1981年春末,我到日本访问,临走那天,盛情的日本主人把我引到摆妥文房四宝的桌案前,请我题辞留念。我窘极了,脸上直烧。日本的文化,深受中国唐代影响。中国的书法,唐代就传入了日本。现在日本的高级知识分子,大多能拿毛笔写字。作为访问日本的中国作家,我本应坦然地拿起毛笔,悬腕题下友好的词句,给日本主人留下一件书法作品以 In the spring of 1981, when I visited Japan, on the eve of that visit, the gracious Japanese host drew me to the table in front of the four treasures of architecture, and asked me to mark the inscription. I’m embarrassed, my face is burned. Japanese culture, influenced by the Tang Dynasty in China. Chinese calligraphy, the Tang Dynasty was introduced to Japan. Now Japan’s high-level intellectuals, most of them can take the brush writing. As a Chinese writer who visited Japan, I should have taken a frankly hand-written brush pen and a friendly phrase from my wrist and left a calligraphic work for the Japanese master