In fact, half of all kinds of beauty are related to pen and ink.
That winter, it was so cold that the river and the lake froze, even the water tank at home froze. On such a day, the final exam will be held in primary school.
In the dilapidated classroom, every child is grinding ink with his heart. It grinds fast. I have dipped my brush in the inkstone to prepare the answer sheet. In those days, pencils and pens had not reached this remote mountain village.
Grinding ink needs water. There is a small bucket at the door of the classroom, which children can use every day in class on weekdays. But today, the bucket was frozen, and the water was scooped onto the inkstone after breaking the ice with half a broken brick. The children are worried. What if the inkstone freezes in the middle of the exam?
At this moment, a cheerful male teacher came into the classroom. He took out a bottle of white wine from his cotton skirt, poured a few drops on each child's inkstone and said, "This won't freeze, don't worry about writing!"
As a result, the classroom was full of wine, and so was the answer sheet. Our brushwork has the aftertaste of Li Bai from the beginning.
In fact, it is not just Li Bai. I didn't know until I grew up that in the west of our primary school, 400 years earlier than Li Bai, a group of people were already writing with wine. The leader is Wang Xizhi, and the answer sheet is called Preface to Lanting Collection.
Later, there was a library in the school. As there are few books, the teacher stipulates that one page should be used to borrow books. Soon it became overweight and was raised to borrow a two-page book in lower case. At that time, the first time I heard the teacher call calligraphy "calligraphy", I immediately misunderstood that "calligraphy" was "the way to borrow books". This misunderstanding is not bad.
At that time, few people could study outside school. But after all, it is the hometown of Wang Yangming and Huang Zongxi. There is a folk rule that when you see a written piece of paper on the road, even if it is only a small corner, even if it has been defaced, you must never trample on it. When passing farmers see it, they will bend down, respectfully pick it up, hold it in their hands and walk towards Wu Shan Temple. There is a stone stove beside the temple gate, which is engraved with four words: respect and cherish the word paper. There are still embers in the stone furnace. You put the paper in, sometimes there is a small fire, sometimes there is no fire. I saw the word paper slowly turn brown and finally turned to ashes.
There are many fishermen along the coast of my hometown. In which season, if you want to go fishing in the open sea, the host will definitely walk for miles to find a scholar and exchange a basket of eggs and a bundle of dried fish for a stack of paper. They think that the heaviest thing in the world is these dark brush words. Only by pressing a pile of words on the bilge can you dare to sail through the waves.