1. Wang Xizhi
Wang Xizhi has been passionate about calligraphy since he was a child. He has been practicing hard for decades, and finally his calligraphy art has reached an extraordinary peak and is praised by people. As the "Sage of Books".
When Wang Xizhi was 13 years old, he accidentally discovered that his father had a calligraphy book called "Shuo Bi" in his possession, so he stole it and read it. His father was worried that he would not be able to keep the family heritage secret at a young age, and promised to teach it to him when he grew up.
Unexpectedly, Wang Xizhi knelt down and asked his father to allow him to read now. His father was very moved and finally agreed to his request. Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy very hard, even eating and walking. He really practiced calligraphy all the time.
Without paper and pen, he scribbled on his body. Over time, his clothes were scratched. Sometimes I practice calligraphy to the point of forgetfulness. Once, when he was practicing calligraphy, he forgot to eat, and his family sent the meal to the study.
He touched it without thinking, dipped it in ink and ate it, and found it very tasty. When the family found out, their mouths were full of black ink. Wang Xizhi often came to the pond to write and wash his inkstones. After a long time, the water in the pond ran out of ink, so it was called "Mochi".
2. Beethoven
Beethoven was a great German musician. He loved music since childhood, was open-minded and studious, and devoted himself to creation. He said: "My motto has always been: never stop writing; if I sometimes make the God of Art sleepy, it is just to make it more excited when it wakes up."
At the age of 30, he became deaf. Well, for musicians, this is a huge blow. But he never stopped writing, a fragment of Beethoven's "Destiny" Symphony.
It expresses Beethoven’s determination and courage to fight against his unfortunate fate to the end. It is precisely because of these people who have achieved great things in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad, that our world has a glorious culture.
3. Li Bai
Li Bai, the great poet of the Tang Dynasty, read classics and history books when he was a child. Those books were very profound, but he couldn't read them for a while and found them boring, so he Leave the books behind, skip school and go out to play. He wandered around and looked around.
He saw an old woman sitting on a low stool on the whetstone, holding a very thick iron rod in her hand, grinding it up and down on the whetstone, her expression so focused that Li Bai was staring at her. She didn't even notice when he squatted down in front of him.
Li Bai didn't know what the old lady was doing, so he asked curiously: "Grandma, what are you doing?" "Grinding needles." The old lady simply answered Li Bai without raising her head, still serious. Grinding the iron rod in his hand.
"Grinding a needle?" Li Bai felt confused. What the old lady was grinding was obviously a thick iron rod, so why was it a needle? Li Bai couldn't help but ask again: "Grandma, the needle is very, very small, and what you are grinding is a thick iron rod!" This iron rod can be ground into a small needle. "What?" Li Bai was a little surprised, and he blurted out, "Can such a thick iron rod be ground into a needle?"
At this time, the old lady asked. Then he raised his head, looked at Xiao Li Bai kindly, and said, "Yes, the iron rod is thick and big, and it is very difficult to grind it into a needle. But I keep grinding and grinding every day, and one day, I will grind it into a needle.
My child, as long as you work hard, you can grind an iron rod into a needle!" Thinking of this, Li Bai felt deeply ashamed and his face became hot. So he ran home, returned to his study, opened the book he couldn't read, and continued reading.
4. Qi Baishi
Qi Baishi lived by a pond since he was a child and often fished for shrimps. He began to draw shrimps when he was young. After the age of 40, he copied the paintings of Ming and Qing painters such as Xu Wei and Li Futang. Shrimp; at the age of 63, Qi Baishi's shrimp painting was very similar, but not "live" enough.
So he raised a few long-armed shrimps in a bowl, placed them on the painting table, and observed them every day. As a result, his method of painting shrimps changed, and shrimps became one of Qi Baishi's representative artistic symbols. Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings have reached the realm of metamorphosis, expressing the groups of shrimp swimming in the water in simple brushwork.
The thick and thick mushrooms contrast with the transparent, light and delicate shrimps, reflecting the maturity of Qi Baishi's painting skills in his later years. Qi Baishi's shrimp paintings show the shape of shrimp, which is lively, sensitive, alert and vital.
It is because Qi Baishi has mastered the characteristics of shrimps that he can draw them easily. A few strokes, using different shades of ink, express a sense of movement.
A pair of thick ink eyes, a bit of burnt ink in the middle of the head, and two strokes of light ink on the left and right make the shrimp's head very changeable.
The hard shell is transparent, from dark to light. The waist of the shrimp is composed of one stroke and several strokes in a row, forming the rhythm of the shrimp waist from thick to thin. The changes in Qi Baishi's pen make the waist of the shrimp show various abnormal shapes, some are bowed forward, and some are straight and wandering.
There are also those who bend down and crawl. The tail of the shrimp is also made with just a few strokes, making it both elastic and transparent. The pair of front claws of a shrimp range from thin to thick, between several segments and reach the two pincers. They are shaped like pliers, opening and closing. The tentacles of the shrimp are drawn with several light ink lines.
5. Li Shizhen
Li Shizhen (1518-1593), whose courtesy name was Dongbi. In his later years, he called himself a native of Binghushan. He was a tile dam on Dongchang Street, Qichun County, Hubei Province ( (now Doctor Street), was born in a family that practiced medicine. A famous medical scientist in the Ming Dynasty. Later, he served as the Fengcizheng of the Prince of Chu and the Royal Imperial Hospital.
After his death, the Ming court awarded him the title of "Wenlin Lang". Since 1565, Li Shizhen has visited Wudang Mountain, Lushan Mountain, Maoshan Mountain, Niushou Mountain, Huguang, Anhui, Henan, Hebei and other places to collect drug specimens and prescriptions.
He also worshiped fishermen, woodcutters, farmers, cart drivers, pharmacists, and snake catchers as his teachers. He referred to 925 books on medicine and other aspects of the past dynasties, archaeological evidence, and exhaustive research on physics, recording tens of millions of Word notes helped clarify many difficult issues.
After 27 days of cold and summer, and three revisions of the manuscript, the 1.92 million-word masterpiece "Compendium of Materia Medica" was completed in the 18th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty (1590). He also studied the Eight Extraordinary Meridians and his works include "A Study of the Eight Extraordinary Meridians" and "Binhu Pulsology". He was revered as the "Sage of Medicine" by later generations.