Among many manuscripts, the most legendary one is Dingwu Lanting, which was hand-copied and carved by Ou Yangxun in Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Ou Yangxun was ordered to copy the Preface of Lanting Collection by hand and carve stones, which were then placed in the Tang Academy. During the Anshi Rebellion, Guo Ziyi chiseled stones in the palace near Ou Yangxun, which was transported to Lingwu in the early years of Zhide (756). During the Five Dynasties, Liang moved to Biandu (now Kaifeng).
In 946 AD, Yelvdeguang invaded the Central Plains, occupied the border capital, destroyed the late Jin Dynasty, and captured Di Chin Shi Zhonggui (nephew of Shi Jingtang). The following year, he called himself Emperor Liao (this year, Qidan was renamed Liao). Without Shi Renyi, the Central Plains mutiny began, and Ye Ludeguang had to return to the north and took away the stone carvings of Lanting. The Old History of the Five Dynasties contains "On the 16th, it was second only to Luancheng County (now Luancheng County, Shijiazhuang City) killing the edge of the tiger forest, when Deguang was ill with cold and heat for several days ... and died on the 21st", "The Khitans broke their bodies, stripped their stomachs and transported them to the north with salt. Stone carvings have been lost in Luancheng for nearly a hundred years.
By the time it reached (104 1), the stone had fallen to Li, Luancheng. It is true that local officials bought the stone with a large sum of money and kept it in the official vault. This is what later generations called "Dingwuben", also known as "DingwuLanting" (Dingwu Lanting, now Zhengding County, Shijiazhuang City, was ruled by the state at that time, and was renamed DingwuLanting in the Tang Dynasty because it avoided Taizong (Zhao Guangyi)). Later, Xue, a local official, stole from himself and "changed the civet cat into a prince". His son Xue (a calligrapher of the Northern Song Dynasty) carved another piece, kept it in the library and hid the original at home. Xue and his son carved the words "Turbulent, Flowing, Belt, Left and Right" on the original stone one or two times to memorize its authenticity (therefore, it was decided that Wulanting could be divided into "lost original" and "not lost original". "Losing this" turned out to be true). During the Daguan period in Song Huizong, Prime Minister Cai Jing saw that the "Lanting Stone Book" in the official library was not true, that is, he knew that Xue Jia had the original inscription of Lanting and wrote to ask for it. Xue, the son of Xue, dared not hide it and presented it to Xuanhetang. Later, the Jin dynasty nomads entered the capital of song dynasty (now Kaifeng, Henan province), and all the pearls and jade treasures in the palace were looted, except the carved stones. Later, Zong Ze, who stayed in the capital of song dynasty, gave this stone carving to Song Gaozong, who was stationed in Yangzhou, and Song Gaozong cherished it very much. 1 129, the nomads from the Jin army advanced on Yangzhou, and the Song Dynasty rushed south. Song Gaozong ordered the minister to throw the original Lanting carved stone into the well of Shiduo Temple in Yangzhou for later retrieval. After Song Gaozong's death, the whereabouts of this stone is unknown.
