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History of Poetry (30): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: The Book Saint Wang Xizhi

author:Preface to Eastern Poetry and Calligraphy

In the thousands of years of civilization history of our country, there have been many people who have established sects in a certain field and who have achieved great achievements, and have become examples of reverence for future generations, and they have been respected as saints in the field of strategy. In the form of "telling history with poetry", I introduced to netizens the Most Holy Confucius, Yasheng Mencius, Wusheng Guangong, Shisheng Dufu, Zisheng Sushi, and Qu Shengguan Hanqing. Today's introduction of "Shusheng Wang Xizhi", and then successively introduce Shi Sheng, Wen Sheng, Painting Sheng, Grass Sage, Bing Sheng, Mou Sheng, Medical Saint, Medicine Saint, Wine Saint, Tea Saint, Ke Sheng, Le Sheng, Chess Saint and other saints, once a day, please pay attention to appreciation. Poetry Cloud:

Young children learn to dye the pond with books and ink, and are obsessed with being rewarded with the east bed.

The righteous inscription horn fan worries about the people's suffering, and exchanges words for goose to copy the canon.

Drunkenly write lanting world order, dragon snake pen qiankun hidden.

True Xingcao has been passed down through the ages, and the Book Saint Right Army Yi Shao Wang.

History of Poetry (30): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: The Book Saint Wang Xizhi

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Note: (1) Wang Xizhi (王羲之), zi Yi Shao, Jin Dynasty calligrapher and writer, a native of Linyi (now part of Shandong), studied at the age of seven, and after a long time, the pond where the brush was cleaned became ink-colored; Hui ji neishi, leading the right general, was called "Wang Youjun" and "Wang Huiji"; Dong Shengping died five years later, at the age of fifty-nine.

History of Poetry (30): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: The Book Saint Wang Xizhi

(2) Fans are rewarded: When Xi Jian came to his house to choose a son-in-law, Wang Xizhi lay on his stomach on the east bed, but was selected, and the "east bed fast son-in-law" came from this.

History of Poetry (30): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: The Book Saint Wang Xizhi

(3) Yi title corner fan: According to legend, he saw an old woman who sold hexagonal bamboo fans because she could not sell them and was worried, so she wrote an inscription on each fan, and said that it was written by Wang Youjun, and the fan was quickly sold out.

History of Poetry (30): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: The Book Saint Wang Xizhi

(4) Exchange words for geese: Wang Xizhi likes geese, and one day he sees a group of white geese who want to buy them back, and the Taoist priests exchange it for letting them copy the Huangting Jing, which is a good story for thousands of years.

History of Poetry (30): The Twenty Saints of Ancient China: The Book Saint Wang Xizhi

(5) Lanting Tianxia Order: that is, "Lanting Collection Sequence", which is the first order under the heavens.

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