Chapter 37: Deafening
When Ouyang Bian saw Wang Anshi's face changing, his heart suddenly became balanced.
——It’s really heartbreaking, it’s best to talk about money, income and marriage.
However, it should not be too exciting to this future boss. It is not worthy of being hated.
Ouyang Bian pointed to Chengxintang paper and said, "Uncle, why don't you, thank you for your help?"
Wang Anshi was moved (softly rubbed his hands): "Is that OK?"
Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "Of course, I want to keep one of my uncle's calligraphy."
Wang Anshi was not polite, and even a little anxious: "Okay, you get out of the way. It's really a waste of this paper for you to use."
Ouyang Bian: “…”
Listen, is this human word?
Ouyang Bian stood beside Wang Anshi, watching the future boss carefully laying the paper, smoothing the wrinkles on it, and pressing it carefully with paperweight. When he reached for the pen, he exclaimed again: "Xuanzhou brush, Shezhou ink, Duan ink... Hiss, the words are not well written, and the rows are complete!"
Wang Anshi looked constipated.
Ouyang Bian smiled and said, "Not only that, the brush is not only from Xuanzhou, but also from Zhuge, Xuanzhou, and the ink is not only from Shezhou, but also from Li, Shezhou.
As for the inkstone, it was originally a Shezhou inkstone, but thinking that the ink was from Shezhou, I thought I could just use Duan inkstone.
...Well, there is also a table that is customized with Hainan Huanghuali wood. It is wide enough. As long as it is not a particularly large page, it can be written on it. Because the weight itself is large enough, there is no possibility of shaking. It is definitely the favorite configuration of calligraphers!"
What a big dog!
Wang Anshi's emotions had just been brewing almost broke down. He took a deep breath and then started writing on the paper.
When Ouyang Bian saw Wang Anshi writing, he stopped talking and stood quietly aside, watching Wang Anshi writing.
Wang Anshi despised Ouyang Bian's calligraphy, but Ouyang Bian also despised Wang Anshi's calligraphy.
It is fast and sloppy, like a storm.
This sentence sounds quite imposing, but in plain words, it means writing quickly and is very sloppy.
Does it look very similar to you and me writing?
Wang Anshi's characters have a good structure, but the strokes are not well modified, so they look a bit sloppy.
Ouyang Bian curled his lips while looking.
This absolute husband has made great achievements in literature and is ranked among the "Eight Great Masters of Tang and Song Dynasties".
In poetry, he was able to establish his own unique poetry world in the Northern Song Dynasty, known as the "Wang Jing Gong Style".
Of course, it is also unique in calligraphy, and is known as "Qizhao Shu".
But in Ouyang Bian's eyes, this so-called "fast calligraphy" is really not very good - well, this may be the rebellious mentality caused by Wang Anshi's dislike of his calligraphy.
Wang Anshi waved it and then put the pen back reluctantly. When he turned around, he saw Ouyang Bian curling his lips.
However, Wang Anshi was not angry. He wrote a good copy of his own good writing with a good pen, ink, paper and inkstone. He was in a good mood and was a little pleased with Ouyang Bian's naughty behavior. He smiled and said, "Why, I dislike my calligraphy that is not good? It's better than your dog crawling characters?"
Ouyang Bian smiled, are you floating? Even your calligraphy dares to laugh at me?
"Uncle, come on, I'll write a piece of paper and give me some advice."
As he said that Ouyang Bian paved paper, Wang Anshi advised: "Why would you better change to ordinary paper. Although you have channels to buy this Chengxintang paper, it is too expensive. It is not worth using it for writing. It is the same with ordinary paper."
Ouyang Bian waved his hand: "Not short of money, no short of money."
Wang Anshi: “…”
My heart is so stumped.
Although Ouyang Bian has always been lying in the yard like a useless person during this period, he still can't escape the books he should read and the words he should practice.
Since you can't escape, it's better to learn some skills. Calligraphy is still very important in this era and is considered a storefront project.
If you don’t say anything else, just write poetry and pretend to be... Oh, when you have a friendly exchange, it is obviously a peerless poem, but it is written in words like dog crawling. How disgusting do you think?
Ouyang Bian also knows his strengths and weaknesses. After decades of hard pen calligraphy, the structural skeleton is definitely good, but the control of strokes is relatively lacking. After getting familiar with them these days, he has mastered them well, but he is still a little immature.
But Ouyang Bian had a way to take advantage of it.
His tricks are to imitate thin gold bodies.
The thin gold body abandons the requirement of hiding the edge in calligraphy and releases the edge in the characters, allowing this edge to emerge vigorously in a flowing and free manner.
However, the stroke modification he lacks can hide his weakness to a large extent. The thin gold body requires a structural skeleton. As for the strokes, it is actually quite easy to master, especially Ouyang Bian, who has decades of hard pen calligraphy.
Learning the thin gold body is twice the result with half the effort for Ouyang Bian. After getting familiar with the brush during this period, he began to practice the thin gold body. Although he has not reached a very high level, the thin gold body is something that has never happened before, and there is still no problem to fool it.
Ouyang Bian picked up the pen, and Wang Anshi stood aside, with a joking and heartache.
What is funny is that he had just read the useless manuscripts of Ouyang Bian practicing calligraphy. The structure is pretty good, but the strokes are indeed a little immature. Although it is indeed quite amazing for a child, for him, a master of calligraphy who has become his own, it is a bit insufficient to read.
What makes me heartache is that this is Chengxintang paper!
However, after Ouyang Bian started writing, Wang Anshi's expression gradually changed.
First of all, the font is very strange. Not only is the sharpness revealed, but it is also very thin and hard. The brushwork is exposed, and you can clearly see traces of the brushwork such as the running and the roundness of the tip that you are pursuing nowadays. However,... the brushwork is flexible and fast, and the handwriting is thin and vigorous, so thin that it is thin without losing its flesh. The large characters can be seen in the graceful and graceful manner. It really cannot be said that the word is not bad...
Wang Anshi was a little surprised, but what made him feel gradually shocked was the sentence written by Ouyang Bian:
Establish a heart for heaven and earth...
Make a life for the people...
Keep your unique knowledge for the past saints...
Bring peace for all ages...
...
Wang Anshi felt his head buzzing.
What a deafening ambition!
In the Book of Rites, there is a Confucian scholar's ambition of [Cultivating oneself, managing the family, governing the country and pacifying the world]. This is also the concept that Wang Anshi himself has always adhered to. He thought that this sentence [Cultivating oneself, managing the family, governing the country and pacifying the world] was enough to express his ambition, but these four sentences by Ouyang Bian...
Wang Anshi murmured: "Set up your mind for heaven and earth, establish your destiny for the living and the people, inherit your unique knowledge for the past sages, and bring peace to the ages..."
Ouyang Bian put the Xuanzhou Zhuge pen in his hand on the Duan inkstone filled with Shezhou ink, and looked at the four sentences of Hengqu written in thin gold on Chengxintang paper. Apart from the word "perfect", he really couldn't find any shortcomings!
If you take out this decorative character in the future, it will definitely be priceless!
Ouyang Bian looked back proudly, but was startled.
Wang Anshi stood there in a daze, as if he was nightmarished, and tears kept flowing in his eyes.
"What's wrong?"
Ouyang Bian was a little helpless.
Chapter completed!