In which museum is the original of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion now kept? Thank you, everyone.

For a long time, there has been a popular saying in academic circles: The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion was brought into the coffin after the death of Li Shimin, the emperor Taizong who deeply loved it, and will never appear in front of the world as a sacrificial object. So no matter which museum you are in, you can't see the original, only the copy.

Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting, also known as Preface to He Lin, Preface to Lanting Collection and Zantie, consists of 28 lines and 324 words. Written by Wang Xizhi in the 9th year of Yonghe in the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 353), Mi Fei praised it as "the best running script in the world". According to the trace of fax, there are handed down copies and temporary copies, among which Dragon Book is the best. The pen used in this post is mainly the center, with wings between strokes, slender and light, or the pen holder is disconnected. The overall layout is patchy, with unlimited charm of chic, aestheticism and moving.

This post has a lofty position in the history of calligraphy in China.

Extended data:

Preface to Lanting Collection is the world's first running script written by Wang Xizhi, a scholar of Jin Dynasty in China, when he met his friends at the foot of Zhu Lan Mountain in Shaoxing. Also known as Preface to Lanting, Preface to He Lin, Preface to Lanting, Preface to Poems on March 3rd, etc.

On April 22, 353 (Jin Yong and the third day of March 9), Wang Xizhi, who was then the civil history of Huiji, and forty-one friends, including 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.

Preface to Lanting: 28 lines ***324 words. The whole article is charming and elegant, and the words are exquisite. It's like a dance, it's like the help of God and people. It has always been regarded as the best in the world of calligraphy. 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.

Emperor Taizong highly praised him. He once wrote a biography of Wang Xizhi in the Book of Jin, praising him as "perfect". He also gave Guiwei a copy of Duty and buried it with the original.

References:

Baidu Encyclopedia-Preface to Lanting Collection (Calligraphy Works)