1. Preface to the Lanting Pavilion
Preface to the Lanting Pavilion is a book written by Wang Xizhi when he was 47 years old. It tells the story of Wang Xizhi's grand tour with friends and scholars in Lanting. The whole article is written calmly and calmly, and it is full of vitality.
The Preface to the Lanting Pavilion * * * has 327 words, which is natural in style, and changes its structure and brushwork, which is ingenious without any traces of arrangement. This kind of work, which is based on superior qualifications and profound contributions, has been rated as "the best running script in the world", which is indeed well deserved.
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The full name of Manuscript for Sacrificing a Nephew is Ji Mingwen, a calligraphy work written by Yan Zhenqing, a calligrapher in the Tang Dynasty, in the first year of Tang Ganyuan (758), and now it is collected in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
The Manuscript of Sacrifice to My Nephew is a draft of memorial service for Yan Jiming, my nephew. * * * Twenty-three lines, with 234 words. This manuscript recounts how Yan Gaoqing and his son, the prefect of Changshan, stood up and loyal opposition when they rebelled in An Lushan, so that "the father was trapped in the child's death, and the nest fell over the egg" and took justice into the heart. Throughout the pen, the feeling is like a tide, the calligraphy is magnificent, and the vertical pen is bold and unconstrained, in one go.
It is also known as "the three largest running scripts in the world" together with Preface to Lanting written by Wang Xizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Huangzhou Cold Food Post written by Su Shi in the Northern Song Dynasty, and it is also known as "the second running script in the world".
3. Cold Food Post
is also called Huangzhou Cold Food Poetry Post or Huangzhou Cold Food Post. It's a book composed by Su Shi. It's in plain ink, 34.2 cm in horizontal direction and 18.9 cm in vertical direction. It's a running script with 129 words and 17 lines. It's now in the National Palace Museum in Taipei.
This post is the representative work of Su Shi's running script. This is a poem sent to revive, and it is a sigh of life caused by the Cold Food Festival in the third year of Su Shi's demotion to Huangzhou.
The poem is desolate and affectionate, expressing Su Shi's melancholy and lonely mood at this time. It is in this mood and situation that the calligraphy of this poem comes out. The whole calligraphy is full of ups and downs, radiant and unrestrained, and there is no shortage of pens.
Cold Food Poetry Post has a great influence in the history of calligraphy, and it is called "the third running script in the world".