According to legend, one day Wang Xianzhi saw his father writing in the pavilion in the back garden and ran to ask him the secret of his father's writing. Wang Xianzhi said to his father, "So many people like your calligraphy. What's the secret? " ? Please tell me. "My father stopped writing and pointed to the eighteen big water tanks in the yard. He said to him kindly, "Son, the secret is in these tanks. You'll know when you've written all the water in eighteen tanks. "
Wang Xianzhi thought, "Why didn't my father tell me the secret of writing? Although I am small, everyone praises my handwriting. I want to show my father some skills. "
Early the next morning, Wang Xianzhi came to the back garden and began to practice calligraphy. He decided to start with the basics, so he found his father's words and began to copy them word by word. In this way, he practiced horizontal, vertical, point, skimming and pressing according to his father's words every day for more than two years. Finally, one day, he showed his father what he thought was the best sentence: "Father, do you think my basic strokes are like yours?" Wang Xizhi laughed and didn't answer. His mother said, "It's a bit like an iron hook."
Wang Xianzhi listened to defy spirit and practiced writing all kinds of hooks every day. So day after day, he practiced for another two years. One day, he proudly showed his exercise to his father, but his father kept silent. Mom commented: "Son, your strokes have improved again, a bit like a silver hook." Wang Xianzhi thought: "After practicing for more than four years, how is it exactly the same as my father's silver hook?" ? It seems that I have to work harder! "
Since the fifth grade, Wang Xianzhi has practiced writing complete words according to his father's words every day. No matter what the weather is like, Wang Xianzhi practiced calligraphy in the small pavilion in the back garden every day for the next four years.
When he showed the words to his father again, Wang Xizhi looked at them and just shook his head and sighed. My father pointed to the word "big" and said, "Look, the border of this word is tight on the top and loose on the bottom, and the structural distribution is not reasonable." As he spoke, he raised his pen and clicked a little under it, which became the word "too". Wang Xianzhi showed these words to his mother, who studied them carefully one by one. After watching them for three days, she finally sighed and said, "My son has been practicing calligraphy for three thousand days, and only this' point' is like Xihe." Wang Xianzhi was shocked. The "dot" pointed by his mother is the one that his father added under the word "big"!
Wang Xianzhi was ashamed. He went out of the house and came to the gate. He saw an old woman selling pancakes. Every time the old woman branded one, she stirred it with bamboo chopsticks and put it in the bamboo basket behind her, folded it neatly. Wang Xianzhi was very surprised and asked the old woman, "Old woman, you didn't look back. How can you be so accurate? " The old woman smiled and replied, "Nothing, just as clever as what Wang Xizhi wrote." Wang Xianzhi suddenly woke up, so he went home and continued to practice calligraphy hard.
It is said that Wang Xianzhi really wrote down all the water in the18th jar in the hospital. Later, he also became a famous calligrapher in the Jin Dynasty. His calligraphy is handsome, heroic and magnificent, which has a great influence on later generations. His fame is comparable to that of his father, Wang Xizhi, and he is known as the "two kings".