1. Wang Xizhi drank ink
Wang Xizhi concentrated on writing when he was a child. His mother had no choice but to ask the boy to bring him food, including steamed buns and Wang Xizhi's favorite, mashed garlic. When my mother came to the study to see Xiao Xizhi, she burst out laughing as soon as she entered the study. It turned out that Wang Xizhi was reading the copybook while eating and ate the ink as if it were minced garlic, which made his mouth full of black.
2. Inscriptions on Bamboo Fans
There was an old woman carrying a basket of bamboo fans for sale at the market, but she couldn't sell them. When Wang Xizhi saw this, he stepped forward and said to her: "There are no paintings or words on the bamboo fans. Can I write words on them for you?" The old woman gave him the bamboo fans to write on. Wang Xizhi picked up his pen and wrote on each fan. Wrote five words. My mother-in-law is illiterate and thinks his writing is very sloppy.
Wang Xizhi said: "Tell the person who bought the fan that the words on it were written by Wang Youjun." The old woman did as he said. When people at the market saw that it was Wang Youjun's calligraphy, they all rushed to buy it. A basket of bamboo fans was sold out immediately.
3. Entering the wood
Once the emperor wanted to go to the northern suburbs to offer sacrifices, so he asked Wang Xizhi to write his congratulatory message on a wooden board and then sent workers to carve it. The carving workers were very surprised when they were carving. The words written by Wang Xizhi penetrated into the wood by more than three thirds. He said with admiration: "The calligraphy of General Youjun is really penetrating!"
Extended information
Wang Xizhi's original works disappeared long ago, and the fine copies of the Tang Dynasty have always been Treat it as an authentic work. Due to its long history and long-standing reputation, this ink, like Wang Xizhi's other ink writings, has different inferences as to when it was copied.
Some are called Song Dynasty copies, others are suspected to be copied by Mi Fu, and many more are classified as Tang copies. It has numerous descriptions and has been engraved into various collections of texts time and time again. The collection of public and private seals and circulation after the Yuan Dynasty can be verified and reliable, and its preciousness is self-evident.