Why is the familiar Preface to the Lanting Pavilion called the first running script?

Speaking of the famous calligrapher Wang Xizhi, I believe everyone has heard of his masterpiece Preface to Lanting. However, for some ordinary people, nature can't appreciate the beauty of the Preface to Lanting. Because of this, they will be suspicious. Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion looks unremarkable. Why is it called the best running script in the world? In fact, from the perspective of calligraphy, Wang Xizhi's masterpiece Preface to Lanting is called the best running script in the world, mainly because Wang Xizhi's calligraphy in this work has superb charm. In addition, his article Preface to Lanting also looks beautiful. More importantly, the style of his article conforms to modern people's aesthetic standards of calligraphy.

I. Introduction to the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion The reason why Wang Xizhi's masterpiece The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is called the best running script in the world is mainly because the calligraphy art in this work of Wang Xizhi is extremely superb. At that time, after Wang Xizhi wrote Preface to Lanting, it was discovered by Taizong at that time and won the king's favor. Therefore, Emperor Taizong put the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion as his funerary object in his own imperial tomb. In other words, what we see in modern times is more copied by later generations after imitating Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting. The Lanting Preface that we see in modern times is not the Lanting Preface written by Wang Xizhi, so it is naturally difficult to feel Wang Xizhi's calligraphy art at that time.

Second, the superb characteristics of the Preface to Lanting From some modern versions, we can vaguely see the superb calligraphy art of the Preface to Lanting. For example, from the calligraphy works of Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting, we can see that there are 265,438+0 * * in the article. But each one has a different style and style. The whole article of Preface to Lanting Collection seems to give people a feeling of flowing water.

Three. The reason why Preface to Lanting is called the best running script in the world is mainly because the articles in Preface to Lanting are exquisite and the calligraphy art is superb, which conforms to the aesthetics of contemporary people.