After growing up, Wang Xizhi's handwriting is quite good, but he still insists on practicing every day. One day, he was so absorbed in practicing calligraphy in his study that he forgot to eat. The maid brought his favorite garlic paste and steamed bread and urged him to eat it. As if I didn't hear you, I still buried myself in writing.
The servant girl had no choice but to tell Wang Xizhi's wife. When the wife and the servant girl came to the study, they saw that Wang Xizhi sent a steamed bread covered with ink to his mouth, which made his mouth black. They couldn't help laughing. It turned out that Wang Xizhi read when he was eating and mistakenly dipped the ink into garlic paste.
The lady said to Wang Xizhi with distress, "You should take care! The handwriting is already very good, and it is not worth hurting your body for hard training. "
Wang Xizhi looked up and replied, "My handwriting is good, but it is based on the previous writing method. I want to have my own writing style and be my own family. I won't succeed without hard work. "
After hard exploration, Wang Xizhi wrote beautiful and fluent new fonts. Everyone praised his handwriting as easy as a colorful cloud and as powerful as a flying dragon. Wang Xizhi is regarded as one of the most outstanding calligraphers in the history of China.
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Wang Xizhi (303-36 1, 32 1-379), a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was called the "Book Sage". Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong Province) was born, then moved to Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) Yin Shan, and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years. Successive secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat, later literature and history records, right general.
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Li Zhimin commented: "Wang Xizhi's calligraphy not only shows simplicity and abstinence based on the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, but also shows harmony based on the Confucian doctrine of the mean." The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi were called "two kings".
There are two former residences of Wang Xizhi. Located at No.20, Xiyanhu Street, lanshan district, Linyi City, it is a classical garden-style building, covering an area of about 5 mu. According to legend, Wang Xizhi went to the pool to wash inkstones after practicing calligraphy hard in his childhood. After a long time, the water in the pool became dark, so people called it "Xiyan Lake".
The newly renovated Xiyan Lake, book-drying platform, goose pond, pavilion and other relics can provide a glimpse of the royal residence at that time. The newly-built Golden Mo Zhai, the Calligraphy Exhibition Room and the 100m Calligraphy Monument Gallery will let you enjoy the different styles of calligraphy, inscriptions and calligraphy works of contemporary North and South people.
The other is located in Jinting Town, 35 kilometers east of Shengzhou City, Shaoxing City, Zhejiang Province. It used to be the hometown of Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (Wang Xizhi lived here in seclusion in his later years). The 13th Sun gave up his house to practice here. It was called Jinzheng Pavilion and later renamed Jinzheng Palace. In the seventeenth year of Song Yongchu (440), Chu changed to Yanjin.
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