I rarely read prose, which has a laid-back flavor and needs to be savored in comparison to novels, and I'm not a very patient person, so in this age of fast food culture, reading prose is a good choice if you want to calm your restless heart.

I don't write for many years, not only do I not know how to write a lot of words, but the words are also ugly and can't see people, the so-called poor stationery is more, and the ugly writing is easy to be attracted by the good-looking words, this "and slow" first attracted me to the words on the title page.

The author Zhang Ruitian is not only a member of the Writers Association, but also the secretary general of the Calligraphy Criticism and Cultural Communication Committee of the Calligraphers Association.

The title page of this book is the author Zhang Ruitian's four calligraphy works, his characters have the horizontal and vertical of the official script, and have the shape of the regular script, absorbing the characteristics of each family, forming his own style.

"And Slow" includes the author's 19 essays, which is about the author's pursuit of the process of the famous stele, which is easy and interesting to read, and has increased a lot of knowledge.

The opening chapter of "Tofu and Stone Tablet" tells the story of the origin and excavation of "Baozi Tablet". The tombstone of the late Jin Dynasty Zhenwei General Jianning Taishou Fujun was erected in 405 A.D., and then due to the change of dynasties, social turmoil, I don't know where to go.

During the Qing Xianfeng period, Deng Erheng served as the prefect of Qujing in Yunnan, sent people to search for this stele to no avail, but found some interesting words on the tofu sold in the market, after being known by the prefect of Deng, Shun Teng touched the melon in Yangqi Tian Village found the stele of Baozi. So the prefect of Deng bought this stele from the owner of the tofu for thirty taels of silver, and finally made the stele of the treasure in front of the people, this stele that has lasted for thousands of years is still well preserved, and there may be a credit to the tofu.

After reading this book, I realized that my hometown neighbor still has such a calligraphy holy place - the Huxi Cliff in Qiyang, Yongzhou.

Here is the monumentOriginally engraved in the Tang Dynasty, Centralized Preservation inscribed 505 square of poems of celebrities from the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing and Republic of China dynasties, which is the largest existing open-air stele forest in China.

In this article "From now on, the cliff is not a monument", the author is talking about the Xixi cliff.

The difference from other articles about the Huxi Cliff is that the author uses "Ode to Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty" as the beginning to pull out the story of the formation of the Huxi Cliff.

In 763 A.D., Yuan Jie was appointed to Daozhou Thorn History when he became attached to Huxi, even the name of Huxi was also given by him, and made "Huxi Ming" and then made "Yutai Ming", "Xia Ming", and asked the calligrapher to use the seal script book, engraved on the stone wall, this is the origin of the Xixi cliff. After that, he made "Ode to Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty", and asked Yan Zhenqing to write it in regular script, so that the cliff of Huxi became famous, and there were Huangfu Xiang, Huang Tingjian, Zhang Lei, Li Qingzhao, Fan Chengda visited, and left the corresponding poems, in addition to the calligraphy and articles, but also put forward their own views on the "Ode to Zhongxing in the Tang Dynasty", thinking that the Tang Dynasty was not Zhongxing, and Yuan Jie was suspected of pleasing Tang Suzong and seeking promotion.

The author put forward his own views on this, believing that Yuan Jie expressed his dissatisfaction in the way of literati, and "Ode to the Revival of the Tang Dynasty" is worthy of repeated study and study by himself, whether it is text or characters.

The last article of the book, "And Slow", as the title of the book, the author tells about the interaction with Master Yicheng, the president of the Buddhist Society of China, and the reconstruction of the Xixin Zen Temple. The two words of sparse and quiet show are like a monk who is struggling to seek, from the practice experience of Xixin Temple to Zhenru Temple, and the perception of life is fully realized.

Reading this book made my impetuous heart slowly fall to the ground, each text of the author introduces a calligrapher and works, but follow the author's footsteps close to them, or happy or sad, as if in the realm, every time I read a book and then find the corresponding calligraphy article to see, there is another layer of understanding, and slowly, don't worry, the giving of life is hidden inadvertently.