Liu Gongquan's Apprentice is a short story, which is included in the fourth grade textbook. It aims to tell the world through this story that people should not be complacent. There is no end to learning. Only by studying hard can you make your skills perfect.
Liu Gongquan was a famous calligrapher and writer in the Tang Dynasty, and one of the "four masters of regular script". The Diamond Sutra, the mysterious pagoda monument and the Su Feng monument are the classic masterpieces of Liu Gongquan.
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The story of Liu Gongquan's humble apprentice
Liu Gongquan (778-865) was born in Jingzhao Garden (now Yaozhou District, Tongchuan City, Shaanxi Province), Han nationality. A famous calligrapher and poet in the Tang Dynasty, the younger brother of Liu Gongzhuo, the minister of war. Liu Gongquan's calligraphy is famous for regular script, which is as famous as Yan Zhenqing, and is called "Yan Liu", and is also known as "four masters of regular script" with Ou Yangxun, Yan Zhenqing and Zhao Mengfu.
Liu Gongquan was a famous calligrapher in Tang Dynasty. When he was a teenager, he wrote a good hand, which often won the praise of teachers and the envy of friends, and he couldn't help being proud of it. One day, Liu Gongquan and several partners were practicing calligraphy in a pavilion on the roadside. Liu Gongquan was surrounded by his friends. Praise him loudly while watching him write. Liu Gongquan was so proud that he said to his friends, "What is this? In a few years, my calligraphy will be the best in the world. "
Just then, an old man passed by and heard Liu Gongquan's words, so he came over to read his handwriting and frowned and said, "This handwriting is not good, soft and spineless. Is it worth boasting in front of people?" As far as I know, some people write better with their feet. "
Hearing this, Liu Gongquan blushed: "Impossible, no one can write better than me, let alone use his feet!"
The old man smiled brightly and said, "If you don't believe me, you can go to Huajing."
The next day, Liu Gongquan set out early in the morning and went to Huajing alone. As soon as he entered the capital of China, he saw many people gathered around a big pagoda tree. He squeezed into the crowd and saw a black and thin old man with no arms, his back against the locust tree, barefoot, sitting on the ground, his left foot pressing paper, his right foot smiling, writing freely and vigorously, which attracted onlookers Chen chen to applaud.
Compared with the handwriting written by the old man with his feet, his own handwriting is really insignificant, and Liu Gongquan is deeply ashamed. He immediately went to the old man, knelt down and said, "I would like to worship you as a teacher." Please tell me the secret of writing. ...
The old man hurriedly put down the pen in his foot and said to Liu Gongquan, "I am a lonely man. I was born without hands and had to live on my feet. How can I be a teacher? " Xiao Gongquan begged, and the old man spread a piece of paper on the ground and wrote a few words with his right foot: "Write eight cylinders of water, and the inkstone is stained with black water; When you win hundreds of parents, you will get a twins. "
Liu Gongquan kept the old man's words in mind and worked hard to practice calligraphy from then on. There are thick cocoons on the hands and patches on the elbows layer by layer. After hard training, Liu Gongquan finally became a famous calligrapher.