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Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy at the age of 7 and was diligent and eager to learn. When he was 17 years old, he stole his father's secret collection of calligraphy treatises from previous generations and read them. Once he was familiar with them, he practiced writing. He sat by the pool every day and practiced calligraphy. After seeing off the dusk and welcoming the dawn, he finished writing more or less ink. The writing is more or less broken.
After practicing calligraphy every day, I would wash my pen in the pond water. Over time, all the water in the pond was washed into ink color. This is the legendary ink pond that people see in Shaoxing today.
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Books come in exchange for geese
Wang Xizhi was born to love geese. There was an old woman in Kuaiji who kept a goose, which sang very beautifully. Wang Xizhi wanted to buy it but the old woman refused to sell it. So one day Wang Xizhi took his relatives and friends to watch the geese in a car. When the old woman heard that Wang Xizhi was coming, she killed the goose and cooked it for Wang Xizhi to come. Wang Xizhi lamented and lamented for many days because his beloved goose died because of his desire to see it. There was a Taoist priest in Shanyin who was good at raising geese.
Wang Xizhi went to his place to watch geese. He was very happy and insisted on buying geese. The Taoist priest said: "If you are willing to write me a copy of the Tao Te Ching, I will give you all these geese." Wang Xizhi happily agreed. After writing, he happily returned home with a cage of geese. Do what you say, don’t use your power to bully others, and reasonably exchange for what you love, haha! He is really a good young man.
Wang Xizhi (303-361, 321-379), courtesy name Yishao, Han nationality, was a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and was known as the "Sage of Calligraphy". Langya was born in Linyi (now Linyi, Shandong), and later moved to Shanyin, Huiji (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), and lived in seclusion in Jinting, Shan County in his later years. He successively served as secretary Ying, general Ningyuan, and governor of Jiangzhou. Later, he was the internal history of Kuaiji and the general on the right.
His calligraphy is good at Li, Cao, Kai and Xing styles. He studies the styles carefully, imitates them with his heart and his hands. The wind is a style of its own and has far-reaching influence. The style is peaceful and natural, the writing style is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful and graceful.
Li Zhimin commented: "Wang Xizhi's calligraphy not only expresses the simplicity and profoundness based on the philosophy of Lao and Zhuang, but also expresses the harmony based on the Confucian doctrine of the mean." His representative work "Lanting Preface" is known as " The best running script in the world." In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi are collectively known as the "Two Kings".
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