Dragon Book is the most famous ink in Preface to Lanting Collection copied by Feng Chengsu in Tang Dynasty. Paper book, running script, vertical 24.5cm, horizontal 69.9cm.
Because there is a small seal of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian Shenlong Year in front of the volume, it is called "Shenlong Book" to distinguish it from other manuscripts. This copy is well written, with excellent brushwork, pen and ink, style and charm, and is recognized as the best copy. It is now in the Palace Museum in Beijing.
On April 22nd, 353 AD (March 3rd, Jin Yonghe, 9 years ago, 166 1 year ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the civil history of Huiji, and his friends Xie An and Sun Chuo were drinking and writing 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. And wrote "Preface to Lanting Collection".
The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, with 28 lines and 324 words, is charming and elegant, with exquisite words and dancing, which seems to help the gods and men. It has been regarded as a masterpiece in the calligraphy circles of past dynasties. Mi Fei, a great calligrapher in Song Dynasty, called it "the first post of China's running script". Anyone who studies running script in the future will fall in love with Lanting.
The graceful and dancing brushwork of Preface to Lanting really makes our younger generation sigh and admire Wang Xizhi's superb calligraphy skills and fluent literary talent.
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calligraphy appreciation
On the art of painting and calligraphy in wei and jin dynasties. People always associate it with the aesthetic taste of "the debate between form and spirit", which has developed from "both form and spirit" to "the separation of form and spirit" and emphasizes nature. According to heaven, this is the relationship between formal expression and spiritual connotation in art, which is both "elegance" of Taoism and "literature" of Confucianism.
The artistic feature of China's traditional calligraphy and painting is the combination of beauty and simplicity. Later, it rose to the state of "getting carried away", which made the art of calligraphy and painting turn from the external expression in the objective world to the expression of people's inner spiritual world. This is the aesthetic taste of the pursuit of "rhyme" in the calligraphy art of the Jin Dynasty.
Judging from the ink of the circulating Jin books, Jin people like rhyme, which is mainly manifested in the beauty of nature, harmony and agility. Wang Xizhi was an outstanding representative of calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty, and later generations honored him as a "book sage", and his calligraphy post "Preface to Lanting" was also honored as "the first cursive script in the world". ?
Although Preface to Lanting is not as good as Wang Shu's cursive script, as an elegant, leisurely and chic style of the times, no one can surpass it and accompany it.
That kind of elegant layout, elegant style, changeable brushwork, and comfortable borrowing, make later generations of literati feel that they are facing an ordinary and mysterious tower and can't enter the door. As long as we look at the richness of their pens, there are all kinds of wonderful changes, such as hidden front, weighing ornaments, hanging pens to return to the front, tying lines, reflecting belts, turning from square to circle and from circle to square.
The so-called "no stimulation, no discipline" (in the words of Tang Sun Guoting) should be the most appropriate evaluation of the gods in the Preface to Lanting. ?
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Preface to Lanting Collection