Preface to Lanting Collection, also known as Preface to Lanting Collection, Preface to Lanting, Preface to He Lin, Preface to Zan and Zan Tie, is known as "the best running script in the world". The Preface to Lanting Collection narrates the beauty of landscape and the joy of gathering around Lanting, and expresses the author's feelings of impermanence of life and death.
The preface of this paper has 28 lines and 324 words. The composition, structure and brushwork are perfect. The content is simple and elegant, with profound charm, which prominently represents Wang Xizhi's prose style, with exquisite and catchy words and strong artistic characteristics. Preface to Lanting Collection became a masterpiece at that time because of its favorable weather, geographical location and human harmony, and was regarded as a model for learning running script by scholars in previous dynasties.
In April 353 A.D. (on the third day of March, the ninth year of Jin Yong, 1667 years ago), Wang Xizhi, who was then the folk history of Huiji, and 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".
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Judging from the ink of the circulating Jin books, Jin people like rhyme, which is mainly manifested in the beauty of nature, harmony and agility. Wang Xizhi was an outstanding representative of calligraphy in the Jin Dynasty, and later generations honored him as a "book sage", and his calligraphy post "Preface to Lanting" was also honored as "the first cursive script in the world".
The calligraphy of Preface to Lanting conforms to the most basic aesthetic view of traditional calligraphy: "The style is not flashy, the quality is not wild, and the style is gentle." His brushwork combines rigidity with softness, his lines are flexible, his stippling is concise, his book style is based on dispersion, and he has the aesthetic feeling of respect, concession and comparison, which has become a model of "the beauty of neutralization". Appreciating the Preface to Lanting will give you an extraordinary artistic enjoyment.