The protagonist of the comeback is Xie An.
Because the place where Xie An entered his official career again was Dongshan, it was called a comeback. Xie An, courtesy name Anshi, was born in Yangxia, Chen County. Xie An was born in the Xie family of Chen County. He was famous for his free talk since he was a child. He resigned many times and lived in seclusion in Dongshan, Shanyin County, Kuaiji County. He traveled with Wang Xizhi, Xu Xun and others, and educated the children of the Xie family. Later, all members of the Xie family in the court died, and Xie An made a comeback. He successively served as Sima, the general of the expedition to the west, the prefect of Wuxing, the minister in charge, the official secretary, and the central protector of the army.
In the Battle of Feishui, Xie An, as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, defeated the former Qin army with 80,000 troops, which was said to be one million, allowing the Jin Dynasty to survive. After the war, he was jealous of Emperor Xiaowu because of his excessive fame, and was forced to go to Guangling to avoid trouble. In the tenth year of Taiyuan (385), Xie An died of illness at the age of sixty-six.
Xie An is versatile, good at calligraphy and music. He has an elegant and gentle temperament, is fair and decisive in dealing with things, does not monopolize power and seek personal gain, does not take credit for his own arrogance, and has the bearing of a prime minister. He governed the country with Confucianism and Taoism complementing each other. As a high-ranking scholar, he was able to take into account the overall situation and subordinated the interests of the Xie family to the interests of the Jin Dynasty. Xie An's influence on calligraphy
Xie An once learned running script from Wang Xizhi. He worked in regular script, running script and official script, especially running script. Dou Xie said in "Shu Shu Fu" that "the Yun is empty and quiet, the good grass is upright. The square circle is poor, and the etiquette and law are strict. It is like the benevolence and wisdom of constant virtue, which should be like the tortoise mirror of things. He hates his heart and is afraid of the scenery (Xi Chao) , Shu Qingzi Jing (Wang Xianzhi). Holding the alliance and holding the soil will damage the intelligence and cause illness. "Sun Guoting's "Book Book" of the Tang Dynasty said: "Xie Ansu is good at rulers and tablets, but Qingzi Jing's books. Zijing often wrote good books for him, saying that they must be recorded, and he always responded after showing them, which made him very angry. "