No one should be unfamiliar with the name of Wang Xizhi. He is an outstanding calligrapher in ancient China and even now, and he is called a calligrapher by later generations. He enjoys a high evaluation in history. In fact, Wang Xizhi's handwriting is so good, not only because he has a very high talent in this field, but more importantly, because he studies hard and practices hard. Even if a person is a genius, how can he become a useful person without carving the day after tomorrow? Wang Xizhi has a short story that will be remembered by later generations-penetrating into the wood.
a story about Wang Xizhi
An emperor in the Eastern Jin Dynasty once went to Zhoushan in the northern suburb of Jiankang, Kyoto, to offer sacrifices to the land god. At that time, Wang Xizhi was 37 years old, and his calligraphy was well-known all over the country, at least in the capital. Such a great calligrapher naturally won the favor of the emperor. East Jin Mingdi asked Wang Xizhi to write the memorial. After writing, please ask special workers to carve. In fact, the imperial court held some large-scale sacrificial activities every year at that time, because Wang Xizhi's calligraphy was the best in the world at that time, and emperors often asked him to write. After the workers got the board, they cut the board with a knife according to the usual work order. When they cut it halfway, they were surprised to find a problem. The ink written by Wang Xizhi actually penetrated into the board, reaching a depth of three points. It took a lot of effort for the workers to finally shave off the board with a thickness of three points to see the white background. It can be seen how strong Wang Xizhi's pen is, which can be described by perfection. This attracted the lettering workers to marvel at it again and again, and later Wang Xizhi's incident.
Second, the modern significance of penetrating into the heart
Actually, the word penetrating into the heart comes from Wang Xizhi, a book written by Zhang Huaiguan in the Tang Dynasty. This article written by him praises how vigorous and powerful Wang Xizhi's words are. Perhaps Zhang Huaiguan is a small fan of Wang Xizhi, a book sage. After thousands of years, this idiom is still used by later generations, and it is still used to describe a person's calligraphy skills, describing the vigorous brushwork of calligraphy, and sometimes it is used to describe a profound understanding of something or an article.
In fact, the reason why Wang Xizhi's calligraphy can stir up the whole country is not only because of his scholarly family and so-called talent, but also because he has made efforts that others can't bear in places that others can't see, and this effort is not just mechanical repetition over and over again, but also because of his changes and thinking about calligraphy.