The original love of geese: it is a household name among the people. According to the biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, there was a lonely old lady in Huiji who kept a good goose. Wang Xizhi sent someone to buy it, but the old lady didn't sell it. Wang Xizhi invited friends to watch it. When the old woman heard that Wang Xizhi was coming, she killed the goose and prepared to entertain him. When Wang Xizhi arrived, she saw that the goose was dead and sighed all day. There is an old Taoist priest in Yuhuangguan, Shanyin County, who wants to get a copy of Huang Tingjing written by Wang Xizhi. However, the right army is famous all over the world, how can he sell the favor of an old Taoist priest? Fortunately, he learned that Wang Xizhi loved geese, so he carefully nursed a batch of fine white geese and kept them in Wang Xizhi's outing with friends every day. Wang Xizhi finally "accidentally" met this group of white geese, and was very surprised. He wanted to buy the white geese. The Taoist said, "As long as you write an article about Huang Tingjing for me, I will give all these geese to each other." Wang Xizhi happily finished writing, and returned home in a cage with great joy.
Wang Xizhi loves geese. In Huiji (modern Shaoxing), there was an old woman who kept a singing goose. Wang Xizhi asked to buy it, but she didn't get it, so she took her relatives and friends to watch it by car.
When the old woman heard that Wang Xizhi was coming, she slaughtered the goose and cooked it for Wang Xizhi, who sighed all day.
There is another Taoist priest in Shanyin (now Shaoxing) who likes to raise geese. Wang Xizhi was very happy when he went to see them, and insisted on buying them back. The Taoist priest said, "As long as you can copy the Tao Te Ching for me, I will definitely give you the whole flock of geese."
Wang Xizhi finished writing happily, and he packed a goose in a cage and took it home. He was very happy. This is the case with his willfulness and frankness.
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This calligraphy is known as the second official book of the Right Army in the world, and later generations even called Huang Tingjing "Change Goose Post" because of this allusion. Li Bai quoted this allusion in "Seeing the guests off to Yue" that "Taoist priests in Shanyin should write" Huang Ting for White Goose "if they meet.
Wang Xizhi loves raising geese, which is of course a scholar's elegance and edifying sentiment. More importantly, he realized the mystery of calligraphy and the truth of calligraphy from the posture, walking and swimming of geese. He thinks that the index finger should be slightly bent like a goose's head when holding a pen, and the water should be paddled like a goose's foot when carrying a pen, so that the spirit can be absorbed in the pen.
On another occasion, when he went to a student's house, he saw that his low wooden table was clean and smooth, so he wrote on it, half in regular script and half in cursive. Later, the student's father accidentally scratched off these words, and his students regretted it for several days. His calligraphy was valued by the world at that time, and there were many such things. Wang Xizhi often claims: "My calligraphy is comparable to that of Zhong Yao;" Compared with Zhang Zhi's cursive script, it is also like a wild goose ranking. " He once wrote a letter saying: "In the Eastern Han Dynasty, Zhang Zhi learned to write in Linchi, and the water in the pool turned black. If people all over the world are addicted to calligraphy like him, it is not necessarily worse than him."