Liu Gongquan, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, showed a high talent for calligraphy from an early age. His calligraphy is very famous.
One day, Liu Gongquan and several friends held a "reading club". At this time, an old man selling tofu saw his handwriting, "I can write about Feng Fei's family background and dare to boast in front of people." He thought the child was too proud and frowned and said, "This word is not well written, like my tofu, which has no bones. Is it worth boasting in front of people? " Hearing this, Hsiao Kung chuan said unhappily, "Write some words for me if you can."
The old man smiled heartily and said, "No, I dare not. I am a clown and can't write well. " However, some people write with their feet much better than you! If you don't believe me, go to Huajing. "
The next day, Xiao Gongquan got a vigil and went to Huajing alone. As soon as I entered the capital of China, I saw many people around a big pagoda tree. He squeezed into the crowd and saw a black and thin old man, without arms and barefoot, sitting on the ground, his left foot pressing paper, his right foot holding a pen, writing couplets freely, and his handwriting was like a galloping horse, while flying while flying, which won applause from the onlookers.
Xiao Gongquan plopped down on his knees in front of the old man and said, "I would like to worship you as a teacher, please tell me the secret of writing ..." The old man quickly pulled Xiao Gongquan up with his feet and said, "I am a lonely man, born without hands, and I can only live skillfully with 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 jars of water, and the inkstone is dyed black;" 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. Thick cocoons were ground on the hands and the elbows were patched layer by layer. After hard work, Liu Gongquan finally became a great calligrapher.
Not only does he write well, but he is as strong and upright as his handwriting. It is said that once Liu Gongquan was writing, Emperor Mu Zong praised him repeatedly while reading it, and asked in surprise, "Why is your handwriting so good?" ? Can you tell me the secret of calligraphy? Without thinking, Liu Gongquan replied, "There is a pen in your heart, a regular heart and a correct pen! "The secret of writing lies in the heart, the heart is not clean and correct, and the handwriting is not beautiful.
Book sage Wang Xizhi
Wang Xizhi is a famous calligrapher in ancient times and is recognized as a "book saint".
When Wang Xizhi 13 years old, he happened to find that his father had a calligraphy book of Shuo, and he stole it. His father worried that he was too young to keep the secret of the family heirloom and promised that he would teach when he grew up. Unexpectedly, Wang Xizhi knelt down and asked his father to allow him to study now. His father was very moved and finally agreed to his request.
Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy very hard, even eating and walking, and he really kept practicing. Without pen and paper, he scratched on his body, and over time, his clothes were cut. Sometimes I practice my handwriting to the point of forgetfulness. Once, he forgot to eat when he practiced calligraphy, and his family sent the meal to the study. He didn't think about it, so he dipped the steamed bread in ink and ate it. It still felt delicious. It was already dark when the family found out. Wang Xizhi often writes in the pool, so he washes the inkstone in the pool. After a long time, he ran out of ink, so he was called "Mo Chi".
For a time, everyone praised his handwriting, and he was complacent. One day, he went to a dumpling restaurant to eat jiaozi, and found that jiaozi was thrown from the wall one by one, and it was very accurate. Out of curiosity, he looked around and saw an old lady wrapping jiaozi. After wrapping it, she threw it over the wall without looking up, and none of it fell out of the pot. Wang Xizhi asked her what her unique skill was, and she said, "Nothing, just proficiency!" Hearing this, Wang Xizhi felt that his calligraphy was far from this proficiency, so he was more strict with himself and finally became a master.
Be loyal and don't work for the enemy because of the difficulties of life.
According to legend, Boyi and Shu Qi were the eldest son and third son of the monarch of the solitary bamboo kingdom in the late Shang Dynasty. When the monarch of the solitary bamboo kingdom was alive, he wanted to make Shu Qi the heir to the throne. After his death, Shu Qi will cede the throne to his eldest brother Boyi. Boyi said, "Your father's wish is to be king. How can you change it casually? " So Boyd ran away. JiShu still refused to be a monarch and fled. The people pushed the second son of Gu Zhujun to inherit the throne.
Speaking of the Boyi brothers, they let the country go because they were dissatisfied with Shang Zhouwang and unwilling to cooperate with it. They live in seclusion on the coast of the Bohai Sea, waiting for the arrival of a peaceful world. Later, I heard that the Zhou Dynasty was very powerful in the west, but a moral person, so the two brothers traveled long distances to Qishan, the capital of Zhou Dynasty. At this point, Zhou Wenwang is dead, featuring acceded to the throne. King Wu heard that two sages had arrived, so he sent the Duke of Ji Dan to meet them. Duke Zhou made a memorial with them and promised to give their brothers a second-class salary and corresponding positions. The two of them looked at each other and said with a smile, "Strange. This is not the kind of benevolence we are pursuing. "
When Zhou Wuwang saw that the political situation in Shang Dynasty was defeated, he was eager to take advantage of it, advocating strategy, accepting bribes, relying on the army to strengthen his power, expressing his loyalty to ghosts and gods by slaughtering livestock and smearing alliance letters with blood, preaching his virtues everywhere to please the people, and making profits by conquering and killing. The two of them went to the Western Zhou Dynasty in disappointment. When Zhou Wuwang was carrying his father Zhou Wenwang's coffin, Boyi stopped King Wu's horse's head and remonstrated, saying, "If father dies and is not buried, he will start a war. Is this filial piety? Is it benevolent to kill you as a servant of business? " People around him tried to kill Boyi and Shu Qi, but they were stopped by military adviser Jiang Shang.
After the destruction of commerce, Zhou Wuwang became the head of the world. Boyi and Shu Qi were ashamed of their submission to the Western Zhou Dynasty. In order to show their integrity, they stopped eating food from the Western Zhou Dynasty and lived in seclusion in shouyangshan, feeding on wild vegetables in the mountains. Zhou Wuwang sent someone to invite them and promised to meet them halfway, but they still refused to go out to be an official. Later, a woman in the mountain said to them, "You don't eat rice from the Zhou Dynasty, but these wild vegetables you eat are also from the Zhou Dynasty!" " The woman's words reminded them, so they stopped eating wild vegetables. On the seventh day, when they were starving to death, they sang a song with the lyrics to the effect: "Go to shouyangshan to collect wild vegetables to satisfy their hunger. The Western Zhou Dynasty replaced cruelty with cruelty, and I don't know if I was wrong. The times of Shennong, Shun and Yu suddenly disappeared. What's our destination? Alas, we are dying, and the fate of the Shang Dynasty has declined. " So they starved to death at the foot of shouyangshan.