Wang Duo, the author of "Wang Duo's Cursive Script Presents a Scroll of Poems to Zhang Baoyi", signed himself "March Night in the 15th year of Chongzhen" at the signature of the post. According to "Cihai·Appendix·Chronology of Chinese Dynasties", The time should be a night between March 30 and April 28, 1642 AD.
In 1642 (the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty), the author Wang Duozheng was living in Huaizhou. During this period, he was warmly entertained by Zhang Gongzu (Zhang Baoyi), a local official in Huaizhou, so he wrote this on a March night The poem was given to him. Zhang Baoyi, Mingpei, was born in Pinghu, Zhejiang. He was good at writing landscapes and was also knowledgeable in medicine. He is called "Gongzu" in the volume. This person should be a local official in Huaizhou. The author still has two large volumes of "Wang Duo's Five-line Script in Running Script", which are written at the same time. The writing time of "Wang Duo's Cursive Script Presenting a Poem to Zhang Baoyi" is consistent with the above two paintings, and the content of the inscription is consistent with Wang Duo's frequent exchanges with Zhang Gongzu at that time. This can be regarded as evidence that this volume is indeed Wang Duo's original work. It can also be seen that the author’s place of creation was the Huaizhou Office. Wang Duo traveled from Beijing to Huaizhou to mourn his father in the winter of 1640 (the thirteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty). By the time he wrote this long scroll, he had spent more than a year in Huaizhou. In the summer of that year, Wang Duo Duo once returned with his family, but not long after, he was attacked by the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, so he took his family by boat eastward along the Yellow River, which was in late summer.
In terms of calligraphy art and skills, "Wang Duo's Cursive Script Presents a Poetry Volume to Zhang Baoyi" was written in 1642 (the fifteenth year of Chongzhen in the Ming Dynasty). The author Wang Duo was fifty years old and had already experienced the Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Dong Jin and Mi Fu have been studying persistently for many years and finally completed "self-transformation". His previous works include "taking the shadows of the two kings and Mi Fu like a lamp without losing a single hair" (Qian Qianyi's "The Complete Works of Muzhai·Youxue Collection"), to "Giving Zhang Bao a Line of Poetry" and "Giving Zhang Bao a Line of Poetry" By the time he wrote the Cursive Script Poetry Volume, he had gotten rid of the traces of "imitation" and had a more subjective and ups and downs majestic mood. The "Cursive Script Poetry Scroll Presented to Zhang Baoyi" is also the earliest of Wang Duo's cursive scroll works that can be seen today.
(Note: The text attached to the pictures in this catalog: It is more hazy on the night of March in the 15th year of Chongzhen's reign, Wang Duo, a younger brother of the same city in Hongdong.)