Xu Wei, a great talent in the Ming Dynasty, why can t he even pass the exam?

Xu Wei (1521-1593) was born in Shaoxing, ZhejiangHe was a man of many talents and was known as a famous genius of the Ming Dynasty.

Xu Wei, the first character Wenqing, was already a genius when he was young, he entered Xu's private school when he was a child, and it is said that when he read "University" at the age of six, he was already able to recite more than 1,000 words a day. He is smart and studious, clever and intelligent, and is very liked by teachersBut only in the imperial examination, the road has been repeatedly unsmooth, has been repeatedly Waterloo.

During the 19th year of Jiajing, Xu Wei, who was 20 years old at the time, was admitted to Xiucai, and since then, Xu Wei has participated in the township examination held in Shaoxing Prefecture twice in a row, until he was in his 40s, Xu Wei himself has experienced this kind of examination many times, it is said that as many as eight times, but he has never been able to pass the examination. In addition, when Xu Wei was twenty-five years old, he was occupied by the squire bully all his family's real estate and farmland, so his property was lost, and at the age of twenty-six, his wife Pan fell seriously ill and died.

The tragic destruction of his family and the loss of fame made Xu Wei feel that his future was bleak and he was at a loss. In order to make a living, he left his hometown and came to Taicang, when he first came to life, he was not familiar with the place, and he did not know the essentials of making a living, but Xu Wei himself because of his versatility, especially in poetry, calligraphy and painting and other aspects have unique attainments, so he began to sell paintings for a living, but never for the official painting, was rated as "talented Tianzhong" by later generations.

Xu Wei, a great talent in the Ming Dynasty, had a fateful life and was really born at the wrong timeIt's a pity that he has a good talent, but his achievements in poetry, opera, and painting are admired by later generations.

This is a drawback of the imperial examination system, candidates must answer questions according to certain rules and regulations, and no matter how talented they are, they will not be able to pass the examination if the content is not standardized. For example, now, some people can drive and have good skills, but they may not be able to get a driver's license.

Xu Wei, a talented man, has a long hand, not because he can't pass the exam, but because the society at that time didn't allow it.

Because the Ming Dynasty implemented the Four Books and Five Classics, it was impossible to have its own opinions, and it had nothing to do with whether or not they had the talent to learn.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was all about the eight-strand text, and the rules and regulations were fixed, and it was not allowed to have personal opinions, and it was not easy for people who were really talented to be admitted.

Xu Wei is a tragic person, but also a genius, his life can be called a legend, 8 times in the township test, 9 suicides, 7 years in prison, and among the "three great talents of the Ming Dynasty", look at this resume, it is really a fierce life that does not need to be explained!

The imperial examination system itself is relatively old-fashioned and decent, and the answers that are generally self-exerted are incorrect.

Xu Wei, a talented man with extreme intelligence, took the exam more than ten times, but all of them failed to climb the list because he did not abide by the rules and regulations of the examination papers and failed to climb the laurels.

At that time, although there was a imperial examination system, the content of the examination and the rules and regulations were very different, and they were different from those she would.

Xu Wei has many character flaws due to his life experience.

He is a very talented person, very good in all fields, and he is also very upright.

He is a very talented person, but he has never been admitted to the Jinshi, but he is very famous, and his attainments in calligraphy and painting are also very deep.

is a very kind person and has a very correct outlook, has good qualities and morals, and treats others very kindly.

8 times. This is not unexpected, what is unexpected is that this has become the pinnacle of Xu Wei's exam career, and in the next 20 years, Xu Wei has taken the exam 8 times in a row, and all of them have failed.

Xu Wei was praised by later generations as one of the "Three Great Talents of the Ming Dynasty (Yang Shen, Xie Jin, Xu Wei)", and was known for his erudition and talent. Although the careers of Yang and Xie are also quite bumpy, compared with Xu Wei's unlucky life, Yang and Xie are less than one-tenth of Xu Wei's.

Xu Wei (1521-1593), long characters. Since he was born, fate has not favored him, his father Xu Hao had an affair with the servant girl of Mrs. Miao, and the maid was accepted as a concubine by Xu Hua after she became pregnant.

Three months after Xu Wei was born, his father died, and he was raised by Mrs. Miao. However, the good times did not last long, when he was ten years old, because there was no pillar of imitation cherry ants in the family, the family road completely declined, his biological mother was dismissed, and Mrs. Miao died four years later, and Xu Wei could only rely on his brother who was more than 20 years older to live.

Xu Wei is one of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty, but surprisingly Xu Wei's highest "education" is really just a show, Xu Wei can be ranked among the three major talents of the Ming Dynasty as a showman, which shows that he must have something outstanding. In fact, Xu Wei can be called an all-round talent, he is not only quite accomplished in literature, but also proficient in calligraphy, painting and opera, and what is even more rare is that Xu Wei is also a military strategist. With Xu Wei's great talent, why didn't he even get in?

Xu Wei's failure to pass the exam may be due to his personality, but the first thing to make clear is that Xu Wei did not go to the township exam, but participated in several times and failed to be admitted. It is reported that after Xu Wei was 20 years old and was admitted to Xiucai, he participated in no less than eight lifting exams, of which only one entered the township examination and re-examination, but he still failed to pass the examination.

Xu Wei was rarely famous, and he was able to write articles when he was a teenager, and the villagers praised Xu Wei's talent and praised him as a prodigy. Combined with Xu Wei's talents in literature, calligraphy and painting in the later period, it is certain that Xu Wei's talent is no problem.

Since Xu Wei's talent is fine, the reason why he can't pass the exam can only be analyzed from other aspects.

It has been true since ancient times that a person's talent is not absolutely correlated with his ability to take exams. Su Xun of the Song Dynasty and Pu Songling of the Qing Dynasty were both outstanding writers, and their talents were no worse than many Juren Jinshi, but neither of them was admitted to Juren. Nowadays, there are many cases where the learning ability is strong but the examination ability is average, so a talented person may not be able to get good results, which is a possible reason why Xu Wei failed to be admitted to the exam.

Xu Wei is a person who has participated in many township examinations, and it stands to reason that he is very familiar with the style of the imperial examination at that time, so it is unlikely that Xu Wei did not pass the examination because of a problem in a certain part of the examination. Excluding some factors, I think Xu Wei is likely to fail to be admitted because of personality problems.

In the Ming Dynasty, the imperial examination was bagues, and this style of writing had many restrictions on the content of the examination, and there were also very strict requirements for the candidates' essays. However, Xu Wei is a talented and unruly person, and he must not like this style of examination in his heart, so the answer sheet written by Xu Wei is likely to not meet the appetite of the marking officer, and Xu Wei failed to pass the exam.

It may be that the character is not suitable for pandering to officialdom.

Because he is a paranoid person, he doesn't want to work in the box, his personality is not suitable for that environment, and his bad personality is all factors.

Because although he has high literary attainments, he is not good at writing articles, so he did not pass the imperial examination, which is mainly based on Bagu Wen.

Because the exam has nothing to do with whether there is a talent or not. The imperial examination of the Ming and Qing dynasties was mainly to test the eight-strand essay, regardless of whether there was talent or not, as long as the article was made according to the format.