Guoxue in a broad sense refers to the cultural inheritance and academic records of China’s past dynasties, including ancient Chinese history, philosophy, geography, politics, economics, and even calligraphy and painting, music, Yi studies, arithmetic, medicine, astrology, architecture, etc. Guoxue in the narrow sense refers to ancient Chinese doctrines, represented by the thoughts and theories of pre-Qin philosophers, including Confucianism, Taoism, military thought, Legalism, Mohism, etc. Below is the story of Wang Xianzhi’s eighteen tanks of water that I carefully compiled. You are welcome to share it. The Story of Wang Xianzhi's Eighteen Jars of Water 1
Introduction: Everyone has to go through hard study and training. Wang Xianzhi became a calligrapher only after writing Eighteen Jars of Water. Let us find out together!
Wang Xianzhi is the son of Wang Xizhi, and his father likes him very much. Influenced by his father, he imitated his father's example and insisted on writing every day since he was very young.
Once, Wang Xianzhi was concentrating on practicing calligraphy. His father looked behind him for a long time, but he didn't notice at all. Wang Xizhi quietly reached out his hand, grabbed the end of his pen, and then lifted it up with force. Wang Xianzhi devoted himself to writing and never thought that his father would come to grab his pen.
What made Wang Xizhi happy was that the pen did not come out of his hand. He saw that his son was concentrating on writing, as if no one else was watching, holding the pen firmly and having strong hands, so he thought he would be able to develop good calligraphy. For this, he happily praised his son.
Wang Xianzhi’s calligraphy has improved and become a little more arrogant.
One day, he wrote a lot of words, and one of the characters "tai" missed the "dot" below. He put down the pen and walked out of the study to do other things. The father came to his son's writing desk and, as usual, wanted to take a look at his writing. When he saw the omission, he filled in the "dot" with his pen.
After a while Wang Xianzhi returned to the desk and asked his mother to comment on these words. The mother looked at it for a while and said slowly: "Your handwriting is not bad, but it is still childish. Only this one thing makes it look like it was written by your father."
Finished Then, her finger fell under the word "太". Wang Xianzhi compared it carefully, and it was indeed different! He suddenly remembered that he had forgotten to write down this "point". He guessed that his father had patched it up for him, and his face immediately turned red. After finding the gap, he gave up his complacency and practiced calligraphy even harder from then on.
In order to encourage Wang Xianzhi to persevere, Wang Xizhi pointed to the eighteen large water tanks placed in the courtyard and said: "When you finish writing the water in these eighteen large tanks, your calligraphy will be improved." It's almost done."
Wang Xianzhi followed his father's instructions, studied hard and practiced hard, and finally reached the pinnacle of calligraphy.
Read the story and understand the truth
Every little bit of progress is hard-won, and any great success cannot be obtained easily. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. If you don’t accumulate small steps, you won’t be able to reach a thousand miles; if you don’t accumulate small streams, you won’t be able to become a river or sea. Diligence can make people become lucky. God gives everything to diligence. The Story of Wang Xianzhi's Eighteen Jars of Water 2
The story of Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty in my country, who taught his son to practice calligraphy, is still passed down to this day. Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xianzhi's seventh son, learned calligraphy from his father since he was a child. He memorized his father's writing theory on ten late and five urgent, ten curves and five straight, ten hidden and five outgoing, ten ups and five downs... I felt that I had almost mastered the writing skills of vertical, dot, stroke, and stroke, so I showed my father what I had written. Wang Xizhi just shook his head and sighed. Seeing that the character "大" (大) was written tightly up and loosely at the bottom, he picked up his pen and clicked a little below, changing it to the character "太" (太).
Wang Xianzhi showed the calligraphy to his mother again. After reading it, her mother sighed and said, "My son has been practicing calligraphy for three thousand days, but he only looks a little like Xizhi." Wang Xianzhi was simply shocked. It turned out that the point his mother pointed to was exactly what his father had added. Wang Xianzhi was so ashamed that he suddenly remembered the secret to learning calligraphy. The father pointed to the 18 full tanks of water in the yard and said, "If my son wants to know the trick, please advise him to practice draining the water in the tank."
From then on, Wang Xianzhi regarded this sentence as the "Golden Rule". He studied the calligraphy of his father and other calligraphers carefully and practiced hard. When he had written out "18 large vats of ink", he finally became a famous calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty. The story of Wang Xianzhi's Eighteen Jars of Water is as famous as his father Wang Xizhi, who is also known as the "Two Kings" in the world of calligraphy.
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