I. Preface to Lanting Collection
Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting is known as "the best running script in the world". Preface to Lanting has strong artistic characteristics. Its outstanding features are natural composition and vivid charm. Throughout the whole article, he is leisurely and handy, and organically combines artistic style with written content, which fully shows Wang Xizhi's feelings of quick self-sufficiency when gathering with friends.
Full of emotion and writing, the unity of heart and hand, vivid charm, was regarded as a model of learning running script by calligraphers of all ages.
Second, "Seventeen Posts"
Seventeen posts is a famous masterpiece of Wang Xizhi's cursive script, which is named after the word "seventeen". The original ink has long been lost, and now the seventeen articles handed down from generation to generation are block prints. Zhang Tangyan Garden recorded seventeen original inks: seventeen were one foot and two feet long, that is, Zhenguan Quanshu 170 lines, with 943 words. It's a famous post of xuanhe.
Emperor Taizong asked for the books of two kings, and the books of Wang had 3,000 pieces of paper, with a rate of one foot and two feet, and the words of the book were volumes. This post is a set of letters, which according to textual research is addressed to his good friend Zhou Fu, the secretariat of Yizhou. It took 14 years to write a book from the third year of Yonghe to the fifth year of Shengping (347-36 1 year), which is an important material for studying Wang Xizhi's life and calligraphy development.
Third, the "first moon post"
On the twelfth day of the first month, Yin Shan Xihe Daily is going to send this book to help the poor. No one could resist sending a letter yesterday and had to turn over the books on the 16th of this month. Although it is far from comforting you, it is not good news to worry about your troubles.
This post is one of the best preserved books of Wang Xizhi. Compared with Wang Xizhi's other cursive scripts, it has an ancient meaning and may be an earlier work. This post has many characteristics in writing, writing and composition. For example, the word "Tao You" in the penultimate line and the word "Bao" in the last line are not straight, but have rich changes.
The pen is centered, and some words such as "mountain" and "newspaper" are also obvious. Knots vary in size, long and short, vertical and oblique, depending on the font and temperament. The whole face of this post is determined by the fact that the lines are not symmetrical up and down and the spacing is not uniform.