1 First of all, the content quality of this Preface to Lanting Collection. On the third day of March, 9th year of Yongjin in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Wang Xizhi held an elegant collection in Lanting, located in Huiji Mountain, with 4 1 celebrities, such as Xie An and Sun Chuo. These people are all great talents, writing poems in succession and finally copying them into a collection of works. At the same time, Wang Xizhi needed a very prestigious person to preface this collection of poems, so he did his duty and became this one.
At the beginning of this article, I will explain the grand occasion of this gathering of scholars. They are drinking and writing poems in Lanting, and they are very happy without harmony. On this day, the weather was excellent, and everyone present felt relaxed and happy. Probably because of this, their talents flooded. Then Wang Xizhi expressed his feelings about life and lamented the impermanence of the world, but in the end he expressed his values of actively joining the WTO and then wrote the reasons for creating this order.
This kind of parallel prose highlights the distinctive style of Wang Xizhi's article, but pays attention to simplicity and clarity. The full text explains the situation at the beginning of the article, then expresses the feelings of life, and finally points out the reasons for creation. The connection in the middle is extremely smooth, which reads like flowing water and can fully show the author's values. But as far as this article is concerned, its own artistic value has made it difficult for parallel prose writers of the same period to reach.
Secondly, the calligraphy value of Preface to Lanting Collection is called "the best running script in the world" by calligraphers like Mi Fei, and praised as "perfect" by Emperor Taizong who loves calligraphy, but from this point of view, the calligraphy value of Preface to Lanting Collection is immeasurable.
The calligraphy of Preface to Lanting Collection is like a completely different parallel prose of Wang Xizhi and his contemporaries. He advocates the natural style of writing, but does not excessively pursue luxury, so his brushwork is also "elegant but not flashy, qualitative but not wild, not exciting but not rigorous, gentle". Although we regret that we can't appreciate his original works again, we can see the breathtaking beauty of this work even if we just look at the works copied by calligraphers of all ages.
Even people who don't understand the true meaning of calligraphy can easily see that it is "more expensive than others" when they see such works, and they can also enjoy the artistic enjoyment brought by the peak calligraphy works.
To sum up, this work "Preface to Lanting Collection" can be called "the best running script in the world", on the one hand, it is really because Wang Xizhi's brushwork is amazing; On the other hand, it is also because this article, which has only more than 300 words, has incomparable artistic value for contemporary scholars. The combination of the two makes this Preface to Lanting Collection "the best running script in the world", which is a natural thing.