Prime Minister Zhang is good at cursive writing but not good at work. At that time, everyone in the generation laughed at him. The prime minister is at ease. One day I got a sentence, I wrote quick

Prime Minister Zhang is good at cursive writing but not good at work. At that time, everyone in the generation laughed at him. The prime minister is at ease. One day I got a sentence, I wrote quickly with my pen, and the paper was full of dragons and snakes flying around. make

Translation

Prime Minister Zhang liked to write cursive script but it was not good-looking. People at that time laughed at him, but the Prime Minister behaved very calmly about this. Once, when he got a good sentence, he picked up the pen and wrote it down quickly, and the whole paper was full of dragons and phoenixes.

He asked his nephew to copy it down. When he came to a place with weird strokes in the calligraphy, his nephew stopped blankly, took the paper on which he had written the words and asked him: "What word is this?" The prime minister said seriously. After looking at it for a long time, he didn't recognize it anymore, so he blamed his nephew and said, "Why didn't you ask earlier? So much so that I forgot what was written."

Original text

Prime Minister Zhang Good cursive writing but poor craftsmanship. At that time, everyone in the generation laughed at him. The prime minister is at ease. One day I got a sentence, and I wrote quickly with my pen, and the paper was full of dragons and snakes flying around. Let my nephew record it. When the wave was in danger, my nephew stopped. He held the letter and asked, "What's the word for this?" The prime minister had seen it for a long time and didn't recognize it. Criticizing his nephew, he said: "You didn't ask earlier, so I would forget about it."

Extended information

Creative background

This article is selected from Huihong, Northern Song Dynasty The compiled "Leng Zhai Night Talk" mainly tells the story of Zhang Shangying, a native of the Northern Song Dynasty, who practiced calligraphy. "Leng Zhai Night Talk", an ancient Chinese poetry theory work. ***Ten volumes. A novel written by the monk Huihong (1071-1128). The style of this book is somewhere between notes and poetry, but it is mainly about poetry. On poetry, many people are said to have cited Yuanyou, with Su Shi and Huang Tingjian being the most famous. The book mostly proposes and explains some poetic theories by quoting poems.

Character background

Zhang Shangying was born in 1043 AD and died in 1121 AD. A native of Xinjin, Shuzhou (Chongqing, Sichuan), he was a bureaucrat in the late Northern Song Dynasty. With the courtesy name Tianjue and the nickname Wuwu Jushi, he was an official in the imperial court of Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty, up to the right prime minister.

The main works include: "On the Protection of Dharma", "General Ode to Wutai", "Nanxiangzi", and "100 Volumes of Collected Works".