Who is the ancient calligrapher who practiced calligraphy by the pool and dyed it black?

This ancient calligrapher is Wang Xizhi.

Wang Xizhi's former residence, located at No.20, Xiyanhu Street, lanshan district, Linyi City, is a classical garden-style building, covering an area of about 5 mu. After practicing calligraphy hard in his childhood, Wang Xizhi went to the pool to wash inkstones. After a long time, the pool became dark, so people called it "Xiyan Lake".

The newly renovated Xiyan Lake, book-drying platform, goose pond, pavilion and other relics can provide a glimpse of the royal residence at that time. The newly-built Golden Mo Zhai, Calligraphy Exhibition Room, and 100m Calligraphy Monument Gallery will let you enjoy the different styles of calligraphy, inscriptions and calligraphy works of contemporary North and South people.

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Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black. Later generations commented: "floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon", "the dragon leaps into the Tianmen, the tiger lies in the phoenix" and "it's natural, and the rich gods cover all generations". There are some idioms about Wang Xizhi, such as cleverness and quick marriage. The most obvious feature of Wang Xizhi's style of writing is exquisite brushwork and changeable structure.

Wang Xizhi is good at various forms of calligraphy, including official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. He studies body posture, imitates hands, absorbs the strengths of others, prepares his body and melts in one furnace. He got rid of the style of writing in Han and Wei dynasties and had a far-reaching influence. His calligraphy is peaceful and natural, and his brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, graceful and graceful. The world often uses Cao Zhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo: "If you are amazed, if you are graceful, if you are in Youlong, you will be glorious and autumn, and Hua Mao will be spring pine. It seems that if the moon is covered by light clouds, it will float like the wind flowing back to snow. " Praise the beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy.

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