The story goes like this:
Once at lunch, Wang Xizhi's favorite garlic paste and steamed bread were brought to him, and he was urged to eat quickly several times. He still didn't even look up, as if he didn't hear, and he was absorbed in reading the post and writing. The meal was cold, so Jibang had to ask Wang Xizhi's mother to persuade him to eat. Mother came to the study, only to find Xihe holding a steamed bread stained with ink and sending it to her mouth, making her mouth black.
It turned out that when Xi Zhi was eating steamed stuffed buns, he was still looking at the words and thinking about how to write them in his mind. As a result, he mistook the ink for garlic. Mother couldn't help laughing when she saw this scene.
Wang Xizhi still doesn't know what's going on Hearing his mother's laughter, he also said, "today's mashed garlic is really fragrant!" " Wang Xizhi persisted for decades, studied hard, kept posting, and practiced very solid kung fu, which laid the foundation and paved the way for his future development.
Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year, 32 1-379), Han nationality, was a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and was known as the "book saint". Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong Province) was born, then moved to Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) Yin Shan, and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years. Successive secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat, later literature and history records, right general.
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perspicacious
Wang Xizhi was born in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. He was good at calligraphy when he was seven years old. Legend has it that the Emperor of the Jin Dynasty would go to the northern suburbs to offer sacrifices, and asked Wang Xizhi to write his congratulatory message on a wooden board, and then sent workers to carve it. The sculptor cut the board layer by layer and found that Wang Xizhi's calligraphy ink had been printed into the board. He didn't reach the bottom until he cut into a depth of three points. Woodworkers are amazed at Wang Xizhi's pen power, perfect calligraphy skills and his pen power.
Call an illness and abandon an official
In March of the 11th year of Yonghe (AD 355), Wang Xizhi claimed to be ill and abandoned his official position. "With the son fuck from wuxi migration in jinting. Build a library, plant mulberry fruits, teach children, write poems, make paintings and calligraphy, and let geese fish for entertainment. " He and Xu Xun, Zhi Dun and others began to travel around the world. After settling in Jinting, calligraphy rose. His descendants are good at painting and calligraphy, and their works are hung all over the hall and study, so they are called "Huayuan Painting Hall". Later generations named the village "Huatang" and have been calling it so ever since.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia, Wang Xizhi (a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty)