In April 353 (the third day of March 9, Jin Yonghe), Wang Xizhi, who was then the folk history of Huiji, and forty-one people, including friends Xie An and Sun Chuo, drank wine and wrote poems in Ji Ya, Yinshan Lanting, Huiji. 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".
Emperor Taizong highly praised him. He once wrote a biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, praising him as "perfect". I will also send copies to nobles and trusted ministers, and I will bury them with the original. The graceful and dancing brushwork really makes our younger generation of scholars sigh and admire Wang Xizhi's superb calligraphy skills and his fluent literary talent.
calligraphy appreciation
Although Preface to Lanting Collection 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 easy borrowing make later generations of literati feel that they are facing an ordinary and mysterious tower, which is often impossible to enter.
Looking at the richness of his pen, there are various wonderful changes, such as hiding the front, weighing and decorating, hanging the pen to the front, tying the line, reflecting the belt, turning from square to circle, and turning from circle to square. Some horizontal strokes and wavy strokes have the meaning of official script, which is unpredictable, new and healing, and normal and normal. This is also the permanent artistic charm of Lanting Preface. The so-called "no stimulation, no discipline."
The above contents refer to the preface of Baidu Encyclopedia-Lanting Collection.