Huang Tingjing, Le Yi Lun, Seventeen Posts, Preface of Lanting Collection.
Second, work.
Wang Xizhi's best calligraphy in his life is Preface to Lanting Collection. That was his work in middle age.
There is a custom in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Every year on the third day of the third lunar month, people go to the river to play, so as to eliminate the ominous. This is called "repairing". On March 3rd, the 9th year of Yonghe, Wang Xizhi and some scholars, 4 1 * * *, went to the Lanting River to build a temple. Everyone is writing poems while drinking.
After the poems were written, everyone collected them and synthesized a Preface to Lanting Collection, which was recommended by Wang Xizhi. At this time, Wang Xizhi was drunk. He took advantage of the wine, picked up a moustache pen and waved it on the cocoon paper. This preface is "Preface to Lanting Collection", which is a famous article throughout the ages. This post is a draft with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of the collection of literati at that time. Because the author was in high spirits and was very proud of his writing. It is said that I couldn't write anymore. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. Mi Fei in Song Dynasty called it "the best running script in the world".
Third, a brief introduction to Wang Xizhi's calligraphy:
In the history of calligraphy in China, there is a kind of "the best running script in the world" recognized by calligraphers in past dynasties, which is Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion. Wang Xizhi (A.D. 303 ~ 36 1), the most outstanding calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, was born in Linyi, was a right general in Huiji, and was called "Wang Youjun". At the age of seven, he began to learn calligraphy, and he studied under Mr. Wei and his uncle and teacher who were born in a calligraphy family. Later, I visited the exquisite works of the masters of seal script in Qin and Han dynasties, carefully studied their styles, imitated their hands, learned from others, and merged into one furnace to create a running script that is "natural, and God covers all generations", which was praised as "the sage of books" by later generations. Calligraphy reached its peak in his later years, and Preface to Lanting was his masterpiece in his later years.
Four. About the author:
Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year, 32 1-379), a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, is known as the "book saint". Langya, a native of Linyi, moved to Yin Shan (now Shaoxing, Zhejiang) and lived in seclusion in Jinting County in his later years. Successive secretary, general Ningyuan, Jiangzhou secretariat, later literature and history records, right general. His calligraphy is good at calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy, calligraphy. The style is peaceful and natural, the brushwork is euphemistic and subtle, and it is beautiful. The masterpiece Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". In the history of calligraphy, he and his son Wang Xianzhi were called "two kings".