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Who is Wu?
Wu (1701-1754), whose real name is Wenmu, is one of the greatest novelists in Qing Dynasty. Han nationality, from Quanjiao County, Chuzhou City, Anhui Province. Because there is a "Wenmu Mountain Residence" at home, he called himself "Wenmu Old Man" in his later years, and because he moved from his hometown in Quanjiao County, Chuzhou, Anhui Province to Qinhuai River in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, he was also called "Qinhuai Guest" (the existing preface to Lanting Collection of Wu bears the seal of "Quanjiao Wuliang"). Young, smart and good at remembering. A little longer, make up the formal disciple. Jing You's Selected Works, Cheng. I am not good at treating students, and my nature is heroic. In a few years, I have squandered all my old products, and sometimes I can't even eat.

In the 13th year of Yongzheng (1735), Governor Zhao issued an invitation to be "well-read" and refused to go (he took the local examinations of the Academy, Fuyuan and Level 3, but did not postpone the examination due to illness). Moved to Jinling and became a literary leader. He also gathered his comrades to build the Pantheon at the foot of Yuhua Mountain and worshipped 230 people below Taibo. If the capital is insufficient, the house you live in will be sold, and the poor will benefit at home. In his later years, he became an old man named Wenmu, who was a guest in Yangzhou, especially in drinking. Later he died among the guests. He is the author of 12 volumes of Wen Mufang Shan's Poems (now four volumes), 7 volumes of Wen Mufang Shan's Poems (now forty-three volumes) and the satirical novel The Scholars. The Wu family has been a local clan for generations, "the sound of the family is never beautiful", and the great-grandfather Wu Guodui was a flower explorer in Shunzhi period. Grandfather Wu Dan is a Guo Jian diploma, and his uncle and grandfathers Wu Sheng and Wu Min are scholars. "Once, there was a big official in his family, a big official." . Wu lost his mother at the age of thirteen and went to Ganyu with his father at the age of fourteen. When he was young, he had a literary title. He "reads after reading, but he can recite." He studies hard and has a smart mind. He soon laid a good foundation for his knowledge. The so-called "study hard, have a foundation" and "read only after reading, and recite only after learning" (Cheng Jinfang's "Mianxingtang Anthology" contains "Biography of Mr. Wenmu"), which performed well. But he never dies studying, but he also browses the local mountains and seas from time to time and attends some local celebrities' parties with his father. Plus, after all, he was born in an official family, and he was infected with the habit of "indulgence", thus developing a dissolute and open-minded attitude, broad-minded and vulgar, which made people feel that he was a talent.