lt;lt;Preface to Lanting Collectiongt;gt;Appreciation of calligraphy
Original text:
In the ninth year of Yonghe, when I was in Guichou, at the beginning of late spring, Hui In the Orchid Pavilion of Shanyin in Kuaiji, there is a practice of cultivating evil spirits. All the virtuous people have arrived, and the young and old have gathered together. Here there are high mountains, luxuriant forests and tall bamboos, as well as clear and turbulent streams, which are reflected to the left and right, making them look like flowing water. Although it is not as prosperous as silk and bamboo orchestral music, one drink and one chant are enough to express the secret love.
It is a sunny day, the air is clear and the wind is gentle and gentle. Looking up at the vastness of the universe and looking down at the abundance of categories, wandering your eyes and wandering your mind is enough to provide you with great visual and auditory entertainment, which is a joy to behold.
My wife’s friendship will last a lifetime. Either you can take it into their arms and realize it within a room; or you can let it go outside your body because of what you have entrusted to you. Although there are many different interests, tranquility and restlessness are different. When you are happy with what you encounter, you are temporarily satisfied with yourself, you are happy and self-sufficient, and you don't know that old age is coming; The admiration towards it and the admiration of it have become old traces, and I still have to be excited about it. If it is short-lived and changed, it will eventually end! The ancients said: "Death and life are also big things." Isn't it painful?
Every time I look at the reasons for people's interest in the past, if they are combined into one, I will not fail to lament in the text, which cannot be expressed in my heart. I know that death and rebirth are just illusions, and mourning for Qi Peng is an illusion. The future looks at the present, just as the present looks at the past, sad man! Therefore, I listed people from that time and recorded what they said. Although the world is different and things are different, I am interested in it and it is the same. Those who read it later will also be impressed by the elegance
Author introduction:
Wang Xizhi (303-361), courtesy name Yishao, was born in Linyi, Langya, Jin Dynasty. He was promoted to general of the Youjun Army and internal historian of Kuaiji, and was known as "Wang Youjun" in the world.
Article Appreciation:
Kuiji has quiet mountains and rivers and beautiful scenery. During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many celebrities lived here, talking about mysteries and Taoism, and being wild. On the last day of the ninth year of Yonghe reign of Emperor Mu of Jin Dynasty (353), this is an ancient folk custom in my country. On the fourth day of the third month of the third lunar month, people go to the waterside to hold an exorcism ceremony. They dip fragrant grass in water and sprinkle it on their bodies, or take a bath to wash away dirt, feel the spirit of spring, and pray for the elimination of disease and bad luck. Wang Xizhi, who "had the ambition to finally cross Zhejiang for the first time", together with Situ Xie'an, Fu writer Sun Chuo, the proud and proud Xie Wan, the eminent monk Zhi Daolin, and Wang Xizhi's son, nephew Xianzi, Ningzhi, Huanzhi, Xuanzi Forty-one of them held a grand and elegant gathering at the Orchid Pavilion in Shanyin, Kuaiji, where they drank Qushui, drank wine and wrote poems. During the period, they composed thirty-seven poems, which were compiled into the "Orchid Pavilion Collection". When the fifty-one-year-old Wang Xizhi was drunk, he used silkworm cocoon paper and rat whisker pen to write a preface for this purpose. This is the "Preface to the Lanting Collection", "The Preface to the Lanting Collection", "the best running script in the world", also known as "Preface to the Lanting Collection". "Orchid Pavilion". This article extols the eternal legend. The full text has twenty-eight lines and three hundred and twenty-four words. The whole article is charming and elegant, the characters are vertical and horizontal, and the changes are endless, as if there is divine help. It fully embodies the characteristics of running script, such as its ups and downs, strong sense of rhythm, diverse shapes, and correspondence between stipples and paintings. In terms of composition (white cloth), structure, and pen usage, it has reached the peak of calligraphy art. Its characteristics are described below:
Natural white cloth. The layout of "Lanting Preface" adopts the method of vertical rows and horizontal no columns, with compact rows and echoes from beginning to end. "Lanting Preface" has twenty-eight lines. The density of the rows is roughly equal, with occasional width and density. For example, the line spacing throughout the Shenlong edition is sparse in the first four lines, more even in the middle, and dense in the last five lines. The size of the characters varies from character to character, and they are not uniform. The lengths are consistent and well-proportioned. It retains the natural gesture of writing casually when drafting, and has a natural and unrestrained beauty
The changeable structure. The structure of "Lanting Preface" can be said to be extremely versatile. It does not seek fairness, emphasizes sideways, not symmetry, emphasizes yielding, not uniformity, and emphasizes contrast. The structures are either slender or round, breaking away from the flat and square appearance of official script. Especially if there are repeated characters in the text, they will be transformed into different styles, and none of them will be the same. The most prominent one is the twenty characters "Zhi". Each one is written in a different way, some are smooth and relaxed, some are hidden and sharp, or straight like regular script. Or it may be as smooth as grass, with different changes, but still very beautiful.
Calligraphy Appreciation:
The most outstanding works of art often contain extremely rich artistic beauty in a very small space. "Lanting Preface" is a miniature palace of calligraphy that stands tall in size.
Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty praised its "point-and-draft work and wonderful cutting." Huang Tingjian insisted: "The preface to Lanting is Wang Youjun's favorite calligraphy in his life. I have read it repeatedly and found that there is not a single word or stroke, which is unsatisfactory." Details. Slightly dissecting the horizontal strokes, there are exposed front horizontal, belted front horizontal, lowered head horizontal, downward cross, upward cross, parallel horizontal, etc., which can be changed according to your needs. The vertical paintings are either hanging needles, making jade tendons, falling dew, diagonally vertical, arcing vertically, hooks, curved heads, double forks protruding, or juxtaposed, all of which are wonderful. The points include oblique point, front point, curved point, flat point, long point, hook point, left and right point, up and down point, two water points, three water points, three horizontal points, right point, etc. There are oblique strokes, straight strokes, short strokes, flat strokes, long curved strokes, arc strokes, return strokes, hooked strokes, curved strokes, parallel strokes, etc. The pick may be short or long, and the fold may include horizontal fold, vertical fold, or diagonal fold. Among them, there are diagonal bows, flat bows, back-front bows, hooked bows, long-point bows, falcon-tailed bows, etc. The hooks include vertical hooks, vertical curved hooks, oblique hooks, horizontal hooks, right curved hooks, circular curved hooks, horizontal folding hooks, left flat hooks, and return hooks. No matter horizontally, vertically, dotted, left, hooked, folded or pressed, it can be said that it is the most wonderful way to use the pen to make sharp strokes. Each of the three hundred and twenty-four characters in "Lanting Preface" was created by Wang Xizhi to create an image of life, complete with muscles, bones, flesh and blood, and endowed with its own character, spirit, and demeanor: either sitting or lying down. , whether walking, walking, dancing, or singing, even if it is within a certain size, all the talents will arrive and all the appearances will appear. The richness of Wang Xizhi's wisdom is not only reflected in the heterogeneity of characters, but also more prominently in the heterogeneity of characters. There are more than twenty characters "Zhi" in the preface, none of them are similar, and each has its own unique charm. There are also important words such as "thing", "wei", "yi", "suo", "xin", "yang", "qi", "chang", "bu", "jin", "lan" and "huai". ", "Xing", "Hou", etc., are all original and wonderful.
"Preface to the Lanting Collection" is the representative work of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy art. It is a peak in the history of our country's calligraphy art. It nourishes the Generations of calligraphers.
References: Appreciation of the classic calligraphy "Preface to the Lanting Collection"
Appreciation of "Preface to the Lanting Collection"