Chapter Twenty-Five
Xu You stammered and looked closely. He saw that it read: "The two surnames were married, and they made a contract together. The good marriage was forever together. The match was the same. Seeing that the peach blossoms were bright on this day, it was suitable for the family and the family, and the melons were endless and the eternal scent of the year. I would like to use the promise of white heads to write to the Hongbi, so that the alliance of red leaves was recorded and the mandarin album was written."
This is a regular book, with the man's intermarriage letter and the woman's marriage letter, but it's just a false cliché, and it has a fixed format. There are also separate papers that record the true situation of both men and women, and write down the names of the three generations, county honors, official positions, etc. The more detailed the better, the better, it will be many times more rigorous than the census of later generations.
Xu You closed the lid and handed it back to Feng Tong, saying, "It's the wedding letter that is true. Please ask Manager Feng to prepare paper and pen. I'll write a break-up letter."
Feng Tong didn't expect things to go so smoothly, and immediately smiled and hurriedly prepared the paper and pen table. He grinded ink on the side, glanced at Xu You with his eyes squinted, and said to him: I heard that Xu Jiaqilang touched more swords and guns, and fewer pens, and he might write something ugly. I have to watch it carefully, and I can still tell her as a joke in front of Sanniang.
Yuan You was also surprised that he had seen Xu You's calligraphy. After the Xu family sent someone to propose marriage, he went to Xu You's exercises. The graffiti handwriting made him hesitate for a long time. If it weren't for the imminent incident, he felt that a powerful military clan like Xu would have a support from the family, which would have made the family rely on in the future, how could he agree to this marriage?
Thinking of this letter of divorce, maybe you have to read it to the master. The handwriting is too ugly and you will inevitably lose your etiquette. Yuan Jie advised: "Qilang, you have just recovered from illness and lack of wrist strength. It is better to have the pen of the clerk in the palace to sign and seal it."
Xu You chuckled and said, "It's not a problem!" Then he picked up his pen and focused his mind, closed his eyes and pondered. When he opened his eyes, his temperament changed. He wrote like a silver snake, and he had a full sheet of paper breaking the engagement words, and he achieved it overnight:
"As the cause of a husband and wife, they will become a couple in the past three lives, and they will be matched with the couple in this life. If the relationship is not in harmony, they are enemies, so they will be in opposition. Since the two hearts are different and it is difficult to return to one's will, they will return to their original ways. I hope that after the wife is separated, she will comb her hair again, sweep her eyebrows, and show off her graceful posture. She will select the lord of the high palace, and have two broad separations, and each will be happy."
After signing the name and pressing the fingerprint, Xu You washed his hands in the copper basin brought by Feng Tong, and smiled and said, "I can't marry the Yuan Mansion. I wish Sanniang a good son-in-law as soon as possible, to be happy with beans and water, and to have a hundred years of qin."
"Book of Rites? Tan Gongxia": "Sip beans and drink water to the fullest, this is called filial piety." This is the source of Shushui's joy. Yuan Jie didn't have time to think about whether Xu You had learned the "Book of Rites" in the Five Classics, otherwise how could he pick it up easily? It was all the allusions in "Book of Rites". Instead, he looked at the book of breaking the engagement with a serious expression, his eyes full of surprise.
Even Feng Tong opened his mouth wide, with a look of seeing a ghost. Although he was not a great man like Yuan Jie, he often served in the study and had this knowledge. Xu You's words are not good, but in his eyes, there were only two words:
Amazing!
The calligraphy of Wei and Jin dynasties inherited the remaining styles of the Han Dynasty, and regulated the techniques of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, opened the meaning of the Song Dynasty, inspired the style of Yuan and Ming Dynasty, promoted the simplicity of the Qing people, and was also very creative and energetic. It was a milestone in the history of Chinese calligraphy. In terms of the evolution of calligraphy styles, it was a generation that was fully equipped with seal, clerical, regular, running and cursive styles, and all of them were perfect. Among them, the most famous ones were Zhong Yao and Wang Xizhi.
Zhong Yao was a native of the Three Kingdoms and pioneered the transformation from official script to regular script. Wang Xizhi's great name was known to be the saint of calligraphy. Only in his hands did he truly carry forward regular script. Wang Xizhi's representative works of small regular script "Huang Ting Jing" and "Le Yi Lun" have a smooth brushstroke and a brilliant spirit, especially "Le Yi Lun" is called "the first in regular script".
But the problem is that in this era when Xu You traveled through time, the Wang family of Langya had already suffered the disaster of extermination in the Five Barbarians Rebellion. Small butterflies could cause a tornado thousands of miles away, let alone such a big change?