Wang Baiyou, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, wrote a poem called "Copy of Dingwu Lanting", which recorded the experience of Dingwu Lanting from the early Tang Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty. The rate is more (Ou Yangxun served as the rate commander), and the salt emperor (referring to Ye Ludeguang's broken belly and sprinkling salt) returned to the army. The Xue family carved a foolish and expensive tour, and the old stone was passed on to the imperial palace. Chen Hu flies across the river, and the jackals are in the midst of thorns in the Central Plains. Weiyang (Yangzhou) drives the south axis, and the century-old cultural relics are irreparable. Good deeds are one after another, striving to be a new model, and ugly deeds are ruined. Now there are fewer snow books, as if the punishment book is still charming. What is the story of the celebration of Qing Huan? Right-wing troops posted thousands. The excuse is that this pen can't be repeated, but unfortunately Chen Ji is interested in language. When past lives didn't have time to look at each other, he covered the dust with his hands and made up autumn rain. "
Three hundred years later, in the fourth year of Xuande in the Ming Dynasty (1429), He Shiying, a native of Dongyang, was appointed as the salt ambassador of Huaibei. When a monk in Shiduo Temple in Yangzhou was looking for a well, he found that a corner of this monument was missing, and He Shiying presented it to the emperor. The emperor called He Shiying an upright official in the world and gave him a stone to bring back to Dongyang. According to legend, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Dongyang County ordered Huang Wenbing to visit this precious stone carving in Hejia. Who knows, the official put the carved stone into the sedan chair, touched it, praised it, and wanted to take it away. Many descendants of He family were suddenly in an uproar and grabbed the sedan chair and refused to let it go. Huang Wenbing became angry from embarrassment and broke the stone carving into three pieces. Since then, the stone carving has been preserved by He Descendants according to the three rooms of Meng, Zhong and Ji. Every time the genealogy is revised (once every 20 years), this stone will be combined into one, printed on rice paper and presented to friends and relatives. In the 14th year of the Republic of China (1925), it was still recorded in the book Meng Bizi Shi Yan and Dongyang Helan Pavilion written by Shaoxing Jin Shijia Gu Xieguang (1875- 1949): "Guo Junzi is a proverb:" The original stone has been split into three parts, and future generations will be divided into three parts. It is extremely precious, and if you don't get together, you won't feel it, and it is extremely rare to pass it on. "Now is still alive Lanting. In 1955 (19 18), in the mid-spring, Guo Jun chose rubbings to explain the difference between Jun Yi and other popular books. At that time, Guo Ziheng sent the Preface to Carved Stone in Lanting collected by He Family to Guang, and also sent the Original Stone Map of Lanting painted by Guo Ziheng. After liberation, the stone carving was hidden in Zhejiang Museum.
There are three famous original stone rubbings in DingwuLanting. One is Wu Bing's Collection of Yuan Dynasty, and the first is Wu Mao Tie by Song Tuoding of Wang Wenzhi Department in Qing Dynasty. It is an intact book with the words "turbulent, flowing, belt, left and right". Second, the Yuan Dynasty Ke Jiu Ji. In the Qing Dynasty, Wang Wenzhi inscribed "Dingwu Lanting Authentic Edition" with five words, which are now damaged and kept in the National Palace Museum in Taipei. Third, the book of Elder Dugu in the Yuan Dynasty was also damaged with five big characters, with the inscription of Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty, which read, "The right army is the best in ancient and modern times, while the book of the right army is the best in calligraphy, the original is dead, and its stone carver is the best in martial arts." After the fire, only three small pieces were left, and the biography has been spread to Japan.
For thousands of years, Preface to Lanting, as the best running script in the world, has an independent vitality in the history of calligraphy in China. It has always been a model that calligraphers must learn, and it has been copied, spread and incarnated for millions. Of course, there are also many people who doubt whether the Preface to Lanting was written by Wang Xizhi. Scholars in Qing Dynasty, such as Ruan Yuan, Bao and others, put forward the authenticity of Preface to Lanting. 1965, the dispute between "fake book" and "real book" in Preface to Lanting, represented by Guo Moruo, Zhang and Shang Chengzuo, lasted for 8 years, but no one could agree.
As the best version of carved stone, Dingwu Lanting has different opinions. There is a saying that the original stone was lost after the Southern Song Dynasty crossing, but the original stone of the Heshi Tibetan Monument in Dongyang also has a credible component, which is recorded in detail in the Preface to the Lanting Stone Carvings of Heshi in Dongyang presented to Zhang Yuan Group by the Imperial Academy of the Ming Dynasty. It is also mentioned in Notes on Listening to Yuxuan and Redundant Records written by Taoist priests in Liang Qing in Qing Dynasty: "This stone still exists today." It is not empty talk that the master of epigraphy just called He stele "different from common customs". If the monument in Dongyang is fake, it is likely that he invited experts to simulate rubbings and forge carved stones, similar to what Xue and his son did.