The meaning of this sentence is: Wang Xizhi has elegant hobbies, pays attention to clothes and diet, cultivates self-cultivation, and doesn't like being an official in Beijing. When he crossed Zhejiang for the first time, he had the idea of spending his whole life here.
Origin: Tang Fang Xuanling's Biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, Xi Yazhi is fond of eating and nourishing, and he is not happy to stay in the capital. When he first crossed Zhejiang, he will reach the final goal.
Character background:
Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is known as the "sage of books". A native of Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong Province), he moved to Shanyin, Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years.
I have served as a secretary, general Ningyuan and Jiangzhou secretariat, and later as a civil servant, leading the right general. His calligraphy is good at calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy and calligraphy. The style is peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful and beautiful.
Li Zhimin commented: "Wang Xizhi's calligraphy not only shows simplicity and metaphysics based on the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi, but also shows harmony based on the Confucian doctrine of the mean." The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi are called "two kings". Extended information
Writing background:
Fang Xuanling (August 18th, 579-648), named Qiao, was born in Linzi, Qizhou (now Fangzhuang, Xianggongzhuang Town). A famous figure and politician in the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the son of Fang Yanqian, the commander of Jingyang in Sui Dynasty.
be good at poetry and writing, and read the classics and history. At the age of eighteen, he was born as a scholar, and was awarded the title of Yu Qiwei and Ji Cheng County Commandant. After Jinyang took refuge in Li Shimin, the king of Qin, he actively made suggestions, supervised the secretary and selected talents, and became one of the effective counselors of Qin Wangfu.
In the ninth year of Wude (626), he planned the change of Xuanwu Gate, and took the lead with Du Ruhui and other five people. After Emperor Taizong acceded to the throne, he worshipped the order of the Secretariat and sealed Xing Guogong. He was responsible for managing state affairs, repairing national history and compiling the Book of Jin.
during the reign, Fang Xuanling was good at strategy, while Du Ruhui was decisive, and he called it "the plot of the house was always broken", which became a model of good looks. Moved to Shangshu, left servant shot, Sikong, sealed Liang Guogong, and ranked among the twenty-four heroes of Lingyange.
before the Tang dynasty, there were 18 schools of Jin history handed down from generation to generation, but in fact there were more than 2 schools, among which Shen Yue, Zheng Zhong and Yu Xi were all lost, and the rest still existed.
At that time, Emperor Taizong thought that these Jin histories had various defects, and that "although many productions were not perfect", it was convenient for Zhenguan to compile the Book of Jin in the 2th year (646). In the Book of Jin, Emperor Taizong said, "It's great to cover historical records for use".
The history books of the previous generation compiled during Li Shimin's reign included the history of Liang, Chen, Northern Qi, Zhou and Sui Dynasties in addition to the Book of Jin. Why did Li Shimin choose the Book of Jin to write the history?
This is mainly because the Western Jin Dynasty was a unified dynasty, which ended the decades-long division in the Three Kingdoms period. However, its unification was short-lived, and soon there was a big scuffle in the Central Plains, and then there was a long-term opposition between the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Sixteen Countries, the Southern Dynasties and the Northern Dynasties. Li Shimin, as the entrepreneurial king of the unified Tang Dynasty, wanted to explore the rise and fall of the Jin Dynasty for reference.
For this reason, Sima Yi, the founder of the Western Jin Dynasty, and Sima Yan, who completed the cause of reunification, are taken as the main research objects (Lu Ji and Wang Xizhi's historical comments mainly focus on their literary and artistic achievements, which belong to another situation, regardless).
Xuan Di's and Emperor Wudi's historical comments, though relatively general, did not touch the essence of the Jin Dynasty's rebellion, but it pointed out that Sima Yan "lived in governing and forgot the danger", "thought in a narrow way without knowing where to go" and "based on the new collection, it is difficult to pull out the worry for a long time". These comments finally saw some phenomena.
Fang Xuanling and others were responsible for the supervision and revision of the Book of Jin, and organized a group of historians and scholars. Based on the Book of Jin written by Zang Rongxu, a person from the Qi Dynasty in the Southern Dynasties, and referring to other Jin history and related works, the book of Jin was "collected dozens of canon and miscellaneous sayings" and quoted historical records written by sixteen countries. It was written from the twentieth year of Zhenguan (646) to the twenty-second year of Zhenguan (648).