Disciples

Chapter 88

Original
The ink is worn away, the heart is not right,
The words are disrespectful, and the heart is sick first.

Translation
If the ink is worn out, it is because the mentality is not correct; if the writing is not correct, it is because you still have selfish thoughts, and the most important thing in learning is concentration.

allusion
Yan Zhenqing was a great calligrapher during the Tang Dynasty in my country.

When Yan Zhenqing was only three years old, his father passed away suddenly due to illness, leaving him and his mother struggling to survive.The mother is a kind and strong woman. Although life is difficult, she is very strict with her children.Yan Zhenqing started to learn to write when he was four years old, and when he was five or six years old, he had developed a strong interest in writing.Due to the poverty of the family, his mother could not afford paper and ink for his writing needs.And Xiao Zhenqing is considerate, he understands his mother's difficulties, and he thinks of a remedy.

He didn't tell his mother that he dug a lot of loess outside alone, and mixed the loess with water into a thin mud, then wiped the walls of his house clean, and practiced calligraphy on the walls with a brush dipped in the mud.He writes very carefully. After writing a wall, he washes the wall with water and continues to write.He insisted on writing a few words on the wall every day, and never stopped. In the end, the sky paid off, and he finally practiced good calligraphy, and his reputation spread far and wide.

(End of this chapter)