His wife urged him to rest many times before he went to bed; When I got to bed and lay under the covers, my mind was still full of copybooks, and I couldn't help writing on my wife's stomach with my finger as a pen. His wife sleeps with her eyes closed because her fingers are scratching and she can't sleep.
He pushed his hand away and said angrily, "You have your body and I have my body. If you want to write, write it on your body. " Wang Xizhi listened to his wife's words, and his heart moved: "Yes, yes, you have your body and I have my body. I can't always follow other people's gourd paintings, I want to create my own fonts. "
From then on, he practiced hard and innovated constantly, and finally created his own font, becoming a generation of book saints in China.
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Calligraphy achievement style
Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Collection of Lanting is highly praised by calligraphers of all ages and is known as "the best running script in the world". Wang Jian is good at following the laws of Li, Cao, Kai and Xing, carefully studying the shape, imitating the shape with his heart, learning from others' strengths, preparing everything in one furnace, getting rid of the style of writing in Han and Wei Dynasties, and becoming a family of his own, which has far-reaching influence.
His calligraphy is peaceful and natural, and his brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, graceful and graceful. The world often uses Cao Zhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo: "If you are amazed, if you are graceful, if you are in Youlong, you will be glorious and autumn, and Hua Mao will be spring pine. It seems that if the moon is covered by light clouds, it will float like the wind flowing back to snow. " Praise the beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy.
Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black. Later generations commented: "floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon", "the dragon leaps into the Tianmen, the tiger lies in the phoenix" and "it's natural, and the rich gods cover all generations". There are some idioms about Wang Xizhi, such as cleverness and quick marriage. The most obvious feature of Wang Xizhi's style of writing is exquisite brushwork and changeable structure.
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy has influenced bookstores from generation to generation. Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Zhu Suiliang, Xue Qi, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan in the Tang Dynasty, Yang Ningshi in the Five Dynasties, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Mi Fei and Cai Xiang in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty and Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty were all impressed by Wang Xizhi, so they enjoyed the reputation of "book saints".
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