Wu (1701-1754) was born in Quanjiao, Anhui Province in the Qing Dynasty (the existing calligraphy of Wu bears the words "Quanjiao Wuliang"). Wu was born in the 40th year of Kangxi in Qing Dynasty and died in the 19th year of Qianlong at the age of 54. Young, smart and good at remembering. A little longer, make up the formal disciple. Jing You's Selected Works, Cheng. I am not good at treating students, and my nature is heroic. In a few years, I have squandered all my old products, and sometimes I can't even eat. In the 13th year of Yongzheng (A.D. 1735), Governor Chair Zhao gave a speech on the grounds of "learned words" and refused to go. Moved to Jinling and became a literary leader. He also gathered two comrades-in-arms to build a sage at the foot of Yuhua Mountain and sacrificed 230 people below Taibo. If the capital is insufficient, the house you live in will be sold, and the poor will benefit at home. In his later years, he became an old man named Wenmu, who was a guest in Yangzhou, especially in drinking. Later he died among the guests. Amethyst's career was the worst in her life. She wrote fifty-five chapters of The Scholars (fifty-six chapters in one book and sixty chapters in the other, all of which were not original), which made him laugh. There are also seven volumes of poetry, five volumes of Wen Mu Fang Shan Ji, seven volumes of poetry and A Brief History of China's Novels. Because there is a "Wenmu Mountain Residence" at home, he called himself "Wenmu Old Man" in his later years, and because he moved from his hometown in Quanjiao, Anhui Province to Qinhuai River in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, he was also called "Qinhuai River Guest". He was born in a famous family, received a good education as a child, and showed a special talent for literary creation. When he became an adult, he had the opportunity to gain a lot of knowledge, including the inside story of officialdom, because he worked as an official with his father everywhere. When Wu was 22 years old, his father died, and there was a fierce struggle for property and power within the family.
After this change, Wu had no intention of becoming an official, hated hypocritical interpersonal relationships, and had no intention of making progress and fame. The governor of Anhui recommended him to take an examination of Bo and learn the word Hong, but he pretended to be ill. He was not good at keeping a house. When he was poor, he gave everything and sold all his possessions until 1754 died at the age of 53.
Wu Yisheng created a large number of poems, essays and historical research works, including twelve volumes of Wenmushanfang Poems, of which four volumes exist. However, it was his satirical novel The Scholars that established his outstanding position in the history of China literature. It took him nearly 20 years to finish the novel until he was 49. People established the "Wu Memorial Hall" in his hometown; Wu's former residence was also built in Taoyedu of Qinhuai River.
Great changes have taken place in Wu's life and thoughts. In life, he went from rich to poor; Ideologically, he expressed diametrically opposite views on fame and wealth. He grew up in a Kejia family for generations and spent most of his life in Nanjing and Yangzhou, where he was familiar with the bureaucrats, gentry, rich children and celebrity diners. In the life of these "upper class people", he indignantly saw the bureaucratic favoritism, the arbitrary local accent of the gentry, the mediocrity of the rich children, the greed of the insiders, the art of celebrities and the fraud of diners. Coupled with his personal life from rich to poor, it is easy to detect the face of "upper class". In The Scholars, he thoroughly exposed the decay of all kinds of intellectuals' spiritual life, which is really "mysterious but not orthodox, such as casting the dominant position of Dayu" (Travel Notes of Shan Bozhi, Volume 4). And because of the vivid artistic image, his works are particularly attractive and touching.