Wang Xizhi was stupid and stunned when he was a child, and he was the kind of child who disappeared when he was thrown into the pile. Until one time, Zhou Yi invited a guest to eat beef, Zhou Yi took a fancy to Wang Xizhi alone among a table of smart children, and the best beef cut by the first knife was first laid in front of Wang Xizhi. Probably his good friend Wang Dao greeted him in advance and asked him to help lift this stupid nephew, and probably, Zhou Yi really has a good eye, in short, Wang Xizhi is famous with a meal. This has to remind people of Wang Shu, who is also stupid and stunned, and in a similar scene, when others were desperately filming Director Wang's ass, a basin of cold water was splashed on it, but it splashed out Director Wang's impressiveness.

Wang Xizhi and Wang Shu, these two are almost contemporaries. Wang Xizhi is Wang Dao's nephew, Wang Shu is the son of Wang Cheng, a Langya Wang, a Taiyuan Wang, originally from generation to generation, to their generation, the marathon entered the new site. Coincidentally, their ancestors didn't care about this kind of comparison, but when they came to Wang Xizhi, they were very concerned, and even made Wang Xizhi say to his sons very resentfully, "I have a similar background with Wang Shu, about the same IQ, and about the same talent, and now their family is much more developed than ours, just because none of you little rabbit cubs can compare to Wang Tanzhi, the son of others!" "Several sons of the Wang family, Ning Zhi is a calligrapher, Xianzhi is a future horse, and Hui Zhi is one of the most chic characters at that time, but in the mouth of the angry father, they all turned into rotten shit. It can be seen how Wang Xizhi gritted his teeth.

Things have to start from Wang Xizhi's generation of Wang Shu as the internal history of Huiji. Wang Shu's mother died, so he went to the official to guard filial piety and lived on the border of Huiji. It was Wang Xizhi who was sent above to replace Wang Shu. Wang Shu thought that he and Wang Xizhi were both famous people in the dynasty, so they naturally sympathized with each other and waited for Wang Xizhi's visit. Unexpectedly, Wang Xizhi just politely condoled Wang Shu's mother, came in a hurry, and went in a hurry, and then there was no news again. But Wang Shu always thought that he would definitely come again, and every time he heard the sound of a horn blowing outside the door, he knew that a guest was coming, so he ordered someone to clean up, set up wine and food and wait to receive Wang Xizhi.

In the past few years, Wang Xizhi has not been here once. Wang Shu felt that he was neglected by Wang Xizhi, not only lost the wine and food, but also lost face, and he was unhappy from then on, and he must get this face back.

Unexpectedly, soon after, Wang Shu would be promoted to Yangzhou Thorn History due to fate, and Wang Xizhi's Huiji County was under the rule of Yangzhou Thorn History, and Wang Shu became Wang Xizhi's top boss. Wang Shuzhen wanted to thank God for his help and gave him a chance to vent his anger, so he went everywhere when he was inspecting the work of the Zhizhi Office, and bypassed the Huiji County where Wang Xizhi was located. Wang Xizhi was so angry that he hurriedly wrote to the central government, saying, I don't want to do it under his hands, and strongly requested that Huiji County be assigned to the Yuezhou administrative office. Of course, the central government did not agree, and what was even worse was that this official document was accidentally revealed and became a laughing stock in the dinner table card game at that time.

Wang Shu felt relieved, but he couldn't help but go to Huiji County, wanting to see what Wang Xizhi's anger had become, and also wanting to give him Shun Shun Mao - I just want to take revenge on you, and I am still a good friend when I turn around. Unexpectedly, Wang Shu's visit with multiple meanings was too serious, which made Wang Xizhi unhappy again: Wang Shu's inspection work was carefully asked about everything. Originally, Wang Shu may have been curious and gossipy, what did you Wang Xizhi do as a big celebrity as a magistrate? As a result, in Wang Xizhi's eyes, things have changed for the worse: everyone who is an official eats a big pot of rice and runs a salon with public funds, and now you are asking so carefully, is it possible that you expect to find something wrong so that I will lose my old face again?

