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, which were compiled as Preface to Lanting Collection, and Wang Xizhi wrote a preface for it, 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". "Dragon Book" is the most famous ink in the Tang Dynasty. During the reign of Emperor Taizong,
Feng Chengsu Gold Seal, hence the name "Lanting Dragon Edition". This edition is a fine copy, with its brushwork, pen and ink, style and charm, and is recognized as the best copy. Stone carving is the first to promote the "fixed object book" According to Guo Moruo's textual research, the second half of the Preface to Lanting handed down from ancient times has nothing in common with Wang Xizhi's thoughts, and the calligraphy style is also different from the epitaph of the Eastern Jin Dynasty unearthed in recent years, which is suspected to be wrongly entrusted by Sui and Tang Dynasties. But some people disagree. Preface to Lanting shows the highest realm of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy art, and the author's tolerance, phoenix spirit, mind and feelings are fully displayed in this work. The ancients said that Wang Xizhi's cursive script is like "the breeze comes out of the sleeve and the next month comes into my arms", which is a wonderful metaphor. The world also often uses Cao Zhi's Ode to the Goddess of Luo: "If you are amazing, if you are graceful, if you are secluded, you will be brilliant, and Hua Mao is full of autumn flowers and spring flowers. It seems that if the moon is covered by light clouds, it will float like the wind flowing back to snow. " Praise the beauty of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy. Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black.