Legend has it that when Lü Buwei was serving as a minister in the Qin Kingdom, he once organized people to write a book "Lü's Spring and Autumn", Lü Buwei was very talented, although "Lü's Spring and Autumn" was astronomy and geography, and everything was covered, he was still afraid of its flaws. So he offered a reward at the city gate, and whoever could change the words on the "Lü's Spring and Autumn" to one thousand and two gold, which is the so-called "one word and a thousand gold".
Such a thousand words are due to the value of the meaning of the text itself, but because ancient China had a very long-standing calligraphy culture, there are often many calligraphy in later generations because the handwriting on it is too good, and a painting is auctioned
Millions of yuan, such as Huang Tingjian's "Pillar Inscription", has been auctioned to a sky-high price of 437 million, and Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is often auctioned for a sky-high price.
However, Wang Xizhi and Huang Tingjian are very professional calligraphers, and their calligraphy is also reasonable to sell at a sky-high price, but there are many people who are not very professional, casually write a few words, and can actually be auctioned for millions of dollars, such as the protagonist Fu Bi we want to introduce today.
Fu Bi was not a professional calligrapher, he was a Song Dynasty man, born in 1004, when his mother was pregnant with him, he dreamed that the Flag Crane geese landed in the courtyard, and soon after Fu Bi was born. When he was young, he studied particularly hard, read the scriptures, and had extraordinary insights, at that time, Fan Zhongyan directly evaluated him as "Emperor's Zuo" after seeing him, and yan Shu, a scholar who had been famous for a long time at that time, directly married his beautiful daughter to him to show his love for talent.
Fu Bi did not live up to the expectations of the people, and was elected as a "different Maocai", and thus entered the imperial court as an official. He often sent envoys to the Liao state, and in the face of the aggressiveness of the Liao state, he often argued on the basis of reason to defend the legitimate rights of the Song state; after the people suffered natural disasters, Fu Bi specially organized disaster relief and saved hundreds of thousands of homeless people; he also served as an official who had passed the border pass and vigorously trained the Qingzhou army.
It was precisely because he was almost an all-rounder in all aspects of politics, military, economy, and civil affairs that he was quickly promoted, and at the highest time he became a minister. He was loyal to state affairs and liked to speak out, and the emperor trusted him.
However, due to different political views, after Wang Anshi came to power, his official position was gradually revoked, and finally he was dismissed by Wang Anshi for refusing to implement the Green Shoots Law formulated by Wang Anshi, for fear of causing the harm of "competing with the people for profits". After his removal, he was still very concerned about state affairs. He often suggested to the emperor, and the emperor often respected his opinion.
But as the saying goes: lick the calf deeply. Such an upright and capable official, when considering the future of his children and grandchildren, often breaks his heart for this. After he was deposed, his son went to the capital to become an official. At this time, Fu Bi considered that his political enemies were in power and that his son might have suffered blows in the past, so he could not let go of his heart and wrote a letter to his friends in the capital, hoping that they would take care of his son.
Because the ancient scholars and masters cared very much about their reputation, and Fu Bi was a senior official in the imperial court for many years, so the protégés of the officials were all over the world, and his "letter of recommendation" always made people suspect that he was taking the back door. Therefore, Fu Bi's letter was written very simply, and after finally telling his old friend to read it, he burned it.
The letter reads: "The Son is endowed with a dull nature, and he is never more serious." There are very few people who know each other in the old master of the capital, and they are frequently ordered to see each other, and they are fortunate to be very fortunate to have one by one advice. This also begs to go. Bow up again. Just a few simple words form a small "calligraphy".
However, it may be because he loves his son very much, these words are written in a particularly evocative way, and after the old friend read it, he actually did not care about his confession to burn it, but instead collected it as a calligraphy treasure. Perhaps Fu Bi's old friend did not expect that his inadvertent act would actually preserve a calligraphy treasure for China in this way.
This calligraphy was continuously spread by posterity, and later had a reputation, because his content is an old father who cares about his son's words, so people call it "son post", in 2005, at the auction, the son posted a sky-high price of 4.62 million, I don't know if Fu Bi would laugh and say if Izumi had knowledge, he would laugh and say: "I knew that I would directly auction this note to my son, and I would not be able to enjoy it for a lifetime, so why should I go to the DPRK again as an official?" ”