Modern people are not only plastic surgery, but also fascinated by the practice of words, because the communication field has two unspoken rules for strangers, one is "to take people by appearance", the other is "to take people by words", it is true that Confucius said "to take people by appearance, lost sons and feathers", but the mistakes made by saints are more difficult to avoid, and although "taking people by words" is not a clever judgment method, but from ancient times to the present, the admiration of calligraphy makes it more confusing than appearance, so when a person has both of these points, the people around them are miserable.
At the same time, the person who has these two points is Zheng Xiaoxu, he is a contradictory and complex figure, his academic foundation comes from the family education of his youth, in 1860 Zheng Xiaoxu was born in Suzhou in the late Qing Dynasty, as a result, Suzhou was controlled by the Taiping Army, the family had to move to his hometown, he was enlightened under the knee of his uncle Zheng Shigong as a celebrity, from the age of 7 to 17, from the "Three Character Classic" to "Erya", Zheng Xiaoxu was contaminated with infinite literati atmosphere.
And because Zheng Shigong and Shen Baozhen had a friendship, Shen Baozhen therefore also knew Zheng Xiaoxu, Shen Baozhen as a heavy minister of the late Qing Dynasty at that time, Zheng Xiaoxu was already the governor of Jiangxi when he was born, and later promoted to the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, succeeding Zuo Zongtang as the minister of shipping administration in Fujian, which is an important presence to promote the modernization of Taiwan, Zheng Xiaoxu became his staff after being appreciated by him, the two talked about literature from time to time, and he was fortunate to know Lin Shoutu, which can be described as "talking and laughing with Hongru, and there is no white Ding in exchanges."
A marriage made his shell even more shining, in 1879 Zheng Xiaoxu married Wu Zancheng's second daughter Wu Shi, Wu Zancheng was also a minister at that time, closely related to Shen Baozhen, and his eldest daughter married li Hongzhang's younger brother Li Yunzhang's son, he himself also had contacts with Li Hongzhang's eldest brother, so Zheng Xiaoxu's marriage to Wu meant that Zheng and Li had a relationship, which meant that he was innocent and of high character.
Under the paving of good family education, steady interpersonal relations, and high-standard in-laws to support these three points, Zheng Xiaoxu has not yet participated in the Fujian Provincial Township Examination, there is fame, the most important point that makes him famous, of course, is calligraphy, Chinese calligraphy developed to the Qing Dynasty appeared ZTE, the early popular theology, the later popular epigraphy, but no matter which one is standing on the shoulders of the first 23 dynasties, Huacai is long, so it seems that Zheng Xiaoxu will get a lot of fonts.
At the beginning, he imitated Ouyang Xiu and Su Shi, as well as Yan Zhenqing, and later Wei Bei was also his source of inspiration, and Ouyang Xiu's calligraphy was infinitely creamy, Yan Zhenqing's Yan body was dignified, Su Shi's calligraphy was flowing in the clouds, Wei Bei was sometimes simple and dangerous and sometimes comfortable and smooth, making Zheng Xiaoxu's calligraphy clean and loose, and now Sha Menghai, vice chairman of the Calligraphy Association, even said that his achievements were above Zhao Zhiqian, Tao Junxuan, and Li Ruiqing.
Gradually, in the late Qing Dynasty calligraphy no one can be right, so Zheng Xiaoxu a year just selling words, can earn 20,000 gold, known as "a word of a thousand gold", in 1908 Li Jingchu, that is, Li Hongzhang's brother's son, is also the founder of China Merchants Bank found him, but also as soon as he opened his mouth, he directly said "4 characters 4000 two gold" degree, even if the two have no friendship, Zheng Xiaoxu will not go through with money, so the 4 words of "Bank of Communications" are still standing in the streets and alleys, very common.
At that time, Li Hongzhang praised him as "a man and a clean man, and his writing has gone into ancient times", which is not a huge affirmation of his "appearance" and "character"? However, Li Hongzhang's life in the modern chemical industry and the Sino-Japanese War is also a mixed reputation, Zheng Xiaoxu himself can not escape the "late festival is not guaranteed", or 1911 AD, that year everything is big but the Xinhai Revolution broke out, the Qing Dynasty died, according to the previous saying, Zheng Xiaoxu They all want to be the remnants of the Great Qing Dynasty.
The word "remnant" itself does not have a positive and pejorative meaning, but if you think of the courtiers on the city wall, who have invaded by foreign tribes and swore to die, you will feel that the remnants suddenly became dignified, and Zheng Xiaoxu thought the same thing, as "remnants", they wore pigtails, insisted on using the xuantong era number in the poetry letters, became stubborn, and regarded this unprecedented reform of the general trend as "a group of thieves like Mao Guoruo".
Later he also became a traitor, after all, Puyi has become the biggest traitor, Zheng Xiaoxu as a "widowed old man", was recruited by Puyi to Beijing as the prime minister of the Interior Ministry, when Puyi went to Japan, he also followed the planning of the restoration, in 1931, the September 18 Incident, the pseudo-Manchukuo national anthem and the founding declaration were drafted by him, more importantly, after 1936 he was still doing things for the Japanese, resulting in friends who had cut off their robes and broken their righteousness, like strangers, and parted ways.
"The old man of Sanyuan and Haizang have been famous for more than forty years, and the late festival is like the difference between smoked weed" Liu Yazi made a coffin for it, at that time it was 1938 Zheng Xiaoxu did not know whether he was violently killed or poisoned, died in Changchun, the old man of Sanyuan refused to take medicine and eat before the July 7 Incident, and finally passed away in anger, so Liu Yazi said that Zheng Xiaoxu and the old man of Sanyuan were "stinky grass (莸)" and "grass (smoked)" The difference, it can be seen that appearance is really not important, and it is also very ridiculous to look at people with calligraphy, and it is not even better than taking people by appearance, and it is still necessary to know that human nature is still in " Road remote horsepower".