It is said that Mrs Wei left many anecdotes about calligraphy. For example, there is a pond of 10 mu in the east of Suzhuang village called Mrs. Wei to wash it. It is about Mr. Wei's hours of learning Chinese characters, and his attitude is very serious. Sometimes it takes hours to write. When she is tired, she will go to the parking pool in front of the door to wash her pens and inkstones. Once, when she was tired of practicing calligraphy, she put her pen and inkstone in a bucket and put them in a pool. From then on, the water in the pond was dyed black, and later generations called this pond "Mrs. Wei Wash".
Another example is the anecdote of "Ink Rain". It is said that one summer, Mrs. Wei learned to write Chinese characters, and almost all the stones, bark and places around the mountain were covered with Chinese characters. Suddenly it rained, all the stones and bark were washed away, and the rain and ink mixed into black water. So, there is such an anecdote that people say "it rains on the mountain, and then it looks like" winking at the goose ".
Mrs. Wei's most legendary "touching the goose" story. Once, Wang Xizhi drew a goose, but he couldn't control his eyes. He always felt that his painting was not good. So, I asked Miss Wei's wife to show the goose. Mrs Wei took the pen and nodded. Who knows, the goose flew with a flick.
Here, let's get down to business and tell the story that Mrs. Wei taught Wang Xizhi to learn calligraphy. When Wang Xizhi was 7 years old, he began to learn calligraphy. Mrs Wei likes his cleverness very much. She is not only devoted to teaching Wang Xizhi to write, but also loves to inspire and encourage Wang Xizhi with stories of his predecessors practicing calligraphy.
On one occasion, Wang Xizhi asked Mrs. Wei, "Teacher, how can I practice writing as soon as possible?" When Mrs Wei saw Wang Xizhi's anxious appearance, which was cute and ridiculous, she said, "Son, don't worry too much. Let me tell you a story about Mo Chi first! It was in the Eastern Han Dynasty, when there was a man named Zhang Zhi. In order to practice good handwriting, he grinds ink and practices calligraphy in the pond in front of his house every day. He came out of the sun and practiced until the sun went down. After writing, he washed the ink and inkstone in the pond, and the washed ink dyed the whole pond black. Later, his handwriting became better and better, and cursive writing was lively and fluent.
While listening to Mrs. Wei telling Zhang Zhi's story, Wang Xizhi thought: In order to practice calligraphy well, the water used to wash pens and inkstones actually dyed the pond black. How hard he works! If I work as hard as Zhang Zhi, I can practice Chinese characters well. After that, under the specific guidance of Mrs. Wei, Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy even harder. Like Zhang Zhi, he washes pens and inkstones in the pond in front of his house every day after practicing calligraphy. With the passage of time, this mirror-clear pond became Mo Chi. Later, every time Wang Xizhi moved, he washed his pen and inkstone in the pool in front of the door. It is said that he left more Mo Chi than Zhang Zhi.
Ceng Gong, a writer in the Northern Song Dynasty, admired Wang Xizhi's industrious spirit and wrote a eulogy from 0755 to 79000. Mrs. Wei taught Wang Xizhi calligraphy and taught him to be transcendent and not to be proud and lazy. So Wang Xizhi later studied Zhang Zhi's cursive script and Zhong You's regular script, but he still felt that it was not enough. He is determined to read widely, learn from more calligraphers and learn from others. Later, Wang Xizhi grew up and became an official in Wuchang and Jiujiang.
Wherever Wang Xizhi goes, he always remembers Mrs. Wei's teachings and looks at the inscriptions left by his predecessors. He always copied carefully, took it out whenever he had time, carefully pondered the characteristics and understood the truth with his heart. After reading calligraphy, Wang Xizhi became fascinated with practicing calligraphy. Whether on the road or sitting down, he never forgets to ponder the frame structure, momentum and writing style. As he thought, he scratched himself with his fingers horizontally and vertically. After a long time, even his skirt was cut. Wang Xianzhi, Wang Xizhi's son, asked him why. He said to his son, "You will lose your virginity in the future!" Wang Xizhi's constant efforts have made his wrist strong and his pen strong. He often thinks: according to Mrs. Wei's teaching, only by synthesizing the strengths of a hundred schools of thought and acquiring the ever-changing god can innovation be realized.
In Wei's family, there are Ji and the famous Ji Tie. She once wrote cursive poems, Wei Shi and Nan Tie for the imperial court. Its glyph changed from the flat edge of Zhong You to a rectangle, and a few lines of characters were exquisite, gentle, elegant and beautiful, indicating that regular script was mature and universal at that time. Chen Si, a scholar in the Song Dynasty, quoted a book review in the Tang Dynasty, saying that her calligraphy was "like a flower arranging dancer with low beauty; Another example is the beauty on the stage, the fairy moth as the shadow, the red lotus reflecting the water and the blue marsh cloud. " This should not be a compliment.
Mrs. Wei's ancestors, Cong Bo and Cong are all famous calligraphers and calligraphy theorists. Mrs. Wei was influenced by her family since childhood and became a master of calligraphy. Later he became Wang Xizhi's calligraphy teacher. To some extent, without Mrs. Wei's enlightenment education, there would be no later sage Wang Xizhi. Many calligraphy history books have recorded Mrs. Wei's calligraphy achievements, calligraphy characteristics and the relationship with Wang Xizhi. Here are just two examples: a brief history of the book Xin: "Io's wife worships and is good at playing bells." Wang is a teacher. "
Scholars in the Tang Dynasty recorded names in ancient books: "Mrs. Wei is famous for Tuo and Mao. Wei Zhan's daughter-in-law, the slave girl, and Ru Yin and Li Moment's wife, Taishou. Official script is particularly good, and the rule is palace. Cloud: breaking the ice of the jade pot, the moon of the rotten Yao platform, like a fragrant tree, like a breeze. The right-wing army does not often split. Yonghe died in five years, 78. The son is China Shulang and also writes books. " Among them, the phrase "few right military advisers" refers to the fact that Wang Xizhi, a former general of the right army, studied calligraphy with Mrs. Wei when he was a teenager.
These records all mentioned that Mrs Wei was Wang Xizhi's calligraphy teacher, and Mrs Wei studied calligraphy in Zhong You. Its calligraphy is characterized by charm and clarity. Mrs Wei is not only the pioneer of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy, but also his aunt. The main basis is that both Shu Duan and Tao Yanji say that Wei is the middle table. Wang Guodong's revised Calligraphy and History Association even marked "Pei's" under his father Kuang Tiao.
Mrs. Wei's wife, Li of Jiangxia, is also a calligraphy family. Mrs. Wei's son, her brother, Li Xun, etc. They all have titles. Especially in the early Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shi Li's calligraphy achievements were comparable to those of Wang Kui and Yu Yi, the calligraphy authorities at that time. In the Tang Dynasty, Li in Jiangxia actually appeared as a calligrapher like Li Yong. Before the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Jiang Xia Li had never seen anyone famous for his calligraphy. The prosperity of Lishu after the Eastern Jin Dynasty was related to Mrs. Wei's marriage to the Li family. Although Mrs. Wei is only two years older, if Mrs. Wei marries the Li family at the age of 18, she is just a teenager at the age of 16.
It is not difficult to see that it is precisely because of Mrs. Wei's teaching that the Li family was able to reach the peak of calligraphy. "Pushing his aunt" in Zhang Huai Wang Family Tree is a clear proof. The good traces of ancient calligraphy are not easy to see, and the brushwork is confidential and difficult to pass on. Once you have the correct brushwork and see high-level books, you have the important conditions to become a famous artist.