In history, there was a monk who broke his threshold because there were too many people visiting him. After changing it several times, he still had the fate of being broken. The monk was forced to helplessly and had to replace his wooden threshold with an iron threshold to prevent the threshold from being broken again.
Is there anything extraordinary about the temple where the monk is located? Do the Bodhisattvas here respond to any request? Or is this monk's extraordinary magical power causing good men and women to come one after another, and he repeatedly trampled the threshold of the temple? None of these are the main issues.
This monk lives in Sui Dynasty . There is only one person who comes to visit, hoping to find a calligraphy work of this great monk.
After the Sui Dynasty Tang Dynasty calligraphy was a very important stage in the history of calligraphy development. There were far-reaching calligraphers in the calligraphy styles of regular script, cursive script, running script, seal script and clerical script. Among them, regular script and cursive script have the greatest and most long-lasting influence.
The famous calligraphers of the Tang Dynasty include: Ouyang Xun ( Ou style ), Yan Zhenqing ( Yan style ), Liu Gongquan ( Liu style ), Zhang Xu , Huaisu , etc. Zhang Xu and Huaisu are good at cursive script. However, in this era, regular script created the achievements of no future generations and no future generations.
Among the four masters of regular script in history, there are Tang Dynasty Ouyang Xun (representing Ou style), Tang Dynasty Yan Zhenqing (representing Yan style), and Tang Dynasty Liu Gongquan (representing Liu style). In the Tang Dynasty, three were occupied. The master of
running script is undoubtedly the of Eastern Jin , and this monk has a deep connection with the great calligrapher Wang Xizhi.
Tang Taizong Li Shimin likes the art of calligraphy very much. It was an indispensable item for the Tang Dynasty to investigate calligraphy in the process of talent selection. It is said that Li Shimin admired Wang Xizhi's calligraphy very much, so when Emperor Taizong of Tang was in power, he searched for the leftover ink of the Right Army, and was also a key search target for " Lanting Preface ".
Fortunately, it was not far away to go to the Eastern Jin Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty, and with Taizong's special identity, he actually did it. After the "Lanting Preface" was obtained, Taizong was extremely obsessed with it, probably to protect the original, or to "it is better to have fun and enjoy everyone". Taizong asked famous ministers and calligraphers such as Chu Suiliang and Yu Shinan to copy Lanting Preface and rewarded part of it to the princes and ministers who had made contributions. In fact, this is one of the most wise things that Emperor Taizong of Tang did. Today we can still see the style of "Lanting Preface". We have to thank Wang Xizhi for this super emperor fan.
Li Shimin likes Lanting Xu too much, so at his request, after he traveled to the West, he brought this original work of Wang Xizhi, which was already a national treasure at that time, into his underground palace.
So how did Wang Xizhi's original work come to Li Shimin?
Monk Zhiyong (birth and death year unknown), , a native of the Sui Dynasty, whose real name is Wang Faji, whose name is Zhiyong , , a native of Shanyin , Kuaiji, a native of Shanyin (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang), a seventh generation grandson of the saint of calligraphy Wang Xizhi, and his fifth son descendant of Wang Huizhi , and his name is "Zen Master Yong". Zhiyong has been practicing calligraphy for thirty years, and has accumulated more than a dozen baskets of broken brush tips. Zhiyong's calligraphy level is also consistent with his ancestor Xizhi. He left behind a famous work "Thousand Character Text" for later generations. "Lanting Preface" was inherited by Zhiyong from his ancestors and was also a model for his long-term copying.
Later Zhiyong passed this treasure to his disciple Monk Biancai.
After Emperor Taizong of Tang issued a call to search for "Lanting Preface", a censor at that time, Xiao Yi , decided to search for it in order to please the emperor. Hard work pays off. When Lao Xiao knew Lanting's whereabouts, he pretended to be a scholar and went to the temple to play and took the opportunity to meet Biancai and whether he came here to search. After a long time, he won the trust of Biancai monk.
Lao Xiao took advantage of an opportunity to talk about poetry and painting, and used his aggressive eloquence to take out the "Lanting Preface" for him to appreciate. Xiao took the opportunity to drop the bag and presented this eternal work to the emperor.Putting aside the character of Lao Xiao, this activity to please the emperor indirectly promoted the spread of "Lanting Preface" among the people. Otherwise, it would have been circulated in a small range, so there is a high probability that it will be difficult for us today to see this masterpiece. Although the original works are no longer available, modern printing technology still allows us to easily appreciate and use this work.
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