Lun Xuwen was a Cantonese in the Ming Dynasty. He met Liu Xiankai when he went to Beijing for an exam. Liu Kai claimed that he would win the first prize and humiliated Lun Xuwen, a vegetable seller, many times. At that time, it coincided with the Mid-Autumn Festival night, and the emperor asked them to write poems with the theme of "the moon". Liu Xiankai finished writing first: "Read all the poems about Kyushu in the world and recite all the poems about the five lakes in the sea. Dangui is uprooted in the middle of the month, and it is not allowed to break half a branch. " He said that he must take the lead in winning the first prize in this court exam.
Lun Xuwen went on to write: "I threw myself into the rooftop and caught a glimpse of Chang 'e planting laurel. "Occasionally, when the Guanghan Palace is not closed, I bring the moon back." His poems are more verve, imaginative and artistic than Liu Shi's. The emperor called them good many times, named him the top scholar and Liu Xiankai the second. But then they let bygones be bygones and thanked each other and became sworn brothers.
Anecdotal allusions in On Xu Wen
Lianxi Temple: When Lun was a teenager, he was forced to drop out of school before he was ten years old and went home to help his parents grow vegetables and sell them. He works during the day and studies hard at night. One day, Aaron picked some vegetables and went to Xichan Temple to sell them. Knowing that Lun can recite poems, two monks in the temple deliberately said, "We want food, but on one condition, Mianxian Temple in our temple still lacks a couplet, which should be exactly 100. If you pay a high price, you will not do this business. "
Lun Xuwen asked the monk to take a pen and paper, meditated for a moment, and wrote a couplet: seventy-two sages in Xingtan, sages and saints; 28 Yuntai generals will be appointed. The 72+28 in the couplet is exactly equal to 100, with consistent figures and appropriate content. The two monks praised it again and again, so they paid a high price for Lun Xuwen's food.