Xu Wenchang biography and translation

Xu Wei, with a long word, is a student of Shanyin and has a good reputation. When Xue Gonghui went to school, he was very talented and had the purpose of national territory. It's amazing, but I've tried it again and again. Zhong Cheng Hu Gongzong heard of it, and he was invited to the curtain. Every time Wen Chang saw it, he wore a black towel and talked about what was going on in the world, which made Hu Gong happy. At that time, the governor counted the border troops, and Wei Town was in the southeast. He was afraid to raise his head, but Wen Chang was proud of his subordinates, and Liu Zhenchang and Du Shaoling Yun were the negotiators. You will get a white deer, which belongs to Wen Chang and makes a table. On the table, Yongling is happy. The public is a strange thing, and all the tricks are out of their hands. Wen Chang is conceited and resourceful, curious and resourceful, and talks about many soldiers, who regard the whole world as useless. But it's not even.

since Wen Chang has lost his ambition to be a secretary, he has indulged in mountains and rivers, visited Qi, Lu, Yan and Zhao, and looked at the vast desert in poverty. What he saw was the mountains rushing to the sea, the clouds rising from the sand, the rain singing and the trees dying, the valleys and the people, fish and birds, all of which were shocking and shocking, all of which were expressed in poetry. There is an indelible anger in his chest, and the hero loses his way and has no way to support his feet. Therefore, it is a poem, such as anger and laughter, such as the sound of water in a gorge, such as being unearthed, such as the widow's night crying and the cold of people. Although his physique is sometimes humble, he is ingenious and has the spirit of a king, which is beyond the expectation of those who serve others instead of women. He is knowledgeable in writing, heavy in spirit and strict in law. He doesn't hurt his talents by imitating, and he doesn't hurt his character by talking about it. Han and Zeng are also in Asia. Wen Chang is elegant and out of tune with the times. At that time, the so-called Sao Tan main alliance, Wen Chang was dismissed and enslaved, so his name is not out of Yue, sad husband!

He likes to write books, and his brushwork is bold and unrestrained, like his poems. He is full of vigor and charm, and Ouyang Gong said that "a young woman is a demon, and her old age has its own residual state". Between the rest, the overflow is flowers and birds, all of which are superb.

A single soldier kills his steproom on suspicion, and then goes to prison to talk about death. Zhang Taishi Yuan Bian tried to solve it, but he got it. In his later years, his anger deepened, his arrogance benefited him, and he showed up at the door or refused to accept it. When you bring money to the wine shop, call the servant and drink. Or self-sustaining axe to break its head, blood quilt, skull are broken, rubbing sound. Or use Eli to taper his ears, and go deeper than an inch, but he will not die. Zhou Wangyan's poems at the age of late are wonderful, and there is no engraving, which is collected at home. In the same year, there were officials who overstepped the official position, and they were recorded by money, but they have not arrived today. What I saw was Xu Wenchang Collection and Quebian. However, Wen Chang died in anger because he was frustrated.

Shi Gongri: Mr. Wang was amazed at the number, so he became crazy. Crazy disease unceasingly, hence for prison. Scholars in ancient and modern times complain and suffer, and there is no such thing as a gentleman. Although, Hu Gong was a hero in the world, a hero in Yongling, and a different etiquette in the curtain, it was known that Hu had a gentleman. On the table, people are happy, that is, people know that there is a husband, and celibacy is not expensive. The rise of Mr. Wang's poetry has swept away the habits of modern filth, and he has come down forever, and he has his own conclusion. Why not meet him?

Mei Kesheng wrote a book saying, "Wen is my old friend, and illness is strange to people, and people are strange to poetry." I said that the length of the text is nothing but not surprising. Nothing is strange, and nothing is strange. Sad husband!

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Xu Wei, with a long appearance, was born in Shanyin and enjoyed a high reputation. When Xue Gonghui was an official in Zhejiang, he was shocked by his talent and regarded him as a national scholar. However, his fate was not good, and he repeatedly failed in the exam. After hearing this, Zhong Cheng Hu Gong Zongxian hired him as an aide. Every time Wen Chang saw Hu Gong, he was always dressed in a long gown of Gebu and a black scarf, and he talked freely about world affairs, which was very appreciated by Hu Gong. At that time, Hu Gong was in command of several armies. On the southeast coast of Weizhen, his men and soldiers were always walking sideways in front of him, kneeling down to answer, afraid to look up. However, Wen Chang's attitude towards Hu Gong was so arrogant, and the argumentative people compared him to Liu Zhenchang and a first-class figure in Du Shaoling. It happened that Hu Gong hunted a white deer, thinking it was auspicious, and asked Wen Chang to make a congratulatory table. After the table was played, Emperor Sejong was very satisfied. Hu Gong is more valued for his literary length, and he has to handle all the books of sparse playing. Wen Chang is convinced that he has extraordinary intelligence and is good at winning by surprise, and the general plan of fighting he talks about is often to the point. He thinks that things in the world can't get into his eyes, but he always has no chance to do something.

