Meaning: If you don't study, you will become vulgar one day. Look in the mirror in a couple of days and you will feel that your face is terrible and ugly. After three days, talking to people is meaningless and life is boring.
Excerpted from Huang Tingjian's anthology. In addition, Su Shi also recorded this passage in the article Record the Words of Huang Zhi. Huang Lu Zhiyun said: Scholar-officials don't study for three days, and they don't lift their righteousness to their chests. They feel sick to the mirror and tasteless to people.
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Huang Tingjian is good at running script and cursive script, and regular script is also his own. Learning books especially admire Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion. There is a poem praising Yang Ningshi, which can explain his profound experience in studying the Preface to Lanting: "The world tries its best to learn Lanting noodles, and wants to change every bone instead of elixir. Who knows that Yang Fengzi of Luoyang went to Wu Si Bar when he was writing. " This is inseparable from his profound understanding of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy learning.
When Huang Tingjian traced back to the Jin and Tang Dynasties and studied the classic calligraphy of his predecessors, Su Shi had the greatest influence on him. It can be said that Huang Tingjian's calligraphy was largely imitated by Su Shi. Huang Tingjian, as one of the "Four Scholars of Su School", cannot but be influenced by Su Shi's calligraphy style. In Huang Tingjian's book theory, there are many comments on Dongpo's books, and most of them are admired. Su Dongpo is not only a teacher and promoter of Huang Tingjian's literature, but also a model of his calligraphy.
The formation of Huang Tingjian's Chinese calligraphy style is due to his self-discipline after seeing the cliff "righteousness and brightness" in Jingkou. There is a misunderstanding in Huang Tingjian's "Tuoheming", that is, he took "Tuoheming" as a book written by the right army and believed it, so he tried his best to figure out the teacher's knowledge. But it was also a mistake, which promoted the formation of Huang Tingjian's long gun and short gun style.
Objectively speaking, Huang Tingjian and Su Dongpo are calligraphers who surpassed the cover of the calligraphy style of the Tang Dynasty 800 years earlier than that of the Qing Dynasty in the history of calligraphy in China, and traced back to the inscriptions before the Tang Dynasty or merged into one. As far as the origin of Su Shi's calligraphy style is concerned, a clear answer can be obtained by comparing his masterpiece "Cold Food Poetry" with Luoyang's "Longmen Twenty Products". Huang Tingjian clearly flaunted the model of "righteousness and clarity".