The protagonist of the comeback is Xie An. Because Xie An started his career again in Dongshan, it was called a comeback. Xie An, courtesy name Anshi, was born in Yangxia, Chen County. Xie An was born in the Xie family of Chen County. He was famous for his free talk since childhood. He resigned many times and lived in seclusion in Dongshan, Shanyin County, Kuaiji County. He traveled with Wang Xizhi, Xu Xun and others, and educated the children of the Xie family. Later, all the members of the Xie family in the court died, and Xie An made a comeback. He successively served as Sima, the general of the expedition to the west, the prefect of Wuxing, the minister in charge, the official secretary, and the central protector of the army.
In the Battle of Feishui, Xie An, as the commander-in-chief of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, defeated the former Qin army known as one million with 80,000 troops, allowing the Jin Dynasty to survive. After the war, he was jealous of Emperor Xiaowu because of his excessive fame, and was forced to go to Guangling to avoid trouble. In the tenth year of Taiyuan (385), Xie An died of illness at the age of sixty-six.
Xie An is versatile, good at calligraphy and music. He has an elegant and gentle temperament, is fair and decisive in dealing with things, does not monopolize power and seek personal gain, does not take credit for his own arrogance, and has the bearing of a prime minister. He governed the country with Confucianism and Taoism complementing each other. As a high-ranking scholar, he was able to take into account the overall situation and subordinated the interests of the Xie family to the interests of the Jin Dynasty.
Xie An once learned running script from Wang Xizhi. His calligraphy is very good, especially running script. Mi Fu, a later generation, once praised his calligraphy as "wonderful calligraphy in the mountains and forests, heroic work on the rock corridors, neither writing nor writing, and spontaneous and indifferent to the ancient times." "Xuanhe Calligraphy Genealogy" said that "Xizhi first admired Xizhi for writing cursive calligraphy, but Xizhi had an interpreter. .