In other words, in this time and space, neither the Southern Chu nor the Northern Wei Dynasty, there was Wang Xizhi as a person! And the reason why Xu You just said when he read the intermarriage book was because the regular script font of the wedding book was actually the not very mature half-literary and half-libual structure evolved from Zhong Yao two hundred years ago.
As we all know, the most typical brush stroke in Lishu is wave pick, and its shape is characterized by silkworm head and goose tail. Most of the wave paintings in this intermarriage book have no difference between the ending strokes and Han Li, but the starting stroke is made of regular script, changing the reverse entry to cut, and turning the silkworm head into a diagonal square shape. In this way, the wave paintings are flat in the middle and raised at both ends, just like a small boat. The vertical strokes are also cut in the edges, but they are written in regular script. Some hook paintings are like official script, while others are like regular script. The dots are also very distinctive, both of which are triangles, mostly square strokes, strokes, strokes, and hooks are mostly round.
The mutual restraint and influence of regular script and clerical scripts are just like the process of mutual restraint and mutual influence that occurs during each font evolution, there is no big fuss about it in itself.
Xu You just sighed that in two hundred years, there has never been a second Wang Xizhi in the world who can lead the calligraphy reform!
After traveling through two time and space and witnessing the changes of the times over hundreds of years, it turns out that there is only one calligraphy saint!
After posting, he sighed, and then, Xu You almost couldn't help but feel excited because he suddenly thought that maybe he was the only person in this world who could write a king's style.
In his previous life, Xu You, who was in a high position, was not only a trend of Chinese studies or his own hobbies, but also a number of famous teachers in the past ten years, first learning from Wang Xizhi, then learning from Chu Suiliang, and then learning from Ouyang Xun. He was talented and diligent, and hardworking, and his regular script received the charm of Wang and Chu's sparseness, and occasionally showed Ouyang's steadiness. Not only did his skills have Wang Chu's tens of strength, but he also had four or five points of charm.
What's even more amazing is that just now, the moment he picked up the pen, his body and mind seemed to have entered a wonderful state, and everything around him disappeared without a trace, as if between this vast world, there was only the pen in his hand and the words in his pen.
Therefore, even if he saw the break-up letter, he had achieved a 200% level, with a full sporty body of a king, without any unfamiliarity or discontinuity.
Could it be that Xu You was proficient in martial arts, and his wrist strength and overall coordination were countless times stronger than himself, so the combination of the two had such an incredible chemical reaction?
Xu You didn't understand why, but he didn't intend to go into it. After all, this was a change to the positive side and it was one of the few good news he had encountered since his rebirth.
However, there was no sign of emotional fluctuation on his face, as if he had done something trivial and not worth mentioning.
Yuan governs his family with Confucianism and attaches great importance to calligraphy styles. Yuan Jie has practiced bald pens since he was a child, probably more than ordinary scholars have seen. With decades of immersed in this trait, so when he sees Xu You's words, it seems that he has opened the door to a new world. His brushwork is rigorous like Zhong Yao, but his posture is clever and dense, elegant and interesting. What's more amazing is that his font has changed the ancient style of the Han and Wei dynasties, like a lady from a noble family, with a charming and graceful posture, and is not within the category of any famous calligrapher in ancient and modern times. He has vaguely possessed the extraordinary demeanor of establishing a sect!
In fact, no matter how much Xu You said, his brushwork cannot be compared with those famous masters. But sometimes, innovation is far more exciting than being proficient. Especially in the eyes of people like Yuan Jie, official script has developed to the extreme, but the regular script that replaced it has not been able to truly mature. Until today, when I saw Xu You's words, I felt a little ecstatic when I heard a thump in my mind!
"Duke Yuan, Duke Yuan?"
"Huh?" Yuan Jie woke up from a trance and realized that he was a little disobedient. However, he didn't care much at this time and stared at Xu You and asked, "Qilang, where did you learn this word?"
"The word "Master Zhong" is written in the book."
Everyone in the world learns from Zhong Yao, so it is absolutely impossible to be wrong to say this, but Yuan Jie still asks endlessly and says, "When will you copy and which one do you copy?"
Xu Youzhen couldn't answer this. Zhong Yao's original works have been lost in later generations, and only copying was passed down from generation to generation. He had only copied "He Jiebiao", but it was impossible to copy only one copy, so he could only pretend to be profound and faint smile and said, "When I will copy it, it doesn't matter which one. What's important is that when I copied the calligraphy, I summarized the calligraphy of Taifu with twelve meanings!"
Twelve intentions?
Yuan Jie had a wide range of knowledge, but he had never heard anyone sum up Zhong Yao's twelve meanings of calligraphy. He immediately became interested and said, "What is the twelve meaning?"
Chapter completed!