Wang Xizhi (303-36 1 year) was born in Linyi (now Linyi City, Shandong Province). Minister and calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, son of Yin in Danyang, son-in-law of Jane, known as "Book Sage".
In April 353, Wang Xizhi, then the secretariat of Huiji, and 4 1 friends, including Xie An and Sun Chuo, drank wine and wrote poems in Ji Ya, Lanting, Huiji, Yin Shan. Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into an episode, made a preface, described the swimming event, and expressed the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is Preface to Lanting Collection.
Appreciation of Preface to Lanting
The calligraphy of Preface to Lanting conforms to the most basic aesthetic view of traditional calligraphy: "The style is not flashy, the quality is not wild, and the style is gentle." His brushwork combines rigidity with softness, his lines are flexible, his stippling is concise, his book style is based on dispersion, and he has the aesthetic feeling of respect, concession and comparison, which has become a model of "the beauty of neutralization". Appreciating the Preface to Lanting will give you an extraordinary artistic enjoyment.