Bitter to the extreme, let alone bitter, he was one of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty and finally became mentally ill.
Xu Wei (March 12, 1521 - 1593), the character Wenqing, later changed to the word Wenchang, the number of Qingteng Old Man, Qingteng Taoist, Tianchi Sheng, Tianchi Shanren, Tianchi Yuyin, Jin Lei, Jin Huishanren, Shanyin Buyi, Baiyu Shanren, Goose Nose Shannong, Tian Danshui, Tian Shuiyue (a paddy field month). He was a writer, calligrapher, painter, opera, and military strategist in the middle of the Ming Dynasty.
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His father died within a few days of his birth, and when he was ten years old, his biological mother was sold, and he could only rely on his eldest half-brother Xu Huai. However, Xu Huai was not good to him, and he said in the "Zhang Gongshu, the Deputy Envoy of Shangtixue", when he described his situation: "The flesh and bones are fried, and the beans are burning." Day and night, only the body and the shadow. Even such a brother died by mistake when he was twenty-five years old because he was obsessed with alchemy.
He has been brilliant since he was a child, known as a "prodigy", he can read by himself at the age of six, and he can write essays at the age of nine.
In the nineteenth year of Jiajing (1540), at the age of twenty, he was admitted to Xiucai. Since then, Xu Wei has participated in the Shaoxing Fuxiang Examination twice, until he was forty-one years old, he has experienced eight exams, and he has never been able to win.
In the twentieth year of Jiajing (1541), the twenty-one-year-old Xu Wei joined the wealthy Pan family in Shaoxing and became a son-in-law.
In the twenty-fifth year of Jiajing (1546), his property was forcibly seized by the ruffians and hooligans, and suddenly there was nothing left around him.
In the twenty-sixth year of Jiajing (1547), his life suddenly changed, causing his wife to become depressed and die of illness.
In the thirty-third year of Jiajing (1554), because he had often read the art of war, he had accumulated a certain foundation for war, he participated in the anti-Japanese campaign along the coast of Zhejiang and Fujian, and gave advice, which was appreciated by Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang.
In the winter of the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing (1558), Hu Zongxian, who became the governor of Zhejiang, was a staff member and often gave advice to Hu Zongxian.
In the forty-first year of Jiajing (1562), his patron Hu Zongxian was impeached, and Xu Wei had no choice but to leave him and find another way.
In the forty-second year of Jiajing (1563), he took refuge in the mansion of Li Chunfang, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, and after a long period of contact, the two often disagreed, and in order to avoid conflict, Xu Wei had to resign and go back.
In the forty-fourth year of Jiajing (1565), Hu Zongxian was impeached and arrested again, and died of illness in prison, Xu Wei knew that he was extremely sad, filled with grief and indignation, thinking of the ups and downs of his career, and the mental torture reached its peak, he pulled out the iron nail on the pilaster and hit it into his ear, and the blood did not stop. Later, he hit the kidney sac with a vertebrae, but he did not die. Such repeated episodes that there were as many as nine repeated suicides. Just committed suicide or not, he wrote an angry "Self-Epitaph" in prison.
In the forty-fifth year of Jiajing (1566), Xu Wei, who was already mentally abnormal, suspected that his wife was involved with others, and killed her in a fit of rage, and was immediately arrested by the government and imprisoned for seven years. He was also not idle in prison, and completed the annotation of "Zhou Yi Shen Tong Deed" in prison.
In the first year of Wanli (1573), Xu Wei was released from prison with the help of his friends Zhu Dashou and Zhang Yuanchen, and Xu Wei was over fifty years old at this time. After he was released from prison, he began to travel in the mountains and rivers, often getting together with friends, but his own personality quirks, he did not play for a long time, often wrote poems and paintings, lived in poverty, and often made a living by selling paintings.
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In the twenty-first year of Wanli (1593), Xu Wei died at the age of seventy-three at his daughter-in-law's house.
We can see Xu Wei's life, what kind of will supported him to finish, tragic childhood, repeatedly failed the test, failed the exam eight times, what a back, there is no way to serve the country, the death of his wife, and the death of his benefactor have directly or indirectly led to his psychotic attack. What kind of determination made him drive the nail into his ear, it was terrifying to think about it, and this kind of thing happened nine times, because he killed his wife because of mental illness and spent seven years in prison. Even when he died, he didn't even have a straw mat by his side, only a vicious dog.
Throughout Xu Wei's life, although it was full of suffering, it did not wipe out his will to create, and his attainments in poetry, calligraphy and painting reached the point of perfection, and he also became one of the three great talents of the Ming Dynasty.
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