與伯修帖 A special letter to Pohsiu

【作者介紹】

米芾（1051年－1107年），北宋書畫家。初名黻，字元章，時人號襄陽漫士、海岳外史，自號鹿門居士。米芾原籍襄陽（今屬湖北），後定居潤州（今江蘇鎮江）。因其衣著行為以及迷戀書畫珍石的態度皆被當世視為癲狂，故又有「米顛」之稱。米芾於硯，素有研究，是北宋著名書法家、鑒定家、畫家、收藏家。米芾為著名書畫家和文物鑒賞家，與蘇軾、黃庭堅、蔡襄並稱宋代四大家，他擅長楷、行、草、篆、隸等多種字體，尤以行草最為著名。

Inside Story

This letter talked about the same matter as the previous one. It was about sending Pohsiu to buy Wang Hsichich’s calligraphy. Mi Fu was worried that Pohsiu would buy a wrong piece because he had never seen the piece before. Therefore he wrote this letter to him to describe the look of the calligraphy. In the end of the letter Mi Fu even drew out the appearance of the calligraphy according to his memory. However he could not remember the first part so he replaced the characters with some curves and made a note saying “do not remember”. For this reason, the letter had become the most extraordinary letter passing around over the last thousand years.