The fact is that Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Orchid Pavilion still exists and is buried in Zhaoling, the mausoleum of Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong. Mr Guo Moruo once asked Premier Zhou Enlai to excavate the mausoleum. Premier Zhou means that Lanting has been buried underground 1000 years. If unearthed, it will be weathered and damaged. This becomes the destruction of cultural relics, not the excavation of cultural relics. Premier Zhou hoped that the unearthed cultural relics could be well preserved in the first paragraph when our science and technology were sufficiently developed. It is still in Zhaoling. (CCTV host Chen Duo told this story many years ago, and my memory comes from it. )
Li Shimin was good at calligraphy and loved Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, which made Feng Chengsu, Zhu Suiliang and others copy and engrave on stone tablets. At present, Feng Chengsu is the best. Because Feng is not good at calligraphy and lacks his own style, his copying is even more eye-catching. Song Dingwu is the best inscription. According to the decision, the inscription on the Wu tablet is now in the Palace Museum in Taiwan. Li Shimin died and Lanting was buried.