Wang Xizhi, Xie An and others of the Jin Dynasty held a grand gathering at the Orchid Pavilion, where they drank wine, feasted and admired the flowers. Orchid Pavilion was the birthplace of Chinese landscape gardens. After Orchid Pavilion, the style of gardening emerged in China. Su Shi's poem of the Song Dynasty, "You didn't see the orchid pavilion was doing the bad luck, but all the people in the seats were living in high spirits", which describes the high living in Shanyin City.
Historical records show that on the third day of March in 353 AD (the holy day of spring in ancient times), more than 40 national military and political stars appeared at the Orchid Pavilion in Shanyin City, Kuaiji County at the invitation of the host, Wang Xizhi, the internal historian of Kuaiji County. , drinking, writing poems, watching mountains and enjoying water, almost all the prominent families since the Wei and Jin Dynasties are here:
The Wang family, the Xie family, the Yuan family, the Yang family, the Xi family, the Yu family, and the Huan family wait. The open-minded, elegant, elegant, and far-reaching temperament of the Wei and Jin Dynasties made this gathering completely lose its political color, even though the organizer Wang Xizhi was the mayor of Kuaiji, and even though most of the participants were military and political figures in the country. The nobles gathered in Shanyin City, practiced festivities in the Orchid Pavilion, drank wine, and composed poems. Later, Wang Xizhi, the mayor of Kuaiji, compiled everyone's poems into a collection and wrote a preface. This is the famous "Preface to the Lanting Collection". It is said that Wang Xizhi wrote this preface quickly with silkworm cocoon paper and rat whisker pen when he was calm and drunk, with 324 words in 28 lines. Any words with repeated characters have different variations and are exquisite. When this calligraphy treasure came into the hands of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, he couldn't put it down and ordered someone to bury it before his death. From now on, the original "Preface to the Lanting Collection" will no longer be seen in future generations.
Preface to the Collection of Orchid Pavilion In the ninth year of Yonghe (Jin Dynasty), Wang Xizhi was in Guichou. At the beginning of late spring, he went to the Orchid Pavilion in Shanyin, Kuaiji, to repair the evil spirits. All the talented people have arrived, and the young and old have gathered together. Here there are high mountains, lush forests and bamboos, and clear streams with rapids, reflecting them to the left and right. It is thought that the wine cup is flowing and the water is flowing, and the people are sitting next to each other. Although it is not as prosperous as silk and bamboo orchestral music, one wine cup and one chant are enough to express the quiet feelings. It's a sunny day, the air is clear, and the wind is gentle and gentle. Looking up at the vastness of the universe and looking down at the abundance of categories, wandering your eyes and wandering your mind is enough to provide you with great visual and auditory entertainment, which is a joy to behold. I will look up to my wife forever. Either you can take it into their arms and realize it within a room; or you can let it go outside your body because of the entrustment you have placed in it. Although there are many different interests, calmness and restlessness are different, when you are happy with what you encounter, you are temporarily satisfied with yourself, you are happy and self-sufficient, and you don't know that old age is coming; when you are tired of what you are doing, your emotions change with things, and you are filled with emotion. The admiration towards it and the admiration of it have become old traces, and I still have to be excited about it. If it is short-lived and changed, it will eventually end! The ancients said, "Death and life are equally important." Isn't it painful? Every time I look at the reasons for people's interest in the past, if they are combined into one, I will always express my condolences in writing, which cannot be expressed in my heart. I know that death and rebirth are just illusions, and mourning for Qi Peng is an illusion. The future looks upon the present, just as the present looks upon the past. Sad husband! Therefore, I listed the people at that time and recorded what they said. Although the world is different and things are different, so the excitement is the same. Those who view it later will also feel the elegance.
Wang Bo built a mountain pavilion in Yunmen, Shaoxing, which imitated the Orchid Pavilion's "curving water cup" and wrote the "Preface to the Deed." In March of the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (675), Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, Wang Bo, the leader of the Four Great Masters of the early Tang Dynasty, presided over a wedding ceremony imitating Wang Xizhi's Orchid Pavilion Collection at Yunmen Temple. Preface to "Yu", which writes: "Looking at the four directions of the world, the universe is the city; for a hundred years of life, the forest and spring are the cave house. Although the country and the country are different, and they come from different places, they all hold their crowns over the haze and drape dills over the mountains and rivers. In the old land of Shanyin, Wang Yishao's pond and pavilion are in the new suburb of Yongxing. The feathers are uneven, like the cranes in Liaodong. Some are high-spirited and flying, and they are all in a place of fame and fortune. The upper part belongs to the path of inaction, and the lower part dwells in the wind of Xuan Miao. /p>
In the late spring of March of the second year of Yongchun's reign, the mountain pavilion was built to ward off evil spirits. The peach branches are still there; birds are flying around the parrot valley; spring grasses are competing for freshness everywhere; in Ruanfang Garden, every house is full of greenery. So they bring wine and feast, first to ward off evil spirits in Changzhou, and then to make friends with each other. At the banquet, the Yangtze River competes with the slanting Han Dynasty; the clear songs are flowing around the beams, and the white clouds are about to fall away from the world. It is easy to feel the alienation, and I live in a place where I am a guest. How can I enjoy this day more? The past is no longer the joy of the past. Looking at the present, it is also the meeting of the present time. How can people not be sad? I also wrote my surname to express my feelings. I sent my husband to look for bamboo arrows and push me to the southeast. , Kunfu Linlang, was also transferred to the northwest. "
"Jiatai Kuaiji Chronicles" Volume 10: "During the Southern Song Dynasty, Xie Kangle and his younger brother Xie Huilian, known as Big Xie, once went boating on the Ye River. The poem was written in Prince Jingshan Pavilion.
"Xie Lingyun and Hui couplets are carved on the side of the tree (in the lonely pond)." Song Zhiwen, a poet in the early Tang Dynasty, pioneered the popular poetry in the middle and middle Tang Dynasty. In the second year of Yongchun (683), Wang Bo, the leader of the four outstanding figures of the early Tang Dynasty, led the poets from eastern Zhejiang to once At the Prince Jingshan Pavilion of Yunmen Temple, he presided over an event to imitate Wang Xizhi's Orchid Pavilion Collection, and wrote a "Preface to the Shanting Collection of Yunmen Temple" based on the "Preface to the Orchid Pavilion Collection". Wang Bo may still have some unfinished ideas. It was repaired here again in the autumn of the next year, and then there was a poet from Zhedong in Dali (57 poets).