The stories of famous calligraphers in ancient China include:
1. Yan Zhenqing - Qimi Tie
Yan Zhenqing was an old minister of the three dynasties of the Tang Dynasty. He was loyal, upright and had a great reputation. Domestic. However, because he is honest and self-sufficient, he will never be greedy or take anything in vain, so he often cannot support himself in food and clothing. He once wrote a letter begging for rice to Li Taibao at that time, indicating that he was poor at childbirth and had a lot of index fingers at home. The family had been living on porridge for several months, and now there was no rice. It was very disturbing. He hoped that in the past In terms of friendship, I asked him to give him some rice.
2. Wang Xizhi - Changing Goose
There was a Taoist priest in Shanyin who wanted Wang Xizhi to write him a volume of the Tao Te Ching. But he knew that Wang Xizhi was not willing to copy scriptures for others easily. Later, he found out that Wang Xizhi liked white geese, so he specially raised a batch of good varieties of geese. Wang Xizhi looked at the geese by the river and couldn't bear to leave, so he sent someone to find the Taoist priest and asked to sell the geese to him.
The Taoist priest smiled and said: "Since the prince likes it so much, it doesn't cost any money. I will give you all the geese. But I have a request, that is, please write a volume for me. Sutra." Wang Xizhi copied a volume of sutra for the Taoist priest without hesitation, and the geese were taken back by Wang Xizhi.
3. Wang Xizhi - Mo Dangfan
Wang Xizhi's post reached the point of forgetting to sleep and eat. One time during lunch, the bookboy brought his favorite mashed garlic and steamed buns. He urged him to eat them several times, but he still didn't even raise his head, as if he hadn't heard, and concentrated on reading and writing. The rice was cold, so the boy had no choice but to ask Wang Xizhi's mother to persuade him to eat. When her mother came to the study, she saw Xizhi holding a piece of steamed bun stained with ink and putting it into his mouth, which made his mouth full of black.
4. Zen Master Zhiyong - Iron Gate
Zen Master Zhiyong is good at regular script and cursive script, and can imitate Wang Xizhi's style. Although he practiced in Yongxing Temple, his reputation for calligraphy became more and more famous. Many people came to ask for his calligraphy works through various connections. People came and went in an endless stream, and the threshold was trampled down. He had to wrap the threshold with iron sheets, and people laughed and called it "Iron Gate".
5. Liu Gongquan——Working hard to practice calligraphy
Liu Gongquan held a "book meeting" with several friends. When an old man selling tofu saw what he had written, he felt that the boy was too proud. He said something, but Liu Gongquan refused to accept it. When Liu Gongquan saw the old man's handwriting, he knelt in front of the old man and wanted to become his disciple, so the old man spread a bed on the ground. On the paper, he wrote a few words with his right foot: "Write eight tanks of water, and the inkstone dyes the waterlogged pond black; win hundreds of parents, and then dragons and phoenixes will fly."
Liu Gongquan kept the old man's words in mind and worked hard from then on. Practice calligraphy. Thick calluses formed on my hands, and my clothes and elbows were patched layer by layer. After hard training, Liu Gongquan finally became a famous calligrapher in my country.