1. Birds startle snakes
Shi Yalou was a monk in the Tang Dynasty. He stayed in temples for a long time, burning incense and chanting sutras. Other monks secretly played chess and slept in their spare time, but Shi Yalou bought inkstone, pen and paper to practice calligraphy. Sometimes in the middle of the night, he is still practicing hard.
As each year passed, his writing skills became more and more sophisticated. Many people who burned incense and worshiped Buddha also came to ask him to write. He agreed one by one. His cursive writing is particularly elegant and unrestrained. Someone asked him: "How to calculate cursive script?" Shi Yalou wrote eight characters: "Flying birds enter the forest, startling snakes into the grass!"
"Flying birds startle snakes" describes the font as elegant as a bird flying. , the strokes are so powerful that even snakes are frightened.
2. Learning calligraphy in Linchi
Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, asked his son Wang Xianzhi to learn calligraphy since he was a child. After a period of practice, Wang Xianzhi wrote the word "大" and asked his father to check it. His father added a dot to the word to become "太". He ran to ask his mother, and her mother told him that only a dot is the real kung fu. So Wang Xianzhi stayed by the 18 large water tanks at home to practice writing.
3. Skillful robbery
Mi Youren (zi Yuanhui), the son of the great calligrapher and painter Mi Fu of the Song Dynasty, had a good family background, and like his father, he both wrote He is good at calligraphy and good at painting; he especially loves the works of ancient people.
Once, when he saw Wang Xizhi’s calligraphy on someone else’s boat, he seemed to be overjoyed and immediately wanted to exchange it for a piece of Good Day. The owner didn’t agree, so he screamed anxiously and clung to the side of the boat. He jumped into the water. Fortunately, others quickly hugged him and prevented him from falling into the water. He has a great skill, which is to learn to imitate the paintings of the ancients.
When he was in Lianshui, he once borrowed a "Picture of a Pine Cow" from someone to sketch. Later, he kept the original copy and returned the copy to someone else, but the person didn't notice it at the time. Take it and go. It wasn't until many days later that he came to ask for the original. Mi Youren asked him how he could tell, and the man replied: "The eyes in the original book have the shadow of the shepherd boy; but the one you returned to me does not."
But Mi Youren Ren imitated the paintings of the ancients, and few people discovered that his models were fake. He often went out of his way to borrow ancient paintings from others to copy; and after he finished copying, he would always give the master both the sample and the original copy, asking the master to make his own choice.
Because of his skill in imitating ancient paintings, he made the model exactly the same as the original. The owner often took the model back as the original, and Mi Youren obtained many valuable authentic copies. Ancient paintings. Mi Youren is a talented artist who deserves people's admiration. He is also a lover and appreciator of ancient paintings, letting people know more about the beauty and value of ancient paintings.
However, his behavior of subtly exchanging the fake copy for someone else's authentic copy is despised and despised. Therefore, some people called his behavior of using clever methods to defraud other people's authentic ancient paintings "stealing and plundering". Later people extended it into the idiom "stealing and plundering", which is used to describe people who use unfair and clever methods to steal. Seize what you don't deserve.
4. Three-point penetrating wood
Wang Xizhi, a great calligrapher of the Jin Dynasty, was the son of Wang Kuang, a calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was good at calligraphy at the age of seven. At the age of twelve, he saw the previous generation's "Bi Shuo" under his father's pillow and stole it to read. His father asked, "Why did you steal something that I had secretly collected?" Wang Xizhi smiled and did not answer. His mother asked, "Are you looking at the brushwork?"
My father saw that he was still young, Worried that he could not keep the secret, he told Wang Xizhi: "I will teach you calligraphy when you grow up." Wang Xizhi knelt down and said: "Let the child read this book. Reading it when he grows up will delay the beauty of the child's childhood." Talent and development. "
My father was very happy and gave him the book immediately. In less than a month, (Wang Xizhi's) calligraphy has made great progress. After Mrs. Wei knew about it, she told Taichang Wang Ce: "This child must have seen the secrets of using a pen. Recently, I saw his calligraphy, and he has become a master." She shed tears and said, "This child will definitely be more famous than me in the future."
Emperor Ming of the Eastern Jin Dynasty once wanted to go to Fuzhou Mountain in the northern suburbs of Jiankang, Kyoto, to offer sacrifices to the Earth God. He asked Wang Xizhi to write the sacrificial inscriptions on a wooden celebration board and then have someone carve it.
The engraver removed layer after layer of wood, and found that Wang Xizhi’s ink stains penetrated deep into the board. It was not until three-thirds of the thickness was removed that the white background was visible! The engraver marveled at the power of his calligraphy: "It penetrated the wood three-thirds!" Later, "penetrating the wood three-thirds" became an idiom, metaphorizing good calligraphy skills or thorough analysis of problems.
5. The pen moves like a dragon and a snake
During the Tang Dynasty, Secretary He Zhizhang entertained guests at his house, and Li Bai composed a poem "Songs in Cursive Script" at the banquet. Huai Su, a disciple of Master Xuanzang, was good at cursive calligraphy. When he was asked to do calligraphy in public, Huai Su dipped his pen in ink and concentrated on his luck. He quickly wrote. He Zhizhang praised: "The master writes, turning left and right, and his pen is really moving." Snake."