Su Shi said, "A bad pen is not as precious as a mountain, and you can understand the spirit only by reading thousands of books", which is about the subtle relationship between calligraphy and personal cultivation. Calligraphy is a combination of beautiful features of various things, such as lines, structure, posture and expression. ...
Said by Su Shi in Song Dynasty, "Liu Er's nephew asks for a book".
Original text:
It is not enough to retreat into the mountains. Only by reading thousands of books can you understand God.
Your family has its own yuan and feet, so don't be tired of asking people about chickens.
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People who practice calligraphy should read more books, and only when the books are read well can the characters have lasting appeal; And blindly writing, that is, practicing with a rotten pen, may not be able to write good things.
Calligraphy can't be done overnight. There are only a few lines on the paper, which seems to be a stroke of a pen. In essence, if you don't think hard day by day until your temples turn gray, you can reach the handy writing realm. So there is no need to "rush to pass on the family law."
Extended data
This is a poem written by Su Shi to his nephew. "Liu Er's nephew", whose long name is Liu Bi, is the son of Su Shi's sister-in-law and the grandson of calligrapher Liu Jin. The Liu brothers are "very beautiful and eager to learn" ("Preface to Poems by Huang Tingjian"), and asked their uncle Su Shi for handwriting, which was presented as a quatrain by the two prime ministers.
This is the first one. In this poem, the author explained the meaning and ways of erudition to his second nephew with a kind style and vivid image, and revealed the general law of learning, which is philosophical.