有一次,北大名流雅集,钱玄同冒失地问蔡元培:“蔡先生,前清考翰林,都要字写得很好的才能考中,先生的字写得这样蹩脚,怎么能够考中翰林?”蔡元培心下一惊,一时不知如何应对,大家都以异样的神色看着他。他突然想起不循常轨的书法家黄山谷,即北宋的黄庭坚,其字体张扬个性,如铁干铜枝,似高峰奇石,以刚劲奇崛著称。于是笑嘻嘻地回答:“我也不知道,大概那时正风行黄山谷 Once, Peking University celebrities elegant set, Qian Xuan with the impersonal to ask Cai Yuanpei: ”Mr. Cai, before the Qing Kao Hanlin, have to write the word well to test, the words of Mr. writing so crappy, how to test Hanlin? “Cai Yuanpei heart surprised, I do not know how to deal with a moment, we all looked at him with a strange look. He suddenly remembered the never-ending calligrapher Huang Shan Valley, the Northern Song Dynasty Huang Tingjian, whose fonts publicize individuality, such as iron-dried copper branches, which seem to peak rocks, known as the Rise and the Rise. Then smiled and replied: ”I do not know, probably at that time is popular Huangshan Valley