“It is absurd to treat life and death equally, and it is a myth to treat long life and short life equally.”
Detailed Note: It is well known that one death and life is a myth [one death and life] : Treat death and life as the same thing. The saying comes from "Zhuangzi: De Chong Fu": "Death and life are one." And "Zhuangzi: Great Master": "Whoever knows that life and death are one and the same, I am his friend. ."], Qi Pengshang acted recklessly [Qi Pengshang: equate the long-lived Pengzu and the short-lived Shangzi. Peng, Pengzu, is said to be the great-great-grandson of Emperor Zhuanxu, who lived for 800 years. Shang refers to a person who died in a short life. ."Zhuangzi·Qiwu Lun": "Don't live longer than the mourning son, while Peng Zu died young."].
Wang Xizhi lamented that "the lady's relationship has been admired all my life." Faced with the short life, " "Pain" comes from it, and he sighs with "sadness" that "I firmly know that life and death are vain, and the sacrifice of Qi Peng is vain." This is exactly his fear of wasted time, his desire to help the people and the country, and his yearning to make contributions. , the helplessness of "everyone is drunk and I am awake alone", the sadness of "few close friends, who will listen when the string is broken". "Those who will look at the future will also look at the past." "Feeling polite", the author consciously placed himself in the long river of history and expressed his desire to resist the illusion of life by making a difference.
In the social environment at that time, as a member of the gentry class, Wang Xizhi had both deep-rooted Confucian thoughts of actively using the world, and Lao-Zhuang thoughts of passive retreat from the world. He also accepted a certain influence from Buddhist thoughts. His negation of Lao-Zhuang's "One Death and Life" and "Qi Peng Shang" showed that Wang Xizhi's persistent efforts to resist the illusion of life. And Wang Xizhi's "floating like clouds, as powerful as a frightening dragon" and his natural calligraphy art can be regarded as the result of this effort in a certain sense, because He knows that the only truly effective way to resist the illusion of life is to create the greatest possible value within the limits of a given life.