Wu family was originally a scholar's family, and Wu Cheng'en's great-grandfather and grandfather were both officials. Later, grandpa died of illness, and grandma had to take Wu Cheng'en's father back to her hometown in Huai 'an. At that time, my father was only four years old, and there was no savings and income at home, so life became more and more difficult. When Wu Cheng'en was born, the family's economy was so difficult and the population withered.
Although Wu Cheng'en was clever since childhood, his early life was actually very rough. For a long time, the hardships of life and the failure of scientific examination for many years have deepened his understanding of the corruption of imperial examination in officialdom and the darkness of feudal society. Although he was later awarded a one-year-old Gong Sheng, he was nearly 50 years old at that time, and the road to officialdom was bumpy and arduous. Until 1558, he resigned and returned to his hometown because of being falsely accused.
After Wu Cheng'en resigned, his life was not stable in his later years, and he was still down and out. He has traveled to Hangzhou, Nanjing and other places to make a living by selling poems. It was during this period that he completed the follow-up part of The Journey to the West and made this book come out. Such a great novelist has such a difficult situation in his life that countless people feel sad and sad.
Official life has always been so rough for him, but in real life, the pain has not diminished. Wu Cheng'en once had a son, Mao Feng, but he died later. The pain of losing children and daughters in old age makes the situation very bleak. Finally, he returned to his hometown in Huai 'an and died at the age of 82.
Wu Cheng'en, the tomb of Wu Cheng'en, was a famous novelist in Ming Dynasty. He was born in 1500 and died in 1582 at the age of 82.
Wu Cheng'en Tomb, Madian Town, Huai 'an District
After Wu Cheng'en's death, his tombstone, like his life's experience, experienced many ups and downs. So, how was Wu Cheng'en's tomb discovered? First, the graves of him and his father Wu Rui were stolen at the same time.
In the 1970s, there were often some lazy people in Huai 'an who exchanged improper money by excavating ancient tombs. 1975 65438+ 10 In October, a teacher in Madian Township, Huai 'an found a newly excavated ancient tomb on his way to work one day, with two stone tablets beside it. One of them can vaguely identify the tomb owner's surname Wu, and the other stone tablet has the words "the kindness of orphans", which immediately reminds the teacher of Wu Cheng'en, the author of The Journey to the West. According to historical records, he was from Shanyang County, Huai 'an Prefecture. This discovery excited the teachers and quickly reported it to the school, which then reported it to the county cultural center. This matter has attracted attention. After careful and rigorous research, it is determined that this tombstone is the tomb of Wu Cheng'en's father Wu Rui. The text found before is an epitaph written by Wu Cheng'en for his father.
After receiving the report, Nanjing Museum immediately organized personnel to investigate, but it was later suspended for some reason.
Until August of 198 1, under the instruction of relevant departments, Huai' an county organized a special person to investigate Wu Cheng'en's tomb. Finally, it was found that after Wu Cheng'en's tomb was stolen, the coffin board had been transformed into the doors and windows of a school, which seriously hindered the search for tombstones, and the destruction of the tomb also made people feel sad and disappointed.
Since then, things have changed for the better. Master Wu, a carpenter who was restructured at that time, left the upper part of the horizontal board of the coffin privately, engraved with the words "Jishan" and "Sheyang Wu Gong", which were unique official positions in the Ming Dynasty. Wu Cheng'en was named "Sheyang Mountain Man". There are indications that the owner of this tomb is Wu Cheng'en.
The investigator found Wu Cheng'en's grave and cleaned it. At present, Wu Cheng'en's cemetery is located in Guodazhuang, Bauer Village, Madian Town, Huai 'an District. Wu Cheng'en was buried with his two wives. The tombstone is separated from the father's tomb by three meters, which is regarded as the father-son family cemetery.