In the ninth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (AD 353), on the third day of the third lunar month, when 465,438+0 people, including Wang Xizhi, Xie 'an and Sun Chuo, were repairing wedges in Lanting, Shaoxing (an activity to eliminate diseases and ominous events), everyone drank and wrote poems, and Xihe improvised a preface to this collection of poems. This is the famous Preface to Lanting Collection.
Preface to Lanting by Xizhi, King of Jin Dynasty
This post is a draft with 28 lines and 324 words. Described the scene of the collection of literati at that time. Because the author had the best effect at that time, he said that he couldn't write any more later. Among them, there are more than twenty "zhi" characters, which are written in different ways. In Song Dynasty, Miti called it "the best running script in the world".
Legend has it that Wang Xizhi practiced calligraphy hard when he was a child. After a long time, the pool water used to clean the brush turned black. Later generations commented: "Floating like a cloud, agile like a dragon", "Yue Long goes to heaven, the tiger lies in the phoenix pavilion" and "nature is natural, and abundant gods cover all generations". There are some idioms about Wang Xizhi, such as cleverness and quick marriage. The most obvious feature of Wang Xizhi's style of writing is exquisite brushwork and changeable structure.
Wang Xizhi's calligraphy has influenced bookstores from generation to generation. Ou Yangxun, Yu Shinan, Zhu Suiliang and Xue Qi in the Tang Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing and Liu Gongquan in the Five Dynasties, Su Shi, Huang Tingjian, Miti and Cai Xiang in the Song Dynasty, Zhao Mengfu in the Yuan Dynasty and Dong Qichang in the Ming Dynasty were all impressed by Wang Xizhi, so they enjoyed the reputation of "book saints".
2. Yan Zhenqing
Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy was a beginner of Chu Suiliang, then he learned to write in Zhang Xu and discussed calligraphy with Huai Su.
He deeply studied the calligraphy of Erwang and Chu Suiliang, absorbed their strengths, completely got rid of the style of the early Tang Dynasty and created a new era of calligraphy style. Yan Zhenqing's calligraphy style is called "Yan Ti", and it is also called "Yan Liu" with Liu Gongquan, and has the reputation of "Yan Liu Jin Gu".
Tang Yan's "Confessions" of Truth
Yan Zhenqing's original calligraphy is magnificent and dignified, and its handwriting has changed from slender in the early Tang Dynasty to square and has a centripetal force.
The pen is vigorous and powerful, and the central brushwork is good. Full of bones and muscles, but also sharp. Generally, horizontal painting is slightly thinner, vertical painting, point, skimming and pressing are slightly thicker. This book is magnificent in style and momentum, and has the spirit of flourishing Tang Dynasty.