The works included in Long Live Tongtian Tie are as follows:
The first post: Wang Xizhi's "Auntie Tie", cursive script; the second post: Wang Xizhi's "Chu Yue Tie", cursive script; the third post : Wang Hui's "Swelling Tie", in cursive script; the fourth post: Wang Hui's "Weng Zun Ti Tie" ("Guo Guiyang Tie"), in cursive script; the fifth post: Wang Huizhi's "New Moon Tie", in running script.
The sixth post: Wang Xianzhi's "Twenty-nine Days Post", running regular script; the seventh post: Wang Sengqian's "Prince's Surrendering Poste" ("Wang Yan's Certificate", "In-service Post"), running regular script; No. The eighth post: Wang Ci's "Baijiu Tie", in cursive script; the ninth post: Wang Ci's "Rubi Tie", in cursive script; the tenth post: Wang Zhi's "Throat Sore Tie" ("No Application Post for a Day") in cursive script. ***Seven people and ten posts.
Wang Xizhi's representative calligraphy works include "Le Yi Lun" in regular script, "Seventeen Tie" in cursive script, "Aunt Tie" in running script, and "Preface to the Lanting Collection".
1. "Seventeen Posts"
"Seventeen Posts" is the famous cursive masterpiece of Wang Xizhi. It is named after the word "Seventeen" at the beginning of the volume. The original calligraphy was lost long ago, and the "Seventeen Tie" handed down to us today is the engraving.
The "Fa Shu Yao Lu" written by Zhang Yanyuan of the Tang Dynasty records the original ink writing of "Seventeen Posts": "The "Seventeen Posts" is one foot and two feet long, which is the inner version of Zhenguan, with one hundred and seven lines. Nine hundred and forty-three words. This is a famous calligraphy by Xuan He. Emperor Taizong purchased the two kings' books, and the king's book contained three thousand pieces of paper. ”
2. “Auntie’s Tie”
“Auntie’s Tie” is the work of Wang Xizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The "Auntie's Note" collected in the Liaoning Provincial Museum is a Tang copy, with 6 lines and 42 characters. The calligraphy style of the work is different from Wang Xizhi's other copies. It is simple and honest, with a lot of official meaning, but little beauty and elegance. In 696 AD, Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty ordered people to fill in the double hook outline and collect it in "Long Live Tongtian Tie".
3. "Le Yi Lun"
"Le Yi Lun" *** has forty-four lines, in small regular script. It is a regular script calligraphy work by Wang Xizhi. The original author was Xia Houxuan, and the original work has long since disappeared. One theory is that the original work was thrown into the stove fire by an old woman in Xianyang during the war, and another is that it was collected by Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty. There are many kinds of extant editions, among which the "Secret Pavilion Edition" and the "Yuezhou Shishi Edition" are the best.
4. "Preface to the Lanting Collection"
The preface to the Lanting Collection is from China's Jin Dynasty (AD 353). The calligrapher Wang Xizhi met his friends at the foot of Lanzhu Mountain in Shaoxing, Zhejiang and wrote " "The best running script in the world", also known as "Lanting Preface", "Linhe Preface", "Ye Tie", "March 3rd Lanting Poetry Preface", etc.
In April 353 AD (the third day of March in the ninth year of Jin Yonghe), Wang Xizhi, then the internal historian of Kuaiji, and forty-one friends including Xie An and Sun Chuo gathered at Lanting in Shanyin, Kuaiji. , drinking and composing poems.
Wang Xizhi compiled these poems into a collection and wrote a preface to describe the incident of drinking Qushui and express the inner feelings caused by it. This preface is the "Preface to the Lanting Collection". He also wrote a "Preface to the Lanting Collection".