Preface to Lanting Collection was written in China Jin Dynasty (AD 353). Wang Xizhi, a book sage, made friends at the foot of Zhu Lan Mountain in Shaoxing, and wrote "the best running script in the world", also known as Preface to Lanting, Preface to He Lin, Preface to Lanting March 3, etc.
On April 22nd, 353 AD (March 3rd, Jin Yonghe, 9 years ago, 166 1 year ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the civil history of Huiji, and his friends Xie An and Sun Chuo were drinking and writing poems in Ji Ya, Lanting, Huiji, Yin Shan.
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. And wrote "Preface to Lanting Collection".
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.
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Although Preface to Lanting is not as good as Wang Shu's cursive script, as an elegant, leisurely and chic style of the times, no one can surpass it and accompany it.
That kind of elegant layout, elegant style, changeable brushwork, and comfortable borrowing, make later generations of literati feel that they are facing an ordinary and mysterious tower and can't enter the door. As long as we look at the richness of their pens, there are all kinds of wonderful changes, such as hidden front, weighing ornaments, hanging pens to return to the front, tying lines, reflecting belts, turning from square to circle and from circle to square.
This is also the permanent artistic charm of Lanting Preface. The so-called "non-stimulation, non-stimulation, self-discipline" (in the words of Tang Sun Guoting) should be the most appropriate evaluation of the gods in the Preface to Lanting.
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