My last article wrote an interesting story about Wu Daozi, the "painting saint" of "Wu Belt Dangfeng", since it was said at the beginning that the artists who were named "sheng" were all extraordinary achievements, all of them were giants of a certain category, so today we talk about the calligrapher Wang Xizhi of the Jin Dynasty.
Wang Xizhi loves calligraphy, and has been practicing writing since he was 7 years old, so it seems that Wang Xizhi started not too early, because now children are already learning soft and hard pen calligraphy at the age of five or six, and from the beginning, the start is earlier than Wang Xizhi.
It is rumored that Wang Xizhi was walking, when he was resting, he also used his fingers to practice words, carefully pondered the structure and brushwork of the font, and has been comparing on his clothes, for a long time, his clothes have been torn by him. It can be seen that Wang Xizhi's basic skills are all child skills, and children who practice calligraphy have not succeeded, and in the future, they can laugh that the difference between them and Wang Xizhi is that they are missing that one piece of clothing.
It is also rumored that every day after he finished writing, he went to the small pond in front of his house to wash brushes and bricks, and over time, the water in the pond turned black. The amount of ink used and the number of times of washing can be imagined.
In addition, we also know an idiom "East Bed Fast Son-in-law", which is also related to Wang Xizhi. The Eastern Jin Dynasty Tai wei Xi Jian heard that the children of the Taifu Wang family were all young talents, so he privately sent a protégé to inquire, and this protégé acted as a matchmaker, going to the Wang family to ask the son-in-law to go for Xi Jian, but he had to find out which one was appropriate, and as a result, Wang Taifu let the protégé go to the East Wing room to choose at will.
When the little princes learned of this news, they all packed up neatly, their eyebrows were clear, and their heroic posture was bold, and only one person lay on his stomach and lay on the bed, and if nothing happened, he did not take the opportunity to choose a son-in-law as an opportunity to struggle for decades less.
Xi Jian heard the protégé's report after he returned, and said happily, "That prince who is open to the east bed is my good son-in-law." Later, Xi Jian married his daughter to Wang Xizhi, which is the origin of the "East Bed Fast Son-in-Law", eclectic, uninhibited, and the criteria for selecting Caijun as a son-in-law are also absolute.
Speaking of Wang Xizhi's story, "Lanting Collection" is a work that cannot be bypassed, there are many interesting stories about the origin of "Lanting Collection", it is said that Wang Xizhi held a unique poetry meeting with Xie An, Sun Qi and others, Wang Xizhi brought together the 37 poems of this poetry meeting, and wrote a preface with the help of Jiuxing, which is the world's famous "first line of books under the heavens" "Lanting Collection". According to fax traces, they were buried in zhaoling by Tang Taizong as funerary objects, and the copies passed down to later generations are all facsimiles.
Lanting set sequence copy
Another interesting point of this story is the divine power and role of wine, and artistic treasures need to be created in the realm of the unity of heaven and man. Just like "painting the saint" Wu Daozi painted the Buddha statue after drinking, it was done in one go. Because the later Wang Xizhi also wrote the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Sequence" many times, he could not reach the original realm, let alone surpass that version.
To know that Wang Xizhi was born in the noble clan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, did not worry about eating and wearing, and only pursued what he wanted, then he himself was not clear about the goal of material life, and the rest was his own spiritual pursuit. Therefore, later generations commented that his calligraphy "not only expresses the simplicity and remoteness of Lao Zhuang's philosophy, but also expresses the chonghe of the Confucian middle way." Wang Xizhi's artistic achievements in writing have achieved his status as a "book saint" in the study of copying and pasting.
Wang Xizhi, who lives a carefree life, does not need to work hard when he is young, does not need to be an adult, he can enter the army just by relying on the shade of the family, he is still pursuing his own artistic ideals in his time, so deep in the era of beautiful development, there are more opportunities and stages to show ourselves, only we are willing to work hard, with the persistence of the iron pestle grinding into a needle, we will definitely pursue some small goals that we want.