Xu Wei (12 March 1521 – 1593) was an Ethnic Han Chinese from Shanyin, Shaoxing Province (present-day Shaoxing, Zhejiang). Xu Wei gave himself many names and numbers, and the currently known ones are Qingteng Old Man, Qingteng Daoist, Tianchi Sheng, Tianchi Shanren, Tianchi Yuyin, Jin Lei, Jin Huishanren, Shanyin Buyi, Bailu Shanren, Goose-nosed Shannon, Tian Danshui, and Tian Shuiyue.
Xu Wei is versatile and unique in poetry, drama, calligraphy and painting, and is called "the three talents of the Ming Dynasty" together with Xie Jin and Yang Shen. His paintings can absorb the essence of his predecessors and be reborn, not seeking to be like a god, landscapes, figures, flowers and birds, bamboo and stone all work.
The Ming Dynasty painter Xu Wei was good at painting crabs, and in his work "HuangJia Tu", the painter wrote the crawling shape of crabs and the autumn atmosphere of lotus leaves with unrestrained and concise brush and ink. The shape of the crab, although it is a few strokes, is thick, light, dry, hook, dot, wipe many brushwork references, with texture, shape, demeanor of the calendar is sufficient. The lotus leaves covered on it are wide with a pen, formed in one breath, and are leaned forward, and there is an endless autumn mood in addition to the dot painting.
The inscription poem on the "Yellow Jia Tu" is highly marked: "Wu Ran has a material spirit and arrogance, do not ask whether there are pearls in the past few years." Raising an orphan standard person does not know, and when he comes to Huangjia alone, he passes on the pride", that pride, that proud bone, is the abbreviation of his turbulent life.
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