Wang xizhi and goose
Wang Xizhi, 303-361. He likes goose, imitates its form in his calligraphy. And his written word is rich and elegant, firm with soft, like a dragon and like both crouching tiger. In order to enhance the wrist and writing, Wang likes to wear pearl to stroke gently in the palm.
One day, when Wang is admiring the goose stroking the pearl in the poolside, the monk Bigong come to visit him, he casually puts down the pearl, discuss with a monk to buy a pen. After the monk left, Wang found the pearl gone. The next day, the monk sent hundreds of selected brushes, but Wang just kept them out of the door, since he doubted the monk as the suspect. And then, the monk die of a broken heart, at the same time, the goose died too.
It turns out that goose mistakenly swallow the pearl. Wang Xizhi is very sad, he dominated the entire residential and rural trees to the Buddhist temple, and personally inscribed on a horizontal tablet "pearl abstaining temple", to mourn the monk and also to warn himself. Wang is crazy for goose, a monk hopes him to copy a Yellow Court Classic, and he fed a group of white sticky goose for Wand specially, Wang, in return, gave him a neatly written Yellow Court Classic. Then the Yellow Court Classic, also known as Goose Exchange Note.
One day, when Wang is admiring the goose stroking the pearl in the poolside, the monk Bigong come to visit him, he casually puts down the pearl, discuss with a monk to buy a pen. After the monk left, Wang found the pearl gone. The next day, the monk sent hundreds of selected brushes, but Wang just kept them out of the door, since he doubted the monk as the suspect. And then, the monk die of a broken heart, at the same time, the goose died too.
It turns out that goose mistakenly swallow the pearl. Wang Xizhi is very sad, he dominated the entire residential and rural trees to the Buddhist temple, and personally inscribed on a horizontal tablet "pearl abstaining temple", to mourn the monk and also to warn himself. Wang is crazy for goose, a monk hopes him to copy a Yellow Court Classic, and he fed a group of white sticky goose for Wand specially, Wang, in return, gave him a neatly written Yellow Court Classic. Then the Yellow Court Classic, also known as Goose Exchange Note.
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