The story of the famous calligrapher Zheng Banqiao
Zheng Banqiao has been passionate about calligraphy since he was a child. Ancient calligraphers copied various calligraphy styles. After hard practice, he finally wrote almost the same as his predecessors. But no one appreciated his calligraphy very much, and he himself was very anxious and practiced harder than before.
One summer evening, Zheng Banqiao and his wife were sitting outside to enjoy the cool air. He used his fingers to write on his thigh. As he wrote, he wrote on his wife. Went. His wife grabbed his hand angrily and said, "You have your body (body), and I have mine. Why don't you write your own body and write other people's bodies?" Hearing this, Zheng Banqiao suddenly realized that he This reminds me of my own academic period. Everyone has his or her own body and is different from each other. This is how all living beings in the world can look like each other. Shouldn’t writing also be like this? Everyone has his or her own handwriting. Only in this way can there be breakthroughs and innovations throughout the ages. Otherwise, the same thing will happen forever. On the human side, it means nothing. Thinking of this, he understood the problem of learning and writing. Why did I always learn the ancient style instead of going my own way and creating my own style? From then on, Zheng Banqiao took the strengths of each school, integrated them, and used official script and Seal script, cursive script, running script, and regular script were mixed together, and he used painting methods to write, finally forming his own unique "six-and-a-half-point script", which is often referred to as the "rock-paved street style" and became a unique style of the Qing Dynasty. famous calligrapher and painter. ;