What are the stories of Wang Xizhi?

1, Wang Xizhi ate ink

Wang Xizhi concentrated on writing when he was a child. His mother had to ask her scribe to bring him his meal, with steamed buns and Wang Xizhi's favorite garlic paste. When his mother came to the study to see little Xizhi, she laughed as soon as she entered the study. It turned out that Wang Xizhi while eating and reading posters, competing ink as garlic dipped in the food, so that the mouth black.

2, bamboo fan inscription

An old woman carried a basket of bamboo fans on the market, selling, not sold. Wang Xizhi saw this situation, went up to her and said: "no painting on the bamboo fan no words, I give you the inscription on the word it?" The old lady gave him the bamboo fan to write, Wang Xizhi raised his pen and wrote five words on each fan. The old woman could not read, and found his writing scribbling.

Wang Xizhi said, "Tell the person who bought the fan that it was written by Wang Youjun," and the old woman did as he said. The people on the set saw that it was really Wang Youjun's calligraphy, and they all rushed to buy it. The bamboo fans were sold out in no time at all.

3, into the wood of the three points

Once the emperor wanted to go to the northern suburbs to worship, so he asked Wang Xizhi to write the blessing on a piece of wood, and then sent workers to carve. Carving workers in the carving was very surprised, Wang Xizhi wrote the words, the pen power actually penetrate the wood more than three points. He marveled and said: " The right general's characters really penetrate into the wood three times!"

Expanded Information

Wang Xizhi's real handwriting is not existed in the world, the Tang Dynasty has been treated as a fine copy of the real handwriting. Because of the age, and this post enjoys a long reputation, and wang xizhi other ink, on its facsimile of the age of different inferences.

There are known as Song copy, there are also suspected of copying the Mi Fu, while more are designated as Tang copy. It is very much recorded, and again and again was engraved into a variety of series of posters, after the Yuan public and private collection of seal and circulation can be tested and reliable, its preciousness is self-evident.