What is the origin of Wang Anshi's story of drawing a circle?

Speaking of drawing circles, it's really not Q's turn to sit first. As early as more than 900 years ago, a man named Wang Anshi in the Northern Song Dynasty made a little effort in drawing circles, but it always had little effect.

In the old days, signing a document was called drawing a promise, which was mostly cursive. According to legend, the Song Dynasty was very popular. As an important official of the imperial court, Wang Anshi's signature is his daily homework. But going to court is a wrong place, and the so-called three feet without smoke is true. One day, Wang Anshi signed a pen and wrote a word "stone" on it. The word "stone" is first horizontal, then left, and a circle is drawn casually. At that time, perhaps Wang Anshi was impatient, and the circle was not only round, but also a little flat, and the nib flashed by. Some people read it and secretly talked about it, saying that it was Wang Anshi's signature, and the word "anti" was posted on it. When things reached Wang Anshi's ears, he was so scared that he was sweating. Since then, he has been careful when drawing chess pieces, so as to draw circles and avoid ambiguity. If he is really prosecuted by the emperor, he will lose his mind and don't know where he is wrong.

Coincidentally, an inscription by Lao Guo during the Cultural Revolution almost made a similar mistake by Wang Anshi. Lao Guo wrote an inscription for Song of Ouyang Hai. Some people see from the opposite side that it is actually a mode of "anti-Mao Zedong", which has been popular for some time and almost killed Guo. Although he didn't draw a circle of Rainbow Anshi. In fact, the inscription is also a circle, but one is different and the other is too similar. Obviously, there are similarities and differences between the two.

Although Wang Anshi and Guo Moruo were not beheaded, they were far less relaxed than Ah Q's painting circle. Ah Q is afraid that jokes and decapitation are not necessarily related, so people only regard them as jokes, and the latter is real sympathy and pity. No, maybe there is a sigh!