What kind of good mood can last for more than a thousand years?

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Speaking of Wang Xizhi, you may think of the drunkenness on the third day of March in the ninth year of Yonghe.

In the spring, the literati held an open-air party at the Huijishan Yin Lan Pavilion and drank wine and poems.

Wang Xizhi took advantage of the wine and waved a large pen, and the world's first line of books, "Orchid Pavilion Collection Sequence", came out of nowhere.

In this work of calligraphy and literature, Wang Xizhi explores the universe and life from a grand perspective, lamenting that "the future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past." ”

(If you want to see the true lovers explained in detail in "Lanting Collection", you can find the answer in Yi Gongzi's new book "The History of Chinese Art")

And if we don't talk about such a grand philosophical subject today, we will talk about a very small thing.

A ruler sent by Wang Xizhi to a friend - "Qing Ti when the snow is fast"

The so-called ruler refers to a wooden jane about one foot long. Before the invention of paper, the ancients often wrote stories on it, conveyed messages and so on.

Therefore, the ruler is synonymous with ancient letters.

There are more than 700 rulers handed down by Wang Xizhi to this day, and in these lengths and lengths, we can get a glimpse of the ordinary daily life of the Great Book Sage.

Sometimes he is an old father who is worried about the marriage of his children, and the marriage of the youngest son in the family, Wang Xianzhi, has not yet been settled, and he writes to a friend to agree!

He fell in love with Xi Daomao, the daughter of the old Xi family, and wrote a letter to help his younger son propose marriage.

People Lao Xi did not reply immediately, he was particularly uneasy, and hurriedly wrote a letter to ask Xi Daomao's uncle Xi Xi, he is also his wife and brother, kissing and kissing, somewhat internal news!

Sometimes he would occasionally believe in the magic of the small folk remedies of ordinary people, asking whether this medicine was useful in the end?

Sometimes he is a Chinese with a farming soul, and in the letter he praises the seeds sent by his old friend, and he especially likes to plant fruit trees, and the walnuts planted before are good.

It is such a ruler that records the unknown side of the Great Book Saint Wang Xizhi, who no longer seems to be an ancient man who lives in the history books and has a long distance from us, just like an old gentleman who lives next door to us and has leisure.

And among Wang Xizhi's many rulers, why should I talk about "Qingti when the Snow Is Fast" today?

This has to start with Qianlong, another of our old art acquaintances.

▲ "Portrait of the Qianlong Emperor", Lang Shining

As a first-generation art collector, Qianlong's special habit in appreciating art is stamping.

Some researchers have counted that in just 28 words of "Qing Ti when the Snow Is Fast", Qianlong stamped 170 chapters.

▲ Qianlong's pen and ink and seal in "Qingti when the snow is fast"

He refers to Wang Xizhi's "Qing Ti in the Fast Snow" together with Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Festival" and Wang Xun's "Boyuan Ti", and this post is the first of the "Three Xi".

The poster, now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, is 400 centimeters long, of which only about one-20th is a Buddha-figure, and the rest are the promotions and seals of famous masters of the past, including the Zhao Mengfu and Mi Fu that we are familiar with.

▲ Qianlong's pen and ink and seal in "Qingti when the snow is fast"

And Qianlong even wrote it as a mood diary, and every time there was a heavy snow, he would come up with a few strokes, and if he was in a good mood, he might paint a small snow scene.

And this poster is not wang Xizhi's original handwriting, it is a facsimile of the Tang Dynasty, which is enough to make celebrities of all dynasties fall in love!

So what exactly is written in "Sunny Posts when The Snow Is Fast"?

However, 28 words, excluding greetings and payments, the content of the real letter is only 15 words.

"When the snow is fast, Qingjia wants to be safe and unfounded"

Just these few words, passed down to this day, there are several mainstream ways to break sentences.

Take this "good" as an example, is it connected with "fast snow and sunny", or is it a separate comma, or is it with "want to be safe"?

Everyone has their own opinions and feelings, after all, this is Wang Xizhi's private letter to close friends, and perhaps there are small codes that only they understand.

