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Did The Book Saint Wang Xizhi really write the "Yellow Court Sutra" to exchange for white geese?

Did The Book Saint Wang Xizhi really write the "Yellow Court Sutra" to exchange for white geese?

Today I read Li Bai's "Sending Congratulations to Guests returning to Vietnam",

The water of Mirror Lake is clear, and the crazy guests return to the boat.

If the mountain vaginal warriors meet each other, they should write the yellow court for white geese.

The last two sentences of the poem, "If the mountain vaginal warriors meet each other, they should write huangting for white geese" are taken from the allusion "right army for goose" (Wang Xizhi once held the position of general of the right army, so it was also called Wang Right Army). According to legend, Wang Xizhi liked geese very much, and a Taoist priest deliberately asked Wang Xizhi to copy the classic "Tao Te Ching" in exchange for a cage of geese. Wang Xizhi readily agreed, and finally returned with the goose.

This story was originally published in the Southern Dynasty "On Books", which records that the Taoist classic copied by Wang Xizhi is the Tao Te Ching, not the Huang Ting Jing, but why is Li Bai's poem written "Should write Huang Ting for White Goose"? There is a saying that "yellow court" and "white goose" are opposite, and the whole sentence pattern will look more neat. However, Li Bai's poetry had such a great influence that later generations spread false rumors, and the Tao Te Ching became the Huang Ting Jing. When this story was recorded in the Song Dynasty's Taiping Imperial Records, Wang Xizhi copied the Huangting Jing.

Li Bai believed in Taoism, and his old friend He Zhizhang returned to his hometown as a Taoist monk. He Zhizhang's hometown was located in Shanyin (present-day Shaoxing City). The famous Lanting Collection took place here, and this collection of Art collections has achieved Wang Xizhi's immortal name "Orchid Pavilion Preface". The Orchid Pavilion Preface, now in the Palace Museum in Beijing, is a facsimile of the Tang Dynasty calligrapher Feng Chengsu (grotesque means to first cover the original with a translucent piece of paper, and then draw the outer outline of the character with a very thin outline pen, and then fill in the outline with ink). Before the invention of the camera copier, this was the best method of reproduction that the ancients could think of. You may ask, where was the Orchid Pavilion Preface originally? The history books record that when Emperor Taizong of Tang died, Li Shimin asked for the Orchid Pavilion Order to be his funeral, but the truth has been unverifiable. In any case, the original copy of the Orchid Pavilion Preface has disappeared in the Tang Dynasty. Of the several facsimiles we can see now, Feng Chengsu is the best. Friends who like Wang Xizhi's calligraphy should appreciate this "first line of books in the world".

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