The story of "Yi Zi Shi"
The allusion of "Yi Zi Shi" originates from "Chronicles of Tang Poems" written by Ji Yougong of the Song Dynasty. It is also found in "Supplement to the History of the Five Dynasties" written by Tao Bing of the Song Dynasty. ” and “The Poet’s Jade Chips” by Wei Qingzhi of the Song Dynasty. They all record the same story: Zheng Gu, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, wrote very good poems and essays, especially "Partridge Poems" which is outstanding. Therefore, people called him "Zheng Partridge". His friend Qi is already a monk and also likes to write poems and essays. Once, Qi had brought a poem "Early Plum" he had written to ask Zheng Gu for advice. When Zheng Gu saw "in the deep snow in the front village, several branches bloomed last night", he always felt something was wrong. After After careful consideration and repeated deliberation, I still felt that the plum blossoms were not vivid enough after many changes. Finally, I thought that changing "several branches" to "one branch" could better reflect the early blooming of plum blossoms. After hearing this, Qi Ji admired Zheng Gu's ingenuity very much and expressed his deep gratitude to Zheng Gu. People who wrote poems and compositions at that time all admired Zheng Gu for changing only one word in Qi Ji's poem, which made the whole poem appear accurate and vivid, so "people regarded Zheng Gu as a one-word master". Later, people used the term "one-character master" to refer to those who corrected one character to make the whole article shine. Later, it also generally referred to the corrector of poetry.
This applies to learning.
1. Couplets
Because I loved calligraphy, I once became a teacher of an old gentleman. The teacher saw that I was a bit rough and probably wouldn't have much potential, so he casually said, "Let's go to the Mysterious Tower first."
The Mysterious Tower the old gentleman mentioned is a rubbing of the inscription on the Mysterious Tower written by Liu Gongquan, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty. For those who learn Chinese character calligraphy, it belongs to the level of primary school students. Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to belittle Liu Zi here. I mean that Liu Zi is very well-known among Chinese people. Even primary school students use it as a model for drawing red patterns. . Anyone who has some knowledge of calligraphy knows the four famous calligraphers since the Tang and Song Dynasties - Yan Liu Ouzhao. The Liu character is especially famous for its regular shape and strict laws. Naturally, it is conceivable that I, who is no longer the age of a red model, can sit still? Therefore, there was no success in the end, and giving up halfway was the inevitable outcome.
There are also gains. From then on, I like to ponder this square character.
One day, while chatting with a colleague, the topic suddenly turned to calligraphy. To be honest, although I have not learned anything famous, I still have a little sense and taste in appreciating other people's works - just like cooking, you cannot do it yourself, but it does not prevent you from appreciating the taste of other people's dishes; as long as you use your heart , maybe you can become a gourmet. A colleague said solemnly that he recently met a calligrapher who can write very well. Ask me if I am interested in requesting a calligraphy painting for you? I hesitated for a moment and then decided to accept my colleague’s kindness.
But what words should I write? In my opinion, calligraphy and painting works are either by famous artists and can be used for collection; or they are seasonal and can be used as decoration. As for decorative calligraphy and painting works, there is no need to be too picky, as long as they have good content and a basic layout. I can't recall how famous the calligrapher he mentioned was, maybe he was a rising star. So I was undecided on what to write.
I suddenly thought of the topic of personnel management around me recently, and for some reason it came to mind that Lu Xun mentioned something with the capital character "human" in some article. Why not create a couplet related to people? By this time I already knew it. However, I don’t know whether the calligrapher is young or old, whether he has a real reputation or a false reputation. If the calligrapher sees that I intend to embarrass him, wouldn't he let his colleagues look down on me?
I can’t control that much. So Gonggong wrote fourteen words:
Everyone should follow the crowd, everyone should follow the crowd.
I explained to my colleagues that they must be written in simplified Chinese as they are. He was a little confused and I was a little proud.
People who love calligraphy know that the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi once wrote more than a dozen different zigzag characters in a manuscript - but they were interspersed in the article, seeking a certain meaning when the contextual characters were different. This change is objectively feasible. If the book sage were asked to write a dozen or dozens of zigzags throughout the entire article, I think he would break out in a sweat if he didn't throw the pen away angrily.
Of course he can't write.
Even if the old Taoist asked him for a piece of calligraphy, he would go to great lengths to raise a pond of white geese to please him, let alone the boring trick of waiting for me.
But one day after that, I actually saw that picture among my colleagues. The words were written vertically, and there seemed to be a postscript, to the effect that he himself had no comment on the meaning of the couplet. But when I saw the word, I no longer had any doubts about the meaning of the couplet.
For some reason, my colleague didn’t give me the calligraphy later; it didn’t belong to me, so there was no need to ask for it back.
This applies to literature. Boat
Noah’s family of eight received God’s revelation and escaped the flood in the ark
Cangjie added the word “boat” to the word “eight” to form the word “boat”
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Greed
In the Garden of Eden, there was the tree of life and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Eve ate the forbidden fruit out of greed, so Cangjie used the word "greed" as the word "greed" for greed when a woman under two trees picked the fruit.
----From the Bible
This is short and interesting.