The story of three idioms

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a great calligrapher in China, that is, Wang Xizhi, the "book saint" who was called the highest model by calligraphers and connoisseurs in previous dynasties.

Wang Xizhi likes to practice calligraphy since he was a child, and he can write good handwriting at the age of seven. When he was twelve years old, one day, he saw a book on writing methods under his father's pillow. He excitedly gave it to his father and taught him to practice calligraphy. Father said he was young and disagreed. He promised to teach him to practice calligraphy when he grew up. Hearing this, Wang Xizhi knelt down and asked his father, "Now teach me. If you wait until you grow up, it will be too late. " When my father saw that he had made up his mind, he agreed.

Since then, Wang Xizhi has been practicing calligraphy crazily under the guidance of his father. Even at rest, he is pondering the shelf structure and momentum of fonts, thinking that his fingers will draw on the skirt, and even the skirt will be cut after a long time.

Wang Xizhi's calligraphy is getting better and better. His calligraphy is both beautiful and powerful. He was already a famous calligrapher when he was young. However, Wang Xizhi insisted on practicing hard, trying to figure out the calligrapher's strokes when walking, eating and even sleeping, and scratching his fingers constantly. One day, when he was sleeping, he scratched with his hand. He scratched his wife when he wasn't looking. The wife smiled and said, "How can you scratch others?" What about yours? Nothing! "

Unexpectedly, this joke made Wang Xizhi realize that he should create his own style of writing. From then on, he read the handwriting of the tablet, learned from a hundred schools of thought, gained the ever-changing god, became a whole, and his calligraphy became more beautiful and vigorous. According to legend, on one occasion, Wang Xizhi wrote the words on the board and took them to the sculptor for carving. When the sculptor carved wood, he was surprised to find that the ink had penetrated into the board for three minutes.

Of course, this legend is not necessarily true. People just use it to describe Wang Xizhi's writing style, which has reached the point of perfection. Later, according to this legend, people derived the idiom "straight to the point", which is often used to mean that speaking, analyzing problems or writing articles are very deep.