Wang Xiyi was angry and picked his son: Lao Tzu is gone! I found a very lame reason: I was not in good health. Everyone knows that this is a very fake reason, but the central government can't control him this time. This is the eleventh year of Yonghe, when people are in fear. After the failure of Yin Hao's Northern Expedition in the sixth year of Yonghe, Huan Wen extended his power from Jingzhou to Kyoto, controlling the upper and lower reaches of the Yangtze River in one fell swoop. In the tenth year of Yonghe, Huan Wen made the first Northern Expedition to Qin, and he fought all the way to Luoyang. The imperial court was worried about how to deal with this increasingly powerful minister, and no one wanted Wang Xizhi, who would be smoked by the truth.

Besides, this time Wang Xizhi was iron-hearted after eating the scales, and no one could persuade him to come back. It's annoying to be an official, and you have to pretend to be a grandson under someone like Wang Shu, so it's better to go home and farm! In order to show his determination, Wang Xizhi went to his parents' grave and swore by going to the grave, saying, "My life is not good, and my father died early." My mother and brother raised me, although I was stupid, but because there were few smart people in the country, I promoted the general among the short. In fact, I'm not interested in being an official, I like Lao Zhuang's books, I always feel that my days are numbered, and I want to wander among the mountains and rivers, but for the sake of our family, I am very conflicted, and I dare not retreat. And now I've decided, I'm going to retire. This month, we must find a good day and an auspicious day to hold a feast and wash our hands in a golden basin to comfort the gods of all parties. From now on, if I say that I can't do it, and I want to be an official, I won't be your son! Between heaven and earth, everyone will be punished! I swear to the sun! ”

Wang Xizhi's vicious oath successfully contributed to his retirement. The central government did not send anyone to keep him, because Huan Wen did not like him, the reason was simple, Huan Wen was a staunch supporter of the Northern Expedition, while Wang Xizhi was a relentless opposition. Originally, the relationship between the central government and Huan Wen was in jeopardy, and there was no need to make waves again because of Wang Xizhi.

This is a specific manifestation of one of Wang Xi's tendons, probably a little silly legacy when he was a child. He always likes the things he likes, like the goose. Legend has it that he loved geese and became obsessed, and once on a trip, he wrote the Tao Te Ching for a few beautiful geese for the Taoist priest who raised geese, and left with satisfaction only after getting the geese. What he doesn't like will never be liked: for example, Wang Shu, for example, the Northern Expedition.

Wang Xizhi was a pacifist who had always had a negative attitude towards the counteroffensive in the north. His idea is very traditional to Confucianism: As long as we do a good job in internal affairs, be kind and close to the people, and vigorously develop productive forces, the people on the other side of the river will certainly look forward to the wind and return to the wind, and they will win the hearts of the people and the world without war. But no one paid any attention to him. So every time before a war, Wang Xizhi had to sacrifice a proverb that "Outer Ning must have internal worries" to scare people. It means that once the war is won and the country is unified, there will inevitably be a phenomenon that we can share weal and woe but not wealth and prosperity, and everyone will definitely destroy the country by dividing the territory and grabbing women.

Wang Xizhi's anti-war rhetoric is not alarmist. Wang Xizhi's counteroffensive in the north was almost not motivated by "ambition to eat Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood", but more a means for the warlords of the central and foreign towns to show off their strength and compete with each other.

Wang Xizhi's first large-scale anti-war was when Yin Hao was preparing for the Second Northern Expedition. This Northern Expedition, Yin Hao was not ready to fight, but was forced by Huan Wen to have no way to make a decision. Huan Wen has always been a Northern Expedition maniac, and since he made the history of Jingzhou and ran the upper reaches of the Yangtze River into a "Little Sparta", he has always asked the imperial court to let him send troops to the Northern Expedition. But what the Empress Dowager Chu, the stewards Chu and Yin Hao thought was: Huan Wen is powerful, once he succeeds in the Northern Expedition, how will a restored minister be placed? Especially Yin Hao, he was almost certain that once Huan Wen's Northern Expedition was successful, his position as the first assistant would definitely be replaced. In the sixth year of Yonghe, Ran Min wantonly slaughtered the Hu people and established himself as the king of Wei. The opportunity for the Eastern Jin Dynasty to recover the north will come, and there is no reason to say no. Yin Hao was forced to be helpless and presided over the Northern Expedition. As a result, the literati generals, Yin Hao failed without any suspense.

