Chapter 2 The Best Cursive Script in the World
He Zhizhang didn't urge him and waited aside.
It was not until Zhang Xu came to his senses that he asked, "How?"
Zhang Xu thought for a while and suddenly raised his voice: "A word by word, golden and good words, that's all!" He suddenly poured the wine from the wine pot in his hand into his mouth frantically, and shouted: "Grind the ink for me!"
While he was thinking, he strode to the front of the desk.
There were piles of copywriting and letters piled up like mountains next to the desk. He swept it impatiently, and the books flew all over the ground.
A trace of expression flashed in He Zhizhang's eyes, and he grinded Zhang Xu without hesitation.
There are more or less crazy genes in the artist's cells, and this is exactly what Zhang Xu calls Zhang Dian.
Once he gets excited, he will not be able to control his body and do many crazy things, such as shouting and walking wildly, like writing with his head dipped in ink, etc.
He Zhizhang knows his friend. The more crazy he is, the better his condition is.
Zhang Xu ignored everything he had caused and spread the gauze on the table. Then he spread the article in the letter with some respect, dipped the brush heavily into the inkstone, and wrote the dragon and phoenix flying dance...
His pen is elegant and upright, unpredictable, and he continues to spread his emotions between the dots and ink, as if no one is around, as if drunk and crazy.
Five hundred and eighty-six words are almost done in one go!
He Zhizhang was shocked at the crazy cursive script that looked like a ghost...
Zhang Xu looked at his masterpiece and burst into laughter, and his laughter was deafening.
Suddenly the laughter stopped. Zhang Xu stared at the top of his eyes and fell directly to the ground. He actually smiled and carried it over with his back.
He Zhizhang was so scared that he was in a hurry, shouting, slapping his face, and pinching Ren Zhong tightly to help him recover.
"Ahem!"
Zhang Xu gasped heavily, lay on the ground, laughed with difficulty again, and asked, "How?"
"Good books, good calligraphy!" He Zhizhang said in shock: "I can't tell whether the book is better or the calligraphy is better!"
Zhang Xu said cautiously: "Of course, the book is good..." He paused and said: "The words are not bad either!"
He Zhizhang couldn't help laughing.
Unconsciously, Zhang Xu's book directly carried him to the altar, as famous as the saint of calligraphy Wang Xizhi.
This copybook is also compared with Wang Xizhi's "Preface to the Lanting Collection", and is praised by later generations as the world's number one cursive script.
After regaining his anger, Zhang Xu sat up and said, "Our little brother is not simple. This article is written. I feel ashamed of myself..."
He Zhizhang sighed: "It's not just Brother Bo Gao, but I admire my elder brother. But this intention is a bit bad. Haha, this is also in line with his temperament. If it weren't for this, there might not be such a famous work for all time."
"What?" Zhang Xu had just arrived in Chang'an and didn't know about Li Bai.
"Jingyuan is making trouble for Taibai!" He Zhizhang explained to Zhang Xu in detail when Li Bai was alive in Chang'an.
Zhang Xu was furious when he heard this. He met Li Bai the earliest and traveled all over Shu together, and he knew Li Bai's temperament well.
Li Bai is self-conceited, but he is so arrogant, he is confident in his own abilities, affirmation of himself, not arrogant and rude to others. On the contrary, Li Bai treats everyone equally. Whether you are a noble prince or a civilian, he is the same in his eyes, and has the style of a humble gentleman.
His conflict with Li Yong was only due to disagreement in academic concepts.
If you have different opinions, is your disrespect to your elders? Arrogance and rudeness?
Zhang Xu was a man of temperament and cursed directly: "Li Tai and this corrupt scholar, who gave him this face!"
He Zhizhang said: "In fact, this matter has little to do with Li Yong. This person is still good in terms of character, but he has a good face and made a wrong choice for a while. What really causes all this is 'jealousy'. Taibai is so amazing, just like Jingyuan back then, and his reputation has been fascinated by Chang'an in a short time! Jingyuan in the past was not close to Taiping, so he was despised?"
Zhang Xu still held Li Bai's dissatisfaction and said, "No matter what, Li Taihe is a disaster, so he should be taught a lesson. There is no way to learn, and the master is the teacher. This is really good. If it weren't for Jingyuan's sword, there would be no word for a certain person." He looked at He Zhizhang and said, "How do you do this and this article?"
He Zhizhang said solemnly: "Then it goes without saying that the current trend of the Shilin River is not upright, so how can the elders show the example of the elders? As the article says, the reason why the wise wise men are wise is that they can recognize themselves and not be ashamed to ask questions. But the fools are far less knowledgeable than the wise men, but they are ashamed to learn from the wise men. For some reason, the wise men are unattainable, and the fools are even more ignorant. Let this article give the fools in the world a wake-up call!"
He said seriously and wrote comments at his desk.
Pei Min's article is only more than 500 words, but He Zhizhang's comments are as many as 1,000 words, which is the most comment he has written in his life.
Shilin has channels for Shilin!
He Zhizhang passed on Pei Min's article and his comments.
In just a few days, Pei Min's article ignited the Shilin Circle, Xijing, and Dongdu fell first.
It was like a bomb exploded above Shilin's head for a moment.
The literati and scholars who have read the articles competed to write and inform each other, and they actually felt that paper in Luoyang was expensive.
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Chang'an Baoshenghou Mansion.
There is a lineage in the Shilin. He is not a family, nor a large family, but his influence in the Shilin is far above that of aristocratic families.
Even if a ruthless person like Wu Zetian killed the aristocratic families, he would not dare to do anything to this lineage.
That's the Kong family!
The most sage of Confucianism, a descendant of Confucius.
However, the court mostly respected Confucius' descendants without any use.
It’s not that they are incompetent, but there are many descendants of the Kong family who have profound family backgrounds and possess ordinary talents. It’s just because their status in the Shilin is too high, and all the Confucian scholars in the world are disciples of the Kong family. If the Kong family is allowed to take charge of the power of the dynasty, would that be great?
Therefore, the Kong family rarely became high-ranking officials, but this did not hinder their status in the Shilin.
Now the power of the Kong family is Confucius' thirty-third generation of Confucius's grandson.
Kong Delun walked into the mansion with a cane and met his old friend Kong Huiyuan.
They are all from the Kong family, but Kong Delun is the direct lineage, and Kong Huiyuan is the side branch among the side branch.
However, Kong Huiyuan's grandfather was Kong Yingda, the largest Confucian scholar in the early Tang Dynasty, known as the prosperous scholar. Starting from Kong Yingda, their family was a member of the Imperial College for three generations, responsible for the national education of the Tang Dynasty. His status in the scholars was not comparable to that of He Zhizhang, and Li Yong, so it would not be an exaggeration to call him the leader of the Confucian school.
"It's time for the Imperial College to open the Imperial College. Hui Yuandi is not teaching in the Imperial College. Why are you doing in our mansion? Have you taken a break?"
Kong Delun was already old and talkative. He was very happy to see his old friend and said with a hint.
Chapter completed!