As the saying goes: "Words are like the person they are." It means that through the characters, you can see the personality characteristics of the writer. For a person with a bold temperament, his characters are usually big and wild; for a person with a gentle temperament, his characters are usually delicate; A smooth person's words will be rounder and less angular.

However, with the development of science and technology, more and more people nowadays no longer write, and even when they encounter certain words, they simply forget their appearance and strokes. To be honest, writing is beautiful now. There are indeed fewer people than before, let alone compared with the ancients who used brushes to write.

Calligraphy, a unique traditional art in China, is a great creation of the ancient people. It evolved from simple pictures to record events, and then evolved into various calligraphy styles, such as seal script, official script, regular script, running script, Cursive scripts, they each have their own merits and exude a unique charm. However, looking at the entire history of calligraphy in our country, most of the people who can leave their names are men. After all, many ancient women did not even have the opportunity to study.

Today, the editor will introduce to you the calligraphy of a woman. Although she could not be called a calligrapher at the time, looking at it today, she is qualified to be one. She is Guangxu's Wife Jin Fei.

Concubine Jin, Tatala, is the daughter of Chang Xu, the former right minister of the household department. Her sister is the famous Concubine Zhen. When she was 15 years old, she and her sister were elected as Emperor Guangxu. The concubine entered the palace soon. Due to the intervention of Empress Dowager Cixi, Guangxu only had three concubines in his life. Guangxu only favored Concubine Zhen, and Concubine Jin became the most unknown one.

But that’s okay, Concubine Jin still lived a peaceful life after entering the harem. Because she received a good education since she was a child, Concubine Jin was good at writing, and writing became her way to spend her long days in the harem. The best way to pass the time, what she is best at is small regular script.

Let’s take a brief look at Xiaokai, which is a type of regular script. Because the characters are small, it is called Xiaokai. The founder was Zhong Yao during the Three Kingdoms period. Zhong Yao was originally a master of official script, but after his With the improvement of Chinese characters, small regular script came into being. Coupled with the later improvements of Wang Xizhi, the "Sage of Calligraphy", Xiaokai has almost reached the most beautiful state, full of natural and plain atmosphere.

The small regular script pays attention to "wide enough". After all, it is easy to write large characters because the area is wide and there is a lot of room for expression. But writing small characters is different, especially when encountering characters with many strokes. If you don't have enough effort, , the words cannot be written, they are crowded together and very ugly. This requires the writer to learn to neutralize, put all the strokes in the appropriate position, control them to the appropriate size, and not be anxious at all.

It is not difficult to find from Jin Fei’s calligraphy that she is a person who is not sloppy, because her small regular script handwriting is beautiful and clean. Only people with an open mind and no distracting thoughts can be so pure.

In addition to writing, Concubine Jin also liked to taste delicious food. She often sent her servants to Tianfuhao near the capital to buy sauce elbows and other delicacies. She also set up a small dining room in her Yonghe Palace and prepared the delicacies herself. Those princes and ministers most like to eat the food rewarded by Concubine Jin. It is not a blessing to be able to live like this in the cage-like Forbidden City.

Later Puyi came, and he quickly fell in love with the gentle and kind-hearted Concubine Jin. He also called her "Emperor's Mother" and often played with her. He always invited her during every year and festival. Concubine Jin. She was very happy. Later, when Puyi discussed marriage, she supported Wanrong to become the queen.

However, when she was celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival with everyone at the age of 51, Concubine Jin caught a cold and fell ill, and passed away five days later. Because Puyi liked her very much, she was buried in the Chongling Consort Garden of Emperor Guangxu as the imperial concubine Duankang, with the posthumous title of imperial concubine Wenjing. This woman, as plain as water, passed away quietly.