Wang Xizhi sneered while playing in the mountains and rivers in Huiji: I didn't want to fight this battle at all, I didn't have morale, I didn't have the confidence to win, and I didn't have the courage to die and be born later, so it's strange if I am not defeated. It's just that when Yin Hao was preparing for another Northern Expedition without face, Wang Xizhi couldn't laugh anymore: they were so angry and fighting for fame, and as a result, they wanted us to pay for them (the Sanwu and Sanzhejiang regions were the richest areas in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and Huiji was the richest of the rich among the nobles, and the money and grain people who needed to fight the war bore the brunt of the three Wu and Sanzhejiang, and Wang Xizhi was one of the apportioned masters). We bear the consequences of losing, and they wear the reputation of winning, will any fool do such a thing? Wang Xizhi finally couldn't help it, persuaded Yin Hao, and finally said vaguely that if he wanted to fight again, I wouldn't do this kind of unjust work. I'm going to quit the government and go on a tour of the mountains and rivers.

But in the tenth year of Yonghe, Huan Wen went on a northern expedition again - no one took Wang Xizhi's suggestion seriously.

Wang Xizhi is helpless or helpless. Fortunately, history does not feature his indignation and helplessness, but time remembers his chic. Because, before this Northern Expedition, Wang Xizhi, who had always expressed anxiety about politics, organized an elegant collection that would be passed down through the ages. Let this Wang Xizhi, who is actually often in a state of indignation, leave a compassionate, sad, and romantic image to future generations. This is perhaps one of the most romantic collections in ancient China, and it became the only one due to the official high recommendation of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. On the third day of March of that year, Wang Xizhi feasted his friends in Lanting.

Going out to play was one of the favorite things of the Wei and Jin aristocrats, and before that, there was Shi Chong's Jinguyuan Yaji, and there were also Wang Dao, Wang Cheng and Ruan Zhan who went out on the third day of March. However, this Lanting Club is worthy of special mention because of the luxurious lineup and excellent production.

It was a clear day, and the mountain roads of Shaoxing Huiji Mountain were starry-studded. The superstars who participated in the meeting were: Xie An and his younger brother Xie Wan, nephew Xie Xuan, Sun Sui, Wang Xizhi and his nephews Ningzhi, Huizhi, Suzhi, Xuanzhi, Yunzhi, as well as Xi Tan, Yu Yun, Yu You, etc. The Xie family, the Wang family, the Xi family, and the Yu family are all famous. Everyone plays a game, and the cup is placed in a particularly sparse shaped stream to float, and whoever stops in front of the glass will drink and compose a poem. This game is a light-hearted thing, however, the more worry-free people are, the more worried they are about their fate and life. Therefore, Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection", which summarizes these poems, is very fatalistic and sad:

In the ninth year of Yonghe, the age is ugly, and at the beginning of the twilight spring, he will be in the Lanting of Huiji Shanyin, and he will repair things. The sages are complete, and the young are salty. There are lofty mountains and mountains here, lush forests and bamboos; There is also a clear stream turbulent, reflecting the left and right, leading to the flow of the winding water, and the column sits second. Although there is no silk bamboo orchestra, a song is enough to tell the romance. It's a day, the sky is clear, the wind is smooth, looking up at the universe, looking down on the prosperity of the category, so the eyes are full of joy, enough to be extremely audio-visual entertainment, and the letter is also cola. The lady is with each other, and looks up to one life, or takes all the embrace, and talks in one room; Or because of the entrustment, outside the wreckage. Although the choice is different, the restlessness is different, when it is happy with what it encounters, it is temporarily obtained, happy and self-sufficient, and does not know that old age is coming. and what they are tired, their feelings change with things, and their feelings are related. I like it, and between the pitches, it has become a vestige, and I can't help but be happy with it. The situation is shortened and followed, and the end is at the end. The ancients said: "Death and life are also important." "Isn't it painful! Every time you look at the reasons for the interest of the people in the past, if you are united, you will not be able to mourn in the text, and you can't say it. It is known that death and life are illusory, and Qi Peng's death is vain. The future looks at the present, and the present looks at the past. Sad husband! Therefore, the people of the time are listed, and the description is recorded, although the world is different, so it is happy, and it is also one. Those who read it later will also be impressed by Sven.

