What is so good about Xu Wei s calligraphy works?

Xu Wei's works include "Xu Wenchang Collection", "Xu Wenchang Three Collections", "Lu Shi Interpretation", "Xu Wenchang Yi Manuscript", "Nanci Narrative" and miscellaneous plays

Xu Wei's famous works include the scroll of "Ink Grape Picture", the volume of "Landscape Figures, Flowers and Birds" (all in the Palace Museum), the scroll of "Peony Banana Stone Map", and the nine-paragraph volume of "Ink Flower" (now in the Palace Museum), "Qingteng Book House" and "Riding a Donkey".

An introduction to Xu Wei's work is as follows:

When Xu Wei was a teenager, he was not loved by his biological parents, and he had a low status in family life, and he felt like he was under the fence. However, he was extremely intelligent, quick in writing, reading at the age of six, able to compose at the age of nine, and imitating the comic "Interpretation of Mockery" when he was more than ten years old, and was well-known far and wide. The local gentlemen called him a prodigy, comparing him to Yang Xiu of the Eastern Han Dynasty and Liu Yan of the Tang Dynasty.

In the heat and coldness of the world, Xu Wei formed a character that was both arrogant and self-appreciative, and depressed.

Xu Wei as an adult"The appearance of Xiuwei is fat and white, and his voice is as loud as a crane", often whistling in the middle of the night, venting indignation. The poems and essays are unbridled, arrogant and indulgent, and have a sense of uninhibition beyond the ages. In the twentieth year of Jiajing (1541), the twenty-one-year-old Xu Wei joined the wealthy Pan family in Shaoxing, and accompanied his father-in-law Pan Kejing to the Huanyang River (now Guangdong) to assist in handling official documents, and began to understand the situation of officialdom.

Soon, he returned to Shanyin to participate in the hail socks trace township test, going back and forth between Zhejiang and Guangdong.

On the way to and from Zhejiang and Guangdong, Xu Wei also took Xingyuan and climbed the Nanchang Tengwang Pavilion and visited the Meiling Guanyin Cave. He recited poems and lyrics along the way, revealing a rare optimism in his life. He also formed a literary society with the Shanyin scribes Shen Lian, Xiao Mian, Chen He, Liu Wen, etc., and was called by the people of the time"Ten sons of Yuezhong"。

In the activities of making literary friends, Xu Wei turned to learn from others' strengths, and his literary and artistic cultivation was rapidly improved. Shen Lian once praised him and said:"Shut the city gate, there is only this one (Xu Wei). "

Xu Wei's hand-me-down works include "Xu Wenchang's Collection", "Xu Wenchang's Three Episodes", "Lu Shi Interpretation", "Xu Wenchang's Manuscript", "Nanci Narrative" and miscellaneous drama "Four Apes", etc., and the miscellaneous drama "Song Dai Xiao", ** "Yunhe Qizong" (that is, "The Biography of Heroes"), etc., are also rumored to be written by Xu Wei. Today's collection includes "Xu Wei Collection".

Xu Wei's famous works include the scroll of "Ink Grape Picture", the volume of "Landscape Figures, Flowers and Birds" (all in the Palace Museum), the scroll of "Peony and Qintuan Danjiao Stone Picture", as well as the nine-paragraph volume of "Ink Flower" (now in the Palace Museum), "Qingteng Book House" and "Riding a Donkey".

Xu Wei loved to collect books in his life, and there were nearly 10,000 volumes of books to buy, and there was "Qingteng Shouwu Book House" in the book building, which was called "Pomegranate Book House", and the inscription plaque of the painter Chen Hongshou still exists. His collection of books and paintings includes "Wenchang's Clan", "Shiouguan", "Xinmao Seventy-one", "Huayinzi Yunju", "Longmu Dagong", "Tianchi Mountain People", "Qingteng Old Man", "Qintian Shuiyue" and so on.

Xu Wei (March 12, 1521, 1593), Han nationality, was a native of Shanyin County, Shaoxing Prefecture, Zhejiang Province (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang). The first word Wenqing, later changed to the word Wenchang, the number Qingteng old man, Qingteng Taoist, Tianchi Sheng, Tianchi Shanren, Tianchi Yuyin, Jin Lei, Jin Huishan people, Shanyin cloth clothes, Baiyu Shanren, Goose Nose Mountain Nong, Tian Danshui, Tian Shuiyue (a paddy field month [1]) in the middle of the Ming Dynasty writers, calligraphers and painters, opera artists, military strategists.