1. Couplet Because I love calligraphy, I once became a teacher of an old gentleman.

The teacher saw that I was a bit rough and probably wouldn't have much potential, so he casually said, "Let's go to the Mysterious Tower first."

The Mysterious Tower that the old man mentioned is a rubbing of the inscription on the Mysterious Tower written by Liu Gongquan, a calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty.

For those who learn Chinese character calligraphy, it belongs to the level of primary school students. Please don’t get me wrong. I don’t mean to belittle the Liu character here. I mean that the Liu character is very well-known among Chinese people. Even primary school students use it as a model for tracing red patterns.

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Anyone who has some knowledge of calligraphy knows the four famous calligraphers since the Tang and Song Dynasties - Yan Liu Ouzhao. The Liu character is especially famous for its regular shape and strict laws.

Naturally, it is conceivable that I, who is no longer the age of a red model, can sit still?

Therefore, in the end, there was no success, and giving up halfway was the inevitable outcome.

There was also something rewarding, and I have been enjoying pondering this square character ever since.

One day, while chatting with a colleague, the topic suddenly turned to calligraphy for some reason.

To be honest, even though I have not learned anything famous, I still have a little sense and taste in appreciating other people's works - just like cooking, you cannot do it yourself, but it does not prevent you from appreciating the taste of other people's dishes; as long as you use your heart

, maybe you can become a gourmet.

A colleague said solemnly that he recently met a calligrapher who can write very well.

Ask me if I am interested in requesting a calligraphy painting for you?

I hesitated for a moment and decided to accept my colleague's offer.

But what words should be written?

In my opinion, calligraphy and painting works are either by famous artists and can be used for collection; or they are seasonal and can be used as decoration.

As for decorative calligraphy and painting works, there is no need to be too picky, as long as they have good content and a basic layout.

I can't recall how famous the calligrapher he mentioned was, maybe he was a rising star.

So I was undecided on what to write.

Suddenly I thought about the recent topic of human resources management around me, and somehow it came to mind that Lu Xun mentioned something with the capital character "human" in some article.

Why not create a couplet related to people?

By this time I already knew it.

However, one does not know whether the calligrapher is young or old, whether his reputation is real or just in vain.

If the calligrapher sees that I intend to embarrass him, wouldn't he let his colleagues look down on me?

I can’t control that much anymore.

So Gonggong wrote fourteen words: Everyone, everyone, follow the crowd, Everyone, everyone, follow.

I explained to my colleagues that they must be written in simplified Chinese as they are.

He was a little confused and I was a little proud.

People who love calligraphy know that the calligraphy sage Wang Xizhi once wrote more than a dozen different zigzag characters in a manuscript - but they were interspersed in the article. It is objectively feasible to seek some kind of change when the contextual characters are different.

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If the book sage were asked to write a dozen or dozens of zigzags throughout the entire article, I think he would break out in a sweat if he didn't throw the pen away angrily.

Of course he can't write.

Even if the old Taoist asked him for a piece of calligraphy, he would go to great lengths to raise a pond of white geese to please him, let alone the boring trick of waiting for me.

But one day after that, I actually saw that picture among my colleagues.

The words were written vertically, and there seemed to be a postscript, to the effect that he himself had no comment on the meaning of the couplet. But when I saw the word, I no longer had any doubts about the meaning of the couplet.

For some reason, my colleague didn't give me the calligraphy later; it didn't belong to me, so there was no need to ask for it back.

Remember this matter and tell it as a story to everyone.

2. Fan once, I bought a fan at the Wuhan calligraphy and painting market.

It's from the Qing Dynasty. It's very old and a little bit damaged.

The fan is well-organized and well-written. The size of the characters is between small regular script and medium-sized regular script. It is probably carefully designed by the calligrapher based on the content of the book and the size of the fan. However, the content is not rigid and somewhat careless, very free and easy:

The sun and the moon are running around endlessly. It seems that there is no taste. It is better to read him with a pot of tea and thousands of books. When he is tired, he sleeps on the bamboo and rattan bed. When he wakes up, he drinks wine with the flowers and gets drunk.

When you come, tell jokes, guess wild riddles, draw a few strokes of pine and bamboo, write a few love poems, play a game of chess with him, and play with him for a while.

You can't win all the worldly vigour; you can't win all the worldly benefits; even if you go to Tang and Wu to conquer and fight for supremacy among the five hegemons, it's still just a drama.

Who knows the fun of traveling for many years?

Although the writing is beautiful, what I mainly appreciate is his writing.

Both the signature and the seal are a little blurry. When the two are combined, the vaguely identifiable handwriting is: Zhang Shu.

Because I like it, I remember the content.

This fan was later forcibly taken away by my friend Mr. Xu, who also liked the words on the fan.

Before leaving, I threw a stack of cash on the table without asking the price.

He may have consulted relevant experts. Based on his vision at the time, it was difficult to give an accurate valuation of this item.

I later mentioned this fan to several friends who were fond of calligraphy and recited the content above to them.

Most of them also liked it, and several friends asked me to copy the content and give it to them.

Later, a friend opened a teahouse, and I suggested asking a calligrapher to write down this passage and hang it in the hall. Firstly, it can be decorated; secondly, it can be savored while drinking tea.

My friend said, then it’s up to you to hire someone to write it.

Where do I know any calligrapher?

By chance, I met Kanye at a friend's place and he was chatting about Dashan (a Beijing dialect that means talking about everything without restraint), so I mentioned this matter to him, and unexpectedly he agreed to it.