Preface to Lanting Collection, also known as Preface to Lanting Collection, Preface to Lanting Banquet Collection, Preface to He Lin, Preface to Zan and Zan Tie. Written by Wang Xizhi, a calligrapher and folk historian in Jin Dynasty. Its calligraphy has extremely high artistic value and historical position, and is recognized as the best running script in the world by famous calligraphers in past dynasties.
The Preface to the Orchid Pavilion records the scene and feelings of the author and many celebrities gathering in the Orchid Pavilion in Yinshan, Huiji, and drinking and writing poems.
Among these celebrities, there are 4 1 person, including Situ Xie 'an, Ci and Fu writer Sun Chuo, Zhi Daolin's son Xie Wan, Wang Xizhi and so on.
The preface narrates the beauty of the landscape around Lanting and the joy of gathering, and expresses the author's feelings of impermanence of life and death.
First, things have life, death has death, and happiness has sorrow.
Second, things from birth to death, from joy to sadness, its time is very short, suddenly, like a blink of an eye.
Third, the survival or extinction of life is not subjective, but depends on nature.
Fourthly, he criticized the ideas of advocating Zhuangzi, talking about Hyunri, being unrealistic, being open-minded, caring about mountains and rivers, and laughing at Shan Ye.
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This paper describes the scenery of Lanting and the fun of gathering by Wang Xizhi and others, and expresses the author's sigh: if things are not frequent, they will eventually be finished. The author is extremely happy and sad when he is happy and sad. The article also changed with his feelings, from calm to calm, to ups and downs, ups and downs, so Preface to Lanting Collection became a famous masterpiece. Full text * * * three paragraphs.
On the third day of March in the ninth year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 353), 41 people, including Wang Xizhi, Xie An and Sun Chuo, were in Lanting (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province), each with his own poems and poems, and compiled Preface to Lanting Collection. Wang Xizhi wrote a preface for this purpose, which was called Preface to Lanting Collection. The preface narrates the beauty of the landscape around Lanting and the joy of gathering, and expresses the author's feelings of impermanence of life and death.
The Handed down Book of Fattie, with 28 lines and 324 words, is his masterpiece at the age of 50, with perfect composition, structure and brushwork. Later generations commented that "the font of the right army has changed. Its heroic spirit is natural, so it is considered to be a model from ancient times to the present. " Therefore, calligraphers of all ages regarded Preface to Lanting as "the best running script in the world".
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Lanting Preface