1. The author of Lanting Preface is Wang Xizhi. He was a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. His "Lanting Preface" is known as the best running script in the world. "Lanting Preface" is also known as "Lanting Banquet Collection Preface", "Lanting Collection Preface", "Linhe Preface", "Ye Preface" and "Ye Tie".
2. Wang Xizhi was a famous calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He was good at official script, cursive script, regular script and running script. He was proficient in all kinds of calligraphy and was also good at copying. He took the advantages of them and kept improving his calligraphy. Claiming to be a family member, his calligraphy style is natural and his brushwork is beautiful and vigorous. His representative works include "Le Yi Lun" in regular script, "Seventeen Tie" in cursive script, and "Kuai Xue Shi Qing Tie" in running script, etc. He is called the Saint of Calligraphy by future generations, and his unique and beautiful style has influenced future generations.
3. "Lanting Preface" is a work written by Wang Xizhi and many friends when they held an annual folk custom event at Shanyin Orchid Pavilion and drank with everyone to cheer up. It describes that in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, in order to pray for the elimination of diseases and misfortunes, people would hold an event called Xiuhe on March 3rd every year. Wang Xizhi and many friends also participated in the event at Shanyin Orchid Pavilion, and everyone sat around the winding Next to the clear stream, drinking wine and writing poems, and the cheerful narration of everyone's emotions is really very happy.
4. "Preface to Orchid Pavilion" was written in this context of drinking freely with friends, talking about the short life, blending scenes, and reciting poems to cheer up the literary talent, and wrote a masterpiece that has been passed down for thousands of years. It is said that Wang Xizhi rewrote this copybook many times later, but he could never express the feeling he had when he first wrote it. Perhaps, this is the mystery of calligraphy. This calligraphy uses a slender and light brush, like flowing clouds and flowing water, and the overall work has a graceful, smooth, beautiful and infinite charm. Countless descendants praised and praised his calligraphy. Therefore, this calligraphy work is called "the best running script in the world".