Wen Zhengming wrote "The Thousand Character Essay" shortly, with ten copies a day, and the book progressed greatly. Throughout my life, I have never been sloppy in writing, or answered people's simple notes, rarely taking care of them, but I will never tire of changing them over and over again, so the older I get, the more sophisticated they become. (From "Shu Lin Chronicle")
Notes
(1) Lin: Copy.
(2) Day: every day.
(3) To: follow.
(4) Rate: Standard.
(5) Calligraphy has made great progress, calligraphy.
(6) Sui: So, just.
(7) Advance: progress
(8) Yu: Right, for.
(9) Taste: once.
(10) Sloppy: This means careless and careless.
(11) or: sometimes.
(12) Bamboo slips: letters, letters.
(13) Shao: Tongjia, the same as "little". a little.
(14) Note: Satisfactory.
(15) must: must, must.
(16) Three: multiple times
(17) Yi: change, this article means "rewriting".
(18): table progression
(19) disgust: disgust.
(20) Therefore: Therefore.
(21) Yueyi: more and more.
(22) Exquisite: Exquisite and ingenious.
(23) Dajin: Rapid progress; Jin: Progress.
(24) Live in books, books: writing, writing.
(25) Careless: Casual, sloppy, not serious.
Translation
Wen Zhengming copied "The Thousand Character Classic" and practiced according to the standard of writing ten books every day, and his calligraphy improved rapidly. He was never careless about writing in his life. Sometimes when he was a little dissatisfied when replying to other people's letters, he had to change it many times without fear of trouble. Therefore, the older he gets, the more delicate and skillful his calligraphy becomes.
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To treat learning, you must have the same meticulous spirit of serious writing as Wen Zhengming, and you must take every work seriously.
The selected article praises Wen Zhengming, the famous calligrapher of the Ming Dynasty, for his meticulous spirit in learning calligraphy, which has a very inspiring effect on our young people.
We often give up halfway and achieve nothing in the end. Only by being down-to-earth and persevering can we succeed. By narrating Wen Zhengming’s calligraphy experience, the article aims to highlight Wen Zhengming’s diligent, diligent, diligent and conscientious spirit. At the same time, we must also learn this hard-working, diligent, conscientious and tireless spirit in our daily study and life. No matter what you do, you must persevere and not be careless; only with quantitative accumulation can you make a qualitative leap. If you hope to achieve it overnight or do it half-heartedly, you are unlikely to succeed.
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Wen Zhengming (1470-1559), whose original name was Bi and whose courtesy name was Zhengming. At the age of forty-two, he began to use the character Xing and changed the character Zhengzhong. Because he was born in Hengshan, he was named Hengshan Jushi, and was known as "Wenhengshan" in the world. He was a painter, calligrapher and writer in the Ming Dynasty. Han nationality, from Changzhou (now Suzhou, Jiangsu). He was born in the sixth year of Chenghua reign of Emperor Xianzong of Ming Dynasty and died in the thirty-eighth year of Jiajing reign of Emperor Shizong of Ming Dynasty at the age of ninety. Poet masters Bai Juyi and Su Shi, literary masters from Wu Kuan, calligraphy from Li Yingzhen, and painting from Shen Zhou. In poetry, together with Zhu Yunming, Tang Yin and Xu Zhenqing, he is known as the "Four Talents in Wuzhong". In the history of painting, together with Shen Zhou, Tang Yin and Qiu Ying, they are known as the "Four Wu Schools".