"Preface to the Lanting Collection" is one of my favorite works. At first I simply appreciated it as a calligraphy work, appreciating the beauty of its font and the whole work giving people a sense of freedom and freedom. Feeling free and easy. It wasn't until high school that I began to study the content of this article in detail.
I found that my previous appreciation of it was one-sided, because when I combined its writing background with Wang Xizhi’s state of mind at the time, I found that I recognized it again, as if I had put the body of this work into perspective. When the work is integrated with the soul, the work is complete. I have always felt that excellent works have a soul, and the soul of a work is given by the author.
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Leave aside the content and just look at the calligraphy work "Preface to the Lanting Collection". The entire work has twenty-eight lines and three hundred and twenty-four words. Its composition, structure, and writing style are all harmonious and perfect.
On the whole, it gives people the artistic beauty of being free and elegant, flowing, and dense. Wang Xizhi was good at Li, Cao, Kai, Xing and other styles. He studied the styles carefully, imitated them with his heart and hands, picked up the strengths of others, prepared various styles, and cultivated them in one furnace. He got rid of the writing style of Han and Wei Dynasties and became his own style. His influence was far-reaching. He was Known as the "Sage of Calligraphy".
"As graceful as a startled giant, as graceful as a swimming dragon, with glorious autumn chrysanthemums, and luxuriant spring pines. It seems as if the moon is covered by light clouds, and flutters like snow in the flowing wind." "Floating as if swimming." "The clouds are as powerful as a frightening dragon", "The dragon jumps over the Tianmen, the tiger lies in the Phoenix Pavilion", "The nature is natural, the abundant gods cover the generations" and other poems are used to describe Wang Xizhi's writing style, which is euphemistic and implicit, elegant and graceful, free and elegant, and smart. characteristics.