In Chinese history, literati with high talents and eight buckets can make a long list, but Xu Wei and Xu Wenchang are probably the only ones who have the titles of writers, calligraphers and painters, opera singers, and military experts.
There are many crazy artists in ancient China, but they are really crazy like Van Gogh in the Netherlands, lonely at birth, and there are not many people who worship future generations after death, Xu Wei is such a "poor" figure.
Reading the history of Xu Wei, my heart was quite heavy. Such a talented and talented person, bad luck, bad fate, "a life of ups and downs, the early death of the second brother, three marriages, help everywhere, five cars to learn to be rich, six relatives scattered, seven years of unjust imprisonment, eight tests not to sell, nine times suicide, really sigh!" "
This is a cross song composed by Mr. Wang Chang'an when summarizing Xu Wei's life experience. He himself wrote a poem saying: There is no end to the suffering in the world, and it is extremely bitter to go to the bitter place. He was known as the "Chinese Van Gogh".
The geniuses in history are the same, Xu Wei "when he was a teenager, the genius was super easy, entered Xu's private school to study," at the age of six, he was "university", reciting more than a thousand words a day" "The book was taught hundreds of words, no longer eye, and the reciter listened. "Ten-year-old imitation of Yang Xiong's "Xie Tao" made a "release and destruction", with a bold personality, "between the palms of your fingers, a thousand words can be done." "Xu Wei is extremely intelligent by nature.
He read at the age of six, could compose at the age of nine, and when he was a teenager, he imitated Yang Xiong's "Xie Tao" as "Release and Destruction", which caused a sensation throughout the city. The local gentlemen called him a prodigy, compared to Liu Yan and Yang Xiu.
When he was in his twenties, Xu Wei interacted with chen haiqiao, Shen Lian and other famous scholars in Yuezhong and was one of the "Ten Sons of Yuezhong". Shen Lian once praised him: "Closing the city gate, there is only this one." "
It is said that at a banquet, the master deliberately embarrassed Xu Wei and pointed to a small object on the table and asked him to make a gift, but secretly ordered the child servant to hold the paper scroll that was more than a long time. Xu Wei stood up and took the pen and wrote it all in one go, shocking the people in the seat.
After the Ming Dynasty restored the Tang and Song dynasty systems, it gradually formed a relatively strict and fixed eight-strand wenge law format, and also stipulated that Xiucai in the examination could be exempted from paying taxes, exempted from military service, and not accepting punishment, which should have considerable temptation for readers.
Xu Wei, a prodigy who was known for his talent since childhood, was born in such an era, and he was naturally full of yearning for the cause of meritorious service, but the god of fate tricked him, causing him to suffer repeated setbacks on the road of the imperial examination.
At the age of twenty, he stuttered and won the Xiucai examination, and then took the township examination again and again, until he was forty-one years old, took the exam eight times, and never won the examination.
It is no accident that even the eight township examinations were named Sun Shan, and they could not aspire to meritorious names in their lifetime, and it was not accidental that they "could not aspire to and have a division". When Xu Wei was a teenager, he liked to read a lot of books, hated the eight strands of text, coupled with the personality revealed, the emotions were exaggerated, I am afraid that he really could not write a qualified, disciplined and gloomy and rigid eight strands of text.