When Huai Su lived in Lingling, he was so poor that he didn't even have paper to write in Chinese calligraphy. So he planted more than 10,000 plantains and splashed ink with plantain leaves, calling his buddhist nun the "Green Temple". First find a wooden pallet and a board, color it, and use it as an inkstone and tablet. Grinding ink every day, writing every day, grinding when the ink is dry, and writing after grinding; Wipe it after writing, and wipe it before writing. Day after day, year after year, the boards are worn out and worn through.
Original text:
When Huai Su lived in Lingling, he was poor and had no paper to write on. He planted more than 10,000 plantains and spread them with banana leaves, so he called them "blue sky". Lack of books is to draw a plate of books and a board, and the books are repeatedly worn out.
Extended data:
Huai Su (725-785) was a famous monk in the Tang Dynasty. He became a monk since he was a child, but he always insisted on his hobby of calligraphy. He studied under the famous calligraphy master Yan Zhenqing. But the main achievement of his calligraphy is not regular script, but cursive script, especially weeds. His masterpiece Preface can be described as a model in the history of cursive script.
This achievement is the result of his long-term unremitting practice. It is not easy to have such "achievements". Because the monk's job is to serve the Buddha, meditate and recite scriptures, and practice calligraphy, and every minute takes up all the rest time. This, Huai Su completely did it. His perseverance is amazing.
Writing is also done in Four Treasures of the Study. Life in the temple is poor. You have to spend a lot of money on pens and ink. How can you afford ink stone and paper? But it didn't bother Huai Su. He managed to make his own substitute. First of all, I found a wooden pallet and a wooden board, and colored them to make inkstones and tablets. Grinding ink in the sky, writing in the sky, grinding when the ink is dry, and writing after grinding; Wipe it after writing, and wipe it before writing.
Day after day, year after year, the boards are worn out and worn through. You can't write without a pen. Huai Su loves pens and washes them after writing. He didn't have a suitable water container, so he used local materials; Wash pens in a small stone pool outside the house.
This is how Huai Su worked hard to create conditions, studied hard, and finally learned to hover with a pen, which was wild and changeable. From a young monk who loves to write, he became a calligraphy master worthy of emulation and praise.
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