When Wang Xizhi had just settled in Shaoxing, Zhejiang, the Spring Festival was coming. It could be said that it was a double happiness, and it was natural to celebrate it. So Wang Xizhi was very happy, so he showed off his housekeeping skills and wrote a couplet: Spring breeze, spring rain, spring scenery? New year, new scenery, new home. Wang Xizhi is now very famous, and his "Preface to the Lanting Collection" has become a priceless treasure because of its reputation as "the best running script in the world". At that time, Wang Xizhi was also a famous figure, known as the "Sage of Calligraphy". Therefore, his calligraphy is naturally priceless.
Wherever there is treasure, there are people who covet it. Wang Xizhi had just pasted the Spring Festival couplets, but what he didn't expect was that the couplets were stolen before he spent the night. After Wang Xizhi learned about this incident, he was not too angry, but wrote another couplet. However, before the next day, the couplet was stolen again.
Seeing that the Spring Festival is coming, Wang Xizhi is not in a hurry, but his wife is. When Wang Xizhi saw this, he began to think of countermeasures. After a while, he had an idea. He wrote another couplet: Good fortune never comes in pairs. Misfortune never comes alone. Mrs. Wang felt something was wrong at first glance. This couplet was too tragic and was not suitable for use during the Spring Festival. But Wang Xizhi ignored it and insisted on sticking it on the door. Maybe the person who stole the Spring Festival couplets saw this sentence and felt that it was really inappropriate, so he stopped stealing the couplets and kept them until the first day of the new year. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, Wang Xizhi added a few words with his pen while everyone was pointing at them, and changed the couplet to: From now on, misfortunes never come alone, but misfortune comes yesterday.
In this way, the originally unlucky couplet The words suddenly turned into good words to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, and everyone applauded. Sometimes, people's wisdom is infinite, especially some smart people. They are often able to find solutions when people feel helpless and hopeless, and rely on their wisdom to amaze everyone, and Wang Xizhi is just such a person. It is precisely because of his intelligence, talent, calligraphy, and ability that people praise him endlessly and love his works like treasures.