The similarities and differences between "Lanting Collection Preface" and "Tengwang Pavilion Preface" are as follows:
1. In terms of form:
Both articles describe banquets A poetic preface to poems and improvisations, the language is full of rhetoric and opposition. Compared with "Lanting Collection", the preface of "Lanting Collection" is a combination of consolidation and integration, while the preface of "Teng Wangtao" pays more attention to formal beauty. Every sentence must be correct and the rhetoric must be gorgeous. Due to the excessive pursuit of form and the accumulation of allusions, the problem of ambiguous word meanings has been caused.
2. In terms of content:
Both articles start from the current banquet, and then touch the scene to express their feelings, and then from low to high, showing positivity and up. Finally, they all put pen to paper.
Compared with the two articles, "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" is more majestic, gorgeous and rich, and its expression is more direct and fluent. The lyrical content of the other two articles is also different. "Preface to the Lanting Collection" expresses the short emotions of life, while "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" expresses his indignation at having never seen talent.
3. In terms of ideological content:
Both articles are prefaces and parallel texts. The sentences are neat and the words are gorgeous. They first narrated the grand occasion of the party, described the beautiful scenery, and then expressed their feelings.
Extended information:
The creative background of "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion":
There are two theories about when "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" was written. Wang Dingbao, a native of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, said in "Tang Jia Yan": "Wang Bo wrote the Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion when he was fourteen years old." In addition, there is a saying in this preface, "How can a boy know that he will be rewarded with a tribute", which can also be supported. . Xin Wenfang's "Biography of the Talents of the Tang Dynasty" of the Yuan Dynasty believed that "Preface to Prince Teng's Pavilion" was written by Wang Bo when he went to Jiaozhi to visit his father and passed by Nanchang in the second year of the Yuan Dynasty (675).
The creative background of "Preface to the Lanting Collection":
"Preface to the Lanting Collection" On the third day of the third lunar month in the ninth year of Yonghe reign of Emperor Mu of Jin Dynasty (353 years), "The first crossing to Zhejiang has its final destination." Wang Xizhi, who had "Zhi", once held an elegant gathering with forty-one celebrities, including Xie An and Sun Chuo, at the Lanting Pavilion in Shanyin, Kuaiji.
Attendees composed poems on the spot, expressed their feelings, and copied them into a collection. Everyone recommended the convener of this gathering, the highly respected Wang Xizhi, to write a preface to record this gathering, which is the "Preface to the Lanting Collection" .