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.
Translation written by Huai Su:
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.
Brief introduction of Huai Su
When Huai Su was ten years old, his parents couldn't stop him. After entering the Buddha, he changed his words to conceal the truth, and was called "Lingling monk" or "Shi Changsha" in history. The family is poor and can't afford paper, so we have to practice calligraphy on the walls, clothes, utensils and banana leaves of the temple; In order to practice calligraphy, I also made a paint tray. When Huai Su was young, calligraphy was "not learning the ancient".
According to the inheritance of China's brushwork, he is still "illegal" and still dissociated from orthodox calligraphy. In the second year of Gan Yuan (759), in his later years, Huai Su went to Li Bai to write poems. They are similar in temperament, and Li Bai loves talents and wrote a cursive script for him. In the first year of Tang Baoying (762), Huai Su set out from Lingling, took Wan Li Road, visited his teacher and friends, and passed through Hengyang and Ketanzhou.
In the first year of Tang Baoying (763), Huai Su began to go north to Yuezhou (now Yueyang, Hunan). In the first year of Tang Dali (766), Huai Su wrote eight autumn poems. The book style of Huai Su's post is not yet mature, and his heart is also in the stage of hesitation. Whether it is starting, holding or collecting a pen, it is far from the threshold of Jin people. In the second year of Tang Dali (767), Huai Su went south to Guangzhou to learn painting from Xu Hao.