This compassion for the transience of life arises from nature and melts into itself. Later, he may have moved the poet Li Bai of the Tang Dynasty, who paid tribute to Wang Xizhi without naming in the poem "Preface to the Peach and Plum Garden of the Spring Night Banquet", "The man who is the master of heaven and earth, the reverse journey of all things; Those who have passed through time have passed by for hundreds of generations. And floating life is like a dream, for the joy of geometry! ”

Wang Xizhi was not such a sad person, but he coincidentally left this famous sad article, so that future generations misunderstood that he was an "old literary youth". Wang Xizhi likes to travel in the mountains and rivers, but he may not always have the sadness of a short life, and his yuppie is full of taste, "Walking on the mountain**, like walking on a painting." I'm going to die here! It can better represent Lao Wang's attitude of enjoying life.

Lao Wang's dismissal was because he wanted to compete with the imperial court and put on a score, but he didn't expect that the retirement application was successfully approved, and he must have been unhappy at that time. But after retiring, maybe it's because he's old and wears away the competitive spirit of his youth, maybe it's the Huiji Mountain and Cao'e Water in Shaoxing that make him happy and forget to return, like entering a fairyland. In short, the older he gets, the clearer and more peaceful Wang Xizhi's state of mind becomes, and he becomes a little wooden like when he was a teenager, but this kind of wooden is returned with experience.

Later, he once wrote a letter to his friend Xie Wan, and when he read it, it has the warm taste of chickens and dogs barking and mulberry tea cooking smoke like "Words of Return", which has more warm tones than the beautiful and cruel "Orchid Pavilion Preface", and has an old-fashioned style that has returned to calm after going through wind and rain:

The deceased of the ancients, or dressed in pretended madness, or defiled with filthy traces, can be described as difficult. Isn't it a godsend for the servant to sit down and be freed from his fate, and to fulfill his fate! Ominous. It is also a trip to the east, cultivating mulberry fruits, now sheng Fu Rong, leading the sons, holding weak grandchildren, traveling to watch it, there is a taste of sweetness, cutting and dividing, in order to entertain the present. Although there is no difference in virtue, he still wants to educate his children and grandchildren to give in. The precept is light and thin, and the order is a few horses, like the wind of ten thousand stones. What do you mean? Bidang and An Shidong travel to the mountains and seas, and the fields are advantageous and leisurely. In addition to food and clothing, I want to have a feast with my relatives, although I can't sing with the words, the cup is full, and the words are done in the field, so I think that the capital of the palm is proud, and it can be better than words! Chang Yi Lu Jia, Ban Hei, Yang Wang's grandson, very much want to hope for a few sons, and the old man volunteers to do his best.

Such an article is the most difficult to write. is like what Xin Jiaxuan said later: "The young man doesn't know the taste of sorrow, he falls in love with the floor, he falls in love with the floor, and he is worried about the new words." Now I know all the sorrows, I want to say that I will rest, I want to say that I will rest, but I will say that the weather is cool and autumn. ”

People who have no experience like to talk about love, death, and pain, for fear that others will question their insight, but they are wise old men who have experienced the ups and downs of life, so that they can look at every grass and tree in front of them with a kind eye. The more experienced the old man, the more he likes such calm words. The deeper the sea, the calmer the surface.

Wang Xizhi entered the WTO as a young man and fought with others, born in an era of powerful ministers, and when he was old, he made the pastoral dream the last pursuit of life. It's not an exaggerated pretense of putting on your hair, and it's no longer indignant. Planting trees and picking fruits, children and grandchildren are full of joy. Walking on the mountain road with your grandson in your arms, with the Cao'e River at your feet, let nature teach children the character of being generous and retreating.

His deepest memory is not that he was praised as a teenager, not that he was strongly recommended by Yu Liang, who was dying when he was a teenager, but the past of a cruise and a walk in the countryside with his friend Xie Andonghai, and the past when he drank and sang with friends, read and sing.