During the Han Dynasty, there was a celebrity in Hongnong County who wanted to visit his good friend Zhang Zhi. It was near dusk at this time, and the carriage bypassed the foot of the mountain. A big pond appeared in front of my eyes, and the water was black. There are two big trees by the pool, and there is a rope in the middle, covered with rags, swaying in the evening wind. Sitting under the rag is his good friend Zhang Zhi, with grass as a mat and slate as a table, writing with rapt attention.
Celebrities quietly approached him and watched for a while, only to see thick or light lines dancing at the same time as the dragon and phoenix dance. The whole work was extremely profound and exquisite. He couldn't help exclaiming loudly: "Great." This shocked Zhang Zhi. He turned around and saw that he was a good friend. He stood up and said, "Don't praise me. I exchanged that pool of ink for the dotted line of this paper. "
Celebrities looked at the rags among the trees and suddenly realized that Zhang Zhi used cloth instead of paper. After writing all the words, he took them to the pond to wash and dry. Over the years, the big clear pond was dyed black. After unremitting efforts, Zhang Zhi finally won the reputation of "the sage of the Eastern Han Dynasty".
Zhang zhi's achievements
Zhang Zhi's "One Book" is "the body of a word, and it is made in one stroke", "like running water, plucking hair, linking up and down, or borrowing words from bottom to top, making strange shapes open and closed, and containing several meanings". This is an incisive summary of a book by Zhang Huaiguan in Shu Duan. At the same time, he spoke highly of Zhang Zhi's cursive script as "the head of sages" and thus became the "head of cursive script".
Zhang Zhi's cursive script has brought unparalleled vitality to China's calligraphy art, becoming famous all over the world for a time, and scholars are like a cloud. Wang Xizhi worships Zhang Zhi and has been learning from him for many years. He always thought that his cursive script was inferior to Zhang Zhi's.
Huai Su, the master of wild grass, also claimed that Zhang Zhi and Zhang Xu benefited the most. Sun, a master of cursive script in the Tang Dynasty, also mentioned many times in his Book Score that he studied Zhang Zhi's cursive script all his life.