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The Preface to the Lanting Collection is very short, not long, but written on a short page of the scroll, with a total of 28 lines and only 324 characters, but only these 324 characters are integrated into the masterpiece of calligraphy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info But any calligrapher, as long as he has seen the version of the "Lanting Collection Preface", no one can say that it is the first in ancient and modern times.

What they got was not an authentic handiwork, but it was only based on the "Lanting Collection Preface".

After Li Shimin treasured the original handiwork, his whereabouts are unknown.

There is a great difference between this extension and the real handwriting, but it is only a rubbing, which has not been surpassed by a famous calligrapher in the past 1,500 years, and is known as the first post of Chinese calligraphy and the first line of calligraphy in ancient and modern times. Needless to say, the authenticity is expensive.

Today, Du He is fortunate to see this "Lanting Collection Preface" written by Wang Xizhi himself. Originally, he thought that his words were not as good as the sage Wang Xizhi, but they would not be much different, but now he saw with his own eyes that there were people outside the Fang people, and there was heaven outside the sky, and he almost became a frog at the bottom of the well.

Looking at the "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface" in his hand, a sentence of Cao Zhi's poem came to Du He's mind: "Soaring like a frightening Hong, graceful like a dragon, Rongyao Qiuju, Huamao Chunsong." It seems to be like a light cloud covering the moon, and fluttering like the snow of the wind." This is a poem describing a beautiful woman in "Luo Shen Fu", but it can be used in Wang Xizhi's words. That stroke by stroke, the majestic atmosphere, out of nature, with the pen charming and elegant; The technique is both peaceful and strange, the size is uneven, there is not only the careful arrangement of artistic ingenuity, but there is no trace of artificiality. Among them, all the same words are written in different ways. Especially the word "zhi", there are more than 20 "zhi" characters throughout the text, and none of them have any similarities.

Even the dignified and majestic and majestic atmosphere that Duhe Du Ti is proud of cannot compare with the elegant solemnity revealed between the words in this "Lanting Collection Preface".

"Alas!" Du He cautiously rolled up the "Lanting Collection Preface" and handed it back to Li Ke, laughing at himself: "Yelang is arrogant, it's me who is talking about it!" He holds his own calligraphy inheritance and the two top calligraphers of Yan Zhenqing and Su Shi in later generations, on the exquisite font atmosphere, no one can compare, and there is inevitably pride in his heart. Today, I have just woken up from a dream.

Wang Xizhi's words are ten times better than him.

Li Ke put the "Lanting Collection Preface" into the box and said: "I can't understand this thing, but my sister-in-law's words can be praised by my father and many writers, how can Yelang be compared?" Maybe he will indeed lose to the king's right army now, but he may not always be under him. ”

Du He strode forward and said, "Your Highness also underestimates me Du He, I will not lose confidence and be decadent and depressed because of this...... Let's go, go back to your life, don't let your father-in-law wait. ”

Someone asked Liu Bang and Xiang Yu who were the heroes.

Ninety-nine out of a hundred people will answer that it is Xiang Yu, but after all, there will be one person who says that it is Liu Bang, and this person is Du He.

Du He has always believed that failure is more testing than success, Xiang Yu led the troops to break through Qin, invincible: the battle of the giant deer broke the cauldron and sank the boat, defeating the strong with the weak; In the battle of Pengcheng, with 30,000 tired soldiers, he defeated 560,000 alliance troops and shocked the world, and he was undoubtedly a hero.

On the other hand, Liu Bang was opportunistic and defeated in a hundred battles, especially in the Battle of Pengcheng, as the leader of the alliance army, he held an army of 560,000, so that Xiang Yu's 30,000 tired soldiers fought in a falling flower and a broken army, and finally forced him to abandon his wife and children, and became the laughing stock of the world. But ordinary people are not disheartened when they are hit by such a blow, at least in the short term, they will lose their morale, and they dare not make an enemy of Xiang Yu, the overlord. And Liu Bang was different, he returned to his lair, patted his ass, and continued to fight Xiang Yu as if nothing had happened. Although he was defeated in a hundred battles, he never admitted defeat or admit defeat, lost a hundred battles, persevered, and finally decided the world in one battle.

With this kind of spirit, Liu Bang is a hero worthy of respect.

Du He can't learn from Liu Bang's nest, but that kind of spirit is a warning. Admitting defeat does not mean giving up.

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At this moment, in the Yu Mansion.

Zhiyong, who was disdainful of Du He's book, was holding the work written by Du He Shicai at this moment, appreciating it carefully, reading it with relish, and from time to time a few "good words" came out of his mouth, and Du He's attitude at the time was like two people.

Yu Shinan twisted his gray beard and said, "Yongshi, what kind of play are you playing?" Du Xian's nephew's words, such as a knife and axe chisel, are magnificent. There are few comparisons in the whole of Chang'an in this regard, Yongshi disdained him in front of him, but now he came to praise it, I really can't understand the reason. ”

Zhiyong's eyes still fell on Du He's work, and he seemed to never get tired of looking at it, and in the face of Yu Shinan's question, he didn't answer it first, and only said after a while: "Shinan, look at it, in addition to the essence of Du Ti's characters, what else does this character contain?" ”

"Arrogant!" Yu Shinan's research on calligraphy is not inferior to Zhiyong, and after carefully appreciating it for a while, he came up with the answer.

