At the age of seven, Wang Xizhi studied calligraphy with the female calligrapher Wei Shuo. Wang Xizhi had been copying Shu Wei until he was twelve years old. Although he is very good, he always feels dissatisfied. Because I often listen to the teacher's stories about calligraphers' diligent study and hard practice, I admire the calligraphy of Zhang Zhi, a "grass saint" in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and I am determined to use Zhang Zhi's "Linchi" story to motivate myself.
In order to practice calligraphy well, wherever he went, he always waded through mountains and rivers, explored ancient inscriptions and accumulated a lot of calligraphy materials. In his study, in the yard, at the gate and even outside the toilet, he has stools and pens, ink, paper and inkstones. Whenever he thinks of a well-structured word, he immediately writes it on paper. When he practiced calligraphy, he thought hard and even forgot to eat and sleep.
He believes that raising geese can not only cultivate sentiment, but also understand the truth of calligraphy from some gestures of geese. One morning, Wang Xizhi and his son Wang Xianzhi took a boat tour of Shaoxing. When they arrived near Xianshui Village, they saw a flock of white geese on the shore, staggering and dawdling. Wang Xizhi was fascinated by these white geese and wanted to buy them home. Wang Xizhi asked the Taoist priest nearby, hoping that the Taoist priest could sell him the goose. The Taoist priest said, "If the right army adults want it, please write a Taoist health book" Huang Ting Jing "for me! Wang Xizhi longed for the goose and readily agreed to the conditions put forward by the Taoist priest. This is the story of "Wang Xizhi gave the White Goose Book".
At the age of twenty, A Qiu Chi Jian sent someone to Wang Dao's house to choose a son-in-law. At that time, people paid attention to family status, and the door was right. When Wang Dao's son and nephew heard that Qiu's family was coming to propose marriage, they all dressed up in disguise, hoping to be selected. Only Wang Xizhi, as if he didn't hear anything, was lying on the bamboo couch in the east, eating baked wheat cakes in one hand and painting clothes in the other. When people came back, they reported what they saw to Xi Taiwei. When he knew that there was a quiet Wang Xizhi leaning on the east couch, he couldn't help clapping his hands and cheering. This is the son-in-law I want! So Chi Jian married his daughter Xi Jun to Wang Xizhi. This story has become two allusions of "East Bed" and "Lingtan".
There are more idioms on him than that. It is said that on one occasion, he wrote his words on a board and gave them to a sculptor for carving. The man cut the board with a knife, only to find that his handwriting was printed two-thirds deep in the board. This is the origin of the idiom "cut to the chase".
Wang Xizhi's best calligraphy in his life is Preface to Lanting Collection. That was his work in middle age.
There is a custom in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Every year on March 3rd of the lunar calendar, people go to the river to play, so as to eliminate the ominous. This is called [repair]. On March 3rd, the 9th year of Yonghe, Wang Xizhi and some scholars, 4 1 * * *, went to the Lanting River to build a temple. Everyone is writing poems while drinking.
After the poem was written, everyone collected the poems and synthesized a preface to Lanting Collection, which was publicly recommended by Wang Xizhi. At this time, Wang Xizhi was drunk. He took advantage of the wine, picked up a moustache pen and waved it on the cocoon paper. This preface is the preface to the Lanting Collection, which became famous throughout the ages. This post is a draft with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of the collection of literati at that time. Because the author was in high spirits and was very proud of his writing. It is said that I couldn't write anymore. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. Mi Fei in Song Dynasty called it "the best running script in the world". According to legend, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong of Tang Dynasty, collected the Preface to Lanting before his death and was buried in Zhaoling after his death. What's left is just a copy of others. What people see today is a Preface to Lanting. Wang Xizhi's calligraphy works are very rich. Besides Preface to Lanting Collection, there are other famous calligraphy works, such as Guan Nu Tie, Seventeen Tie, Two Xie Tie, Orange Tie, menstruation Tie, Quick Snow Clear Tie, Le Yi Lun and Huang Ting Jing. The main characteristics of his calligraphy are peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, graceful and restrained, and later generations commented that "if you float in the clouds, you may be surprised by moss." Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is beautiful.
Wang Daling, namely Wang Xianzhi (344-386), was named Amethyst, the seventh son of Sanxi, and the official secretariat was named Wang Daling. When I was a child, I studied calligraphy with my father Xi and Zhang Zhi. Calligraphy is good, especially cursive.
Wang Xizhi has seven sons and one daughter. All seven sons are good at calligraphy, among which Wang Xianzhi, the youngest son, is the best.
Wang Xianzhi studied calligraphy with his father when he was a child, and he was very ambitious. He wants to study and practice as hard as his father and become a great calligrapher. Every time he saw the famous calligraphy of the ancients, he always watched it carefully, and after comprehensive consideration of its font characteristics, stroke shape and structural layout, he began to write and wrote hundreds of times until he got the message. So by the time he was fourteen or fifteen, his calligraphy would be interesting.
But after studying for a period of time, he showed his fear of hardship and fatigue, hoping to find a shortcut to the success of calligraphy.
One day, Wang Xianzhi went into his father's study and asked Wang Xizhi, hoping that Wang Xizhi could tell him the secret of writing. Wang Xizhi took Wang Xianzhi to the backyard, pointed to eighteen jars of water and said to his son, "The secret of writing lies in these eighteen jars of water. You just have to finish writing the water in the 18 cylinders and you will know naturally. 」
After listening to his father's instruction, Wang Xianzhi never dared to take shortcuts, but practiced day and night.
In order to test his son's skill, Wang Xizhi pulled out his pen from behind. He didn't pull it out, and said with a sigh, "This child has a bright future! Under Wang Xizhi's inculcation, Wang Xianzhi really finished writing Eighteen Tanks of Water, which further changed Gu Zhuo's calligraphy style at that time and had a great influence on later generations.
His calligraphy is excellent in all aspects, especially cursive. He is handsome and heroic, and he is as famous as his father Wang Xizhi in the history of calligraphy, and he is also called "Two Kings".
His calligraphy masterpiece "Ode to the Goddess of Luo" has only 13 lines in the Song Dynasty, and there are jade carvings, which are known as "Thirteen Lines in the Jade Edition". In addition, works such as duck head pill post, Mid-Autumn post and Dongshan post are also treasures of calligraphy art.