Without more words, all the geese were changed in Yin Shan Road.
-Chen Banding carved the inkstone.
This is a poem that can be printed on an ink box.
The descendants of Wang Xizhi in A Jin often say that the legend of Wang Youjun's love for geese has been passed down from generation to generation with its beautiful and changeable calligraphy art, so his praise is often mixed with the word goose or goose. For thousands of years, literati, painters and sculptors have loved geese in countless poems, paintings and carvings, but they all pity and play with them, which is stupid.
The bronze ink box in the late Qing Dynasty with a side length of 9.3 cm is extraordinary to read. On the cover of the ink cartridge, a poem and a picture are depicted by the combination of relief pattern and intaglio carving. In the half-moon box at the top of the box cover, the ancients carved a seven-character poem with a thick knife method, which read, "There are ink waves in the ancient inkstone pool, how about the calligraphy of the right army, Huang Ting has no words in a volume, and the geese in Yin Shan have all changed." It tells a folk legend: "In his later years, Xi resigned and lived in seclusion in the mountains, and often wandered around a small Taoist temple in the mountains. Because its calligraphy is highly respected by the world, it has a reputation as a word of gold. The old man coveted his ink for a long time and repeatedly asked for it. He groped for his hobby and suddenly came up with a plan to raise a group of white geese in the Taoist temple. When I came back, I forgot to come back when I saw the goose. The old man was secretly glad, so he proposed to the right army to exchange a goose for a word. In the meantime, I wrote a seven-word essay "Huang Ting" to strengthen my body and replace all the old geese. "
The lower part of the box cover is carved with a willow shovel held by the old right army, and Linxi waves geese back to the wild Shan Ye water in nature; The old man looked at the back of Long song's neck and the shadow of the gosling flowing downstream, showing relief and joy. From this, people read the realm in which the right army fled in his later years. The voice left by the sculptor to the connoisseur is: The old man, who has tried his best, is holding a book of Huangting Classics carefully, becoming his own treasure and stealing happiness. There is a world of difference between the two.
The painter of this ancient ink box made a refreshing interpretation of Xi's saying that he loves geese with a picture explaining geese, which can't help but make connoisseurs applaud its superb originality.