Handwriting analysis is a science, with complete systematic theories and methods. All human actions are affected by the inner thoughts and characters, and handwriting is also an action of the human body, so handwriting is inevitably affected by the inner thoughts and characters. Analyzing the inner world from handwriting is a process of "finding the roots".

Of course, there was no handwriting analysis in ancient times, but as a person who is proficient in calligraphy, I can indeed see the state of mind of the writer from the handwriting.

Du He's words, in addition to having the essence of the characteristics of Du Ti characters such as knife cutting and axe chisel, majestic atmosphere, also have a characteristic, the words are very large, a little arrogant, and have a kind of self-confidence and arrogance.

Zhiyong smiled: "What do you think of this arrogance? ”

Yu Shinan said: "This young man is a little more arrogant, which is understandable. Who didn't have a little arrogance when he was young, remember that Yongshi didn't have this arrogance at the beginning? At that time, your arrogance was even better. This thing, as you get older, will eventually wear away. ”

Zhiyong said solemnly: "Then you know that it is because of this arrogance that I have not improved my calligraphy for many years, until I met an unknown old man who surpassed me, and I was enlightened." Do you remember when I said goodbye? ”

Yu Shinan recalled that year, nodded and said: "Remember, we proposed to visit the West Lake together, but after waiting for a long time, we didn't see any trace of Yongshi, and then I heard that Yongshi returned to Yongxin Temple to retreat and practice. Is it ......?"

"Not bad...... Zhiyong nodded, "I arrived earlier than any of you that day, and near the West Lake, I met a strange person. Paint on the ground with a tree branch. He was writing the verses that the famous people had inscribed on the walls. I got up and wrote a poem on the side. Unexpectedly, the old man just glanced at it lightly, borrowed a brush from me, and wrote it down to the side. The same words, written in his pen, are ten times better than mine. I thought I had met some master, but after careful questioning, I understood. He's just an old man sweeping the streets, and he doesn't know a few big characters. ”

Yu Shinan looked stunned and speechless.

Zhiyong smiled bitterly: "At that time, I was also startled, and after careful questioning, I learned that the old man was born poor and couldn't afford to study, but he liked to paint and paint, and he couldn't write. For more than 30 years, he unconsciously unexpectedly gathered hundreds of directors, and became a line of his own, which I can't do. I was disheartened and left the West Lake. In the end, I figured out that calligraphy makes perfect, and there is no shortcut to follow. So, I retreated to Yongxin Temple, and swore that I would never leave the temple if I couldn't fulfill it. Imitating the ancestral calligraphy on the pavilion, this practice is thirty years. It is precisely because the nameless old man killed my arrogance that I was prompted to realize that Du He's calligraphy wants to go further, how can I do it without killing his arrogance? ”

Yu Shinan realized: "I see...... But it's not easy to kill him arrogantly. Looking at Chang'an, no one has this ability...... then he was puzzled: "But why didn't Yongshi follow the example of the strange people of the year and do it himself, but instead pretended to be in Ling Zu's "Lanting Collection Preface"? ”

Zhiyong shook his head and said: "My calligraphy has reached a dead end, how can I be qualified to guide such a genius." ”

Zhiyong's characters are mixed in history, there is no doubt that he is a top calligrapher, thirty years of hard practice, so that his characters inherited the style of the ancestors Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, which is very exquisite. However, it was precisely this that also made him fall into a Jedi that could not be turned over.

Imitation is always imitation, Zhiyong's words are useless even if they are like Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi, the essence of calligraphy lies in transcendence, in bringing forth the new, in gathering the strengths of others, and becoming a vein. For example, Yu Shinan, Yu Shinan learned calligraphy from Zhiyong, and was proficient in Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi's penmanship, but he continued to improve in life, became his own line, and wrote his own style. Du He is the same, his calligraphy was learned from Yan Zhenqing and Su Shi, but in more than ten years of practice, he gradually developed his own style. This style, for better or for worse, is a kind of progress, transforming other people's things into one's own.

However, Zhiyong lost his style in the continuous copying, and completely inherited the calligraphy of Wang Xizhi and Wang Xianzhi.

No one said that his handwriting was bad, but he kept Wang's calligraphy and lacked the spirit of innovation. Losing his own style is like losing his soul, so Su Shi commented on Zhiyong's calligraphy, saying that he "has a deep backbone, a body and a wonderful body, and is so capable that he can return to the sparse." ”

A sentence directly points to Zhiyong taking Wang Xizhi's old path again, although the writing is wonderful, but it follows the rules and is not strange.

After Zhiyong realized it, it was too late, and it was impossible to change it.

Yu Shinan didn't know the reason, but he didn't ask in detail, but he was full of curiosity about the legendary "Lanting Collection Preface", and asked: "Yongshi, can you really be sure that the "Lanting Collection Preface" will definitely be able to kill Du He's arrogance?" ”

Zhiyong grinned and seemed to hear a very silly question: "The ancestor learned calligraphy when he was young, and he was tireless. "The Preface to the Lanting Collection" was the pinnacle of his work when he was fifty years old, and he wrote countless books in this body, but "The Preface to the Lanting Collection" is the best of them. If the best work in the life of the book saint cannot convince Du He, who is only twenty years old, how can he be worthy of the name of the book saint? In fact...... I came to Chang'an for Duhe. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to ***(***.***) to vote for recommendation, ***, your support is my biggest motivation. )