In the sixteenth year of Xichun (1 189), Lu You was attacked by the peace faction, and was impeached and dismissed from office, and stayed at home. Living in seclusion and being poor, fortunately, there are books to comfort. Lu You's books are numerous, but they also attract mice to patronize. The mouse bit the book at sixes and sevens, and Lu You, who loves books, was heartbroken. In order to solve the problem of rats, he started shoveling excrement in Lu Fangweng and fell in love with cats.
At first, he raised cats to catch mice and protect books at home. But with the passage of time, his original intention of raising cats gradually became his love and companionship for cats. He has repeatedly expressed his love for cats in his poems, such as "Cats in the Village with Cher as the Poem Name" and "The Storm on November 4th".
Lu You's calligraphy art;
Besides poetry and prose, Lu You's calligraphy is his ideal sustenance and eternal pursuit. Judging from his poems, calligraphy handwriting and inscriptions, Lu You is good at calligraphy, especially cursive script. Lu You's orthographic calligraphy, based on Jin and Tang calligraphy, is profound, vigorous and full of charm, with obvious Yan Zhenqing regular script style; His running script and cursive script adopted Zhang Xu and Yang Ningshi, and were influenced by Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and others. They pursue the harmony of personality and spirit, and pay attention to the change and rhythm of contrast.
Lu You's calligraphy is simple and elegant, and he is good at cursive brushwork. He is elegant and upright, and his brushwork is vigorous and unrestrained in his later years. Zhu Zi's Poem is called "exquisite style and profound meaning". His Poem still retains the brushwork and habit of studying Yan Zhenqing and Su Shi's calligraphy in his early years, but it obviously combines the advantages of running script and Zhang Xu cursive script. No matter how to use a pen, knot words and white cloth, they are all integrated with his poems. Cheng Yi's inscription in Ming Dynasty is "Beautiful Poems and Clear Words", which is a rare masterpiece of calligraphy.