與民望帖 A letter to a friend

【作者介紹】

金琮，字元玉，自號赤松山農。應天府(今南京)人，明代書法家。工詩善畫，與徐霖、陳鐸等談藝南都，《明畫錄》稱其「與弟璿同聞於時」，又「畫墨梅，紛霏蒼勁，雖逃禪老人（楊無咎），不是過也」。其書法初學趙孟頻，晚年學張雨，受二人影響甚大，因其書似趙，且多有臨作，後世往往有被挖改原款冒充子昂書以欺世者，甚而被認為是專偽趙書之能手。實則金書與趙書形似而神異。

Inside Story

This is a transcript Wu Kuan copied from a letter written by Wang Wei, a poet of Tang Dynasty, to his friend Feiti. While Wang Wei was strolling up to a hill in the middle of the night; the scenery made him realized he was a lonely man without any friends around him. Then he recalled the time he used to travel together with Teiti, and started to miss him. He wrote this letter asking Feiti when they could travel together again. In this letter Wang Wei revealed great affections to his friend.