Selected passages:
Wang Xizhi's handwriting is rare, while Stuart's handwriting is very obedient. It is not surprising that people are young and speak slowly. And long, arguing and raising, famous bones. Especially the book is the best in ancient and modern times, and critics call it the pen gesture, which is considered as a floating cloud, smart and shocking, deeply valued by Taoism. When it has the same name, it has the same name as Wang Cheng and Wang Yue.
When Jane asked his disciples to seek guidance from his son-in-law, he ordered him to visit his children in the east wing. Disciple turned around and said, "Wang is good at counting, but he is salty and reserved when he hears his letter." The only person who eats in the east bed is hungry, but if he doesn't smell it. "The sword said," This is a good husband and evil! "Remember it, it also means Xi, so I regard it as a woman's wife.
Translation:
Wang Xizhi is the nephew of Stuart Wang Dao. When Wang Xizhi was a child, he was not good at talking, and people couldn't see anything superhuman about him. When he grew up, he was very good at arguing and was famous for his honest and frank temperament. His calligraphy is particularly good, and he is the first person since ancient times.
People praised his calligraphy style as "floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon". His uncles Wang Dun and Wang Dao attach great importance to him. Ruan Yu, a native of Chen Liu (near Kaifeng, Henan), was a police officer at that time. Ruan Yu also valued Wang Xizhi, and regarded him, Wang Yue and Wang Cheng as the three great talents of the Wang family.
On one occasion, Qiu Jian sent his protege to see Wang Dao, hoping to choose a son-in-law among the children of the Wangs. Wang Dao sent people to the East Wing to see the Wangs' children. When his protege came back, he said to Du Jian, "The children in the Wang family are all good, but when they heard that an envoy came, they all looked stiff and unnatural. Only one person sat on the bed in the east, eating with an empty stomach, as if nothing had happened. " Du Jian said, "This is the right husband for me. "Ask, turned out to be wang xizhi. County Jian married his daughter to him.
The Biography of Wang Xizhi comes from the Book of Jin in the Tang Dynasty, which describes Wang Xizhi's life story. It is based on various written and oral memories, surveys and other related materials, and is selectively sorted out, described and explained.
Extended data:
First, the creative background
The Book of Jin, one of the twenty-four histories, was compiled by 21 people including Fang in Tang Dynasty, with a total of 130 volumes, including 10 Historical Records, 20 Chronicles, 70 Biographies and 30 Records, which recorded the historical events from Sima Yi to the second year of Yuan Dynasty (420). Biography of Wang Xizhi is one of the biographies.
Second, appreciate
In the Biography of Wang Xizhi, four little things about Wang Xizhi, an outstanding calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, can be divided into two categories according to their contents. One is about loving geese and showing your responsible personality; One is about calligraphy, which reflects the importance of his calligraphy to the contemporary world.
Wang Xizhi's behavior in the article is grotesque and absurd, because "Sex Goose" can arouse people to take their relatives and friends by car and ride horses to see it, and they can wronged themselves to copy the "Yellow Pavilion Classic" for Taoist priests. When I saw a few cases slippery, I wrote them. When I saw an old woman selling fans, I wrote them without authorization. The old woman just laughed when she asked questions.
All kinds of actions were incredible, but it was this inexplicable behavior that was respected at that time. The two kinds of contents of this paper express such a theme: it shows Wang Xizhi's simple, frank, frank and willful personality characteristics, and reflects the spirit of the times of advocating individuality and carrying forward self in Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.
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