The story of Huai Su's diligence and success 1
Huai Su is famous for its cursive script. People call him cursive? Weeds? His calligraphy is as fluent as a cloud, which has a far-reaching influence on later calligraphy research. Huai Su's achievements in calligraphy stem from his diligence.
Huai Su was smart since childhood and loved learning, especially calligraphy. He works hard at calligraphy. Huai Su was born in poverty, so he really didn't have any extra money to buy him paper to practice calligraphy. So he found himself a board, painted it with white paint, and then practiced writing on it. However, the paint on the board was too slippery, and Huai Su found it difficult to write, which affected the practice. At that time, Huai Su lived in a temple, and there was a wasteland near the temple. He planted many banana trees on the wasteland. When the banana leaves grow, he takes them off as ordinary paper to practice calligraphy.
However, due to Huai Su's efforts, banana leaves were soon picked by day and night practice. He was reluctant to pick small leaves of bananas, hoping to wait until these small leaves grew into big banana leaves. So, the clever Huai Su had a brainwave. He came to the banana tree with his own pen and ink and practiced calligraphy directly on the leaves. In summer, the sun scorched him, and his face was flushed with sweat; In winter, the cold wind blows hard, and his hands are chapped and dull with cold. But all this, Huai Su has endured, and nothing can stop him from practicing calligraphy.
Huai Su practiced in the banana grove day after day, and several years passed in his pen and ink. His efforts finally made him practice a strong pen, and his running script was unrestrained and smooth, which made him turn around.
Huai Su's Diligence and Success Story 2: Bananas Growing in Huai Su
Huai Su was born in 737 (the 25th year of Tang Kaiyuan) in Yongzhou, Hunan Province (formerly named Lingling). Huai Su was ordained as a monk in Lingling Shutang Temple when he was very young, and his legal name was Huai Su.
In his spare time after Zen, Huai Su was quite good at calligraphy. In the meditation room, people can rarely hear his chanting. Huai Su can often be seen splashing ink in the pagoda well behind Shutang Temple. This kind of idleness is ultimately unacceptable to xiaomiao shutang temple. In addition, his personality is really not suitable for believers who recite Buddhist scriptures. So soon, Huai Su left Shutang Temple and returned to his home.
At home, in addition to doing some simple work, he still focused on his favorite calligraphy art, and practicing calligraphy required several basic expenses. Ink is not a problem, even writing with a brush dipped in water is completely ok, but the hard part is paper. The price of paper in the Tang Dynasty was not too expensive, but Huai Su had no other source of income. In addition, Huai Su likes to write cursive script, and he can write tens of millions of pieces in a moment. Buying paper is really a great economic burden.
In order to solve this problem, Huai can be said to have used a lot of brains. First of all, because he couldn't afford to buy paper, Huai Su found a board and a plate and painted them with white paint to write. Later, Huai Su felt that the lacquer board was smooth and difficult to ink. He planted a plantain near his residence. Banana is a perennial herb with big and wide leaves, just like a wide rice paper. You can not only let go of your hands and feet, but also write repeatedly. Because Huai Su practiced calligraphy day and night, the old banana leaves were peeled off and the lobules were reluctant to pick, so he thought of a way to stand in front of the banana tree with pen and ink and write to the fresh leaves, even if the sun shone on him like a frying pan; The biting north wind cracked his hands and skin, but he kept practicing calligraphy regardless. He kept writing about one place after another. This is the famous calligraphy practice of Huai Su Banana.
When a large area of plantains grew, Huai Su took a poetic name for his residence-"Green Temple". Legend has it that Huai Su has planted more than 10,000 plantains, which may be hearsay. However, the story of Huai Su's diligent calligraphy practice with banana leaves as the writing material is widely circulated, and even becomes a frequent theme in the painter's works. Modern famous oil painting and Chinese painting masters Xu Beihong and Li Keran all painted Huai Su's books and bananas.
Love of drinking and being good at cursive writing are the two biggest characteristics of Huai Su. "Drinking raises one's health and cursive writing enriches one's ambition". Perhaps drinking is the inducement to stimulate his enthusiasm for cursive writing. At the age of 20, Huai Su's calligraphy developed by leaps and bounds. Not only Shutang Temple, but also the names of Yongzhou City and Huai Su are circulated all over Hunan. Li Bai once said, "cursive writing means that there is no step in the world." By this time, Huai Su was no longer a poor monk, and there was no need to practice calligraphy with banana leaves instead of paper. Even he has changed from a role that worships contemporary celebrities to a celebrity that everyone asks for. Calligraphy is an art that the society in Tang Dynasty generally attached importance to. From top to bottom, the trend of good books spread almost throughout the Tang Dynasty, so people who are good at books also received social attention, and the calligraphy of celebrities was loved by people. However, he was never satisfied with showing his talents only in the south. He is eager to travel to the capital Chang 'an and become famous there. Moreover, the further improvement of calligraphy level often requires the guidance of famous teachers. At that time, most of the famous calligraphers were concentrated in Beijing, where there were many cultural landscapes and calligraphy works everywhere, which was of great benefit to broaden their horizons.