since Wen Chang was frustrated and not valued by the current political situation, he indulged in wild activities, drinking wildly and indulging in landscapes. He traveled to Shandong (Qilu) and Hebei (Yanzhao) and enjoyed the desert beyond the Great Wall. The mountains he saw, such as galloping horses, the waves standing on the wall, the sand covered the sky and thundering for thousands of miles, the sound of wind and rain and the shape of strange trees, even the deep and deserted valleys and the bustling city, as well as strange people, strange fish and rare birds, all the unprecedented and amazing natural and cultural landscapes, were all incorporated into his poems. He has always been depressed with a strong spirit of injustice and the sadness that heroes are useless. Therefore, his poems sometimes curse, sometimes laugh, sometimes rush like mountain torrents in the canyon, making thunderous waves, and sometimes break ground like spring buds, full of vigorous vitality. Sometimes his poems are as piercing as a widow's cry in the middle of the night, and sometimes as helpless as a traveler's departure against the cold. Although the style of his poems is sometimes humble, he is ingenious and has great atmosphere and superhuman spirit. Poetry that is as vulgar as a woman who treats people with color is hard to match. Xu Wenchang has a profound insight into the way of writing. His articles are calm and rigorous. He does not suppress his talent and creativity for the sake of ruthlessness, nor does he indulge his comments in an unrestrained way, which hurts the rigorous reasoning of his articles. He is really a first-class writer of Han Yu and Ceng Gong. Xu Wenchang's interest is elegant, and he doesn't keep pace with the times. He angrily attacked the so-called literary leaders at that time, so his words were not valued, and his fame was limited to his hometown of Zhejiang, which was really sad!

Wen Chang likes calligraphy, and his pen is bold and unrestrained like his poems. In the vigorous and heroic way, he has another charming gesture. Ouyang Gong's statement that beauty is dying has another charm, which can be used to describe Wen Chang's calligraphy. Yu Xu, a long writer who cultivated himself with poetry, prose and calligraphy, painted flowers and birds, and all of them were detached and affectionate.

Later, Wen Chang was sentenced to death in prison because of suspicion of manslaughter of his stepwife. Zhang Yuan Bian Taishi tried his best to rescue him before he was released from prison. In his later years, Xu Wenchang became more and more resentful of the world, so he deliberately made a more wild appearance. When dignitaries visited his house, he often refused to see him. He often takes money to the hotel and asks the servants to drink with him. He once hit his head with an axe, his face was covered with blood, his skull was broken, he rubbed it with his hand, and the broken bones clicked. He also used a sharp awl to pierce his ears more than an inch deep, but he didn't die. Zhou Wang claimed that Wen Chang's poems became more and more strange in his later years, and there was no engraved version, and all the poems were hidden at home. I was an official in Zhejiang, and in the same year, I entrusted them to copy long poems, but I haven't got them yet. What I have seen is only Xu Wenchang Ji and Xu Wenchang Ji Que Bian. Now, Xu Wenchang's competition is out of date, so he can't show his ambition, and he died with resentment against the world.

Mr. Shi Gong said: Mr. Xu Wenchang's life was so difficult and bumpy that he became mad, and his mad illness kept breaking out, which led him to be put into prison. There is no one who can surpass Mr. Xu Wenchang in the grievances and sufferings of literati from ancient times to the present. But despite this, there are still heroes like Hu Gong, and wise emperors like Sejong appreciate him. Xu Wenchang received special courtesy in the curtain of Hu Gong, which was that Hu Gong realized his value. His performance won the favor of the emperor, indicating that the emperor also realized his value. The only thing missing was that he failed to become a dignitary. The rise of Mr. Wen Chang's poems can sweep away the complex and humble habits of modern literary circles, and history will have a fair conclusion in the future. How can we say that he was born at an inopportune time and has never been recognized by society?

Macpherson once wrote to me: Xu Wenchang is an old friend of mine, and his strange diseases are more strange than his weirdo, and as a strange man, he is even more strange than his strange poems. In my opinion, there is no place in Xu Wenchang that is not weird and strange. Because there is no place that is not weird and strange, it is doomed that there is no place in his life that is not difficult and bumpy. How sad!