? To make a brief appreciation of Preface to Lanting, we should first start with the understanding of its author Wang Xizhi. According to the available information, Wang Xizhi was a calligrapher in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, with few words. Originally from Langya, I live in Huiji Mountain. The officers of the right army generals will review the internal history and be called "Wang Youjun". He was born in Wang, a famous man in Wei and Jin Dynasties. At the age of seven, he was good at calligraphy. If you use an outline, you will learn something. He studied calligraphy with teacher Wei when he was a child. Later, he visited famous mountains and learned from others. After fully studying all kinds of calligraphy fonts, they merged into their own styles and became unique.
? During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, many celebrities wasted their lives in Huiji Mountain, which was a good place to talk about metaphysics and Taoism. In the ninth year of Yonghe, Wang Xizhi once held an elegant rally in Lanting, which is located in Huiji Mountain. These celebrities all attended the rally, including Situ Xie 'an, Wang Xizhi's son Xian Zhi and Huan Zhi. Everyone took part in Lanting's "Show" classic, "thinking that water is flowing and water is sitting second", and after the meeting, they improvised poems and compiled collections. Preface to Lanting Collection is a preface written by Wang Xizhi for this collection of poems. Wang Xizhi's running script was unique at that time, and later generations commented that "the font of the right army has changed." Its heroic spirit is natural, so it is considered as a model from ancient times to the present. Calligraphers of all ages called the Preface to Lanting the best running script in the world.
Preface to Lanting shows the highest realm of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy art, in which the author's tolerance and affection are fully expressed. Preface to Lanting has a beautiful brushwork, which runs through every detail of the work. The most outstanding works of art often contain extremely rich and rhythmic artistic beauty in a very small space. Preface to Lanting is not only the beauty of rhyme in a tiny space, but also the beauty of the whole. The overall arrangement of the whole article is well organized, free-flowing, changeable and restrained, showing a leisurely attitude from beginning to end, giving people an elegant and fresh artistic feeling. In this way, Preface to Lanting is worthy of our analysis and study.
Wang Xizhi's words are restrained and subtle, vigorous and beautiful, while The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is unique and natural, with different sizes and shapes, and there is no trace of deliberate carving, "out of nature". Every word is endowed with vitality by Wang Xizhi, whether static or moving, or lying or lying down. The laughter, laughter and anger in his word form are detached and free and easy. Static words, dynamic soul can be seen. What was the basis of Wang Xizhi's calligraphy and the mood of writing at that time? Within the width of a ruler, "a group of talents will arrive." Preface to Lanting is called "the best running script in the world", which is not only manifested in the heterogeneity of different characters, but also in the structure of the same character. Every repeated word has a different way of writing. For example, according to the data, five "Huai" characters and seven "No" characters have different forms and are ever-changing. Among them, especially the word "Zhi", some are free and easy, some are neat and orderly, with different sizes, positions and shapes.
? Calligraphy is worth appreciating, and so is the article. The style of this article is fresh and simple, the sentence pattern is changeable, and the prose rhythm is harmonious, which embodies Wang Xizhi's outlook on life of actively entering the WTO and is in sharp contrast with the ruling by doing nothing advocated by the popular theory of Laozi and Zhuangzi at that time. Preface to Lanting shows the unique transcendental style of Jin people, but it goes beyond this style and is admired by later generations. The calligraphy of Preface to Lanting is "literary but not flashy, qualitative but not wild, soft but not soft". His brushwork combines rigidity with softness, his lines change flexibly, and he has a comparative aesthetic feeling, which can show his detached and gentle inner charm.
? In the realm of forgetfulness, Wang Xizhi wrote the preface to the Lanting Collection, just as he wrote in the preface to the Lanting Collection: "Although interesting, quiet and impetuous. When it is happy with what it meets, it will be self-sufficient for the time being, not knowing that old age is coming; What he is tired of is that his feelings are advancing with the times and his feelings are embarrassing. " Although our study of Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is not in-depth, we can also know a little about it on the surface. Because of his rigorous brushwork, he can make the words fluent and have both form and spirit. It must be said that every word written by Wang Xizhi is endowed with vitality, whether static or dynamic, with different forms. The writing opportunity of Preface to Lanting is also the premise of Wang Xizhi's exquisite calligraphy.