在很久很久以前的东晋时期，有一位非常有才华的书法家叫做王羲之。
有一天，皇帝要在北郊举行一个很重要的祭祀仪式。
为了这个仪式，工人们需要更换一块写有祝祭文的木板。
这块木板上的字，就是王羲之所写的。
当工人们削去这些字的时候，他们惊奇地发现，王羲之的笔迹竟然透入木板有三分之深！
这是多么深厚的笔力啊！
这件事后来被记录在了南朝宋的一本书里，书名叫《笔阵图》，作者是羊欣。
在这本书里，羊欣用“入木三分”来形容王羲之的笔力。
王羲之在他三十三岁的时候，写了一篇名为“兰亭集序”的书法作品。
三年后，他又写了一篇名为“黄庭经”的作品。
这两篇文章都被认为是书法艺术中最好的小楷范本。
因为他的才华和成就，后人尊称他为“书圣”。
现在，当我们说一个人的评论深刻中肯或者描写生动逼真时，就会用到成语“入木三分”。
这就是我们今天要讲的故事，关于王羲之和他的“入木三分”的故事。
Long, long ago in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there was a very talented calligrapher named Wang Xizhi.
One day, the emperor was going to hold a very important sacrificial ceremony in the north suburbs.
To prepare for this ceremony, the workers needed to replace a wooden board with an inscription of the sacrificial text.
The words on this board were written by Wang Xizhi.
When the workers scraped off these characters, they were amazed to find that Wang Xizhi's handwriting had penetrated the wooden board three inches deep!
What a profound penmanship!
This incident was later recorded in a book from the Southern Song Dynasty called 'Pen Array Map', written by Yang Xin.
In this book, Yang Xin used the phrase 'three inches into the wood' to describe Wang Xizhi's penmanship.
At the age of 33, Wang Xizhi wrote a calligraphy work titled 'Lanting Collection Preface'.
Three years later, he wrote another work called 'Huangting Jing'.
Both of these works are considered to be the best small script models in calligraphy art.
Because of his talent and achievements, he was respectfully called 'Saint of Calligraphy' by future generations.
Nowadays, when we say someone's comments are incisive or their description is vivid and lifelike, we use the idiom 'three inches into the wood'.
This is the story we're going to tell today, about Wang Xizhi and his 'three inches into the wood' story.
