1. Birds scare snakes.
Shi Yalou was a monk in the Tang Dynasty. He stayed in temples for a long time, burning incense and chanting sutras. Other monks secretly played chess and slept in their free time, but Shi Yalou bought inkstone, pen and paper to practice calligraphy. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he is still practicing hard.
As each year passed, his writing skills became more and more sophisticated. Many people who burned incense and worshiped Buddha also came to ask him to write. He agreed one by one. His cursive writing is particularly elegant and unrestrained. Someone asked him: "How to calculate cursive script?" Shi Yalou wrote eight characters: "Flying birds enter the forest, startling snakes into the grass!"
"Flying birds startle snakes" describes the font as elegant as a bird flying. , the strokes are so powerful that even snakes are frightened.
2. Study in Linchi.
Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, asked his son Wang Xianzhi to learn calligraphy since he was a child. After a period of practice, Wang Xianzhi wrote the word "大" and asked his father to check it. His father added a dot to the word to become "太". He ran to ask his mother, and her mother told him that only a dot is the real kung fu. So Wang Xianzhi stayed by the 18 large water tanks at home to practice writing.
3. Three points into the wood.
Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, was the son of Wang Kuang, a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was good at calligraphy at the age of seven. At the age of twelve, he saw the previous generation's "Bi Shuo" under his father's pillow and stole it to read. His father asked, "Why did you steal something I had secretly collected?" Wang Xizhi smiled and did not answer. His mother asked, "Are you looking at the brushwork?"
My father thought that he was still young, Worried that he could not keep the secret, he told Wang Xizhi: "I will teach you calligraphy when you grow up." Wang Xizhi knelt down and said: "Let the child read this book. Reading it when he grows up will delay the beauty of the child's childhood." His talent and development were greatly improved.
His father was very happy and gave him the book immediately. In less than a month, (Wang Xizhi's) calligraphy had improved a lot. Taichang Wang Ce said: "This kid must have learned how to use a pen. Recently, I saw his calligraphy, and he has become a master. She shed tears and said, "This child will definitely be more famous than me in the future." ”
Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once wanted to go to Fuzhou Mountain in the northern suburbs of Jiankang, Kyoto, to worship the earth god. He asked Wang Xizhi to write the sacrificial inscriptions on a wooden blessing board, and then sent someone to carve it.
Engraving The engraver peeled away layer after layer of wood and found that Wang Xizhi's ink had penetrated deep into the wood until it was three-thirds thick and the white background was revealed. The engraver marveled at the power of his writing: "It penetrated three-thirds of the way into the wood!" "After that, "three points into the wood" became an idiom, metaphorizing good calligraphy skills or thorough analysis of problems.
4. The pen moves like a dragon and a snake.
During the Tang Dynasty, Secretary He Zhizhang entertained guests at his house. , Li Bai wrote the poem "Songs in Cursive Script" at the banquet. Huai Su, a disciple of Master Xuanzang, was good at cursive script. He was asked to do calligraphy in public. Huai Su dipped his pen in ink, concentrated on his luck, and wrote it quickly. He Zhizhang praised: " When the Master writes, he turns left and right, which is really a flurry of movement. ”