▲ "Sunny Post when the Snow Is Fast" Wang Xizhi

And I like the following explanation the most:

"Xi Zhi Dun Shou: When the snow is fast, it is good. Want to be safe. Unsuccessful, for the knot. The strength is not inferior, Wang Xizhi's head. San'in Zhanghou. ”

The gist is "Xi Zhi Bai Shang: Just a burst of snow, suddenly turned sunny, it is really good." I think you're okay too! That matter is still inconclusive, the force is not caught, or it is not detailed. Wang Xizhi worshiped. Shanyin Zhang Hou qi. ”

It was a winter in the Eastern Jin Dynasty more than a thousand years ago, and Wang Xizhi, who was resting, was in the room.

Suddenly it was snowing heavily outside the window, and the snow seemed to be a whim of God, and it was falling quickly and fast. Soon the sky will clear, and the earth will change, white and vast, so unclean!

▲ "Cold Rock Snow Map" Yan Su (Song)

At this time, the book boy who delivered the letter outside the door was waiting for a reply, Wang Xizhi looked at the good scenery in front of him, and suddenly felt that there was no need to say more, the scenery was good, and he hoped that the person who received the letter was also good!

He picked up the pen and dipped it in ink, and wrote it down in one go.

It's a mood we're in today when we're inadvertently healed by nature's moments. Whether it's a bright snow in the winter or a bright little flower in the spring, it's worth opening the nearest dialog box and passing this pleasure on to those closest to us.

Whatever happened last time is no longer important, come on, let's stop together.

Watch the clouds fall, listen to the rain, ask about the fragrance of flowers, and have a good mood to see the first sunshine of heavy snow together.

And how does Wang Xizhi use calligraphy to reflect his good mood?

▲ "Sunny Post when the Snow Is Fast" Wang Xizhi

When he uses the pen, he rarely uses the action of lifting and pressing to maintain the coherence of the entire pen.

The whole work conveys a sense of natural fluency in the writing structure, you see this "fast snow" two words, the right shoulder rises together, so not brisk! It seems that we have traveled back to more than 1600 years ago to feel the frankness and happiness of Wang Xizhi at that time.

▲ "Qing Ti when the snow is fast" (partial) Wang Xizhi

I think that's why, after so many years, we are still touched by such simple happiness.

The specific year in which Wang Xizhi wrote "Qing Ti in the Fast Snow" is uncertain, but it can be deduced from the calligraphy style that it is in the second half of his life.

He was in the era of Wei and Jin, where wars were raging, politics was dark, and if he was not careful, he would "halve the number of celebrities in one day", and the plague that would break out at any time.

The people of that era, whether they were princes and nobles, or ordinary people, were fortunate to be alive.

Born in a famous and prestigious family, Wang Xizhi actually did not have such a smooth life, when his father disappeared in the war, he was almost wiped out because he heard the secret of his uncle's rebellion, and his career has always hit a wall, and even faced the pain of white and black people sending black hair.

"The little girl is four years old, the violent disease is not saved, the grief is painful, why bother!" I am old, and where I am sent, I am only here. The loss of this woman, the pain of the heart, can not be stopped. How can it be restored, pro paper love acid! ”

——"Period Little Girl Thesis" Wang Xizhi mourns the ruler of his little granddaughter

In such an era when we can't grasp anything, even life and death can't be controlled, what else can we grasp?

Wang Xizhi gave the answer

At the very least, we can capture the good mood that good weather brings.

This spring, there is too much bad news.

The poet TS Eliot wrote in The Wasteland

April, one of the cruelest months, Jean

Cloves grew from the dead land and mixed in

Memories and desires, with spring rain

Stirring the sluggish roots in the shadows.

A few days ago, it was summer, and spring was over.

It seems that no matter what human beings are, nature and the four seasons are always moving forward.

Although the era we are in at the moment is far away from Wei and Jin, it is not so bad. But from the repeated epidemics and sudden wars, to the distress of further education, employment and interpersonal relations, in these countless small things, we can grasp very limited things.

But we at least have the same good mood as Wang Xizhi was amazed by the natural beauty more than a thousand years ago.

It reminds me of the little card I drew at the book fair before, which reads "Always ready for a small but full of happiness"

This sentence is also given to everyone.

Mutual encouragement :)

And finally and finally! I wish all the mothers in the world a good mood and happy holidays!