Chang 'an is a gathering place for talents and dignitaries. At this time, these people who are always high above, suddenly become humble. They took out their burly horses and let Huai Su ride them. They also vacated their "mansion" and invited Huai Su to live there. As the saying goes, "Ride a maharaja's horse in the morning and stay at the maharaja's house at dusk". For a time, a mild "Huai Su Feng" appeared in Beijing. Of course, the ultimate goal of trying to cater to Huai Su is to get Huai Su's cursive works. Because there are too many social parties, even prominent people should say hello in advance when they meet Huai Su, and make an appointment to "meet": my screen has already been finished and the walls have been painted, just waiting for you to show off, don't forget! Once you can invite them to Huai Su, these noble people will always take Huai Su home with a good horse and hold wine and bamboo leaves in a golden basin. Of course, as long as enough wine is prepared, you don't have to worry about the rest. Huai Su will naturally leave fascinating lines when he is drunk.
I have been in Chang 'an and Huai Su for about five years, and I have done my best. In the seventh year of Dali, Huai Su was ready to get up and return home. On the way back to his hometown, Huai Su made a thoughtful choice. He wants to detour east to Luoyang, the capital of the east, and then go south from Luoyang. Luoyang was called the East Capital at that time, and like Chang 'an, the west capital, it was the cultural center of the whole country, where many famous writers, musicians and painters gathered. This used to be the place where calligrapher Zhang Xu lived. There are many famous calligraphy marks there, which are very helpful to broaden his horizons. When I arrived in Luoyang, I went to the place where Zhang Xu had been.
Huai Su had long heard that there was a man named Wu Tong, a student of the famous calligrapher Zhang Xu. Perhaps from him, Huai traced the secret of Cao Sheng's success. So he inquired about Wu Tong's residence, took Wu Tong as his teacher and learned painting from Wu Tong. Interestingly, Wu Tong's lectures on the essence of calligraphy are not systematic and organized, and most of them are freely understood. One night in the middle of the night, Wu Tong suddenly said to Huai Su: There are many ancient cursive scripts, and only Wang Xianzhi's cursive script is strange. Emperor Taizong thought that Wang Xianzhi's cursive script was like a dead tree in the middle of winter, cold and hard, with no branches and leaves. Since then, Huai Su has paid more attention to Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy and studied his "hardness".
On another occasion, Wu Tong told Huai Su that Zhang Changshi, a former teacher, once said to me privately, "I am flying in the sand alone." I often think about the meaning of this sentence. Grass flying in the wind is like cursive brushwork. The wind blows fine sand and flies in the air, just like cursive changes. I pondered the meaning of this sentence repeatedly, tried to imitate the artistic interest contained in this natural phenomenon, and cursive script developed by leaps and bounds.
Famous sayings about diligence
1, if you don't smell it, you will have it, if you don't see it, you will have it, if you don't know it, you will stop learning. ? Xun Kuang
2, the industry is diligent, barren land; What I did was thought, but it was destroyed. ? Han Yu
Nothing is difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb. ? Mao Zedong
Intelligence comes from diligence, and genius lies in accumulation. ? Hua
Genius is not enough, cleverness is unreliable, and it is unimaginable to pick up great scientific inventions conveniently. ? Hua
6. For those who engage in science, diligence is the mother of success! ? yisheng mao
7. Diligence is the mother of success. ? yisheng mao
8. Study hard and work hard to make your youth more glorious. ? king
9. If human beings want to survive in competition, they must struggle. ? Sun Yixian
10, time is constant, but it is also variable. There are endless industrious people and endless lazy people. ? Strict words
1 1, the decisive factor in the formation of genius should be diligence. ? Studying hard is directly proportional to practicing hard. ? Guo Moruo
12, what is a genius! I think genius is the result of hard work. ? Guo Moruo
13, the word genius is inherently ambiguous, and its definition is by no means so-called? I was born with it. Can I learn without learning?
Yes There is no one born to know. No one can learn without learning. Genius is mostly cultivated through hard work. Genius is mostly due to careful cultivation. ? Guo Moruo
14, where there is a genius, I use the kung fu of others drinking coffee at work. ? Lu Xun
15, with a little diligence, hand diligence and brain diligence in learning, you can become a learned person. ? Han Wu
16. Between genius and diligence, I chose diligence without hesitation. She is the midwife of almost all achievements in the world. ? [Name] Albert Einstein (Jewish theoretical physicist)
17, the vastness of spirit, the activity of imagination and the diligence of mind: it is a genius. ? Diderot
18、? Genius is diligence? Someone once said. If this statement is not completely correct, it is at least largely correct. ? William Liebknecht
19, the so-called genius refers to a person with perseverance, diligence, selflessness and selflessness. ? Bernard Shaw's
20. Smart qualifications, internal driving force, diligent working attitude and perseverance. These are other conditions for successful scientific research. ? William Lan Beardmore Beveridge
2 1, genius is the ability to make unremitting efforts. ? Carlyle
22. Invention is one percent cleverness and ninety-nine percent diligence. ? Edison
In fact, no sudden inspiration can replace long-term efforts. ? rodin
No animal is more diligent than an ant, but it is the most taciturn. ? Franklin
Genius is the best cow. They work nonstop every day 18 hours. ? Renan
Laziness is equivalent to burying a person alive. ? taylor
27. There is no intelligence without enthusiasm, and there is no enthusiasm without knowledge. Without diligence, there is no combination of enthusiasm and talent. ? Joseph
28. No one will become a wise man by studying. Learning may come from diligence, but wit and wisdom are lazy to talent. ? John? Selden
29. Without double diligence, there is neither talent nor genius. ? Mendeleev
30. Genius comes from diligence. ? The original name of NIZHNI NOVGOROD in Gorky City