Wu Weiye (1609-1672), zijun gong, meicun, lived in Kunshan, Jiangsu, and his grandfather moved to Taicang, Jiangsu. Chongzhen entered the priesthood for four years and was appointed to the Hanlin Academy. Tongjing History, Good Poetry, Gong Calligraphy, Fine Painting, later called it Wumei Village. His calligraphy is peaceful and smooth, and it is a typical literati character, and posterity commented that his calligraphy is "quiet and elegant, very charming".
Wu Meicun was born in Shuxiang Mendi, was intelligent since childhood, and was raised as a prodigy. He was very successful in his career, at the age of fourteen he became famous for his poetry, was appreciated by the famous scholar Zhang Pu and accepted as a disciple, chongzhen four years (1631), twenty-two years old Wu Weiye with the first will test, the second high school of the temple test, the hanlin academy editing. Hongguang (1644-1645) was also an official in the dynasty, but after the fall of the Hongguang dynasty, he never came out of the house, repeatedly refused the recommendation of the governor of Liangjiang, and later came out under the recommendation of his friend Sun Chengze and others, and begged for the death of his mother in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi on the grounds of the funeral of his mother. He has undergone dynastic transmutations and is both a witness to history and a witness to history.
Wu Meicun was a polymath and a great poet in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and together with Qian Qianyi and Gong Dingzi, he was called "Jiang Zuo Sanjia", and was also the founder of the Loudong poetry school. Poetry reveres Tang poetry as a sect, its poetry is eclectic, all bodies are work, long in seven words and songs, the first to learn "Changqing body", and then become a new yin, posterity called "plum village body". The Kangxi Emperor's pro-production imperial poem "Title "Wu Weiye Collection" commented on his talent: "Meicun is full of wind and currents, and the repeated search has not stopped." Autumn water spirit fragrant snow sentence, Xikun yu si Du Ling sad. Cut into Shu brocade should be ashamed, finer than spring silkworms better and more smoky. The cold night is short and opposite, and a few poems are harvested for the king. "
Wu Meicun is a poet. "Yuanyuan Qu" is a representative work of "Meicun Body" and also a long song line of Wu Meicun's popular population, and one of his "YuanyuanQu" takes the life experience of Chen Yuanyuan, one of Qin Huai's eight Yans and a famous prostitute, as the introduction, through the tragic and joyful clutches of Wu Sangui and Chen Yuanyuan as a clue, and in a very euphemistic tone, he ridicules Wu as his own selfish feelings and betrays the Ming Dynasty, opens the gate of Shanhaiguan, and becomes a sinner throughout the ages. It reflects the major social reality of the ming and qing dynasties and the rise and fall of the country, and has certain practical significance. The whole poem adopts a two-line cross-cutting, vertical and horizontal parallel narrative method, using retracement, interpolation, interpolation and other structural techniques to condense the major historical picture of the fall of the Ming Dynasty and the rise of the Qing court into the pen. The poet's finishing remarks are interspersed in the narrative, and the critical power is accumulated in the gorgeous rhetoric of the wrong gold and color, "Weeping and weeping the six armies are all simple, rushing the crown and anger into a red face", the vigilance is timeless, and it has become a famous sentence that has been praised throughout the ages.
Wu Meicun has written many works, including "Yuanyuan Qu", "Pipa Line", "Yuanhu Qu", "Meicun Family Collection Manuscript", "Listening to female Taoist Bian Yujing playing piano songs" and so on.
What is even more surprising is that in recent years, some scholars have thrown out a surprising point of view: the real (original) author of "Dream of the Red Chamber" is called Wu Meicun, and Cao Xueqin is only an important addition, deletion, and editor of the first 80 times of "Dream of the Red Chamber". It is Fu Bo, president and researcher of the Fushun Academy of Social Sciences, who threw out this view, and Zhong Changshan, executive director of the Fushun Local History Research Association, who studied one of the results of six years.
So why is the tome "Dream of the Red Chamber" Wu Meicun? See Fu Bo and Zhong Changshan explain: It may be that posterity is worried that the author will fall into a cruel text prison because of writing "Dream of the Red Chamber", so they have adopted such a hidden way to conceal the author's name. This practice was quite common at that time, and many of the characters and scenes in "Dream of the Red Chamber" could be found in Wu Meicun's poems, such as "Qingliangshan Praise Buddha Poem" depicting the love legend of the Shunzhi Emperor and Dong Xiaowan, which was extremely similar to the love between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu in "Dream of the Red Chamber". At the same time, Wu Meicun's political views coincide with the theme of "Dream of the Red Chamber", which Fu Bo particularly emphasizes. Wu Meicun experienced the political struggle between the Ming and Qing dynasties, and developed resentment towards the Qing, because of some avoidance, he could only use the stubborn stone that "cannot make up the heavens" as a metaphor, and Wu Meicun "died in a monk's costume" and "erected a round stone in front of the grave" as a tombstone, which also implied the meaning of the stone in "Dream of the Red Chamber". Compared with Cao Xueqin's life dilemma, Wu Meicun, who once lived in seclusion for ten years, has the time to write such a huge work.
"Portrait of Wu Weiye": Qing, Gu Jianlong, silk color, shaft, length 149.7 cm, width 89.8 cm, Nanjing Museum collection.
Portrait of Wu Weiye
I. Wu Weiye's "Landscape Map of Tuoba Shu": screen, paper, book, 26.5 cm in length, 18 cm in width, collection of Nanjing Museum.
1. Wu Weiye's "Tuoba Shu Shan Shui Tu":
Wu Weiye's "Landscape Map of Tuoba Shuo"
2. Enlarged figure of Wu Weiye's "Tuoba Shu Shan Shui Tu":
Enlarged view of Wu Weiye's "Tuoba Shu Shan Shui Tu"
2. Wu Weiye's "Four Observations of Horuzai in the Same Year of Jiahu Visit", Part III: Shaft, Ayamoto, 180.2 cm in length and 55.4 cm in width, collected by Nanjing Museum.
1. Wu Weiye's "Jiahu Visit to the Same Year Huoluzhai Observation Four Songs" No. 3:
Wu Weiye", "Jiahu Visited the Same Year Huoluzhai Observation Four Songs" No. 3
2. Wu Weiye's "Jiahu Visit in the Same Year Of The Four Observations of Huoluzhai in the Same Year" No. 3 enlarged picture:
Wu Weiye's "Jiahu Visit in the Same Year Of The Four Observations of Horuzhai in the Same Year" Is enlarged