On one occasion, Wang Xizhi was practicing calligraphy seriously, and even the steamed bread and garlic juice brought to him by the maid were not found around. The maid told Mr. Wang to eat quickly so as not to make himself hungry. As a result, Wang Xizhi still concentrated on practicing calligraphy. When the maid saw it, she ran to Mrs. Wang Xizhi and helped her explain the situation.
This lady is very worried. She is afraid that her husband will be obsessed with tea and rice because of practicing calligraphy, and then hurt himself. She took a girl to persuade him, but Wang Xizhi was eating steamed bread in ink.
Both the lady and the girl laughed. The girl said, Sir, do you think steamed bread today is different from the past? Wang Xizhi put down his pen and said thoughtfully that this sauce seems delicious. Wang Xizhi, who has been writing with great concentration, actually used ink as garlic juice, and Wang Xizhi didn't seem to notice it at all.
My wife rushed forward to grab the steamed bread and said with distress, your handwriting is so beautiful, why do you have to practice until you forget to eat and sleep? Wang Xizhi said, "My words are all imitated by others. Now I want to create my own words."
After a long period of practice, Wang Xizhi finally made his calligraphy unique. He finally got rid of the brand of imitating others and became an imitated existence by later generations.
This paper briefly introduces Wang Xizhi, a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Many celebrities rushed to paint for him, trying to keep him in the hearts of future generations. There are portraits of Wang Xizhi in major museums all over the world. These paintings describe Wang Xizhi's life from different angles.
Wang Xizhi was born king. He was good at calligraphy when he was seven years old. It is said that the Jin emperor went to the northern suburbs to offer sacrifices. Wang Xizhi wrote his congratulatory message on the board and sent someone to carve it. The sculptor cut many layers of the board and found that Wang Xizhi's ink had been printed all the way into the board. The carpenter was very surprised by Wang Xizhi's brushwork and thought it was rare to have such calligraphy skills at an early age.
When Wang Xizhi 16 years old, he was just catching up with Chi Jian to recruit a son-in-law for his beloved daughter. He knew that the Wangs were a big family, just like choosing the right person as his daughter. Chi Jian sent his housekeeper to the Wangs with gifts. When the children of the Wangs heard that they were getting married, they all dressed up to meet the guests. Only Wang Xizhi doesn't care much.
Wang Fu's housekeeper saw that one was missing, so he wanted to know where the man was. As a result, he found Wang Xizhi lying in bed and didn't care about this marriage at all. When Chi Jian's housekeeper came back, he said that all the Wangs came out to welcome him, but only one person was still lying in bed, as if nothing had happened. Chi Jian was ecstatic to show me this man. This is the kind of person I want.
In the ninth year of Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi and Xie An visited Lanting in Shaoxing. At that time, everyone drank and wrote poems. It is said that on that day, everyone wrote more than 30 poems, and Wang Xizhi improvised a preface to the collection of poems. This is the famous Preface to Lanting Collection. It is said that Wang Xizhi never wrote that feeling at that time.
In the eleventh year of Yonghe, after Wang Xizhi abandoned his official position due to illness and settled in Jinting, he devoted himself to practicing calligraphy. His works have a great influence on later generations, and his calligraphy works are deeply loved by later generations.
At present, various historical records record that Wang Xizhi and his wife have seven sons and one daughter. We don't know the name of Wang Xizhi's only daughter, except that she later married Liu Chang in Yuyao, Zhejiang.
She and Liu Changsheng have a son and a daughter. Her son Liu Jin is very talented. Briefly introduce Wang Xizhi, who used to be a senior minister, served the Qing Dynasty too often and achieved great success in her official career. Her daughter Liu married Xie Yi's grandson and gave birth to a son, the famous poet Xie Lingyun. Therefore, Xie Lingyun is the great-grandson of Wang Xizhi.
Wang Xizhi's children have made some achievements in calligraphy. Wang Xuan, the eldest son, is good at cursive script and official script. But Wang Xuanzhi died soon after his marriage, and there were no descendants. Wang Xuanzhi attended Wang Xizhi's party in Lanting with his father before his death.
The second son, Wang Ningzhi, was the secretariat of Jiangzhou. Like his brother, his younger brother is also good at cursive script and official script, and his wife is a talented woman, Xie Daowen.
The third son, Wang Huanzhi, writes well in cursive script. He studied with his father since childhood, won his father's guidance, reached the realm of similarity, inherited his father's brushwork the most, and also participated in Lanting's party.
The fourth son, Wang, has the highest official position in Zhong Shu Lang, and his poems have been handed down to later generations, but the copybook has not left a deep impression on people.
The fifth son, Wang Huizhi, is one of the brothers who have made outstanding achievements in calligraphy. His inheritance of his father's calligraphy is also based on years of hard practice.
Wang's sixth son is also a kind of career development. He was an assistant minister, a senior minister and a magistrate, and his wife, He Jia's grandfather, was a court minister.
Wang Xianzhi is a descendant of Wang Xizhi, who is most praised by people. He is also the one with the highest achievement in calligraphy among all his brothers.