Liu Gongquan’s famous sayings include:

1. Use the pen with the heart in mind, and the pen will be straight if the heart is straight. ——Liu Gongquan's "History of the Song Dynasty" written in the mid-Tang Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: When you pick up the pen to write, write with your heart. If your mind is right, the pen will be stable.

2. The heart is like the thought, and the pen is like a dense mountain. ——Liu Gongquan's "History of the Song Dynasty" written in the mid-Tang Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: When the mind is right, when writing, it is as steady as the mountains and rivers.

3. A child has no voice of sorrow, and the sea has no waves. ——Liu Gongquan's "Mysterious Tower Stele" written in the mid-Tang Dynasty

Vernacular interpretation: A child cannot lament, and there are no huge waves on the sea.

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Anecdotes and allusions of Liu Gongquan

1. Writing poems to help others

Tang Wuzong once treated a female official in the palace for a long time Angry, he summoned her later and said to Liu Gongquan: "I am very dissatisfied with this person. If I can get one of your works, bachelor, I will not blame her." So he took the dozens of pieces of paper from Shu County that were on the imperial record. The paper was handed to him.

Without hesitation, Liu Gongquan immediately wrote a quatrain: "Regardless of the past, I disobeyed the Lord's favor and was willing to guard the long gate alone. Now I have the king's attention, so I returned to the pepper room to wipe away the traces of tears." The emperor was very happy. He was rewarded with two hundred pieces of brocade and ordered the female officials to come forward and thank him.

2. Use the pen as advice

Tang Mu Zong was dissolute and eccentric in his administration. He once asked Liu Gongquan how to use the pen to perfection. Liu Gongquan replied: "The method of using the pen all depends on If you use your heart carefully, your brushwork will be perfect."

Mu Zong changed his face and understood that he was using brushwork to exhort. Su Shi of the Song Dynasty once said in a poem: "When there is an urgent need to pass on the family law, and when you want to see the sincerity of writing, you will give me advice."

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