Ouyang Xiu s Story A short story about Ouyang Xun

That. 1. Seek advice with an open mind.

In the fifth year of Song Qingli (1045 AD), Ouyang Xiu was demoted to Chuzhou as Taishou. After that, he often wandered around the mountains and rivers and became friends with the monk Zhixian of the nearby Langya Temple. In order to facilitate his visit, the monk Zhixian led people to build a pavilion on the mountainside.

On the day the pavilion was built, Ouyang Xiu went to congratulate him, named it "Drunken Man Pavilion", and wrote the famous prose "Drunkard Pavilion" that has been recited through the ages. After the article was written, Ouyang Xiu posted it at the city gate to solicit revisions. At first, everyone just praised, but later, a woodcutter said that the beginning was too wordy, so he asked Ouyang Xiu to go to the south gate of Langya Mountain to see the mountain.

When Ouyang saw it, he suddenly realized, so he put the pen to the beginning of "Huanchu is surrounded by mountains on all sides, there are Wulong Mountain in the east, Dafeng Mountain in the west, Huashan in the south, Baimi Mountain in the north, the mountains in the southwest, and the forests are particularly beautiful" A string of words was replaced with the five words "Huanchu are all mountains". If you change it in this way, the text will be concise and the meaning will be doubled.

That. 2. Be concise.

When Ouyang Xiu was serving in the Hanlin Academy, once, on a trip with three subordinates of the same hospital, he saw a galloping horse on the side of the road trampling a dog to death. Ouyang Xiu proposed: "Please write about this matter separately."

I saw one person take the lead and say: "There is a yellow dog lying on the road, the horse is frightened, galloping and coming, and the hooves are dead", and the other person continued: "There is a yellow dog lying in the thoroughfare, and the horses' hooves are killed." Finally, the third person said: "There is a dog lying in the thoroughfare, and the lying dog is killed." Ouyang Xiu smiled after hearing this:

If you revise history like this, you won't be able to finish 10,000 volumes. The three of them hurriedly asked, "Then what do you say?"

Ouyang Xiudao: "'Yima kills dogs in the road', six words are enough!" The three of them blushed and laughed at each other after hearing this, comparing their own redundancy, and were deeply impressed by Ouyang Xiu's conciseness.

That. Third, the style of writing is rigorous.

According to the record of "Song Barnyard Banknotes": once Ouyang Xiu wrote a "Xiangzhou Jintang Ji" for others, which has these two sentences: "The eunuch is the general, and the wealth returns to his hometown."

After handing over the manuscript, he scrutinized it again and felt that it was inappropriate, so he sent someone to ride a fast horse to recover the manuscript, revise it and send it again. Someone came to take the revised draft and read it hastily, which was very strange: Isn't this exactly the same as the original?

After careful study, I found that the full text only changed "Shi Eun to the general, rich and noble to return to his hometown" to "Shi Eun to the general, rich and noble to return to the hometown", and the fast horse recovered only two "and" words. But after he chanted it repeatedly, he realized the subtlety. Originally, two "and" words were added to the sentence, although the meaning has not changed, but the tone of reading has changed from rapid to soothing, and the syllables are harmonious, which increases the beauty of the language.

1. Ouyang Xun lingered to view the monument

The great calligrapher Ouyang Xun of the Tang Dynasty, the letter book, Linxiang, Tanzhou.

Now Changsha, Hunan.

People, he practiced calligraphy very hard, learned from others, was proficient in eight kinds of calligraphy, and became a family of his own"European Body.

Once, when he returned from a mission, he rode through a wilderness on horseback, and found a stone tablet written by Suo Jing, a calligrapher of the Western Jin Dynasty, in the grass, and he was reluctant to leave after stopping his horse to watch it for a long time. After walking a few miles, he came back again, dismounted and sat in front of the stele carefully, and experienced the wonders of Suo Jing's cursive writing.

That night, he returned to his lodgings and stayed up all night, thinking about the stele he had seen during the day. The next day, as soon as the morning dawned, he rode to the stele again, pondered it repeatedly, spread out the paper, and copied it stroke by stroke. In this way, he stayed by the stele for three days and three nights, until Suo Jing's cursive penmanship was well understood and he left happily.

2. Ouyang Xun concentrated on learning Erwang calligraphy

Ouyang Xun, a famous calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, was particularly fond of Erwang (Wang Xizhi.

Wang Xianzhi's calligraphy, as long as he saw the ink of Wang Xizhi's father and son, he bought it back to study and study. One day, he saw a copy of Wang Xizhi's "Finger Return Map" taught by Wang Xianzhi, and he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy it back, and put it at home to watch and study it every day, and he was often so happy that he couldn't sleep all night. He studied and studied for a month until he understood the essence of the Finger Map.

3, Ouyang Tong studied his father's book hard

Ouyang Tong, the word master Tong. It was Ouyang Xun's fourth son, and when he was very young, his father died, and his mother Xu.

He was taught that he must learn to inherit his father's calligraphy.

She was afraid that her son would be lazy and unwilling to learn calligraphy, so she often gave some money for Ouyang Tong to buy the ink left by his father. After many years of hard study, he really inherited his father's calligraphy, and people called the characters of their father and son "big and small Ouyang style".