West Wild Goose Lake, also known as "Yanchi", "Mo Chi" and "Echi", is located at No.20 Yanchi Street, Linyi City, Shandong Province, and is the former residence of Wang Xizhi. According to legend, Wang Xizhi often went to the pool to wash inkstones after practicing calligraphy hard in his childhood. After a long time, the water in the pool turned black, so people called it "West Wild Goose Lake" and ancient scholars also called it "Mo Chi".
Wang Mian, a poet and painter in the Yuan Dynasty, once wrote a poem: "I am the first tree in Xiyan Lake, and the flowers bloom and fall with light ink marks. Don't boast of lewdness, just leave a breath and do it all. "
There is a plum tree in Xiyan Lake near my home. Plum blossoms in full bloom seem to be stained with a touch of ink. It doesn't need others to praise how beautiful the color is, just need to diffuse the fragrance between heaven and earth.
Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is known as the "sage of books". Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong Province) was born, then moved to Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province) Yin Shan, and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years.
Successive secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat, later literature and history records, right general. His calligraphy is good at calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy. The style is peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful.
The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". This post is a draft, with 28 lines and 324 words, describing the elegant collection of literati at that time. It is said that the author couldn't write because of the influence of the weather, geography and people at that time. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. Mi Fei called it "the best running script in the world" in Song Dynasty.
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